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]]>Title: Isabella I of Castile]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (History of Spain)]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Noel Fuller]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-23-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Isabella I of Castile... Isabella I of Castile was one of the most pivotal monarchs in history. For some, such words might ring of hyperbole, but for Isabella, it is simply the truth. Her reign didn't just shape Spain—it reshaped the world. Ascending to power during Spain's final push to reclaim the Iberian Peninsula, Isabella completed the centuries-long Reconquista and unified a fractured kingdom. She accomplished this in an era when women rarely wielded sovereign power. Though she didn't command troops in battle, she personally oversaw strategy, logistics, and troop movements, and even established field hospitals for wounded soldiers—an innovation centuries ahead of its time. But her legacy extends far beyond Europe's borders. When an Italian navigator named Christopher Columbus sought backing for an audacious westward voyage, Isabella saw what others couldn't. Her decision to sponsor his expedition launched Spain into the Americas and triggered a collision of civilizations that would forever change the course of history. Discover topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on Isabella I of Castile, scroll up and click "Buy now" to start listening today.
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]]>Title: Ice Road to Russia]]>Subtitle: Sailing Through the World’s Coldest War Zone]]>Series: #32 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Naval Force]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Tom Briggs]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 03-17-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Ice Road to Russia is a gripping, true account of the British Arctic Convoys of the Second World War, told in a clear, narrative style that brings the listener onto the freezing decks and into the tense silence between attacks. These were not routine supply runs. They were a lifeline drawn across the top of the world, carrying tanks, aircraft, trucks, fuel, food, and raw materials to the Soviet Union at the moment it was fighting for survival. The route was short on the map, but it ran beneath the enemy’s balcony in occupied Norway, where German aircraft, U-boats, and heavy warships waited to strike. Cyril Marlen traces the convoys from their urgent beginnings in 1941, when strategy and desperation fused into action, through the day to day realities of life in a world where the cold could be as deadly as a torpedo. Steel decks became skating rinks. Salt spray turned to armour. Men chipped ice for hours to keep ships stable. In blackout conditions, columns held formation by instinct and discipline, knowing that a single light could betray them.
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]]>Title: The V-2 Rocket]]>Subtitle: The Controversial History of the First Ballistic Missile During and After World War II]]>Categories: Europe, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-12-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Though extremely different men in most ways, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Third Reich Fuhrer Adolf Hitler shared a passion for science, technology, and (sometimes impractical) "wonder weapons." In some cases, this fixation paid off handsomely, as in the case of British centrimetric radar, a compact, powerful radar type that enabled fitment to individual aircraft and contributed to the defeat of German U-boats. Most spectacularly, the Germans laid the groundwork for the era of ballistic missiles to follow with the "Vengeance Weapons" program. The advent of relatively advanced liquid and solid fuels for rocket weapons made them viable again after a period during which rifled artillery overshadowed them. An additional factor creating German interest in military rockets came from their complete omission among the restrictions placed on Germany's army by the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I.
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]]>Title: Betty Ford]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (First Ladies of the United States)]]>Series: #7 in First Ladies of the United States]]>Categories: America, Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Charlie Brogan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-09-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Betty Ford... Betty Ford was the First Lady of President Gerald Ford. Many biographies seem to focus on just that one aspect of her life, but as consequential as her time in the White House was, she was more than that. Since her earliest days as a little girl in Michigan, Betty Ford lived a life that was full of learning, full of adventure, and full of service. She was a dancer who graced stages in New York City. She was a woman who rebuilt her life after a difficult first marriage. She was a political wife who learned to navigate Washington's treacherous social waters while raising four children largely on her own. And she was a recovering addict who transformed her darkest struggles into a beacon of hope for countless others. The Betty Ford Center, which bears her name, bears testament to that. Betty struggled with alcohol and prescription drugs, and when she learned to overcome her addiction, she used her own personal experience to lend a hand to others. This, of course, was yet another aspect of her tremendous impact on American life, but that's certainly not all.
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]]>Title: The 332nd Fighter Group]]>Subtitle: The History of the Tuskegee Airmen’s Fighter Unit During World War II]]>Categories: Air Force, America, Black People, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-05-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The United States has no shortage of famous military units, from the Civil War’s Iron Brigade to the 101st Airborne, but one would be hard pressed to find one that had to go through as many hardships off the field as the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American pilots who overcame Jim Crow at home and official segregation in the military to serve their country in the final years of World War II. In fact, it required a concerted effort by groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the extreme circumstances brought about by World War II that the military eventually decided to establish the “Tuskegee Experiment.” The Black crews trained at Tuskegee before being sent overseas, and even then, they faced discrimination from those who didn’t trust them to do more than escort bombers flown by white pilots. However, as the men proved their worth in the heat of battle, some of the squadrons’ red markings helped them earn the nickname “Red Tails,” and their track record was so good that eventually the white pilots of American bombers wanted to fly with them.
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]]>Titel: Die Geschichte der USA]]>Untertitel: Weltgeschichte entdecken]]>Kategorien: America, History, Politics]]>Autor: Eric Rump]]>Erzähler: Felix Hirche]]>Herausgeber: Eric Rump]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 03-04-2026]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Kaum ein Land hat die moderne Welt so stark geprägt wie die Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika. Dieses Hörbuch zeichnet die Geschichte der USA von den ersten indigenen Kulturen Nordamerikas bis in das 21. Jahrhundert nach und zeigt, wie zentrale historische Ereignisse das Land formten. Der Blick reicht zurück zu den frühen Völkern Nordamerikas mit ihren eigenen Traditionen, politischen Strukturen und Handelsnetzwerken. Mit der Ankunft der Europäer begann ein tiefgreifender Wandel, der in die Kolonialzeit führte und das Leben der indigenen Bevölkerung dauerhaft veränderte. Aus den Spannungen zwischen Kolonien und Mutterland entwickelte sich schließlich der Unabhängigkeitskrieg gegen Großbritannien und die Gründung der Vereinigten Staaten. Im 19. Jahrhundert prägten die Expansion nach Westen, die Auseinandersetzungen mit den indigenen Völkern sowie der Sezessionskrieg die weitere Entwicklung des Landes. Diese Phase legte entscheidende Grundlagen für die politische Ordnung und das Selbstverständnis der jungen Nation.Mit dem Übergang ins 20. Jahrhundert rückten die USA zunehmend ins Zentrum der Weltpolitik. Der Eintritt in den Ersten und Zweiten Weltkrieg markierte den Aufstieg zur Weltmacht. In der Folge bestimmten der Kalte Krieg, der Vietnamkrieg und internationale Spannungen über Jahrzehnte die Außenpolitik, während im Inneren Bürgerrechtsbewegung und gesellschaftliche Proteste tiefgreifende Veränderungen anstießen.Die jüngere Geschichte führt von den Terroranschlägen vom 11.
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]]>Title: The Meiji Restoration]]>Subtitle: The History of Japan’s Transition from Feudalism to a Modern Empire]]>Categories: Asia, History, Japan, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-19-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Japan's blissful isolation changed with the arrival of American Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853. In awe of the American weapons and ships, the Tokugawa shogunate quickly realized that they needed to evolve and modernize their military to survive, and a time of rapid change descended on Japan. Within a mere 30 years, the Tokugawa period's great samurai caste was extinct. Military service was no longer the exclusive domain of the privileged warrior class who had combined the military with an intricate network of social status and vassalship to their feudal lords. For the new Meiji government of Japan, military conscription was an obligation for all able-bodied men. The social castes that had existed for centuries, including the samurai, commoners, and outcasts, were replaced by a new system of national subjecthood that would propel Japan into the modern era. The Meiji Restoration heralded the dawn of a new era for both Japan and Asia as the island nation found itself thrust into the modern world, a world of industry and conquest. Flexing its new muscles, the burgeoning power soon came to blows with the regional power that for centuries dominated the area politically and culturally: China.
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]]>Title: Calamity Jane: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Old West]]>Series: #16 in Old West]]>Categories: America, Biography, Explorer, Female Protagonist]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Charlie Brogan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-11-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Calamity Jane... Calamity Jane was an icon of the Wild West, and she lived her life just as free and wild as the Wild West stage shows she later performed in. Part of this wildness was not by choice but born of necessity. Her parents both passed when she was a young girl, forcing her to find a way to make it on her own. It was during this struggle for survival that she first embraced a free and unfettered lifestyle, learning to ride, shoot, and fend for herself in ways that would have been considered scandalous for women of her era. She wore men's clothing, took jobs traditionally reserved for men, and moved through the rough mining camps and frontier towns with a boldness that both fascinated and shocked those around her.
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]]>Title: Robert Smalls]]>Subtitle: The Life of the Escaped Slave Who Commandeered a Confederate Ship During the Civil War]]>Categories: 19th Century, America, Biography, Black People]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-09-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Robert Smalls’ life illustrates what can happen when one is freed from the fetters of others’ estimations. Smalls’ metamorphosis from slave to ship pilot to U.S. Congressman displays the power of fiery determination and unrelenting ambition. News of Smalls’ incredible exploit made it all the way up to Lincoln, who eventually met him and asked why he would dare such a thing. Smalls replied with only one word: ‘Freedom.’” In desperation, Robert Smalls and other enslaved members of the crew of the Confederate transport ship CSS Planter dared to dream of sailing themselves to freedom, so on the night of May 13, 1862, they attempted to escape with their masters’ ship. That perilous night could have ended in triumph or tragedy for the mutineers, and Smalls’ wife, little daughter, and infant son were below deck, along with the families of his crew. They risked it all, and 17 men, women, and children escaped enslavement because of the intrepid plan. After escaping, Smalls continued to participate in the Civil War, and throughout 17 missions and combat battles, he fought for the freedom of enslaved people in the Confederate states.
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]]>Title: When the War Ended, and the Future Began]]>Subtitle: Ten Global Turning Points from the Ruins to the Cold War]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Planet Earth, World War II]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Tom Briggs]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 02-05-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When The War Ended, and the Future Began: Ten Global Turning Points from the Ruins to the Cold War is a powerful, accessible journey through the decade that reshaped modern civilisation. Written for general listeners, Cyril Marlen brings the post-war world to life with clarity, human detail, and a strong narrative flow, showing how the aftermath of World War II created the political order, global tensions, and everyday realities we still live with today. This book begins in the rubble and exhaustion of 1945, where nations were counting the dead, rationing the living, and trying to understand what had just happened. But beneath the devastation, the foundations of a new world were already forming. Empires that once dominated entire continents began to crumble. Two new superpowers stepped into the vacuum. New international institutions promised cooperation and peace. Borders were redrawn, families displaced, and ideologies hardened into rival camps. In just a few short years, the shape of global power shifted so dramatically that it became impossible to imagine the world as it had been before. Cyril Marlen explores the ten major turning points that defined this transformation.
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]]>Title: Christmas Truce]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (World War 1)]]>Series: #1 in World War 1]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Charlie Brogan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-03-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Christmas Truce... When World War I began in August 1914, the British confidently predicted that it would be "over by Christmas." In Berlin, Kaiser Wilhelm II told his soldiers that they would be "home before the leaves fall." But by late December, it was clear not only that the war was far from over, but also that this would be a more destructive and deadly conflict than any that had come before. On the Western Front, British troops faced the Germans across two opposing lines of trenches. Almost two million troops had been killed or wounded, and men on both sides became resigned to living in muddy trenches under almost unimaginable circumstances made even more desperate by the bitter cold of winter. Notions of war as an adventure—or even as a brief escape from the mundane reality of day-to-day life—were replaced by the reality of almost unendurable horror with no end in sight. Then, on Christmas Eve 1914, British troops saw strange lights appearing in the German positions opposite. Bracing for an attack, they instead heard an unfamiliar sound drifting across No-Man's Land.
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]]>Title: Roman Astronomy and Astrology]]>Subtitle: The History of Celestial Observations in Ancient Rome]]>Categories: Ancient, Astronomy, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-26-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The modern world has the ancient Romans to thank for the origins of many modern technologies, conveniences, and ideas, from running water, baths, and republican style government to roads. Similarly, by the 3rd century BCE, the Romans were prodigious monument builders, so much so that the memory of the great Roman Republic and the Roman Empire continues to exist within a cityscape of stone. Rome’s public spaces were filled with statues, arches, temples, and many other varieties of monumental images, and each of these structures had its own civic or religious function. At the same time, most were embedded with stories, messages, and symbolism so that they also tended to function as propaganda. Roads, aqueducts, and buildings are perhaps the most notable benefits linked to the rise and expansion of the vast Roman Empire, yet the wealth of innovations, discoveries, and significant improvements on many existing methods and practices are also found in numerous areas. What is clear from this breadth is that the Romans were fundamentally pragmatic.
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]]>Title: The Reformation: The History of the Leaders and Events That Split the Catholic Church]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Ecclesiastical, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-20-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>As one of the most influential and recognizable religious figures in history, Martin Luther continues to impact the world over 550 years after his death. Luther was a German priest and theologian whose writings and teachings sparked the Protestant Reformation in the early 16th century, creating one of the greatest schisms in the history of the Catholic Church and touching off religious turmoil and bloodshed that would engulf Europe for the next 2 centuries. Born shortly after the invention of the printing press, Luther became one of Europe’s best selling authors, along with others like Erasmus, and his theology was mass produced across Europe. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment of sin could be purchased with money, known as indulgences, and he confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his 95 Theses in 1517, one of the most important religious writings of all time. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the Vatican and condemnation as an outlaw by the emperor. Luther, of course, did not back down.
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]]>Title: The USS Alligator]]>Subtitle: The History of the U.S. Navy’s First Submarine]]>Categories: American Civil War, History, Military, Military Conflict, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-20-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The ability to remain and travel underwater for an extended period of time has long been a dream for a good portion of mankind, perhaps second only to that of flying. The first “submersible” may have been a kind of glass container made for Alexander the Great so that he could observe undersea life firsthand. Despite this early attempt, fate decreed the idea of traveling beneath the surface of the water would lie fallow for nearly another 2,000 years after this experiment in about 332 B.C. Alexander’s death the next year effectively squashed any further developments. While people often tend to think of submarines as a modern invention, inventors created several prototypes from 1580 onward, and they even attempted to use them. Some of the designs remained theoretical and never got off the drawing board, but as time went on, several Europeans built and tested primitive submarines. Most of these early subs were made of wood and often possessed an awkward shape, but a French priest first proposed the now familiar cylindrical layout in 1634.
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]]>Title: The Rise of Durham’s Black Wall Street]]>Subtitle: The History of the South’s Most Prosperous African American Business District During Jim Crow]]>Categories: African American, America, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-16-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Of all the southern cities I have visited I found here the sanest attitude of the white people toward the blacks." – Booker T. Washington’s description of Durham In the wake of the Civil War, African Americans attained freedom from chattel slavery, but continued to suffer discrimination both legal in the form of Jim Crow laws and de facto in the continued perception among the vast majority of white Americans that African Americans were at the very least inferior and at the most a constant dangerous presence in their communities who must be carefully controlled. Durham, North Carolina’s "Black Wall Street" exemplifies the flourishing of Black enterprise under the constraints of Jim Crow segregation. Parrish Street became a central hub for African American businesses and financial institutions in the early 20th century. The district achieved national recognition from leaders such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, who regarded it as a model of Black achievement.
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]]>Title: Blackout Britian: Life in the Blitz]]>Subtitle: Everything World War 2 - WWII, Book 31]]>Series: #31 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Christopher Gatterdam]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 01-15-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When World War II cast its shadow across Europe, Britain faced an enemy unlike any it had known before—bombers in the night sky. To survive, the nation was forced to disappear into darkness. Blackout Britain reveals what life was truly like during those years when every window was covered, every streetlamp extinguished, and every household became part of a vast defensive shield made of shadow. Through ten vivid and compelling chapters, this book explores the daily realities, fears, and remarkable resilience of the British people during the Blitz. From the strict blackout rules designed to confuse enemy aircraft, to the nightly challenge of navigating pitch-black streets, author Cyril Marlen brings listeners directly into the lived experience of wartime Britain. Homes transformed into fortresses of darkness. Families gathered in Anderson or Morrison shelters as bombs thundered overhead. Children went to school under dim skies. Shops and workplaces struggled to adapt.
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]]>Title: The Holocaust: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Judaism, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Charlie Brogan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-14-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the dark history of the Holocaust... Jewish communities have existed in the territories of modern-day Germany since Roman times, around the fourth century. By 1925, a census identified over half a million Jewish people living in Germany, accounting for around 1% of the total population. Jewish communities thrived in both economic and cultural terms, and Jewish people were active in commerce, science, the arts, and politics. During World War I, over 100,000 Jewish men fought in the Imperial German Army, demonstrating their commitment to the nation. By 1930, most Jewish communities in Germany were integrated and accepted, though some Jewish people still faced discrimination and distrust. Then, in 1933, the Nazi Party under the leadership of Adolf Hitler came to power. Hitler harbored a visceral hatred of Jews, which was quickly translated into new laws and decrees against Jewish people and boycotts of Jewish businesses. Over the course of the next decade, Hitler's hatred of the Jewish people was transformed into something much darker. From 1933 until the final defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, an estimated six million Jewish people were murdered by representatives of the Nazi regime and those who collaborated with it.
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]]>Title: Fall of the Roman Empire: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Ancient Civilizations]]>Series: #9 in Ancient Civilizations]]>Categories: Ancient, Civilization, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Charlie Brogan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-09-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Fall of the Roman Empire... At its height, the Roman Empire was the largest and most powerful empire ever seen in the Western world. It covered 2 million square miles (5 million square kilometers) of territory, where a population of over 80 million was protected by a disciplined, well-trained army of almost half a million troops. By the third century, the empire had become so vast that it was effectively divided into two parts: the Western Empire, including the city of Rome, and an Eastern Empire governed from the city of Nicomedia in present-day Turkey. To most people at the time, it probably seemed that the Roman Empire would endure forever. What no one could have guessed was that the western part of this mighty empire was on the cusp of a dramatic decline that would lead to its complete collapse barely 300 years later. What caused the fall of the Western Roman Empire? Modern scholarship suggests no single cause, but rather a cataclysmic series of events.
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]]>Title: Mithridates VI Eupator]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Europe, Greece]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Charlie Brogan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-09-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Mithridates VI Eupator... Have you ever heard of Mithridates VI Eupator? Don’t feel bad if you haven’t—the name doesn’t exactly roll right off your tongue. Nevertheless, Mithridates was indeed one of the mightiest leaders of the ancient world. This was a man who made himself immune to poison by consuming deadly toxins daily, earning him the nickname “the Poison King.” He spoke over twenty languages fluently and ruled an empire that stretched from the Black Sea coast of Anatolia to the distant shores of Crimea. Most remarkably of all, he became the Roman Republic’s most dangerous enemy, fighting three devastating wars that lasted over two decades and forced Rome to deploy some of its greatest generals—Sulla, Lucullus, and Pompey—just to stop him. In many ways, Mithridates fancied himself a successor to Alexander the Great, the Macedonian conqueror who had spread Greek culture far and wide. He sought to follow in his idol’s footsteps, but the rise of the Roman Republic on his western flank prevented him from doing so. It was a tough and challenging life for Mithridates VI Eupator, one marked by betrayal, warfare, and the constant threat of assassination.
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]]>Title: Reincarnation]]>Subtitle: Remarkable Stories of People Who Recall Past Lives]]>Categories: Occult, Reincarnation, Spirituality]]>Author: Paul Roland]]>Narrator: Gabrielle Glaister]]>Publisher: Arcturus Digital]]>Release date: 01-05-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Do you ever feel a strange affinity to a particular time period or profession, or recall flashes of another life that you can't explain? Reincarnation—the belief that we are all reborn many times—lies at the heart of many of the oldest religions, philosophies, and faiths. It is being recognized by more and more people today as the truth behind who we really are. If you want evidence of reincarnation, you'll find it within this audiobook. Hear about the children who identified long-dead family members from photographs they had never seen before, the sisters who could remember how they died, and the man who was a Confederate colonel in the American Civil War and still has the scars to prove it.
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]]>Title: John Wesley Hardin]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Old West)]]>Series: #14 in Old West]]>Categories: America, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Charlie Brogan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-05-2026]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of John Wesley Hardin... John Wesley Hardin had already become one of the most feared gunmen on the American frontier before his twenty-fifth birthday. A gambler, outlaw, and lightning-fast draw, Hardin left a trail of bodies across Texas that made even hardened lawmen hesitate to pursue him. When he was finally captured, authorities couldn't even agree on his true body count—estimates ranged from twenty to over forty victims. After his arrest, Hardin seemed destined to die behind bars. Yet through a combination of cunning, legal study, and political connections, he secured an unlikely pardon and walked free. His release sparked outrage across the state, but Hardin remained unrepentant to the end, insisting that he never killed anyone who didn't deserve it. This is the complete, unvarnished account of America's most notorious gunslinger. From his first killing at age fifteen to his violent death in an El Paso saloon, discover the true story of the man who embodied the lawless spirit of the Wild West. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on John Wesley Hardin, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Cleopatra: An Enthralling Guide to a Life of Power, Politics, and Seduction from Ancient Egypt to Rome]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Egypt, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Virtual Voice]]>Publisher: Independently Published]]>Release date: 12-30-2025]]>Language: English
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]]>Title: Ancient Egyptian Astronomy and Astrology]]>Subtitle: The History of Celestial Observations in Egypt]]>Categories: Ancient, Astronomy, Civilization, Egypt]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-17-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe nearly 5,000 years later. From the Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria to the Great Pyramid at Giza, the ancient Egyptians produced several wonders of the world, revolutionized architecture and construction, created some of the world’s first systems of mathematics and medicine, and established language and art that spread across the known world. With world-famous leaders like King Tut and Cleopatra, it’s no wonder that today’s world has so many Egyptologists. What makes the accomplishments of the ancient Egyptians all the more remarkable is that Egypt was historically a place of great political turbulence. Its position made it both valuable and vulnerable to tribes across the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and ancient Egypt had no shortage of its own internecine warfare.
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]]>Title: Doc Holliday: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Charlie Brogan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-15-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Doc Holliday.... Doc Holliday didn’t begin his career as a gunslinger. The fact that he was known as “Doc” speaks to his first profession. For as sure and true as his aim might have been, his initial career path did not involve shooting bullets—it involved pulling teeth. He was a dentist by trade who ended up becoming a gambler and gunslinger by necessity. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, Doc Holliday knew that he was living on borrowed time, and he lived his life accordingly. He didn’t waste one precious moment fearing what might happen to him should things not go his way. Yes, just as clearly as he knew the stakes in a card game, he knew that life was a gamble. He simply lived from one day to another, playing the hand that he was dealt as best he could. This is his life and his story in full. Discover a plethora of topics such as And much more! So if you want a concise and informative book on Doc Holliday, then download this audiobook!
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]]>Title: Operation Cornflakes]]>Subtitle: The Allied Plot to Sabotage Nazi Germany’s Mail]]>Series: #27 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Strategy, World War II]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: David Seldin]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 12-08-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Operation Cornflakes: The Allied Plot to Sabotage Nazi Germany’s Mail is a gripping account of one of World War II’s most audacious and little-known psychological operations. Cyril Marlen reconstructs, with cinematic clarity and archival precision, how a handful of intelligence officers, printers, linguists, and airmen conspired to turn the Nazi postal system into an instrument of its own undoing. This is the story of how ink and paper became weapons, how forged stamps and counterfeit newspapers travelled through bombed-out rail yards and into German kitchens, and how the relentless craft of deception sought to undermine a regime that depended on the control of information. Marlen opens with the genesis of the idea: an unconventional, almost mischievous plan hatched in the OSS Morale Operations branch to exploit the intimate trust citizens placed in their mail. Faced with the limits of leaflet drops and radio broadcasts, Allied propagandists conceived a far bolder tactic—create letters so authentic that German postal workers would process them alongside genuine correspondence, and families would read them as ordinary news from home.
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]]>Title: Brigham Young]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Old West)]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Religion, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Charlie Brogan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-04-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Brigham Young... When Joseph Smith was assassinated in 1844, his fledgling religious movement—the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, better known as the Mormon Church—faced a serious threat to its very survival. It was Brigham Young who stepped into the void and ensured that the religion became a successful one. With tens of millions of Mormons all over the world still practicing the faith today, it seems that Brigham Young's efforts have certainly paid off. This is the story of how Young led thousands of believers across the American frontier to establish their own religious empire in the Utah Territory. Far from simply seeking refuge, Young and his followers envisioned nothing less than a separate Mormon nation—a "Kingdom of God"—that would operate by its own laws and principles independent from the US government. This book explores how Young's leadership during this critical period shaped not only the Mormon church but also the American West. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Brigham Young, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Hitler Youth]]>Subtitle: How Germany Indoctrinated a New Generation]]>Categories: Fascism, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Julian Flanders]]>Narrator: Dugald Bruce Lockhart]]>Publisher: Arcturus Digital]]>Release date: 12-03-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In this fascinating book, Julian Flanders examines the impact of the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth Movement) on Germany's young people and how it shaped German society under Adolf Hitler. By 1940 membership had reached eight million—more than 90 per cent of German children. Between 1933 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the movement drove a wedge between youth, the educational system, and even their own dissenting families, producing a generation of anti-intellectuals indoctrinated with Nazi ideology. On the eve of war, the Hitler Youth constituted the single most successful mass movement in the Third Reich and comprised many of its most committed Nazis. Members of Hitlerjugend went on to play a substantial role in World War II, as many underage troops fought and died for their country.
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]]>Title: Hitler and His Inner Circle]]>Subtitle: Chilling Profiles of the Evil Figures Behind the Third Reich]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Paul Roland]]>Narrator: Dugald Bruce Lockhart]]>Publisher: Arcturus Digital]]>Release date: 12-02-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>How could a devout Catholic such as Franz Stangl live a normal family life after sending thousands of innocent men, women and children to the gas chambers? How did educated and cultured men such as Albert Speer and Reinhard Heydrich justify the brutal liquidation of the ghettos and the slave labour programme which saw so many starved, beaten and worked to death? Hitler and His Inner Circle presents a series of fascinating psychological profiles of Hitler and his leading henchmen, along with their most devoted disciples, in an attempt to discover what fatal character flaws made them commit their terrible crimes against humanity. The Nazis kept extensive files on practically everybody in the Third Reich. Here, author Paul Roland turns the tables with this intriguing exposé.
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]]>Title: The Harlem Hellfighters]]>Subtitle: The History of the 369th Infantry Regiment During World War I]]>Categories: African American, America, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-01-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Harlem Hellfighters, also known as the 369th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army, embody a significant intersection of America’s military history and racial history. Initially raised as the 15th New York (Colored) National Guard and later federalized for World War I, the regiment was "loaned" to the French Army, where it compiled an extraordinary combat record, with a remarkable 191 days on the line and suffering about 1,400 casualties while never yielding its sector (Morrow & Sammons, 2014, pp. 3–6; Harris, 2003, pp. 233–235). These numbers, often highlighted in museum and official summaries, became a central pillar of the unit’s symbolic influence back home, and the unit’s performance in battle, unique experience under French command, and their triumphant homecoming in 1919 collectively reshaped debates concerning black soldiers’ loyalty, capability, and rights. As Colonel William Hayward famously told journalists, his men “never retire,” a sentiment that both the contemporary press and later unit histories preserved, capturing their combat ethos and the representational burdens they carried as black citizen-soldiers (Harris, 2003, pp.
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]]>Title: Eleanor Roosevelt]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (First Ladies of the United States)]]>Series: #5 in First Ladies of the United States]]>Categories: Activist, Biography, Female Protagonist]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Charlie Brogan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-26-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Eleanor Roosevelt... Eleanor Roosevelt was no ordinary First Lady. Her life reads like an epic novel: childhood tragedy, political intrigue, personal betrayal, and ultimate triumph. Born into New York's elite Roosevelt family, Eleanor lost both parents by age ten and was raised by a stern grandmother who criticized her appearance and demeanor. The shy, awkward girl nicknamed "Granny" seemed destined for a quiet life in the shadows. But fate had other plans. Her marriage to distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust her into the political spotlight, where she discovered talents she never knew she possessed. Rather than simply serving as White House hostess, she became a fearless activist who championed groundbreaking government policies and fought tirelessly for civil rights. Her bold approach would be emulated by those who followed her. In this book, we celebrate her remarkable life, as well as her enduring legacy. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Eleanor Roosevelt, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Ghost Army]]>Subtitle: Artists Who Fooled the Nazis]]>Series: #28 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Strategy, World War II]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Ginger White]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 11-26-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Ghost Army: Artists Who Fooled the Nazis by Cyril Marlen is an enthralling account of one of the most ingenious and least-known units of World War II—a secret U.S. Army battalion that fought not with weapons, but with imagination. Bringing together artists, sound engineers, designers, and radio experts, the men of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops—later nicknamed The Ghost Army—waged a war of deception so bold and creative that it changed the very nature of modern warfare. In the chaos of 1944, as the Allies pressed into Nazi-occupied Europe, the Ghost Army was tasked with a mission unlike any other: to trick the German army into seeing entire divisions where none existed. Through a breathtaking blend of visual illusion, sound design, and radio trickery, these soldiers used inflatable tanks, fake convoys, and recorded battle noises to lure enemy forces away from real Allied positions. Their aim was simple but vital—to save lives by making the enemy chase ghosts. Marlen vividly captures how these unconventional warriors transformed the European battlefield into a giant stage of illusion. With their rubber decoys and painted camouflage, they could make an empty field appear to host hundreds of tanks.
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]]>Title: Resting Among Friends: The Cambridge American Cemetery and the Friendly Invasion]]>Series: #21 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: Air Force, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Lt Colonel Tom Briggs (US Army Retired)]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 11-25-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the quiet Cambridgeshire countryside, between the villages of Coton and Madingley, lies a place where history and memory meet. The Cambridge American Cemetery, with its sweeping lawns, shining headstones, and solemn Wall of the Missing, is the only permanent American World War II cemetery in the United Kingdom. Nearly 4,000 servicemen and women rest here, and over 5,100 more are inscribed on the wall, their remains lost at sea or over enemy territory. Together, they embody the story of the “friendly invasion” — the arrival of nearly two million Americans who passed through Britain during the war. Resting Among Friends explores the story behind this extraordinary place. It begins before the war, when Madingley parish was simply farmland and woodland overlooking the Fens. It then traces the arrival of American forces: airmen stationed across East Anglia, sailors battling the Atlantic, engineers building runways, Red Cross volunteers tending to weary crews. Their presence transformed local life, creating friendships, romances, and cultural exchanges that endure in memory to this day. The book reveals how the idea of a permanent resting place arose from wartime necessity.
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]]>Title: The Fifth Crusade]]>Subtitle: The History of the Christian Campaign to Retake Jerusalem]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Ecclesiastical, Europe]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-21-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the 50 years following the First Crusade, the Latin states in the East were consolidated, but there were also growing tensions and new challenges. Against this backdrop, the fall of the County of Edessa in December 1144 at the hands of Zengi, the atabeg of Aleppo and Mosul, was a catastrophic event. Founded in 1098 by the future King Baldwin of Boulogne, Edessa was the first Crusader state, as well as the northernmost, weakest, and least populated. It was constantly exposed to Muslim attacks, and news of its fall reached Europe at the beginning of 1145, and the fall was the catalyst for the Second Crusade. Furthermore, the Crusader States were also concerned about their relationship with the Byzantine Empire, as relations with the Byzantines were often tense. Indeed, efforts to strengthen and then retake parts of the collapsing Crusader States would fuel subsequent Crusades, and the Fourth Crusade notoriously ended with the Crusaders sacking Constantinople instead of proceeding to Jerusalem. Naturally, the Fifth Crusade was launched as a result of the Fourth Crusade’s failure to retake Jerusalem, and Pope Innocent III’s goal of reclaiming Jerusalem, which had been lost in 1187, remained unchanged.
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]]>Title: Navajo Code Talkers]]>Subtitle: Voices of the Unbreakable Code]]>Series: #29 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: Espionage, Fiction, History, Indigenous]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Neil Reeves]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 11-21-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Navajo Code Talkers: Voices of the Unbreakable Code by Cyril Marlen tells the extraordinary true story of how a group of young Navajo men turned their ancient language into the most secure military code of World War II—one that not even the best enemy cryptographers could break. When American forces fought their way across the Pacific, secure communication became a matter of life and death. Japanese intelligence had cracked nearly every code the Allies used—until the U.S. Marine Corps enlisted the help of the Navajo Nation. Speaking a language so complex, unwritten, and unique that almost no outsiders could understand it, the Navajo Code Talkers developed an encryption system that was fast, flexible, and utterly indecipherable. Drawing on historical records and first-hand accounts, Marlen brings to life how these 29 original recruits—farmers, shepherds, and students from remote corners of the Southwest—became warriors of words. They transformed their mother tongue into a living cipher, where tanks became “turtles,” planes became “hummingbirds,” and bombs were “eggs.” From the blood-soaked beaches of Guadalcanal and Tarawa to the desperate fight for Iwo Jima, their coded messages directed troop movements, artillery fire, and rescues with flawless precision. Not one transmission was ever compromised.
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]]>Title: Scottish History and Mythology]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Journey Through Scotland's Past and Legendary Myths]]>Series: #28 in Exploring the Past]]>Categories: Cultural Heritage, Europe, Folklore, Great Britain]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 11-21-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Unlock Scotland’s Secrets: Journey Through History and Myth in One Exciting Audiobook Two manuscripts in one audiobook: In the first part of this audiobook, you will learn about: In the second part of this audiobook, you will discover these exciting myths and legends: Immerse yourself in Scotland's fascinating story. Click "Add to Cart" to explore the key events, legendary figures, and timeless myths that make this country rich in history and stories. Discover the Scotland you never knew!
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]]>Title: The Second Crusade]]>Subtitle: The History of the Controversial Campaign That Led to the Collapse of the Crusader States]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-19-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Of the many campaigns during the Middle Ages, few are as remarkable or seemingly impossible to win at the start as the First Crusade (1095-99), and the true crowning achievement of that crusade, which resulted in two centuries of Western European Christian states in the Middle East and the permanent firing of the European imagination, was the conquest of Jerusalem on July 15, 1099 after three weeks of siege. That victorious siege came four years after the call for a crusade first went out, and had the Crusaders not taken Jerusalem, the First Crusade would not likely have been followed by any more and the campaign might have been no more than an historical footnote of what could have been. In the 50 years following the First Crusade, the Latin states in the East were consolidated, but there were also growing tensions and new challenges. Against this backdrop, the fall of the County of Edessa in December 1144 at the hands of Zengi, the atabeg of Aleppo and Mosul, was a catastrophic event. Founded in 1098 by the future King Baldwin of Boulogne, Edessa was the first Crusader state, as well as the northernmost, weakest, and least populated.
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]]>Title: History of Japan: An Enthralling Journey Through Ancient Japanese Empires, the Shogunate Era, Cultural Renaissance, and Modern Period]]>Categories: Asia, History, Japan]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Virtual Voice]]>Publisher: Independently Published]]>Release date: 11-19-2025]]>Language: English
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]]>Title: Guardians of Culture: The Monuments Men of World War II]]>Subtitle: Everything World War 2 - WWII, Book 30]]>Series: #30 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Special Force, World War II]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Michael Bridges]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 11-18-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the shadow of the Second World War’s devastation, amid the ruins of cities and the collapse of empires, a different kind of battle was waged—one for the preservation of the world’s cultural soul. Guardians of Culture is the powerful, untold story of the Monuments Men: a courageous group of scholars, museum curators, artists, and architects who risked everything to protect and recover the greatest treasures of human civilisation. As Nazi Germany swept across Europe, it wasn't only nations that fell—but identities. Under Hitler’s regime, art became both propaganda and plunder. The dictator, a failed artist with grandiose ambitions, envisioned a “Führermuseum” that would house the world’s most revered masterpieces—stolen from the walls of Europe’s finest institutions and the homes of Jewish families. The scale of looting was unprecedented: Da Vincis, Michelangelos, Vermeers, and countless other irreplaceable works were seized, catalogued, and hidden in mines, castles, and secret vaults. Chapter by chapter, Guardians of Culture tracks the rise of this cultural war—from the meticulous Nazi theft machine and its ideological assault on “degenerate art,” to the quiet heroism of the Allied response.
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]]>Title: Private Pigeon]]>Subtitle: The Forgotten Winged Soldiers of the Second World War]]>Series: #25 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Strategy, World War II]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: John Bowman]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 11-12-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Wars are often remembered for tanks, planes, and generals. Yet, hidden in the background of the Second World War was an unlikely and unsung ally: the humble carrier pigeon. Against all odds, these birds became messengers of life and death, flying through skies thick with smoke and gunfire to deliver scraps of paper that could decide the fate of men, battles, and even nations. In this deeply researched and vivid account, Cyril Marlen uncovers the astonishing role pigeons played in the most destructive conflict of the twentieth century. Radios could be jammed, batteries failed in freezing cold, and transmissions risked interception. But pigeons, guided only by instinct and loyalty to their home lofts, rose into the air and carried messages across battlefields, seas, and occupied territories. Their journeys were often short, sometimes perilously long, but always fraught with danger from bullets, hawks, storms, and exhaustion. From the beaches of Dunkirk to the skies above Arnhem, from lifeboats adrift in the Atlantic to clandestine hideouts in occupied France, pigeons delivered more than words on paper—they carried hope. Their service was not quaint or symbolic. It was vital.
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]]>Title: Nancy Reagan]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (First Ladies of the United States)]]>Series: #6 in First Ladies of the United States]]>Categories: Biography, Celebrity, Female Protagonist, Politician, Politics]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Charlie Brogan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-07-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Nancy Reagan... In the 250-year history of the United States, there have been many first ladies, but Nancy Reagan remains one of the most memorable. She and her husband ushered in the 1980s, and during this time, Nancy herself became the public face of many important issues. Most famously, she tackled the growing problem of illegal drug use with the iconic “Just Say No” campaign, an effort that became so widespread and recognizable that it entered American culture permanently. Yet as inspirational as she was, Nancy Reagan never set out to be involved in politics. She began her career as an aspiring actress. It was only after she set her sights on Ronald Reagan—then president of the Screen Actors Guild—that she was gradually drawn into the political world. She became the First Lady of California when Ronald became governor, and then the First Lady of the United States when he won the presidency. This book covers her life and legacy in full. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Nancy Reagan, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: History of Tibet and Nepal]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Kingdoms, Spiritual Traditions, and Their Resilience Through Modern Times (Asian History)]]>Categories: Asia, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-07-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the Fascinating Histories of Tibet and Nepal: Two Captivating Journeys in One Audiobook Two manuscripts in one audiobook: History of Tibet: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Kingdoms, the Tibetan Empire, Mongol Invasions, Buddhism, Chinese Rule, and Modern Times. History of Nepal: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Himalayan Kingdoms, Unification, Dynastic Rulers, and Modern Times. Uncover the Mysteries of Tibet: Learn about Tibet's early days and the spiritual traditions that shaped its people. Discover the story of the Dalai Lama and the role of Buddhism in Tibetan life. Follow the rise and fall of powerful kingdoms and the impact of Mongol invasions. Understand the history of Tibet under Chinese rule, made simple and clear. See how Tibetans have continued to fight for their independence over the years. Dive into Nepal's Rich History: Discover stories of when gods and warriors roamed Nepal’s ancient lands. Explore the dynasties that built temples and shaped Nepal's culture. Experience the drama as three kingdoms battled for control of Nepal. Follow the leader who united Nepal’s kingdoms into one strong nation. Peek into the world of Nepal’s ruling families, the Thapas and Ranas. Witness Nepal's journey from a monarchy to a democracy led by its people. Imagine Nepal’s future as it blends its past with modern hopes. Start your journey into the past—get your...
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]]>Title: The Dambusters Uncovered]]>Subtitle: 10 Surprising Insights into the Men, Machines, and Myths of Operation Chastise (Everything World War 2: WWII, Book 26)]]>Series: #26 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: Air Force, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Jacques Smith]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 11-05-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Few raids of the Second World War have captured the public imagination like Operation Chastise. Here is the full story—not the familiar headlines, but the unexpected details that reveal how ingenuity, improvisation, and human courage combined to pull off one of history’s most audacious bombing missions. In The Dambusters Uncovered, Cyril Marlen strips away myth and romanticism to present ten clear, surprising insights into the people, machines, and mistakes behind the night of 16-17 May 1943. Drawing on technical analysis, first-hand accounts, and vivid archival detail, Marlen reconstructs the campaign from the workshop to the cockpit: the stubborn engineer who would not give up on a made-to-bounce bomb; the pilots who practised hair-raising low-level flying using improvised visual aids; and the young, hand-picked squadron created for a single, high-risk objective. This concise, compelling volume highlights revelations that change the way we remember the raid. Discover why the bouncing bomb was far more than a crude sphere; how precise altitude—judged with modified lights—mattered more than you imagined; and why getting the bomb’s forward speed exactly right was as critical as drop height.
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]]>Title: Mud, Blood, and Silence]]>Subtitle: Inside the Daily Terror and Humanity of the First World War Trenches]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, World War I]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Erin B Clark]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 11-05-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A century later, the Western Front still speaks—through sodden earth, shattered timber, and the letters of ordinary men who endured the unendurable. Mud, Blood, and Silence is a visceral, human-scale portrait of trench life in the First World War, told not through grand strategy or shifting front lines, but through the cramped inches where millions lived, fought, and waited. It is the story of mud that swallowed boots and hope, blood that seeped into the chalky soil of France and Belgium, and the terrible, watchful silence between bombardments when every heartbeat felt like a countdown. Cyril Marlen guides you down fire steps and along duckboards slick with rain, into dugouts lit by guttering candles, and out across No Man’s Land under a black sky cut by flares. Drawing on soldiers’ routines and realities, he shows how a modern industrial war forced human beings into medieval spaces—narrow trenches, sandbag walls, and timbered shelters—while surrounding them with the machine age’s deadliest inventions.
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]]>Title: The Nazi Rich List]]>Subtitle: The Evil Profiteers of the Third Reich]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Julian Flanders]]>Narrator: Jot Davies]]>Publisher: Arcturus Digital]]>Release date: 11-01-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A chilling investigation into the business tycoons who profited off the Nazi regime and how the world aided and abetted them. The crimes of Hitler and the Nazis are well known—from orchestrating the Holocaust to launching the most destructive war in history, their evil deeds shaped the course of the 20th century. Yet some chose to profit off the misery they caused, making themselves extraordinarily wealthy and setting up business dynasties that lasted long after the Nazis themselves were gone. This book examines who these men and women were, how they amassed money by fuelling the Nazi war machine, took control of businesses stolen from Jews and drafted slave labour from Germany's concentration camps. These industrialists spread across Europe and the world and their brands became household names, while never having to account for their dark pasts.
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]]>Title: The Walls of Constantinople]]>Subtitle: The History of the Fortifications That Made the Byzantine Capital Nearly Impregnable]]>Categories: Europe, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-31-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It was Constantine the Great who first decided that Rome, exposed and vulnerable near the gathering masses of barbarians moving into Germania and Gaul in the early 4th century, was a strategically unsafe base for the empire, and thus expanded the city of New Rome on the Dardanelles straits, creating what eventually became Constantinople. By moving the political, administrative and military capital of the Empire from Rome to the East, as well as the Imperial court with all its attendant followers, Constantine laid the groundwork for the eventual schism which saw the two parts of the Roman Empire become two entirely separate entities, go their own way, and eventually collapse piecemeal under repeated waves of invasion. As a result, the Byzantine Empire was the heir to two great cultures that cradled and nurtured European civilization: Greece and Rome. Constantinople, now called Istanbul, became a center of power, culture, trade, and technology poised on the edges of Europe and Asia, and its influence was felt not only throughout Europe but the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, and the Far East.
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]]>Title: Secrets of the Wolf Pack]]>Subtitle: Amazing Insights into How Germany Waged War from Below the Waves]]>Series: #24 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Brian Morrow]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 10-29-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest, most relentless struggle of the Second World War — and at its centre lurked Germany’s U-boats, steel predators that hunted convoys in the cold, unforgiving waters of the North Atlantic. Winston Churchill later admitted that the U-boat peril was the only thing that truly frightened him during the war. For good reason: had the wolf packs succeeded, Britain would have been starved of food, oil, and weapons, and the course of history might have been irrevocably changed. Secrets of the Wolf Pack takes listeners deep beneath the surface to uncover the full story of Germany’s U-boat campaign: from its origins in the First World War, through its spectacular early triumphs, to its desperate innovations and ultimate defeat. Cyril Marlen offers an accessible yet detailed account of this hidden war, blending strategy, technology, and the gritty realities of life aboard an “iron coffin.” Inside you will discover: More than a tale of tonnage sunk and ships lost, this book is also about people. It reveals the bonds of U-boat crews, young men who endured crushing conditions and terrifying odds.
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]]>Title: The Role of the Horse in the Second World War: The Hidden Machine]]>Series: #23 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Weapon, World War II]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Chris Bentley]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 10-29-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>World War II is remembered as the war of machines: tanks breaking through the Ardennes, bombers darkening European skies, and convoys of trucks pushing supplies to the front. Yet beneath the roar of engines moved another, quieter power — millions of horses and mules, whose muscles pulled the very sinews of war. The Role of the Horse in the Second World War: The Hidden Machine uncovers the forgotten story of these animals, restoring them to the centre of the world’s most mechanised conflict. Far from being relics of the past, horses proved indispensable on every front. Germany invaded the Soviet Union with 600,000 in harness; the Red Army mobilised 3.5 million more. Across Europe and Asia, animals hauled artillery, dragged wagons through mud and snow, and carried supplies where engines faltered. This remarkable book explores:
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]]>Title: The Children’s Ship]]>Subtitle: SS City of Benares and a Voyage from Hope to Tragedy]]>Series: #19 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Tom Briggs]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 10-27-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The SS City of Benares was born in the optimism of the interwar years. Launched in 1936 for the Ellerman Line, she embodied reliability, elegance, and the promise of safe passage between Britain and its empire. With her sleek twin funnels and polished interiors, she seemed destined to carry families, officials, and traders eastward in comfort. Yet within only four years, her name would be etched into the darkest chapter of Britain’s wartime history—not for her design or her service in peacetime, but for the lives of the children she carried on her final voyage. In September 1940, as the Blitz thundered overhead and Britain fought for survival against Nazi Germany, families across the nation faced a terrible choice. Keep their children in bomb-scarred cities under the shadow of the Luftwaffe, or send them thousands of miles overseas in search of safety. The government’s Children’s Overseas Reception Board, known as CORB, offered what seemed like salvation: evacuation across the seas to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Parents signed forms with trembling hands, torn between dread of separation and the desperate hope of protection.
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]]>Title: The Hindenburg Disaster]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Aviation, Engineering, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-23-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Hindenburg Disaster... In 1937, passengers could cross the Atlantic in unprecedented luxury aboard the world’s most advanced aircraft. The Hindenburg was a marvel that defied belief. Stretching over 800 feet (245 meters)—longer than three jumbo jets placed end to end—this colossal airship represented the pinnacle of 1930s technology. Thirteen stories tall and powered by engines that propelled it at nearly 80 mph (125 km/h), it could ferry passengers between Europe and the Americas in half the time of the fastest ocean liner. For those who could afford it, the Hindenburg offered an experience like no other. Passengers dined in an elegant restaurant with panoramic windows, relaxed in opulent lounges while a pianist played a grand piano, and retired to private cabins heated by the ship’s engines. From its 1936 launch through early 1937, this floating palace carried nearly 3,000 passengers across 200,000 miles (320,000 kilometers)—including 17 Atlantic crossings—without a single injury. There was only one thing that made prospective passengers a little nervous: the Hindenburg stayed aloft thanks to 7 million cubic feet (200,000 cubic meters) of hydrogen gas—one of the most explosive substances known to humanity.
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]]>Title: The Montford Point Marines]]>Subtitle: The History of America’s First Black Marines in World War II]]>Categories: African American, America, Black People, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-17-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The United States has no shortage of famous military units, from the Civil War’s Iron Brigade to the 101st Airborne, but one would be hard pressed to find one that had to go through as many hardships off the battlefield as the Montford Point Marines, a group of African American soldiers who overcame Jim Crow at home and official segregation in the military to serve their country in the final years of World War II. In the summer of 1942, the first group of African American recruits stepped off a bus into the pine woods of North Carolina, bound for an experiment the Marine Corps had long vowed never to attempt. Their destination—Montford Point, a hastily constructed satellite to the new Camp Lejeune—was more than a training ground. It was a compromise with democracy, a segregated doorway into an institution that had defined itself for generations by who could not enter. The Corps’ exclusivity had a racial edge: unlike the Army, which had long employed segregated black regiments, and the Navy, which at least allowed African Americans to serve as stewards and messmen, the Marines had barred black men outright from 1798 into the Second World War.
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]]>Titel: Wunderland]]>Untertitel: Die Gründerzeit der Bundesrepublik 1955–1967]]>Kategorien: Democracy, Europe, Germany, History]]>Autor: Harald Jähner]]>Erzähler: Alexander Gamnitzer]]>Herausgeber: Argon Verlag]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-14-2025]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Kaum sind die Trümmer weggeräumt, setzt in Deutschland ein Wirtschaftsaufschwung ohnegleichen ein, auch ein nimmersatter Kaufrausch: Möbel, Autos, Reisen, Elektrogeräte. Mit dem Rock 'n' Roll erfasst die Jugend ein neues Lebensgefühl. 1957 eröffnet der erste Supermarkt, der Siegeszug der Discounter beginnt. Der Fernseher gruppiert die Wohnzimmer um. – Und plötzlich stellen sich neue Fragen: Wie soll man leben? Verlieren wir unsere kulturelle Identität an Amerika? Wie viel Freiheit braucht ein Kind, eine Ehe, ein Arbeitnehmer? Elvis Presley und Freddy Quinn geben unterschiedliche Antworten. 1967 ist die Bundesrepublik im Rohbau fertig. Erstmals kommt ein deutscher Staat ohne höhere Idee aus als das Glück des Einzelnen. Eine Reise in die Lust und Mühen des Wirtschaftswunders – in die Welt der Käseigel, Neckermann-Kataloge und Stalingrad-Erinnerungen, der Gastarbeiter und eines neuen Politikertyps wie Kennedy oder Brandt, der Happenings und des Klammerblues. Als die Beatles 1967 All You Need Is Love singen, ist die Studentenrevolte bereits im Gange. Harald Jähners fulminantes Porträt der jungen Bundesrepublik, einer Zeit, in der sich alles neu formierte – und die es neu zu entdecken gilt.
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]]>Title: Annie Oakley]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Old West)]]>Series: #10 in Old West]]>Categories: America, Biography, Female Protagonist, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-13-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Annie Oakley... Annie Oakley was a remarkable sharpshooter whose legendary accuracy with firearms captivated audiences across the world. She could place bullets precisely where she intended from distances that left spectators breathless with amazement. But as impressive as this was, there was more to Annie Oakley's life than her ability with a gun. With grit and determination, she rose from the abject poverty of her youth to travel the world as the star of Wild West shows that brought the drama of the American frontier to audiences far and wide. She met queens and kings and made headline news on a regular basis. She also made a lot of money, much of which she later gave away. With her devoted husband and manager, Frank Butler, at her side, Annie Oakley was ready to conquer the world, or at the very least, the next shooting contest. Yes, Annie Oakley was always up for a challenge. This is her life, this is her story. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Annie Oakley, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Greenbrier Bunker]]>Subtitle: The History of the Emergency Cold War Bunker Designed for Congress During a Nuclear War]]>Categories: America, History, Military, Planet Earth, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-09-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In October 1962, American spy planes discovered the Soviets were building nuclear missile sites in Cuba, and intelligence officials informed President John F. Kennedy of this on October 16th. It went without saying that nuclear missile sites located just miles off the coast of the American mainland posed a grave threat to the country, especially because missiles launched from Cuba would reach their targets in mere minutes. That would throw off important military balances in nuclear arms and locations that had previously ensured the Cold War stayed cold. Almost all senior American political figures agreed that the sites were offensive and needed to be removed, but how? Ultimately, some of the biggest arguments during the crisis took place among members of the Kennedy administration and the military. Members of the U.S. Air Force wanted to take out the sites with bombing missions and launch a full-scale invasion of Cuba, but President Kennedy and his brother feared that military action could ignite a full-scale escalation leading to nuclear war.
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]]>Title: Rhineland]]>Subtitle: Hitler’s Last Defence, 1944–45]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, Europe, Germany]]>Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones]]>Narrator: Richard Trinder]]>Publisher: Osprey Publishing]]>Release date: 10-09-2025]]>Language: English
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]]>Title: Blackbeard]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, Caribbean, Explorer]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-08-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Blackbeard... Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was the most feared pirate of the Golden Age—a towering figure who struck terror into the hearts of sailors from the Caribbean to the Carolinas. Most biographies seem to start and stop with that statement, but there was much more to the life of Blackbeard than that, and much more to learn about the man behind history’s most fearsome pirate legend. From his stint as a privateer in Queen Anne’s War to his commandeering of a ship he dubbed the Queen Anne’s Revenge and his life of piracy that followed, this book takes us down the incredible trail Blackbeard blazed all the way to his final showdown with Robert Maynard. Here, you will find the life and legend of Blackbeard in full. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Blackbeard, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Destruction of Berlin in 1945]]>Subtitle: Top 10 Astonishing Facts]]>Series: #18 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Judaism, Military]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Lieutenant Colonel Tom Briggs US Army (ret)]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 10-06-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the spring of 1945, the world witnessed the fall of Nazi Germany and the near-total annihilation of its capital. Berlin, once a metropolis of culture, politics, and ambition, became the stage for one of the most devastating urban battles in modern history. When the guns finally fell silent, the city that had symbolized both Prussian grandeur and Hitler’s vision of a “world capital” lay in ruins—a smoldering monument to the destructive power of total war. This book explores the destruction of Berlin through ten astonishing facts that capture the sheer scale of the devastation. The statistics are staggering, but the lived reality behind them is even more haunting. By May 1945, Berlin contained over 55 million cubic meters of rubble, more than half of its buildings damaged or destroyed. Entire districts disappeared, while iconic landmarks like the Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate, and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church were reduced to battered shells. Years of Allied bombing had already scarred the city, but it was the Soviet assault—unleashing 1.8 million artillery shells—that delivered the final blow, pulverizing neighborhoods and leaving vast swathes of the capital unrecognizable. Infrastructure collapsed.
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]]>Title: Evacuated]]>Subtitle: The Wartime Children Who Never Came Home]]>Series: #20 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Jane Charles]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 10-06-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>War is often remembered through the lens of soldiers, battles, and political leaders, but one of its most enduring human stories belongs to those too young to fight—the children. At the outbreak of the Second World War, governments across Europe launched vast evacuation programmes designed to protect their youngest citizens from the horrors of modern warfare. Operation Pied Piper in Britain alone uprooted nearly 1.5 million people in just a few days, most of them children carrying gas masks and small suitcases, their names tied to their coats like parcels. Behind every departure lay a mixture of hope, fear, and heartbreak. Evacuated: The Wartime Children Who Never Came Home tells the story of those whose journeys ended in permanent separation, tragedy, or transformation. It is both a history and a memorial, shining a light on young lives disrupted or lost in the struggle to survive a global conflict. From the railway stations of London to the villages of rural Britain, the evacuation experience was as varied as the children themselves. Some were welcomed with open arms, discovering kindness, open fields, and a different kind of childhood.
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]]>Title: The Kyshtym Disaster]]>Subtitle: The Controversial History of the Nuclear Meltdown Hidden by the Soviet Union]]>Categories: History, Physics, Russia, Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-02-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Uranium is best known for the destructive power of the atom bombs, which ushered in the nuclear era at the end of World War II, but given the effectiveness of nuclear power, nuclear power plants were constructed around the developed world during the second half of the 20th century. While nuclear power plants were previously not an option and thus opened the door to new, more efficient, and more affordable forms of energy for domestic consumption, the use of nuclear energy understandably unnerved people living during the Cold War and amidst ongoing nuclear detonations. After all, the damage wrought on Hiroshima and Nagasaki made clear to everyone what nuclear energy was capable of inflicting, and the health problems encountered by people exposed to the radiation also demonstrated the horrific side effects that could come with the use of nuclear weapons or the inability to harness the technology properly. For decades, it was believed that the first major accident at a nuclear power plant took place at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979, which took nearly 15 years and $1 billion to fully clean up after that disaster.
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]]>Title: Top 10 Nazi Conspiracies Debunked]]>Subtitle: The Real Story Behind the Myths]]>Series: #2 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Media Study]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Ty Lasky]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 09-29-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The truth is stranger than fiction—but the fiction is louder. This book sets the record straight. From supposed secret bases in Antarctica to claims of Nazi UFOs, underground moon colonies, and Hitler’s escape to Argentina, the legacy of the Third Reich has inspired a bizarre and persistent world of conspiracy theories. But what’s real, what’s misunderstood, and what’s deliberately fabricated? In Top 10 Nazi Conspiracies Debunked, historian and researcher Cyril Marlen unpacks and exposes the most infamous Nazi-related myths that have persisted for decades. These aren’t just fringe internet rumors—they’re global narratives that continue to shape pop culture, political thinking, and historical misunderstanding. This powerful and thoroughly researched book offers a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of the top ten conspiracy theories associated with Nazi Germany, including: Through critical analysis, historical evidence, and cultural context, Marlen goes beyond merely debunking these claims—he explains why people believe them.
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]]>Title: The Squalus Disaster]]>Subtitle: The History of the Dramatic Rescue Operation on a Sunken Submarine]]>Categories: America, History, Military, Planet Earth, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-29-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It takes a special type of person to serve in a nation’s navy, especially on long voyages that separate men and women from their loved ones, and no service is both loved and hated as that aboard submarines, for very few people ever serve on them on a whim. For one thing, the psychological impact of being trapped for long periods underwater in tight, cramped quarters is more than many people can stand. Also, submarine service is uncharacteristically hazardous; after all, if a surface vessel is sunk, the crew has a reasonable chance of escaping death in lifeboats or being rescued out of the water by another ship. Conversely, if a submarine is badly damaged while submerged, the crew’s chances of survival are at best remote. Given that there’s such little margin for error in a submersible, many submarine losses remain sources of intrigue and mystery, but in American history, few rival the tragedy and drama aboard the Squalus in 1939. On May 23 of that year, the Squalus, one of the U.S. Navy’s newest submarines, was undertaking the latest in a series of test dives off the coast of New Hampshire.
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]]>Titel: Die Nacht, als Soldaten Verkehrspolizisten wurden]]>Untertitel: Gibt es noch eine deutsche Frage?]]>Kategorien: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Autor: Gabriele Gysi]]>Erzähler: Sanja Nowara]]>Herausgeber: ABOD von RBmedia Verlag]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-25-2025]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Aus den menschlichen Verwerfungen des 2. Weltkrieges sind in Deutschland zwei Staaten, die DDR und die Bundesrepublik, hervorgegangen. Mit der Bürde der deutschen Verantwortung für die unendlichen Zerstörungen und Verbrechen der Nazizeit mussten sie einen neuen Weg in die Gemeinschaft mit anderen Völkern finden. Der Frieden war eine aus den Trümmern erstandene Hoffnung für alle Deutschen. Im Rückblick sieht Gabriele Gysi die Gemeinsamkeit beider deutscher Staaten in ihrem unmittelbaren Bezug aufeinander. Noch heute ist die deutsche Frage nicht gelöst, nur neu gestellt. In diesem Buch widmet sie sich unter anderem den Fragen, wie mit der Geschichte der DDR nach dem Mauerfall gerechter hätte umgegangen werden können, wie alte Feindbilder immer wieder missbraucht werden und welche Folgen das Ende der DDR für den Frieden in Europa hat.
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]]>Title: The War in the Jungle: World War 2 in Southeast Asia]]>Subtitle: Everything World War 2 - WWII, Book 15]]>Series: #15 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: Asia, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Lt Colonel Tom Briggs US Army (ret)]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 09-16-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>While the battles of Europe and the Pacific dominate the headlines of World War II, an equally brutal and strategically vital campaign unfolded far from the spotlight—in the jungles of Southeast Asia. The War in the Jungle takes listeners deep into this forgotten theatre of war, where Allied forces battled not only a tenacious Japanese enemy but also some of the harshest terrain and deadliest diseases on Earth. This compelling account traces the story of the Southeast Asian campaign across ten gripping chapters, from Japan’s lightning advance across Malaya and the shocking fall of Singapore to the construction of the infamous Burma-Thailand Railway. It explores the desperate defence of the Philippines, the daring behind-enemy-lines missions of the Chindits, the quiet heroism of the “Forgotten Army,” and the monumental challenges faced by Lord Mountbatten’s Allied command. Through dense jungle, soaring mountains, and rain-sodden trails, soldiers fought against isolation, starvation, malaria, and a well-entrenched foe. The book vividly portrays how control of the skies proved decisive, with air drops becoming the only lifeline for troops cut off in hostile terrain. It also exposes the human cost of forced labour under Japanese rule, where tens of thousands died building supply routes by hand.
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]]>Title: History of Cambodia: An Enthralling Overview from the Angkor Empire to Now]]>Categories: Asia, History, Southeast Asia]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Virtual Voice]]>Publisher: Independently Published]]>Release date: 09-03-2025]]>Language: English
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]]>Title: Zoroastrianism]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of One of the World’s Oldest Religions]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Islam, Religious Study, Rome]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-03-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>During the first half of the 1st millennium CE, an empire arose in Persia that extended its power and influence to Mesopotamia in the east, Arabia in the south, the Caucasus Mountains in the north, and as far east as India. This empire, known alternatively as the Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, was the last of three great dynasties in Persia—the Achaemenid and the Parthian being the first two dynasties—before the rise of Islam. In fact, many scholars consider the Sasanian Empire to be the last great empire of the ancient Near East because once it had been obliterated, Islam became the standard religion of the region, ushering in the Middle Ages. The Sasanian Empire was important for a number of reasons. Besides being the last of three great Persian dynasties, they carried on many Persian cultural traditions relating to religion and kingship. The Sasanians fostered and promoted the native religion of Zoroastrianism to the point of persecuting other religions from time to time.
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]]>Title: Island by Island: The Pacific War in Brutal Detail]]>Subtitle: Everything World War 2 - WWII, Book 5]]>Series: #5 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Strategy, World War II]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Lt Col Tom Briggs US Army (ret)]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 08-28-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>World War II was a truly global conflict, but no theatre of the war tested the limits of human endurance, strategy, and brutality like the Pacific. In Island by Island: The Pacific War in Brutal Detail, author Cyril Marlen delivers a visceral, unflinching account of the long, bitter struggle between Allied forces and the Empire of Japan. This is not a broad-strokes overview—it’s a deep dive into the raw, punishing reality of the Pacific War, told through vivid detail, gripping analysis, and a relentless focus on the battles that defined the ocean-spanning campaign. From the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to the mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Pacific War unfolded as a series of punishing engagements scattered across an unfathomably vast ocean. Each island was a fortress. Every victory was bought with blood. The stakes were total, the enemy determined, and the conditions unlike any other battlefield in history. This book takes you into the heart of that struggle, exploring the full scope of the war’s Pacific front:
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]]>Title: Lady Bird Johnson]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (First Ladies of the United States)]]>Series: #4 in First Ladies of the United States]]>Categories: America, Biography, Female Protagonist, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-27-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Lady Bird Johnson... History remembers her as the gracious wife standing beside Lyndon B. Johnson, but Lady Bird Johnson was much more than just the period of time that she spent at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the White House. Born in the piney woods of East Texas to a wealthy but troubled family, Lady Bird overcame tragedy to become one of the most accomplished women of her generation. By age 22, she had earned two college degrees and harbored dreams of becoming a globe-trotting journalist. Then a tall, handsome fellow Texan named Lyndon B. Johnson walked into her life, proposing marriage on their very first date. What followed was one of the most incredible political partnerships in American history—and LBJ was the first to admit that she was the better half of this duo. While Lyndon wielded power on Capitol Hill, Lady Bird built a media empire, bankrolled campaigns, and became the first president’s wife to advocate actively for legislation. Her groundbreaking approach transformed the role of first lady from ceremonial hostess to influential political force, creating the template that modern first ladies still follow today.
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]]>Title: The Death Ray]]>Subtitle: The History and Conspiracy Theories Surrounding Nikola Tesla’s Futuristic Weapon]]>Categories: Biography, History, Planet Earth, STEM, Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-21-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“My apparatus projects particles which may be relatively large or of microscopic dimensions, enabling us to convey to a small area at a great distance trillions of times more energy than is possible with rays of any kind. Many thousands of horsepower can thus be transmitted by a stream thinner than a hair, so that nothing can resist. The nozzle would send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles from a defending nation's border and will cause armies to drop dead in their tracks.” – Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla was one of history’s greatest scientists, and though he is best known for his pioneering work with electricity, the fact that he is mostly remembered solely for that actually does a disservice to his legacy. Born a Serb in the Austrian Empire, Tesla came to the United States and worked in a laboratory for none other than the Wizard of Menlo Park, Thomas Edison. Having established AC as an electrical supply system, Tesla became a global celebrity, and his devices and inventions fascinated people.
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]]>Title: Eisenhower’s War]]>Subtitle: The Man Who Led the Liberation of Europe]]>Series: #7 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: Biography, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Lt Col Tom Briggs US Army Ret]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 08-18-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Who was the man behind the masterplan that brought down Hitler’s fortress Europe? Dwight D. Eisenhower didn’t storm the beaches or fire the shots—but without him, there may never have been a D-Day. This gripping biography peels back the layers of one of World War II’s most influential yet often misunderstood leaders—the Allied Supreme Commander who orchestrated the liberation of Europe from Nazi tyranny. From the plains of Kansas to the war rooms of London and the beaches of Normandy, The Man Who Led the Liberation of Europe traces Eisenhower’s extraordinary journey. He wasn’t a battlefield general in the traditional sense—but he wielded one of the most powerful weapons of the war: strategy. Balancing complex alliances, clashing egos, and an enemy entrenched across the continent, Eisenhower’s role as commander required more than just military brilliance—it demanded diplomacy, emotional intelligence, and nerves of steel. This compelling narrative reveals: Far from a dry military chronicle, this book humanizes Eisenhower—offering a rare look at the man behind the medals.
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]]>Title: The Final Push]]>Subtitle: How Europe Was Liberated!]]>Series: #16 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Judaism]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Ty Lasky]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 08-15-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Imagine a time when Europe lay shrouded in tyranny—cities crumbled, millions displaced, and freedom silenced under Nazi rule. Yet from 1944 to 1945, a decisive series of Allied campaigns shattered the iron grip of oppression. The Final Push: How Europe Was Liberated! tells the story of that transformative moment—when ordinary people and extraordinary leaders joined across continents to bring an end to Hitler’s tyranny and restore freedom to a broken world. This book guides the listener through ten pivotal chapters: D-Day: The Mighty Invasion of Normandy (June 6, 1944) The largest amphibious assault in history: over 150,000 Allied soldiers landed on five beaches across Normandy. The gamble succeeded, forging a Western front and igniting the liberation of Western Europe. The Eastern Front: The Soviet Union’s Relentless Drive West From Stalingrad to Berlin, the Red Army refused to stop. Tens of millions fought and died, but their advance crushed Germany’s eastern flank, liberating cities from Poland to Hungary and weakening Nazi defenses. The Race Across France: From Normandy to Paris (Summer 1944) Liberation built momentum as Allied forces pushed rapidly inland.
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]]>Title: The Hundred Years’ War: An Enthralling Guide to the Epic Struggle for Dominance Between England and France]]>Categories: Europe, France, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Virtual Voice]]>Publisher: Independently Published]]>Release date: 08-13-2025]]>Language: English
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]]>Título: Los anglosajones y la Inglaterra medieval: Una guía apasionante sobre su pueblo, su cultura y los principales acontecimientos]]>Categorías: Europe, Great Britain, History, Medieval]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Virtual Voice]]>Editor: Independently Published]]>Fecha de publicación: 08-13-2025]]>Idioma: Español
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]]>Title: Churchill’s Secret Warriors]]>Subtitle: The Daredevil Agents of the SOE]]>Series: #14 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: Espionage, History, Liberty, Military]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Chris Bentley]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 08-11-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When Winston Churchill famously demanded that his operatives “set Europe ablaze,” he wasn’t speaking metaphorically—he was authorising a secret war fought not with battalions, but with whispers, sabotage, and unmatched bravery. Churchill’s Secret Warriors tells the electrifying story of the Special Operations Executive (SOE)—the shadowy organisation Britain created in World War II to fight the Nazis from behind enemy lines. This book pulls back the curtain on one of history’s most daring and unconventional wartime initiatives. Born in desperation after the fall of France and the near-collapse of Europe, the SOE was Churchill’s audacious answer to the Nazi stranglehold across the continent. With no time for tradition and no patience for protocol, the SOE recruited anyone with the brains, boldness, and nerves of steel needed to derail the Axis war machine. Artists, scholars, mechanics, aristocrats, refugees—and women, too—were trained in the dark arts of espionage, sabotage, disguise, and resistance warfare. From the windswept Scottish Highlands to the quiet meadows of English country estates, these unlikely agents learned to parachute into enemy territory, build explosives from household items, forge identities, and transmit vital intelligence while evading Gestapo dragnets.
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]]>Title: The Secret Labs of WWII: Innovations in Warfare]]>Subtitle: Everything World War 2 - WWII, Book 10]]>Series: #10 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Military Science]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: James Matthews Vannoy]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 08-01-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Secret Labs of WWII: Innovations in Warfare By Cyril Marlen Beneath the thunder of artillery and the roar of aerial dogfights, another war was unfolding—one fought in silence, in shadows, and behind sealed doors. The Secret Labs of WWII unveils the hidden world of scientific and technological warfare that helped determine the fate of nations. From bomb-ravaged Europe to the deserts of New Mexico, the book takes you inside the clandestine facilities where intellect rivalled infantry, and innovation became as deadly as any bullet. World War II was a crucible not just for armies, but for ideas. As the world’s major powers raced toward victory, they poured unprecedented resources into covert scientific projects. These secret labs were more than just military installations; they were the front lines of a revolution in warfare. Nuclear weapons, guided rockets, radar systems, codebreaking machines, and biological agents—some of the most transformative (and terrifying) breakthroughs of the 20th century were born in these hidden strongholds. Cyril Marlen guides listeners through ten of the most impactful and enigmatic wartime research programmes, each chapter peeling back the layers of secrecy and examining the science, the people, and the often-disturbing implications of their work:
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]]>Title: The OSS]]>Subtitle: America’s First Spy Agency]]>Series: #13 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: America, Espionage, History, Liberty]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: J D Lake]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 08-01-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Before the CIA, there was the OSS. Born in the crucible of World War II, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was America’s first centralised spy agency—an improvised, chaotic, and revolutionary force that changed the nature of warfare forever. In just three short years, the OSS went from a desperate idea to a globe-spanning network of agents, saboteurs, analysts, and operatives who rewrote the rules of espionage. In The OSS: America’s First Spy Agency, acclaimed historian Cyril Marlen peels back the curtain on the secret missions, eccentric characters, and dangerous innovations that defined the OSS’s short but seismic existence. From hidden radios tucked into shaving kits to jungle warfare in Burma, from psychological propaganda campaigns to midnight parachute drops into Nazi territory, this is the untold story of America’s first experiment with shadow war—and the people bold enough to carry it out. Discover how William “Wild Bill” Donovan, a WWI hero with a flair for the unorthodox, built an agency from scratch using poets, professors, film directors, and even a future celebrity chef—Julia Child. Meet the fearless Jedburgh teams who coordinated with French resistance fighters ahead of D-Day.
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]]>Title: Occupied]]>Subtitle: The Horrors of Civilian Life Under Nazi Rule]]>Series: #3 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Judaism, Military]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Lt Colonel Tom Briggs US Army ret]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 07-28-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>What does it mean to live under the boot of an occupying army? Not as a soldier, not as a politician, but as a mother, a student, a shopkeeper, or a child—trying to survive while your world is dismantled around you. In Occupied: The Horrors Of Civilian Life Under Nazi Rule, historian Cyril Marlen offers an unflinching and deeply human account of what it was like for ordinary people trapped beneath the Nazi regime during World War II. From France to Poland, from the Netherlands to Yugoslavia, millions of civilians found themselves suddenly under Nazi control as Hitler’s forces swept across Europe. This book shines a light on their often-overlooked stories—the quiet desperation, the moral ambiguity, the endurance, and the unspeakable trauma. These are not tales of battlefield glory; they are accounts of silent suffering and daily heroism in kitchens, classrooms, markets, and hiding places. Marlen begins with the sheer psychological shock of occupation: the loss of national identity, the vanishing of civil liberties, and the sudden appearance of swastikas on familiar streets. From there, each chapter explores a different aspect of life under occupation. Rationing and hunger became daily concerns, as access to food and basic supplies dwindled.
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]]>Title: Ancient Africa and African Mythology]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide to Empires, Civilizations, Myths, Fables, and Legends (Exploring the Past)]]>Series: #27 in Exploring the Past]]>Categories: Africa, Ancient, Cultural Heritage, Folklore]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 07-23-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Unlock the Mysteries of Ancient Africa: Discover the Empires, Legends, and Myths That Shaped History! Three manuscripts in one audiobook: In the first part, you will discover: In the second part, you will learn about: In the third part, you will: Immerse yourself in the enthralling narratives of Africa's greatest civilizations, legendary leaders, and captivating myths. Unveil the secrets of Ancient African Empires, Carthaginian prowess, and timeless folklore. Don't miss out—click "Add to Cart" and journey through history like never before!
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]]>Titel: Die Geschichte der Sowjetunion]]>Untertitel: Von Lenin bis Gorbatschow]]>Kategorien: History, Politics, Russia]]>Autor: Eric Rump]]>Erzähler: Felix Hirche]]>Herausgeber: Eric Rump]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-21-2025]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Entdecken Sie die fesselnde Geschichte der Sowjetunion – eines Staates, der die Weltpolitik prägte und durch Revolution, Macht und Zerfall einen unauslöschlichen Eindruck hinterließ. Dieses Hörbuch nimmt Sie mit auf eine spannende Reise durch die zentralen Wendepunkte der sowjetischen Geschichte. Es beginnt mit der Russischen Revolution und dem Aufstieg Lenins, führt durch die dunklen Jahre der Stalin-Ära mit Industrialisierung und Repression, und beleuchtet die Rolle der Sowjetunion im Zweiten Weltkrieg und im Kalten Krieg. Auch Gorbatschows Reformen, die schließlich zum Zerfall der UdSSR führten, werden eindrucksvoll geschildert. Darüber hinaus bietet das Hörbuch einen Blick auf die Herausforderungen der Nachfolgestaaten und ihr Vermächtnis in der Gegenwart. Mit fundierten Analysen und tiefgehenden Einblicken vermittelt dieses Werk ein umfassendes Verständnis für die politische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung der Sowjetunion – und für ihre Bedeutung bis heute. Ein Muss für alle, die sich für Geschichte, Politik und internationale Zusammenhänge interessieren.
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]]>Title: Ada Lovelace]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Math Prodigy Who Pioneered Computer Science]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Female Protagonist, History, STEM]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-11-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Today, the world is in the midst of the transformative and ever-developing Digital Age, otherwise referred to as the “Age of Information.” It has been an unprecedented, remarkable, and explosive era marked by social media and computer-generated imagery (and with it, deep fakes), among other novel, previously unimaginable concepts. The bulky monitors and blocky towers of personal computers and laptops, which were once upon a time considered fashionable, futuristic contraptions, have since been replaced with a sleek and stylish array – both multi-functional and specialized – of aerodynamic, minimalistic devices, ranging from smartphones and tablets to lightweight laptops and full-fledged gaming set-ups packed with powerhouse processors. While many are familiar with those facts, and a recent movie revived interest in Alan Turing’s achievements with computing during World War II, Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace were the first to conceive the notion of a programmable and automatic universal computer, which, on top of its ability to calculate any mathematical equation at an unmatched speed, could also be used for a seemingly infinite number of other applications.
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]]>Title: The Secret War]]>Subtitle: Spies, Lies and the Art of Deception in World War II]]>Categories: History, Liberty, Military, Military Conflict, Politics]]>Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones]]>Narrator: David Vickery]]>Publisher: Arcturus Digital]]>Release date: 07-09-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Most of the great military campaigns and breakthroughs of World War II would not have been successful without the efforts of teams of people working unsung and undercover. The codebreakers of Bletchley Park cracked codes that allowed for the interception and exploitation of German intelligence but many took the secret of their wartime activities to the grave. Others put their lives on the line to gather information for their countries, infiltrating other nations' secrets at great personal risk. This fascinating book covers some of the main campaigns carried out by the secret services such as the fabled Operation Mincemeat, and others, such as Operation Fortitude, carried out in support of D-Day. It also looks at the case of the fifth columnists and stories of double agents such as Agent GARBO.
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]]>Title: Nellie Bly]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Women in History)]]>Series: #8 in Biographies of Women in History]]>Categories: Biography, Female Protagonist, Press]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-08-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Nellie Bly... Nellie Bly was a rare figure in this world. She was someone who steadfastly refused to follow the crowd. In an age when most people, especially women, were expected to conform to social norms and keep their opinions to themselves, Bly boldly charted her own course. She did not wait for permission to speak her mind, nor did she concern herself with the prevailing sentiments of her day. What made Nellie Bly extraordinary was her commitment to thinking independently. She examined the world through her own eyes, formed her own conclusions, and then fearlessly shared those insights with listeners across America. Whether she was exposing the horrific conditions of an insane asylum, circumnavigating the globe, or challenging corrupt industrialists, she did so without once pausing to wonder if her actions would meet with public approval. This biography traces the remarkable journey of a woman who transformed journalism not just through what she wrote, but through how she lived. From her humble beginnings in Pennsylvania to her final days in New York, Bly remained true to herself and her convictions. She was not only a gifted writer—she was a champion for all free thinkers everywhere.
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]]>Title: Taíno Mythology: An Enthralling Guide to the Myths, Legends, and Folklore of the Taínos]]>Categories: America, Caribbean, History, Social Science]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Virtual Voice]]>Publisher: Independently Published]]>Release date: 07-08-2025]]>Language: English
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]]>Title: Holocaust Denial]]>Subtitle: How It Started and Why It Persists]]>Series: #11 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Politics]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Derek Monaghan]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 07-08-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>How does one of the most documented crimes in human history become the target of organised disbelief? Holocaust Denial: How It Started and Why It Persists is a powerful exposé of the deliberate campaign to distort, erase, and weaponise the memory of the Holocaust. With chilling clarity, historian Cyril Marlen takes listeners through the origins, evolution, and ongoing danger of Holocaust denial—unmasking the pseudoscience, antisemitism, and conspiracy theories that fuel this persistent assault on truth. This compelling book traces the roots of denial back to the Nazi regime itself, which began destroying evidence of its crimes before the war had even ended. From there, it explores how early post-war deniers—including figures like Paul Rassinier and Willis Carto—manipulated history to whitewash fascism and revive antisemitic ideologies. As denial movements gained traction in the West, institutions like the Institute for Historical Review gave falsehoods an academic facade, while pseudo-scholars cloaked hate in footnotes and jargon. Marlen deconstructs the core claims of deniers—from the denial of gas chambers and minimisation of death tolls to the baseless accusations of a “Zionist hoax”—and reveals how these lies are not just historically inaccurate, but intentionally crafted to sow doubt, incite hatred, and sanitise Nazi ideology.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Cyril Marlen) Tue, 08 Jul 2025 05:32:49 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bkWfMg0r Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: What Was Operation Mockingbird?]]>Subtitle: What the Conspiracy Theorists Think]]>Series: #4 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: Espionage, History, Liberty, Media Study]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Chris Bentley]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 06-30-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Was the free press ever truly free? Or did hidden hands once pull the strings of public perception? What Was Operation Mockingbird? takes listeners deep into one of the most debated chapters of modern intelligence history—where Cold War secrecy, media influence, and conspiracy theory collide. This thought-provoking guide unravels the complex origins, allegations, and investigations tied to the term "Operation Mockingbird" and invites listeners to explore the blurry lines between documented truth and persistent rumour. At the heart of the book is a critical question: did the CIA really infiltrate major newsrooms during the Cold War to control the narrative? Or has the tale of Operation Mockingbird become an exaggerated myth fuelled by suspicion and internet speculation? Drawing from declassified reports, congressional testimonies, and the findings of the Church Committee—a key Senate investigation into U.S. intelligence abuses—author Cyril Marlen methodically separates fact from fiction. This book begins by placing the listener in the shadowy atmosphere of the Cold War, a time when information was power and the war for hearts and minds raged across airwaves and printing presses.
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]]>Title: Daniel Boone]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Explorer, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-26-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Daniel Boone... Daniel Boone is one of those figures in American history whose life often intertwines with myths and legends. While numerous tall tales surround this American adventurer, many of his greatest feats are actually true. They are not merely artifacts of folklore—they genuinely happened. Daniel Boone really did blaze a trail through the Cumberland Gap into the western frontier. He really did become initiated as a member of the Shawnee (who gave him the name “Big Turtle”), and he really did serve under Revolutionary War General George Rogers Clark. Beyond these well-known accomplishments, he performed countless other extraordinary deeds that most people have never even heard about. This book takes an in-depth look at the life of Daniel Boone, revealing the man behind the legend. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on Daniel Boone, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Impossible Victory]]>Subtitle: Ten Reasons Why Nazi Germany Lost WWII]]>Series: #1 in Everything World War 2 - WWII]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Cyril Marlen]]>Narrator: Lt Colonel Tom Briggs]]>Publisher: Zentara UK]]>Release date: 06-23-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>World War II was more than just a clash of armies—it was a battle of ideologies, economies, and strategies on a global scale. It was the deadliest conflict in human history, involving more than 30 countries and resulting in the deaths of an estimated 70 to 85 million people, including both military personnel and civilians. For a time, it seemed as though Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, might succeed in reshaping the world according to its vision. Germany’s early victories stunned observers and instilled fear across Europe. Yet by May 1945, Germany lay in ruins, its cities bombed to rubble, its military defeated, and its leadership dead or captured. How did a nation that once dominated nearly all of continental Europe fall so decisively? The answer lies not in a single misstep but in a collection of strategic errors, ideological flaws, and insurmountable disadvantages.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Cyril Marlen) Mon, 23 Jun 2025 05:57:32 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bYJfvBnz Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: George Rogers Clark]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (American Revolutionary War)]]>Series: #11 in American Revolutionary War]]>Categories: America, American Revolution, Biography, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-18-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of George Rogers Clark... George Rogers Clark was an American general during the Revolutionary War—the epic conflict in which the newly formed United States of America broke free from British rule. A seasoned frontiersman, he became a leading figure in the expansion of the American frontier into what was then known as the Northwest Territory. Before states like Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky even existed, Clark was actively charting their course. When the Revolutionary War erupted, George Rogers Clark did not hesitate to answer the call to action. He quickly rose to prominence as a determined and capable leader who didn’t hesitate to raise funds and troops even without help from the regular army. His resourcefulness became evident as he led a series of successful campaigns in the Northwest, pushing British forces back and securing the region for the Americans. By the time the war came to a close, his efforts helped ensure that the Americans kept possession of this large, sprawling territory. Despite this, Clark struggled to receive the recognition and compensation he deserved.
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]]>Title: Skylab]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of America’s First Space Station]]>Categories: America, History, Science, Space Science, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-18-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 1869, the Atlantic Monthly magazine published a new novella in serial form. This bizarre tale, The Brick Moon, was written by a historian (and Unitarian minister) named Edward Everett Hale, who had already written several well-received novels and articles. However, this was something completely different today, as it was in the genre of what is today considered science fiction. Many people compared the new work to the previous novels of French writer Jules Verne, including From the Earth to the Moon, but Hale’s work was presented as a genuine account of a previous experiment. The Brick Moon concerned the launch of an artificial satellite, a sphere made of brick, into Earth’s orbit. In the story, it is launched as an aid to navigation, one of four such satellites planned to be launched. In many ways, this is a remarkably prescient story covering many attributes of today’s world-spanning GPS system. In the story, the satellite is accidentally launched with passengers aboard, and most of the tale is an account of their struggles to survive in space. The story proved so popular that, in 1870, Hale wrote a more detailed account of life in space as Life on the Brick Moon.
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]]>Title: The Guelphs and Ghibellines]]>Subtitle: The History of the Rival Political Factions in Medieval Italy]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-13-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It has been famously pointed out that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, but it was also not an empire in the sense people expect when hearing the term, but it is clear that church clergy occupied a privileged place in medieval society. Europe had inherited Christianity from the Roman Empire, and the concept of a united Christendom and empire were practically synonymous. Indeed, there was no real consciousness of the Roman Empire ever having ended. After the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the late 5th century, the Germanic rulers of Western Europe continued to recognize the Eastern Emperor in Constantinople until Charlemagne, and after the dissolution of the Frankish Empire, the imperial seat was transferred to Otto I, King of East Francia in modern Germany. This translatio imperii (“translation of empire”) from Rome to the Franks, and then to the Germans, was universally accepted by Christians, and in theory, the empire was supposed to encompass all of Christendom. By the late 10th century, however, the emperor’s reach was rarely felt beyond Germany and northern Italy, and the question of who was supposed to be the imperial head was unresolved.
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]]>Title: Hitler’s Path to Power]]>Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany: A Deep Dive Into History’s Darkest Regime]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Isabella C. Hayes]]>Narrator: Richard Mason's voice replica]]>Publisher: Ernalyn Bautista]]>Release date: 06-09-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A chilling journey through the rise of tyranny—and a sobering warning for the modern world. In Hitler’s Path to Power: The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany: A Deep Dive Into History’s Darkest Regime, acclaimed historian and true crime author Isabella Hayes unpacks how Adolf Hitler transformed from a fringe agitator into the dictator of a totalitarian regime that plunged the world into war and genocide. With gripping narration and sharp historical insight, this audiobook traces the roots of fascism in post–World War I Germany, the collapse of the Weimar Republic, and the psychological and political tactics Hitler used to seize absolute power. You’ll explore the inner workings of Nazi propaganda, the terror of the Gestapo and SS, the horrors of the Holocaust, and the final unraveling of the Third Reich. Listeners will discover: Isabella C. Hayes brings history’s darkest regime to life with unflinching honesty and narrative power. Timely, disturbing, and essential, this audiobook is not just about the past—it’s a mirror for the present.
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]]>Title: Opening the Gates of Hell]]>Subtitle: Operation Barbarossa, June–July 1941]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Richard Hargreaves]]>Narrator: Philip Pope]]>Publisher: Osprey Publishing]]>Release date: 06-05-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Bloomsbury presents Opening the Gates of Hell: Operation Barbarossa, June-July 1941 by Richard Hargreaves, read by Philip Pope. A unique account of the opening weeks of history’s largest, most brutal conflict, told through the eyes of those who were there and based on original source material from across Europe. Opening the Gates of Hell is based on over a decade’s research in archives and sites across Europe. It is a ground-breaking examination of the start of the Nazi–Soviet conflict, a narrative history not just of the fighting, but also the impact on civilians, the atrocities committed by both sides and ethnic cleansing carried out by the inhabitants of the regions invaded. This fascinating history tells the stories of bravery, cowardice, misery and horror through the eyes of those who were there including ordinary soldiers, generals, leaders, politicians and civilians on both sides.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Richard Hargreaves) Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:17:26 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xnGf6Bzn Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Cold War Files]]>Subtitle: Espionage, Betrayal, and Nuclear: Brinkmanship Secrets and Spies That Shaped the Modern World]]>Categories: Biography, Espionage, History, Liberty]]>Author: Isabella C. Hayes]]>Narrator: Richard Mason's voice replica]]>Publisher: Ernalyn Bautista]]>Release date: 06-05-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Step into a world of shadow diplomacy, double agents, and nuclear tension in this riveting exploration of the Cold War era. In The Cold War Files, acclaimed historian and bestselling author Isabella Hayes delivers a powerful narrative of one of the most dangerous and defining periods in modern history. From the chilling silence of spy tunnels beneath Berlin to the nerve-wracking hours of the Cuban Missile Crisis, this audiobook brings to life the hidden battles, betrayals, and global maneuverings that shaped the post-war world. Through vivid storytelling and meticulous research, listeners will uncover the high-stakes intelligence operations, ideological showdowns, and psychological warfare that unfolded between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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]]>Title: Vera Atkins]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (World War 2 Biographies)]]>Categories: Biography, Espionage, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-22-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Vera Atkins... Vera Atkins is one of the many unsung heroes and heroines of World War II. She carried out her life with great care and due diligence, quietly becoming the perfect spy when no one was watching. Beneath her polished exterior was a mind built for strategy, secrecy, and survival. But Vera wasn’t just a spy—she was a Spymistress. That’s what her operatives in Britain’s military intelligence unit, the Special Operations Executive, called her. To the countless agents dropped behind enemy lines in the tense lead-up to the D-Day invasion, she was a den mother, a protector, and a guide. It was Vera Atkins who ensured they were expertly trained, prepared, and ready for anything. She trained them, guided them, and sent them off on some of the most dangerous missions of the war—missions that helped pave the way for the Allied victory on D-Day. This is her life—this is her story. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Vera Atkins, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Iroquois Confederacy]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to Present (Native American History)]]>Categories: America, Canada, History, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-20-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Iroquois Confederacy... The American Revolution not only changed the continent of North America, but the ideas it represented would go on to change the world. The notion of a state where individual liberty was guaranteed to all citizens and where hereditary positions of power did not exist would directly lead to the French Revolution and to other movements around the world that sought to bring fundamental political and societal changes. What is often forgotten is that the radical US Constitution borrowed concepts and ideas from a much older democracy that had existed in North America long before European settlers first arrived. The Iroquois Confederacy was a political union of five (later six) Native American nations that controlled much of the Northeastern part of North America from the time of its foundation until the eighteenth century. The people of this confederacy—the Haudenosaunee (“people of the longhouse”)—lived within what some historians claim was the first participatory democracy in human history.
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]]>Title: Taking Midway]]>Subtitle: Naval Warfare, Secret Codes, and the Battle That Turned the Tide of World War II]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Naval Force, World War II]]>Author: Martin Dugard]]>Narrator: Samuel Roukin]]>Publisher: Penguin Audio]]>Release date: 05-20-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O'Reilly's Killing series—with more than twelve million copies sold—comes a fast-paced, dramatic account of the famous yet little understood battle that turned the tide of World War II. 1942. Everywhere around the world, the Allies are losing the war. Nowhere is this felt more completely than in the Pacific, where Japanese sea and ground forces claim victory after victory. Singapore falls. Then the Philippines. The vaunted American Navy fights to a draw with the Japanese at the Battle of Coral Sea. America's lone moral victory is Colonel Jimmy Doolittle's bombing raid on Tokyo—though even that is tinged with tragedy as two crew members are shot down and beheaded. Meanwhile in Honolulu, a brilliant young naval officer is determined to break Japan's top secret codes. Lt. Commander Joseph Rochefort completes this task in April. He is then startled to learn that the Japanese are planning yet another major invasion somewhere in the Pacific.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Martin Dugard) Tue, 20 May 2025 04:48:52 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bGlfYdeM Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Lawrence of Arabia: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: World War 1]]>Series: #2 in World War 1]]>Categories: Biography, History, Middle East, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-06-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Lawrence of Arabia... T. E. Lawrence was a man of all seasons. Known for his great thirst for adventure, he earned the name Lawrence of Arabia due to his hands-on expertise in the Middle East during World War I and the Arab Revolt. Yet his achievements extended well beyond exploration—he was an innovative soldier, a dedicated archaeologist, and a passionate curator of history. Fiercely loyal to his friends and surprisingly considerate even to his adversaries, Lawrence’s fearless attitude convinced the ruler of Hejaz that he was the visionary capable of steering them to victory against the Ottoman Turks. In the end, his adventures spanned continents and reshaped history. This book chronicles Lawrence of Arabia’s remarkable journey—not only across vast geographic distances, but also through the realms of the human spirit. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Lawrence of Arabia, then download this audiobook!
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]]>Title: History of Germany: An Enthralling Overview of Major Events and Figures]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Virtual Voice]]>Publisher: Independently Published]]>Release date: 04-29-2025]]>Language: English
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:27:47 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-VO2fRGwr Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Mitología griega: Una fascinante visión general de los mitos, dioses y diosas griegos]]>Categorías: Europe, Greece, History, Social Science]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Virtual Voice]]>Editor: Independently Published]]>Fecha de publicación: 04-26-2025]]>Idioma: Español
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Sat, 26 Apr 2025 19:28:26 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-DoPfvwjg Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Byzantine Empire: An Enthralling Overview of the Byzantium]]>Categories: Christianity, Europe, History]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Virtual Voice]]>Publisher: Independently Published]]>Release date: 04-24-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>An epic story of emperors, intrigue, and a forgotten empire that shaped the modern world. Whether you’re a curious reader, student, or history lover, this is your gateway to one of the most fascinating empires of all time. While Europe sank into the so-called Dark Ages, the Byzantine Empire thrived — keeping ancient knowledge alive and influencing everything from religion to politics for over a thousand years. Based in the city of Constantinople, this powerful empire was home to brilliant rulers, daring generals, and some of the most dramatic court intrigues in history. If you’ve ever wondered how the legacy of Rome lived on — or why its influence is still felt today — this book holds the answers. Here’s just a glimpse of what you’ll discover inside: Why You’ll Love This Book: Clear, engaging, and packed with real stories, this book makes centuries of history easy to understand. If you like learning about powerful rulers, epic turning points, and how the past still shapes our world, this one’s for you. Click “Add to Cart” to dive into a world of ambition, glory, and lasting legacy.
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]]>Título: Operación Felix]]>Subtitular: Por qué Hitler no conquistó Gibraltar]]>Categorías: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Autor: Antonio Rafael Mata Alonso-Lasheras]]>Narrador: Virtual Voice]]>Editor: Amanecer]]>Fecha de publicación: 04-21-2025]]>Idioma: Español
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Antonio Rafael Mata Alonso-Lasheras) Mon, 21 Apr 2025 01:23:11 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Dpwf3R7E Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Joan of Arc]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide to a Peasant Girl’s Rise in Medieval France and Her Timeless Legacy as a National Heroine (Europe)]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, France, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 04-09-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>From Humble Peasant to Divine Warrior: Joan of Arc’s True Story of Faith, Fire, and Unbreakable Courage How did a young girl from a small village become a powerful military leader, a symbol of hope, and a beloved saint? Joan of Arc changed the course of French history with her strong faith and courage.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Wed, 09 Apr 2025 15:57:30 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-x9Rf3XRJ Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Anglo-Saxons and Medieval England]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide to the People, Culture, and Major Events (Exploring the Past)]]>Series: #29 in Exploring the Past]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Medieval]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 04-09-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Embark on an Epic Journey Through England's Fascinating History Two manuscripts in one audiobook: In the first part of this audiobook, you will discover: In the second part of this audiobook, you will learn about: Dive Into England's Past! Click "Add to Cart" to Begin Your Adventure!
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]]>Title: The Myths of India]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Mythology Across the Indian Subcontinent]]>Categories: Ancient, Asia, Cultural Heritage, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-04-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Though it was one of the most advanced civilizations of its time and responsible for the most ancient prehistoric urban sites across the Indian subcontinent, the Indus Valley Civilization was forgotten for millennia, until 20th century archaeologists rediscovered and began excavations at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. Although the civilization primarily flourished between approximately 3000 and 1500 BCE, these ancient Indians had longer lasting influences on the urbanization of the Indian subcontinent for centuries after, thanks to their monumental buildings and walls, enormous manmade platforms, innovative architectural techniques, and evidence that they engaged in trade over vast distances, with high-quality artifacts sent from the Indus Valley as far as Mesopotamia and even Africa. Of course, the Indus Valley Civilization and their successors, the Aryans, also influenced indigenous Indian religion and mythology. In the West, Hinduism is a religion that everyone has heard of but one that few non-practitioners truly understand. Today it is widely regarded as one of the world’s great religions and considered the indigenous religion of India, with practices and beliefs stretching back thousands of years. In reality, Hinduism as it is conceived of today is a conglomerate of a number of indigenous Indian religions.
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]]>Title: Brazilian History and Mythology]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Journey Through Brazil's Past and Legendary Myths]]>Categories: America, Cultural Heritage, History, Social Science, South America]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 04-02-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore Brazil’s Amazing History and Magical Myths! Two manuscripts in one audiobook: In part 1, you’ll learn how Brazil became the country it is today: In part 2, you’ll explore the magical stories from Brazil’s past: Why this audiobook? Download this audiobook to take a trip through Brazil’s past and explore its most exciting legends!
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:48:00 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Dpwfp8XE Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Bagration 1944]]>Subtitle: The Great Soviet Offensive]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Prit Buttar]]>Narrator: Leighton Pugh]]>Publisher: Osprey Publishing]]>Release date: 03-13-2025]]>Language: English
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]]>Titel: Geschichte Griechenlands]]>Untertitel: Ein fesselnder Überblick über die griechische Geschichte (Griechische Mythologie und Geschichte)]]>Serie: #3 in Griechische Mythologie und Geschichte]]>Kategorien: Europe, Greece, History]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Erzähler: Marko Kraft]]>Herausgeber: Billy Wellman]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 02-18-2025]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Hier ist sie: Die gesamte Geschichte Griechenlands in einem Band! Dieses Buch nimmt den Leser mit auf eine kompakte Reise von den ersten Siedlungen Griechenlands bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. Die leicht lesbare und dennoch gründlich recherchierte Darstellung wird Geschichtsinteressierte, Studenten und alle, die mehr über Griechenland erfahren möchten, in ihren Bann ziehen. Der prägnante Überblick behandelt die griechischen Zivilisationen der Steinzeit und Bronzezeit, die archaischen und klassischen Epochen, die Jahrhunderte unter römischer Herrschaft und das faszinierende Byzantinische Reich aber auch die Zeit unter der türkisch-osmanischen Herrschaft, die Emanzipation Griechenlands und die Herausbildung einer parlamentarischen Demokratie, die bis ins 20.
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]]>Title: Journeys in Time]]>Subtitle: The History of Reported Accounts of Time Travel]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History, Occult]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-24-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.” - Edward M. Lerner, physicist and author We take time for granted as it passes during every moment of our existence. Other things may change, but time remains constant and predictable. The past, the present, and the future exist within a harmonious, reliable, and never-changing system. Or at least that’s how it seems. It was Albert Einstein who, in 1905, first theorized that time might not be quite as straightforward as that. In one of the most influential papers on physics ever published[1], he proposed something called “time dilatation.” This suggested that time was neither fixed nor constant and that the passage of time was related to the relative speed of the observer. The closer an object approached the speed of light, the more notable this effect was.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:55:26 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-VNef76MN Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: History of Nepal]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Himalayan Kingdoms, Unification, Dynastic Rulers, and Modern Times]]>Categories: Asia, History, Southeast Asia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-21-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>From Himalayan legends to modern democracy: Explore the amazing story of Nepal! Nepal may be a small country, but it has a very rich and exciting history. This audiobook takes you on a journey from the early days of Nepal’s first settlers to modern times, where kings have been replaced by democratic institutions. Here’s what you’ll discover in this audiobook: This audiobook is perfect for anyone who loves history and adventure or just wants to understand more about this incredible country.
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]]>Title: The Comanche]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to Present (Native American History)]]>Categories: America, History, Indigenous, Social Science, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-17-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Comanche... The Comanche were once the most dominant Native American tribe in the Great Plains of North America. From their homelands on the prairies, they ranged across the American West and South into Mexico. They were also one of the most feared of all Native American people, fighting virtually every other Native American tribe they had contact with and waging successful guerilla wars against invaders from Spain, Mexico, and the Eastern United States. In the late seventeenth century, the Comanche first acquired horses from Spanish explorers, and they quickly became experts in horse breeding and raising. They were one of the first Native American tribes to use horses on a large scale, and their fearsome mounted warriors caused havoc for more than 150 years. But the Comanche weren’t just fighters. They also had a unique culture and social structure that stressed individual responsibility and individual choice. Comanche chiefs weren’t hereditary rulers but leaders who acted only with the consent of the tribe.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:19:41 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-DdBf1KeA Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Niels Bohr: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-08-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Niels Bohr... Niels Bohr was perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime mind. He possessed the kind of intellect that could probe the depths and see right through the artificial constructs that had confounded his peers. It took precisely a mind like this to be able to understand the intricacies of quantum physics, a field so complex that it required a visionary like Bohr to chart its course. Niels Bohr not only thought outside of the box—he redefined what the box could be! From his days as a visiting lecturer in Britain, where he came up with the basic model of atomic structure still widely used to this day, to his contributions to the founding of CERN, Niels Bohr was constantly pushing the limits of what was possible. Throughout his life, Bohr was more than a scientist; he was a bridge-builder, uniting researchers from across the globe to advance humanity’s understanding of the universe. Whether advocating for the peaceful use of nuclear energy or mentoring the next generation of scientists, Bohr’s influence extended far beyond his laboratory.
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]]>Título: La Ruta de la Seda: Un apasionante recorrido por las antiguas rutas comerciales que conectaban China con Europa]]>Categorías: Asia, China, History]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Virtual Voice]]>Editor: Independently Published]]>Fecha de publicación: 01-07-2025]]>Idioma: Español
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]]>Título: Historia del México Antiguo: Una guía fascinante del México precolombino y sus civilizaciones, como los olmecas, los mayas, los zapotecas, los mixtecos, los toltecas y los aztecas]]>Categorías: America, Ancient, History, Mexico]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Virtual Voice]]>Editor: Independently Published]]>Fecha de publicación: 01-07-2025]]>Idioma: Español
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]]>Title: The Transcontinental Railroad]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (Old West)]]>Categories: America, Engineering, History, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-06-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Transcontinental Railroad... In the 1850s, the United States was a nation divided. In the North, industrialization and urbanization were both significant drivers of change. In the South, a largely agrarian economy was supported by the institution of slavery. The East and West of the country were also divided, not by social or political differences but by a vast tract of largely untouched, rugged, and often hostile territory. There were just two ways to travel from the East Coast to the Pacific Coast or vice versa. A journey by stagecoach or wagon train could take anything from three to six months and was fraught with potential hazards. The alternative was a trip by ship via Cape Horn, which could take two months or more. For Americans living on the East Coast, it was faster, cheaper, and safer to travel to Europe than to the Pacific Coast of their own country. If America was to prosper and continue to grow, it had to become a single nation—territorially, politically, and culturally.
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]]>Title: The Denisovans: A Captivating Guide to the Extinct Cousins of Neanderthals Who Lived Across Asia during the Paleolithic Period]]>Subtitle: Exploring the Past]]>Categories: Ancient, Biology, Evolution, History, Science]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-02-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the Denisovans: A Lost Human Species Still in Our DNA In 2008, scientists found evidence of a new ancient human species—the Denisovans. While they lived at the same time as the Neanderthals, the Denisovans were different in surprising ways. The most amazing part? They left traces of their DNA in us. This audiobook takes you on an exciting journey into the past to uncover the story of the Denisovans. Hidden deep in the Denisova Cave in Siberia, their remains went unnoticed for centuries.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Thu, 02 Jan 2025 07:10:09 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Dv3fmyJK Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Britons]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient People Living in Britain Before the Anglo-Saxon Invasions (Exploring England's Past)]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-02-2025]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Step into the lost world of ancient Britain, where fierce warriors painted themselves blue and wise Druids practiced mysterious magic. This audiobook uncovers the untold story of the Britons—an ancient people often overshadowed by Roman invaders and Anglo-Saxon conquerors. Yet, their legacy, filled with culture, strength, and resilience, is the true foundation of modern Britain. Explore the hidden secrets of their hill forts, learn about their battles against the powerful Roman Empire, and see how they survived in a harsh and ever-changing world.
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]]>Title: Chiang Kai-shek]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (World War 2 Biographies)]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, China, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-27-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Chiang Kai-shek... There are moments in history when two different people who have two completely different visions of the future rise to prominence at the same time and in the same exact place. The Chinese Civil War, which saw Chiang Kai-shek and his rival Mao Zedong fighting for the future of China, is a great case in point. Chiang believed that China should modernize and embrace capitalism. Mao, however, believed that communist doctrine would be the true salvation for the Chinese masses. Chiang Kai-shek eventually lost the battle for the mainland but forged ahead in Taiwan. China’s so-called breakaway province of Taiwan is still thriving, and they owe it all to Chiang Kai-shek. This is his life—this is his story. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Chiang Kai-shek, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Wernher von Braun]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (World War 2 Biographies)]]>Categories: Biography, Historical Fiction, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-20-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Wernher von Braun... Wernher von Braun was a rare and complex figure. He went on to become one of the most prominent figures not just in one country but in two. Although the first half of his life and his contributions to Nazi Germany remain extremely controversial, it can’t be denied that he was a pioneer. He oversaw the development of the first long-range guided ballistic missile, the V-2, which became a terrifying weapon in Nazi Germany’s arsenal. After the war, von Braun and many of his colleagues were brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip. Here, he became a key figure in the Saturn V rocket program that first sent astronauts to the Moon in 1969. His expertise in rocketry helped propel the United States into the space age, and his innovations are still celebrated today as milestones in human achievement. Unbeknownst to many, von Braun was also a skilled musician. He was something of a child prodigy, in fact, expected to go far in the field of music, only to embark upon a quest to explore the heavens instead.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:04:24 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bGlfYkLm Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: La peste Negra: Un apasionante recorrido por un gran acontecimiento de la Edad Media]]>Categorías: Europe, History, Medieval, Military, Military Conflict]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Virtual Voice]]>Editor: Independently Published]]>Fecha de publicación: 12-17-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:57:15 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-x2AfoYaz Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Mitología egipcia para niños: Mitos y leyendas apasionantes de dioses, diosas y criaturas mitológicas]]>Categorías: Africa, Education, Folklore, For Children]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Virtual Voice]]>Editor: Independently Published]]>Fecha de publicación: 12-17-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Tue, 17 Dec 2024 13:52:26 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b3mfvG0a Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: El Mundo Helenístico [The Hellenistic World]]]>Subtitular: Una Apasionante Guía de la Historia Antigua del Mediterráneo, desde Alejandro Magno hasta el Imperio Romano (Antiguas Civilizaciones)]]>Categorías: Ancient, Europe, History]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 12-12-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Cuando oímos el término “griego", lo primero que pensamos es en Sócrates, templos y togas, pero esto es sólo una pequeña parte de la apasionante y compleja historia del mundo helenístico. César no fue el único líder militar y político de su época. Y Cleopatra no era la única que dudaba de sus sentimientos hacia Roma. Desde la muerte de Alejandro Magno en adelante, el entorno de Grecia estuvo plagado de guerras civiles, traiciones y puñaladas por la espalda. Si te interesa la historia militar, la política o la arqueología, o simplemente eres un erudito de sillón, has llegado al lugar adecuado. En este libro examinaremos la Grecia Helenística de un modo que da vida a su gente y somete a debate sus decisiones, incluso dos mil años después. Si alguna vez te has preguntado algo de lo siguiente, este libro está hecho para ti: Estás en la línea de partida de una gran aventura. Acomódate y prepárate para la guerra, el amor, la violencia y la ciencia en un apasionante mundo antiguo. ¡Desplázate hacia arriba y haz clic en el botón "Añadir a la cesta" para comenzar tu viaje al pasado! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Thu, 12 Dec 2024 09:31:24 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xwgf0d5B Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Wild Bill Hickok]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Old West)]]>Categories: America, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-12-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Wild Bill Hickok... Among the legendary heroes and outlaws of the Wild West, few names echo louder than that of Wild Bill Hickok. Wild Bill wasn’t just a name whispered in saloons or shouted on the stage of Buffalo Bill’s world-famous Wild West shows. Long before he stepped onto any stage, Wild Bill had carved his path in blood, sweat, and gunpowder. He was a Civil War scout who could read the vast plains like a map, a fearless marshal who faced down lawlessness, and a frontier sheriff whose very name sent ripples through the towns he protected. Wild Bill didn’t even get to reach 40, but he experienced more in his short life than most do in a century. This book explores his early roots, his rise to prominence, and his tragic death in the infamous Wild West town of Deadwood over a mere game of cards. This is the life and legend of Wild Bill Hickok in full. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Wild Bill Hickok, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Titel: Die Geschichte Japans [The History of Japan]]]>Untertitel: Eine Reise durch die Epochen - Von Antike, über Feudalismus, Samurai und Shogune bis zur Vereinigung zur heutigen Weltmacht [A Journey Through the Eras - From Antiquity, Through Feudalism, Samurai and Shoguns to the Unification of Today's World Power]]]>Kategorien: Asia, History]]>Autor: Eric Rump]]>Erzähler: Felix Hirche]]>Herausgeber: Eric Rump]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-09-2024]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Erleben Sie die spannende Geschichte Japans: Von den Anfängen bis zur Moderne. Wie hat sich Japan von einem kleinen Inselreich zu einer globalen Wirtschaftsmacht entwickelt? Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Reise dieses Landes, geprägt von Resilienz, Innovation und kultureller Tiefe. Unser Hörbuch führt Sie von den frühen Siedlungen der Jōmon-Zeit bis zur heutigen Hightech-Gesellschaft. Erfahren Sie, wie sich in der Jōmon-Zeit beeindruckende Kulturen entwickelten und in der Yayoi-Zeit die Grundlagen für die heutige Gesellschaft gelegt wurden. Erleben Sie die glorreiche Ära der Samurai während der Heian-Zeit, als Kunst, Literatur und höfische Kultur erblühten. Begleiten Sie die mächtigen Shogune der Kamakura- und Muromachi-Zeit, die das Land durch kriegerische Konflikte führten, und tauchen Sie ein in die Sengoku-Zeit, in der legendäre Krieger wie Oda Nobunaga und Tokugawa Ieyasu um die Vorherrschaft kämpften. Die Meiji-Restauration von 1868 markierte einen Wendepunkt: Japan verwandelte sich von einem feudalen Staat in eine moderne Industrienation. Erfahren Sie die Auswirkungen des Zweiten Weltkriegs und das Wirtschaftswunder der Nachkriegszeit, das Japan zur zweitgrößten Volkswirtschaft der Welt machte. Unser Hörbuch gibt Ihnen auch einen Einblick in die moderne Ära, in der Japan als technologischer Innovator und kulturelle Supermacht glänzt.
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]]>Title: Modern Latin America]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Modern Latin American History (South American Countries)]]>Categories: America, History, Latin America, Modern]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 12-09-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Uncover the Real Story of Latin America—A History That Is Still Unfolding Latin America is so much more than the Amazon and Christopher Columbus. It’s a place full of stories about independence, tough fighters, and rich cultures. But how did this region become what it is today? And what has shaped its journey? This audiobook tells the story of modern Latin America in a simple, clear way. You’ll learn how years of struggle and strength helped shape the diverse societies we know today. Here is a taste of what you will learn about in this audiobook: Ancient Civilizations: Discover the amazing inventions of the first people in Latin America. Fight for Independence: Learn about the brave battles that freed Latin America from European control. Revolutions and Changes: See how different fights and ideas have shaped the countries of Latin America. Famous Figures: Meet important people like Simón Bolívar and “Che” Guevara, who helped change history. World Wars Impact: Learn how global conflicts affected Latin America in surprising ways. And much more. Why This Audiobook Is Different: This audiobook is an easy guide that helps you understand the history of Latin America without tripping over big words.
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]]>Title: The Napoleonic Wars]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide to Global Conflict, Revolutionary Tactics, and the Empire’s Expansion (Military History)]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 11-27-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Napoleonic Wars: A Power Struggle That Shaped the Modern World What if the true impact of the Napoleonic Wars has been misunderstood? Immerse yourself in an era of colossal battles, revolutionary military strategies, and a world forever altered by Napoleon Bonaparte’s relentless ambition. The Napoleonic Wars offers you a front-row seat to a time when the fate of nations hung in the balance. Why this audiobook? Uncover Napoleon’s Tactical Mastery: Learn how Napoleon Bonaparte’s innovative military strategies led to his stunning victories—and the critical errors that ultimately led to his downfall. Relive Legendary Battles: Feel the thunder of cannon fire and the clash of swords in decisive battles such as Austerlitz, Jena, and Wagram, and endure the harsh realities of campaigns in Trafalgar and Russia. Witness the Shifting Balance of Power: Explore the complex web of alliances and betrayals that redefined European politics and laid the groundwork for modern nation-states. Explore Cultural Transformations: Discover how the Napoleonic Wars left an indelible mark on art, music, and national identities across Europe and beyond. This audiobook is your gateway to understanding how one man’s ambition reshaped history, affecting every corner of the world.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Wed, 27 Nov 2024 02:39:06 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-DQQfzRZz Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: La conquista española de América [The Spanish Conquest of America]]]>Subtitular: Un apasionante repaso a los conquistadores y sus conquistas de los imperios azteca e incaico (Mesoamérica)]]>Categorías: America, Europe, History, Politics]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 11-21-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>La conquista española de las Américas es una parte fundamental de la historia de la colonización. El descubrimiento hecho por Cristóbal Colón, aunque accidental, de una nueva masa de tierra puso el mundo patas arriba. A partir de finales del siglo XV, el reino de España encabezó el esfuerzo de colonización, enviando una expedición tras otra a las islas del Caribe y, posteriormente, a América del Norte y del Sur. Mediante la violencia, el derramamiento de sangre y la conquista, los conquistadores españoles lograron hacerse con el control de las ricas y prósperas tierras de las civilizaciones indígenas americanas, arrasando magníficas entidades políticas y sociales como los imperios azteca e inca. Este libro narra la historia de cómo España consiguió conquistar las Américas en medio siglo, desde finales del 1400 hasta mediados del 1500.
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]]>Title: September 11 Attacks]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, History, Iraq, Iraq War]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-20-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the tragic history of the September 11 Attacks... Certain dates have entered the lexicon of popular understanding, becoming symbols that encompass complex stories, emotions, and understanding. Nowhere is that more true than in 9/11. These three simple digits represent a series of terror attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001, that left more than three thousand people dead, destroyed the best-known landmarks in New York City, and caused a wave of outrage across the world. On this date, nineteen terrorists associated with the Islamic terrorist organization al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial airliners. Two were flown into the World Trade Center buildings in New York City, one was crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, DC, and the fourth went down in a field in Pennsylvania. None of the passengers on any of the flights survived. These were the most devastating terror attacks ever carried out against the United States, and their impact would shape the subsequent history of large areas of the world.
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]]>Title: Ripples in Time]]>Subtitle: Mysterious Artifacts that Challenge the Consensus Views of Human History]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History, Middle East, Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-13-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>We take time for granted as it passes during every moment of our existence. Other things may change, but time remains constant and predictable. The past, the present, and the future exist within a harmonious, reliable, and never-changing system. Or at least that’s how it seems… It was Albert Einstein who, in 1905, first theorized that time might not be quite as straightforward as that. In one of the most influential papers on physics ever published, he proposed something called “time dilatation.” This suggested that time was neither fixed nor constant and that the passage of time was related to the relative speed of the observer. The closer an object approached the speed of light, the more notable this effect was.
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]]>Title: Neville Chamberlain]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (World War 2 Biographies)]]>Categories: Biography, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-13-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Neville Chamberlain... Neville Chamberlain is often remembered as the man who tried to appease Adolf Hitler, only to watch the world spiral into war. But his story is more than just a cautionary tale of appeasement—it’s a journey of a man who believed, against all odds, that he could stop the next great war before it began. By 1937, Chamberlain had risen to the pinnacle of British politics. He was no stranger to responsibility—he’d spent years in business, local government, and later as Chancellor of the Exchequer, working tirelessly on domestic reforms. He was a man who had fought to lift his country out of the shadows of World War I and build a Britain where people had homes, jobs, and a chance at a better life. But when he became prime minister, the stakes got higher, and a new, far more dangerous threat loomed on the horizon. With the scars of the previous war still fresh in everyone’s minds, Chamberlain clung to one hope: peace. He believed that through diplomacy and careful negotiation, he could stop the Nazi war machine before it truly began.
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]]>Title: Charles de Gaulle]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (World War 2 Biographies)]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, France, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-05-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Charles de Gaulle... Free BONUS Inside! Charles de Gaulle stands among the greatest statesmen in history. Even after the official French government collapsed under the weight of Nazi Germany, de Gaulle refused to accept defeat. He and his followers were pushed into exile, but still they fought on, never losing sight of an eventual victory over their oppressors. This book delves into Charles de Gaulle’s extraordinary journey—from leading the Free French forces during World War II to playing a key role in the rebuilding of postwar France. It also follows his tenure as president, where he shaped the nation’s modern identity. He lived his life for France, and his own personal history is very much intertwined with the history of his nation. This book explores them both. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Charles de Gaulle, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Japanese Folktales and Legends]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Collection of Stories, Mythical Creatures, Heroes, and Timeless Tales]]>Categories: Asia, History, Social Science]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 11-04-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Uncover the Heart of Japan Through Its Legendary Stories Step into the world of Japanese folklore, where a samurai’s sword is more than just a weapon—it’s a symbol of honor, courage, and the samurai way of life. This audiobook takes you on a journey through the stories that have shaped Japanese culture for centuries. Discover the enduring power of Japanese mythology and its influence on culture and values. From the celestial kami to the brave samurai, from cunning tricksters to fearsome yokai, each tale offers a unique glimpse into the Japanese spirit. Here’s a taste of what you’ll uncover: And much, much more! Each story reveals a piece of the Japanese spirit and shows how these old tales still matter today. Download this audiobook to start your journey into the world of Japanese folktales and legends!
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]]>Title: Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Overview of Egyptian Rulers (Egyptian Mythology and History)]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Middle East]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 10-31-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Hidden Secrets of the Pharaohs: A Journey Through Ancient Egypt Step into the amazing world of ancient Egypt, where kings were seen as gods.
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]]>Title: Anatoliy Golitsyn]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the KGB Defector Who Became a CIA Asset]]>Categories: America, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-31-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.” – Anatoliy Golitsyn The KGB is one of the most famous abbreviations of the 20th century, and it has become synonymous with the shadowy and often violent actions of the Soviet Union’s secret police and internal security agencies. In fact, it is often used to refer to the Soviet state security agencies throughout its history, from the inception of the inception of the Cheka (Extraordinary Commission) in 1917 to the official elimination of the KGB in 1992. Whether it’s associated with the Russian Civil War’s excesses, Stalin’s purges, and even Vladimir Putin, the KGB has long been viewed as the West’s biggest bogeyman during the second half of the 20th century. Many people remain fascinated by stories about the Cold War, particularly the espionage that was covertly conducted across the globe by both sides. Indeed, from the beginning of the Cold War, there were hundreds if not thousands of spies positioned in each side’s governments.
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]]>Title: Patrick Swayze]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Actors)]]>Categories: Actor, Biography, Celebrity, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-30-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Patrick Swayze... Patrick Swayze was more than just a beloved Hollywood star—he was a force of nature. Known for his magnetic presence and irresistible charm, Swayze captivated audiences worldwide with roles that showcased his unique blend of ruggedness and grace. But behind the scenes, few knew the true extent of the challenges he faced on his journey to stardom. From his humble beginnings in Texas to becoming an international icon, Swayze’s path was anything but easy. Yet, throughout his rise to fame, he remained grounded in his roots and committed to the values that shaped him. This book chronicles not only Patrick Swayze’s remarkable ascent to stardom but also the heartbreaking struggles he battled leading up to his all too untimely passing. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Patrick Swayze, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Título: Historia antigua Vol. 1 [Ancient History Vol. 1]]]>Subtitular: Una guía apasionante de Mesopotamia, Egipto y Roma [An Exciting Guide to Mesopotamia, Egypt and Rome]]]>Categorías: Ancient, History, Middle East]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 10-24-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>3 manuscritos completos en 1 libro: En la primera parte de este libro, descubrirá: En la segunda parte de este libro, descubrirá: En la tercera parte de este libro, usted: ¡Obtenga este libro ahora para aprender más sobre la antigua Mesopotamia y Egipto y Roma! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Transatlantic Slave Trade]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Africa, America, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-22-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the dark history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade... The empires of the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Greeks, Romans, and Chinese were underpinned by slavery, where one person could be owned by another, and their obedience and labor were forced by the threat of violence or even death. Some of these people were prisoners captured during wars, some were sold into slavery to pay debts, while others were born into slavery. In many ancient empires, slaves accounted for anything from one-third to half of the total population. All were regarded as property, few were entitled to even the most basic human rights, and most lived lives of abject poverty and suffering. By the sixteenth century, slavery had become less important as a part of the international economy, but the discovery of the Americas changed that fundamentally. New lands were conquered, first by Spain and Portugal and then by other European nations. Vast new areas were available for cultivation, but that required a large workforce.
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]]>Title: Chester Nimitz]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (World War 2 Biographies)]]>Categories: Biography, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-17-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Chester Nimitz... Admiral Chester Nimitz stands tall as an absolute giant in military history. The massive Nimitz-class aircraft carriers that still bear his name stand as a testament to that fact. During the Second World War, Nimitz was in charge of a huge chunk of the US Armed Forces in the Pacific theater. It was his job to orchestrate the projection of Allied power across the Pacific in order to take on a resurgent Japanese Empire. He did all these things and more. By war’s end, Nimitz was the highest-ranking member of the US Navy. The Navy, in fact, had to create a whole new rank just to promote him! Admiral Nimitz was indeed an outstanding individual. This is his life; this is his story. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Chester Nimitz, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Jamaican History]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Jamaica’s Story and the Baptist War (Islands of Resistance)]]>Categories: America, Caribbean, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-15-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover Jamaica’s Journey: From Ancient Tribes to the Fight for Freedom Two manuscripts in one book: History of Jamaica: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Indigenous Tribes, Spanish Colonization, British Rule, Independence, and Modern Times The Baptist War: A Captivating Guide to the Origins, Events, and Legacy of the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt In the first part of this book, you will learn about: The First Inhabitants: Discover the daily life of the Taíno, Jamaica’s original people. Arrival of Columbus: Learn about Columbus’s arrival and the changes brought by Spanish colonization. British Takeover: Understand how the British took control from the Spanish. Black Pride Champions: Get to know heroes like Marcus Garvey who promoted black pride and self-reliance. End of Slavery: Follow the complex journey towards abolishing slavery and achieving freedom. In the second part of this book, you will discover: Jamaica’s Maroons: A free Afro-Jamaican community that started in slavery, won a war against the British, and stayed strong for over three hundred years Loyalist Preachers: How African American preachers, loyal to the king, left the American colonies and brought the Baptist faith to Jamaica The Power of Reading: Why teaching slaves to read was such a big threat to the slave system Sugar’s Danger: The dangers slaves faced while making sugar Pirate Henry Morgan:...
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]]>Title: The Holy Roman Empire]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Overview of One of the Most Powerful European States during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Military]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 10-15-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the Holy Roman Empire: The Empire That Shaped Modern EuropeStep into the fascinating story of the Holy Roman Empire, a powerful force that connected the old world to the new. This audiobook shows how the empire's impact is still felt today, from the battles of World War I to the ideas behind Nazi Germany.
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]]>Title: Balkan Wars]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (History of Eastern Europe)]]>Series: #3 in History of Eastern Europe]]>Categories: Europe, History, Middle East, Turkey]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-08-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Balkan Wars... “Trouble in the Balkans” was a familiar headline in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, as the European nations living under the rule of the Ottoman Empire simmered with nationalism, unrest, and a covetous yearning for one another’s territory. The Ottoman Empire had seen centuries of dominance, but by the start of the twentieth century, the once-powerful Turks were declining. As reformers within the empire sought routes to power, Ottoman subjects—denied access to the avenues of influence—sensed that the time was ripe for rebelling. Finally, in 1912, the nations of Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece formed the Balkan League and went to war against the Turks. The so-called Great Powers of Britain, France, and Russia, each with its own agenda regarding European boundaries and loyalties, had ignored the failure of the Ottomans to implement reforms and now watched with alarm as conflict broke out.
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]]>Titel: Gesund & Glücklich: Der Weg zur Traumfigur für Frauen jeden Alters [Healthy & Happy: The Path to the Dream Figure for Women of All Ages]]]>Untertitel: Interessante Bücher über ... Sport und Lifestyle [Interesting Books About... Sports and Lifestyle]]]>Kategorien: Wellbeing]]>Autor: Eric Rump]]>Erzähler: Isabel Dewiza]]>Herausgeber: Eric Rump]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-03-2024]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Egal in welchem Lebensabschnitt du dich befindest, es ist wichtig, dass du dich in deinem Körper wohl fühlst und dein Aussehen positiv betrachtest. Du verdienst es, dich stark, selbstbewusst und schön zu fühlen, unabhängig von den äußeren Umständen. Deshalb möchte ich dir ans Herz legen, dich auf eine Reise zu deiner Traumfigur zu begeben, die nicht nur äußerlich, sondern auch innerlich erfüllend ist. Ich habe etwas Besonderes entdeckt, das dir dabei helfen kann: ein inspirierendes Buch, das nicht nur praktische Tipps für Fitness und Ernährung bietet, sondern auch dazu ermutigt, einen gesunden und positiven Mindset zu entwickeln. Es ist wie ein persönlicher Coach, der dich auf dem Weg zu deinen Zielen unterstützt und dich daran erinnert, dass Schönheit in jedem Alter und in jeder Lebenssituation existiert. Please note: This audiobook is in German.
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]]>Título: Historia de América Latina [History of Latin America]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la historia de América del Sur, la guerra mexicano-estadounidense, la guerra del Paraguay, Brasil, Argentina...]]>Categorías: America, History, Latin America]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 10-03-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>6 manuscritos completos en 1 libro: Exploraremos desde el contacto precolombino hasta la conquista europea, la colonización y la posterior independencia de América Latina. Seguiremos el cataclismo del choque de civilizaciones cuando hombres como Hernán Cortés y Francisco Pizarro hicieron la guerra a los aztecas e incas. Examinaremos la posterior fusión de grandes y poderosas civilizaciones como estas con la cultura y el estilo de vida de sus conquistadores. La guerra mexicano-estadounidense fue un breve conflicto bélico entre Estados Unidos y México en el siglo XIX que desempeñó un papel crucial en la configuración del paisaje del continente y tuvo un efecto duradero en ambos países. Desplácese hacia arriba y haga clic en el botón «añadir a la cesta» para empezar a aprender sobre Historia de América Latina. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: History of Ireland: A History from Beginning to Present]]>Subtitle: History of the World]]>Categories: Europe, History, Ireland]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-03-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable History of Ireland... Much of the history of Ireland is defined by the basic facts of its location as an island perched on the very western edge of Europe. Events that had a profound impact on other parts of Europe—the rise of the Roman Empire, the diaspora of Celtic people, and the settlement of Anglo-Saxons in Britain—either had relatively little impact in Ireland or happened much later than in other parts of Europe. Ireland’s geography also meant that it was just across the Irish Sea from a larger and more powerful nation: England. Over the last 500 years, the relationship between Ireland and England has had a profound impact on cultural, social, and economic life in Ireland. Sometimes, that relationship was positive for both, but often, it was not, and many Irish people suffered as a direct consequence. Ireland finally became an independent republic in 1949, but the northeastern part of the island became Northern Ireland, still a part of the United Kingdom and ruled from London, which led to growing tensions in the north. Those tensions would become a defining factor in the twentieth-century history of Ireland.
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]]>Title: Scottish Mythology]]>Subtitle: Enthralling Myths, Folktales, and Legends from Scotland (Ancient Britain)]]>Categories: Cultural Heritage, Europe, Great Britain, History, Social Science]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 10-02-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the Mystical World of Scottish Mythology and History Do you long to explore a land filled with magical creatures, brave heroes, and ancient mysteries? This audiobook opens the door to a land where myths and history intertwine, revealing tales that have shaped the heart and soul of the Scottish people. From captivating fairies to daring warriors, these stories will whisk you away to a world of wonder and adventure. Dive into these fascinating myths and legends: The Winter Hag: Discover how the icy touch of the Cailleach carved Scotland’s rugged landscape. Giants of Legend: Witness the epic battle of two giants that created the awe-inspiring Giant’s Causeway. William Wallace’s Fate: Relive the stirring saga of Scotland’s greatest hero and his fight for freedom. Haunted Castles: Feel the eerie presence of ghosts wandering the ancient halls of Scotland’s castles. Selkies and Love: Be moved by the poignant love stories of the magical seal-people, the Selkies. Blue Men of the Minch: Encounter the mysterious Blue Men who both aided and haunted sailors on the high seas. Bean Nighe’s Death Omen: Uncover the chilling legend of the washerwoman who foretells death. This audiobook isn’t just a collection of stories; it’s a journey into Scotland’s mystical past.
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]]>Title: The Haitian Revolution]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Tale of Resistance, Freedom, and the Birth of a Nation]]>Categories: America, Caribbean, History]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 09-30-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the Legacy of the Haitian Revolution Enthralling History offers a vivid dive into the revolutionary turmoil that changed the world. Discover the fiery spirit of a nation forged in rebellion and the heroes who led the charge toward freedom. Here’s some of what you can find inside: Society Unveiled: Understand the unique blend of African, European, and indigenous influences that shaped Saint-Domingue. From Uprising to Independence: Trace the origins and explosive trajectory of the slave revolt that defied an empire. Cultural Roots and Revolutionary Rhythms: Delve into the distinct slave culture that fueled the push for self-governance. Influence of the Enlightenment: See how the French Revolution’s ideals sparked a broader quest for equality in Haiti. Global Impact: Examine the Haitian Revolution’s role alongside the American and French Revolutions in reshaping global history. Legendary Leaders: Get close to figures like Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose leadership was crucial to the revolutionary cause. And Much More! Dive deep into the events, strategies, and personalities that have been overshadowed in mainstream narratives but nonetheless shaped the course of history. The Haitian Revolution is a celebration of resilience and a testament to the enduring struggle for freedom.
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]]>Title: Douglas MacArthur]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (World War 2 Biographies)]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-25-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Douglas MacArthur... Douglas MacArthur was one of the greatest military generals in history and played a crucial role in securing an Allied victory in the Pacific during World War II. While he’s often remembered for his strategic genius and iron will, there’s much more to the man than his battlefield successes. MacArthur was deeply committed to his promises and driven by a strong sense of duty, qualities that came into sharp focus when he vowed to return to the Philippines after it fell to the Japanese. And true to his word, he did just that, making history along the way. This book takes you through the life of Douglas MacArthur, offering a closer look at the man behind the uniform. From his early days fighting in the trenches of World War I to his pivotal role in the Second World War, this is the full story of a leader who made a lasting impact on the world. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Douglas MacArthur, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Ancient African Empires]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide to the Major Kingdoms and Civilizations of Africa (The Africans)]]>Categories: Africa, Ancient, History]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 09-20-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Unlock the Wonders of Ancient African Empires Dive into the captivating world of ancient African civilizations with Ancient African Empires. Perfect for history enthusiasts and curious minds alike, this audiobook uncovers the rich stories and groundbreaking achievements of Africa’s greatest ancient kingdoms. What You’ll Discover: Cultural Practices: Understand the daily lives and traditions of ancient African peoples. Technological Marvels: Learn about advancements in medicine, irrigation, trade, and communication. Economic Ingenuity: Be amazed by the sophisticated economic and trade systems that fueled these empires’ growth. Governance Structures: Explore how stability, conflict resolution, and decision-making were managed. Military Prowess: Gain insights into the military strategies that protected these powerful territories. Appreciation for African Civilization: Develop a deeper respect and understanding of Africa’s historical contributions. Journey Through Time! Egyptian Opulence: Marvel at their advanced technologies in medicine, mathematics, and astrology. Kush's Invincible Armies: Learn about Kush’s formidable military strength. Wealth of Punt: Discover the riches that made the Kingdom of Punt legendary. Why You’ll Love It: Easy format with engaging storytelling Rich, factual content that inspires and educates Perfect for anyone with a love for world history Don't miss out on this incredible journey through Africa’s legendary past. Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to get your copy now!
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]]>Title: Viking Myths, Legends and History]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Exploration of Norse Mythology, Stories of Norsemen, and Vikings in England (Exploring the Past)]]>Categories: Cultural Heritage, Europe, History, Medieval]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 09-17-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the Fascinating World of Vikings and Norse Mythology Two manuscripts in one book: Part One: Viking Myths and Legends Part Two: Vikings in England Step into the epic world of Vikings and Norse mythology! Whether you love history or thrilling stories, this book is for you. Click "Add to Cart" to begin your adventure!
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]]>Title: The Kingdom of Israel]]>Subtitle: The History of the United Jewish Kingdom and Its Demise]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Levant, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-17-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Before any type of unified political entity named Israel existed, the Jewish groups whose descendants would later form Israel identified themselves by their particular tribe. If asked their nationality or country of origin, they would likely identify themselves as Danites (from the tribe of Dan; Ex. 31:6) or Ephraimites (from the tribe of Ephraim; Judg. 12:5), etc. The main way to differentiate these tribes from other tribes in Canaan was their common worship of the deity YHWH, but in terms of language or other cultural characteristics, it would have been difficult to tell a Canaanite from an Israelite. Eventually, these separate tribes united together as a type of confederation, allies who made a treaty (covenant) to provide military aid for one another when threatened by an enemy state. But it was only under the charismatic leadership of David that the 12 tribes united into a single political entity. Scholars refer to the period encompassing the reign of David and his son Solomon as the United Monarchy.
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]]>Título: La Revolución rusa [The Russian Revolution]]]>Subtitular: Una apasionante guía sobre un acontecimiento fundamental de la historia de Rusia (Europa Oriental) [A Fascinating Guide to a Fundamental Event in The History of Russia (Eastern Europe)]]]>Categorías: History, Insurrection, Military, Military Conflict, Russia]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 09-16-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¿Siente curiosidad por saber qué fue lo que puso a Rusia en su rumbo actual? La Revolución rusa es un ejemplo perfecto de cómo la historia puede reducirse hasta volverse excesivamente pesada y compleja. Para desentrañar la Revolución rusa (de hecho, las revoluciones rusas) hay que empezar por considerar acontecimientos que sucedieron siglos antes de febrero de 1917. Solo así podremos comprender la cantidad de acontecimientos comprimidos en los breves meses del decisivo año 1917. La Revolución rusa, aparte de la Revolución china, es quizás el mayor experimento social que el mundo haya conocido jamás. De repente, millones de personas se encontraron viviendo en un país dirigido por fervientes marxistas que tenían grandes planes no solo para su país, sino para toda la humanidad. Por último, la Revolución rusa sigue dando forma a la política mundial, con la Rusia actual construida directamente sobre las ruinas de la gran revolución comunista. En este libro hablaremos de: Desplácese hacia arriba y haga clic en el botón «añadir a la cesta» para saber más sobre la Revolución rusa. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Napoleon’s Great Escapes]]>Subtitle: The History of Napoleon’s Escapes from Egypt and Elba]]>Categories: Espionage, History, Liberty, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-13-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Early in 1799, Napoleon advanced against France’s erstwhile enemy, the Ottoman Empire, invading modern Syria (then the province of Damascus) and conquering the cities of Gaza, Jaffa, Arish and Haifa. However, with the plague running rampant through his army and his lines of supply from Egypt stretched dangerously thin, Napoleon was unable to destroy the fortified city of Acre and was forced to retreat. The retreat cost him almost all of his wounded as, harassed by enemy forces, he was forced to abandon most of his casualties to the Ottomans’ mercy, or lack thereof. Most of the wounded were tortured and beheaded. Upon returning to Cairo, Napoleon finally received dispatches from France which, with the Mediterranean rife with Royal Navy vessels, had been severely delayed. The dispatches told of renewed hostilities with Austria and her allies, and a series of defeats in Italy which had virtually annihilated all of Napoleon’s previous hard-won gains in the Italian peninsula. Leaving his army under the command of his subordinate General Kleber, Napoleon took advantage of a lull in the Royal Navy blockade and embarked upon one of his remaining ships.
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]]>Title: Great Escapes During the World Wars]]>Subtitle: The History of the Most Legendary Prisoner Breakouts in World War I and World War II]]>Categories: Espionage, History, Liberty, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-13-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>War has always led to prisoners. In ancient times, many were turned into slaves by the victorious armies, while in medieval Europe, they were often returned to their families in return for a ransom, leading to fortune or poverty depending upon which side one was on. By the Napoleonic era, as armies grew in size and professionalism, many were kept in camps for the duration of the fighting, their captors not wanting to restore their enemies' manpower while the fate of nations hung in the balance. In the first half of the 20th century, war was fought on a global and industrial scale. Millions of men were flung into the grinder of World War I and World War II, leading to commensurately huge numbers of prisoners of war (POWs). Camps were built to hold thousands of captives, with their own barracks blocks, parade grounds, and even farms.
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]]>Title: Hero City]]>Subtitle: Leningrad 1943–44]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Russia]]>Author: Prit Buttar]]>Narrator: Gordon Griffin]]>Publisher: Osprey Publishing]]>Release date: 09-12-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Bloomsbury presents Hero City: Leningrad 1943–44 by Prit Buttar, read by Gordon Griffin One of the greatest ever sieges is masterfully brought to life by a leading expert on the Eastern Front. At the height of World War II the people of Leningrad endured a bitter 900-day siege, struggling against bombing, shelling, and starvation. Prit Buttar tells the story of how the siege was finally broken. The Red Army had suffered multiple setbacks in the preceding two years but achieved a partial success by breaking the blockage in early 1943. However, this was followed by further failed attempts to lift the siege completely. But by simply enduring the siege in the face of impossible odds, Russian soldiers and civilians beat the Germans. By the end of 1943 the German forces, themselves broken by deprivations and extreme weather, began to pull back. Here was the opportunity the Soviet forces had been waiting for. The Red Army launched a decisive attack that broke through and ended the siege.
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]]>Title: Fall of Saigon]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (Vietnam War)]]>Categories: Asia, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-05-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Fall of Saigon... Active US involvement in what became known as the Vietnam War (in Vietnam, this conflict is remembered as the American War) began in 1961 and spanned a period of twelve years until the Paris Peace Talks finally brought the deployment of American combat troops to an end in early 1973. Unfortunately, the peace talks didn’t also lead to the end of the civil war between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). Even after this time, over 7,000 American Department of Defense civilian contractors remained in Vietnam to support the South Vietnamese Army, and US Marines remained in place to protect the thousands of American diplomats and aid workers still in the country. Many people, in the United States and elsewhere, believed that the Paris Peace Talks would lead to the creation of North and South Vietnam as two separate countries. After all, that was what happened following the end of the Korean War in 1953 when communist North Korea and US-supported South Korea managed to establish an occasionally tense but effective peace on either side of an agreed border.
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]]>Title: Vertigo]]>Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, Germany, History]]>Author: Harald Jähner]]>Narrator: Sam Peter Jackson]]>Publisher: Basic Books]]>Release date: 09-03-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The dramatic and consequential history of Germany’s short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic turmoil Out of the ashes of the First World War, Germany launched an unprecedented political project: its first democratic government. The Weimar Republic, named for the city where it was established, endured for only fifteen years before it was toppled by the insurgent Nazi Party in 1933. In Vertigo, prizewinning historian Harald Jähner tells the Republic’s full story, capturing a nation caught in a whirlwind of uncertainty and struggling toward a better future. In the aftermath of World War I, Germany was buffeted by political partisanship, economic upheaval, and the constant threat of revolutionary violence. At the same time, many Germans embraced newly liberated lifestyles. They flouted gender norms, flooded racetracks and dance halls, and fostered a vibrant avant-garde that encompassed groundbreaking artists like filmmaker Fritz Lang, painter Wassily Kandinsky, and architect Walter Gropius.
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]]>Title: The Hitler Youth]]>Subtitle: How Germany Indoctrinated a New Generation]]>Categories: Europe, Fascism, Germany, History]]>Author: Julian Flanders]]>Narrator: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart]]>Publisher: Arcturus Digital]]>Release date: 09-01-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>What part did the Hitler Youth play in the indoctrination of a nation? Julian Flanders explores the history and development of the movement and its radicalization of German youth. To secure the future of the Nazi party, Hitler needed to create a generation of young Germans steeped in Nazi ideology, physically fit and ready to fight and die for their country. The result was the Hitler Youth, founded in 1922, which by war-time constituted the single most successful mass movement in the Third Reich and comprised many of its most committed Nazis. The Hitler Youth tells the story of the origins of the movement in more innocent aims, and how its aims morphed over time to become a powerful way to disseminate Nazi ideas to an undiscerning audience.
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]]>Título: La Revolución Francesa [The French Revolution]]]>Subtitular: Una Apasionante Guía sobre un Gran Acontecimiento de la Historia Mundial (Europa) [An Exciting Guide to a Great Event in World History (Europe)]]]>Categorías: Europe, France, History, Military]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 08-30-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>La Revolución francesa es increíblemente compleja e involucra a muchas partes móviles, desde la monarquía hasta los clubes políticos, desde la intelectualidad hasta el campesinado hambriento que protesta en las calles. Este libro, te lo describe de forma sencilla. Podría decirse que la Revolución francesa es el ejemplo perfecto de un movimiento social que comenzó con las mejores intenciones, pero que, de alguna manera, terminó mal. Los ideólogos de la Revolución francesa, pretendían crear una sociedad mejor y más justa. Sus elocuentes y profundas palabras sobre la igualdad, la libertad de culto y la sana representación se convirtieron en una gran fuente de inspiración para muchos. Los pensadores de la Ilustración francesa influyeron incluso en la Revolución americana, que tuvo lugar antes de la Revolución francesa. Pero si bien la Revolución americana dio lugar a la fundación de una nación basada en los principios de la democracia y el gobierno representativo, la Revolución francesa se convirtió en una auténtica pesadilla, especialmente para la clase alta. La Revolución francesa fue testigo de la peor violencia popular. Prácticamente nadie estaba a salvo. El rey y la reina fueron ejecutados en la guillotina, al igual que el arquitecto jacobino del "Gran Terror", Maximilien Robespierre.
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]]>Title: History of Tibet]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Kingdoms, the Tibetan Empire, Mongol Invasions, Buddhism, Chinese Rule, and Modern Times (Asian Countries)]]>Categories: Asia, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 08-30-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Embark on an epic journey through the heart and history of Tibet! Discover the majestic landscapes, ancient traditions, and the relentless quest for freedom in this captivating journey. Explore the spiritual and everyday life of Tibetan civilization, from the mysterious beginnings of its people to their ongoing struggles under Chinese rule. Inside, you will discover: Why This Audiobook: Don’t miss out! Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to start your journey into the heart of Tibet today!
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]]>Title: Viking Myths and Legends]]>Subtitle: Enthralling Tales, Stories, and History of the Vikings and Norse Mythology (Scandinavia)]]>Series: #3 in Scandinavia]]>Categories: Cultural Heritage, Europe, Folklore, History]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 08-28-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Dive into the Mystical World of Viking Myths and Legends! Embark on an epic journey through the rich tapestry of Viking mythology.
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]]>Titel: Yoga für Anfänger: Beginne deine Reise]]>Kategorien: Alternative Medicin, Fitness, Gymnastics, Health]]>Autor: Eric Rump]]>Erzähler: Isabel Dewiza]]>Herausgeber: Eric Rump]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-28-2024]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Tauche ein in die faszinierende Welt des Yoga! Unser neues Buch öffnet die Türen zu einem Universum der inneren Entfaltung, körperlichen Stärkung und spirituellen Erkenntnisse. Erforsche die Vielfalt der Yogawelten, von den antiken Wurzeln bis zu den modernen Praktiken. In inspirierenden Geschichten, präzisen Anleitungen und tiefgehenden Erklärungen entfaltet sich eine Schatztruhe an Wissen. Entwickle ein Verständnis für die verschiedenen Stile, lerne Atemtechniken, Haltungen und erlebe, wie Yoga nicht nur eine Praxis, sondern eine Lebensphilosophie wird. Spüre das Verlangen nach innerem Frieden, Stärke und Harmonie, das dieses Buch weckt. Du wirst nicht nur auf der Matte wachsen, sondern auch im täglichen Leben. Die praktischen Tipps, personalisierten Übungssequenzen und tiefgreifenden Einsichten schaffen ein Verlangen nach einer tieferen Verbindung zu dir selbst und der Welt um dich herum.
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]]>Title: Alan Rickman]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Actors)]]>Categories: Actor, Biography, Celebrity, Europe]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-26-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Alan Rickman... Alan Rickman was one of Britain’s most beloved actors. His portrayal of the cunning Hans Gruber in the 1988 blockbuster Die Hard set a new standard for movie villains with his perfect blend of charm and menace. Rickman then became a household name playing Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series. His performance captured the layers of emotion and complexity that made Snape one of the most memorable and celebrated figures in the series. From his powerful performances in stage productions of Shakespeare and Chekhov to his appearances in popular films, Alan Rickman’s distinctive voice, smoldering good looks, and compelling presence made him an international icon. Yet despite his fame and fortune, Rickman remained a working-class West Londoner at heart. He was intensely private and was never one to use his fame to give tell-all interviews about himself and his life. Even in death, he kept his cards close to his vest.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Mon, 26 Aug 2024 09:17:32 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-DoPfaAZQ Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Antiguo Israel: [Ancient Israel:]]]>Subtitular: Una guía apasionante sobre los reinos judíos e israelitas (Historia de la Iglesia) [An Exciting Guide to the Jewish and Israelite Kingdoms (Church History)]]]>Categorías: Ancient, History, Levant, Middle East]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 08-22-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Los antiguos israelitas introdujeron una de las primeras religiones monoteístas del mundo. ¡Y todavía hoy se practica! Los antiguos israelitas emergieron desde el monte Sinaí en las llanuras montañosas de Canaán y establecieron una civilización que perduró durante cientos de años. Incluso cuando los israelitas cayeron ante las incursiones de invasores extranjeros y fueron sometidos a torturas y al exilio, se aferraron a su sistema de creencias. Emergieron del cautiverio babilónico como el pueblo de Yehud. Con la ayuda de Ciro el Grande y del Imperio aqueménida, reconstruyeron su templo sagrado y volvieron a ponerse en pie. Sin embargo, los griegos y los romanos plantearon retos únicos a los judíos. El periodo de helenización amenazó los cimientos del judaísmo y el compromiso de los judíos con su fe, debido a las conversiones forzadas y a que la práctica de las costumbres judías se castigaba con la muerte.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Thu, 22 Aug 2024 05:50:30 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Dm4fky9x Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Tanks Break Through!]]>Subtitle: A German Soldier’s Account of War in the Low Countries and France, 1940]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Alfred-Ingemar Berndt]]>Narrator: Virtual Voice]]>Publisher: SF Tafel]]>Release date: 08-22-2024]]>Language: English
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]]>Title: Robert F. Kennedy]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Historical Fiction, History, Politician, Politics]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-21-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Robert F. Kennedy... Compared to other more long-lived political figures, Robert F. Kennedy’s career was brief. He first emerged on the national stage as attorney general under his brother, President John F. Kennedy. In this role, he became a vigorous advocate for civil rights and cracked down on organized crime by going after mob bosses and high-profile Mafia families. Following his brother’s assassination in 1963, RFK transitioned to a role in the Senate, representing New York. As a senator, he continued his crusade for social justice, and his concern and empathy for the marginalized endeared him to many Americans. In 1968, RFK launched his own presidential campaign. His ability to connect with diverse groups of people—African Americans, Hispanics, working-class whites, and young people—set him apart as a unifying figure during a time of great division in the United States. More great things were likely to come had RFK’s life not been tragically cut short by an assassin’s bullet at age 42. Even so, with his drive and energy, Robert F. Kennedy had already become a major agent of change.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Wed, 21 Aug 2024 10:52:06 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xnGfE337 Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Catherine Parr: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of British Royalty]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-14-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Catherine Parr... For many, she was simply the last of King Henry VIII’s many wives, but Catherine Parr was much more than that. She had a unique and incredible history all of her own. Catherine was a dynamic figure who survived more than her fair share of hardship. Even before she married Henry, she found herself caught up in the drama of England’s Reformation, and at one point, she was even held hostage in her own home by religious radicals. Catherine Parr was also a highly educated woman. She authored several books and was one of the first women to publish books under her own name in the English language. Once she became queen, she stood tall. She served as regent during Henry VIII’s absence, and her political acumen greatly influenced her two stepdaughters—Mary and Elizabeth—who would one day become queens in their own right, partly thanks to Catherine’s insistence that they should be added to the line of succession. This book uncovers the often glossed-over details of this enigmatic woman. Here, you will find the life and legend of Catherine Parr in full.
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]]>Título: La China antigua [Ancient China]]]>Subtitular: Un apasionante recorrido por la historia de China, desde la colonización del río Amarillo, pasando por las dinastías Xia, Shang, Zhou... [An Exciting Journey Through the History of China, from the Colonization of the Yellow River, Through the Xia, Shang, Zhou Dynasties...]]]>Categorías: Asia, China, History]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 08-14-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Hablar del increíble desarrollo tecnológico y económico de la China moderna se ha convertido en un tópico en el mundo actual. Sin embargo, el crecimiento exponencial de la China moderna tiene raíces históricas muy fuertes que se remontan a miles y miles de años. Hoy en día, la gente se asombra de los logros de China, desde sacar de la pobreza a cientos de millones de personas hasta convertirse en una potencia mundial. Pero, ¿se ha preguntado alguna vez cómo el antiguo pueblo del Lejano Oriente se desarrolló tanto siendo prácticamente independiente de otras civilizaciones? No todo en la historia de China está ligado al crecimiento, la mejora y el desarrollo. Hubo muchos periodos plagados de luchas internas que asolaron China y sus numerosas dinastías. Sin embargo, los imperios chinos estuvieron en cierto modo protegidos de los peligros externos, en parte gracias a la ingenuidad de los chinos y a la famosa Gran Muralla china por un lado y, por otro, a la posición geográfica del país. En este libro analizamos cómo y por qué el péndulo histórico de China giraba a veces en un sentido y luego en otro.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Wed, 14 Aug 2024 07:31:24 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-DQQfWXdl Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Kostenloses Hörbuch anhören : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Titel: Geschichte und Mythologie Ägyptens]]>Untertitel: Ein spannender Überblick über Ägyptens Vergangenheit und die Mythen ihrer Göttinnen und Götter (Erforschung der Vergangenheit)]]>Kategorien: Egypt, History, Middle East]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Erzähler: Moritz Seipke, Marko Kraft]]>Herausgeber: Billy Wellman]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-14-2024]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Wed, 14 Aug 2024 06:10:50 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Dm4f1aOQ Voice Vault false Hören Sie sich volle Hörbuch kostenlos https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Wehrmacht's Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945]]>Subtitle: Modern War Studies]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Robert M. Citino]]>Narrator: Tom Beyer]]>Publisher: Tantor Audio]]>Release date: 08-13-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino, the world's leading scholar on the subject, posits a more straightforward solution: Bewegungskrieg, the way of war cultivated by the Germans over the course of history. In this book, Citino charts the path by which Bewegungskrieg, or a "war of movement," inexorably led to Nazi Germany's defeat. The Wehrmacht's Last Stand analyzes the German Totenritt, or "death ride," from January 1944-with simultaneous Allied offensives at Anzio and Ukraine-until May 1945, the collapse of the Wehrmacht in the field, and the Soviet storming of Berlin. In clear and compelling prose, and bringing extensive reading of the German-language literature to bear, Citino focuses on the German view of these campaigns. Often very different from the Allied perspective, this approach allows for a more nuanced and far-reaching understanding of the last battles of the Wehrmacht than any now available.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Robert M. Citino) Tue, 13 Aug 2024 05:54:13 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bkWf7g3A Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Historia de los celtas [History of the Celts]]]>Subtitular: Un apasionante retrato de los celtas (Antigua Gran Bretaña) [A Fascinating Portrait of The Celts (Ancient Britain)]]]>Categorías: Ancient, Europe, History, Ireland]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 08-12-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¿Alguna vez se ha preguntado por los antiguos celtas de Irlanda y qué los convertía en lo que eran? ¿Sabía que Halloween se originó gracias a ellos, que inventaron el arpa o que blandían espadas de hasta un metro de longitud? En este libro descubrirá hechos históricos celtas como estos y muchos más. Tanto si ya conoce a los celtas como si nunca ha oído hablar de ellos, este libro es para usted. Si desea profundizar en sus vidas, su cultura y la herencia celta de la Irlanda moderna, podrá encontrar todo ello en esta completa y fascinante guía. En nuestra introducción a la historia celta, conocerá todos los aspectos de la vida celta de una forma fácilmente accesible, con material visual y un lenguaje de fácil lectura (¡nada de jerga académica!). Lo llevaremos a través de la historia celta explicándole lo siguiente: ¡Desplácese hacia arriba y haga clic en el botón «añadir al carrito» para empezar a aprender sobre los celtas hoy mismo! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: The Atlantic Slave Trade: An Enthralling Overview of European Colonization and Slavery in the New World]]>Subtitle: Forced Labor in History]]>Categories: America, History, Planet Earth, United States of America]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jason Saffir]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 08-12-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Uncover one of the darkest parts of history: The Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Atlantic Slave Trade is a crucial examination of one of history’s most horridly significant epochs, detailing its impact on the world, particularly in West Africa. You will be taken on an emotional and intellectual voyage, examining the horrifying ocean passages suffered by millions, the sociopolitical tides in West Africa, and the ultimate act of abolition. Transform your understanding of history from a passive recall to an active engagement in shaping a more just future. This is more than just an audiobook; it is a way for you to connect to the past and discover history’s impacts on the present.
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]]>Title: Irish History]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Journey Through Ireland’s Past and Legendary Myths (Exploring the Past)]]>Series: #25 in Exploring the Past]]>Categories: Cultural Heritage, Europe, Folklore, History]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 08-12-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the Spirit of Ireland through an Epic Exploration of Irish History and Myths. Two manuscripts in one audiobook: History of Ireland: An Enthralling Overview of Major Events and Figures in Irish History Irish Mythology: Enthralling Myths, Folktales, and Legends of Gods, Goddesses, and Mythological Creatures of Ancient Ireland In the first part of this audiobook, you will learn about: Neolithic Marvels: Uncover the ingenuity of Ireland’s Neolithic ancestors. The Dawn of the Celts: March alongside the Celts, the indomitable warriors of Europe. From Pagan to Sacred: Follow Ireland’s transformative path from paganism to Christianity. Viking Raids to Norman Conquests: Stand at the crossroads of history during the tumultuous eras of Viking raids and Norman invasions. The Tudor Plantations: Navigate the complex sociopolitical landscapes sculpted by Queen Elizabeth and her successors. The Troubles and Beyond: Explore the modern saga of Ireland and its testament to the enduring spirit of the Irish people. In the second part of this audiobook, you will encounter: Creation Myths—Discover the origins of the cosmos according to Irish lore. Gods and Goddesses—Meet the pantheon of Irish divine beings. The Heroic Sagas—Follow the epic adventures of legendary heroes. Folktales and Legends—Delve into the rich tapestry of Irish folk stories. Mythological Creatures—Encounter the fantastical beings that roam the Irish landscape. Cultural Impact and Legacy—Understand how...
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]]>Título: Antiguo Irak [Ancient Iraq]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante sobre Mesopotamia: desde los sumerios y acadios hasta los asirios y persas, los romanos y el Imperio sasánida (Explorando Mesopotamia)]]>Categorías: History, Iraq, Middle East]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 08-12-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Los antiguos iraquíes transformaron nuestro mundo: la primera rueda para transporte, la primera forma de escritura, los primeros códigos de leyes y los primeros imperios. La "Cuna de la civilización" nos dejó los conceptos del minuto compuesto de sesenta segundos, la hora de sesenta minutos y el día y la noche de doce horas de duración. Sus grandes sabios predijeron eclipses solares y lunares y desarrollaron ecuaciones cuadráticas. El antiguo Irak fue innegablemente una potencia de creatividad y grandes logros. Explore los imperios acadio, babilónico, asirio, persa y griego, y cómo estos llegaron a la cima hasta estrellarse y caer. Este fascinante libro lo guiará en un viaje increíble desde las primeras civilizaciones hasta la caída del Imperio sasánida en 651 d. C. Este libro responderá las siguientes preguntas y muchas más: Para explorar el legado histórico del antiguo Irak, desplácese hacia arriba y haga clic en el botón "añadir al carrito". Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Titel: Das Osmanische Reich: Ein fesselnder Führer zu einer der mächtigsten und langlebigsten Dynastien der Weltgeschichte]]>Untertitel: Europäische Geschichte]]>Kategorien: Europe, History, Middle East, Turkey]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Erzähler: Marko Kraft]]>Herausgeber: Billy Wellman]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-09-2024]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Die Rolle des Osmanischen Reiches in der Weltgeschichte – von einem kleinen türkischen Fürstentum zu einer globalen Supermacht – ist unbestreitbar. Über sechs Jahrhunderte lang war das Reich das wohl stärkste muslimische Imperium der Welt und beherrschte seine Rivalen in Europa und Asien über viele Jahre hinweg. Das Osmanische Reich, das sich über drei Kontinente erstreckte und Gebiete auf dem Balkan, im Kaukasus, auf der Krim, in Anatolien, im Nahen Osten, in der Levante, in Ägypten und in Nordafrika beherrschte, gehörte auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Macht im 16. Jahrhundert zu den bedrohlichsten Mächten. Es wurde von anderen europäischen Großmächten gefürchtet. Doch wie genau haben die Osmanen diese große Macht erlangt und wie haben sie sie bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts wieder verloren? Dieses Buch behandelt diese und andere wichtige Themen aus der Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches. In diesem Buch erfahren Sie Folgendes: Scrollen Sie nach oben und klicken Sie auf die Schaltfläche „In den Warenkorb“, um mehr über das Osmanische Reich zu erfahren!
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]]>Title: History of the Dominican Republic]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Caribbean Island's Ancient Roots, Taínos and Caribs, Colonial Past, and Modern Times (European Exploration and Settlement)]]>Categories: America, Caribbean, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 08-08-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the Dominican Republic: A Nation Forged from the Echoes of Its Rich History Uncover the vibrant saga of triumph, tragedy, and transformation that underpins the Dominican Republic's storied past. This audiobook invites you on more than just a journey through time—it invites you to explore the soul of a nation. Beneath the sun-soaked beaches and the lively rhythm of merengue lies a land shaped by its historical crucibles. Here’s what you'll discover inside: Whether you're a history enthusiast, a cultural aficionado, or simply someone who loves compelling narratives, this audiobook promises to enrich your understanding of the Dominican Republic. Don’t hesitate to explore the past that shapes the future! Add this audiobook to your cart now, and let it take you on an unforgettable journey through the Dominican Republic’s colorful and tumultuous history.
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]]>Titel: Börse für Anfänger]]>Untertitel: Mache mehr aus deinem Geld (Interessante Bücher über Gesundheit, Finanzen, Sport und Lifestyle)]]>Kategorien: Business, Finance, Investing, Mutual Fund]]>Autor: Eric Rump]]>Erzähler: Isabel Dewiza]]>Herausgeber: Eric Rump]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-07-2024]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Entdecken Sie Ihr Weg zur finanziellen Freiheit: "Börse für Anfänger"- Wollten Sie schon immer die Geheimnisse der Börse entschlüsseln und Ihr Geld für sich arbeiten lassen? Beginnend mit den Grundlagen der Börse in Kapitel 2, zeichnet sich ein umfassendes Bild der historischen Entwicklung von den Anfängen bis zu den einschneidenden Ereignissen wie der Tulpen-Manie, der Dotcom-Blase und der Finanzkrise. Hier wird verdeutlicht, wie die Börse in einem ständigen Auf und Ab verweilt, geprägt von Höhen und Tiefen, die unsere finanzielle Geschichte geformt haben. Im darauf folgenden Kapitel 3 erwartet Sie ein unerlässliches Börsenlexikon, das die Schlüsselbegriffe und Kennzahlen der Finanzwelt beleuchtet. Die grundlegende Funktionsweise der Börse wird hierbei verständlich vermittelt, um Ihnen eine solide Basis für Ihr weiteres Verständnis zu bieten. Das Herzstück des Buches bildet Kapitel 4, das verschiedene Investmentstrategien ausführlich vorstellt. Von der langfristigen Perspektive des 'Buy and Hold' über das wertorientierte 'Value Investing' bis hin zum chancenorientierten 'Growth Investing' und der ertragreichen 'Dividendenstrategie' werden Ihnen unterschiedliche Herangehensweisen nähergebracht. Abgerundet wird dieses Kapitel durch eine tiefgehende Auseinandersetzung mit Risikomanagement und Diversifikation. Die Entscheidung für den optimalen Broker steht im Fokus von Kapitel 5.
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]]>Title: The Fall of Berlin]]>Subtitle: The Final Days of Hitler's Evil Regime]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones]]>Narrator: Richard Trinder]]>Publisher: Arcturus Digital]]>Release date: 08-01-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In April 1945, Soviet forces descended on Berlin in the final phase of the war in Europe. The fighting was fierce as soldiers fanatically loyal to the Nazi party - and those afraid of the vengeance their opponents might enact - sought to stave off the end of the regime as long as possible. Even as it became clear that defeat was inevitable, Hitler and his subordinates determined to fight to the bitter end, resulting in a bitter, brutal end to the war. As the Russian tanks crushed the remaining pockets of resistance, the city was turned into a nightmarish dystopia. Pillage, plunder, mass rape and unceasing destruction followed. In this vivid account, the author covers both German and allied viewpoints, exploring explores the strategies, the battles, the civilian experiences and the personalities involved in this fateful the final days of the Third Reich.
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]]>Title: Irish Mythology]]>Subtitle: Enthralling Myths, Folktales, and Legends of Gods, Goddesses, and Mythological Creatures of Ancient Ireland (Europe)]]>Series: #6 in Europe]]>Categories: Cultural Heritage, Europe, Folklore, History]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 07-30-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>This audiobook beckons you into a world where the veil between the mundane and the magical is whisper-thin, where the landscapes of Ireland are not just settings but also active participants in tales of heroism, love, and betrayal. Within this audiobook lies the heart of Irish identity—a rich heritage of storytelling that has been passed down through the generations, from the mysterious Druids and the formidable Tuatha Dé Danann to legendary heroes whose deeds are still sung. Meet the awe-inspiring gods and goddesses who wielded power over life and death and shaped the destiny of Ireland itself. As you journey through this audiobook, you’ll encounter: The misty hills of Ireland are calling. Scroll up and “click the add” cart button to begin learning about Irish mythology!
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]]>Titel: Die Geschichte Deutschlands]]>Untertitel: Eine Reise durch die Epochen - von den Germanen über den 2. Weltkrieg bis zum 21. Jahrhundert (Geschichte - Eine Reise durch die Epochen)]]>Kategorien: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Autor: Eric Rump]]>Erzähler: Felix Hirche]]>Herausgeber: Eric Rump]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-26-2024]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Willkommen zu einer unvergesslichen Reise durch die Jahrhunderte der deutschen Geschichte! Mit unserem fesselnden Hörbuch "Die Geschichte Deutschlands: Eine Reise durch die Epochen" entdecken Sie die Ursprünge, Wendepunkte und Höhepunkte, die Deutschland zu dem gemacht haben, was es heute ist. Beginnend mit den germanischen Stämmen und ihrer Interaktion mit dem Weströmischen Reich, führt das Buch in die Frühgeschichte Deutschlands und die Welt der Stammesgesellschaften ein. Weiter geht es ins Mittelalter mit Rittern, Burgen und den deutschen Kaisern im Heiligen Römischen Reich. Die Renaissance und Reformation brachten kulturellen und religiösen Wandel, gefolgt von politischen Umbrüchen im Zeitalter des Absolutismus und der Aufklärung. Die Französische Revolution und die Napoleonische Ära führten zu weiteren Herausforderungen und territorialen Umwälzungen. Das 19. Jahrhundert sah die Gründung des Deutschen Kaiserreichs und die industrielle Revolution. Die Weimarer Republik war eine Zeit politischer Instabilität und kultureller Blüte, gefolgt von der dunklen Periode des Nationalsozialismus, die von Unterdrückung und Krieg geprägt war. Die Nachkriegszeit und die Teilung Deutschlands während des Kalten Krieges brachten neue Herausforderungen. Die Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands 1990 markierte einen historischen Wendepunkt und eine neue Ära der Einheit und Zusammenarbeit. Durch fesselnde Erzählungen und detaillierte Analysen bietet das Hörbuch einen umfassenden Einblick in die reiche Geschichte Deutschlands.
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]]>Title: Year Without Summer]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 19th Century, History, Modern, Planet Earth]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-22-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Year Without Summer... In terms of world history, the year 1815 is mainly remembered for the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. But something else happened that year which is now largely forgotten but which had a fundamental impact on the whole world in the years that followed. In April 1815, a volcano erupted on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia. The eruption itself was so powerful that it was audible thousands of miles away. The immediate area suffered from tsunamis, ash, and acid rainfall, while a cloud of gas and dust entered the upper atmosphere and blocked the full power of the sun from warming the Earth. As a direct result, the summer of 1816 was truly dismal. Crops failed across the Northern Hemisphere, leading to this year becoming known as the Year Without Summer.
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]]>Title: The Megalodon]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the World’s Largest Prehistoric Predator]]>Categories: Animal, Biology, History, Outdoor]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-22-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The current view of science is that Earth is around 4.6 billion years old. The first four billion years of its development are known as the Precambrian period. For the first billion years or so, there was no life on Earth, and then the first single-celled life-forms, early bacteria and algae, began to emerge. It’s unknown where they came from or even if they originated on this planet at all, but this gradual development continued until suddenly (in relative geological terms), more complex forms of life began to emerge. Beginning in the Triassic but especially in the Jurassic period, reptiles came to dominate the oceans, the land and even the skies. There has never been anything else quite like this period in terms of the success of a particular type of creature. For almost 200 million years, reptiles were the only significant creatures on Earth.
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]]>Title: History of Malaysia]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Kingdoms, Colonial Melaka, Modernization, and the Post-Independence Years (Asian Countries)]]>Categories: Asia, History, Southeast Asia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 07-22-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Journey Through the Ages: Malaysia's Epic Story Unveiled Step into Malaysia’s history, from the haunting echoes of ancient battlefields to the grand halls of its sultans. This audiobook takes you on an exciting trip through the dramatic and inspiring moments that have shaped Malaysia, offering more than just a recounting of events—it captures the imagination with stories of bravery and mystery. Here’s what awaits you: Special Features: Add this captivating journey to your cart now and discover the rich story of Malaysia's history!
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]]>Título: La guerra civil española [The Spanish Civil War]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante sobre sus causas, batallas e impacto histórico (Explorando el pasado de Europa) [A Captivating Guide to Its Causes, Battles, and Lasting Impact]]]>Categorías: Europe, History, Spain]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 07-22-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¿Conoce la sangrienta historia de la guerra civil española y lo que debemos aprender de ella para entender el mundo actual? La guerra civil española es más relevante que nunca y, sin embargo, no es tan conocida. Las lecciones que podemos aprender de la guerra pueden ayudarnos hoy en nuestro mundo dividido. La guerra civil española se considera un ensayo general de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Sin embargo, pocos comprenden sus orígenes, causas y principales batallas. Pocos historiadores han presentado un relato apasionante y fácil de entender de las batallas y las principales campañas por tierra y mar. Demasiados historiadores se preocupan por ciertos aspectos de la guerra y la tratan solo como una precuela de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Eso va a cambiar con este libro. Esta completa guía presentará las batallas clave en orden cronológico. Prepárese para un apasionante viaje por la historia para conocer la auténtica verdad sobre la guerra civil española. Estas son algunas de las cosas que aprenderá: ¡Desplácese hacia arriba y haga clic en el botón «añadir al carrito» para empezar a aprender sobre la guerra civil española! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Werner Heisenberg]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Physicists)]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Germany, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-19-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Werner Heisenberg... Werner Heisenberg was one of the greatest physicists of all time. He probed the depths of not just science but the nature of our very existence. His groundbreaking work in quantum mechanics, particularly the formulation of the uncertainty principle, revolutionized our understanding of the subatomic world and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932. With his mind firmly focused on things beyond normal perception, Heisenberg tried to stay above the political fray. Yet with the rise of Nazi Germany, he suddenly found himself trapped inside the depths of a totalitarian regime. Open resistance would have meant his death, so he kept his head down and did what he could to affect change from within the belly of the beast. After the war, Heisenberg became a key figure in the reconstruction of German science and advocated for peaceful uses of nuclear technology. This is his life—this is his story. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Werner Heisenberg, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: A Day in the Life of the Maya]]>Subtitle: History, Culture and Daily Life in the Mayan Empire]]>Categories: America, Ancient, Central America, Civilization]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-16-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>*Explains integral parts of the Mayan empire, including their food, calendar, ball game, sacrifice rituals, and religion. *Examines the architecture of Mayan settlements and the structure of their empire. *Discusses the disappearance of the Maya and the way their culture has survived and evolved. Many ancient civilizations have influenced and inspired people in the 21st century. The Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate the West today. But of all the world’s civilizations, none have intrigued people more than the Mayans, whose culture, astronomy, language, and mysterious disappearance all continue to captivate people. In 2012 especially, there has been a renewed focus on the Mayans, whose advanced calendar has led many to speculate the world will end on the same date the Mayan calendar ends. The focus on the “doomsday” scenario, however, has overshadowed the Mayans’ true contribution to astronomy, language, sports, and art.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Tue, 16 Jul 2024 01:23:30 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xKnfd952 Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Chindits]]>Subtitle: The History of the Indian and British Special Operations Forces in Burma during World War II]]>Categories: Asia, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-12-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>As the Japanese swept across Asia in the early years of World War II, the retreating Allies looked for ways to keep up the fight. In Malaya and Burma, agents had been left behind to stir resistance behind enemy lines, building up anti-Japanese operations from the safety of the jungle. In China, the American Office of Strategic Services helped both Nationalists and Communists in resisting the Japanese. In Malaya and Burma, the British "left behind" teams that often worked in small groups, using bombs, grenades, and guns to ambush Japanese supply trucks traveling through the jungle at night. An attack might last less than a minute, a sudden burst of violence meant as much to intimidate the Japanese as to do material harm, breed paranoia, and force them to behave more cautiously.
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]]>Título: Mitología de la India [Indian Mythology]]]>Subtitular: Un acercamiento fascinante a los mitos, dioses, y diosas de la India (La Antigua Asia) [A Fascinating Approach to The Myths, Gods, and Goddesses of India (Ancient Asia) (Spanish Edition)]]]>Categorías: Asia, Cultural Heritage, Folklore, History]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 07-11-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Desde la creación del universo hasta guerras celestiales y la reencarnación, la mitología de la India aborda enigmáticos cuentos ancestrales, creación y espiritualidad. La mitología india no es una simple cuestión del pasado. Los festivales contemporáneos, celebraciones, cultos, música, bailes, poesía, películas y televisión pueden representar o incluir aspectos de la mitología india. También es un tema de interés para aquellos que la estudian o la practican. La mitología india va más allá de las historias de la creación. Este libro le hará familiarizarse con los dioses y diosas que dieron forma al mundo, así como con historias épicas de dificultades, lucha y conflictos. La mitología trata de explicar los orígenes del universo y profundiza en el entendimiento de la creación del tiempo, la materia y la propia vida. ¿Son los humanos producto de la luz infundida por Brahma? ¿El universo nació a partir de un huevo dorado? ¿Puede la raza humana rastrear su linaje hasta un solo hombre? Este libro ofrece una guía completa de los acontecimientos que dan forma a la mitología india. Si lee este libro, descubrirá lo siguiente: ¡Suba y dele ya al botón de “añadir a la cesta” para saber más sobre la mitología india! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:46:26 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-x2AfeOZp Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The History of England: An Enthralling Overview of English History]]>Subtitle: The Story of England]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Medieval]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 07-10-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Dive into the heart of England’s storied past with this gripping saga that charts the evolution of a nation. Explore the vibrant tapestry of English history, chapter by chapter, with vivid detail and compelling narratives. Here is just some of what awaits you: Embark on this timeless journey.
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]]>Titel: Die Romanows: Ein spannender Überblick über das Haus Romanow]]>Untertitel: Ost-Europa]]>Kategorien: History, Russia]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Erzähler: Marko Kraft]]>Herausgeber: Billy Wellman]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-08-2024]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Die Romanow-Dynastie, die einige der denkwürdigsten Namen der Geschichte hervorgebracht hat, ist eine königliche Familie, deren Erbe nur von wenigen übertroffen wird. Etwas mehr als dreihundert Jahre, vom 17. bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert, beherrschten die Zaren und – in seltenen, aber unvergesslichen Fällen – die Zarinnen aus der Familie der Romanows die politische Landschaft ihrer Zeit und schmiedeten eine der sagenhaftesten Dynastien aller Zeiten. Russland, der große und mächtige Nationalstaat, wie wir ihn heute kennen, wurde größtenteils durch die Anstrengungen von Romanow-Herrschern wie Peter dem Großen oder Katharina der Großen geschaffen. Die Romanow-Familie hat sich für immer einen Platz in den Geschichtsbüchern Russlands, Europas und sogar der Welt gesichert. Das Eintauchen in die Geschichte einer so bekannten Dynastie ist ein Leckerbissen für jeden, der mehr über Russland erfahren möchte. Hier ein kleiner Einblick in das, was Sie in diesem Buch finden werden: Scrollen Sie nach oben und klicken Sie auf die Schaltfläche „In den Warenkorb“, um Ihre Reise in die Vergangenheit noch heute zu beginnen!
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Mon, 08 Jul 2024 14:08:39 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-x9RfZ5pO Voice Vault false Hören Sie sich volle Hörbuch kostenlos https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Prince]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Musicians)]]>Series: #29 in Biographies of Musicians]]>Categories: Biography, Celebrity, Historical Fiction, History, Music]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-02-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Prince... Prince was, according to many, one of the greatest musicians ever to have lived. At first glance, one might think that such words are an exaggeration. But if one were to truly look at the life behind this legend, they would quickly understand just how great he really was. Prince showed an extraordinary talent from a young age. He could play just about any instrument he picked up, mastering the guitar, piano, drums, and more. His technical skill was matched only by his creativity, as he blended genres like rock, funk, pop, and jazz into a sound uniquely his own. As keen as he was to pluck strings and pound keys, Prince also wrote powerful, meaningful, and often philosophical lyrics that could strike a chord deep within the listener. His live performances were legendary, filled with elaborate choreography, stunning visuals, and raw, unfiltered emotion. Yet despite his larger-than-life stage persona, Prince was known to be deeply private, and he often shinned the limelight and media attention. He let his music speak for itself, and it spoke volumes.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Tue, 02 Jul 2024 23:43:23 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xAWf65Og Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: European History]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide to the Story of Europe, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment (Exploring the Past)]]>Series: #17 in Exploring the Past]]>Categories: Europe, History, Renaissance]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 07-02-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Three manuscripts in one audiobook: History of Europe: Unveiling the Continent's Legacy The Renaissance: A New Dawn of Human Achievement The Enlightenment: Illuminating the Path to Modernity Click the “add to cart” button now and unlock the door to Europe's magnificent past, vibrant present, and promising future!
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]]>Title: History of Mexico]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide to Millennia of Majestic Civilizations, Conquests, and Transformations Shaping the Heart of the Americas (Exploring the Past)]]>Series: #18 in Exploring the Past]]>Categories: America, History, Latin America, Mexico]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 07-02-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the Story of Mexico, From Ancient Secrets to Modern Times Two manuscripts in one audiobook: Dive into Mexican History: A Thrilling Expedition Through Time Uncover the History of Ancient Mexico: A Chronicle of Pre-Columbian Splendor For an enthralling listen that combines the rigor of history with the allure of ancient mysteries and modern challenges, scroll up and click the “add to cart” button.
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]]>Titel: Psychologie für Anfänger]]>Untertitel: Grundlagen einfach erklärt + 25 spannende psychologische Effekte (Interessante Bücher über Gesundheit, Finanzen, Sport und Lifestyle)]]>Kategorien: Cognitive Behavioral, Health, Mental Health, Psychological]]>Autor: Eric Rump]]>Erzähler: Felix Hirche]]>Herausgeber: Eric Rump]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-02-2024]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>In "Psychologie für Anfänger" tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der menschlichen Psyche – von den Grundlagen bis zu den aktuellen Entwicklungen. Verständlich und spannend erklärt, bietet dieses Buch einen inspirierenden Einblick in die Wissenschaft von Verhalten und Denkprozessen. Entdecken Sie die Grundlagen der Psychologie und verstehen Sie, was uns antreibt, wie wir denken und warum wir handeln, wie wir es tun. Von den Anfängen bis zu den neuesten Erkenntnissen nehmen Sie eine fesselnde Reise durch die Geschichte und Entwicklung dieser faszinierenden Disziplin.Erforschen Sie die vielfältigen Bereiche der Psychologie – von der Sinneswahrnehmung über Gedächtnis und Lernen bis zu spezialisierten Gebieten wie Klinischer Psychologie, Sozialpsychologie und mehr. Dieses Buch weckt nicht nur Interesse, sondern liefert auch praxisnahe Einblicke, die Ihr Verständnis der menschlichen Natur vertiefen. Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt der Neurowissenschaften, der Digitalisierung, der kulturellen Sensibilität und der positiven Psychologie. Entwickeln Sie ein Verlangen nach Wissen über die aktuellen Trends und Herausforderungen, die die Psychologie heute prägen. Das Buch regt dazu an, tiefer zu gehen und das eigene Denken zu reflektieren. Mit klaren Erklärungen und inspirierenden Einblicken bietet "Psychologie für Anfänger" nicht nur Wissen, sondern auch Handlungsimpulse.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Eric Rump) Tue, 02 Jul 2024 00:22:34 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Vg0fEgEx Voice Vault false Hören Sie sich volle Hörbuch kostenlos https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Winston Churchill’s Great Escapes: The Story of the British Bulldog’s Death-Defying Life Before He Became Prime Minister]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, Head of State]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-01-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Was he “the greatest human being ever to occupy 10 Downing Street,” or a man whose “brilliant but unsound judgement resulted in detrimental consequences for Britain and for the world”? Decades after his death, debate still rages over Sir Winston Churchill’s contribution to history, though all agree that it was profound no matter which way it’s viewed. But now that wartime nostalgia has mostly washed away, the views of Churchill are more divergent than ever. On one point though, the biographers and historians remain unanimous: Churchill led an astonishing life as a soldier, world statesman, historian, and Nobel Prize Laureate. When he died at 90 in 1965, one of the most important figures in modern history had left the stage. From providing some of the 20th century’s greatest soundbites to successfully navigating Great Britain to victory in World War II against great odds, Churchill was at the forefront of events for decades, becoming one of the most influential Britons in history.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Mon, 01 Jul 2024 01:59:03 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-beqf7zBK Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: La Ilustración [The Enlightenment]]]>Subtitular: Una guía apasionante de un periodo de disertación científica, política y filosófica de la historia europea (Períodos históricos) [An Exciting Guide to A Period of Scientific, Political and Philosophical Dissertation in European History (Historical Periods)]]]>Categorías: Art, Europe, History, Science]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 06-26-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¿Se imagina cómo sería el mundo hoy si no hubiera existido la Ilustración? La Ilustración, que se prolongó durante todo el siglo XVIII, provocó cambios cruciales en el pensamiento de la gente y transformó todo el entramado de la sociedad. Incluso la gente corriente empezó a cuestionar las creencias y dogmas arraigados. Querían educación, justicia, libertad y progreso. Luchaban por deshacerse de los gobernantes déspotas y deseaban ser gobernados por representantes elegidos democráticamente. Pero, ¿cómo se produjo este cambio de pensamiento crucial en un periodo relativamente corto? ¿Y quiénes fueron los grandes pensadores y filósofos de aquella época que se atrevieron a ir contra la autoridad establecida de la Iglesia y el poder de los autócratas? ¿Siente curiosidad por saber cómo influyó la Ilustración en las revoluciones francesa y estadounidense? Si es así, este libro contiene las respuestas que busca. También aprenderá lo siguiente: ¡Desplácese hacia arriba y haga clic en el botón "añadir al carrito" para conocer más sobre la Ilustración! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Wed, 26 Jun 2024 19:06:29 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-VW8fG30d Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Christianity in the Middle Ages]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Tales of Templars, Trials of Faith, and the Tumult of Crusades (Church History)]]>Categories: Christianity, History, Military]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 06-26-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the Enthralling History of Medieval Christianity Three manuscripts in one audiobook: In the first part of this book, Medieval Christianity, you will: In the second part, Medieval Knights, you will: In the third part, The Inquisition, you will: Click the “add to cart” button now to unlock the secrets of Medieval Christianity, Knights, and the Inquisition in this comprehensive book!
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]]>Título: Historia de los vikingos [Viking's History]]]>Subtitular: Un apasionante recorrido por la era vikinga [An Exciting Journey Through the Viking Age]]]>Categorías: Europe, History, Medieval, Scandinavia]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 06-26-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Naves dragón, grupos de asalto y saqueo, combates cuerpo a cuerpo, exploradores y aventureros, dioses y diosas… ¿cuáles de estos elementos describen realmente a los intrépidos vikingos? La palabra «vikingo» evoca muchas imágenes. A menudo, estas se crean como resultado de las muchas películas, libros, programas y cómics sobre los guerreros. Algunas representaciones son históricamente exactas, mientras que otras se desarrollan para aumentar el atractivo del guerrero invencible. Este libro le proporcionará detalles sobre la época en que reinaron los vikingos. Aprenderá cómo vivía el pueblo escandinavo, quiénes navegaban en las incursiones vikingas, las armas utilizadas en la batalla y sus creencias religiosas. Descubrirá hechos que difieren de la ficción mostrada comercialmente sobre los vikingos. Pero no se preocupe; su admiración por ellos no se verá mermada. Eran un pueblo escandinavo asombroso del que merece la pena saber más. En este libro, aprenderá lo siguiente: Desplácese hacia arriba y haga clic en el botón «añadir a la cesta» para empezar a explorar la historia vikinga. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Wed, 26 Jun 2024 09:18:12 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bGlfAmBN Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Celts for Kids: An Enthralling Overview of Celtic History, Ancient Britons, and Their Conflicts with the Romans]]>Subtitle: Travel through Time]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, For Children, History]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 06-26-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Dive into the enchanting world of the Celts! Do you know whose culture outlasted the mighty Romans? The Celts! Their culture still sparks wonder today. But who were these incredible people, and how did their legacy shape the world we know? Journey Back to the Iron Age! Imagine a time over three thousand years ago in Western Europe, where the Celts lived vibrant lives long before the Romans and Anglo-Saxons stepped onto the scene. Discover a world where history is not just about dates but about astonishing tales of resilience and creativity. Prepare for an Adventure! This isn’t just any history book. It’s a time machine designed for young explorers! With simple language and fun activities, we’ll uncover the mysteries of the Celts. Become a young historian! Through the lens of modern science, we’ll piece together puzzles from the past, correcting old tales and uncovering the true story of our ancestors.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Wed, 26 Jun 2024 07:33:54 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xEPfKqRW Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: History of Ireland: An Enthralling Overview of Major Events and Figures in Irish History]]>Subtitle: Europe]]>Categories: Europe, History, Ireland]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 06-25-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover Irish History: A Journey Through Time and Myth Are you captivated by the mysteries of ancient civilizations and the unfathomable depths of cultural heritage? Dive into the heart of Ireland, an island whose history began long before it became part of the British Empire. This audiobook is your gateway to a land often shrouded in mystery and legend. What Awaits You Inside: Do not let this journey pass you by.
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]]>Titel: Cannabis Homegrowing Guide für Anfänger]]>Untertitel: Maximale Erträge dank optimaler Pflege und moderner Anbaumethoden (Interessante Bücher über Gesundheit, Finanzen, Sport und Lifestyle)]]>Kategorien: Alternative Medicin, Gardening, Health, Holistic Medicine]]>Autor: Eric Rump]]>Erzähler: Alexander Legler]]>Herausgeber: Eric Rump]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 06-25-2024]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt des Cannabisanbaus mit unserem umfassenden Leitfaden! In diesem Buch tauchen Sie ein in die Grundlagen des Cannabisanbaus und lernen alles, was Sie wissen müssen, um Ihre eigenen Pflanzen erfolgreich anzubauen. Wir beginnen mit einem tiefen Verständnis der Grundlagen, von der Auswahl der richtigen Cannabissamen bis hin zur Bedeutung des richtigen Lichts für ein gesundes Wachstum. Erfahren Sie, wie Sie Ihre Pflanzen optimal mit Boden, Wasser und Nährstoffen versorgen und die perfekten Bedingungen für ein üppiges Wachstum schaffen können. Doch das ist erst der Anfang! In den folgenden Kapiteln nehmen wir Sie mit auf eine Reise durch die Welt des Cannabisanbaus, von der Kontrolle der Temperatur und Luftfeuchtigkeit bis hin zum Beschneiden und Training Ihrer Pflanzen für maximale Erträge. Sie werden lernen, wie Sie Schädlinge bekämpfen und Krankheiten vorbeugen können, um Ihre Ernte zu schützen. Aber was ist mit der Erntezeit? Keine Sorge, wir führen Sie durch den Prozess, von der richtigen Erntezeit bis hin zur Trocknung und Aushärtung Ihrer kostbaren Knospen für die beste Qualität. Und für diejenigen, die noch weiter gehen wollen, bieten wir Einblicke in verschiedene Methoden der Cannabiszucht sowie fortgeschrittene Techniken, um Ihre Fähigkeiten zu verfeinern und Ihre Erträge zu maximieren.
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]]>Title: Vikings in England]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide to the Great Heathen Army and the Viking Raids, Wars, and Settlement in Britain (The Story of England)]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Scandinavia]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 06-25-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Embark on a gripping journey back in time with Vikings in England, a riveting narrative that brings the saga of Norse warriors on English soil to life. This meticulously researched guide delves into the heart of the Middle Ages, revealing the profound impact of Viking raiders and settlers on the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England. You’re invited to explore the fascinating dynamics of conquest, resilience, and coexistence that defined this epoch. Here are some of the things you will enjoy in this audiobook: This is an essential guide for enthusiasts of Viking history, Anglo-Saxon heritage, and the rich tapestry of England’s past. Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to immerse yourself in the turbulent age of Vikings in England.
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]]>Title: The Disappearance of the Surcouf]]>Subtitle: The Mysterious Sinking of the Allies’ Largest Submarine during World War II]]>Categories: Europe, History, Maritime, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-21-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It takes a special type of person to serve in a nation’s navy, especially on long voyages that separate men and women from their loved ones, and no service is both loved and hated as that aboard submarines, for very few people ever serve on them on a whim. For one thing, the psychological impact of being trapped for long periods underwater in tight, cramped quarters is more than many people can stand. Also, submarine service is uncharacteristically hazardous; after all, if a surface vessel is sunk, the crew has a reasonable chance of escaping death in lifeboats or being rescued out of the water by another ship. Conversely, if a submarine is badly damaged while submerged, the crew’s chances of survival are at best remote. Given that there’s such little margin for error in a submersible, many submarine losses remain sources of intrigue and mystery, and during World War II, few sinkings were as controversial as the Surcouf, a Free French submarine that disappeared in the Caribbean in 1942. When the Surcouf launched in 1929, it was a technological marvel. This wasn’t a conventional submarine at all, but a 3,300-ton, 300-foot-long submersible light cruiser.
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]]>Title: Vertigo]]>Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany]]>Categories: 20th Century, Democracy, Europe, Fascism]]>Author: Harald Jähner]]>Narrator: Sam Peter Jackson]]>Publisher: Penguin Audio]]>Release date: 06-20-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Brought to you by Penguin. Germany, 1918: a country in flux. The First World War is lost, traditional values are shaken to their core, revolution is afoot and the victory of democracy beckons. Everything must change with the times. The country is abuzz with talk of the 'new woman', the 'new man', 'new living' and 'new thinking'. What follows is the establishment of the Weimar Republic, an economic crisis and the transformation of Germany. A triumphant procession of liberated lifestyles emerges. Women conquer the racetracks and tennis courts, go out alone in the evenings, cut their hair short and cast the idea of marriage aside. Unisex style comes into fashion, androgynous and experimental. People revel in the discovery of leisure, filling up boxing halls, dance palaces and the hotspots of the New Age, embracing the department stores' promise of happiness and accepting the streets as a place of fierce battles. So much of this short burst of life between the wars seems amazingly modern today, including, amidst a frenzy of change, the backlash from those who did not see themselves reflected in this new culture. Little by little, deep divisions in society began to emerge.
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]]>Title: Nancy Wake]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (World War 2 Biographies)]]>Categories: Australasia, Biography, Health, Health Care]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-20-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Nancy Wake... Nancy Wake was a brave woman. She risked her life behind enemy lines during the Nazi occupation of France in the Second World War. The Gestapo dubbed her “The White Mouse” for her uncanny ability to evade their traps. When it became too dangerous, she left France—not to flee—but to join the resistance. Before the war, Nancy lived a life of luxury with her husband, a wealthy French industrialist. The war disrupted this idyllic life and brought out a new side to Nancy’s personality. Suddenly, she hid downed Allied servicemen in her home and guided them over the Pyrenees to the safety of neutral Spain. Later, she helped organize the French resistance fighters known as the Maquis. Nancy parachuted back into France just in time for the D-Day invasion, joining other brave partisans and saboteurs to boost the chances of an Allied victory. After the war, Nancy Wake lived several more happy and eventful decades. This is her life—this is her story. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Nancy Wake, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Skull and Bones]]>Subtitle: The History and Mystery of Yale University’s Notorious Secret Society]]>Categories: America, History, Media Study, Social Science, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-17-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Conspiracy theories, and particularly the belief that elements of the world are secretly controlled by individuals or groups, have been around for as long as people have lived in groups. Perhaps that’s inevitable - after all, those who are excluded from power are very likely to be inclined to see their position not as an outcome of their own choices or situation but because of the secret machinations of shadowy groups. This type of conspiracy theory isn’t new. As far back as the final years of the Roman Republic, some Romans became convinced that powerful people were secretly conspiring to subvert the power of Rome’s elected assemblies and planning to take control. It can be argued that this is the earliest documented conspiracy theory, but in that case, it was actually true. From the Catiline Conspiracy to the First Triumvirate, it is now clear that men like Julius Caesar, Pompey, Marcus, Crassus, and Catiline were in fact attempting to subvert the Republican system, and their attempts would lead to internal unrest and civil war.
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]]>Title: 1982 Lebanon War: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Palestine Israeli Conflict]]>Categories: History, Levant, Middle East, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-13-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the 1982 Lebanon War... The politics and recent history of the Middle East can seem baffling to outsiders. Nowhere was that more evident than during the Lebanon War that raged in 1982. Even contemporary reporting often made fundamental mistakes, and there was little general understanding of what was happening and why. This conflict involved a bewildering number of groups and influences from different parts of the world. The precipitating event was the attempted assassination of the Israeli ambassador in London, carried out by members of a Palestinian terrorist group. In response, Israel’s armed forces, the IDF, launched an invasion of Lebanon in which the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) had established its own army. The IDF also found themselves fighting against the armed forces of Syria. Some Lebanese served in the forces directed by Syria, some fought with Palestinian groups, while others aligned themselves with Israel. The outcome was a savage and confusing war that brought misery and suffering to the majority of ordinary people of Lebanon and turned parts of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, into a war-torn wasteland.
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]]>Title: Kofi Annan]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Africa, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-12-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Kofi Annan... Kofi Annan stands out as one of the most pivotal figures of the early twenty-first century. As the secretary-general of the United Nations, he became an enduring icon and a voice for peace and freedom all over the world. It wasn’t always easy, but Kofi Annan held fast to his principles and did what he could to make the world a better place. His was a life of selfless service, and he had to overcome many obstacles to achieve his goals. Toward the end of his career as secretary-general, he even stood up to a US administration determined to invade Iraq. The stakes couldn’t have been higher, but Kofi Annan stood his ground. This is his life—this is his story. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Kofi Annan, download this audiobook today!
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]]>Title: Hitler and Poland]]>Subtitle: How the Independence of One Country led the World to War in 1939]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Norman Ridley]]>Narrator: Michael Page]]>Publisher: Tantor Audio]]>Release date: 06-11-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Following the end of the First World War, Poland was wedged uncomfortably between the two dominant nations of Germany and the Soviet Union. Poland was obliged to plot and negotiate to try and prevent them from realizing their ambitions to eviscerate the country. As well as bitter ethnic battles between Germany and Poland for the political control of Upper Silesia, there were also the burning ambitions of Weimar Germany, and later Nazi Germany, to reclaim lands incorporated into the new state of Poland at Versailles. Despite America's initial support, the US thereafter showed little interest in Poland's predicament. While France was a traditional friend to the Polish peoples, its political influence over eastern European affairs weakened. The emergence of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany did little to bring the countries together. This drove them further apart as the Führer ramped up his rhetorical assault on the perceived injustices of Versailles. London and Paris found themselves in the disagreeable position of seeing no option but to throw their whole weight behind the integrity of the Polish state if they were ever going to make any sort of stand against Nazi aggression.
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]]>Title: Taking London]]>Subtitle: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization]]>Categories: 20th Century, Air Force, Europe, Great Britain]]>Author: Martin Dugard]]>Narrator: Samuel Roukin]]>Publisher: Penguin Audio]]>Release date: 06-11-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O'Reilly's Killing series—with more than 12 million copies sold—comes a soaring account of England's desperate fight to fend off German invasion. Great Britain, summer 1940. The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Adolf Hitler’s powerful armies control Europe. England stands alone against this juggernaut, the whole world knowing it is only a matter of time before Nazi Germany unleashes its military might on the island nation. And in London, a new prime minister named Winston Churchill is determined to defeat the Nazi menace, no matter the costs. Luckily for Churchill, one quirky Englishman has seen the future. Air Vice-Marshall Hugh Dowding is head of the Royal Air Force Fighter Command. He has spent years preparing his nation's aerial defenses, utilizing the new technology of radar, training hundreds of hand-picked young pilots, and overseeing the design and purchase of the world's most up-to-date fighter aircraft. In time, the names "Spitfire" and "Hurricane" will become iconic, these airplanes synonymous with a David versus Goliath struggle between the RAF and German Luftwaffe.
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]]>Titel: Nordische Mythologie]]>Untertitel: Ein fesselnder Überblick über nordische Mythen, Götter und Göttinnen (Geschichte der Wikinger)]]>Kategorien: Cultural Heritage, Europe, Folklore, History]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Erzähler: Marko Kraft]]>Herausgeber: Billy Wellman]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 06-06-2024]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Als Heimdall in sein Horn bläst, um den Beginn von Ragnarök anzukündigen, bleibt den Göttern Asgards keine andere Wahl, als sich den Mächten des Chaos auf dem Schlachtfeld Vigrid zu stellen. Dies ist der Tag, an dem Loki und seine monströsen Söhne, Jörmungandr, die Weltenschlange, und Fenrir, der Riesenwolf, Rache üben werden, eine Mission, die ihnen gelingen wird, auch wenn sie dafür ihr Leben lassen müssen. An diesem Tag werden alle, auch die mächtigsten Götter, Blut auf dem Schlachtfeld vergießen. Die ganze Welt wird untergehen und eine Leere zurücklassen, in der sich das Leben von neuem entfalten kann.
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]]>Title: The Boer War]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Its Causes, Battles, and Legacy in South Africa (African History)]]>Categories: Africa, History, South Africa]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 06-04-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Dive into the heart of conflict with The Boer War. This riveting narrative unfolds a tumultuous chapter in history where ambition, resilience, and tragedy collide on the sun-scorched plains of South Africa. Embark on a journey through time where the indomitable spirit of the Boer farmers clashed with the might of the British Empire, driven by dreams of expansion and the glittering allure of gold and diamonds. Discover the roots of a conflict that reshaped the landscape of a nation and foreshadowed the brutal warfare of the 20th century. Here are just some of the things you will accomplish by listening to this audiobook: The Boer War not only offers a window into the past but also presents timeless lessons on resilience, strategy, and the human cost of ambition. Click the “add to cart” button and witness the epic saga of the Boer War.
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]]>Title: Christian History]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide to the Story of Christianity, from Its Early Origins through the Crusades and Knights Templar to Modern Times]]>Series: #22 in Exploring the Past]]>Categories: Biography, Christianity, History, Religion, Religious Figure]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 05-29-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Four manuscripts in one audiobook: In the first part of this audiobook, you will learn about the following: In the second part of this audiobook, you will discover the truth about the following: In the third part of this audiobook, you will learn about the following: In the fourth part of this audiobook, you will learn about the following: Download this audiobook to learn more about Christian History!
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]]>Title: Brian Epstein]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, Business, Celebrity]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-28-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Brian Epstein... The Beatles came onto the scene like a force of nature. Their songs became the anthems of generations of fans, and their emergence marked a high-water mark of popular music. But beyond the Beatles themselves, there is one man who can be credited with engineering this perfect maelstrom of musical majesty, and that man is former Beatles manager Brian Epstein. Epstein discovered the Beatles at just the right time and then proceeded to pull just the right strings to gain them the recognition they deserved. Without Epstein's efforts, the Beatles perhaps never would have moved much further beyond being local Liverpool heroes. Like Paul McCartney often said, If anyone was the fifth Beatle, it was Brian. This book takes a look at the life that Brian Epstein led both before and after he discovered the Beatles, as well as the events that led to his tragic death at age 32. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Brian Epstein, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Silk Road and Black Death]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide to the Routes That Connected Continents and the Event That Redefined Them (Exploring the Past)]]>Series: #23 in Exploring the Past]]>Categories: Europe, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 05-23-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Journey Through Time: The Mysteries of the Silk Road and the Black Death Unveiled! Two manuscripts in one book: Embark on an epic adventure across ancient trade paths that connected distant lands and witness a time when the world was struck by a darkness that reshaped history. Part One: The Legendary Silk Road Part Two: The Darkness of the Black Death Dive into this two-part historical treasure and unravel the enigmas of our past. Begin your journey now, and let the mysteries of the ages inspire your imagination! Click "Add to Cart" and become a time-traveler to the ancient worlds of wonder and awe!
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]]>Título: El Imperio azteca [The Aztec Empire]]]>Subtitular: Un apasionante recorrido por la historia de los aztecas, a partir del asentamiento en el valle de México (El Antiguo México) [An Exciting Journey Through the History of The Aztecs, Starting with Their Settlement in The Valley of Mexico (old Mexico)]]]>Categorías: America, Ancient, History]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 05-22-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si siente curiosidad por saber cómo vivían y dirigían su imperio los extraordinarios aztecas, ¡siga leyendo! Los extraordinarios aztecas formaron un vasto y organizado imperio famoso por su destreza militar, su comercio expansivo, su intrigante cultura y su ingeniosa agricultura, todo ello desde una isla en un pantano. Pero, dónde estaba su misteriosa tierra natal, Aztlán? Cómo llegaron a dominar el valle de México? Explore los fascinantes orígenes de los aztecas y descubra cómo una tribu errante del desierto llegó a dominar gran parte del actual México e investigue la espectacular aunque algo depravada cultura que distinguió a su civilización. Esta historia del Imperio azteca, fácil de leer, completa y atractiva, desvelará las historias y la cultura poco conocidas y asombrosas de un pueblo legendario. Con una presentación muy documentada y autorizada, acompañada de sorprendentes ilustraciones, esta obra da vida a la civilización azteca. Estas son algunas de las fascinantes cuestiones que se abordarán: ¡Desplácese hacia arriba y haga clic en el botón "agregar al carrito" para obtener más información sobre los increíbles aztecas! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Raoul Wallenberg: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: World War 2 Biographies]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, History, Judaism]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-14-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Raoul Wallenberg... Raoul Wallenberg lived at a time when one of the worst outrages of inhumanity was occurring: the Holocaust. As a Swedish businessman in Hungary, he bore witness to this tragedy firsthand as Hungarian Jews were being shipped off to Auschwitz. Raoul Wallenberg wasn't a soldier, and he didn't have armies he could fall back on to blast the Nazis to smithereens, but he did have important connections in the diplomatic circles of Sweden. He used these connections to provide passports and other documentation that would allow the Jews of Hungary to travel out of the country and on to freedom. He also orchestrated a wide array of other services, including shelter, food, and medical care, and his combined efforts are said to have saved tens of thousands of people. Wallenberg's story, however, took a tragic turn when he was captured by the Soviet Red Army and disappeared into Stalin's Gulag, his fate becoming one of the Cold War's most enduring mysteries. This is his life. This is his story. Discover a plethora of topics such as
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]]>Titel: Antikes Griechenland für Kinder]]>Untertitel: Ein spannender Überblick über die griechische Geschichte, mit der mykenischen Zivilisation, dem Trojanischen Krieg]]>Kategorien: Ancient, Fiction, For Children, Historical Fiction]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Erzähler: Andreas Kock]]>Herausgeber: Captivating History]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 05-13-2024]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Lasst uns in die Welt des antiken Griechenlands eintauchen! Von den griechischen Mythen und der altgriechischen Kultur, bis hin zu den legendären Kriegen und ihrer vernichtenden Niederlage gegen die Römer - dieses Buch deckt alle Themen ab! Es ist die perfekte Gelegenheit für Eltern und Kinder, die mehr darüber erfahren wollen, was das antike Griechenland zu so einer erstaunlichen Zivilisation machte - und warum die moderne Welt den Menschen dieser Zeit so viel zu verdanken hat. Die antiken Griechen haben viele der gesellschaftlichen Strukturen erfunden, die wir heute noch nutzen: dazu gehören beispielsweise die Geschichten der griechischen Mythologie, die wir in Schulen und Hochschulen studieren, die Olympischen Spiele, und vieles mehr. Während Griechenland heutzutage nur ein kleines europäisches Land ist, erstreckte es sich einst bis über Teile des heutigen Nordafrikas und des Irans hinweg. Die griechische Gesellschaft dieser Zeit war der unseren sehr ähnlich. Die Menschen genossen gutes Essen, Musik und Literatur; die Gesellschaft wurde so ähnlich wie in der heutigen Zeit auch regiert, und die Menschen arbeiteten größtenteils als Bauern, Politiker, Künstler und Erfinder! Du wirst überrascht sein, wie sehr diese antike Gesellschaft unserer eigenen ähnelt - und wie es zu diesen Ähnlichkeiten kam.
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]]>Título: Historia de Rusia [History of Russia]]]>Subtitular: Un apasionante recorrido por la historia de Rusia y los Romanov (Explorando el pasado) [An Enthralling Overview of Major Events in Russian History]]]>Categorías: History, Russia]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 05-09-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>2 manuscritos completos en 1 libro: En la primera parte de este libro, sabrás: En la segunda parte de este libro, conocerá: ¡Desplácese hacia arriba y haga clic en el botón Añadir a la cesta para comenzar su viaje por la historia de Rusia! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Thu, 09 May 2024 22:29:21 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bXEfzWrq Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Silk Road]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Overview of the Ancient Trade Routes That Connected China to Europe (Asia)]]>Categories: Asia, China, History]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 05-09-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Journey on the Silk Road, and discover trade, cultures, and adventures from the ancient world! Step onto the fabled Silk Road, an epic network of ancient trade routes that spanned thousands of miles and linked the East and West for centuries. In The Silk Road, embark on a captivating voyage through time and terrain, where cultures converged, goods flowed, and history unfolded. This audiobook delves into the fascinating world of the Silk Road. Learn how spices, silk, precious gems, and ideas traversed vast deserts, towering mountain passes, and bustling bazaars. Discover the secrets of this remarkable historical crossroads where empires rose and fell and where the exchange of knowledge, art, and technology changed the course of civilizations. Within this audiobook, you will do the following: Dont miss the chance to unravel the tales of adventure, cultural exchange, and the enduring spirit of human connection that defined the Silk Road. Click the add to cart button and embark on a remarkable odyssey through this audiobook!
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]]>Title: Shirley Chisholm]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Women in History]]>Categories: Biography, History, Politician, Politics]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-08-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Shirley Chisholm... Shirley Chisholm was a force to be reckoned with. Emerging from the humble beginnings of a working-class family in Brooklyn, New York, she carved a path that few dared to tread. With her family barely scraping by, Chisholm witnessed first-hand the trials of living paycheck to paycheck and facing adversity at every turn. Yet it was this very struggle that forged her into the powerhouse she would become. Defying the odds, Chisholm climbed the ranks to become the first black woman in the United States Congress. As a congresswoman, she was known for her advocacy on issues including civil rights, women's rights, and poverty, as well as her opposition to the Vietnam War. Her journey didnt stop there; she shattered societal norms by announcing her candidacy for the US presidency in the 1972 election. Though she did not secure her partys nomination, her campaign was nothing short of revolutionary.
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]]>Título: Alejandro Magno [Alexander the Great]]]>Subtitular: Una apasionante guía sobre el surgimiento del Imperio macedonio, su gobernante y sus conquistas (Mitología e historia de Grecia) [An Enthralling Guide to the Rise of the Macedonian Empire, Its Ruler, and His Conquests]]]>Categorías: Ancient, Biography, Europe, Greece]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 05-08-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¿Sabía usted que Alejandro Magno introdujo una vez la proskynesis en la corte macedonia? La proskynesis, el acto de besar el suelo o los pies de alguien de rango superior, era una costumbre habitual de los persas. En la corte del Imperio aqueménida, este acto se realizaba normalmente ante el rey. Tanto si eran nativos del país como si no, los súbditos tenían que postrarse ante el rey antes de poder pronunciar una palabra. A diferencia de los griegos y los macedonios, los persas solo practicaban la proskynesis cuando se comunicaban con sus antiguos dioses. La invasión del Imperio aqueménida siempre había sido una de las prioridades de Alejandro Magno. Desde que llegó al poder, el rey había deseado la sumisión de Darío III, el rey reinante de los persas en aquel momento. Aunque derrotó al rey en dos batallas y acabó conquistando sus territorios, al parecer Alejandro pronto sintió un profundo amor por las costumbres y tradiciones persas.
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]]>Title: Alaska Natives]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Indigenous Peoples of Alaska]]>Categories: America, History, Indigenous, Social Science, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 05-01-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that Alaska is home to the oldest archaeological site in the US? If youre ready to take a journey that will explore the history of Alaska's Native heritage, then Alaska Natives: A Captivating Guide to the History of Indigenous Peoples of Alaska is the trail for you to follow the cultures that have thrived for generations against the breathtaking backdrop of the Alaskan wilderness. Alaska Natives is not merely a collection of facts and dates; it's a captivating narrative that explores the Alaska Native cultures and their journey into the modern era. Discover the pathways on the Bering Land Bridge, share in the contemporary celebrations that honor their heritage, and witness the continuity of traditions that are intertwined with tales of resilience, artistry, and their incredible connection with the land. In this audiobook, you''ll find a world where the past and present coexist. Explore the Aleutian Islands, where strong communities thrive against rugged landscapes, revealing how the land shapes tradition.
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]]>Titel: Das alte Rom für Kinder: Ein fesselnder Einblick in die römische Geschichte, vom Aufstieg der Republik über das Römische Reich bis nach Byzanz]]>Untertitel: Geschichte für Kinder]]>Kategorien: Ancient, Europe, For Children, History]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Erzähler: Andreas Kock]]>Herausgeber: Captivating History]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 05-01-2024]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>In diesem Buch reist du zurück ins antike Rom, wo Gladiatoren im berühmten Kolosseum kämpften, Kaiser ermordet wurden, um Platz für neue Herrscher zu machen, Kalender erfunden wurden und die griechische Mythologie zur römischen Mythologie umfunktioniert wurde! Viel Spaß bei der Erkundung der Ruinen und der Kriegspläne, die von dieser erstaunlichen Gesellschaft übriggeblieben sind! Teste dein Wissen mit Aktivitäten am Ende jedes Kapitels und beobachte, wie Geschichte lebendig wird, während du etwas über das faszinierende Römische Reich lernst! Wir haben dem Alten Rom viel zu verdanken und du wirst erfahren, was wir abgeschafft haben - und was wir aus dieser aufregenden Zeit der Geschichte übernommen haben. Wenn du jemals einen Film mit Gladiatoren gesehen oder von Julius Caesar gehört hast, weißt du bereits etwas über das Römische Reich. Aber wusstest du, dass Caesar dabei half, den Kalender zu erfinden, auf dem unser Kalender basiert? Wusstest du, dass die Herrscher andere Herrscher töten ließen und manchmal sogar ihre eigenen Familien ermordeten? Das und vieles mehr erfährst du, wenn du in diesem wunderbaren Bericht über das antike Rom blätterst. Lies weiter, um mehr über Folgendes zu erfahren: Also schnapp dir dein Exemplar dieses Buches und lass dich überraschen!
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]]>Título: Antigua Cartago [Ancient Carthage]]]>Subtitular: Una apasionante guía sobre las civilizaciones fenicia y cartaginesa (Antiguas Civilizaciones) [An Enthralling Guide to the Phoenicians and Carthaginian Civilization (Civilizations)]]]>Categorías: Africa, Ancient, History, Rome]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 05-01-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¡La historia de la antigua Cartago: el imperio perdido que desafió a Roma! ¿Qué sabemos realmente de la antigua Cartago? La mayor parte de lo que se ha escrito sobre este otrora gran imperio se basa en escritos romanos y griegos sesgados en contra de los cartagineses. Ahora, gracias a un cuidadoso trabajo académico y a asombrosos descubrimientos arqueológicos, por fin se puede conocer la verdadera Cartago. Retroceda en el tiempo a un mundo antiguo de dioses extraños y sacrificios humanos. Viaje a la ciudad más rica del mundo antiguo: Cartago. Olvide lo que creía saber sobre Cartago. No se trata solo de Aníbal cruzando los Alpes con sus elefantes. Se trata de un imperio comercial y político bullicioso y rebosante que cubría la mayor parte del Mediterráneo occidental. En este libro, aprenderá lo siguiente: ¡Desplácese hacia arriba y haga clic en añadir a la cesta para aprender más sobre la antigua Cartago! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Tripped]]>Subtitle: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, Espionage, History]]>Author: Norman Ohler]]>Narrator: Kris Dyer]]>Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd]]>Release date: 04-25-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Berlin, 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use — long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws — is rampant throughout the city. In the American sector, Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis' drug policies and bringing home anything that might prove 'useful'. Five years later, Harvard professor Dr Henry Beecher begins work with the US government to uncover the research behind the Nazis' psychedelics programme. Originally created for medical purposes by Dr Albert Hofmann, the Nazis coopted LSD to experiment with mind control and find a 'truth serum' - research that the US, particularly the CIA, is desperate to acquire. Based on extensive archival research, Tripped is a wild, unconventional post-war history, a spiritual sequel to Norman Ohler's bestselling Blitzed. Revealing the hidden connections between the Nazis and the CIA's notorious brainwashing experimentation program, MKUltra, Ohler shares how this secret history held back the therapeutic research of psychedelic drugs for decades as the West sought to turn LSD into a weapon.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Norman Ohler) Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:08:10 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b4YfmeYn Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Ethiopia]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Ethiopian History and the Second Italo-Abyssinian War (Exploring Africa’s Past)]]>Series: #1 in Exploring Africa’s Past]]>Categories: Africa, East Africa, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-18-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Two manuscripts in one audiobook: In the first part of this audiobook, you will discover: In the second part of this audiobook, you will learn about: Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to learn more about Ethiopia!
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]]>Title: Six-Day War: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Palestine Israeli Conflict]]>Categories: History, Levant, Middle East]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-18-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Six-Day War... The State of Israel was founded in conflict, and in the first ten years of its existence, it was involved in two major wars with its Arab neighbors. The First Arab-Israeli War began almost the moment that the new state was announced in May 1948. Although it barely had time to create armed forces, somehow Israel survived a simultaneous invasion by armies from four Arab states during that conflict. In 1956, Israel found itself at war again, this time fighting alongside Britain and France, who had launched an invasion of Egypt after fears that the Suez Canal might be closed. While these wars demonstrated just how lethally effective the Israel Defense Forces were, they failed to bring lasting peace to the Middle East. By the mid-1960s, the relationship between Israel and its neighbors was once again strained. Palestinian guerrilla groups operating from bases in Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon had launched attacks on Israel, which responded with cross-border strikes. Tensions rose, and by the early summer of 1967, Egypt seemed to be preparing for war by moving troops and tanks closer to the Israeli border.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Thu, 18 Apr 2024 05:58:58 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xAWf43JZ Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Las cruzadas: Un apasionante recorrido por un acontecimiento de la historia cristiana que tuvo lugar en la Edad Media [The Crusades: An Exciting Journey Through an Event in Christian History That Took Place in the Middle Ages]]]>Subtitular: Historia de la Iglesia [Church History]]]>Categorías: Christianity, Europe, History, Medieval, Military]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 04-11-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Así que cree saber lo que ocurrió durante las cruzadas. Pero, ¿lo sabe realmente? Es una buena pregunta, ya que existen muchas ideas erróneas sobre las causas de las cruzadas, por no hablar de lo que ocurrió realmente durante las mismas. En este libro pretendemos aclarar muchas de estas cuestiones y ofrecerle una historia concisa y precisa de las cruzadas. Gran parte de la historia de las cruzadas se ha visto oscurecida a lo largo de los años por conjeturas basadas en opiniones. Intentamos aclarar las cosas de la forma más imparcial posible. En este texto le contamos lo que ocurrió y le dejamos que decida por sí mismo lo que valió la pena. Las cruzadas fueron un llamamiento para defender a los cristianos de Oriente y ayudar a los peregrinos cristianos en Tierra Santa. No fue hasta que se desató el terremoto de cruzados cristianos procedentes de Occidente cuando las cruzadas se transformaron en algo totalmente distinto.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:31:31 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xzjfNpAL Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Medieval Christianity]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Christian History, Starting from the Fall of the Western Roman Empire Through the Great Schism and the Crusades to the Reformation (Exploring Christianity)]]>Series: #13 in Exploring Christianity]]>Categories: Christianity, Europe, History, Medieval]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-11-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Embark on a Timeless Journey: Unveil the saga of Christianity from its origins to the Counter-Reformation Are you intrigued by the monumental path Christianity carved through history? This masterful narrative weaves through 1,600 years of history, from Christianity’s origins in the 1st century AD to the transformative Counter-Reformation in 1700. Discover the Epochs That Shaped the World A Chronicle of Power, Faith, and War This audiobook is not just a historical account; it’s a revelation of how Christianity influenced politics, ignited wars, and spread its ethos globally. It’s a tale of transformation, conflict, and resilience. Your Portal to a Bygone Era Whether you’re a history aficionado, a seeker of religious insights, or simply a curious mind, this audiobook is your gateway to understanding the pivotal role of Christianity in shaping our world. Don’t miss this chance to immerse yourself in the epic saga of medieval Christianity.
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]]>Title: The Scramble for Africa]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to European Expansion, Colonial Conflicts, the Berlin Conference, and Its Impact on Modern Times (African History)]]>Categories: Africa, History, Modern]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-10-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Step into the riveting saga of the Scramble for Africa and learn about the dramatic reshaping of the African continent. This audiobook offers a lens into the pivotal moments that saw Africa carved and claimed by European powers. Explore the technological revolution that was occurring in the backdrop, as well as the indomitable spirit of the Africans who resisted colonial rule. The Berlin Conference: Discover how a meeting in Berlin under Otto von Bismarck’s guidance led to the division of Africa. King Leopold II’s Reign of Terror: Uncover the harrowing exploitation under Belgium King Leopold II in the Congo Free State, marking one of history’s darkest chapters. Technological Advancements: Learn how innovations like the iron-hulled steamboat, the machine gun, and quinine made colonization possible. Resistance Heroes: Be inspired by leaders like Cetshwayo, Samori Toure, and others who valiantly fought against colonial forces, showcasing the resilience and courage of African peoples. Plundered Heritage: Reflect on the tragic loss of African cultural artifacts and human remains to European museums. Literary Impact: Discover Arthur Conan Doyle’s influential critique of the Congo Free State, a testament to the power of the pen against injustice. Add this compelling narrative to your collection and delve into the stories that have shaped the world.
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]]>Title: Tripped]]>Subtitle: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, Cold War, Espionage]]>Author: Norman Ohler]]>Narrator: Joel Richards]]>Publisher: HarperAudio]]>Release date: 04-09-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“A fleet-footed and propulsive account . . . Brilliantly sifting a massive history for its ideological through lines, this is a must-read."" — Publishers Weekly (starred review) The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, examining the untold story of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced CIA research and secretly shaped the War on Drugs. Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use—long kept under control by the Nazis’ strict anti-drug laws—is rampant throughout the city. Split into four sectors, Berlin's drug policies are being enforced under the individual jurisdictions of each allied power—the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and the US. In the American zone, Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis’ anti-drug laws and bringing home anything that might prove “useful” to the United States. Five years later, Harvard professor Dr. Henry Beecher began work with the US government to uncover the research behind the Nazis psychedelics program. Begun as an attempt to find a “truth serum” and experiment with mind control, the Nazi study initially involved mescaline, but quickly expanded to include LSD.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Norman Ohler) Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:17:19 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xPjfn5dB Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Lyndon B. Johnson]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of US Presidents)]]>Series: #17 in Biographies of US Presidents]]>Categories: America, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-08-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Lyndon B. Johnson... Lyndon B. Johnson was a powerful figure in American politics for many decades. Rising to prominence as a congressman and senator in his home state of Texas, he then became the surprise vice-president pick for the young and dashing John F. Kennedy. LBJ certainly cut a far different figure and utilized a much different approach than JFK, but he was just as charismatic (and not to mention cunning) in his own right. When Kennedy was tragically struck down by an assassin’s bullet in 1963, Johnson was sure to rise to the occasion. Johnson’s presidency is notable for several landmark domestic policies, collectively known as the “Great Society” programs. These initiatives aimed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Lepanto]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Pivotal Naval Conflict Between the Ottoman Turks and the Holy League (European Military History)]]>Categories: Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-02-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Dive into the tides of history: Unravel the epic story of the Battle of Lepanto! Are you fascinated by the transformative battles that have shaped our world? The Battle of Lepanto is a thrilling voyage to one of history’s most pivotal naval confrontations. This audiobook isn’t just about a battle; it’s a compelling narrative weaving together military innovation, intense diplomacy, and the birth of cultural masterpieces. Inside this audiobook, you’ll embark on a journey through the turbulent waters leading up to and beyond this legendary clash. Every chapter contains a treasure trove for enthusiasts of 16th-century naval warfare and history aficionados. Discover how Lepanto marked a turning point in naval tactics and technology, setting the stage for modern warfare. Key highlights of your odyssey include: Transform your understanding of this crucial moment in history. Click the “add to cart” button now and set sail toward a deeper understanding of the Battle of Lepanto and its enduring legacy!
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]]>Title: Reincarnation]]>Subtitle: Remarkable Stories of People Who Recall past Lives]]>Categories: Channeling, Occult, Reincarnation, Spirituality]]>Author: Paul Roland]]>Narrator: Gabrielle Glaister]]>Publisher: Arcturus Digital]]>Release date: 03-29-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In this fascinating book, Paul Roland delves into the fascinating mysteries of reincarnation. The idea of rebirth is at the heart of many religions and philosophies and discovering the truths about our past lives can help us understand who we are today. Here you will find an array of captivating stories of people who have remembered their previous lives, ranging from children able to identify long-dead relatives to sisters who could remember how they died to a man who vividly remembers his time as a Confederate colonel in the American Civil War. Reincarnation also includes: • Exercises to help you uncover your past lives • Instructions to identify symptoms of past-life traumas • Exclusive interviews with Carol Bowman and Lee Everett, two of America's foremost regression therapists
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]]>Título: Historia de Grecia: Un apasionante recorrido por la historia de Grecia [History of Greece: An Exciting Journey Through the History of Greece]]]>Subtitular: Mitología e historia de Grecia [Mythology and History of Greece]]]>Categorías: Europe, Greece, History]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 03-27-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Realmente está aquí: ¡Toda la historia de Grecia en un solo volumen! Este libro lleva a los lectores por un sucinto viaje desde los primeros asentamientos de Grecia hasta el siglo XX. Su narrativa, fácil de leer, pero meticulosamente investigada, cautivará a los aficionados a la historia, a los estudiantes y a cualquier persona interesada en aprender más sobre Grecia. Este conciso resumen abarca las civilizaciones griegas de la Edad de Piedra y de Bronce, las épocas arcaica y clásica, los siglos de dominación romana y el fascinante Imperio bizantino. Pasa por el periodo de Grecia bajo el Imperio turco otomano, su emancipación y la formación de una democracia parlamentaria que continuó hasta el siglo XX. Estas son algunas de las preguntas a las que responderá este libro sobre la fascinante historia de Grecia: Para descubrir la fascinante historia de Grecia, desplácese hacia arriba y haga clic en el botón «Añadir a la cesta». Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Wed, 27 Mar 2024 13:15:38 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-DoPfG9RW Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Robin Williams]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Comedian Biographies)]]>Categories: Actor, Biography, Celebrity, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-22-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Robin Williams... They say that laughter is the best medicine, and no one could quite make us laugh like Robin Williams. His meteoric rise to fame was fueled by an irrepressible sense of humor and dazzling improvisational skills. From the extraterrestrial Mork to the inspiring John Keating in Dead Poets Society and the endearing Genie in Aladdin, Williams’ performances captured the hearts of millions. But beneath the laughter and fame was a man as complex as the characters he portrayed. Robin had a difficult childhood and, as a consequence, battled depression and addiction throughout his life. Yes, as much as he might have played carefree aliens like Mork and even the impish Peter Pan of Neverland, Robin never really came to terms with his own demons. He kept us, as well as himself, laughing to avoid having to confront the darkness that permeated his life. Tragically, that life came to an abrupt end in 2014 in an utterly heartbreaking fashion.
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]]>Title: The Great Famine: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Great Hunger in Ireland from 1845 to 1849 and How the Irish Potato Famine Was Solved]]>Subtitle: Exploring Europe’s Past]]>Categories: Europe, History, Ireland]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-21-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Uncover the Saga of Resilience and Survival in The Great Famine In this audiobook, you are invited on a journey back to the 1840s, to the heart of Ireland’s darkest hour. Witness the profound impact of the Great Famine, an event that reshaped not only Ireland but also the world. Discover the Roots of Tragedy The Catalyst of Despair A Crisis Mismanaged A Ripple Across Oceans Memorials and Legacy
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Thu, 21 Mar 2024 22:30:21 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-beqf7M7Y Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Sparta]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (Ancient Civilizations)]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, Greece, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-20-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of Sparta... Many of the city-states of Ancient Greece gave the world a legacy rich in art, literature, poetry, philosophy, and science. But one such state distinguished itself by embracing something very different: a warrior lifestyle, a denial of luxury and wealth, and a focus on the collective rather than the individual. While most other Ancient Greek city-states have been forgotten, the name of that city remains in use in the English language today, meaning austere or rigorous: Spartan. The notion of Sparta remains alive today, but just what was Sparta, and how did it come to be so well-known in the ancient world? What was it about these people that made them so different from other city-states in Ancient Greece, and why did they become the most feared and successful warriors of the age for almost 700 years? This is an account of the mythic origins of Sparta and its known history until its final demise in the face of the rise of another militaristic empire—Rome. It’s a story of battles and almost constant wars, but it’s also the story of a unique culture that even today is held up by some as an ideal.
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]]>Titel: Keltische Mythologie]]>Untertitel: Ein fesselnder Überblick über keltische Mythen, Göttinnen und Götter (Das alte Großbritannien) [A Captivating Survey of Celtic Myths, Goddesses and Gods (Ancient Britain)]]]>Kategorien: Cultural Heritage, Europe, Folklore, History, Social Science]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Erzähler: Marko Kraft]]>Herausgeber: Billy Wellman]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 03-19-2024]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Götter, Göttinnen, Feen und übernatürliche Wesen sind die Hauptfiguren in keltischen Geschichten und Erzählungen aus längst vergangenen Zeiten. Mythen wurden oft zur Erklärung von Naturphänomenen, Leben und Tod und unserer Existenz herangezogen und vermittelten den Menschen im Altertum Erkenntnisse über ihr Leben. Durch das Hören von Geschichten über heldenhafte und fantastische Abenteuer lernten unsere Vorfahren etwas über die Erwartungen, die die Gesellschaft an sie stellte. Das war auch bei den Kelten nicht anders. Dieses Buch bietet Ihnen Informationen über keltische Mythen, Göttinnen und Götter. Erfahren Sie mehr über die Traditionen und Überzeugungen, die andere Menschen geleitet haben, und gewinnen Sie Einblicke in die menschliche Natur. Manchen mag die Mythologie wie erfundene Geschichten mit wenig historischen Informationen erscheinen. Aber durch die Kenntnis dessen, was sich die Menschen vor langer Zeit gegenseitig überliefert haben, gewinnt man ein Verständnis für die Art von Menschen, die man damals verehrt hat, und gewinnt eine tiefere Verbindung zur Vergangenheit.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Tue, 19 Mar 2024 22:50:14 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bJLfjE9x Voice Vault false Hören Sie sich volle Hörbuch kostenlos https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: African Mythology]]>Subtitle: Enthralling Myths, Fables, and Legends from Africa (The Africans)]]>Categories: Africa, Cultural Heritage, Folklore, History, Social Science]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 03-15-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Africa is huge and varied, and so is its mythology. African ideas of how the world began are very different from the story of Genesis. Though the creator god is repeatedly seen as having withdrawn from the world, people often have a very direct and intense relationship with demigods, ancestors, and bush spirits. The entire landscape is permeated by spiritual meanings and inhabited by gods and spirits. While many Africans today formally follow the Christian or Muslim faiths, they often blend these beliefs with traditional lore and rites. This audiobook examines the central themes of African mythology—the creation, gods and goddesses, trickster tales, animals, monsters, heroes, and mythical rulers—and shows how some motifs recur throughout the corpus of myths. It also looks at how African myths are becoming better known because of writers and filmmakers, particularly from the Black diaspora, who draw on this rich heritage for inspiration. This introductory guide to African myths will allow you to do the following: Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to learn more about African mythology!
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]]>Título: El Imperio otomano [The Ottoman Empire]]]>Subtitular: Una guía apasionante de una de las dinastías más poderosas y longevas de la historia mundial (Europa) [An Exciting Guide to One of the Most Powerful and Longest-Lived Dynasties in World History (Europe)]]]>Categorías: History, Middle East, Turkey]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 03-14-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>De pequeño principado turco a superpotencia mundial, el papel del Imperio otomano en la historia del mundo es ciertamente innegable. Durante más de seis siglos, el imperio fue posiblemente el imperio musulmán más fuerte del mundo, dominando a sus rivales en Europa y Asia durante muchos años. Abarcando tres continentes y controlando tierras en los Balcanes, el Cáucaso, Crimea, Anatolia, Oriente Próximo, Levante, Egipto y el norte de África, el Imperio otomano fue una de las potencias más amenazadoras en el apogeo de su poder en el siglo XVI. Era temido por otros grandes imperios de Europa. Pero, ¿cómo alcanzaron exactamente los otomanos este gran poder y cómo lo perdieron a principios del siglo XX? Este libro tratará estos y otros temas importantes de la historia del Imperio otomano. En este libro descubrirá lo siguiente: Desplácese hacia arriba y haga clic en el botón «añadir a la cesta» para aprender sobre el Imperio otomano. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Thu, 14 Mar 2024 08:35:01 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-V5yf0jqy Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Yom Kippur War: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Palestine Israeli Conflict]]>Categories: History, Levant, Middle East, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-13-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the potent history of the Yom Kippur War... The State of Israel was established in 1948, and from the very beginning, it faced war with neighboring Arab nations. Somehow, despite the fact that its newly created army was greatly outnumbered, the War of Independence from 1948 to 1949 saw Israel and its borders secured. However, the peace that followed didn’t last long. In 1956, Israel was at war again, this time allied with Britain and France during the Suez Crisis, with an invasion that saw parts of the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula occupied by Israeli forces. In 1967, Israel found itself in another conflict, alone and facing a coalition of Arab states that included Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. What became known as the Six-Day War provided Israel with a stunning military victory that saw it occupying most of the Sinai Peninsula and other territories, including the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and the Gaza Strip. Just six years later, in 1973, Israel would face the greatest challenge to its very existence. Egypt and Syria launched massive simultaneous invasions intended to recapture territory occupied by Israel during the Six-Day War.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:31:45 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-VW8fPLMP Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Historia del cristianismo [History of Christianity]]]>Subtitular: Un apasionante recorrido por los acontecimientos más importantes que dieron forma a la Iglesia Cristiana]]>Categorías: Bible, Bible Study, Biblical History, Christianity, History]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 03-08-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Es la mayor fe del mundo, se extiende por toda la tierra y se remonta en el tiempo casi dos mil años. Hablamos, por supuesto, del cristianismo. Hoy en día, el dominio de la fe cristiana parece ser un hecho fácilmente aceptado. Sin embargo, en la época en que alcanzó su máximo esplendor, para la mayoría de los observadores externos, esta idea habría parecido muy improbable. Desde sus inicios, el cristianismo fue perseguido y acosado. A menudo, los cristianos pagaban un alto precio por su fe. Se reunían en la clandestinidad e incluso en cementerios. Eran incomprendidos, y su mensaje a los forasteros parecía irremediablemente extraño y confuso. Por aquel entonces, nadie podía imaginar que esta «secta», que a menudo se reunía en pequeños grupos secretos, llegaría a tener grandes iglesias y una presencia mundial aún mayor. Sin embargo, a pesar de los pronósticos, el cristianismo demostró ser imparable. ¿Cómo sucedió algo así? Desde la perspectiva de un creyente, la respuesta a esa pregunta es bastante clara: la mano divina de Dios estaba actuando.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Fri, 08 Mar 2024 20:08:24 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Dv3fYNko Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Civilización del valle del Indo [Indus Valley Civilization]]]>Categorías: Ancient, Asia, History, India, South Asia]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 03-08-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>El pueblo Harappa ocupó el valle del Indo durante unos dos mil años, ¡todo ello sin conflictos ni guerras! La civilización del valle del Indo se fundó hace al menos cinco mil años en la zona que hoy es Pakistán y el norte de la India. Los harappa vivieron en paz, dedicándose a la agricultura, la artesanía y el comercio. En este libro se explica cómo los harappa construían sus ciudades, cómo vivían su vida cotidiana, qué creían que ocurría después de su muerte y mucho más. En este libro, descubrirá lo siguiente: Haga clic en el botón «añadir a la cesta» para empezar a aprender sobre la civilización del valle del Indo. Please Note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:25:42 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-VBZfP34B Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Conquistadors]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Spanish Explorers, Conquest of the Americas, Cultural Exchange, and Legacy (European Exploration and Settlement)]]>Categories: America, Biography, Caribbean, Explorer]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-04-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Have you ever heard about the Spaniard Cabeza de Vaca, who survived eight years wandering from Florida to Texas? Find his story and more in this audiobook! In the early 16th century, Spanish adventurers swarmed over the islands of the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, and South America. Portuguese explorers and merchants pushed into the Indian Ocean and beyond to the Spice Islands of the South Pacific. The names of the leaders of these overseas conquests are well known: Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Hernando de Soto, Afonso de Albuquerque, and Ferdinand Magellan. This audiobook explores the details of their incredible lives in service of their monarchs and personal wealth. Conquistadors set about to acquire gold, land, and monopolies in lucrative trade. In doing so, they systematically destroyed indigenous civilizations wherever they encountered them. This audiobook explores the negative aspects of early European exploration. When a local population had been pacified, some conquistadors attempted to dispense with competition among their own men. Listen to how one of Francisco Pizarro’s lieutenants rose up against him soon after conquering Peru. This audiobook presents the conquistadors in a new light.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:08:14 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-VZNfaZyV Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Eastern Civilization]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Chinese, Japanese, and Indian Civilizations, Buddhism, Medieval Asia, and Modern Times]]>Categories: Asia, China, History, Japan]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-01-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Embark on an Unparalleled Journey Through the Rich Tapestry of Eastern Civilization! Discover the Cradle of Intellectual Thought: From the mystical valleys of the Indus to the imperial courts of Japan, "Eastern Civilization" unravels the vibrant histories of India, China, and Japan. This captivating guide is your window into the ancient worlds that shaped modern thought. Unearth Hidden Gems of History: A Fusion of Past and Present: This Audiobook Offers: For whom? Whether you're a history aficionado, a student of cultures, or a curious mind eager to explore the East's rich heritage, this audiobook is your perfect companion.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Fri, 01 Mar 2024 05:01:23 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-VBZfj6KV Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Los caballeros hospitalarios [The Knights Hospitaller]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante sobre una orden militar católica medieval y de principios de la Edad Moderna y su impacto en las cruzadas]]>Categorías: Christianity, History, Military]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 02-27-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Guerra, virtud, corrupción, aventura: la historia de la Orden de los Caballeros Hospitalarios lo tiene todo. Los hospitalarios comenzaron como cuidadores de los peregrinos cristianos en Jerusalén, pero pronto salieron de sus hospicios y adoptaron un nuevo papel militar que marcó para siempre la historia de la Europa medieval. Este libro trata de explorar el curioso ascenso de los hospitalarios desde sus humildes orígenes hasta convertirse en una de las instituciones más poderosas de la Europa medieval. A lo largo de su existencia, los hospitalarios lograron desarrollar una reconocida tradición militar. Al principio, se limitaban a defender a los peregrinos que viajaban a Tierra Santa y les proporcionaban cuidados en sus hospicios, pero más tarde, gracias a su destreza y profesionalidad, los hospitalarios se convirtieron en una orden militar respetada y temida que luchaba por la cristiandad. Tras innumerables desafíos, enemigos formidables y amenazas internas y externas, los caballeros hospitalarios consiguieron sobrevivir contra viento y marea y siguen existiendo hoy en día.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:36:08 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-DL3fj8ZZ Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Kosovo War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Eastern Europe, Europe, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-27-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the turbulent history of the Kosovo War... Kosovo is a tiny land-locked nation located in the heart of the Balkan Peninsula in Eastern Europe. Before the 1990s, few people outside the immediate area had ever even heard of Kosovo. Then, in 1998, war began, and Kosovo moved to the center of the international stage. For many people, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 had been expected to reduce the possibility of war, particularly in Europe. Instead, in the Balkans, it led to a series of conflicts based on simmering tensions that had been suppressed under Soviet control. Suddenly, the name of Kosovo was widely known and became identified with a savage war based on religious and ethnic divisions. Even today, more than 25 years later, the complex roots and causes of this war and its ultimate impact are not widely understood, and it is often forgotten that international troops remain in Kosovo in an effort to maintain the fragile peace. This book seeks to explain the background to the creation of Kosovo, the tensions that existed with neighboring states, and the origin, history, and aftermath of the war itself.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:14:37 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-VZNfdXrB Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Historia maya para niños [Mayan History for Children]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la civilización maya, desde los olmecas hasta la conquista española, pasando por la fundación de Teotihuacán ... para los pequeños]]>Categorías: America, Ancient, For Children, History]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 02-27-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¡Prepare su equipo de Indiana Jones para esta aventura! Nos vamos de viaje a las selvas de Mesoamérica (América Central) para visitar los asombrosos lugares que dejó tras de sí la antigua sociedad del pueblo maya. Le esperan secretos en este viaje tan especial, así que siga leyendo... ¿Sabía que los egipcios no fueron los únicos en construir pirámides? Hace unos 2.000 años, los mayas construyeron pirámides para albergar a sus dioses y enterrar a sus reyes. Éste es sólo uno de los increíbles secretos descubiertos por los arqueólogos en zonas de Centroamérica. Los modernos científicos como Indiana Jones nos han contado muchas cosas sobre estas tribus; ¿está preparado para saber más? Este libro desvela los misterios que rodean a los mayas, que desaparecieron repentinamente de la faz de la tierra, o eso parece. Descubra las últimas teorías sobre su desaparición y conozca: Más que nada, los mayas nos dejaron muchas preguntas. Es tarea de científicos y arqueólogos explicar cómo un pueblo próspero tuvo un final tan rápido.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:17:34 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Dv3fk9YX Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Tupac Shakur: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Musicians]]>Series: #27 in Biographies of Musicians]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-23-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Tupac Shakur... During his short life, Tupac Shakur—better known by his stage name 2Pac—became a living legend, and his status is just as legendary even after he’s long been gone. At the age of just 20, Tupac took the world by storm. He was a talented rapper, actor, and music mogul, but perhaps most importantly, he was a storyteller. His lyrics often told the story of his humble roots, and he spoke of a community that was overlooked by mainstream society. For them, Tupac was more than just a talented artist; he was a spokesperson. That is perhaps his greatest and most lasting legacy of all. In this book, we explore the life of Tupac Shakur in full—from his humble beginnings in East Harlem to his meteoric rise to stardom. Tupac lived a life of contradictions. Learn about his years spent in art school acting in plays and writing poetry, his later run-ins with the law, as well as the drive-by shooting that ended his life prematurely. This is the story of Tupac Shakur. Discover a plethora of topics such as
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Fri, 23 Feb 2024 03:17:07 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bRKfYGvp Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Ciro el Grande [Cyrus the Great]]]>Subtitular: La apasionante vida del padre del Imperio persa (Explorando el Oriente Próximo) [The Exciting Life of the Father of the Persian Empire (Exploring the Middle East)]]]>Categorías: Ancient, History, Middle East]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 02-21-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Ciro el Grande fue humanitario, diplomático, estratega militar y gobernante del mayor imperio que el mundo había visto hasta entonces. Ciro el Grande fue un hombre extraordinario que se convirtió en leyenda en vida. El mayor testimonio de su buen carácter y sus grandes logros nos llegó a través de los enemigos de Persia: los griegos. Se dice que sirvió de inspiración a Alejandro Magno y Julio César. Ciro alcanzó tal categoría de héroe que los últimos sahs de Irán del siglo XX aún reivindicaban su legado. Sus políticas incluían la libertad religiosa, la igualdad salarial y la libertad de expresión. Sus actividades culturales y sociales pusieron en marcha lo que hoy conocemos como derechos humanos.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Wed, 21 Feb 2024 13:47:26 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-beqf8jEm Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Las Guerras Mundiales [The World Wars]]]>Subtitular: Una guía apasionante de la Primera y Segunda Guerra Mundial [A Fascinating Guide to the First and Second World Wars]]]>Categorías: History, Military, Military Conflict, World War I, World War II]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 02-13-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>2 manuscritos completos en 1 libro: En la primera parte de este libro, usted: En la segunda parte de este libro, usted: Desplácese hacia arriba y haga clic en el botón "agregar al carrito" para comenzar a aprender sobre dos de las guerras más influyentes de la historia.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Tue, 13 Feb 2024 15:27:43 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xKnfQj8k Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: 1948 Arab-Israeli War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (Palestine Israeli Conflict)]]>Categories: History, Levant, Middle East]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-13-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the surprising history of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War... When the establishment of the State of Israel was announced on May 14, 1948, it seemed to many people that the new nation could not survive for long. The haste with which it was created meant that Israel lacked the infrastructure of government, and its armed forces consisted of little more than a handful of lightly armed former guerilla fighters. Ranged against it were some of the most powerful nations in the Arab world, including Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria. On the day after the declaration of the creation of Israel, four armies from these neighboring states launched an invasion. The invading armies had tanks, combat aircraft, and heavy artillery. The Israel Defense Force lacked all these things; its forces were outnumbered and had barely enough rifles to equip its troops. No wonder that some Arab generals told their leaders that this wouldn’t be a war but a “parade without any risks.” Most people predicted that Israel would be defeated within two weeks. But that wasn’t how it turned out.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:51:31 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-x2Afeo27 Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: History of India and Indian Mythology]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide to Major Civilizations, Empires, Events, People, and Myths (Exploring the Past)]]>Series: #21 in Exploring the Past]]>Categories: Asia, Cultural Heritage, Folklore, History]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 02-12-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Two manuscripts in one audiobook: In the first part of this audiobook, you will discover: In the second part of this audiobook, you will discover: Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to begin learning about the History of India and Indian Mythology today!
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:08:54 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b8pfNyww Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Ancient Rome for Kids]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Overview of the Roman Kingdom, Republic, and Empire (Travel through Time)]]>Series: #1 in Travel through Time]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, For Children, History]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 02-12-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in ancient Rome? Do you know why the Romans were considered the most powerful nation in the world for many centuries? How did they live? What was life like in early Rome? In this audiobook, you’ll discover how they lived, what they ate, and how they entertained themselves. Discover the story of how Rome began and why the Roman Empire fell. Learn about some of the greatest soldiers who led the Roman armies into battle and the kinds of weapons they used. Learn about famous emperors and whether they were loved or hated—and why. This audiobook also contains fun facts and activities at the end of every chapter. Here are just a few of the fascinating things that you’ll discover when listening to this book: Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to learn more about the history of Ancient Rome!
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Billy Wellman) Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:38:20 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bXEfL573 Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Los Romanov [The Romanovs]]]>Subtitular: Un apasionante repaso a la Casa Romanov (Europa Oriental) [An Exciting Review of the House of Romanov (Eastern Europe)]]]>Categorías: Eastern Europe, Europe, History, Russia]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 02-09-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Con algunos de los nombres más memorables de la historia, la dinastía Romanov es una de esas familias reales cuyo legado solo puede ser rivalizado por unos pocos. Gobernando Rusia durante algo más de trescientos años, desde el siglo XVII hasta principios del XX, los zares Romanov y, en raros pero inolvidables casos, las emperatrices dominaron los paisajes políticos de su época y forjaron una de las dinastías más legendarias de todos los tiempos. De hecho, Rusia, el gran y poderoso Estado nación que conocemos hoy, se creó en gran parte gracias a los esfuerzos de gobernantes Romanov como Pedro el Grande o Catalina la Grande. La familia Romanov tiene garantizado para siempre un lugar en los libros de historia rusa, europea e incluso mundial. Sumergirse en la historia de una dinastía tan conocida es un placer para cualquiera que sienta pasión por aprender más sobre Rusia. Este es un anticipo de lo que encontrará en este libro: Desplácese hacia arriba y haga clic en el botón «Añadir a la cesta» para comenzar hoy mismo su viaje al pasado. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: The Conquest of the Americas: A Captivating Guide to the Discovery of the New World, European Colonization, and Indigenous Resistance]]>Subtitle: European Exploration and Settlement]]>Categories: America, Colonialism, History, Latin America, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 02-02-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Unveil the Unspoken Truths Behind the Conquest of the Americas Dive into a riveting exploration of one of history's most astonishing chapters – the audacious conquest of the Americas by a handful of daring conquistadors. This book peels back the layers of history to reveal a story far more complex and gripping than the simplistic tale of firepower overcoming sheer numbers. Discover Intriguing Insights: Chapters Uncover: Don't miss this enthralling journey into the heart of the conquest that shaped the Americas. Tap into the untold tales and enduring legacies hidden within these pages.
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]]>Title: Bay of Pigs Invasion]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (The Cold War)]]>Categories: America, Caribbean, Espionage, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-25-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Bay of Pigs Invasion... In the 1950s, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) secretly planned, supported, and funded two coups: one in Guatemala and one in Iran. This was the height of the Cold War, and both deposed governments were suspected of leaning to the left and favoring closer ties with the Soviet Union, while the regimes that replaced them were more inclined to look favorably on the United States. Whatever the moral implications of such interventions (and the US government strenuously denied involvement in either), many Americans saw the outcomes as positive developments that helped to slow the worldwide spread of communism. Then, in January 1959, a new leader took control of the island of Cuba, which is less than 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the US mainland. At first, it seemed that Fidel Castro might be friendly toward the US, but during 1959 and 1960, tensions increased, and Cuba seemed to be moving closer to the Soviet Union. Many Americans came to believe that peace could only be assured in Latin America by the removal of Castro from power and his replacement with a more friendly regime.
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]]>Title: Western Civilization: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Greek and Roman Civilizations, Christianity, Medieval Europe, and Modern Times]]>Subtitle: Exploring Europe’s Past]]>Categories: Ancient, Civilization, Europe, Greece]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-23-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that Western civilization has influenced the lives of almost everyone alive today? What do you know about Western civilization? It might sound like a funny question to ask, but a lot of people don’t realize how much the West has impacted the world. The values of Western civilization have influenced laws, people’s sense of individuality, and even our morals. This audiobook will trace Western civilization back to its roots. In this epic quest, we head all the way back to Greece when Greek philosophers like Socrates and Plato pondered the very meaning of life. Explore the depths of knowledge that were probed by Greek schools of thought, such as the Stoics and the Cynics. Was it better to stoically grin and bear the troubles of life as the Stoics advised, or was it better to simply shrug one’s shoulders and declare everything to be pointless, stupid, and absurd? And in the middle of these philosophers’ quest, a missionary from Judea named Paul of Tarsus stepped in to spread the “good news” of the Gospels. Christianity and other schools of thought converged, and the Roman Empire helped to facilitate the spread of these ideas far and wide.
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]]>Title: The Columbian Exchange]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Transatlantic Transfer of People, Plants, Animals, Ideas, Resources, and More Between the Americas and Europe (European Exploration and Settlement)]]>Categories: Asia, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-23-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>How two worlds became one. In this audiobook, you will understand how Christopher Columbus proposed something new: reaching the riches of the East Indies by sailing west from Europe. The rulers of Spain agreed to support his risky venture, and he sailed off in 1492. He unexpectedly ran into two continents nobody in Europe knew about. He didn’t discover the continents; that had been done centuries before. Discover how the Old World of Eurasia and Africa began a monumentally important exchange of people, ideas, crops, animals, and diseases that changed history and humanity forever.
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]]>Title: History of the Netherlands]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Germanic and Celtic Tribes, the Eighty Years’ War, the Dutch Empire and Republic, and Modern Times (European Countries)]]>Categories: Europe, History, West Europe]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-23-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A small country with a big heart and an incredible history! The History of the Netherlands will guide you through the formation of a truly dynamic and diverse European nation. It is the rich and colorful story of how a collection of low-lying states aligned and bonded while others fell away. Find out how the people of this country fought against nature to cultivate land below sea level. Discover how they survived wars, invasions, and natural disasters and developed a trading nation that would become the envy of Europe. Uncover the truth behind bloody battles fought between medieval royalty, warlords, and rebellious guilds of Dutch workers, all of which shaped the country we know today. Learn about the path to the Northern Renaissance, a glorious time of innovative scientific developments, philosophical enlightenment, and some of the most beautiful paintings the world has seen. Explore the religious awakening that took root in the Netherlands that split the Christian Church forever. Discover remarkable leaders, inspiring stories of human resourcefulness, and cautionary tales of spectacular downfalls.
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]]>Title: The Spanish Empire]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Its Imperialism, Expansion into the New World, Colonial Conflicts, and Its Legacy in Modern Times (European Exploration and Settlement)]]>Categories: Europe, History, Spain]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-23-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>What was it that set the Spanish Empire on the path to such illustrious glory? Was it the Spaniards’ fiery passion, unwavering ambition, or simply the sheer fortune of timing? To find out, keep reading… The Spanish Empire stands as one of the most magnificent empires in the history of the world. It unfurled its might across multiple continents, conquered all who stood in its way, and left an indelible impact on cultures around the globe. For over four centuries, its dominance remained unchallenged, casting a vast shadow across Europe and beyond. But how did Spain, a modest nation nestled in the Iberian Peninsula, ascend to such meteoric heights? What fueled their insatiable hunger for expansion? And what catalyzed their eventual descent into decline? You will find these answers in this introductory history audiobook. Here are some of the things you can look forward to doing with this guide: Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to uncover the story of the Spanish Empire!
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]]>Título: Julio César [Julius Caesar]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante sobre uno de los más grandes generales de la antigua Roma y su papel en la caída de la República romana y el auge del ... (Los Antiguos Romanos) [A Fascinating Guide to One of Ancient Rome's Greatest Generals and His Role in the Fall of the Roman Republic and the Rise of... (The Ancient Romans)]]]>Categorías: Ancient, Europe, History, Rome]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 01-23-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si alguna vez ha sentido curiosidad por la antigua Roma y la época de César, pero la información disponible lo abruma, esta cómoda biografía de la vida de Julio César puede ser justo lo que estaba buscando. Al adoptar un enfoque amplio y específico, este libro ofrece al lector una buena panorámica del siglo I a. e. c. y, al mismo tiempo, se centra en los detalles del famoso líder en su ascenso desde el barrio humilde de su juventud hasta llegar a ser nombrado dios por el pueblo romano. El libro está narrado de forma cronológica y directa, de modo que el lector puede conocer la vida de César en pequeños fragmentos informativos sin generar confusión. La vida de César transcurrió en medio de turbulentas intrigas militares y políticas. Pero también estuvo rodeado de numerosas figuras conocidas de la historia. El entrelazamiento de sus historias no solo hace que la lectura sea apasionante, sino que también da al lector mucho que cuestionar, criticar y reflexionar.Con este libro quedará satisfecha su curiosidad y, con un poco de suerte, le inspirará para aprender aún más.
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]]>Title: Janis Joplin: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Musicians]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-18-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Janis Joplin... Janis Joplin may have only lived to reach her 27th birthday, but she experienced more in her short life than many of us longer-lived individuals ever will. Growing up in the small town, conservative confines of southern Texas, her native Port Arthur didn’t have a whole lot to offer the artistically inclined. Nevertheless, she was destined to rocket to fame as a musician and cultural icon. Joplin headed out west and made it big with Big Brother and the Holding Company in San Francisco, California, before embarking upon a solo career. She would record two solo albums, showcasing her immense talent and unique style, before her sudden and unexpected demise in 1970. Her death shocked the world, but the short time she was with us still managed to speak volumes. This book covers the life and legend of Janis Joplin in full. Discover a plethora of topics such as
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]]>Title: The Spanish Civil War]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Its Causes, Battles, and Lasting Impact (Exploring Europe’s Past)]]>Categories: Europe, History, Military, Military Conflict, Spain]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-11-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Do you know the bloody story of the Spanish Civil War and what we need to learn from it to understand today’s world? The Spanish Civil War is more relevant than ever, yet it is not that well known. However, the lessons that we can learn from the war can help us today in our divided world. The Spanish Civil War is seen as a dress rehearsal for WWII. However, few understand its origins, causes, and main battles. Few historians have presented an exciting and easy-to-understand account of the battles and the major campaigns by land and sea. Too many historians are concerned about certain aspects of the war and treat the war as only a prequel to the Second World War. That is going to change with this work. This comprehensive guide will present the key battles in chronological order. Get ready for an exciting trip into history to learn the real truth about the Spanish Civil War. Here are some of the things that you will learn: Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to begin learning about the Spanish Civil War!
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]]>Título: Historia de Quebec [History of Quebec]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante sobre la provincia más extensa de Canadá y su impacto en la historia de Francia (explorando el gran norte blanco) [A Fascinating Guide to Canada's Largest Province and Its Impact on French History (Exploring the Great White North)]]]>Categorías: America, Canada, History]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 01-05-2024]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>La lucha política de Quebec por la autonomía, la independencia y la protección de su lengua, su cultura y su patrimonio está rodeada de ambigüedad. Permítanos arrojar algo de luz sobre el tema. ¿Por qué se han prolongado las tensiones lingüísticas y culturales de la provincia durante casi cuatrocientos años? ¿En qué se diferencia del resto de Canadá? ¿Desempeñaron los pueblos indígenas un papel clave en la configuración de la identidad y la cultura de la provincia? ¿Por qué razones fracasaron los dos referendos soberanistas de Quebec? ¿Y qué fue la Revolución tranquila? La rivalidad histórica entre Gran Bretaña y Francia fue una lucha geopolítica intensa y prolongada. Las relaciones entre ambos imperios se enfriaron en los albores de la Edad Moderna. Hoy, las naciones son estrechas aliadas, pero los rescoldos de la lucha franco-anglo siguen ardiendo en el seno de la sociedad quebequesa.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:37:45 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-VO2fqE4W Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Roman Empire for Kids]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of Emperors and the Empires of Ancient Rome (History for Children)]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, For Children, History, Military]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-05-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating Roman Empire and learn fascinating insights about a crucial period in ancient history. You’ll learn everything from how it started and ended to the emperors and the history of important women often forgotten! If you’ve ever wondered what life was like in the Roman Empire – and the incredible achievements and legacies behind – this is the audiobook for you! History will come alive with fun facts, helpful pronunciation prompts for tricky words, and useful descriptions for new words. Plus, there’s even a bonus chapter at the end! At the end of each chapter, there are fun activities. Here’s just a hint of the weird and wonderful things you’ll discover about the Roman Empire: Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to begin your journey into the past today!
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]]>Title: Ancient Iraq]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Mesopotamia from the Sumerians and Akkadians Through the Assyrians and Persians to the Romans and the Sassanian Empire (Exploring Mesopotamia)]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Iraq, Middle East]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-04-2024]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The first transportation wheel, the first writing, the first law codes, and the first empires—the innovative ancient Iraqis transformed our world! The “Cradle of Civilization” brought us the sixty-second minute, the sixty-minute hour, and the twelve-hour day and night. Their brilliant sages predicted solar and lunar eclipses and developed quadratic equations. Ancient Iraq was undeniably a powerhouse of creativity and stunning achievements. Come explore how the Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, and Greek empires surged to the top, only to crash and burn. This engaging audiobook will guide you through an incredible journey from the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Sassanian Empire in 651 CE. This audiobook will unpack the following questions and more! To explore ancient Iraq’s historical legacy, scroll up and click the “add to cart” button!
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]]>Title: Aretha Franklin]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Musicians)]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, Celebrity, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-26-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Aretha Franklin... Aretha Franklin stands out as an artist who not only sang beautifully but also lived life authentically by her own rules. She was not just a performer; she was a mesmerizing presence that seemed to speak directly to the soul. A mere glance from her seemed to exude the very essence of “Respect,” a word that became synonymous with her name and her stance in both her career and personal life. She was an undeniable icon, and her songs would become anthems of self-empowerment for millions. But although her voice is known by many, her story is not. When Aretha commissioned a memoir of her life, it subtly navigated around many pivotal milestones. These included the heartbreaking loss of her mother at the age of 10, her first pregnancy at just 12, and her purported struggles with alcohol and food, painting a picture that, while authentic, only skimmed the surface of her complex life and experiences.
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]]>Title: Ray Charles]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Musicians)]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-20-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Ray Charles... Ray Charles was a musical prodigy whose genius transcended genres. With deep roots in gospel, jazz, blues, and country, Charles crafted some of the twentieth century’s most innovative and enduring songs. Who hasn’t felt the deep pull of emotion from the soulful melodies of “Georgia on My Mind”? And who could resist the infectious rhythm of “Hit the Road Jack”? Whether he was delving into country music or any other style, he showcased that there were no boundaries for talent like his. He didn’t just adapt to genres; he transformed them, making them distinctly Ray Charles. Beyond his hits, Charles’s story is not only about his meteoric rise to musical stardom but also his personal struggles, most notably the hardships of growing up blind and impoverished in the Deep South as well as his later battles with drug and alcohol addiction.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:18:37 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xPjfqrp7 Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: La guerra del Paraguay [The War of Paraguay]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de una guerra sudamericana llamada la guerra de la Triple Alianza entre Paraguay y los países aliados de Argentina, ... Uruguay (Historia Militar) [A Fascinating Guide to a South American War Called the War of the Triple Alliance Between Paraguay and the Allied Countries of Argentina,...Uruguay (Military History)]]]>Categorías: America, History, Military, South America]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 12-14-2023]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Explore la fascinante historia de una guerra que pocas veces se menciona en los libros de texto estadounidenses. La guerra del Paraguay de 1864-1870 fue la guerra más sangrienta entre naciones de la historia de Sudamérica. Descubra cómo el pequeño Paraguay tenía un tirano con un ego gigantesco y el mayor ejército del continente, y cómo y por qué invadió Brasil y Argentina. Entérese sobre la mayor batalla naval de la historia de Sudamérica y sobre la fortaleza paraguaya llamada el Gibraltar de Sudamérica. También conocerá cómo el rey de Portugal se trasladó a Río de Janeiro con su corte para escapar de Napoleón y cómo declaró a Brasil igual a Portugal. Aprenda cómo su hijo y su nieto se convirtieron en emperadores del Imperio independiente de Brasil. Descubra a Eliza Alice Lynch, la mujer irlandesa que fue amante de un tirano y poseyó más propiedades que ninguna otra mujer en el mundo.
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]]>Title: Chechen Wars]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: History, Russia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-12-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Chechen Wars... Chechnya’s modern history is marked by its fluctuating ties with the Russian Empire and, later, the Soviet Union. A notable dark chapter was in 1944 when Joseph Stalin ordered the mass deportation of Chechnya’s entire population. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, tensions between ethnic Russians and Chechens escalated into two full-blown wars. The first, in 1994, saw Russian forces invade Chechnya. Though they met their immediate military objectives, the conflict tarnished both Russia’s and Boris Yeltsin’s image on the world stage, and by 1996, Russian troops had fully retreated from Chechen soil. In the summer of 1999, mounting unrest and the emergence of Muslim warlords in Chechnya stirred conflict with Russia once more. Amid this backdrop, Boris Yeltsin’s health was deteriorating, and an aspiring politician, Vladimir Putin, was on the rise. As Putin eyed the Russian presidency, he recognized the need to demonstrate effective leadership.
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]]>Title: Cuban Revolution]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Caribbean, History, Insurrection]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-07-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Cuban Revolution... During the 1960s and 1970s, the images of two men came to dominate the iconography of left-wing movements: Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. The story of the revolution these two men led in Cuba became a fable that drove and encouraged other revolutionary movements around the world. The Cuban Revolution is certainly astonishing. Beginning with fewer than 100 armed men, the Fidelistas took on a government that had a well-equipped army, air force, and navy. On paper, the handful of rebels stood no chance.
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]]>Title: Demonic Possession and Exorcism]]>Subtitle: The History of the Belief That the Devil Possesses People]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, History, Planet Earth, Religious Study]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-04-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the 21st century, most people associate the idea of the possession of a person or place by a malevolent supernatural entity with the medieval world and particularly with the Catholic Church, but the truth is considerably stranger. Virtually every human culture that has ever existed has talked about both possession and exorcism, a rite or ritual used to free a person or place from possession. The terms used to describe the process of possession and entities thought to be responsible have changed throughout history, but the central theory does not. In certain circumstances, it is said that a person, place, or object may become inhabited by an entity that comes from somewhere else. The outcome is generally negative and sometimes even fatal. The only effective remedy is exorcism, the banishment of the entity involved to the place from which it came. Some branches of modern psychology suggests that possession is simply a form of mental illness and that all these cases can be explained in psychological terms. But, as you will see, there appears to be a remarkable consistency in reports of possessions and even witness reports of possessed people demonstrating remarkable powers and abilities.
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]]>Title: Early UFO Sightings]]>Subtitle: The History of Accounts of Unidentified Flying Objects from Antiquity to the 20th Century]]>Categories: Civilization, Exploration, History, Occult]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-03-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When people think about unidentified flying objects (UFOs), they tend to think of flying discs piloted by gray beings with large heads and enormous eyes. They also might believe that these sightings only started relatively recently and that belief in UFOs is some sort of modern phenomenon brought on, perhaps, by the very justifiable fears of a nuclear age. But a study of UFOs quickly reveals that people have been reporting the existence of unidentified flying objects since the beginning of recorded history, and perhaps a lot longer than that. Modern Ufology focuses on mysterious lights on Ceres or tales of alien abduction, but this wasn’t always the case, and looking at how the beliefs in the UFO phenomenon have changed or stayed the same can shed light on how culture and belief changes over time. One does not have to believe humans are actually being visited by aliens from another planet to recognize the importance of UFOs in society.
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]]>Title: The Italian Invasion of Ethiopia]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Mussolini's War in Abyssinia (African History)]]>Categories: Africa, East Africa, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 12-03-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Italians were defeated at Adwa in 1898. But by 1935, they were playing for keeps. Learn more about the devastating Italian invasion of Ethiopia. Although the Ethiopians had beaten the Italians at their own game in the 1898 Battle of Adwa, when Italian armored divisions began pouring out of Italian-controlled Eritrea in 1935, the situation seemed almost impossible to overcome. This was not 1898 when the Italians were ill-equipped and ill-advised in their undertakings. The Italians had made sure they were guaranteed the upper hand. They had the best tanks and the best aircraft they could get their hands on. The Ethiopians had no tanks and only a handful of old planes. Their arms were also hopelessly outdated. They were not much better than the weaponry they had used back in 1898. The Italians were determined to win this time around, and few thought the Ethiopians had much of a chance. Although Ethiopian armaments left much to be desired, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailie Selassie placed much of his hope in an international body known as the League of Nations. He ultimately had to flee his country when the Italians poured in.
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]]>Title: Alan Watts]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Buddhism, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-03-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Alan Watts... In the world of philosophy and spirituality, few figures stand as distinctively as Alan Watts. With a charismatic and eloquent demeanor, he effortlessly blended insights from Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and other spiritual traditions with Western thought, challenging conventional perspectives and encouraging a deeper understanding of oneself and the universe. Watts’ works, which include books, lectures, and radio talks, emphasized the interconnectedness of all things and the importance of living authentically in the present moment. He had a unique ability to convey these profound ideas with wit and clarity, making age-old wisdom accessible and relatable to modern listeners and readers. Beyond his teachings, Watts led a colorful life marked by both moments of enlightenment and personal challenges. In this book, we uncover his experiences of Zen as well as his battles with alcoholism and infidelity. Alan Watts wasn’t one to shy away from these uncomfortable truths. This is his life—this is his story. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Alan Watts, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Renaissance]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide to a Period of Rebirth in Arts, Science and Culture (Historical Periods)]]>Categories: Europe, History, Italy, Renaissance]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 12-03-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Do the names Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael ring a bell? If so, you are already somewhat familiar with the Renaissance, which saw a rebirth in the arts and science. Great strides were made in several fields, and many men made a name for themselves by creating masterpieces or developing new theories, even if some people found them controversial. This comprehensive guide digs into some of the most famous figures of the period and includes some who might not be as well known. This exciting ride through history gives you an introductory look at one of the most fascinating periods in history, injecting new life into a topic that has been written about countless times before. Avoid the stuffy academic audiobooks on the Renaissance and instead explore a captivating look at a period that brought renewed interest to the arts, science, and culture in general. In this audiobook, you will learn about the following: Download this audiobook to begin learning about the Renaissance today!
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]]>Title: Indian Mythology: An Enthralling Overview of Myths, Gods, and Goddesses from India]]>Subtitle: Asia]]>Series: #4 in Asia]]>Categories: Asia, Cultural Heritage, Folklore, History]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 12-02-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>From the creation of the universe to celestial wars to reincarnation, Indian mythology features enigmatic tales of time, creation, and spirituality.Indian mythology is not simply a thing of the past. Modern-day festivals, celebrations, worship, music, dance, poetry, and film and television might portray or include aspects of Indian mythology. The subject is also beloved by those who study and practice it. Indian mythology stretches beyond the tales of creation. This audiobook will acquaint you with the gods and goddesses who shaped the world, as well as epic tales of hardship, struggle, and strife. Mythology attempts to explain the origins of the universe and delves deep into understanding the creation of time, matter, and life itself.
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]]>Título: Historia de Finlandia [History of Finland]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la historia de Finlandia (Historia de Escandinavia) [A Fascinating Guide to the History of Finland (History of Scandinavia)]]]>Categorías: Europe, History, Scandinavia]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 11-21-2023]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>La cultura finlandesa tiene siglos de antigüedad, pero Finlandia es una nación independiente desde hace poco más de cien años. La historia de Finlandia es un tema interesante lleno de conceptos erróneos. ¿Le sorprendería saber que los finlandeses, en su mayoría, no eran vikingos? ¿O que Finlandia no forma parte de Escandinavia? Los finlandeses ni siquiera están emparentados con sus vecinos más cercanos: Suecia, Noruega y Dinamarca. Este libro abre el telón para que pueda conocer mejor la historia de Finlandia. Su historia es apasionante, incluso sin los vikingos, y su proximidad a Rusia es algo de lo que se sigue hablando hoy en día en las noticias. En 2022, se hicieron gestiones para que el país ingresara en la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte (OTAN) en respuesta a la invasión rusa de Ucrania. Finlandia ha entrado en una nueva fase de su historia. Pero, ¿no le gustaría conocer su pasado? En este libro aprenderá lo siguiente: Entonces, ¿a qué espera? Haga clic en el botón «añadir a la cesta» para empezar a aprender sobre Finlandia hoy mismo. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Great Fire of London]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 17th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History, Modern]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-17-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the devastating history of the Great Fire of London... In the summer of 1666, London was one of the largest cities in Europe, with close to half a million people living in its narrow, congested streets. Many of these people lived in houses packed closely together, lacking even basic facilities such as clean water and sewage disposal. The previous year, these unsanitary conditions had contributed to the worst outbreak of plague since the Black Death in 1348. Around 15% of the city’s population died as the deadly disease spread unchecked for almost twelve months. Finally, by the summer of 1666, the threat of plague seemed to be receding, and London slowly began to return to normal. But then, the city was threatened by another deadly hazard: fire. London was a tinderbox waiting to ignite. Many of the city’s wooden buildings were sealed with flammable pitch, their upper stories jutting out and nearly meeting across the streets. An unusually hot and dry summer had drained the city’s water supplies, and without an organized firefighting force, its citizens were left to fend for themselves.
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]]>Title: Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]]>Subtitle: Exploring Ancient History]]>Categories: Ancient, Civilization, Exploration, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-17-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>You probably have heard of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. But how much do you really know about it? The ancient world was home to some of the greatest civilizations in history. The Egyptians, the Greeks, the Babylonians, and others wanted to leave their mark on history so others would remember their greatness. And what better way to explore that greatness than to examine some of the greatest wonders the world has ever known? Most people can list a few of the wonders of the top of their head. But few know that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon might never have existed or that the remains of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus were used by the Knights Hospitaller. This audiobook uncovers the history behind the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World in easy-to-understand language. Your eyes will be open to a new side of history after listening to this introductory guide! In this audiobook, you will learn the answers to the following questions:
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]]>Title: The Byzantine Empire for Kids: A Captivating Guide to the Eastern Roman Empire]]>Subtitle: History for Children]]>Series: #20 in History for Children]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, For Children, History, Medieval]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-17-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>How does the Byzantine Empire, which fell in 1453, still apply to us today? Many of us do not know much about the Byzantine Empire; it lived on in the East after the Roman Empire fell, but its one-thousand-year history is full of innovations that have changed how we create art, write laws, and think about our lives today. The Byzantine Empire was a key factor that started the Italian Renaissance and moved Western Europe out of the Middle Ages. Far from being ancient history, the Byzantine Empire still impacts our lives today. Scholars have studied individual emperors or specific battles during the Byzantine Empire for years. They have discussed people like Emperor Justinian I or events like the Fall of Constantinople or The Great Schism. But the Byzantine Empire was more than a couple of important leaders or their final loss to the Ottomans. This empire survived for many years against great odds, filled with new ideas about religion, art, and how to live life. It's time to look back into history and discover the many parts of the Byzantine Empire.
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]]>Title: Seven Wonders of the New World]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Great Wall of China, Colosseum, Petra, Christ the Redeemer, Machu Picchu, Taj Mahal, and Chichén Itzá]]>Categories: America, Asia, China, Civilization]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-17-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that Shah Jahan once planned to build another Taj Mahal in his empire? The Taj Mahal is renowned for its exceptional architecture that infuses elements from various influences around the world, including the magnificence of Mughal, Persian, and Islamic architectural styles. Shah Jahan, the reigning emperor of the Mughal Empire, had been plagued with sadness following the death of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal. And so, as a parting gift to her, the mourning emperor commissioned the construction of a grand mausoleum made of white marble. Upon completion, the Taj Mahal stood on the banks of the Yamuna River, impressing those who gazed at its marvelous façade glimmering under the bright sun. A reflective pool enhanced its perfections, but it was the mausoleum’s symmetrical design that captivated many. The symmetry could be seen in each corner of the complex except for Mumtaz Mahal’s extravagant tomb chamber—the symmetrical design was broken when Shah Jahan’s cenotaph was added years later. Some said it was intentional, while others claimed Shah Jahan never intended to be buried beside his wife.
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]]>Title: Qing Dynasty]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (History of China)]]>Categories: 17th Century, 18th Century, Asia, China]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-10-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Qing Dynasty.... The history of China as a single nation began more than 2,000 years ago, when Qin Shi Huangdi first united a group of warring kingdoms into a single empire. China was then ruled by a series of imperial dynasties until the last one—the Qing Dynasty—fell in 1912. The 275-year period of Qing rule saw China becoming a world superpower, gaining dominance over present-day Korea, Tibet, and Vietnam, as well as becoming the center of global trade. However, it also included the most tumultuous times in China’s long history. As acquisitive European kingdoms grew, they sought to expand their areas of power into Asia, using new military technologies and tactics that China, then clinging to traditional weapons and tactics, seemed powerless to oppose. Nevertheless, it was internal turmoil that would finally destroy this dynasty. The Manchu elites who ruled China deliberately distanced themselves from the mass of Han Chinese people. This view of the rulers as outsiders led to a series of rebellions that began in 1794, continued throughout the nineteenth century, and finally led to the uprising that would destroy the Qing Dynasty at the beginning of the 20th century.
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]]>Title: Margaret Thatcher]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Women in History)]]>Series: #7 in Biographies of Women in History]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, Head of State]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-07-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Margaret Thatcher.... Margaret Thatcher, famously known as the “Iron Lady” due to her tough-as-nails personality, was not only Britain’s first female prime minister, but one of the most influential political leaders of the 20th century. She commanded the spotlight at a crucial moment in both British and world history. Although she had her problems along the way—dealing with the Cold War, incursions at the Falkland Islands, and attacks by the IRA, at one point almost losing her life in the process—she rose to the occasion. From her humble beginnings as a grocer’s daughter to her rise within the ranks of the Conservative Party, this book traces Thatcher’s journey before, during, and after her unprecedented three-term tenure as prime minister. Here, we explore her political ideology, decisive policies, and uncompromising leadership style, which made her a figure both admired and reviled. We leave no stone unturned as we take a look at the life and the legend of Margaret Thatcher. Discover a plethora of topics, such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Margaret Thatcher, simply scroll up and buy this audiobook now for instant access!
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]]>Title: Sami People]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to Present]]>Categories: Europe, History, Scandinavia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-01-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Sami people.... A great deal has been written about the history of the Native American people of North America and particularly about their experiences, since the arrival of white settlers. However, there is another people whose history mirrors the experience of many Native American tribes, but who have become almost completely forgotten: the Sami, Europe’s only indigenous people. The Sami have inhabited the snow-covered wastes of northern Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Russia for thousands of years, nurturing a vibrant culture and folklore, as well as a unique language. For many generations, they were known to the world as Lapps, and their homeland as Lapland, though they themselves refer to these lands as Sapmi. This is the story of a unique indigenous people and their continuing struggle for survival, recognition, and the right to pursue their traditional ways of life. This is the forgotten story of the Sami people. Discover a plethora of topics, such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on the Sami people, simply scroll up, and buy this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: History of Ancient Mexico]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide to Pre-Columbian Mexico and Its Civilizations, Such as the Olmecs, Maya, Zapotecs, Mixtecs, Toltecs, and Aztecs (Mesoamerica)]]>Series: #3 in Mesoamerica]]>Categories: America, History, Latin America, Mexico]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 11-01-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Please don’t send me back to Earth. The year is 2075. Earth is ruled by a one-world government. In order to maintain unity, all citizens must deny their national, racial, and religious identities—or suffer the consequences. Stripped of her rights for refusing to assimilate, sixteen-year-old Philadelphia Smyrna escapes Earth’s religious containment camps when her father is summoned to work on Mars. The remote research base seems like a haven of tolerance—until she discovers it’s the same base where her brother mysteriously died two years before. Searching for answers, she stumbles into a hidden lab and uncovers terrifying experiments for an apocalyptic weapon. The scientist in charge has cruel plans for Earth, and he will kill to keep his secret hidden.
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]]>Title: Early European Christian Relics]]>Subtitle: The History of Holy Crowns, Icons, and Other Objects That Spread Across Europe in the Early Middle Ages]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-30-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>That Jesus of Nazareth was crucified is the closest to a historical fact anyone can say about him. Biblical scholars have spent centuries debating the details of what Jesus did and said, but this crude fact—that Jesus suffered capital punishment at the hands of the Roman authority by crucifixion—is accepted by the overwhelming majority of scholars. That there once was a cross where Jesus suffered and died is, therefore, the sequential logical affirmation. Jesus’s destiny was not uncommon. Indeed, many other Jews perished were nailed to a wooden cross on the outskirts of Jerusalem (thousands, according to the historian Josephus, who was an eyewitness to the great Jewish revolt against Rome). The cross, a symbol of failure and shame for those who died on it and their families, was considered, from the dawn of Christianity, as the climactic moment in the career of its Messiah: His crucifixion and the ascension to his throne as the true king of the Jews.
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]]>Title: An Enthralling Guide from Ancient Kingdoms to Modern Times]]>Subtitle: Exploring the Past]]>Categories: History, Jewish Life, Judaism, Levant, Middle East]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 10-27-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Two manuscripts in one audiobook: In the first part of this audiobook, you will know: In the second part of this audiobook, you will discover:
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]]>Title: The Enlightenment: An Enthralling Guide to a Period of Scientific, Political, and Philosophical Discourse in European History]]>Subtitle: Historical Periods]]>Categories: Europe, History, Insurrection, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 10-27-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Can you imagine how the world would be different today if there had been no Enlightenment era? The Age of Enlightenment, which lasted throughout the 18th century, brought about fundamental changes in people’s thinking and transformed the entire fabric of society. Even ordinary people began to question their entrenched beliefs and dogmas. They wanted education, justice, freedom, and progress. They struggled to eliminate despotic rulers and desired to be governed by democratically elected representatives. But how did this fundamental shift in thinking occur in a relatively short period? And who were the great thinkers and philosophers of that era who dared to go against the established authority of the church and the power of the autocrats? Are you curious about how the Enlightenment influenced the French and American revolutions? If so, this audiobook holds the answers you seek. You will also learn about the following:
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]]>Title: History of Scandinavia]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the History of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland]]>Categories: Europe, History, Scandinavia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-26-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Five manuscripts in one audiobook: In contrast to their Danish and Norwegian cousins, Swedish Vikings traveled east rather than west in search of riches, land, and power. The extensive river systems of Russia provided economic and military “super-highways” to the adventurers from the north, who journeyed down them all the way to the Black Sea and Constantinople in search of fame and riches. Norway is a unique country located on the fringes of Europe. Its climate and geographical position determined the lifestyle of the people inhabiting it. It was never an easy life. The constant scarcity of arable land, the vast distances they had to traverse due to the myriad of fjords and mountains, and the long and harsh winters in the inland areas made Norwegians constantly struggle for a better life. For centuries, Denmark “punched above its weight” and was a major player on the European stage. Many know about the Danish Vikings and their voyages of conquest and discovery, but Denmark is more than just those medieval raiders and traders. Iceland, the land of fire and ice, has a storied history.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Thu, 26 Oct 2023 19:38:55 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b8pf0QeY Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Ancient Israel]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide to Jewish Kingdoms and the Israelites (Religion in Past Times)]]>Series: #4 in Religion in Past Times]]>Categories: History, Judaism, Levant, Middle East]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 10-16-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The ancient Israelites introduced one of the first monotheistic religions in the world. And it is still practiced today! The ancient Israelites emerged from Mount Sinai onto the hilly plains of Canaan and established a civilization that endured for hundreds of years. Even when the Israelites fell to incursions from foreign invaders and were subjected to torture and exile, they held fast to their belief system. They emerged from the Babylonian captivity as the people of Yehud. With the aid of Cyrus the Great and the Achaemenid Empire, they rebuilt their sacred temple and got back on their feet. However, the Greeks and the Romans presented unique challenges to the Judeans. The Hellenization period threatened the foundation of Judaism and the commitment of the Jews to their faith due to forced conversions and the practice of Jewish customs being punishable by death.
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]]>Title: Alexander the Great]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide to the Rise of the Macedonian Empire, Its Ruler, and His Conquests (Greek Mythology and History)]]>Series: #5 in Greek Mythology and History]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Europe, Greece]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 10-16-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that Alexander the Great once introduced proskynesis to the Macedonian court? Proskynesis, the act of kissing the ground or the feet of someone of higher rank, was a normal custom of the Persians. In the court of the Achaemenid Empire, this act was typically done before the king. In contrast to the practice of the Greeks and Macedonians, proskynesis was performed by the Persians only when they were communicating with their ancient gods. The invasion of the Achaemenid Empire had always been on top of the list for Alexander the Great. Ever since he came to power, the king had desired the submission of Darius III, the reigning king of the Persians at that time. Though he defeated the king in two battles and eventually conquered its territories, Alexander appears to have soon found a deep love for Persian customs and traditions. Of course, the king’s gradual change and assimilation of Persian culture did not sit well with the Macedonian people. According to the ancient writer Arrian, when Alexander attempted to apply proskynesis to his court, his decision was met with massive criticism from both the Macedonians and Greeks.
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]]>Title: Celtic History and Mythology]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide to the Celts and Their Myths, Gods, and Goddesses (Exploring the Past)]]>Categories: Cultural Heritage, Europe, Folklore, Great Britain]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 10-16-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Two manuscripts in one audiobook: In the first part of this audiobook, you will know: In the second part of this audiobook, you will discover: Scroll up, and buy this audiobook to begin learning about Celtic history and mythology today!
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]]>Title: History of India]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Overview of Significant Civilizations, Empires, Events, People, and Religion (Asia)]]>Series: #1 in Asia]]>Categories: Asia, Education, History, India]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 10-16-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Incredible India” is the slogan of India’s official tourism campaign—and it’s true! India has an amazing history, from some of the world’s earliest civilizations to its contemporary high-tech culture and a huge diversity of religions, arts, and people. This book takes you all the way from India’s prehistoric beginnings at Mohenjo-daro to the development of Buddhism and the Maurya Empire, the Hindu empires of the Middle Ages, the Mughals who brought Islam to the mix (and created the Taj Mahal), the British Raj, and finally the fight for independence and the modern yet ageless India of today. On the way, you’ll find out some fascinating facts about Indian culture, history, and historical figures. Here is just a glimpse of what you can discover in this book: Scroll up, and buy this audiobook to begin learning about Indian history today!
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]]>Title: The Banana Wars]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Interventions of the United States in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean (US Military History)]]>Categories: America, Colonialism, History, Latin America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Saffir]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-13-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The United States Marine Corps once fought for God, country, and bananas. This audiobook is about the Banana Wars that lasted from the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898 until Franklin Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy of 1934. When you listen to this story, you’ll learn how and why the US marines invaded Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. You’ll also learn how the US Marines occupied and ruled Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic for years. You’ll learn about why bananas became such an important commodity and how a combination of technologies made it possible. And you’ll learn how the American public was persuaded to start buying all those bananas.
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]]>Title: Celtic History]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Overview of the Celts]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, Europe, Great Britain]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 10-11-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Have you ever wondered about the ancient Celts of Ireland and what made them who they were? Did you know that Halloween originated with them, that they invented the harp, or that they wielded swords reaching lengths of three feet? In this audiobook, you’ll discover Celtic historical facts like these, and so much more. Whether you’re already familiar with the Celts or whether you’ve never even heard of them, this audiobook is for you. If you would like to delve into their lives, culture, and modern Ireland’s Celtic heritage, you can find all of that in this comprehensive, captivating guide. In our introduction to Celtic history, you can introduce yourself to all aspects of Celtic life in an easily accessible way with simple language (no academic jargon here!). We will take you through Celtic history by explaining the following: And so much more! Download this audiobook to begin learning about the Celts today!
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]]>Title: History of the Jews]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide from Ancient Times to the Present (Religion in Past Times)]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Judaism]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 10-10-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>How could the Jews comprise less than one percent of the world’s population, yet make up 22 percent of Nobel laureates? Despite passing through innumerable challenges, the Jews have produced stunningly gifted people in the sciences, humanities, and economics. Through the millennia and around the world, Jewish history is an astounding story of survival against all odds, yet a touching narrative of faith, covenant, and tradition. This concise yet sweeping history of the Jewish people introduces Judaism, the Torah, and Biblical history, followed by an engaging journey of the Jews through the Greek, Roman, and Muslim empires. It travels through waves of persecution, beginning with the Crusades and coming to a violent head under the Nazi regime. This audiobook dives into the new State of Israel, its struggles to survive, and how it has thrived in recent years. It unpacks the riveting and sometimes tragic stories of Jews who left their mark on history and a people who continue to play an illustrious role on the world stage. Here's a glimpse of some of the questions this overview covers: To explore Jewish history and legacy, scroll up, and buy this audiobook now.
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]]>Title: Jacqueline Kennedy]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (First Ladies of the United States)]]>Series: #2 in First Ladies of the United States]]>Categories: America, Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-09-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Jacqueline Kennedy.... Jacqueline Kennedy, the wife of President John F. Kennedy, is one of the most iconic and beloved First Ladies in American history, lauded for her style and class. But who was the woman behind the image? In this intimate biography, listeners will discover the true Jackie, from her privileged upbringing and education to her marriage to JFK and her life after his assassination. This book explores her complicated relationships, her struggles with loss and grief, and her role as a cultural icon. This book is a must-listen for anyone interested in the life and legacy of Jacqueline Kennedy. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Jacqueline Kennedy, simply scroll up, and buy now for instant access!
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]]>Título: Historia de Rusia: Un apasionante recorrido por los principales acontecimientos de la historia de Rusia (Europa Oriental) [History of Russia: An Exciting Tour of the Main Events in the History of Russia (Eastern Europe)]]]>Categorías: Eastern Europe, Europe, History, Russia]]>Autor: Billy Wellman]]>Narrador: Carlos Verne]]>Editor: Billy Wellman]]>Fecha de publicación: 10-06-2023]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Princesas perdidas, una reina que destronó a su propio marido, el país que derrotó a Napoleón y un perro que viajó al espacio son solo algunos de los fascinantes aspectos de la historia rusa. La historia de Rusia ha cautivado al público durante generaciones. Desde las hazañas de Iván el Terrible hasta el asesinato de la familia real Románov, hay mucha historia que explorar. ¿Cómo se ganó el título Iván el Terrible? ¿Quiénes eran los Románov y qué llevó al brutal final de su dinastía? Siga la historia de Rusia y descubra los principales acontecimientos históricos que dieron forma a este país. Este libro le servirá de guía para conocer la fascinante historia de Rusia y responder a las siguientes preguntas: ¡Desplácese hacia arriba y haga clic en el botón «Añadir a la cesta» para comenzar su viaje por la historia de Rusia! Please Note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Afghanistan War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (Middle Eastern History)]]>Categories: Afghanistan, Global War on Terror, History, Liberty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-02-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the turbulent history of the Afghanistan War.... On September 11, 2001, the United States faced the most devastating terrorist attack in world history when members of al-Qaeda, an Islamist fundamentalist movement, hijacked four commercial airliners and crashed them into buildings in New York and Washington, DC. Nearly 3,000 people died in these attacks, and one month later, US President George W. Bush announced the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom, a military operation intended to remove the Taliban in Afghanistan and ensure that terrorists from al-Qaeda had no safe haven in that country. Most people assumed that the conflict would be short, but this would become America’s longest war. US and NATO troops would remain in Afghanistan for 20 years until their final withdrawal in 2021. During that period, around a quarter of million people died in Afghanistan, many of them civilians, and expenditure by the US government alone is believed to have exceeded $2.3 trillion. What was the outcome of this protracted and destructive war? The Taliban, the people Operation Enduring Freedom was intended to remove, are back in control of Afghanistan, whose ordinary citizens currently face poverty and famine.
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]]>Title: The French Revolution]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Guide to a Major Event in World History (Europe)]]>Series: #4 in Europe]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Military]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 09-28-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The French Revolution is incredibly complex and involves a lot of moving parts, from the monarchy to the political clubs, from the intelligentsia to the starving peasantry protesting in the streets. This audiobook breaks it down for you in simple terms. It could be argued that the French Revolution is the perfect example of a social movement that began with the best of intentions yet somehow went wrong. The ideologues of the French Revolution were seeking to create a better, more just society. Their eloquent and profound words about equality, freedom of religion, and sound representation became a great source of inspiration for many. French Enlightenment thinkers even influenced the American Revolution, which occurred prior to France’s revolution. But while the American Revolution resulted in the founding of a nation based upon the principles of democracy and representative government, the French Revolution devolved into an utter nightmare, especially for those in the upper class. The French Revolution witnessed mob violence of the worse kind. Practically no one was safe. The king and queen were killed by the guillotine, and so was the Jacobin architect of the “Great Terror,” Maximilien Robespierre.
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]]>Title: The Archaeopteryx]]>Subtitle: The History and Mystery Surrounding the Flying Dinosaur Genus]]>Categories: Biology, Ecology, Evolution, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-26-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Mesozoic Era, which lasted from about 252 to 66 million years ago, is divided into three periods, the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. During this era, one type of life came to dominate the planet more completely and for a longer period than had been seen before or since; this was the Age of Reptiles. Beginning in the Triassic but especially in the Jurassic period, reptiles came to dominate the oceans, the land and even the skies. There has never been anything else quite like this period in terms of the success of a particular type of creature. For almost 200 million years, reptiles were the only significant creatures on Earth. They were so successful and so diverse that they evolved to take advantage of every available habitat, and no other type of large creature had a chance to develop. The massively popular 1990 novel, Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton and its subsequent movie adaptations, led to a huge resurgence in interest in dinosaurs and the prehistoric world. That interest continues to the present day, even though most of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park weren’t actually from the Jurassic period.
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]]>Title: Martha Washington]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (First Ladies of the United States)]]>Series: #3 in First Ladies of the United States]]>Categories: America, Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-22-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Martha Washington.... Martha Washington was the original First Lady of the United States and, of course, the wife of General and President George Washington. Yet as much as history has kept her lingering in the shadows of her husband, she has her own unique story to tell. This biography delves into her early life in colonial Virginia, her first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis, and the untimely death that left her a young widow managing a vast estate. The narrative then charts her storied courtship and subsequent marriage to George Washington, the man who would become the father of a burgeoning nation. Venture into the heart of the Revolutionary War years, where Martha emerged as a figure of resolve and comfort, not just for George, but for the beleaguered Continental Army. Having that said, she set the stage for much of what was to come as it pertained to decorum and officialdom in Washington, D.C. This book explores her life and legacy in full. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on Martha Washington, simply scroll up, and buy this audiobook!
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]]>Title: The Louisiana Purchase]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to a Major Turning Point in the History of the United States of America]]>Categories: 19th Century, America, History, Modern, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Saffir]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-21-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The history of the Louisiana Purchase: the greatest land deal in history! Do you know the WHOLE story about the Louisiana Purchase? From the first Europeans and Native Americans to its purchase from France and first explorations? Some people thought it cost too much and was too much land, while others saw it as the future of the United States. Who was right? Did France even have the right to sell the Louisiana Territory to the US? How did the Louisiana Territory go from being a vast wilderness to the central states? How did things end up the way they are today? In this audiobook, you will learn about the following: Scroll up, and buy this audiobook to learn more about the Louisiana Purchase!
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]]>Título: El cristianismo primitivo [Early Christianity]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la historia del cristianismo primitivo, desde el ministerio de Jesús hasta el primer concilio de Nicea, el Cristianismo]]>Categorías: Biography, Christianity, History, Religion]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 09-21-2023]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¿Cuál fue el punto de partida del cristianismo? ¿Fue en un pueblecito de Belén, como afirman las letras de nuestras canciones navideñas favoritas? ¿Comenzó el cristianismo inmediatamente después del Sermón de la montaña? ¿Después de la crucifixión? ¿Después de la resurrección? ¿O llevó algo más de tiempo? ¿Hubo una fusión más amplia de conceptos e ideas? En realidad, en los primeros tiempos del cristianismo, cuando Pedro y Pablo salieron por primera vez a predicar el Evangelio, el sistema de creencias de los primeros cristianos se consideraba simplemente una nueva secta del judaísmo. El apelativo de «cristiano» era un término desarrollado por antagonistas externos, que los llamados cristianos llevaban con orgullo. El cristianismo tardó en separarse completamente de su religión madre, el judaísmo. Alrededor del año 50 d. C. se celebró un concilio en Jerusalén para que los primeros líderes de la Iglesia decidieran cuáles serían los fundamentos de la nueva fe, por ejemplo, qué normas y reglamentos del Antiguo Testamento debían permanecer para los nuevos creyentes. Desde su formación como identidad propia, el cristianismo comenzó a extenderse por todo el mundo conocido.
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]]>Title: Iraq War: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Middle Eastern History]]>Categories: History, Iraq, Iraq War, Liberty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-20-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Iraq War. The US-led war in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 was one of the most controversial wars in recent history. The invasion of Iraq was justified by claims that the regime of Saddam Hussein had links with terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda, and possessed weapons of mass destruction that might be used in an attack on another country. Both these claims were later shown to be false. The six-week initial active combat phase of the war was an overwhelming military success for coalition forces. Saddam Hussein was deposed and later executed, and the Ba’ath regime was removed from power. But this quick military victory was followed by a violent insurgency that still resonates today, which claimed the lives of over 4,500 US and coalition troops, as well as over 200,000 Iraqis.
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]]>Title: Ghost Tales of the United Kingdom]]>Subtitle: Historic Hauntings and Supernatural Stories from the UK]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Occult, Supernatural]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-11-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The United Kingdom is an ancient land steeped in history and tradition, filled with prehistoric ruins, majestic castles, and a countryside sculpted from millennia of human habitation. Its rolling countryside is dotted with prehistoric burial mounds and stone circles. Brooding castles hold tales of bloodshed and honor. Medieval churches have elaborate stained glass windows and gruesome carvings, reflecting a mixture of hope and darkness. Every hamlet and village has tales that go back centuries, and folk festivals with roots in pagan times. Thus, it is not surprising that many believe the area is filled with ghosts. For centuries, people have told tales of ghosts stalking its historic buildings, strange creatures lurking in its primeval forests, and unexplained paths linking its ancient sites. Though a part of the United Kingdom, it would be a mistake to lump Scotland in with England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, as Scotland has its own tales to tell and traditions to maintain. Not everything in Scotland is as it appears, however.
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]]>Title: The Anglo-Ashanti Wars]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Conflicts Between the British and the Ashanti Empire in Africa]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-01-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the mid-19th century, other European powers became interested not only in the exploration of Africa, but the exploitation of it, especially once the German Empire unified after the Franco-Prussian War. This began a rush, spearheaded mainly by European commercial interests in the form of chartered companies, to penetrate the African interior and woo its leadership with guns, trinkets, and alcohol, and having thus obtained their marks or seals upon spurious treaties, begin establishing boundaries of future European colonies. The ease with which this was achieved was due to the fact that, at that point, traditional African leadership was disunited, and the people had just staggered back from centuries of concussion inflicted by the slave trade. Thus, to usurp authority, to intimidate an already broken society, and to play one leader against the other was a diplomatic task so simple, much of Africa would come under European influence in a short time. Of course, there were exceptions to this rule, with the most famous perhaps being the resistance put up by the Zulu. It required a British colonial war, the much storied Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, to affect pacification.
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]]>Title: The Loch Ness Monster]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the World’s Most Famous Cryptid]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Occult]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-29-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>People have always been fascinated with the hidden, the mysterious, and the unexplained. Every society has tall tales, ghost stories, odd legends, and heroes. Every society also has its stories of strange beasts, dangerous or benign, that live in the twilight world between the everyday and the legendary. Through most of history, people have been closely tied to nature, hunting in forests and having an intimate knowledge of the animals in their regions. So called “primitive” peoples were walking encyclopedias of the natural world, and yet most believed there were more creatures lurking in those woods than the ones they usually encountered. Even as the world becomes more connected, the belief in strange creatures continues as strong as ever. The willingness to believe in exotic animals has been so widespread that some have made careers out of displaying “oddities” to the public at circuses, fairs, and museums. Perhaps the most notorious individual to do this is P.T. Barnum, whose New York City museum was so popular in part because he was more than happy to invent items with which to fascinate the public, even if no such item actually existed.
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]]>Title: Parthian Empire]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, Greece, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-25-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Parthian Empire.... Across four centuries, the Parthian Empire expanded its dominion over vast territories, boasting some of the most effective military units of the ancient world. Still, this is one of the forgotten empires of the ancient world. The reason is principally that, for the last 200 years of its history, the Parthian Empire found itself in conflict with one of the most powerful empires of all time: the Roman Empire. Winston Churchill said, “History is written by the victors,” and never has this been truer than in the case of the Parthian Empire. The Parthians left few written records, and most of what we know about the empire comes from its two main adversaries—first the Greeks and then, for most of its history, the Romans. Fortunately, modern scholarship and archaeology have recently helped us to understand a little more about this ancient empire. In this book, we discover the story of one of the most feared empires in the ancient world, one whose innovative approach to military strategy enabled it to inflict upon the Roman Empire one of the worst defeats it ever endured.
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]]>Titel: Kirchengeschichte]]>Untertitel: Ein fesselnder Führer durch die Geschichte der christlichen Kirche und Ereignissen wie den Kreuzzügen, den Missionsreisen Paulus’, und der Reformation]]>Kategorien: Christianity, Ecclesiastical, History]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Erzähler: Moritz Seipke]]>Herausgeber: Captivating History]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-25-2023]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Zwei Manuskripte in einem Buch: Von ihren bescheidenen Anfängen im Nahen Osten hat sich die christliche Kirche zu einer der wichtigsten sozialen Institutionen der Welt entwickelt. Sie begann mit einer Handvoll von Anhängern Jesu Christi, und heute gibt es etwa 2,5 Milliarden Christen. Das Wachstum der christlichen Kirche ist eines der bemerkenswertesten Ereignisse in der Geschichte der Menschheit. Der zweite Teil beschreibt die frühen Anfänge des reformatorischen Denkens, die zunächst von Martin Luther und anderen Reformatoren ausgingen, und geht dann auf das Leben und Schaffen von bedeutenden Protestanten wie beispielsweise Johannes Calvin und Ulrich Zwingli ein. Diese mutigen Reformatoren wagten es, den Status quo in Frage zu stellen, und veränderten die Welt für protestantische Christen für immer. In diesem Buch erfahren Sie:
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]]>Title: The Incas and Spanish Conquest]]>Subtitle: An Enthralling Overview of the Inca Empire, Conquistadors, and Conquests in the Americas (Exploring the Past)]]>Series: #15 in Exploring the Past]]>Categories: America, Ancient, History, South America]]>Author: Billy Wellman]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Billy Wellman]]>Release date: 08-25-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Two manuscripts in one book: In the first part of this book, you will discover: In the second part of this book, you will learn about: Scroll up and click the “Buy Now” button to learn more about the Incas and Spanish conquest!
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]]>Title: The New World Order]]>Subtitle: The History of the World’s Most Notorious Global Conspiracy Theory]]>Categories: History, Media Study, Planet Earth, Social Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-23-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order.” (President George H.W. Bush, March 6, 1991) Conspiracy theories, and particularly the belief that elements of the world are secretly controlled by individuals or groups, have been around for as long as people have lived in groups. Perhaps that’s inevitable—after all, those who are excluded from power are very likely to be inclined to see their position not as an outcome of their own choices or situation but because of the secret machinations of shadowy groups. One of the most widely discussed conspiracy theories concerns what has become known as the New World Order, a secret cabal that is said to have ambitions to become a form of World Government. This type of conspiracy theory isn’t new. As far back as the final years of the Roman Republic, some Romans became convinced that powerful people were secretly conspiring to subvert the power of Rome’s elected assemblies and planning to take control. It can be argued that this is the earliest documented conspiracy theory, but in that case, it was actually true.
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]]>Título: La Europa Moderna [Modern Europe]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la historia europea, desde el final de la Edad Media hasta nuestros días (Explorando el pasado de Europa)]]>Categorías: 16th Century, Europe, History, Modern]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 08-16-2023]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Europa es cuna de algunos de los más grandes artistas y de algunas de las guerras más brutales de la historia mundial. Revoluciones, reformas y el Renacimiento: hicieron falta muchos movimientos para convertir la Europa medieval en lo que conocemos hoy. Las aportaciones europeas al arte, la literatura, la ciencia, la cultura, la religión y la tecnología dieron forma al mundo. Europa no solo ha estado a la vanguardia de los movimientos intelectuales, sino que también ha participado en algunas de las guerras más sangrientas de la historia. A pesar de su periodo de gran pensamiento racional, Europa se sumergió bastante en lo supersticioso. La caza de brujas se extendió por todo el continente, y hombres, mujeres, niños e incluso pelirrojos fueron acusados de conjurar el mal. El gran impacto de Europa significa que su historia está intrínsecamente ligada a la historia del mundo.
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]]>Title: The Artaxiad Dynasty]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Armenian Kingdom That Fought the Romans]]>Categories: Ancient, Egypt, Europe, Greece]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-16-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Although it was an incredibly important period in world history, the era after Alexander the Great's death is sometimes as confusing as it is frustrating for historians because the allegiances of his generals changed constantly and historical sources are often biased in some regards and utterly lacking in others. Although none of these men were able to replicate Alexander the Great’s territorial success, a few carved out sizable empires and were able to establish long-lasting political dynasties. Ptolemy I brought Egypt back to a central position of power in the region, and Seleucus I built a strong empire on the ruins of ancient Babylonia, but other generals, such as Perdiccas, were killed early on in the fighting and slipped into relative obscurity. For a time, Seleucus I and his successors commanded the largest empire in the world as it stretched from the high plains and deserts of what is now Afghanistan in the east to parts of the Levant and Asia Minor in the west. The empire’s early kings were strong and shrewd and committed to the ideas of Hellenism as much as holding power and expanding the realm of their empire, but later rulers did not prove as capable.
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]]>Titel: Die Reformation]]>Untertitel: Ein faszinierender Überblick über die von Martin Luther ausgelöste religiöse Revolution und deren Einfluss auf das Christentum und die westliche Kirche]]>Kategorien: Christianity, Ecclesiastical, History]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Erzähler: Moritz Seipke]]>Herausgeber: Captivating History]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-16-2023]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Die meisten von uns kennen wahrscheinlich die Geschichte, die von dem deutschen Mönch Martin Luther handelt und davon, wie er seine fünfundneunzig Thesen an die Tür einer Kirche nagelte. Bei diesen fünfundneunzig Thesen handelte es sich im Wesentlichen um fünfundneunzig Beschwerden gegen die Lehren der katholischen Kirche. Damals war die katholische Kirche die wichtigste religiöse Führungsinstanz. Wer es wagte, die Lehren der katholischen Kirche in Frage zu stellen, wurde unweigerlich des Irrtums bezichtigt, und wenn diese „Irrtümer“ nicht sofort korrigiert wurden, wurde man als Ketzer abgestempelt. Und wenn man erst als Ketzer galt, war es zu dieser Zeit wahrscheinlich, dass man kurz darauf auf dem Scheiterhaufen landete. Die katholische Kirche hatte das kirchliche Dogma weit über tausend Jahre lang fest im Griff, doch Martin Luther wagte es, aufzustehen und seine Stimme zu erheben, um dagegen zu protestieren. Martin Luther schaffte es nicht nur, die Konsequenz seines religiösen Ungehorsams zu überleben, sondern löste auch einen dynamischen gesellschaftlichen Umschwung aus, infolgedessen immer mehr Menschen gegen das protestierten, was sie als Missstände in der katholischen Kirche empfanden.
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]]>Title: The Vikings and Anglo-Saxons for Kids]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Viking Age and People of Early Medieval England (Making the Past Come Alive)]]>Series: #17 in History for Children]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Scandinavia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 08-16-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Two manuscripts in one audiobook: In the first part of this audiobook, you will discover about: In the second part of this audiobook, you will learn about: Scroll up and click the “Buy Now” button to learn more about the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons!
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]]>Title: Suez Crisis]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Africa, History, Military, North Africa]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-16-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Suez Crisis.... In 1956, Britain, France, and Israel launched an invasion of Egypt. For Britain and France, the main objective was to secure control over the vital Suez Canal and to re-emphasize their place as significant world powers. For Israel, the issue was defeating a hostile and powerful Arab neighbor. This conflict took place during a period of rising tension between the two nations that had emerged as global superpowers following the end of World War II: the United States of America and the Soviet Union. Both had nuclear weapons, and during what became known as the Suez Crisis, the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, threatened to intervene if British, French, and Israeli troops did not withdraw from Egypt. While the US refused to support Britain, France, or Israel in their conflict with Egypt, it might have been forced to intervene if the Soviet Union had become involved.
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]]>Title: Sundaland]]>Subtitle: The History of the Asian Landmass That Started Sinking after the Ice Age]]>Categories: Civilization, Exploration, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-16-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Pleistocene spans a period from around 2.5 million years ago to just over 12,000 years ago, and it was an epoch of enormous change on Earth, mainly characterized by climate changes involving fluctuations between periods of extreme heat and long periods of glaciation. This period is commonly known as the Ice Age, despite the fact there were actually a number of separate periods of cold. Along with the climate challenges, this was also the period that saw the development of modern humans. The origin of our ancient ancestors is still a matter of debate amongst paleontologists, and classification systems for early hominoids are constantly being updated as new discoveries are made. What is generally agreed upon is the species Homo sapiens belong to the order primates and the sub-order anthropoids. Within the anthropoids sub-order, humans belong to the family hominids, which also includes other animals such as the orangutan and the great apes. Drilling down even further, humans belong to a sub-group of hominids known as hominin.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Edgehill]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Opening Battle of the English Civil War]]>Categories: 17th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-15-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Seventeenth-century Europe, particularly its latter years, is often hailed as the beginning of the Enlightenment as nations across the continent experienced a surge in innovation and scientific progress, a period also commonly referred to as the Age of Reason. There was an English natural philosopher, Francis Bacon, whose book Novum Organum challenged Aristotelian philosophy and stressed the significance of inductive reasoning. Bacon's ideas, which emphasized observation and the implementation of various premises to form conclusions, was later referenced by famed French mathematician René Descartes. These radical ideas were bordering on blasphemous. The Enlightenment had been awakened by the European Age of Discovery, a transformative era that succeeded the Medieval Years of Yore, but the continent was also a seedbed of insurrection, holy wars, and volatility. People were growing weary of the unpredictable system of monarchy, a post that was inherited only by members of an exclusive bloodline or connection, one that often muted the voices of the people. Time and time again, grossly incompetent and seemingly diabolic rulers had come to power through the rigged regal system.
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]]>Title: House of Borgia]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Borgias and Their Feuds with the Medici Family, Sforza Dynasty, and Girolamo Savonarola (Exploring Europe’s Past)]]>Categories: Christianity, Europe, History, Renaissance]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 08-09-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The History of the House of Borgia: The Infamous Family of the Italian Renaissance! Do you know the whole story of the House of Borgia—from their rise from obscurity to the highest echelons of European society? The family produced two popes and a saint, but they are more known for stories of murder, debauchery, and incest. What is accurate, and what is just slander? Were the Borgias worse than any other powerful family of the time? Was Rodrigo Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI, a monster? Was his son Cesare a psychopath? Was his daughter Lucrezia a murderous temptress? In this audiobook, you will learn the answers to these questions and more about the following: Scroll up and click “add to cart” to learn more about the House of Borgia!
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]]>Titel: Die Geschichte der Kirche]]>Untertitel: Ein fesselnder Führer durch die Geschichte der christlichen Kirche, einschließlich der Kreuzzüge, der Missionsreisen von Paulus, von Konstantin und mehr]]>Kategorien: Christianity, Ecclesiastical, Education, History, Learning]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Erzähler: Moritz Seipke]]>Herausgeber: Captivating History]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-07-2023]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Haben Sie sich jemals gefragt, warum die christliche Kirche eine so wichtige Rolle in den weltlichen Angelegenheiten und in der Politik der antiken, mittelalterlichen und modernen Welt gespielt hat? Von ihren bescheidenen Anfängen im Nahen Osten hat sich die christliche Kirche zu einer der wichtigsten sozialen Institutionen der Welt entwickelt. Sie begann mit einer Handvoll von Anhängern Jesu Christi, und heute gibt es etwa 2,5 Milliarden Christen. Das Wachstum der christlichen Kirche ist eines der bemerkenswertesten Ereignisse in der Geschichte der Menschheit. Generationen von Historikern haben über die Entwicklung der christlichen Kirche gestaunt. Sie begann als bescheidenes Unterfangen der Jünger Christi und präsentiert sich heute als ein facettenreiches globales Unternehmen, das etwa 30000 christliche Konfessionen umfasst. Jede dieser Konfessionen hat ein eigenes Verständnis vom Leben Christi und davon, wie die Geschichte seines Lebens den ungläubigen Völkern der Welt nahegebracht werden sollte. In dieser faszinierenden Nacherzählung darüber, wie die christliche Kirche zu dem wurde, was sie heute ist, werden Sie Folgendes erfahren: Scrollen Sie nach oben und klicken Sie auf „In den Warenkorb“, um mehr über die Geschichte der christlichen Kirche zu erfahren. Please note: This audiobook is in German.
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]]>Title: North Sea Empire]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Medieval, Scandinavia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-03-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the North Sea Empire.... The Norman invasion of England in 1066 and the subsequent rule of William the Conqueror are among the best-remembered and often-documented events in European history. What is much less well known is that less than 50 years before the Norman invasion, England was invaded, conquered, and ruled by Scandinavian kings to become part of a North Sea Empire. The creation of this empire, which would grow to include the kingdoms of England, Denmark, and Norway, was the work of two Scandinavian kings: Sweyn Forkbeard and his son Cnut the Great. These bold Viking warriors created their empire by conquest and held it by cunning and guile. It is entirely possible that the subsequent history of England might have been a story of Scandinavian domination, but instead, the North Sea Empire disintegrated, leaving the way open for the Norman conquest in England and the separation of Norway and Denmark. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on the North Sea Empire, simply scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Hitler and His Inner Circle]]>Subtitle: Chilling Profiles of the Evil Figures Behind the Third Reich]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Paul Roland]]>Narrator: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart]]>Publisher: Arcturus Digital]]>Release date: 08-03-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Nazis kept extensive files on practically everybody in the Third Reich. Now author Paul Roland turns the tables with this brilliant new exposé—a fascinating psychological profile of the leading Nazis and their lesser-known associates. Examples include:
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]]>Title: The Search for Exoplanets]]>Subtitle: The History of the Efforts to Find Planets in Other Solar Systems]]>Categories: Astronomy, Occult, Paranormal, Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-02-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>While modern technology has helped astronomers view the furthest reaches of the Solar System, it has also allowed scientists to start discovering planets orbiting distant stars. To make it easier to assess the relative mass and size of the new planets being discovered, scientists give these measurements as multiples of those properties for either Jupiter or Earth. In other words, if the planet is the same mass as Jupiter, then this measure would be listed as 1.0 MJ. If it were three times the mass of Earth, then it would be listed as 3.0 MEarth. The sizes of exoplanets are frequently given by expressing their radii as multiples of Jupiter’s radius or as multiples of Earth’s radius, RJ and REarth, respectively. Of course, given the immense distances involved, detecting exoplanets has always been hard, even to this day. The variations of light that might be evidence of an exoplanet can be caused by other phenomena, and separating the false positives from the actual detections is part of the rigor required by modern planet hunters.
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]]>Title: The Viking Age]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #8 in Ancient Civilizations]]>Categories: Europe, Exploration, History, Medieval]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-02-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Viking Age! From the late eighth century to somewhere around the middle of the 11th century, the history of Europe was dominated by the people who have become known as the Vikings. The Vikings were among the first global explorers who established territory that stretched from North America in the west to Constantinople in the east, and from the frigid wastes of the Arctic in the north to the warm shores of the Mediterranean Sea in the south. The term Viking is synonymous with war and violent conquest, but that is misleading. While a Viking was, by definition, a sea raider, and many Christians in Europe regarded Viking raids as a punishment by God, this was much more than a one-dimensional military culture. The Norse people who originated in present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden had a rich culture with their own unique society, religion, art, mythology, language, and philosophy. Traces of that culture remain visible today in many of the lands settled by the Vikings.
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]]>Title: The Philadelphia Experiment]]>Subtitle: The History of World War II’s Most Unshakable Urban Legend]]>Categories: Espionage, History, Liberty, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-28-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The borderlands of the paranormal include some bizarre stories. However, none are more strange or unsettling than the tale of what became known as the Philadelphia Experiment, an alleged effort during World War II to make a US Navy ship invisible by using electrical power. The purported experiment gained international fame with the publication of a book by Charles Berlitz in 1978 and has now entered the lexicon of popular imagination. More than one movie has featured this experiment, but even as more people have heard about the Philadelphia Experiment, there are a number of different accounts of just what is said to have happened. The most dramatic accounts involve the brief teleportation of a US Navy warship and its crew into another dimension, with subsequent and horrifying effects for the men on board when it returned. Other versions are a little more mundane, but all seem to agree that something very odd happened to a US Navy ship in 1943. This is a complex story, first emerging in the late 1950s before coming to international attention in the 1970s and developing in the 1980s and after.
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]]>Title: The Viking Age for Kids]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Vikings, Their Raids, and Everyday Life]]>Categories: Education, Europe, History, Learning, Scandinavia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 07-26-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>How much do you know about the Vikings? You might be surprised by how much you already know, and by how much of it isn’t even true! In this audiobook, you’ll discover what life was really like for the Vikings during their golden age. Learn about the most significant Vikings and raids, and find out more about their daily lives and the things that were most important to them. You’ll also explore their folklore and hear of monsters, gods, goddesses, and the epic adventures they went on. History comes alive in this audiobook through fun facts. So what are you waiting for? Let’s travel back in time to become Vikings!
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]]>Title: Centuries Will Not Suffice]]>Subtitle: A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Judaism]]>Author: Prit Buttar]]>Narrator: Bruce Mann]]>Publisher: Tantor Audio]]>Release date: 07-25-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Centuries Will Not Suffice explores how different people responded to the Lithuanian Holocaust and the roles that they played. It considers the past history of the perpetrators and those who took great risks to save Jews, as well as describing the experiences of many who were caught up in the maelstrom. Unlike the figures at the top of the Nazi hierarchy, the men who were responsible for these killings have been largely forgotten. Karl Jäger was a senior SS figure who was in charge of the units that carried out most of them. He complained that his experiences caused him to suffer nightmares but continued to order his units to carry on and regarded it as his duty to remain in his post. He took refuge in compiling detailed reports of the killings, listing the numbers executed and breaking them down into men, women and children. The roles played by other figures are all described. Before the German invasion of Lithuania, two diplomats recognized the danger that lay ahead for the Jews of the Baltic region and did what they could to help them escape. Karl Plagge, a major in the army, did all he could to save Jews.
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]]>Title: Bosnian War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Eastern Europe, Europe, History, Politics, War Crime]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-20-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the tragic history of the Bosnian War.... In the annals of modern history, few episodes cast a darker shadow than the Bosnian War. It was during this war that the world became acquainted with the chilling term “ethnic cleansing”, a phrase that encapsulates the unspeakable acts of mass deportation, imprisonment, rape, and murder perpetrated against civilians based on their religious and ethnic identities. During the Bosnian War, the media bombarded the global audience with nightmarish images of brutal massacres, mass graves, and undeniable evidence of heinous crimes against humanity. Yet, for many observers, the roots and reasons behind this war remain enigmatic and elusive. Yugoslavia was a nation deeply fractured by ethnic and religious divisions. The iron grip of Josip Broz Tito’s communist dictatorship, established after World War II, momentarily silenced these tensions, but upon Tito’s death and the subsequent disintegration of the communist regime in Yugoslavia, these dormant fissures erupted once more, giving rise to a period of anarchy, violence, and conflict known as the Yugoslav Wars. The Bosnian War was not a single, isolated conflict, but rather formed part of this wider series of wars.
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]]>Title: Fall of Constantinople]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Middle East, Turkey]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-18-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the fall of Constantinople.... The fall of Constantinople in 1453 marked a number of significant historical turning points. It saw the end of the last vestige of the Roman Empire, which had been founded more than 1,400 years before, and marked the beginning of a period of dominance for the growing Ottoman Empire. Furthermore, this moment marked the end of the Middle Ages in Europe and the beginning of the Renaissance, as the fall of Constantinople was directly linked to both these events. But just why was the city of Constantinople so important, and why did its conquest herald such massive changes? This is the story of one city and two empires and how they clashed to shape the modern world. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative audiobook on the Fall of Constantinople, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Yugoslavia]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Eastern Europe, Europe, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-12-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of Yugoslavia. What would become the nation of Yugoslavia was created in the turbulent period following the end of World War I in 1918, but ended 74 years later in the chaos of another war. In its relatively brief history, Yugoslavia endured invasion during World War II and a range of styles of leadership that included an autocratic king, an even more autocratic socialist dictator, as well as brief periods of parliamentary democracy. Yet, the factor that would define and eventually destroy this nation was not its style of rule, but rather internal divisions based on ethnicity and religion. The creation of Yugoslavia was an attempt to draw together previously separate states with very different histories and cultures. Although these divisions were effectively suppressed for long periods of time, they never disappeared completely. Perhaps the real surprise isn’t that Yugoslavia eventually disintegrated but that it lasted as long as it did. This is the complex, often confusing, and violent story of the creation, history, and eventual fall of Yugoslavia. Discover a plethora of topics such as: And much more!
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]]>Título: Historia del Caribe [Caribbean History]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la historia de las Antillas y la edad de oro de la piratería]]>Categorías: America, Caribbean, Education, History, Learning]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 07-11-2023]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>2 manuscritos completos en 1 libro: La primera parte de este libro tiene mucho material interesante, que incluye: La segunda parte de este libro será tu guía a la era dorada de la piratería, y al leerla descubrirás lo siguiente: ¡Adquiera este libro ahora para saber más sobre Historia del Caribe! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: The Knights Templar]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to a Powerful Catholic Military Order and Their Impact on the Crusades]]>Categories: Christianity, Education, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 07-11-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Everyone likes stories of adventure and courage. And you will find just that in this audiobook. People get a thrill from hearing about knights in shining armor racing across the battlefield and doing all kinds of works of chivalry. This is an audiobook about some of the best-known knights of the Middle Ages. Best of all, this is not fiction. The Knights Templar were very real, and their story is amazing. The story of the Knights Templar is traced from its beginning to its end. This audiobook also includes some of the best-known legends and myths of the Knights Templar and how their influence is still felt today. The Crusades come alive in this audiobook. The Knights Templar was a formal force and personified the crusading spirit of the time. You will learn more than just combat episodes, as this audiobook looks at the other side of the Templars, such as how they financed their endeavors, their ability to manage land and properties, and what made them the most amazing warrior monks of all.
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]]>Titel: Der stärkste Stoff]]>Untertitel: Psychedelische Drogen - Waffe, Rauschmittel, Medikament]]>Kategorien: Addiction, Drug Addiction, Health, History]]>Autor: Norman Ohler]]>Erzähler: Norman Ohler]]>Herausgeber: Argon Verlag]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-09-2023]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>LSD: Wie alles begann und was in der Gegenwart daraus wurde. Wie Norman Ohler in seinem internationalen Bestseller Der totale Rausch am Beispiel der NS-Zeit gezeigt hat, spielen Drogen und Drogenpolitik eine dramatische, immer noch unterschätzte Rolle in der Geschichte der Menschheit. In seinem neuen Buch nimmt der Autor diesen Faden wieder auf und untersucht, wie Entwicklung, Produktion und Verbreitung psychedelischer Substanzen Politik und Gesellschaft von der Nachkriegszeit bis in die Gegenwart geprägt haben. Bei seinen ebenso abenteuerlichen wie gründlichen Recherchen in Archiven in Europa und den USA differenziert Norman Ohler zwischen drei Dimensionen beim Blick auf Drogen: ihre Funktion als Rauschmittel, als Werkzeug der Bewusstseinskontrolle sowie als Heilmittel. Am Beispiel der Entdeckung des LSDs und dem aus mexikanischen Pilzen gewonnenen Psilocybin bringt Norman Ohler Licht in das Zusammenspiel aus wissenschaftlicher Forschung, staatlichen Behörden und hedonistischer Drogenkultur. Und er zeigt überzeugend, wie eine undifferenzierte Prohibitionspolitik Fortschritte im Kampf gegen Zivilisationskrankheiten wie Depression oder Alzheimer verhindert. Es treten auf: Albert Hofmann und die Basler Firmen Sandoz und Novartis, Harry J. Anslinger und sein Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Richard Nixon und Elvis Presley, Aldous Huxley und John Lennon, sowie die Eltern des Autoren. In deiner Audible-Bibliothek findest du für dieses Hörerlebnis eine PDF-Datei mit zusätzlichem Material.
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]]>Title: The Carlist Wars]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Spanish Civil Wars in the 19th Century]]>Categories: 19th Century, Europe, History, Modern, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-07-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Thinking of Spain as a modern nation state today distorts the complicated reality that the Iberian Peninsula faced in the past. Spain was a nation in progress, consisting of regions united under the Spanish crown, but with strong regional identities based on different historical and cultural experiences. The largest entities were the kingdoms of León and Castile, but Spain also included the kingdoms of Navarre, Andalusia, Granada, Jaén, Aragon, and Valencia. There were also the principalities of Asturias and Catalonia, the lordship of Vizcaya, and both Guipúzcoa and Alava were “exempted provinces.” Navarre, Aragon, and Catalonia had separate Cortes, which were versions of parliaments (Parker 18-19). This complex system of entities granted privilege to local power structures over the concept of a unified nation and made administration difficult, because there were few standards that applied to all of Spain. Many of the regions had special laws that respected and allowed traditional institutions, administrative patterns, and cultural patterns. These local and regional rights were called fueros, and were fiercely defended against centralization. The fueros originated as rights agreed to when the regions joined the Spanish crown. Before becoming king, the king-designate had to swear to maintain and respect the fueros.
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]]>Title: Jerry Lee Lewis]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-05-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Jerry Lee Lewis.... With his fiery piano-playing style and powerful stage presence, Jerry Lee Lewis enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame. Although his time as a relevant artist was comparably brief, that short time in the sun was nothing short of revolutionary. While his run lasted, Lewis played a pivotal role in forging what would become classic rock and roll and rockabilly. Lewis burst onto the music scene with his 1957 hit “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” which was quickly followed by the iconic “Great Balls of Fire.” Both songs exude an undeniable drive and raw energy that fueled a musical revolution. It was the fleeting yet spectacular success of Lewis and his fellow 1950s musical pioneers that paved the way for even greater musical achievements in the future. In this book, we delve into the life and legacy of “The Killer,” Jerry Lee Lewis, in all its glory.
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]]>Title: The American Revolution for Kids]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the United States War of Independence]]>Series: #15 in History for Children]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Saffir]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 07-03-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know the American Revolution changed how Britain treated the rest of its colonies? The American Revolution was fought between the 13 Colonies and the British Empire. Although most thought the British would win, the colonists overthrew British rule and established their own country. Other people realized the ideals of the American Revolution could be applied to their societies. They also wanted liberty and justice for all. For years, scholars have studied individuals or specific events of the American Revolution. They focused on revolutionaries like Alexander Hamilton or events like the Battle of Lexington and Concord. But the American Revolution was more than just a few people and battles. It was filled with world-changing ideas. It's time to step back into history and learn about the American Revolution. In this new and captivating book, you’ll discover what made the American Revolution so special and how it still influences us today. Here are some of the questions you will uncover within the pages of this book:
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]]>Title: History of New Mexico]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Historical Events and Facts You Should Know About the Land of Enchantment]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Saffir]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 07-03-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The ancestral home of the Pueblo. A remnant of Spain’s New World empire. The location of the first atomic bomb detonation. A supposed alien crash site. New Mexico, the land of enchantment. New Mexico is a state with a rich and diverse history, dating back thousands of years. The land was originally inhabited by Native American tribes, including the Pueblo, Apache, and Navajo, which developed unique cultures, traditions, and ways of life. Discover how the region changed when the Spanish conquistadors arrived and established colonies, bringing with them Christianity and the Spanish language. Explore the territory’s tumultuous history as it changed hands from Spain to Mexico, and then from Mexico to the United States. As the years passed, New Mexico experienced rapid growth, particularly in the areas of mining, agriculture, and tourism. During World War II, New Mexico played a critical role in the development of the top-secret Manhattan Project. We leave no stone uncovered. So join us in discovering a state known for its beautiful landscapes, complex cultural heritage, and diverse population. In this audiobook, you'll learn about:
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]]>Title: The Sipahi]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Ottoman Empire’s Elite Cavalry]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-03-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the fourth century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul. In the wake of taking Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire would spend the next few centuries expanding its size, power, and influence, bumping up against Eastern Europe and becoming one of the world’s most important geopolitical players.
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]]>Title: The Race to the Moon]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Cold War Competition Between the Soviet Union and the United States]]>Categories: America, History, Russia, STEM]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mary Rossman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-03-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Today the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that culminated with Apollo 11 “winning” the Race for the United States. In fact, it encompassed a much broader range of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States that affected everything from military technology to successfully launching satellites that could land on Mars or orbit other planets in the Solar System. Moreover, the notion that America “won” the Space Race at the end of the 1960s overlooks just how competitive the Space Race actually was in launching people into orbit, as well as the major contributions the Space Race influenced in leading to today’s International Space Station and continued space exploration. In fact, the Soviet Union had spent much of the 1950s leaving the United States in its dust (and rocket fuel). President Eisenhower and other Americans who could view Soviet rockets in the sky were justifiably worried that Soviet satellites in orbit could soon be spying on them, or, even worse, dropping nuclear bombs on them.
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]]>Title: Roman Empire: A Captivating Guide to Imperial Rome and Pax Romana]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, History, Learning, Rome]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 06-30-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Two manuscripts in one audiobook: In the first part of this audiobook, you learn includes the following: In the second part of this audiobook, you’ll gain new knowledge on the following facts:
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]]>Title: Mesoamerican Astronomy]]>Subtitle: The History of Celestial Observations Made by the Maya, Aztec, and Inca]]>Categories: America, Ancient, Central America, History, Religious Study]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-28-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>For the Maya, astronomy was not a purely scientific pursuit, but intimately linked to religious, mythological, and ideological elements that were of the highest importance. The celestial realm held a sacred nature, as did the many gods and goddesses that dwelt there, so for all Mesoamerican cultures, astronomy was a fundamental part of their everyday lives. Thus, astronomy was present in their calendars, religion, and even agriculture, and in close relation to astronomy, the concept of time was also an essential part of their worldview. The Aztec recorded many of the astronomical events they observed in codices and hieroglyphic inscriptions, but the main evidence of their deep astronomical knowledge comes from their calendar system. This information was then used to plan the orientation of buildings and ceremonial centers, which were aligned to sunrises or sunsets corresponding to special dates, such as solstices or equinoxes.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Wed, 28 Jun 2023 20:40:20 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Dj9fEO7o Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Norman Conquest]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military, Scandinavia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-23-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Norman Conquest.... Few military conquests lead to truly lasting cultural, political, religious, or societal change. Countries are often occupied by stronger nations, but as those inevitably decline, independence is reasserted and the country usually resumes its previous form. One exception to that is the Norman Conquest of England which took place between 1066 and 1071. At the Battle of Hastings, Duke William of Normandy led his forces to victory over the Anglo-Saxon King Harold II and then suppressed several attempts at rebellion. Within five short years, England was transformed into a nation of Anglo-Saxon peasants ruled by a Norman king and nobles. Over time, the two cultures gradually became assimilated to form something entirely new, a concept of England and Englishness based on a melding of Anglo-Saxon and Norman influences. The influence of that change can still be seen in Britain today in the form of culture, architecture, laws, and even a unique language that draws from both these sources. It can be argued that the creation of modern Britain can be traced back directly to the Norman Conquest, and many historians herald this as one of the seminal events in European and world history.
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]]>Title: The Early History of Montenegro]]>Subtitle: The History of the Region from Antiquity to Autonomy]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-22-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Much has been written about Western intervention during the breakup of Yugoslavia, and whether it made matters worse, prevented worse atrocities, or was simply ineffective. In early 1992, however, what was clear was that Europe was hopelessly divided over the best course of action to take towards Yugoslavia, and after several years of fighting, the Bosnian War was one of the most violent conflagrations in Europe since the end of World War II. That war had been the byproduct of centuries of tensions in the Balkans, and an attempt in the wake of World War I to redraw the political boundaries of Europe and the Middle East. That included forming the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, initially known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, a particularly fragile enterprise, and there was almost constant tension between the majority Serbs and the other Yugoslav nationalities, especially the Croats. As a result, the kingdom was a land of political assassinations, underground terrorist organizations, and ethnic animosities.
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]]>Title: Bigfoot]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of North America’s Most Controversial Cryptid]]>Categories: America, History, Occult, Paranormal]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-12-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>People have always been fascinated with the hidden, the mysterious, and the unexplained. Every society has its tall tales and ghost stories, its odd legends, and heroes. Also, every society has its stories of strange beasts, dangerous or benign, that live in the twilight world between the everyday and the legendary. Through most of history, people have been closely tied to nature, hunting in forests and having an intimate knowledge of the animals in their regions. So-called “primitive” peoples were walking encyclopedias of the natural world, and yet most believed there were more creatures lurking in those woods than the ones they usually encountered. Even as the world becomes more connected, the belief in strange creatures continues as strong as ever. Indeed, the willingness to believe in exotic animals has been so widespread that some have made careers out of displaying “oddities” to the public at circuses, fairs, and museums. Perhaps the most notorious individual to do this is P.T. Barnum, whose New York City museum was so popular in part because he was more than happy to invent items with which to fascinate the public, even if no such item actually existed.
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]]>Title: Heinrich Himmler]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #6 in World War 1]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, History, Judaism]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-11-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the sinister life of Heinrich Himmler.... A main architect of the Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler was perhaps one of the most ruthless men that ever lived. For most, this would be hyperbole, but for Himmler, such words would seem like a rather apt description. Heinrich Himmler seemed to have very little concern for any pain he inflicted on others. On the contrary, his chief complaint was typically over formalities, such as the refinement of certain protocols and procedures. Himmler considered himself a gentleman and refrained from vulgarities, but bearing in mind his work as head of the SS and the Gestapo in Nazi Germany, he was indeed a gentleman of genocide. He didn’t mind mass murder as long as it was done in an orderly fashion, and he didn’t have to get his hands dirty during the process. That was the miserable life of Heinrich Himmler. In this book, we review the grim and ghastly details in full. Discover a plethora of topics, such as: And much more!
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]]>Title: The Paraguayan War]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to a South American War Called the War of the Triple Alliance between Paraguay and the Allied Countries of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, South America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 06-01-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating history of a war that often isn’t mentioned in US textbooks. The Paraguayan War of 1864–1870 was the bloodiest war between nations in South American history. Discover how tiny Paraguay had a tyrant with a giant ego and the largest army on the continent, and how and why he invaded Brazil and Argentina. Learn about the biggest naval battle in South America’s history, and about the Paraguayan fortress called South America’s Gibraltar. You’ll also learn about how the king of Portugal moved to Rio de Janeiro with his court to escape Napoleon, and how he declared Brazil to be co-equals with Portugal. Learn how his son and grandson became emperors of the independent Empire of Brazil. Find out about Eliza Alice Lynch, the woman from Ireland who was a tyrant’s lover and owned more property than any other woman in the world. You’ll be captivated by her outrageous love for a murderous tyrant and how she followed him to his death, burying him and her oldest son in a grave she dug in the mud with her bare hands. In this audiobook, you will learn about the following:
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]]>Title: The Knights Hospitaller]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to a Medieval and Early Modern Catholic Military Order and Their Impact on the Crusades]]>Categories: Education, Europe, History, Learning, Medieval]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 06-01-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>War, virtue, corruption, adventure—the history of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller has it all. The Hospitallers started out as caretakers of the Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem, but they soon emerged from their hospices and adopted a new military role that shaped the history of medieval Europe forever. This audiobook seeks to explore the curious rise of the Hospitallers from their humble origins to one of the most powerful institutions in medieval Europe. Throughout their existence, the Hospitallers have managed to develop a renowned military tradition. At first, they just defended the traveling pilgrims to the Holy Land and provided them care in their hospices, but later on, thanks to their prowess and professionalism, the Hospitallers became a respected and feared military order that fought for Christendom. After countless challenges, formidable foes, and internal and external threats, the Knights Hospitaller managed to survive against all odds, and still exists today. They have adapted their role to modern times, but never lost their true identity and mission. Here’s a glimpse of what you will find in this audiobook:
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]]>Title: History of Quebec]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Largest Province in Canada and Its Impact on French History]]>Categories: America, Canada, Education, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 06-01-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Quebec’s political struggle for autonomy, independence, and the protection of its language, culture, and heritage is shrouded in ambiguity. Let us shed some light on the subject for you. Why have the province’s linguistic and cultural tensions dragged on for nearly 400 years? In what ways does it differ from the rest of Canada? Did indigenous peoples play a key role in shaping the province’s identity and culture? For what reasons did Quebec’s two sovereigntist referendums fail? And what was the Quiet Revolution? The historic rivalry between Britain and France was an intense, long-standing geopolitical struggle. Relations between the empires cooled at the dawn of the modern age. Today, the nations are close allies, but the embers of Franco-Anglo strife still burn at the core of Quebec society. While Francophone nationalists stress the importance of enacting linguistic and cultural protection laws, Quebecois Anglophones and other non-Francophones claim to be increasingly marginalized by the laws and ideologies of a society ravaged by mass cultural anxiety. So what is the truth? This audiobook seeks to untangle the storied history and complexities of Canada’s rebel province.
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]]>Title: History of Finland]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Finnish History]]>Categories: Education, Europe, History, Learning, Scandinavia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 06-01-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Finnish culture is centuries old, yet Finland itself has only been an independent nation for just over 100 years. Finland’s history is an interesting subject filled with misconceptions. Would you be surprised to learn that the Finns, for the most part, were not Vikings? Or that Finland is not part of Scandinavia? The Finns are not even related to their closest neighbors: Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. This book pulls back the curtain so you can get a better look at Finland’s history. Its history is exciting, even without the Vikings, and its proximity to Russia is something that is still talked about in the news today. In 2022, moves were made for the nation to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Finland has entered a new phase of its history. But wouldn’t you like to learn about its past? In this book, you’ll learn the following: And much, much more!
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]]>Title: Modern China]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Modern Chinese History]]>Categories: Asia, China, Education, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 06-01-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Let’s take a look at the past 120 years of Chinese history, from the country’s start as a backward, struggling empire in the late 19th century to a totalitarian communist superpower. The radical transformation of China from a dynastic monarchy to a dominant global communist regime is very compelling for listeners of all ages and interests, and this audiobook tells the history of the most important developments during this period. Filled with ideological and intellectual struggles, internal divisions and civil wars, conflicts with foreign nations, and influential changes throughout the 20th century, modern Chinese history promises to be interesting to listen to. Throughout the audiobook, you will learn about the following: And much, much more!
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]]>Title: Apartheid]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Africa, History, South Africa]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-30-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the striking history of Apartheid.... Apartheid, a state-sponsored policy of discrimination and segregation, was introduced and brutally enforced in South Africa for more than 40 years. It led to thousands of deaths, mass arrests, torture of prisoners, and to the suspension of the most basic human rights for the majority of Black South Africans. How did this come to be, and how did a modern state come to enact and enforce a series of laws deliberately designed to ensure poverty and lack of opportunity for the majority of its population? This is the story of how apartheid came to exist and how it blighted the lives of millions of people. It is also the story of how internal and international revulsion at this policy gradually forced the government of South Africa to change. Apartheid came to be seen as fundamentally evil, and grassroots movements against it also helped to raise awareness of racism.
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]]>Title: The Jewish War]]>Subtitle: History of Judaism]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, History, Judaism]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 05-25-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Learn about the Jewish revolts against the overwhelming domination of ancient Rome. The Romans, through sheer military strength, turned Judea into a client state. They forced the Jews to submit to Roman law, Roman taxation, and to countenance Roman religion. The Jews of Judea exhibited unbelievable strength in resisting assimilation into Roman Hellenistic culture. Their history of dealing with foreign overlords inspired the Jews to hold out and revolt against the Romans. Are you curious to learn more? Or are you interested in learning about the Roman siege of Jerusalem? Perhaps you are intrigued about Josephus, the man from whom we get most of our information about the Jewish War? We cover all of this and more. In this audiobook, you will learn about the following: And so much more! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the valiant struggle of the Jews to free themselves from Roman domination.
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]]>Titel: Die Weimarer Republik]]>Untertitel: Ein fesselnder Leitfaden zur deutschen Geschichte zwischen 1919 und 1933 und dem Vertrag von Versaille]]>Kategorien: Education, Europe, Germany, History, Learning]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Erzähler: Alexander Ballinger]]>Herausgeber: Captivating History]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 05-19-2023]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Zwei Manuskripte in einem Buch: Einige der in Teil 1 dieses Buches behandelten Themen sind: Einige der in Teil 2 dieses Buches behandelten Themen sind: Scrollen Sie nach oben und klicken Sie auf die Schaltfläche „In den Warenkorb“, um mehr über Die Weimarer Republik zu erfahren!
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]]>Title: Nikita Khrushchev]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (History of Russia)]]>Categories: Biography, Head of State, History, Russia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-18-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Nikita Khrushchev.... Nikita Khrushchev came to power in the aftermath of the notorious Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s death. Although Khrushchev came on the scene with aggression and fury (the world would never forget how he declared that he would bury the West), he was ultimately a much more peaceful Soviet leader than Stalin ever was. Even when the Cold War was at its most dangerous point during the Cuban Missile Crisis, it was, in many ways, the measured restraint of Khrushchev which helped to avoid unleashing nuclear Armageddon. This book examines the life and career of one of history’s most misunderstood leaders, Nikita Khrushchev, in full. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Nikita Khrushchev, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Soviet Union: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, History, Russia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-15-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Soviet Union! The creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1922 was one of the defining events of the 20th century. This new federation, created to embody the ideals of communism and the notion of rule by the people, was intended to be different from any other nation in the world. This utopian vision inspired people around the world, and soon, communism became an international movement. However, the history of the Soviet Union did not develop in the way its originators envisaged. What began as a concept of rule by the common people became a repressive dictatorship with ultimate power concentrated in the hands of one man. While the Soviet Union gained in military and industrial power, personal freedom for its citizens virtually disappeared. The federation persisted for almost 70 years, and for much of that period, it was at the heart of one of the most powerful and feared power blocs in the world. Then, in a stunningly short space of time, it collapsed and then disintegrated entirely. This is the story of the rise and abrupt fall of the Soviet Union. Discover a plethora of topics such as: And much more!
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]]>Title: The Battle of the Boyne]]>Subtitle: The History of the Battle That Ended James II’s Attempt to Reclaim the Throne of England]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Ireland]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-04-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The 17th century in Europe, particularly its latter years, is often considered the beginning of the Enlightenment, as nations across the continent experienced a surge in innovation and scientific progress, a period also commonly referred to as the Age of Reason. There was English natural philosopher, Francis Bacon, whose book Novum Organum challenged Aristotelian philosophy and stressed the significance of inductive reasoning. Bacon's ideas, which emphasized observation and the implementation of various premises to form conclusions, was later referenced by famed French mathematician René Descartes. The Enlightenment had been awakened by the European Age of Discovery, a transformative era that succeeded the medieval years, but the continent was also a seedbed of insurrection, holy wars, and volatility. People were growing weary of the unpredictable system of monarchy, a post that was inherited only by members of an exclusive bloodline or connection, one that often muted the voices of the people. The Glorious Revolution was an intriguing story of a power war exacerbated by ruthless ambition, under-the-table plotting, and the treachery of familial betrayal. In 1678, a sinister scheme to assassinate King Charles II was unearthed, sending the public into a frenzy of mass panic.
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]]>Title: Modern Japan]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Modern Japanese History, Starting from the Period of the Tokugawa ShogunateTthrough the Meiji Era and Imperial Japan to the Present (Asian Countries)]]>Categories: Asia, History, Japan]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 05-01-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Mention Japanese history to a non-Japanese, and the first thing that will likely come to mind is the samurai, the legendary warrior elite who ruled the country for over 1,000 years. But how did they meet their end? With their two swords, top-knot haircut, and legendary code of honor, the samurai were the absolute, unquestioned rulers of the country. That all began to change rapidly when the “black ships” of US Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Tokyo Bay in 1853. Since 1600, the Japanese had been closed off from the world. This began during the era of the Tokugawa shoguns, the family of generals who ruled Japan in the name of the emperor. Their reign ended in the early 1860s when the people of Japan realized that living in the past (under the samurai) had put them at a great disadvantage to the Western nations. Between 1868 and 1912, Japan rose from a country stuck in the 17th century to a world power that defeated both China and Russia at war. In the 1920s and 1930s, Japan went from an evolving democracy to a resurgent military government, which attempted to dominate much of Asia and the Pacific.
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]]>Title: William Powell and Myrna Loy]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Careers of One of Classical Hollywood’s Most Iconic Duos]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mary Rossman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-28-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It is something of a cliché to say that an actor’s life was like a movie he or she might have starred in, but in the case of Myrna Loy, the cliché is true. It is easy to picture her as a little girl, riding the range with her rancher father, sitting around the table and participating charmingly in family discussions of current events. It is not hard to imagine the camera panning to her first and then second visits to Hollywood, her backlot tour, and starry-eyed decision to become an actress. There would have to be some drama, which the story of her father’s untimely death would provide, along with some sort of deathbed promise made to him to care for the rest of the family. Her mother would be brave but resolute as she moved her young family to California. The lighting on set would brighten and the tempo of the background would pick up as she walked down the Los Angeles streets. Then, her big break would come.
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]]>Title: Japanese Empire]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 19th Century, Asia, History, Japan, Modern]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-27-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Japanese Empire.... At one point, the Japanese Empire was one of the largest the world had ever seen, governing almost 20 percent of the total population of the Earth. One of the most striking features of this empire was the rapidity with which it grew. In 1870, Japan was a largely agrarian nation with a culture and society based on feudal values. Then, it went through a massive transformation, adopting western technologies to become an industrial power. It won two wars against much larger nations, and for the first time, Japan began to acquire control over new territories. The empire continued to grow steadily, mainly through military conquest, until a global war saw it grow with stunning rapidity until it controlled much of Asia. Yet within this lightning expansion were the seeds of the empire’s destruction; Japan lacked the military power to retain all the territory it had so rapidly conquered. Under relentless attack by American, British, and Commonwealth forces, it was forced back until, in 1945, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki forced Japan to surrender.
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]]>Title: Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Careers of Hollywood’s Favorite Swashbucklers]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, Celebrity, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mary Rossman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-27-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 1940, the 4th most popular star in the US was a foreign actor from Australia, and unlike other movie stars, he was more notorious for his pursuits off the screen than on it. In an era long before social media, Errol Flynn represented the epitome of a swashbuckling playboy, with enough mystery and intrigue surrounding him and his background to fascinate even those who didn’t see his movies. Even Hollywood stars accustomed to mingling with each other were awestruck by Errol Flynn, who was an industry newcomer in 1935 but a huge star in just a few years. When Olivia de Havilland, who would eventually become an Academy Award winner and played Melanie in Gone With the Wind, met Flynn ahead of appearing with him in Captain Blood (1935), she recalled, “And I walked onto the set, and they said, ‘Would you please stand next to Mr. Flynn?’...We had never met, and we just stood there next to each other. Oh!” Some actors were recruited based on their appearance alone, signing contracts before taking screen tests or ever having been on a stage or set. Others became overnight sensations, darlings of the public for decades.
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]]>Title: The Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope]]>Subtitle: The History of the World’s Most Important Telescopes]]>Categories: America, Astronomy, History, Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Chris Morris]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-25-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the time the Hubble telescope reached orbit, it was already the world’s most famous telescope, but it was also the most scorned. The telescope cost nearly two billion dollars more to complete than anticipated, and to make matters worse, the first images it sent back were skewed. However, within about a year of fixing it, the telescope captured images of a major event in the solar system. In July 1994, the telescope provided a firsthand observation of a comet, Shoemaker-Levy 9, breaking apart and slamming into Jupiter. The comet broke into about two dozen pieces, some of them more than a mile wide, and hit the giant planet with the force of millions of atomic bombs. In addition to capturing the streaking comet breaking up and colliding with Jupiter, the telescope captured images of the impact marks that were left on Jupiter’s surface, helping astronomers study Jupiter’s atmosphere and debris left by major impacts. The increase in excitement was palpable. Scientists had viewed much of the universe through Hubble, almost as it was when it was formed, but they learned that none of these galaxies were the first ones formed.
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]]>Title: Imperial Rome]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Events and Facts You Should Know About the Roman Empire]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, History, Learning, Rome]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-24-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Imperial Rome saw the rise of good and bad emperors. How much do you really know about their lives? To this day, we feel the influence of imperial Rome. After all, imperial Rome was one of the first successful “melting pots” of cultures. The Romans took what worked and discarded what didn’t work, showing that it was possible to have a stable, centralized government over an extremely large area. But there’s also another side to imperial Rome. Intrigue, treachery, love of power, narcissism, and lunacy—these are all interrelated in the fascinating history of imperial Rome. If you like Game of Thrones, you’ll most certainly like this audiobook. The only thing is, it has no dragons. But you don’t need fictional beings to appreciate what very real humans did thousands of years ago. And Roman emperors, in spite of being worshiped like gods, were just that: real human beings with their own good and bad sides. By delving deeper into the lives of Roman emperors, we can understand the Roman history and ourselves better. There is much to discover within this audiobook. Some of what you learn includes the following:
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]]>Title: Richard Pryor]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-21-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Richard Pryor! Richard Pryor was one of the greatest comedic minds of all time, but his stand-up routine was more than just comedy. His deft navigation through the human condition often made it seem like his comic observations were more akin to a cathartic form of group therapy. As Pryor ran through all the ills of human existence, it was as if he were embarking upon a great purging of the psyche for both him and the audience. Richard Pryor certainly didn’t have it easy in life. He was raised with a brothel as a backdrop, where his own grandmother served as a madam. He had to square all this with the rigid social conventions of the 1950s and early 1960s, in which he grew up. Initially, Pryor tried to keep all of his skeletons in his closet before he finally decided to make full use of them. In this book, we plumb the depths of this comedic genius, exploring his life and his art in full. Discover a plethora of topics such as: And much more!
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]]>Title: Charles Babbage and Alan Turing]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Careers of the English Mathematicians Who Revolutionized Modern Computer Science]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, History, Modern, STEM]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-17-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Today, the world is in the midst of the transformative and ever-developing digital age, otherwise referred to as the “age of Information.” It has been an unprecedented, remarkable, and explosive era marked by social media and computer-generated imagery (and with it, deep fakes), among other novel, previously unimaginable concepts. The bulky monitors and blocky towers of personal computers and laptops, which were once upon a time considered fashionable, futuristic contraptions, have since been replaced with a sleek and stylish array–both multi-functional and specialized–of aerodynamic, minimalistic devices, ranging from smartphones and tablets to lightweight laptops and full-fledged gaming set-ups packed with powerhouse processors. While many are familiar with those facts, and a recent movie revived interest in Alan Turing’s achievements with computing during World War II, it was Charles Babbage who was the first to conceive the notion of a programmable and automatic universal computer, which on top of its ability to calculate any mathematical equation at an unmatched speed, could also be used for a seemingly infinite number of other applications.
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]]>Title: Antoni Gaudi and Frank Lloyd Wright]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Works of the Most Influential Modern Architects]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, History, Modern, Visual Artist]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-14-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Halfway into the 19th century, Spain's Catalonia underwent a sweeping transformation when it was thrust into not one, but two golden eras–the Renaixença, and the Industrial Revolution. It was during this explosive period of creativity, thriving prosperity, and invigorated patriotism that a steadfastly nonconforming and fascinatingly eccentric icon was born, one that was about to take Catalonia by storm with his brilliant eye for unorthodox art and his legendary–or as some would say, notoriously–out-of-the-box ideas. Salvador Dalí, the celebrated surrealist, was one of many who would find a fount of inspiration in him, even once raving about the Sagrada Familia, the highlight of this icon's career: “Those who have not heard about the chromatic and shining essence of its color, the astonishing polyphony of its towers as organ pipes and shocked by its mutant naturalism, are traitors.” This icon in question, of course, is none other than what many now consider to be the patriarch of the Catalan Modernism movement: Antoni Gaudí. Across the pond, America’s most innovative and prolific architect was Frank Lloyd Wright, whose works are almost too vast and diverse to list.
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]]>Title: Arnold Rothstein and the 1919 Black Sox]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Most Notorious Scandal in American Sports]]>Categories: America, Baseball, Bat-and-Ball Sport, Biography]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Sam Evanston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-13-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the early 20th century, one of the most integral members of the criminal underworld was Arnold Rothstein, the archetype of the old school mobster. He was intelligent, charming, well-spoken, grotesquely wealthy, and a sharp dresser, often pictured with a patterned bowtie and a flat-top fedora snugly fit over his receding hairline. And yet, he was nothing like the stereotypical mobster; Arnold was not a drinker or smoker, and he was not one to be tempted by illicit substances. He was a notorious high roller, with pockets holding wads of $100 bills, but to the casual eye, he was just another dapper, well-mannered gentleman who frequented the tracks and casinos after a long day at the office. Today, Rothstein is remembered for his murky association with the most notorious event in the history of American sports: the fixing of the 1919 World Series by the Chicago White Sox. The White Sox were favored 5:1 to beat the Cincinnati Reds, and for the first time since 1903, the Series would be a best-of-nine format.
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]]>Title: Steve McQueen & Charles Bronson]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Careers of the Top Action Stars of the 1970s]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Sam Evanston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-13-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the 1960s and 1970s, no actor personified cool, calm and collected like Steve McQueen, whose suave anti-hero protagonists made men jealous and women swoon. As actor Donald Logue puts it in The Tao of Steve, “Steve is the prototypical cool American male. He's the guy on his horse, the guy alone. He has his own code of honor, his own code of ethics, his own rules of living. He never, ever tries to impress the women, but he always gets the girl." And indeed, that was the case not only in movies like The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, The Getaway, and Papillon, but also in real life. Actress Ali MacGraw, who later became one of his wives, described his effect on women: "I remember seeing him across the swimming pool and my knees were knocking. He radiated such macho energy. Men wanted to be like him.
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]]>Title: The Phoney War]]>Subtitle: The History of the Uneasy Calm along the Western Front at the Start of World War II]]>Categories: Europe, France, Germany, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-10-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Europe’s attempts to appease Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, most notably at Munich in 1938, failed, as Nazi Germany swallowed up Austria and Czechoslovakia by 1939. Italy was on the march as well, invading Albania in April of 1939. The straw that broke the camel's back, however, was Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1 of that year. Two days later, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany, and World War II had begun in earnest. Of course, as most people now know, the invasion of Poland was merely the preface to the Nazi blitzkrieg of most of Western Europe, which would include Denmark, Belgium, and France by the summer of 1940. The resistance put up by these countries is often portrayed as weak, and the narrative is that the British stood alone in 1940 against the Nazi onslaught, defending the British Isles during the Battle of Britain and preventing a potential German invasion. Though the French would be decisively defeated soon after the Nazi invasion of Belgium and France in early 1940, they had not sat on their hands.
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]]>Title: The Start of the Vietnam War]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Events that Began America’s Most Controversial War]]>Categories: America, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-07-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren’t so deadly and tragic. In 1951, while war was raging in Korea, the United States began signing defense pacts with nations in the Pacific, intending to create alliances that would contain the spread of Communism. As the Korean War was winding down, America joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, pledging to defend several nations in the region from Communist aggression. One of those nations was South Vietnam. Before the Vietnam War, most Americans would have been hard pressed to locate Vietnam on a map. South Vietnamese President Diệm’s regime was extremely unpopular, and war broke out between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam around the end of the 1950s. Kennedy’s administration tried to prop up the South Vietnamese with training and assistance, but the South Vietnamese military was feeble. A month before his death, Kennedy signed a presidential directive withdrawing 1,000 American personnel, and shortly after Kennedy’s assassination, new President Lyndon B.
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]]>Title: Alfred Hitchcock: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, Celebrity, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-05-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Alfred Hitchcock.... Alfred Hitchcock’s work is legendary, and although he himself was known as a rather quiet and subdued figure in public, those who knew him privately saw a fiery disposition and unbridled passion lurking just beneath the surface of his placid exterior. Films such as Rebecca, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds sky-rocketed him to fame, and have since led many to hail him as the greatest director of all time. Throughout his career, Hitchcock was always sure to deliver thrilling suspense and twist endings while delving into subject matters few were willing to explore. At the same time, his own personality and dark humor became a staple in popular culture through his film trailers, interviews, and the popular TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents. This book explores both the films and the life of the “Master of Suspense”—Alfred Hitchcock. Discover a plethora of topics such as: And much more!
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]]>Title: British Raj: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: History of India]]>Categories: Asia, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-30-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the British Raj! The British Raj refers to the time from 1858 to 1947 when the British Crown directly ruled the Indian subcontinent. During those 90 years, India saw enormous social, political, and cultural upheaval. New systems of education were introduced, and increasing industrialization brought societal change. The British administration also united large numbers of indigenous people, though they were often united mainly by their opposition to the British and their desire for independence. The growing independence movement saw the emergence of one of the most influential and charismatic political leaders ever: Mahatma Gandhi. His policy of non-violent opposition inspired people across the world and helped to guide India to independence. However, with independence came partition as the British divided the region according to religious and ethnic lines. Instead of a single independent nation, the Indian subcontinent became two and then three separate nation-states, something that led to violence and conflicts that persist today. This is the story of how the British Raj inadvertently created the modern nations of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Discover a plethora of topics such as: And much more!
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]]>Title: Steve Jobs: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Business Leaders]]>Categories: Biography, Business, Economic, History, Trade]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-22-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Steve Jobs! Steve Jobs is, without a doubt, one of the most iconic innovators and entrepreneurs of modern times. A great thinker, his tremendous vision was able to help fashion much of the world in which we live. For anyone else, such musings would come off as hyperbole—but for Steve Jobs, it’s simply the truth. If it wasn’t for the keen insight of Jobs, the modern smartphone, tablet, and computer might have looked very different. With his work on legendary products such as the iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Mac, he helped introduce the world to a new era of tech—one where ease of use and simplicity were in focus rather than building complex and unwieldy technology just for the sake of it. This book explores his tremendous input in the world of technology, as well as his just as intriguing personal life. Discover a plethora of topics such as: And much more!
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]]>Title: Die Weimarer Republik]]>Subtitle: Ein fesselndes Handbuch zur deutschen Geschichte zum Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs und dem Beginn der Nazizeit]]>Categories: Education, Europe, Germany, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Alexander Ballinger]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-21-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Haben Sie sich je gefragt, wie ein Mann wie Hitler an die Macht kommen konnte? Wie wurde er durch einen legalen demokratischen Prozess zum Diktator? Welche Ereignisse führten zu seiner Schreckensherrschaft? Die Antworten liegen in der Weimarer Republik. Inmitten der Verwüstungen des Ersten Weltkriegs bot die deutsche Monarchie keine Antworten. Eine demokratische Regierung schien der einzige Weg zu sein, die Alliierten zu besänftigen und die vielen Katastrophen zu lösen, die bereits vor der Haustür des Landes lagen. In diesem Hörbuch erfahren Sie mehr dazu: Scrollen Sie nach oben und klicken sie auf „In den Einkaufswagen” und lernen Sie mehr über die Weimarer Republik!
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]]>Title: The Fall of the Third Reich]]>Subtitle: The Decisions and Battles that Spelled Doom for Nazi Germany]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Phaistos Publishers]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Phaistos Publishers]]>Release date: 03-17-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Few events have had a greater impact on human history than the ascension to power of the Nazi Party in Germany in January 1933. This was no coup: the party gained some power via democratic elections, although once it was established, it quickly took absolute control over all aspects of the state. Other parties were outlawed, and further elections were deemed “unnecessary.” However, Germany’s image as a nation united under one man and committed to expansion through the application of science and technology was an illusion in reality. Nazi Germany was wracked by internal dissent, a chaotic system of rule, and a leader who was willing to ignore the economic and resource needs of his nation. By the end of 1941, Germany appeared to be unassailable. Most of its European enemies had either been defeated or seemed to be on the point of defeat. The almost unbroken string of spectacular successes enjoyed by the German Army and air force suggested to many that these were simply unbeatable.
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]]>Título: Historia de Europa del Este [Eastern European History]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la historia abreviada de Rusia, Ucrania, Hungría, Polonia, la República Checa, Bulgaria, ... y Rumanía (Países europeos)]]>Categorías: Eastern Europe, Europe, History]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 03-16-2023]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¿Cuánto sabe sobre la historia de Europa del Este? La historia de Europa Oriental es una historia de éxitos y fracasos, de intereses contrapuestos, y de ascenso y caída de estados e imperios. Los antiguos imperios griego y romano conocían la importancia de Europa del Este para el comercio y los asentamientos. Más tarde, durante el período Migratorio, también conocido como las «invasiones bárbaras», Europa del Este se convirtió en el terreno de juego de muchos grupos humanos. Los visigodos, los hunos, los eslavos y las tribus turcas de Asia central, como los ávaros y los jázaros, se abrieron paso en Europa Oriental. Con la llegada de tanta gente, empezaron a surgir los primeros estados. Algunos de ellos se desintegrarían nada más al empezar, mientras que otros formarían imperios de pleno derecho. En el periodo medieval se crearon algunos de los mayores imperios de la historia europea, como la Rus de Kiev, el Imperio búlgaro, Serbia y los estados cruzados alemanes.
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]]>Title: Soviet-Afghan War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: History, Middle East, Planet Earth, Russia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-16-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Soviet-Afghan War.... In 1979, alarmed Soviet leaders watched the growing civil war in Afghanistan with trepidation. Russia’s neighbor had been a close ally for many years, acting as a buffer between Russia and British India, proving vital in the “Great Game” between the two empires. Various coups had, by this point, led to a Moscow-friendly government in Kabul, but things were not playing out as the Soviets had hoped. In a country built on mysticism and religion and almost devoid of industry, socialism was proving extremely unpopular. Afghanistan’s new leaders had tried to transform the country too quickly, infuriating the rural communities. With this opposition came the formation of revolutionary groups and—before long—civil war. When Prime Minister Hafizullah Amin requested help from the Soviet Union to gain control of the situation, the Soviets not only sent troops to Afghanistan, but also assassinated Amin, whom they viewed as incompetent. By intervening in Afghanistan’s civil war, the Soviet Union hoped to establish a stable—and communist-friendly—government there.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Ravenna]]>Subtitle: The History of the Most Famous Battle of the Italian Wars]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Italy]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-13-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 1494, there were five sovereign regional powers in Italy: Milan, Venice, Florence, the Papal States and Naples. In 1536, only one remained: Venice. These decades of conflict precipitated great anxiety among Western thinkers, and Italians responded to the fragmentation of Latin Christendom, the end of self-governance for Italians, and the beginning of the early modern era in various ways. They were always heavily influenced by the lived experience of warfare between large Christian armies on the peninsula. The diplomatic and military history of this 30-year period is a complex one that one eminent Renaissance historian, Lauro Martines, has described as "best told by a computer, so many and tangled are the treatises, negotiations and battles." At the same time, the fighting went in tandem with the Renaissance and was influenced by it. Most historians credit the city-state of Florence as the place that started and developed the Italian Renaissance, a process carried out through the patronage and commission of artists during the late 12th century. If Florence is receiving its due credit, much of it belongs to the Medicis, the family dynasty of Florence that ruled at the height of the Renaissance.
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]]>Title: The Aceh War]]>Subtitle: The History of the Bloody Conflict that Imposed Dutch Rule Over Indonesia]]>Categories: Asia, History, Military, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-09-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>During the 17th century, the Netherlands, despite having only 1.5 million people in 1600, became a global maritime and trading power. By contrast, France at the time had 20 million people, Spain had 8 million, and England had 5 million. Nevertheless, Amsterdam became one of the most important urban centers in the world. It was the location of the world’s first stock market, and Dutch merchant ships and pirates plied the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean. The Dutch acquired colonies in the East Indies, where they seized control of the spice trade from the Portuguese, and in the West Indies, they acquired a number of islands from the Spanish (several of which are still Dutch today). They became the only Westerners who were allowed to trade with Shogunate Japan from a small island next to Nagasaki, and they settled the town that ultimately became New York City. Naturally, all of this imperialism generated enormous amounts of wealth that flowed into the Netherlands. The Netherlands has had a complex and turbulent history involving the interplay of multiple political entities, ethnicities, and languages.
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]]>Title: Breathmaker]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Seminole’s Creator God]]>Categories: America, Civilization, History, Indigenous]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Van Der Molen]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-08-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Although traditional Muscogee mythology has mostly been lost to history, a concerted effort spearheaded by modern ethnographers like Troy University anthropologist Bill Grantham has allowed today’s Seminole tribe to reclaim some of their cultural roots and oral traditions, based upon surviving accounts of early European encounters, Christian missionaries, adventurers, travelogues, and various other historical documents. These studies have found that even by the time of first European contact, two distinct Muscogee Creek mythological and cosmological traditions were in place. Scholars have designated them the “Eastern Creek Tradition” (recited in Yuchi, Hitchiti, and Tuskegee oral tradition), and the “Western Creek Tradition” (recited in Muscogee, Alabama, and Koasati oral tradition). According to Eastern Creek Tradition, in the beginning of time there existed a boundless expanse of water and air inhabited by immortal water and air beings. Coming in a variety of natural forms—human, animal, and others—these beings behaved as humans. They had families, hunted, traveled, waged war, and performed various rituals. A time arrived when these immortals decided to create the Earth. According to one version, it was Crawfish's decision to retrieve the land from beneath the water, while another tradition attributes a council of beings with the decision.
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]]>Título: El Imperio ruso [The Russian Empire]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante del tercer imperio más grande de la historia, desde Pedro el Grande hasta la Revolución rusa (Explorando el pasado de Rusia)]]>Categorías: History, Russia]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 03-08-2023]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¿Qué pasó con la Rusia Imperial? Rusia ha sido durante mucho tiempo un país poderoso. Incluso hoy en día, Rusia es una de las grandes potencias del planeta. Sin embargo, la Rusia actual no es más que un vestigio del gran territorio que en su día constituyó la Rusia Imperial. El Imperio ruso se extendía por todos los continentes y, en un momento dado, la Rusia Imperial podía reclamar territorios desde Alaska hasta Polonia y casi todo lo demás. Los gobernantes rusos se sentían herederos del Imperio romano bizantino y, como los Césares de antaño, se autodenominaban «zares». Estos zares gobernaban como autócratas absolutos, dirigiendo el imperio a través de la pura fuerza de su propia voluntad. Sin embargo, a pesar de su tamaño y poder, el Imperio ruso a menudo estaba plagado de enormes problemas internos. Toda una clase de campesinos rusos, conocidos como siervos, por ejemplo, estaban básicamente esclavizados a la tierra en la que trabajaban, sin poder escapar de su suerte en vida.
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]]>Título: Historia del Caribe [Caribbean History]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la historia del Caribe, desde Cristóbal Colón hasta el presente, pasando por las guerras de religión, la esclavitud ... y Colonización Europeas)]]>Categorías: America, Caribbean, History, Planet Earth]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 03-08-2023]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Casi todo el mundo sabe que Las Bahamas y Jamaica están en el Caribe. Pero, ¿qué se sabe realmente de esos países? La historia del Caribe es un recorrido apasionante, pero pocos fuera de la región saben mucho sobre ella en profundidad más allá del descubrimiento de Colón. Este audio libro le guiará por la historia de la región, que fue testigo de algunos de los acontecimientos más importantes del mundo. Comenzaremos con el descubrimiento accidental de Cristóbal Colón y la carrera por el control de las islas del Caribe. El acaparamiento de tierras llevó a la guerra y a la colonización, convirtiendo esta región, antes pacífica, en un lugar más violento. Con el tiempo, la mayoría de las islas del Caribe se defendieron y declararon su independencia. Pero, ¿mejoró eso las cosas para estas naciones insulares? ¿O aún queda mucho por hacer? Si tienes curiosidad por las respuestas a estas preguntas y más sobre la apasionante historia de esta hermosa región, sigue escuchando.
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]]>Título: La edad de oro de la piratería [The Golden Age of Piracy]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante sobre el papel de los piratas en la historia marítima de la primera época moderna y las historias de ... Drake y William Kidd]]>Categorías: History, Maritime, Planet Earth]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 03-08-2023]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Tesoros enterrados, acentos de pirata, batallas marítimas de capa y espada, tricornios y caminar por la plancha: ¿Sabía que ninguno de esos elementos es válido en relación con los piratas reales de la historia? De hecho, existen muchos otros elementos sobre los piratas de la vida real que son simplemente ficción. Pero la historia real de los piratas, ¿merece la pena ser explorada y por qué? La historia de la edad de oro de la piratería, la que ha dado forma a la concepción moderna de un pirata, es compleja y larga, con mucha información que abarcar. Hasta ahora, no había ningún tomo que cubriera los detalles clave de la edad de oro en un formato comprensible y fácil de escuchar. Este audio libro será tu guía a la era dorada de la piratería, y mientras lo escuchas descubrirás lo siguiente: ¡Adquiera este audio libro ahora para saber más sobre la edad de oro de la piratería! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Heath Ledger: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Actors]]>Categories: Australasia, Biography, Celebrity, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-06-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Heath Ledger.... Heath Ledger rapidly rose to fame to become one of the most acclaimed actors of our time. Although his career was brief, spanning little over 10 years, he shot up like a rising star. People still remember his innovative portrayal of the Joker and so many other roles with awe. Ledger poured everything he had into the parts he played, and his enthusiasm was quite evident on the big screen: Monster’s Ball, Brokeback Mountain, and The Dark Knight all benefited from his passion and expertise. He was so utterly consumed by his work that, at times, the portrayals of Heath Ledger could be more adequately described as a spiritual walk-in rather than an act. But who was the real Heath Ledger? What was this dynamic actor truly like? In this book, we delve into the man behind the legend and discover what his life was like before it was tragically cut short at the age of 28. Discover a plethora of topics such as: And much more!
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]]>Title: Asian Immigration in the United States]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Asian Immigrants in the United States Over the Last 200 Years]]>Categories: America, Asia, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-03-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>One of the most important and memorable events of the United States’ westward push across the frontier came with the discovery of gold in the lands that became California in January 1848. Located thousands of miles away from the country’s power centers on the east coast at the time, the announcement came a month before the Mexican-American War had ended, and among the very few Americans that were near the region at the time, many of them were Army soldiers who were participating in the war and garrisoned there. San Francisco was still best known for being a Spanish military and missionary outpost during the colonial era, and only a few hundred called it home. Mexico’s independence, and its possession of those lands, had come only a generation earlier. While the Forty-Niners are often remembered for panning gold out of mountain streams, it required advanced mining technology for most to make a fortune. Nevertheless, the California Gold Rush became an emblem of the American Dream, and the notion that Americans could obtain untold fortunes regardless of their previous social status. As historian H.W.
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]]>Title: The Moors of Andalusia]]>Subtitle: The History of the Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula During the Middle Ages]]>Categories: Civilization, Europe, History, Medieval, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-02-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The term Moor is a historical rather than an ethnic name. It is an invention of European Christians for the Islamic inhabitants of Maghreb (North Africa), Andalusia (Spain), Sicily and Malta, and was sometimes use to designate all Muslims. It is derived from Mauri, the Latin name for the Berbers who lived in the Roman province of Mauretania, which ranged across modern Algeria and Morocco. Saracen was another European term used to designate Muslims, though it usually referred to the Arabic peoples of the Middle East and derives from an ancient name for the Arabs, Sarakenoi. The Muslims of those regions no more refer to themselves by that term than those of North Africa call themselves Moors. Maghreb, or al-Maghreb, is a historical term used by Arabic Muslims for the territory of coastal North Africa from Alexandria to the Atlantic Coast. It means “The West” and is used in opposition to Mashrek, “The East,” used to refer to the lands of Islam in the Middle East and north-eastern Africa. The Berbers refer to the region in their own language as Tamazgha.
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]]>Title: Lydia Litvyak]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Soviet Woman Who Became World War II’s Most Successful Female Fighter Pilot]]>Categories: Biography, History, Military, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-02-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Partly out of dire circumstances and partly from a cultural worldview, it was the Soviet Union who first pressed female pilots into direct combat when Hitler invaded Russia. Ahead of Stalingrad, Stalin publicly declared that “women should be given the right to fly and fight for their country.” As a result, more than 800,000 women served in the Soviet military during the war years in hospitals, communication units, as road troops, anti-aircraft gunners, and snipers. Despite the Soviets’ notoriety for strict discipline within its military, “discipline problems were overlooked” as the number of available pilots grew perilously sparse. In Russia, the idea of using women as pilots came as early as World War I, when the “Workers and Peasants” Red Air Fleet “desperately sought pilots” to fight against the Bolshevik forces and “did not object to the use of women in combat roles.” Despite the men’s scorn over female pilots being trained in private air clubs, Stalin ensured after the war that they continue to be utilized as training grounds for military pilots of all kinds, including women. Inevitably, the Soviets’ early aviators tended not to survive many missions, and it was certainly no different for the women.
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]]>Título: El zar Nicolás II y el fin de la dinastía Románov [Tsar Nicholas II and the End of the Romanov Dynasty]]]>Subtitular: a historia de la caída de la Rusia imperial]]>Categorías: Biography, Head of State, History, Russia]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Daniel I. Colon]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 03-02-2023]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>«Todavía no estoy listo para ser zar. No sé nada sobre el asunto de gobernar». (Zar Nicolás II de Rusia) El siglo XVII estuvo marcado por múltiples revoluciones predemocráticas que estallaron en ambos hemisferios. En Europa y sus vecinos del este, se libraron incesantemente guerras que cambiaron las fronteras. A finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, las premisas subyacentes de las estructuras políticas, gubernamentales y sociales en varios estados europeos y asiáticos se vieron sacudidas hasta la médula, luego de siglos de realeza y gobierno de una sola familia. Para el inicio de la Primera Guerra Mundial, las familias reales comenzaron a experimentar un largo y lento declive; algunas se desvanecieron y redujeron silenciosamente al estatus de símbolos nacionales y otras experimentaron el derrocamiento político.
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]]>Titel: Der totale Rausch]]>Untertitel: Drogen im Dritten Reich]]>Kategorien: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Autor: Norman Ohler]]>Erzähler: Norman Ohler]]>Herausgeber: Argon Verlag]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 03-01-2023]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Drogen im Dritten Reich: Norman Ohler geht den Tätern von damals buchstäblich unter die Haut und schaut direkt in ihre Blutbahnen hinein. Arisch rein ging es darin nicht zu, sondern chemisch deutsch – und ziemlich toxisch. Wo die Ideologie für Fanatismus und "Endsieg" nicht mehr ausreichte, wurde hemmungslos nachgeholfen. Als Deutschland 1940 Frankreich überfiel, standen die Soldaten der Wehrmacht unter 35 Millionen Dosierungen Pervitin. Das Präparat – heute als Crystal Meth bekannt – machte den Blitzkrieg erst möglich. Auch der vermeintliche Abstinenzler Hitler griff gerne zur pharmakologischen Stimulanz: Als er im Winter 1944 seine letzte Offensive befehligte, war er längst süchtig nach Eukodal, einem Opiat stärker als Heroin. Täglich erhielt er von seinem Leibarzt Theo Morell verschiedenste Dopingmittel, dubiose Hormonpräparate und auch harte Drogen gespritzt. Nur so konnte der Diktator seinen Wahn bis zum Schluss aufrechterhalten. In deiner Audible-Bibliothek findest du für dieses Hörerlebnis eine PDF-Datei mit zusätzlichem Material.
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]]>Title: British Empire: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-27-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the British Empire! The British Empire comprised a bewildering collection of colonies, dominions, protectorates, and mandated possessions that spanned the planet. This was the largest empire in world history, at its peak ruling over more than 400 million people and covering almost one-quarter of the total land mass of the Earth. No wonder it became known as “the empire on which the sun never set.” How did this happen? How did England, a relatively small country, first come to dominate the neighboring countries of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and then go on to build this mighty, global empire? Through its empire, Britain came to dominate world trade and to control the economies of whole regions. Then, following the end of World War II, the British Empire began to decline with astonishing speed. The formal handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997 marked the end of the empire, with only a scattering of islands and remote outposts remaining. This is the story of the rise and fall of the British Empire. Discover a plethora of topics such as: And much more!
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]]>Title: Inca Astronomy and Astrology]]>Subtitle: The History of the Inca’s Measurements of the Planets and Stars]]>Categories: America, Astronomy, History, Indigenous]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-27-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>During the Age of Exploration, Native American tribes fell victim to European conquerors seeking legendary cities made of gold and other riches, attempts that were often being made in vain. And yet, of all the empires that were conquered across the continent, the one that continues to be most intimately associated with legends of gold and hidden riches is the Inca Empire. The Inca Empire, which flourished in modern day Peru and along the west coast of South America, was the largest Native American empire in pre-Columbian America until Pizarro and the Spanish conquistadors conquered them in the 16th century. What ultimately sealed their doom was the rumor that huge amounts of gold were available in regions south of the Andes Mountains. Though the Spanish physically conquered them in quick fashion, the culture and legacy of the Inca Empire has continued to endure throughout the centuries in both Europe and South America, due in no small part to the fact they were one of the most advanced and sophisticated cultures on the continent.
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]]>Título: Lourdes]]>Subtitular: La Historia y Legado del Lugar de Peregrinación Cristiano más Famoso de Francia [The History and Legacy of the Most Famous Christian Pilgrimage Site in France]]]>Categorías: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, France, History]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Isabella Rivera]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 02-24-2023]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Dicen que el juicio no existe en Lourdes. Una vez que uno pone un pie en este suelo sagrado, todas las barreras de raza, condición social, antecedentes y diferencias de religión dejan de existir. No es uno más que un alma humilde en busca de la renovación de la propia conexión con Dios. En un comunicado emitido a la prensa francesa a mediados de agosto de 2008, el padre Jacques Nieuviarts garantizó lo siguiente: “Aquellos que tocan la roca de la gruta en Lourdes…Tal vez están pidiendo ser imbuidos con la fuerza de esta roca.
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]]>Título: Tezcatlipoca]]>Subtitular: la historia y el legado del dios supremo de la Mesoamérica posclásica [The History and Legacy of the Supreme God of Postclassic Mesoamerica]]]>Categorías: America, Ancient, History, Religious Study]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Isabella Rivera]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 02-24-2023]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Venerado por muchas culturas, el «Señor del espejo humeante», uno de los dioses principales del gran Imperio azteca, es también una de las deidades mesoamericanas más interesantes, y a la vez difíciles de entender. Conductor de los destinos del mundo, dador y despojador, patrón de reyes y de esclavos, sembrador de discordias y revelador de pecados, señor de la noche y la oscuridad, primer sol de la creación. Tan fascinante como complejo, Tezcatlipoca era tan temido como venerado, pues el dios todo lo sabía, todo lo veía, todo lo podía, pero también era voluble, caprichoso y además, con un retorcido sentido del humor. El estudio de Tezcatlipoca debe ubicarse por necesidad en el contexto histórico-cultural mesoamericano, lo cual, al igual que el estudio del dios en sí, es una empresa que acarrea no pocas dificultades. Dada la complejidad de la mitología de cada cultura, la cantidad de dioses, idiomas y pueblos involucrados, su análisis y los intentos que hasta ahora se han hecho para comprenderlo y explicarlo todo no han resultado en un discurso claro y unificado, sino en una multiplicidad de interpretaciones.
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]]>Title: Medieval Ukraine]]>Subtitle: The History of Ukraine in the Middle Ages]]>Categories: Eastern Europe, Europe, History, Russia]]>Author: Phaistos Publishers]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Phaistos Publishers]]>Release date: 02-24-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Shortly before invading Ukraine in February 2022, President Vladimir Putin of Russia claimed that Russia and Ukraine were one nation artificially divided. In the previous year, he wrote an essay entitled On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians, in which he claims that modern Ukraine is an “anti-Russian project,” a monstrosity turning its back on its heritage and borrowing culture for the corrupt West. This assessment may ring true to many Westerners, many of whom are unaware of the aspirations to Ukrainian nationhood until it declared its independence from the dying Soviet Union on August 24, 1991. The Russian Federation and Ukraine do indeed share a common heritage, but their history and culture led them along divergent paths. Many listeners might be surprised to learn that the historical center of Russia was not Moscow, but Kiev, the capital of modern Ukraine. In the 9th century, Norse traders and warriors, known as Varangians, settled along the Dnieper, Volga and other rivers between the Baltic and Black Seas.
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]]>Title: James Brown: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Musicians]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-21-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of James Brown. James Brown is known as the “Godfather of Soul”—and for good reason. All you have to do is listen to that signature James Brown sound, and you understand the impact he made on music. Just one lip curl and Elvis was sent running. Just one “Hey! Hey! Hey!” and Michael Jackson was inspired. It seems that James Brown’s every move has somehow made an impact on the world of music. Yet the unbridled, almost manic energy that fueled Brown’s innovative songwriting, electrifying dance numbers, and relentless tour schedule also got him into trouble. A string of broken marriages, estranged children, and brushes with the law over back taxes, drugs, and even weapons and violence were all part of his story. This book uncovers both the musical and personal legacy of James Brown, from his humble beginnings in the poverty-stricken South during the Great Depression to his rapid rise to fame and fortune. Discover a plethora of topics such as: And much more!
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]]>Title: Life After the Third Reich]]>Subtitle: The Struggle to Rise from the Nazi Ruins]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, Germany, History]]>Author: Paul Roland]]>Narrator: Richard Trinder]]>Publisher: Arcturus Digital]]>Release date: 02-16-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Third Reich collapsed and the Red Army swamped Berlin. But what was it like to live in Germany after World War II? This is the story of Germany after the Nazis, a time when two separate states rose from the ashes to face each other across the Iron Curtain. Meanwhile, the people struggled to come to terms with both the physical and psychological impact of defeat, as well as guilt for the monstrous acts that had been committed under Hitler's regime. When Allied forces took over Germany, they were shocked at the scale of destruction. But how did they ensure that those guilty of crimes against humanity were punished, and where exactly did all the Nazis go after the war?
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]]>Title: First Indochina War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Asia, Europe, France, History, Southeast Asia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-15-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the First Indochina War. In the 19th century, France forcibly took Vietnam as a colony and proceeded to strip it of its natural resources. Over the decades that followed, the Vietnamese mounted various attempts to rid themselves of the French, but each attempt proved fruitless until the Second World War came and made changes to the world order. This time, a combination of different factors would result in the Vietnamese fighting back, shocking the colonizers with a humiliating defeat. In this audiobook, you will hear about the Vietnamese, who fought for their country against an enemy with superior weaponry and naval support. Learn about why the world powers of China, the Soviet Union, and the United States all got involved in the First Indochina War, and how that led to the division of Vietnam into a communist North Vietnam and capitalist South Vietnam in the years leading up to the Vietnam War. Discover a plethora of topics such as: And much more!
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]]>Title: The James Webb Space Telescope]]>Subtitle: The History of the Most Powerful Telescope in Space]]>Categories: America, Astronomy, History, Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-10-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on the Space Shuttle Program’s 35th mission, but this was no ordinary mission. In its payload bay, Discovery was carrying the Hubble Space Telescope, with the objective of putting the telescope into orbit. Despite the costs and initial defects, the Hubble telescope has been a remarkably successful project, furthering astronomers’ understanding of the universe more than any other telescope or instrument in history. During its decades in orbit, the versatile telescope has taken high resolution images of objects billions of light years away, giving astronomers a look at the early universe. Along the way it has also taken the most detailed pictures of the solar system, captured the most striking images of star creation and supernovae, and uncovered evidence of phenomena like gamma-ray bursts and dark energy. What made Hubble so crucial is that by escaping Earth’s atmosphere, the telescope’s views eliminated limitations and interruptions that are a natural part of land-based telescopes. Land-based telescopes are larger, cheaper, and easier to maintain. They are also not vulnerable to the risk of colliding with space junk or fast-moving small meteoric materials.
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]]>Title: Life Under Nazi Occupation]]>Subtitle: The Struggle to Survive During World War II]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Judaism, Military]]>Author: Paul Roland]]>Narrator: Richard Trinder]]>Publisher: Arcturus Digital Limited]]>Release date: 02-09-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When the Nazis invaded, they did not intend to govern fairly. Instead, they stripped defeated nations of their treasures, industry, and natural resources, with the aim of asserting German supremacy and imposing Hitler's New Order in Europe. Paul Roland tells the story of daily life under Nazi rule in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Guernsey and the Channel Islands. This was brought to heel by bribery and brutality, rape and torture, inducement and intimidation as the Germans carried out their vile policies. We hear of quislings and collaborators who conspired with their captors, the "enemies of the Reich", including Jewish citizens who were rounded up and exterminated, as well as stories of incredible courage by individuals who struck back against the Führer. Featuring haunting photographs of the people and places under occupation, this shocking book confronts us with the reality of the Nazi rule: a regime which would have swept the entirety of Europe had Germany won the war.
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]]>Title: Bram Stoker]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Ireland, Press]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-07-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Bram Stoker. Irish author Bram Stoker is considered one of the masters of Gothic horror, in large part due to his creation of one of modern culture’s most enduring villains, Count Dracula. Making a life first in civil service and then in the theater, Stoker drew upon his personal experiences, his deepest fears, and the larger-than-life people in his inner circle to create his timeless masterpiece, cementing his own immortality in the process. It is unlikely that Stoker could have conceived, even in his wildest dreams, what an impact his undying villain would have on the world a century after his death. It served as inspiration time and again for countless adaptations in art, print, on stage, and on screen, dating back to the very beginnings of cinema. Since its initial publication, Dracula has been translated into every major language and studied by hundreds of writers, critics, and historians. In over 120 years, it has never been out of print. Discover a plethora of topics such as:
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]]>Title: Aztec Astronomy and Astrology]]>Subtitle: The History of the Aztec’s Measurements of the Planets and Stars]]>Categories: America, Astronomy, History, Science, Space Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-01-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Many ancient civilizations have influenced and inspired people in the 21st century, and the Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate the West today, but of all the world’s civilizations, none have intrigued people more than the Mayans, whose culture, astronomy, language, and mysterious disappearance all continue to captivate people. In the past decade especially, there was a renewed focus on the Maya, whose advanced calendar led many to speculate the world would end on the same date the Mayan calendar ended in 2012. Nearly 500 years after the Spanish conquered their mighty empire, the Aztecs are often remembered today for their major capital, Tenochtitlan, as well as being fierce conquerors of the Valley of Mexico who often engaged in human sacrifice rituals. Unlike the Maya, the Aztecs are not widely viewed or remembered with nuance, in part because their own leader burned extant Aztec writings and rewrote a mythologized history explaining his empire’s dominance less than a century before the Spanish arrived. Naturally, Cortes and other Spaniards depicted the Aztecs as savages greatly in need of conversion to Catholicism.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Wed, 01 Feb 2023 10:12:48 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bkWfv7l9 Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Hamilcar Barca]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Carthaginian General]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-31-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Carthage was one of the great ancient civilizations, and at its peak, the wealthy Carthaginian empire dominated the Mediterranean against the likes of Greece and Rome, with commercial enterprises and influence stretching from Spain to Turkey. In fact, at several points in history, it had a very real chance of replacing the fledgling Roman empire or the failing Greek poleis (city-states) altogether as master of the Mediterranean. Although Carthage by far preferred to exert economic pressure and influence before resorting to direct military power (and even went so far as to rely primarily on mercenary armies paid with its vast wealth for much of its history, it nonetheless produced a number of outstanding generals, from the likes of Hanno Magnus to the great bogeyman of Roman nightmares himself: Hannibal. However, the Carthaginians’ foreign policy had one fatal flaw: they had a knack over the centuries of picking the worst enemies to fight. The first serious clash of civilizations Carthage faced was against Greece, which rapidly became hostile when the Carthaginians began pushing to spread their influence towards the colonies known as Magna Graecia (“Great Greece”).
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]]>Title: The English Armada]]>Subtitle: The History of the Counter Armada Sent by Queen Elizabeth to Spain in 1589]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-24-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On July 12, 1588, the legendary Spanish Armada headed for the English Channel. The Spanish plan was to take this invasion, led by the Duke of Parma, to the coast of southeast England, where they would be unleashed to conquer Elizabethan England for Spain’s King Philip II and Catholic Christendom. The Armada included over 150 ships, 8,000 sailors, and 18,000 soldiers, and it boasted a firepower of 1,500 brass guns and 1,000 iron guns. Just leaving port itself took the entire Armada two days. As everyone who has been taught history now knows, the Armada was one of the most famous military debacles in history. Regardless of the debate over whether it was simple mathematical miscalculation or plain bad luck, coupled with English fire ships assailing the Spanish ships, the Armada was decisively defeated. The Armada ultimately found its reluctant way home in awful conditions, having permanently lost over a third of the ships, and on the Irish coast, the Armada suffered further losses. What has since been overlooked is that the undeclared Anglo-Spanish War continued, and it would do so until 1604.
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]]>Title: Little Richard]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Musicians)]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-24-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Little Richard.... Little Richard was an incredible performer and musical pioneer who revolutionized music for generations to come. For just about anyone else, such words might sound like hyperbole, but for Little Richard, it’s the pure and simple truth. Little Richard, with his jumpy driving sound and innovative vocalizations, certainly earned his title as the “Architect of Rock and Roll.” Just like he said in one of his songs—“Ready Teddy! Rock and Roll!”—it’s pure and simple rock and roll; it’s pure and simple Little Richard. This book tells you all about his exciting story, which came to inspire icons such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, and David Bowie. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Little Richard, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Mayan Astronomy]]>Subtitle: The History of the Maya’s Measurements of the Planets and Stars]]>Categories: Ancient, Astronomy, History, STEM]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-24-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Many ancient civilizations have influenced and inspired people in the 21st century. The Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate the West today, but of all the world’s civilizations, none have intrigued people more than the Mayans, whose culture, astronomy, language, and mysterious disappearance all continue to captivate people. In the past decade especially, there has been a renewed focus on the Mayans, whose advanced calendar led many to speculate the world would end on the same date the Mayan calendar ended in 2012. The focus on the “doomsday” scenario, however, overshadowed the Mayans’ true contributions to astronomy, language, sports, and art. While many incorrectly presume that the Maya were predicting the world to end on that date, it is not a coincidence that their calendar ended on the winter solstice. The Maya developed a sophisticated method of calculating and creating a calendar that is astonishing even by today’s standards, and their advancements in applied mathematics not only has intrigued archaeologists, but has been incorporated into the beliefs of New Agers and modern apocalyptic doomsayers. In the history of arithmetic, their use of zero stands as a milestone of great significance, which placed them ahead of contemporary Europeans.
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]]>Title: History of Ohio]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the People and Events That Shaped the History of the Buckeye State]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-20-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The history of Ohio is so much more than farms and factories. Do you think there isn’t much to know about the US state of Ohio, or do you think you already know everything there is to know? Prepare to be amazed. Ohio is quite possibly the most important state in the United States, and has a history as varied and as interesting as any ancient kingdom. The remains of ancient civilizations, the home of some of the richest human beings to ever live, grisly wars for domination, and epic struggles for freedom—Ohio’s history has it all. From the first humans in Ohio to the great systems of canals and railroads to the development of space travel, Ohioans have been at the center of progress for many years. Did you know that Ohio and Michigan were once at war? Did you know that the 18th, 19th, and 20th US presidents were all from Ohio? Did you know that ancient Ohioans built massive effigy mounds, and that we’re only now discovering what they mean? Ohio has an amazing story to tell the world; you just have to listen. Delve into this audiobook on the history of Ohio and learn more about:
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]]>Title: The Longbow]]>Subtitle: The History of the Weapon That Revolutionized Warfare in the Middle Ages]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-19-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the time period between the fall of Rome and the spread of the Renaissance across the European continent, many of today’s European nations were formed, the Catholic Church rose to great prominence, some of history’s most famous wars occurred, and a social class system was instituted that lasted over 1,000 years. A lot of activity took place during a period frequently labeled derogatively as the “Dark Ages” and while that period of time is mostly referred to as the “Middle Ages” instead of the Dark Ages today, it has still retained the stigma of being a sort of lost period of time in which Western civilization made no worthwhile progress after the advances of the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome. In reality, this oversimplification of the Middle Ages overlooks the progress made in the studies of sciences and philosophy especially during the High Middle Ages.
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]]>Title: Gallipoli Campaign]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (World War 1)]]>Series: #3 in World War 1]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, World War I]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-17-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Gallipoli Campaign... The Gallipoli Campaign is known as one of the worst blunders committed by the Allied Forces during the First World War. Despite being first thought up long before the beginning of the war, it was ultimately a hastily arranged campaign that the British hoped would knock the Ottoman Empire—one of the Central Powers—out of the war and slow the German war machine. With Germany finding success on every front, the Allies were desperate for new ideas. It was Winston Churchill’s enthusiasm that encouraged the British War Council to give the campaign the green light, yet he would later lament the timing. Although it was a bold plan, a myriad of factors conspired to make Gallipoli one of the most futile operations of the war. Nevertheless, the lives lost from battles fought there would go on to echo throughout modern history. Turks, Australians, and New Zealanders on the battleground and at home would reconsider their nations' places within their respective empires in the aftermath.
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]]>Title: The Ottoman-Portuguese Conflicts]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Military Encounters Between the Ottoman Empire and Portugal in the Indian Ocean]]>Categories: Europe, History, Middle East, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Knupp]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-17-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the fourth century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul. The end of the Byzantine Empire had a profound effect not only on the Middle East but Europe as well. Constantinople had played a crucial part in the Crusades, and the fall of the Byzantines meant that the Ottomans now shared a border with Europe.
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]]>Title: Robert Oppenheimer: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: World War 2 Biographies]]>Categories: Biography, History, Military, Nuclear Warfare, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-11-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Robert Oppenheimer.... Robert Oppenheimer had a lot resting on his shoulders. During the Second World War, he was tasked with directing the development of the world’s first nuclear arsenal. Known as the Manhattan Project, this super-secretive wartime project had the stoic visage of Oppenheimer overseeing the greatest experiment ever conducted by humankind. Much had happened in Oppenheimer’s life to lead him to this point, and much would subsequently take place after, but this moment was indeed the pinnacle of his career and his life. In this book, we will explore both the tragedy and triumph that is J. Robert Oppenheimer—the father of the atomic bomb. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on Robert Oppenheimer, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Título: El antiguo Irán [Ancient Iran]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de Persia, desde los elamitas, pasando por los medos, los aqueménidas, el Imperio seléucida, Partia y la dinastía sasanida, hasta la conquista árabe]]>Categorías: Ancient, Education, History, Iran]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 01-06-2023]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Descubra la historia del antiguo Irán, que abarca desde sus misteriosos orígenes hasta la conquista islámica. La antigua Persia evoca imágenes de extravagantes palacios, hermosos jardines, formidables ejércitos y poderosos reyes, reinas y príncipes. Los inicios de la historia iraní son enigmáticos, pero desde la cuna de los montes Zagros occidentales surgieron los mayores imperios que el mundo ha conocido. Los elamitas, los medos, los aqueménidas, los partos y los sasánidas surgieron de orígenes culturales interconectados que podían rastrear sus raíces a través de cada imperio sucesivo. Los antiguos persas experimentaron un mestizaje cultural a lo largo del tiempo, como la época helenística mediterránea, que trajo a los griegos y a los romanos. Mucho más tarde, los árabes musulmanes desbarataron el último de los imperios antiguos e imprimieron su nueva religión, el islam, en el Gran Irán. Pero la cultura persa se mantuvo firme durante milenios y, tras cinco mil años de conquistas imperiales, Irán conserva la antigua identidad de su primer pueblo. En este audio libro, aprenderá: Desplácese hacia arriba y haga clic en el botón «comprar ahora» para saber más sobre el antiguo Irán. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: History of Iceland]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Land of Fire and Ice, from the Viking Age to the Present]]>Categories: Education, Europe, History, Learning, Scandinavia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-05-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that Iceland was likely initially settled by Irish monks? Iceland, the land of fire and ice, has a storied history. After the Norse discovered Iceland, they began to settle it, allying the island nation with Norway. However, as power shifted in Scandinavia, Iceland would come to be governed by Denmark for several centuries. For much of Iceland’s history, it practiced a subsistence society. The people were dependent on fishing and farming to survive, and because of their isolation, they did not advance at the same rate as the rest of Europe. In addition, they were often subject to forces beyond their control. The often-violent environment not only shaped their daily lives, but also created many of the struggles they faced. Although the Icelanders were isolated, they were impacted by the events in Europe, especially those in the Scandinavian nations. It took centuries, but the Icelanders were able to become a sovereign nation, doing so in 1944.
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]]>Title: Tezcatlipoca]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Postclassic Mesoamerica’s Supreme God]]>Categories: America, Ancient, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-05-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Worshipped by many cultures, one of the main deities of the great Aztec Empire, the “Lord of the Smoking Mirror,” is also one of the most interesting and elusive Mesoamerican deities. Known as the master of the destinies of the world, giver and despoiler, patron of kings and slaves, sower of discords and revealer of sins, lord of night and darkness, and the first sun of the creation, he is as fascinating as he is complex. Tezcatlipoca was as feared as he was revered, for the god was all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful, yet also fickle, capricious, and with a wicked sense of humor to boot. The study of Tezcatlipoca must necessarily be framed in the Mesoamerican historical-cultural context, which is an undertaking entailing a fair amount of difficulties. Due to the complexity of each culture’s mythology, the many different gods, languages, and people involved, their study and the attempts made thus far to understand and explain it all have not resulted in a clear, unified discourse, but in a multiplicity of interpretations.
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]]>Title: The Cherokee]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to Present (Native American History)]]>Series: #10 in Native American History]]>Categories: America, Colonialism, History, Indigenous, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-04-2023]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Cherokee.... For many generations, the Aniyunwiya (meaning the “real people” or “principal people”) lived in harmony with the land they inhabited. They worshipped their ancestors and believed that every living thing—people, animals, trees, and plants—had a spirit and an important place in the world. Then, strangers arrived from lands far to the east. They brought with them new weapons and technologies, new diseases, a new religion, and a very different approach to the land and the animals and people who lived there. They even called the Aniyunwiya by a new name: the Cherokee. This is the story of the Cherokee people, their history, culture, and beliefs, and what happened to them before and after they first encountered European explorers. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on the Cherokee, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Oracle of Dodona]]>Subtitle: The History of Ancient Greece’s Oldest Oracle]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, Greece, History, Religious Study]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-29-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In ancient Greece, “no other practice was so universal than the consultation of oracles.” These holy sites were found in 260 locations around the Greek-speaking world, and they were considered the “most satisfactory means of ascertaining the future.” These sanctuaries were “set apart from the profane, ordinary world”, and were restricted to natural locations where the divine was thought to be “especially present.” They were set aside for special spiritual functions, and a state of purity was generally required of its participants. A historical tendency toward providing haven for criminals was based on the fear of shedding blood in a holy place, and the “fear that the evil magic would emanate from his curse.” Of course, the Oracle of Delphi was one of the greatest religious institutions in ancient Greece, and one which played a significant role not only in the formation and collective decisions of Hellenic localities and city-states, but also in the personal lives of Greeks. The site was dedicated to the god Apollo, and the Greeks believed the god spoke his oracles through his prophetess, known as the Pythia.
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]]>Title: Neil Armstrong]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, Explorer, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-28-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Neil Armstrong! Neil Armstrong is often referred to as an American hero for his service both as an astronaut and a veteran of the US Armed Forces, but in truth, Armstrong isn’t just America’s hero—he’s a global one. Armstrong was the first human being to step foot on the moon, and he didn’t just do it for his home country—he did it for the whole planet. Armstrong landed on the moon and came back to talk about it, but as incredible as this one feat is, Armstrong’s life was much more than that one moon landing. In this audiobook, we explore Neil Armstrong’s life from beginning to end. Discover a plethora of topics such as:
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Wed, 28 Dec 2022 21:25:03 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bGlfzLgO Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Mud Flood Hypothesis]]>Subtitle: The History of the Conspiracy Theory About the Global Empire of Tartaria]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Media Study, Social Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Van Der Molen]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-28-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The phenomenon of “conspiracy” or “fringe” theories has always been with people, which makes sense since captivating and entertaining hypotheses arouse the public interest with seemingly sound conclusions that are often based on incomplete, unrelated, or erroneous suppositions. However, with the correct tweaking, they often appear to propound airtight arguments. Conspiracy theories make good use of real or imagined individuals or organizations operating behind a curtain of secrecy manipulating the action. Since the advent of the internet, there has been an explosion of such theories, easily mounted for a vast public viewership and fed from numerous sources of unknown origins. In recent years, theories such as the electric universe and plasma chronology, the motionless Earth, and life inside black holes constitute just a few. Recent phenomena include “star larvae,” stars as living organisms, a return to the flat earth theory, the expanding and contracting earth, aquatic bipeds, and our planet existing as a dead star.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Wed, 28 Dec 2022 07:52:24 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-VqlfRP4A Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Battle of White Mountain]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the First Major Battle of the Thirty Years’ War]]>Categories: Christianity, Ecclesiastical, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-22-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It has been famously pointed out that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, but it was also not an empire in the sense people expect when hearing the term. In theory, the emperor was the highest prince in Christendom, and his dominion extended the length and breadth of Western Europe. The empire had been created by the papacy in 801 when Pope Leo III famously crowned the supposedly unwitting Charlemagne in Saint Peter’s Basilica, intending to recreate the Western Roman Empire. In truth, the imperial power did not extend beyond central Europe, which by the beginning of the 16th century included Germany, northern Italy, and the Netherlands. Even in these lands, however, the emperor struggled to command obedience. His dominion over northern Italy was theoretical only, the cities of the Netherlands were deeply conscious of their ancient rights and privileges, and Germany had long ceased to be compliant. At the same time, the secular sovereigns frequently butted heads with religious authorities back in Rome, and arguably none of the conflicts were as crucial as the Investiture Controversy in the 11th century.
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]]>Title: California Gold Rush]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Exploration, History, Planet Earth, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-20-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Many of us dream of finding instant wealth. Just imagine if you were able to go to a place where you could simply gather from the ground gold worth many thousands of dollars. Now imagine that at a time when the average wage for an unskilled worker was barely ten dollars per month. That was the reality in California from 1848 to 1855. In the early days, people were able to find large quantities of gold using little more than picks, shovels, and metal pans. Fortunes were made not just by the gold-seekers themselves but also by those who sold them goods and services. When news of these discoveries reached the rest of America and the wider world in late 1848, a vast influx of hopeful prospectors descended on California, sparking a gold rush. In 1849, an average of over 1,000 people were arriving in San Francisco every week. With so many people looking for increasingly scarce gold, only a few of these “forty-niners” actually found wealth, and many instead experienced crushing work, disappointment, crime, disease, and death.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Tue, 20 Dec 2022 19:28:03 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-VqlfM16M Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Tiger from Poznań]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Richard Siegert]]>Narrator: Bruce Mann]]>Publisher: Tantor Audio]]>Release date: 12-20-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the Second World War, Poznan was a key river crossing and railway junction on the Polish-German border. When the alarm was given indicating the Red Army's approach in January 1945, the city's 80-100,000 German civilians were speedily evacuated, leaving a garrison of some 15,000 men, mostly poorly-armed infantry, to face the rigors of a siege conducted by a massively superior and ruthless enemy anxious to acquire this transport center, which was vital for the advance on Berlin. This is the account of Eastern Front veteran Richard Siegert, the gunner and later commander of the defenders' sole Tiger tank. Since the death of the driver in a futile attempt to escape from a PoW camp in Russia just after the end of the war, Siegert is the only survivor of that crew able to pass its record on to posterity. His account details how the crew fought gallantly against impossible odds, even when the Tiger was immobilized and could only act as a stationary antitank gun post or pillbox during the last heroic days' fighting for the citadel.
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]]>Title: Kublai Khan]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Mongolian Emperor of China]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-19-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Now am I come to that part of our Book in which I shall tell you of the great and wonderful magnificence of the Great Kaan now reigning, by name CUBLAY KAAN; Kaan being a title which signifyeth ‘The Great Lord of Lords,’ or Emperor. And of a surety he hath good right to such a title, for all men know for a certain truth that he is the most potent man, as regards forces and lands and treasure, that existeth in the world, or ever hath existed from the time of our First Father Adam until this day..." (Marco Polo) In a world fascinated by men like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan is one of history’s greatest and most famous conquerors. No man, before or since, has ever started with so little and gone on to achieve so much. From a noble family but raised in poverty that drove him to the brink of starvation, Genghis Khan rose to control the second-largest empire the world has ever known (the largest being, arguably, the British Empire of the 18th and 19th centuries), and easily the largest empire conquered by a single man.
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]]>Title: Whitney Houston]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Musicians)]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-13-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Whitney Houston was a rare star. She burst onto the music scene like a supernova one might only see once in a million years. Despite a humble beginning, she rapidly rose to fame on the strength of her voice and unbeatable charisma. Houston began her life singing in her hometown church in Newark, New Jersey, but ended up performing for the whole world to see. Her superstardom knew no bounds. In the middle of her career, however, drug use and a wild lifestyle took their toll. Many thought she was down for the count, but she would ultimately come back stronger than ever, producing one final masterpiece for the masses right before her life was tragically cut short.
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]]>Title: James Joyce]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (History of Ireland)]]>Categories: Author, Biography, Europe, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-12-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Few figures in Irish history are as well known as James Joyce. He was born into hardship in a country mired in political conflict, but rather than allow himself to get bogged down, he used his experiences to create some of the finest pieces of modernist literature to date. His work, in his time, was both subversive and controversial. On the one hand, it made publication difficult, which contributed to Joyce spending the majority of his life in poverty. On the other, it generated free publicity and broader public interest, which eventually led him to success. James Joyce is considered the number one literary voice of Ireland, and for good reason. In this book, we discover his life and his story from beginning to end.
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]]>Title: The Printing Press]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Medieval Invention that Revolutionized Europe]]>Categories: Civilization, Computer, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-08-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.” (Wendell Phillips) The crucial importance of education in China, a prized virtue instilled in the population among all classes by beloved teacher and philosopher Confucius in the 6th century BCE, generated an unprecedented and long-lived golden age of literature and art. It also gave rise to a cornucopia of transformative innovations and groundbreaking technology, particularly following the dawn of the Common Era. In addition to the wheelbarrow, the seismograph, the waterwheel, deep drilling, suspension bridges, and ship rudders, among countless other life-changing contraptions, the Chinese developed what were later dubbed the “Four Great Inventions of China.” One of those was printing, which slowly spread through South Asia and the Middle East before making it to Europe. The history of printing was for ancient Asia an advancement in culture and communication, but for Europe in the 15th century, it was much more, plunging the continent into a new paradigm and aligning it for the modern world.
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]]>Title: Tamerlane]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Mongol Conqueror]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, Head of State, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-05-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In a world fascinated by men like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan is one of history’s greatest and most famous conquerors. No man, before or since, has ever started with so little and gone on to achieve so much. From a noble family but raised in poverty that drove him to the brink of starvation, Genghis Khan rose to control the second-largest empire the world has ever known (the largest being, arguably, the British Empire of the 18th and 19th centuries), and easily the largest empire conquered by a single man. And while many empires disintegrate upon the death of an emperor, like Alexander the Great’s, Genghis Khan’s empire endured and was actually enlarged by his successors, who went on to establish dynasties that in some cases lasted for centuries. Though history is usually written by the victors, the lack of a particularly strong writing tradition from the Mongols ensured that history was largely written by those who they vanquished. Because of this, their portrayal in the West and the Middle East has been extraordinarily (and in many ways unfairly) negative for centuries, at least until recent revisions to the historical record.
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]]>Title: Spanish Empire]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 16th Century, Europe, History, Modern, Spain]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-02-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Spanish Empire.... The Spanish Empire was the first truly global empire and the first to be described as one on which “the sun never sets.” It rapidly grew to become one of the largest and most powerful empires in the history of the world and brought us goods such as potatoes, chocolate, and chewing gum. Yet in the Middle Ages, Spain as we now know it did not exist. Most of the north of the Iberian Peninsula was ruled by two powerful Christian kingdoms, Castile and Aragon, while the southern part was al-Andalus, an Islamic kingdom that had originated in North Africa. By the end of the fifteenth century, al-Andalus had been defeated, the peninsula was united under Christianity, and Spain had become one of the most powerful countries in Europe. Then, Spanish explorers discovered the Americas. Unimaginable wealth flowed from the New World to Spain, increasing its power even further. Over vast tracts of territory in the Americas and lands in Asia, Spanish became the dominant language and Catholic Christianity the dominant religion, all as a direct result of Spanish imperialism. Barely 300 years later, the Spanish Empire collapsed.
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]]>Title: The Tainos and Caribs]]>Subtitle: The History of the Indigenous Natives Who Encountered Christopher Columbus in 1492]]>Categories: America, Civilization, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-28-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On October 12, 1492, one of the most important “first contacts” of the modern era was made when three ships of Spanish origin approached the island archipelago now known as the Bahamas, cautiously dropping anchor as the captain of the fleet gazed across to what he assumed was the coast of India. According to the popular version of the story, amazed at the sight of ships and men of such unfamiliar appearance, the native people of the island plunged into the clear waters of the western Atlantic, expertly swimming or aboard dugout canoes, and came out to greet the strangers. In all probability, the meeting was much more cautious and incremental, but the idea that these innocent people, raised in a tropical Eden, might embrace with such open enthusiasm their own destruction is picturesque, and no doubt appeals to contemporary perceptions.
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]]>Title: Battle of Jutland]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #4 in World War 1]]>Categories: Europe, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-16-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Battle of Jutland, fought near Denmark’s Jutland peninsula in 1916, was unique in the first World War as the only major battle to be fought at sea. The British Royal Navy was then known as the master of the seas, and had been for decades due to its mighty number of ships and devastating arsenal of weaponry. The British were confident about their abilities at sea and had total faith in their Grand Fleet. However, this confidence had turned into complacency. In the years before the first World War began, the Germans had tried to increase their production to match the British. Their navy got close, and became the only one in the world that could challenge the Royal Navy on the seas. In the lead-up to the Battle of Jutland, the Germans were learning how to engage the British ships from clashes at Heligoland Bight and Dogger Bank. In this audiobook, you will hear about these battles, the personalities of the men involved, the planning, and the skirmishes that finally led to the confusion and devastating loss of life at the Battle of Jutland.
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]]>Title: The Mughal Empire:]]>Subtitle: The History of the Modern Dynasty That Ruled Much of India Before the British]]>Categories: Asia, Civilization, History, India]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-16-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>India has been the location of many different empires throughout its long history. The Indus Valley Civilization was home to one of the world’s first civilizations more than 5,000 years ago, which was followed by the Aryan-Vedic culture and then a host of other kingdoms that flourished across the subcontinent. India has also been the birthplace of many religions. The Vedic religion of the Aryans evolved into the Hindu religion, and Buddhism and Jainism were also born in India. By the Middle Ages, India was home to many different religions and ethnic groups, with dozens of languages being spoken, making India less of a single, unified country and more of a land of many countries. Despite India’s tradition of cultural and political pluralism, several rulers attempted to place the entire subcontinent under the rule of one dynasty or government with a dominant religion. Most of these would-be rulers were far from successful, although a few came close, setting the template for later conquerors. The Mughals, a group with Turkish and Mongolian roots, also used gunpowder weapons to sweep into northern India, topple the existing Islamic dynasty in Delhi, and eventually subject most of India to their rule.
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]]>Title: The Utah War]]>Subtitle: The History of the Federal Government’s Controversial Conflict with Brigham Young and the Latter-Day Saints]]>Categories: America, Biography, Christianity, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-11-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Among all the various figures in 19th century America who left controversial legacies, it is hard to find one as influential as Joseph Smith (1805-1844), the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Mormonism, and the Latter-Day Saint movement. Revered as a prophet on the level of Moses by some, reviled as a perpetrator of large-scale fraud by others, what everyone can agree on is that Joseph Smith founded a religious movement that played a crucial role in the settlement of the West, especially in Utah. Smith’s dream of Zion would lead the way for the trials and the tribulations of the Mormons for the rest of the 19th century, including countless conflicts with local authorities and the US government. Smith himself would be a casualty of the clashing, murdered by a mob in 1844 after being imprisoned in Carthage, Illinois near the settlement of Nauvoo, which Smith had painstakingly tried to create as a commune for his people. Among the most effective methods by which the Latter-Day Saints attained regional dominance was the flooding of specific areas with a like-minded population of fellow settlers and offspring, subsequently controlling the voting and government institutions through a weighty majority.
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]]>Título: Historia de Portugal [History of Portugal]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la historia de Portugal y del Imperio portugués]]>Categorías: Europe, History, Spain]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 11-10-2022]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>2 manuscritos completos en 1 libro: En la primera parte de este libro, aprenderá: En la segunda parte de este libro, aprenderá: ¡Obtenga este libro ahora para saber más sobre la historia portuguesa! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Dr. Mary Edwards Walker]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Civil Rights Activist Who Became the Only Woman to Receive the Medal of Honor]]>Categories: America, Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michelle Morgan]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-10-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.” (Dr. Mary Edwards Walker) During the last 100 years, Susan B. Anthony has been one of the most venerated women in American history. 80 years before that, she was one of the most hated women in American history. Today, of course, every American is taught about their nation’s most famous suffragist, who tirelessly advocated and lobbied for women to be granted the right to vote. But while Anthony is best remembered today for working towards women’s suffrage with other women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she was an active and progressive advocate for all of the leading human rights issues of her time. In the process of becoming one of the most famous Americans of her era, Anthony’s legacy has overshadowed many of her contemporaries who were also active in the fight for civil rights. Among them, few led as interesting or progressive a life as Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, who grew up in a family that encouraged every kind of pursuit for girls and provided an educational foundation that would propel Walker in many fields.
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]]>Título: La antigua Turquía [Ancient Turkey]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante sobre Göbekli Tepe y las antiguas civilizaciones de Anatolia y Tracia oriental (Civilizaciones olvidadas)]]>Categorías: History, Middle East, Turkey]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 11-08-2022]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>El rey Midas convertía en oro todo lo que tocaba. Shahmaran era un ser de conocimiento infinito que ayudó a crear el primer médico del mundo. ¿Qué tenían en común? La antigua Turquía era una tierra de mitos y misterios, pero sus secretos se van descubriendo poco a poco. Conozca las culturas legendarias que dejaron su huella en esta región única y descubra qué historias son reales y cuáles son ficción. La historia de la antigua Turquía es importante porque permite conocer cómo era Anatolia antes de los imperios romano y bizantino, pero gran parte de la información ha quedado sepultada por el tiempo. Muchas de las antiguas culturas de Anatolia no dejaron muchos registros escritos, lo que dificultó a los investigadores descifrar sus historias. Ha sido un viaje agotador, pero el pasado de Anatolia ha salido por fin a la luz.
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]]>Title: The Klondike Gold Rush]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Major Migration of Gold Miners to Yukon and Its Impact on the History of Canada and the United States of America (Exploring Canada’s Past)]]>Categories: America, Canada, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-08-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that the Klondike Gold Rush was the biggest and fastest movement of people in North American history? From 1897 to 1898, over 100,000 men and women walked, rode, paddled, and sailed thousands of miles to the Klondike River area of the Canadian Yukon in search of gold. Out of those 100,000 people, only about a quarter ever made it to the goldfields, and those who did mostly went home empty-handed. But for a very lucky, hard-working, and fortunate few, the goldfields of the Yukon meant fame and fortune beyond their wildest dreams. In this audiobook by Captivating History, you will discover the truth about the famous Klondike Stampede. Here’s just a small “nugget” of what you’ll discover: Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to learn more about the Klondike Gold Rush!
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]]>Título: El Imperio portugués [The Portuguese Empire]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la historia de Portugal como potencia colonial y sus colonias en Asia, América del Norte y del Sur, y Oceanía]]>Categorías: Europe, History, Spain]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 11-07-2022]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¿Alguna vez se ha preguntado qué país tuvo el primer imperio verdaderamente global? La gente solía decir que «el sol nunca se pone en el Imperio británico» como forma de declarar la grandeza de Gran Bretaña. Pero fueron los portugueses quienes forjaron el primer imperio verdaderamente global. Los principales dominios de los portugueses envolvían el globo en línea recta, desde Brasil hasta Angola, desde Mozambique a la India y hasta Macao. Con sus dominios bajo múltiples husos horarios, el sol, de hecho, nunca se puso sobre el Imperio portugués. En este audio libro seguiremos la evolución de Portugal, el cual pasó de ser un país pequeño y relativamente oscuro en Europa a un imperio mundial de gran riqueza y poder. Conocerá los primeros días de conquista de Portugal y su lucha contra las fuerzas islámicas del norte de África. A continuación, este audio libro documenta la navegación constante de los marinos portugueses por el continente africano. Se tratan con gran profundidad las hazañas de los exploradores portugueses, como Bartolomé Díaz y Vasco da Gama. También se aborda el gobierno de Portugal en su imperio.
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]]>Title: Ancient Turkey]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Göbekli Tepe and the Ancient Civilizations of Anatolia and Eastern Thrace (Forgotten Civilizations)]]>Categories: History, Middle East, Turkey]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-06-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>King Midas turned everything he touched into gold. Shahmaran was a being of infinite knowledge who helped create the world’s first doctor. What did they have in common? Ancient Turkey was a land of myth and mystery, but its secrets are slowly being uncovered. Find out about the legendary cultures that left their mark on this unique region, and discover which stories are fact and which are fiction. The history of ancient Turkey is important since it gives insight into what Anatolia was like before the Roman and Byzantine Empires, but much of the information has been buried by time. Many ancient Anatolian cultures didn’t leave behind many written records, which made it difficult for scholars to decipher their stories. It has been a strenuous journey, but Anatolia’s past has finally come to light. Now, listeners can discover ancient Turkey’s secrets in this simple, comprehensive audiobook. This audiobook will give you an overview of the civilizations of ancient Turkey and guide you through the following: Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to learn more about ancient Turkey today!
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]]>Title: Patagonia]]>Subtitle: The History of the Southernmost Region in South America]]>Categories: America, Europe, History, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-04-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Patagonia is in the southernmost region of South America, comprising about 400,000 square miles going from the Colorado River in the north to the Tierra del Fuego archipelago in the south. Longitudinally, it covers the whole continental soil, going from the Atlantic shore to the Pacific’s waters, including a few islands near the coast, part of the South American plate. The name "Patagonia" comes from an observation made by Ferdinand Magellan, who visited the region during his historic expedition around the world. Marveled by the height of the indigenous people, he referred to the region as a “land of giants.” Those giants were the Tehuelches, named by Magellan’s expedition as Patagones, and the chronicles of that trip, written by Antonio Pigafetta, popularized the term “Patagones”, a term that refers to their big feet (in Spanish, “patones” means "of big feet"). This description would later derive in the name Patagonia. From its discovery until the 20th century, the borders of Patagonia as well as those elements that define it as such have gone through several changes and names.
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]]>Title: Apollo Program]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (The Cold War)]]>Categories: America, Exploration, History, Planet Earth, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-02-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On May 25, 1961, less than two months after a Soviet cosmonaut had made the very first space flight, President John F. Kennedy told Congress, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” The Space Race, the technological confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, had barely begun, and it was clear that America was lagging behind. Yet here was a US president committing the nation to achieving one of the most challenging goals ever to face humankind. Somehow, in just over eight years, American engineers and technicians were expected to design and build an entirely new series of spacecraft capable of taking astronauts to the Moon. The Apollo Program would face one of the boldest challenges ever set by any national leader in peacetime. It was also one of the most complex and expensive projects ever undertaken; it eventually cost $28 billion (over $280 billion in current value), employed over 400,000 people, and subcontracted work to more than 20,000 companies.
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]]>Title: Sacred Animals in Ancient Egypt]]>Subtitle: The History of the Egyptians’ Different Concepts of Animal Divinities]]>Categories: Ancient, Egypt, History, Middle East, Religious Study]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-01-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe nearly 5,000 years later. From the Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria to the Great Pyramid at Giza, the ancient Egyptians produced several wonders of the world, revolutionized architecture and construction, created some of the world’s first systems of mathematics and medicine, and established language and art that spread across the known world. With world-famous leaders like King Tut and Cleopatra, it’s no wonder that today’s world has so many Egyptologists. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of ancient Egyptian civilization was its inception from the ground up, as the ancient Egyptians had no prior civilization that they could use as a template. In fact, ancient Egypt itself became a template for the civilizations that followed. The Greeks and the Romans were so impressed with Egyptian culture that they often attributed many attributes of their own culture—usually erroneously—to the Egyptians. With that said, some minor elements of ancient Egyptian culture were, indeed, passed on to later civilizations.
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]]>Title: Meat Grinder]]>Subtitle: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942–43]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Prit Buttar]]>Narrator: Nathan Osgood]]>Publisher: Osprey Publishing]]>Release date: 11-01-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>An engrossing history of the desperate battles for the Rzhev Salient, a forgotten story brought to life by the harrowing memoirs of German and Russian soldiers. The fighting between the German and Russian armies in the Rzhev Salient during World War II was so grisly, so murderous, and saw such vast losses that the troops called the campaign 'The Meat Grinder'. Though millions of men would fight and die there, the Rzhev Salient does not have the name recognition of Leningrad or Moscow. It has been largely ignored by Western historians – until now. In this book, Prit Buttar, a leading expert on the Eastern Front, reveals the depth and depravity of the bitter fighting. He details how the region held the promise of a renewed drive on Moscow for the German Army – a chance to turn the tide of war.
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]]>Title: Taking Berlin]]>Subtitle: The Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Martin Dugard]]>Narrator: Samuel Roukin]]>Publisher: Penguin Audio]]>Release date: 11-01-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O'Reilly's Killing series, comes a nonfiction thriller about the race between the Allies and Soviets to conquer the heart of Nazi Germany. “Gripping, popular history at its page-turning best.”—Alex Kershaw • “With the precision of a smart bomb, Martin Dugard puts the reader directly into the campaign to destroy Hitler.”—Bill O’Reilly • “Spectacular . . . Taking Berlin is certain to be a massive hit with fans of both history and thrillers alike.”—Mark Greaney, bestselling author of the Gray Man series Fall, 1944. Paris has been liberated, saved from destruction, but this diversion on the road to Berlin has given the Germans time to regroup. The American and British armies press on from the west, facing the enemy time and again in the Hurtgen Forest, during the Market Garden invasion, and at the Battle of the Bulge, all while American general George Patton and British field marshal Bernard Montgomery vie for supremacy as the Allies’ top battlefield commander. Meanwhile, the Soviets begin to squeeze Hitler’s crumbling Reich from the east.
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]]>Título: Santa Claus: Los orígenes históricos y la evolución del legendario personaje navideño [Santa Claus: The Historical Origins and Evolution of the Legendary Christmas Character]]]>Categorías: Christian Living, Christianity, History, Holiday, Planet Earth]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Leslie Esparza]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 10-31-2022]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>La Navidad es la fiesta más importante del año. Después de los días correspondientes que exaltan el orgullo nacional de cada país, como el Día de la Independencia en Estados Unidos, el Día de la Victoria en rusia o el Día de la Bastilla en Francia, es el 25 de diciembre el que articula la vida, el trabajo y la economía en buena parte del mundo, incluidos muchos países no cristianos. Desde tiempos antiguos, el comienzo del invierno ha sido la ocasión para que la mayoría de la gente coma, beba, baile y se reúna para tocar el tambor y tomar un descanso. En especial a partir del siglo XX, los días adyacentes al feriado se han convertido en una ocasión para hacer grandes ventas. La temporada de invierno es el estímulo más sólido para la economía –más que cualquier paquete fiscal– ya que los ingresos de las familias, los gastos, el crédito y el consumo en todos los sectores productivos aumentan significativamente. Tan solo en los Estados Unidos, se estima que las ventas navideñas generan 3 trillones de dólares. 1804 marcaría un hito en la historia de la Navidad.
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]]>Title: George Harrison]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Musicians)]]>Categories: Biography, Celebrity, Europe, Great Britain]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-27-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Often referred to as the quiet Beatle, George Harrison’s demure and slightly moody visage can be seen peeking out at us from countless Beatles and solo albums. It seemed that George was such a powerful presence, he really didn’t even need to speak. This was the man who bid us to listen while his guitar gently wept. Harrison—whether in music or in life—was a deep diving, virtuoso supreme, but beyond his sheer musical genius, there is much more to his story than might first meet the eye. Here, in this book, we probe the depths to reveal George Harrison’s life and legend in full.
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]]>Title: The Philippine-American War]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Rebellion Against America’s Occupation of the Philippines]]>Categories: America, Asia, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-24-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On April 27, 1898, six American ships of the line, led by the Olympia with Commodore George Dewey aboard, headed toward Manila Bay. After several days of sailing over the South China Sea, Dewey hoped to sail past the Spanish fort at Corregidor to arrive at Manila without detection, and sailed without lights in order to do so. He made it into the bay, where the naval battle with the Spanish South Pacific Squadron began in the wee hours of May 1, 1898. Dewey was a student of the Mahanian school of naval strategy, so called for the aggressive Alfred T. Mahan, a top naval strategist and president of the Naval War College. As such, he concentrated his efforts on the offensive, preferring to meet the Spanish fleet on his own terms and to avoid, if it all possible, fire from land-based batteries that lined Manila Bay. He refused to engage the batteries on land, sailing straight past the firing batteries and toward the Spanish fleet.
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]]>Title: Russo-Japanese War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Asia, History, Japan, Planet Earth, Russia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-21-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Barbed wire, trenches, and machine guns are all elements of modern warfare that are mainly associated with the bloody carnage of World War One, yet they were all first used in combination 10 years earlier in a largely forgotten war that was fought in Manchuria and Korea: the Russo-Japanese War. At this time, the Russian Empire was expanding south into Asia, while the growing Japanese Empire was expanding north into the same territory. Conflict between the two seemed inevitable. Few doubted the outcome: the Russian Empire had one of the largest armies and most powerful navies in the world. Japan’s armed forces, meanwhile, were much smaller and lacked a tradition of modern warfare. A short war and a rapid and emphatic Russian victory were generally expected. That wasn’t how things turned out. This is the surprising story of the Russo-Japanese War, the first major war of the twentieth century.
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]]>Título: Historia de Portugal [History of Portugal]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la historia portuguesa desde la antigüedad hasta el presente [A Fascinating Guide to Portuguese History from Ancient Times to the Present]]]>Categorías: Europe, History, Spain]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 10-14-2022]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¿Sabía que la actual Lisboa, la capital de Portugal, es la primera ciudad europea construida teniendo en cuenta la seguridad sísmica? ¡Y hay una muy buena razón para ello! En 1755, Portugal fue golpeado por un terremoto que mediría nueve en la futura escala de Richter. Portugal, que se encuentra en la Península Ibérica, tiene una rica historia que se remonta a tiempos prehistóricos. Los primeros pobladores dejaron un arte increíble en forma de grabados rupestres y monolitos, pero estas personas que se asentaron en la región nunca se integraron a la sociedad. Había comerciantes fenicios, romanos, tribus germánicas, musulmanes del norte de África e hispanos. Esta mezcla de etnias dio como resultado una lengua y una cultura únicas en el reino medieval de Portugal, e incluso se podría decir de la actual República Portuguesa. Portugal es probablemente mejor conocido por explorar el mundo durante la Era de los Descubrimientos. En este libro, aprenderá: ¡Compre este audiolibro ahora para aprender más sobre la historia de Portugal! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Tupac Amaru II]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Peruvian Leader Who Rebelled Against the Spanish Empire]]>Categories: America, Biography, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-13-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the time Christopher Columbus started setting east from the New World, he had explored San Salvador in the Bahamas (which he thought was Japan), Cuba (which he thought was China), and Hispaniola, the source of gold. As the common story goes, Columbus, en route back to Spain from his first journey, called in at Lisbon as a courtesy to brief the Portuguese King John II of his discovery of the New World. King John subsequently protested that according to the 1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas, which divided the Atlantic Ocean between Spanish and Portuguese spheres of influence, the newly discovered lands rightly belonged to Portugal. To make clear the point, a Portuguese fleet was authorized and dispatched west from the Tagus to lay claim to the “Indies,” which prompted a flurry of diplomatic activity in the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
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]]>Title: Bing Crosby]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Musicians)]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-11-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Bing Crosby was a real legend. Celebrated across the country and beyond, he was essentially America’s first superstar. With catchy tunes, a catchy name, and a laid-back, charming personality that everyone just seemed to love, Crosby was a star both on and off stage. Bing Crosby arrived in California as a young man with nothing and rapidly progressed to superstardom. Such words may seem like an exaggeration, but they’re really not. During the course of his prolific career, he starred in more than 70 films and recorded some 1,600 songs. Soldiers coming back from World War II would later attest to the fact that Bing Crosby could be heard at posts as far away as India; his music sucked in just about anyone who heard it. This book takes an in-depth look at the life behind all of that great music.
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]]>Title: Ancient Africa for Kids]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Ancient African Civilizations, Empires, and History]]>Categories: Africa, Ancient, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-06-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know ancient Africa was so powerful that ancient traders flocked to its cities? You’ve probably heard about Egypt and the amazing pyramids they built, but did you know that there is a lot more to ancient African history than just the Egyptians? They were only a small part of Africa’s amazing history. Ancient Africa had powerful armies that fought with each other and with civilizations that weren’t even from Africa. They were also rich in things like gold, ivory, and salt, and the ancient Africans knew how to build a healthy trade network that could even cross the vast Sahara Desert. Their civilizations were wealthy and filled with beautiful art, some of which we can still see today. For years, the history of ancient Africa has been overshadowed by other ancient civilizations. Although Rome, Greece, and Byzantium were essential to ancient history, ancient Africa was also a powerhouse that some historians have overlooked. It’s time to journey into the heart of ancient African history.
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]]>Title: Edward I]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Life and Death of the Hammer of the Scots and His Impact on the History of England (Exploring England's Past)]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-06-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Who was King Edward I of England? And why should we learn about him? King Edward I was the first of three Edwards who reigned in perfect succession. He was one of the most important kings in English history, but he was also one of the most controversial. This was the king who subdued Wales and fought Scotland to a standstill for much of his reign. He battled leading Scottish figures that are recognizable to even novice history students. Both William Wallace and Robert the Bruce butted heads with this English ruler. Edward engaged in harsh crackdowns, yet he also confirmed the statutes of the Magna Carta and helped strengthen ties to parliament. Edward often behaved as an absolutist dictator with a penchant for reform. He has been described as a “great and terrible” king, whose equal parts of greatness and terribleness can easily be seen throughout his tenure as an English monarch. In this book, you will learn about: Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to learn more about King Edward I of England!
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]]>Title: The Akkadian Empire]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the First Ancient Empire of Mesopotamia and How Sargon the Great of Akkad Conquered the Sumerian City-States (Exploring Mesopotamia)]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Iraq, Middle East]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-06-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Was the first empire really started by an abandoned orphan who rose to greatness? Was there an empire older and more important than mighty Egypt? There were a few, but the Akkadian Empire, born out of the cradle of civilization, is thought to be the first. And it was a game-changer. Its creation inspired conquerors and other empire-builders throughout history and spawned two world powers. Its epics, legends, and beliefs influence religions and cultures even today—and make for some darn good listening. Known mostly through clay tablets and stelae, the truth about the Akkadian Empire has intrigued and at times eluded scholars and historians. Victory reliefs made grandiose claims, and propaganda was rampant. Legendary poems countered cautionary tales about arrogance and oppression. We will discuss the men who ruled the empire and the legends that define what we know about them. Some of the treasures you’ll discover about the Akkadian Empire includes: Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to learn more about the Akkadians and the first known empire!
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]]>Title: Medieval Russia]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Russian History During the Middle Ages (Exploring Russia's Past)]]>Categories: History, Planet Earth, Russia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-06-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that Russia, as a united state, was not formed until the 16th century? Today, Russia is the biggest and one of the most populous countries in the world. From the early, primitive state-like formations in the 9th century, all the way to the creation of the first true tsardom of Russia in 1547, the history of medieval Russia is one filled with constant struggles for power, personal rivalries between various princes, bloody wars, and a search for identity. This period, which spans about eight centuries, is often forgotten when talking about Russia, despite its importance. Nowadays, people’s perception of Russia is largely defined by the era of the Soviet Union, and it is not hard to understand why. However, exploring such a pivotal period that shaped modern Russia is a must for everybody who is even partially interested in the history of the world. This audiobook serves as a guide for all listeners who want to delve deep into the history of medieval Russia. It covers exciting topics, such as: Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to begin learning more about medieval Russia!
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]]>Title: Kingdom of Dahomey]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 17th Century, Africa, History, Modern]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-05-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Imagine a fervently militaristic state with a feared professional army that included some of the only all-female military units ever seen. Imagine that same state with its own unique and sophisticated culture, religion, language, art, and society. Such a state did exist—not in the ancient past but as recently as the beginning of the 20th century. The kingdom of Dahomey was established in the 17th century and quickly rose to become one of the most powerful forces in West Africa. The society of this nation was based on conquest and the use of captives as slaves and human sacrifices. When the international slave trade expanded, Dahomey became one of the most significant slave trading centers in the world. This is the story of a unique kingdom that for more than 200 years was one of the most influential in Africa. This is the story of the Kingdom of Dahomey.
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]]>Title: John Tyler]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #16 in Biographies of US Presidents]]>Categories: America, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-23-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>John Tyler is perhaps one of America’s lesser-known presidents, and the fact that he even became president was due to the tragic death of his predecessor, William Henry Harrison. Throughout history, Tyler was indeed mostly known merely for the fact that he was the first vice president to be promoted to the presidency, but there is more to John Tyler’s story than that. He presided over a tumultuous time in American history and continued to play a decisive role in American politics even after leaving the White House. Here, in this book, we explore his life and his legacy in full.
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]]>Title: Russian Empire]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 18th Century, Europe, History, Modern, Russia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-19-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>What would become the Russian Empire began as territory acquired by Scandinavian settlers, the Rus, in the ninth century. In 1682, a new tsar took over the throne of the nation that had by then become known as Russia. Peter I, remembered as Peter the Great, transformed the country, and in 1721, he adopted the title of emperor of the Russian Empire. A series of powerful rulers, including Catherine the Great, built on the foundations that Peter had created to expand the territory controlled by the Russian Empire until it became one of the largest empires the world had ever seen. At its zenith, the Russian Empire had the most powerful army in the world and directly controlled over one-sixth of the total landmass of the Earth. However, despite its apparent power, this empire was afflicted by internal dissent that grew exponentially throughout the late 19th century. Assassination attempts on the tsar in that period became almost commonplace as people sought radical change. In 1917, the empire was destroyed, not due to an invasion from outside but because a weak leader was unable to stop its own internal contradictions from tearing it apart.
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]]>Title: Ancient Iran]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Persia, from the Elamites Through the Medians, Achaemenids, Seleucid Empire, Parthia, and Sasanian Dynasty to the Arab Conquest (History of Iran)]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, History, Iran]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-13-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the history of ancient Iran that spans from Iran’s mysterious origins to the Islamic conquest. Ancient Persia conjures images of extravagant palaces, beautiful gardens, mighty armies, and all-powerful kings, queens, and princes. The beginnings of Iranian antiquity are enigmatic, but from the cradle of the western Zagros Mountains came the greatest empires the world has ever known. The Elamites, Medians, Achaemenids, Parthians, and Sassanids all sprang from interlinked cultural origins that could trace their roots back through each successive empire. The ancient Persians experienced cultural mingling over time, such as the Mediterranean Hellenistic era, which brought the Greeks and Romans. Much later, the Muslim Arabs disrupted the last of the ancient empires and imprinted their new religion, Islam, across Greater Iran. But the Persian culture held firm for millennia, and after 5,000 years of imperial conquests, Iran retains the ancient identity of its first people. In this audiobook, you will learn: Scroll up, and buy now to learn more about ancient Iran!
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]]>Title: Harry S. Truman]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-13-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Seen by many as one of America’s greatest presidents, Harry S. Truman was, in many ways, an unexpected president. He came from a very undistinguished background and is, in fact, the only US president in recent history with the honor of being a college dropout. Despite what he may have lacked in formal education, Truman was a quick learner from the real-life experience he was given on the world stage. As president, he gets the credit for some major milestones in American policy, such as the creation of NATO, the desegregation of the armed services, and the successful undertaking of the Berlin Airlift, just to name a few. Here, in this in-depth and thought-provoking book, we cover the dynamic life and powerful legacy of President Harry S. Truman in full.
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]]>Title: Battle of Verdun]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (World War 1)]]>Series: #5 in World War 1]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-06-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Fought from February to December 1916, the Battle of Verdun was intended to “bleed the French white” and bring their army to the point of collapse. Instigated by the Germans under the command of General Erich von Falkenhayn, it became a war of attrition that would benefit neither side. With its devastating death toll and the appalling number of wounded, the Battle of Verdun is one of the deadliest in history. Both sides made mistakes in the longest battle fought in the First World War. General Falkenhayn’s attitude was perhaps just as astonishing as the death toll; deliberately opting for a battle plan that would slowly grind the French down, his hubris meant he overlooked the possibility of the Germans being dragged into an unwinnable situation. In this book, you will hear about Falkenhayn and the deplorable conditions he put the French and his own men through for the Battle of Verdun—a battle he knew the French could not resist.
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]]>Title: Dean Martin]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-31-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Dean Martin was a natural entertainer, known not only for his singing ability but also for his great showmanship on the stage. With Martin, it wasn’t just about the song—it was about the whole package. With songs such as “That’s Amore” and movies like Rio Bravo, he took the world by storm. Later, Dean Martin, along with other famous entertainers such as Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr., forged the ultimate group of performers: The Rat Pack, an inglorious name for a finely honed group of musical superstars. As successful as Martin was on the stage, however, his personal life wasn’t always easy. He had a hardscrabble upbringing where he struggled for every crumb. After dropping out of school, he labored in a steel mill, delivered bootleg liquor, served as a croupier in an illegal casino, and even had a brief career in amateur boxing. The latter earned him little apart from a broken nose and broken knuckles, but nevertheless, no one could keep Dean Martin’s spirit down for long. This is his life—this is his story.
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]]>Title: Battle of the Somme]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (World War 1)]]>Series: #4 in World War 1, #6 in World War 1]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-30-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Known as one of the deadliest battles in history with its over one million casualties, the Battle of the Somme in 1916 is regarded by many as the ultimate war of attrition. Intended to bring about a swift end to the First World War, the British planned a grueling five-day bombardment of German forces, only to be thwarted at seemingly every turn. Bad weather, poor communication, inferior planning, hubris, and even betrayal led to the Battle of the Somme lasting longer than anyone had anticipated. For many, the Battle of the Somme, despite including one of the biggest bombardments ever carried out and the first-ever use of tanks on the battlefield, remains a potent symbol of the soul-crushing futility of war. In this book, you will hear the astonishing story of that battle, a battle that should never be forgotten, one whose repercussions reverberated around the world due to the devastating loss of life in brigades sent to the Somme from many countries, including Great Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, Australia, Canada, India, and South Africa.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Tue, 30 Aug 2022 03:31:18 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Vg0fQMMG Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: History of Sweden]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Swedish History, Starting from Ancient Times Through the Viking Age and Swedish Empire to the Present]]>Categories: Education, Europe, History, Learning, Scandinavia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 08-19-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that Viking Age Swedes were the founding dynasty of what eventually became Russia? In contrast to their Danish and Norwegian cousins, Swedish Vikings traveled east rather than west in search of riches, land, and power. The extensive river systems of Russia provided economic and military “superhighways” to the adventurers from the north who journeyed down them all the way to the Black Sea and Constantinople in search of fame and riches. The rise in TV shows and movies has renewed the people’s interest in Vikings, but the Swedish Vikings have been notably absent from these accounts. In Captivating History’s History of Sweden, you will learn more about these Swedish adventurers along with other parts of Sweden’s fascinating history. In this audiobook, you will discover: Scroll up and click the “Buy Now” button to learn more about the history of Sweden!
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Fri, 19 Aug 2022 13:45:58 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xwgfEO8d Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Walt Whitman]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of American Authors)]]>Categories: Author, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-19-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Walt Whitman was the first incarnation of the great American poet. A humble, unsuspecting figure who managed to capture America’s soul, Whitman came to prominence in the Civil War era of the 1860s and continued to grow as an artist as his nation grew along with him. Whitman’s writings captured the essence of his life and times. Not everyone approved of his means of expression in his own lifetime, but he always had a core group of admirers who believed in both the man and his work. Others were slow to acknowledge the stature of Whitman’s literary greatness, but in time they, too, would come to agree. In this book, we will discover the tragedies and triumphs of a man who had an extraordinary way with words and has become known as the father of free verse: Walt Whitman.
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]]>Title: Krigens sidste dage]]>Subtitle: Fortællinger om Det Tredje Riges sammenbrud]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Frode Kristoffersen]]>Narrator: Jesper Bøllehuus]]>Publisher: Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag A/S]]>Release date: 08-17-2022]]>Language: Danish
]]>Summary:]]>I 1973 gennemførte Frode Kristoffersen, Danmark Radios korrespondent i Vesttyskland, en række interviews med personer, der havde været tæt på Hitler i krigens sidste dage. Det er folk som storadmiral Karl Dönitz, Hitlers efterfølger og Det Tredje Riges sidste statsoverhoved, Albert Speer, arkitekten der blev rustningsminister, Erich Kempka, der var Hitlers chauffør og skaffede benzinen til hans og Eva Brauns ligbål og piloten Wolfgang Klemusch, der 1. maj lettede i en vandflyver på en mystisk mission til det indesluttede Berlin. Frode Kristoffersens drøm om at bruge det unikke materiale til en bog blev ikke til virkelighed. Men han efterlod et stort arkiv med blandt andet udskrifterne af de mange interviews. Nu i bogen Krigens sidste dage fortæller historiker og forfatter Erik Ingemann Sørensen med udgangspunkt i Frode Kristoffersens materiale de ukendte beretninger og afsløringer om 2. Verdenskrigs sidste dage i Europa.
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]]>Title: Modern American History]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Modern History of the United States of America (U.S. History)]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 08-15-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>American history has many twists and turns. Are you ready to take the journey? Starting during the renowned 1920s, we’re going to look at what life in the United States was like back then and even find some remarkable mirror images that are a reflection of what life is like during this day and age. We’ll look at the importance of alcohol and at how much one decade could be the driving force for the next. We’ll take a look at how small inventions made a big difference in America and the idea of whether a nation should use its power to look after itself or make a mark internationally. Discover some of America’s most popular presidents and those who were quite despised. See what made a leader influential in the past, and reflect on whether that has changed nowadays. If you’re interested in discovering how government policy changes or wars affected people, social groups, and the world in more ways than one, this is the book for you.
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]]>Title: The Princes in the Tower]]>Subtitle: The History of the Mysterious Disappearances of King Edward V and the Duke of York]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-12-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When England’s King Edward IV fell ill at Easter 1483 after coming back from a fishing trip and died shortly after on April 9, it threw a country that had already suffered a series of wars into a state of chaos. What exactly killed him is unclear, and though some people would later speculate that he had been poisoned, there is every reason to believe that he died of natural causes. Disease was common in medieval England, and doctors lacked much of the medical knowledge now taken for granted. The king's spectacular lifestyle had taken its toll, and he was significantly overweight, so it seems the lifestyle which he thought he had earned as king, and which he used to remind everyone of his status, was probably his undoing. Recognizing that death was coming, the 40-year-old Edward IV had tried to make arrangements for how the kingdom would be ruled during his son's minority. His aim was for Rivers to continue running the young king's household while Richard, Duke of Gloucester, became protector and took responsibility for running the country until Edward V was old enough to do so for himself.
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]]>Title: Mongol Empire]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Asia, Central Asia, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-01-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Mongol Empire, founded by Genghis Khan and continued by his heirs, was one of the largest and most powerful the world has ever seen. Modern China was created from the remnants of the Mongol Empire, and at its peak, this empire controlled one-sixth of the total landmass of the world. Even today, it is estimated that one in every 200 people in the world carries the DNA of Genghis Khan. The world would never be quite the same after the relatively brief reign of Genghis Khan, his children, and grandchildren. This was an empire marked by stark and often baffling contrasts. Genghis Khan himself displayed marked tolerance for ethnic and religious diversity. He generally treated his people well, reducing taxes and promoting social care and medicine while banning torture and imprisonment. Within his empire, women were permitted to rise to the highest political and religious levels. Yet this tolerance, fairness, and diversity were combined with incredible brutality: The Mongol Empire is believed to have killed around 60 million people, more than the combined deaths from World War I and World War II. To their subjects, the Mongol emperors were leaders to be revered and respected.
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]]>Title: The Fall of Rome]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Western Roman Empire’s Collapse in the 5th Century]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Planet Earth, Rome]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-28-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The City which had taken the whole world was itself taken." (St. Jerome) For the people of the ancient Mediterranean and beyond, the city of Rome had been a symbol of power for centuries, and entering the early 5th century CE, the Eternal City hadn’t been taken by an enemy force since the Gauls had done it about 800 years, an unheard of period of tranquility in a world wracked with almost constant warfare. Thus, when the Visigoths, whom the Romans considered uncultured and inferior, took the city of Rome and sacked it in 410, the world was stunned. It made theologians of the newly Christianized empire question God’s plan on Earth, and it encouraged many leading Romans to look east to Constantinople for their future.
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]]>Title: The Persian Corridor in World War II]]>Subtitle: The History of the Allies’ Most Important Supply Route]]>Categories: America, History, Iran, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-22-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In March 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act, which authorized the president to give arms to any nation if it was in America’s national interest. With that, America was able to support Great Britain without declaring war on Nazi Germany or Italy and thereby officially embroiling the country in World War II. Roosevelt convinced Congress to send aid to Great Britain on the basis that the US would be defending four essential freedoms, and in August 1941, Roosevelt went so far as to secretly meet British Prime Minister Winston Churchill off the coast of Canada, after which the two issued the Atlantic Charter, a statement of Allied goals in the war. It largely reiterated the kind of ideals put forth by Woodrow Wilson a generation earlier, but it also specified that an Allied victory would not lead to territorial expansion or punitive punishment, clearly hoping to avoid what happened at Versailles at the end of World War I. Neutrality was officially over, but war was not yet on for the Americans. Though Roosevelt could not have known it at the time, the Lend-Lease Act would quickly come to include an altogether different country than Britain.
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]]>Titel: Sumerer]]>Untertitel: Eine fesselnde Einführung in die antike sumerische Geschichte, die sumerische Mythologie und Mesopotamien zu Zeiten der sumerischen Zivilisation]]>Kategorien: Ancient, History, Iraq, Middle East]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Erzähler: Alexander Ballinger]]>Herausgeber: Captivating History]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-15-2022]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Entdecken Sie die fesselnde Geschichte der Sumerer Die schiere Bedeutung der sumerischen Kultur für die gesamte heutige Weltkultur kann gar nicht genug betont werden. Einige der wichtigsten Innovationen und Entwicklungen in fast allen Bereichen des Lebens, die für die Aufrechterhaltung einer zivilisierten Gesellschaft relevant sind, gehen auf die sumerische Zivilisation zurück. Dazu gehören unter anderem die Religion, die Gesetzgebung, die Architektur, die Schule, die Kunst, die Literatur und sogar die Unterhaltung. Natürlich wurden gleichzeitig auch viele der negativen Eigenschaften der modernen Gesellschaft im alten Sumer etabliert. Kein Teil des sumerischen Lebens war nicht in irgendeiner Form von Korruption und Zerstörung geplagt. Mit anderen Worten gaben uns die Sumerer also sowohl die Erhabenheit unseres Glaubens als auch die Starrheit des religiösen Denkens, gepaart mit dem Wunsch nach politischer Vormachtstellung. Sie gaben uns sowohl die wohlwollenden, fürsorglichen Monarchen als auch grausame, strafende Tyrannen; das gebildete, liebenswerte Kind und die verwöhnte Göre; den fleißigen Landwirt und den betrunkenen Tölpel. Schließlich schufen sie sowohl epische Reiche als auch deren erbärmliche Überreste nach ihrer gewaltsamen Zerstörung.
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]]>Title: William Henry Harrison]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-15-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>William Henry Harrison—the man who holds the record for the shortest tenure as a United States president—was in office for barely a month before he abruptly perished. For most, this is where the story of William Henry Harrison ends as just a mere footnote in history, but his life was much more than those last fitful few weeks. Harrison had quite a career prior to his foray into the presidency. He served as a heroic and capable military commander and fought with distinction in the War of 1812. He was also responsible for concluding numerous treaties with native tribes, acquiring many millions of acres of land for American settlers. Yes, his life was indeed more than just that lone month he served as president. Here in this book, we will explore the life and legacy of William Henry Harrison in full.
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]]>Title: First Battle of Bull Run]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 19th Century, America, American Civil War, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-13-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When Union and Confederate forces met at the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861, each side was confident of victory. The Northern and Southern Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis each hoped for a triumph that would bring a swift and decisive end to the Civil War that split the United States into two warring nations. Union General Irvin McDowell was the first of a succession of commanders who failed to deliver victories for the North. The South could boast of the military brilliance of General Thomas Jackson, who earned the nickname “Stonewall” for his exploits at Bull Run, but in truth, both sides exposed their limitations in the battle. To the North’s dismay, the chaotic retreat of the fleeing Union Army proved that an easy conclusion to the conflict was unlikely. For the South, the failure to pursue the fleeing Yankee troops robbed the Confederacy of the opportunity to force the Northern government to accept Southern independence. For both, the battle presaged a long and bloody war, with casualties far beyond what had ever been endured in American history.
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]]>Title: Bernard Montgomery]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-01-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Bernard Montgomery... Free BONUS inside! Bernard Montgomery, “the Spartan General”, was one of the giants of World War II. He was a field marshal, as well as an entirely powerful personality, who shaped much of how that aforementioned cataclysmic conflict turned out. If it weren’t for Montgomery’s steady hand in North Africa, for example, it would have been much harder for the Allies to prevail. Montgomery was born the humble son of a minister. As he matured, he grew increasingly bold and confident in his own abilities. He realized he was a natural leader of men—and others quickly came to realize it as well. Soon it was Bernard Montgomery—or “Monty” as his friends called him—who was in command. Here, in this book, you will learn all about Bernard Montgomery’s life and lasting legacy. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on Bernard Montgomery, simply scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Finnish Civil War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-29-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The history of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent civil war has been well documented in a number of books and documentaries. What has received far less coverage is an almost uncannily similar situation in Finland during the same time period. Starting in 1917, Finland was convulsed by a series of events that provided a direct parallel to those in Russia. After the country became divided into Red and White factions, the Reds took control of the southern part of the country, including the capital city, Helsinki, in January of 1918. The Whites took the north, and soon, these opposing groups were engaged in a bloody civil war that would last until May 15, 1918. The revolution, the civil war that followed, and the impact of the end of World War I all helped to define the modern state of Finland. Still, this conflict and its origins are largely forgotten now, perhaps because this conflict was fought while the attention of the world was still focused on events in Russia and on the latter stages of the world war. This is the story of a forgotten conflict, its roots, and its impact on modern Scandinavia and beyond.
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]]>Title: The Circassians]]>Subtitle: The Turbulent History of the Ethnic Group in the North Caucasus]]>Categories: Civilization, History, Middle East, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-28-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It is believed that the Circassians—the English translation of the Turkish term Cherkess—emerged as a discrete society or entity around the 10th century CE, although there are references to them before this. In fact, the Circassians are believed to be the oldest indigenous people of the North Caucasus and self-identified as Adyghe. Historians believe the first settlers on the Black Sea coastline of the Northwestern Caucasus region appeared some 300,000 years ago. Nevertheless, the history and culture of Circassia and the Circassians is largely unknown in the English-speaking and wider world outside Central Asia and the Caucasus. Circassia is sometimes broadly attributed to the geographical area of the North Caucasus, but is more accurately described as a particular part of the region. Circassians themselves, including in today’s widespread diaspora, also refer to each other as Adyghe. Today this area is part of the Russian Federation and the ancestors of Circassians live predominantly in three republics: Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, and Adygheya. Circassia could be broadly split into a western and eastern region. Eastern Circassia was inhabited by Kabardians who mainly spoke Kabardian, while Western Circassia was made up of Adyghe, who spoke the eponymously named Adyghe.
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]]>Title: Ulysses S. Grant]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the American General Who Served as the 18th President of the United States of America]]>Categories: America, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Saffir]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 06-16-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>What do you know about Ulysses S. Grant? Ulysses S. Grant is perhaps one of the most unsung heroes of American history. He was one of the crucial leaders of the American Civil War. After all, it was due to Grant’s actions that the Battles of Shiloh and Vicksburg were won. And it was through Grant that the final terms of the Confederacy’s surrender were signed. That is pretty good for a military man who actually dropped out of the military! Yes, prior to the war, Grant quit the life of a military man in favor of living on a farm with his young family. Yet, even though he tried to take a detour in life, he could not escape his fate. And he found himself back in the army just in time to lead the nation through the worst and most divisive war it had ever seen. After the war, he once again rose to prominence to become the eighteenth president of the United States.
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]]>Title: Golda Meir]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Only Woman to Serve as Israel’s Prime Minister]]>Categories: Biography, Female Protagonist, History, Levant]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-16-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!” (Golda Meir) Israel’s Day of Independence, Yom Ha’atzmaut, is celebrated on the fifth day of the Hebrew calendar in the month of Iyar. It is immediately preceded by Yom HaZikaron, the Memorial Day for the fallen Israeli soldiers who gave their lives for Israel’s establishment. Emphasis switches from the memorial celebration to the celebration of independence a few minutes after sundown. The day on which the state of Israel was signed into existence was May 14, 1948. Many important figures in Israeli history played a part in the establishment of the new state, and among the most iconic is the nation’s first female premier, Golda Meir.
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]]>Título: El antiguo Hawái [Ancient Hawaii]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la historia humana de Hawái, desde la llegada de los polinesios hasta el crecimiento de una civilización hasta Kamehameha el Grande]]>Categorías: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 06-16-2022]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¿Le interesa la historia de uno de los reinos más aislados de la Tierra? Entonces este libro es para usted. Cuando la mayoría de las personas escuchan la frase «antiguo Hawái», se desprende un cierto aire de misterio e intriga. Algunos pueden pensar en tribus tatuadas que navegan por el vasto vacío del océano Pacífico bajo la luz de la luna, que bailan alrededor de hogueras para conectar con sus dioses o que viven en las laderas de los volcanes. Pero, ¿es esta una representación exacta? ¿O hay algo más sobre los primeros habitantes de Hawái? Esta es la historia de la lejana nación en el corazón del océano Pacífico. Haremos un viaje en el tiempo y exploraremos cómo una isla tan remota llegó a estar habitada hace más de 1.500 años y cómo era la vida entonces en esta maravilla tropical. El viaje comienza alrededor del año 400 de nuestra era, y navegaremos a través de los años hasta el cambio de siglo XIX.
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]]>Title: Holodomor Famine]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, History, Russia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-13-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The word "holodomor" derives from a combination of two Ukrainian words: holod (hunger) and mor (extermination). This term is used to describe one of the least-known events of state-sponsored mass starvation: the Great Famine of Soviet Ukraine in 1932-1933. Around four million Ukrainians died during the famine, and yet, the extent of this human catastrophe was virtually unknown in the West. Up to 1991, the Soviet Union refused to acknowledge that any famine had taken place in Ukraine at all and absolutely denied that such an event might have been deliberately orchestrated on the orders of Joseph Stalin and the Politburo. Even afterward, it was discovered that important records had been destroyed or altered. So what really happened in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933? And was it genocide? This is the story of the Holodomor, the great Ukrainian famine.
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]]>Title: The Freedom Riders]]>Subtitle: The History of the Civil Rights Activists Who Rode Buses Around the South to Protest Segregation]]>Categories: African American, America, Black People, Freedom]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-06-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When famous political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville toured the new United States of America, he was impressed by the representative government set up by the Founders. At the same time, he ominously predicted, “If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the Blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.” De Tocqueville was prescient, because the longest battle fought in the history of the United States has been the Civil Rights Movement. The framers of the Constitution kicked the problem down the road, over half a million died during the Civil War to end slavery, and then many more fought and died to dismantle segregation and legalized racism in the 100 years after. Today every American is taught about watershed moments in the history of minorities’ struggles for civil rights over the course of American history: the Civil War, Brown v. Board of Education, Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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]]>Title: Ancient Hawaii]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Hawaiian Human History, Starting from the Polynesian Arrival Through the Growth of a Civilization to Kamehameha the Great]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Saffir]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 06-03-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Are you interested in the history of one of the most isolated kingdoms on Earth? Then this audiobook is for you! When most people hear the phrase “ancient Hawaii”, it brings up a certain air of mystery and intrigue. Some might think of tattooed tribesmen sailing across the vast emptiness of the Pacific Ocean under the moonlight, dancing around campfires to connect with their gods, or living on the sides of volcanos. But is this an accurate depiction? Or is there more to the early people of Hawaii? This is the story of the far-flung nation in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. We will take a trip back in time and explore how such a remote island became inhabited over 1,500 years ago and what life was like back then in this tropical wonderland. The journey begins all the way back around 400 CE, and we will sail through the years up until the turn of the 19th century.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Fri, 03 Jun 2022 15:35:00 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xMgfBX8K Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: J. Robert Oppenheimer]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Father of the Atomic Bomb]]>Categories: Biography, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-02-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” (J. Robert Oppenheimer’s quote of the Bhagavad-Gita while watching the first test of an atomic bomb detonation) Before the Second World War, military conflicts were fought under orthodox conditions, usually termed “conventional warfare”, but several innovations had significantly changed combat, leading inextricably to the race for a nuclear weapon in the 1930s and 1940s. Conflicts had been fought by armies on horseback with guns of varying sophistication since the 16th century, but mechanized warfare and machine guns changed this calculus and set the stage for future combat by the end of World War I. Other sinister changes entered the fray during this conflict, such as chemical weapons like chlorine and mustard gas. The total warfare brought about by World War I and ensuing wars like the Spanish Civil War made the quest for the most powerful weapons somewhat necessary. Tens of millions died during World War II as the warring powers raced to create the best fighter planes, tanks, and guns, and eventually that race extended to bombs which carried enough power to destroy civilization itself.
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]]>Title: Princess Diana]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Celebrity, Europe, Great Britain]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-02-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Princess Diana had a whirlwind of a life, or in the words of Sir Elton John, she “lived her life like a candle in the wind”. After her marriage to Prince Charles, she became not just a princess but a global icon. Diana could draw crowds by the thousands, but despite her rising popularity, she couldn’t keep her marriage together. Nevertheless, even once cut free from the rest of the royal family, she went on to accomplish so much; she founded charities, gave voice to the voiceless, and touched hearts wherever she went. Not many have had the kind of life that Princess Diana led, but to be sure, this was no fairy tale with a happy ending. This book tells the tragic story of the life of Princess Diana, from beginning to end.
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]]>Title: The Underworld in Ancient Mesoamerica]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Mesoamerican Concepts of Death]]>Categories: America, History, Indigenous, Planet Earth, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-01-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The concept of death can be viewed from different perspectives. In general terms, it can be defined as the end of life, but a more spiritual interpretation would describe it as the separation of the soul from the body. Regardless of the definition, death implies change and transformation, even if only on a physical level. The idea of transcendence has served as a source of comfort for humanity that is usually represented in the belief of an afterlife which takes place in another realm. Since the beginning of history, understanding and explaining it has been a large concern for people all over the world. Death is both a daily occurrence and an irreversible condition, and countless efforts have been made to avoid or postpone it. The constant struggle to transcend its permanence has led cultures to create the idea of an afterlife; of a place or world where life carries on after its end on earth.
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]]>Title: Battle of Shiloh]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 19th Century, America, American Civil War, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-27-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On a battlefield so littered with dead bodies that General Ulysses S. Grant said it would have been possible to walk across it in any direction without a foot touching the ground, the Union Army notched a brutal but significant victory against the Confederate Army. The two-day battle, with the highest number of casualties recorded in the fighting up to that time, dashed the hopes of a short war. Still, few could have grasped that this battle was only the beginning of a national campaign of slaughter that would see so many Yankee and Rebel deaths. President Lincoln realized what the two factions—North and South—were only beginning to grasp: that this would be a long, bitter, brutal war. If the Union was to be victorious and the United States restored to wholeness, Lincoln needed men who would fight. The Battle of Shiloh proved that Grant was such a man.
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]]>Title: The Birmingham Campaign]]>Subtitle: The History of the SCLC’s Non-Violent Protests in Alabama’s Biggest City]]>Categories: African American, America, Black People, Freedom]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: KC Wayman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-17-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When famous political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville toured the new United States of America, he was impressed by the representative government set up by the Founders. At the same time, he ominously predicted, “If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the Blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.” De Tocqueville was prescient, because the longest battle fought in the history of the United States has been the Civil Rights Movement. The framers of the Constitution kicked the problem down the road, over half a million died during the Civil War to end slavery, and then many more fought and died to dismantle segregation and legalized racism in the 100 years after. Today, every American is taught about watershed moments in the history of minorities’ struggles for civil rights over the course of American history: the Civil War, Brown v. Board of Education, Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Tue, 17 May 2022 10:03:55 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Dj9fZPQg Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Kushan Empire]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Powerful Ancient Kingdom in South Asia]]>Categories: Ancient, Asia, Central Asia, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-16-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Today, Afghanistan is often viewed as a brutal, timeless land that is better left alone and forgotten than dealt with as a modern nation. The Soviet Union and the United States were both unsuccessful in their attempts to occupy the land and reform its society, but the reality is that civilization is an ancient concept in Afghanistan, and it was once one of the wealthiest and most sophisticated countries in the world.
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]]>Title: Chinese Civil War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 20th Century, Asia, China, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-12-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Chinese Civil War: A History from Beginning to End offers a detailed historical timeline and an in-depth discussion of the Chinese Civil War in its entirety. The audiobook covers the first stages of the war, from 1927-1937, the interlude from 1938-1945 during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, and the final and most well-known phase of the war from 1946-1949. Learn about the causes, events, and lasting effects of the Chinese Civil War and about the warfare tactics and political strategy of the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Kuomintang during these integral years. Experience the turmoil of post-imperial China as the nation tried to find a new identity under the leadership and influence of figures like Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Mao Zedong. This is the story about how a group of young, inexperienced Chinese revolutionaries changed the destiny of China.
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]]>Title: The Gepids]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Germanic Tribe That Controlled Central Europe During the Fall of Rome]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, Germany, History, Rome]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-03-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The gradual collapse of the Roman Empire from about 300-475 CE brought monumental changes to Europe and beyond. The system that once bound both sides of the Mediterranean Basin together was gone, and with it, many of the connections people from Mesopotamia to Spain and from Gaul to Arabia once enjoyed. In its place, a period of transition began—once referred to as the “Dark Ages”, although that term has fallen out of favor with modern scholars—after the Western Roman Empire ended in 476 and a host of new, primarily Germanic people inherited Roman lands, wealth, and ideas in Western Europe. Many of these Germanic tribes established large kingdoms, such as the Vandals in Spain and North Africa, the Franks in Gaul, the Visigoths in Spain, and the Ostrogoths in Italy, but just outside of what was once Roman territory, other tribes emerged to leave their mark on Europe. The most notable of these were the non-Germanic Huns, but after them came the Gepids, an important but overlooked group. The Gepids were a Germanic tribe often overshadowed by the Huns because they shared roughly the same space in Central Europe, yet they did not menace nearly as extensive an area.
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]]>Title: Russian Civil War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #7 in Ancient Civilizations]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-28-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The October Revolution of 1917, which saw the fall of the tsar and the installation of a provisional government in Russia, was a momentous event in modern history. The establishment of a Bolshevik regime under charismatic leader Vladimir Lenin shook a world already destabilized by years of world war. However, the Russian Revolution was far from the end of the story of the establishment of Communism in Russia. Within months, the Red Bolsheviks were under attack by the reactionary Whites, who were opposed to the new government. The civil war between these two groups raged for more than two years, leaving many millions of people dead and many millions more homeless or displaced. Still, this was much more than a war between Russian factions. Troops from more than 20 other countries, including the United States, Great Britain, France, Japan, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire, were all directly involved in this destructive civil war. The ultimate victory of the Reds paved the way for the spread of Communism around the world and ultimately to the Cold War of the late 1940s that saw an armed stand-off between East and West that was to last for more than 40 years.
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]]>Title: The Zeppelins of World War I]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Zeppelin Air Raids During the Great War]]>Categories: Air Force, History, Military, Military Conflict, World War I]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-27-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>World War I, also known in its time as the Great War or the War to End all Wars, was an unprecedented conflict in terms of its sheer scale. Fought by men who hailed from all corners of the globe, it saw millions of soldiers do battle in brutal assaults of attrition which dragged on for months with little to no respite. Tens of millions of artillery shells and untold hundreds of millions of rifle and machine gun bullets were fired in a conflict that demonstrated man’s capacity to kill each other on a heretofore unprecedented scale, and as always, such a war brought about technological innovation at a rate that made the boom of the Industrial Revolution seem stagnant. Since the Industrial Revolution, arms and materiel output had increased by orders of magnitude, as had the quality and uniformity of the products.
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]]>Title: History of Portugal]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Portuguese History from Ancient Times to the Present]]>Categories: Europe, History, Spain]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-26-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know modern-day Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, is the first European city built with seismic safety in mind? And there is a very good reason for that! In 1755, Portugal was hit by an earthquake that would measure nine on the future Richter scale. Portugal, which is located in the Iberian Peninsula, has a rich history that dates to prehistoric times. The first settlers left amazing art behind in the form of rock carvings and rock monoliths. These first peoples never left their country, but were integrated into the many societies that came to Portugal over time. Even though Portugal is probably best known for exploring the world during the Age of Discovery, the history of mainland Portugal is rarely described outside of the country. The purpose of this audiobook is to familiarize English speakers with the events and personas that built the Portuguese kingdom, its overseas empire, and the state that Portugal is today. In this audiobook, you will learn: Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to learn all that and more!
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Tue, 26 Apr 2022 07:38:06 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xnGfv1B1 Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Republic of Finland]]>Subtitle: The History of Finland as an Independent Nation]]>Categories: 20th Century, Civilization, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-13-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Today Finland is a prosperous and peaceful country considered part of the stable zone of Nordic countries. It has one of the world’s highest average wealth per person, is a significant player within the European Union and eurozone bloc, and regularly ranks at or near the top of the world’s education league tables. Yet, if we go back to the start of the 20th century, we see a very different story. Dominated by the Russian Empire and economically far behind many other European countries, Finland has developed rapidly since then. Yet, the journey would be dramatic, and at times traumatic, as Finland endured war, occupation, and annexation. Finland is a Nordic country today bordering Sweden, Norway, and Russia. Its population of 5.5 million are mainly concentrated toward the southern end of the country, notably in its capital, Helsinki. Yet, Finland’s geography played a major part in its 20th-century history, in particular its territory within the Arctic Circle and waters including the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Finland, and Gulf of Bothnia. In essence Finland was on the front line of the Second World War and then the Cold War, giving it unique foreign-policy considerations.
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]]>Title: Science and Technology in Ancient Rome]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Romans’ Technological Advances]]>Categories: Ancient, Architecture, Computer, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-12-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Of the whole mighty fabric of his productions, more lasting than himself, whereby man establishes the identity of his species in all ages, there is none more principal stone than the Pantheon of Rome.” (R.H. Busk, 19th-century Pantheon scholar) The modern world has the ancient Romans to thank for the origins of many modern technologies, conveniences, and ideas, from running water, baths, and republican-style government to roads. Similarly, by the third century BCE, the Romans were prodigious monument builders, so much so that the memory of the great Roman Republic and the Roman Empire continues to exist within a cityscape of stone. Rome’s public spaces were filled with statues, arches, temples, and many other varieties of monumental images, and each of these structures had its own civic or religious function. At the same time, most were embedded with stories, messages, and symbolism so that they also tended to function as propaganda.
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]]>Title: Jackson Pollock]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Painters)]]>Series: #8 in Biographies of Painters]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-12-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Jackson Pollock was without a doubt one of the twentieth century’s most controversial painters. He started out painting abstracts in the style of Pablo Picasso but soon branched out, establishing the “drip” method, which entails dripping or flinging paint directly onto the canvas. For this, he was both praised and demonized; still, he persisted on his own chosen path. While art was his life, alcohol ruled it. At age 44, Pollock died while driving under the influence down a winding road. It was only after his death that Jackson Pollock gained mainstream notoriety and became one of America’s most celebrated painters. This was certainly made clear in 2015 when one of his pieces, known as Number 17A, sold for $200 million, making it the fifth most expensive painting ever sold.
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]]>Title: Friedrich Nietzsche]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Germany, History, Philosopher]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-06-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Friedrich Nietzsche.... Friedrich Nietzsche was a born philosopher. It seems that ever since he crawled out of the cradle, he questioned the world around him. Why are we here? What is the purpose of life? Where are we headed as a society? These were things that Nietzsche would endlessly speculate about, probing the depths in order to find answers to these most difficult of questions. In the process, he had nihilistic visions of supermen, antichrists, and Zarathustra. For Friedrich Nietzsche, a man who was accustomed to questioning everything, reality itself was a long, strange trip. This audiobook tells the story of his life in full. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Friedrich Nietzsche, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Katharine Hepburn]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-04-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>One of the foremost screen sirens of her era, Katharine Hepburn was universally known for her grace, wit, and charm. She rose to the top of celebrity status in the great Golden Age of Hollywood, and she was able to maintain her sense of stardom all the way to her twilight years. During her many years in the limelight, Hepburn was dogged by wild gossip and rumors due to her eccentricities and often solitary lifestyle. Her long-lived affair with heartthrob Spencer Tracy was also quite often the talk of the town. This book cuts through all the noise and gets down to the core of Katharine Hepburn as we examine how she lived and loved. Here, you will find the life and legend of Katharine Hepburn in full.
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]]>Title: Elijah Muhammad]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Religion, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-28-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad became famous for his popularization of an Afrocentric branch of Islam. In later years, however, the movement came under fire after critics pointed out that its ideology had very little to do with the mainstream faith. Nevertheless, Elijah’s words and teachings still managed to galvanize and capture the hearts of millions of disaffected and oppressed African Americans. During the movement’s heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Elijah extended his hand to a downtrodden people in a way that few others could. This audiobook presents the life and legacy of Elijah Muhammad in full.
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]]>Title: Colonial America]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Colonial History of the United States and How Immigrants of Countries Such as England, Spain, France, and the Netherlands Established Colonies]]>Categories: America, Colonialism, Education, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-21-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that the first English settlement in the New World was a disaster? Perhaps you have heard the story of Roanoke before. Or maybe even the creation of Jamestown. But have you heard about the Spanish colonies in North America? Or the French and Dutch settlements? Colonial America was diverse, with European settlers from various nations coming to the New World and meeting the Native Americans who already inhabited the land. What were their interactions like? Was there any semblance of peace between all of the groups who called this land their home? This audiobook will examine that in more detail, as well as a closer look at how some of the major British colonies were formed. The current-day United States owes its heritage to all of the people who moved or already lived there, but Britain perhaps had the greatest influence. After all, even today, Americans celebrate their independence from Great Britain. So, what are you waiting for? Dive into this exciting period of history, and learn more about how the United States became what it is today. In this audiobook, you will discover: Buy this audiobook now to learn more about Colonial America!
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]]>Title: Germanic Tribes: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Franks and Lombards]]>Categories: Education, Europe, Germany, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-21-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include: Some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook include: If you want to learn more about the history of the Franks and Lombards, get this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: Old West]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Wild West, Billy the Kid, Buffalo Bill, Seth Bullock, Davy Crockett, Annie Oakley, Jesse James, and Geronimo]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-21-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Eight captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include: Some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook include: Some of the topics covered in part three of this audiobook include: Some of the topics covered in part four of this audiobook include: Some of the topics covered in part five of this book include: Some of the topics covered in part six of this audiobook include: Some of the topics covered in part seven of this audiobook include: And much, much more! Some of the topics covered in part eight of this audiobook include: And much, much more! So if you want to learn more about Old West, scroll up and buy this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: Weimar Republic]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to German History between 1919 to 1933 and the Treaty of Versailles]]>Categories: Education, Europe, Germany, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-21-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Two manuscripts in one audiobook: How he legally became a dictator by using a democratic process? Or what were the events that led up to his reign of terror? The answers lie in the Weimar Republic. Amid the devastation of World War I, Germany’s monarchy provided no answers. A democratic government seemed the only way to appease Allied nations and solve the many disasters that were already at the country’s doorstep. Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include: Some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook include: So if you want to learn more about the history of the Weimar Republic and the Treaty of Versailles, buy this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: Emperor Charles V]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-17-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>One of the most powerful men who ever lived was a Holy Roman Emperor and controlled vast swathes of the planet. Quite a bit has been written over the centuries about Charles V, but even so, historical texts do not always reveal the complex personality that this man possessed. He was a man of purpose who felt destined to hold both Europe and the Christian faith together. He knew this would be no easy task, but he nevertheless threw himself into it whole-heartedly. This is the life and the story of Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire.
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]]>Title: The Hellenistic World]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Hellenistic Age and Alexander the Great]]>Series: #1 in Exploring Ancient History]]>Categories: Ancient, Egypt, Europe, Greece]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-14-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Hellenistic World, then pay attention... Two captivating manuscripts, in one audiobook: Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include: Some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook include: Get this audiobook now to learn more about the Hellenistic Age, and Alexander the Great!
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]]>Title: Mesopotamian Cities]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Eridu, Uruk, Ur, Akkad, Assur, Lagash, Babylon, Nippur, Nimrud, and Nineveh]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, History, Iran]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-08-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Dynasties, city empires, gods, and legends - all of these were first developed in the lush region of Mesopotamia thousands of years ago, but how did one strip of land become home to some of the most impactful empires in history? Discover a time when mankind was trying to make sense of the world around them but managed to create mighty empires that still maintain an influence on our lives today. Learn about the lives of the rulers, artisans, and warriors who introduced literacy, farming, and sophisticated warfare to the ancient world. The ancient Mesopotamians also developed a massive pantheon of gods and goddesses who influenced kings and the poor alike. They built incredible temple complexes and ziggurats that contained extensive treasuries and were decorated with breathtaking pieces of art. Their empires changed the course of ancient history, and their capital cities became the centers of the known world. There was a time when Mesopotamian history was hidden from the world, as its cities languished under tons of desert sand.
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]]>Title: Mesoamerican Warfare: The History of War in the Region from the Olmec to the Aztec]]>Categories: America, Ancient, History, Indigenous]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-01-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Throughout history, warfare has played an important role in the development of many cultures around the world, and Mesoamerica is no exception. As J.M. Francis and T.M. Leonard noted, “The history of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica was one of violence, though no more so than that of any other region of the ancient world. It was a universe of shifting alliances and mutual antagonisms, in which increasingly strong political entities forged themselves and then broke apart". Of course, the history of warfare in Mesoamerica is a long one, tracing its origins back to the Preclassic period with the Olmecs, who were the first group to expand their influence. There is clear evidence they had a military development, but it seems to have been mainly focused on protecting their trade networks instead of on conquest. After the Olmecs, Teotihuacan rose as the first main center of military expansion during the Classic period, extending its influence across Mesoamerican territory. After its collapse, the vacuum of power created an unstable period, and new expanding polities emerged, including Cacaxtla, Xochicalco, and Tula. They became important regional centers that took control of most of central Mesoamerica through the use of military interventions.
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]]>Title: F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-01-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the foremost American novelists of his time. His works, which included masterpieces such as The Great Gatsby, portrayed the Jazz Age of the Roaring Twenties and gave voice to a lost generation, but somewhere along the way, Fitzgerald himself became lost. After the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression, the world cared not so much about glitz and glamor as they did simply trying to scrape together enough money to get by. Although Fitzgerald was successful in his early days, his work fell out of favor with the public, and he struggled to gain traction for much of his later career. These difficulties were interspersed with much drinking and mayhem in between. This audiobook tells the story of F. Scott Fitzgerald in full.
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]]>Title: History of Canada]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Canadian History]]>Categories: America, Canada, Education, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 02-22-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>What do you know about the history of Canada? You might think you know a lot about Canada - especially if you happen to live in North America. But in truth, it’s surprising how little most of us know about Canadian history. Even though Canada is just across the border from the United States, Canada tends to get unfairly overshadowed. Nevertheless, Canada’s history is a vibrant one. Recorded Canadian history begins with European contact in the 1500s, but there are plenty of rich legends and folklore passed down by Native North Americans that fill in the gaps. This audiobook follows the threads of the many civilizations that made up Canada and their ultimate merging together to forge the rich tapestry that makes up Canada today. The history of Canada is more than first meets the eye. In this groundbreaking treatise on Canadian history, you will discover: Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to learn more about the history of Canada!
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]]>Title: The Battle of Tsushima]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Decisive Naval Battle That Ended the Russo-Japanese War]]>Categories: Asia, History, Japan, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-17-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the end of the 19th century, the Russian Empire seemed to be at the zenith of its power and reach. It was the largest country in the world, stretching from the Black Sea on the eastern edge of Europe to the Bering Strait in the extreme east of Asia. Even by rail, it took over 10 days to travel from one side of the country to the other. Its standing army of over 1.3 million men was the largest in the world, and the “Russian steamroller” was regarded as one of the most potent military forces available to any ruler. At that point, Russia even seemed close to attaining one of its longest-held and most significant ambitions: control over a warm-water port in the Pacific. Russia had controlled the city of Vladivostok since 1860, and this had become its major port in the Pacific, but Vladivostok was bound by ice for much of the year, so Russia sought an ice-free port in the region.
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]]>Title: Mitanni Empire]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #5 in Ancient Civilizations]]>Categories: Ancient, Arabian Peninsula, Civilization, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-15-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Mitanni Empire came to prominence at a time when the Egyptians, the Hittites, and the Assyrians were all angling for supremacy, after the fall of Babylon in the 16th century BCE. Mitanni made alliances and conquered other lands, excelled at the military art of charioteering, suffered invasions, endured assassinations, and saw a dynasty rise and fall. In what is now southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, and Syria - but was then the upper Tigris-Euphrates basin - the Mitanni Empire at its peak reached the coast of the Mediterranean Sea to the west, and extended into Assyria to the east. After the kingdom was conquered by the Assyrians, Mitanni became a vassal state of the land it had once dominated, and evidence of its renown slowly faded from history. For more than 3,000 years, the Mitanni Empire remained largely forgotten. Recently, archaeological excavations and translations of ancient texts have shed some light on these remarkable people who were the equals of their more-famous peers in Egypt, Hatti, and Assyria.
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]]>Titel: Europäische Geschichte]]>Untertitel: Eine fesselnde Einführung in die Geschichte Europas, von den Neandertalern über das Römische Reich bis zum Ende des Kalten Krieges]]>Kategorien: Europe, History, Planet Earth]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Erzähler: Alexander Ballinger]]>Herausgeber: Captivating History]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 02-04-2022]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Geschichte Europas Die Geschichte der Menschen in Europa ist faszinierend und beginnt wie die meisten Geschichten mit dem Leben von Jägern, Sammlern und Fischern, die sich schließlich in einem Kaleidoskop von verschiedenen Kulturen entfalteten - jede mit ihren eigenen Göttern, Göttinnen, Grundnahrungsmitteln und Bautechniken. Diese waren zunächst relativ voneinander isoliert, aber mit der Zeit entwickelten die Menschen in Europa komplizierte soziale Systeme und Beziehungen zueinander, die sie schließlich durch Handel und Eheschließungen besiegelten. Sie bauten Farmen, Dörfer, Städte und ganze Imperien, um ihre Kulturen zu schützen und andere zu ihrer Denkweise zu bekehren, nur um alles unter der Macht des nächsten Kriegsherrn wieder zusammenbrechen zu lassen. In Die Europäische Geschichte: Eine fesselnde Einführung in die Geschichte Europas, von den Neandertalern über das Römische Reich bis zum Ende des Kalten Krieges, entdecken Sie Themen wie: Wenn Sie also mehr über die europäische Geschichte lernen wollen, scrollen Sie hoch und klicken Sie auf "IIn den Einkaufswagen"!
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]]>Title: Phoenician Civilization: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Ancient Civilizations, Book 6]]>Series: #6 in Ancient Civilizations]]>Categories: Ancient, Arabian Peninsula, Civilization, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-02-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>As the tee-shirt slogans say, “If you can read this, thank the Phoenicians". The Phoenician achievements include creating the world’s first alphabet, which consisted of 22 consonant letters. If you’re sipping wine as you read, that’s another reason to thank the Phoenicians. From their travels, they learned which grapes were most suited for winemaking and spread those vines to the places along their trading routes. The Phoenicians were the masters of the Mediterranean Sea, traders whose purple dye colored the royal raiment of the elite, whose horse-headed ships sailed forth from the rich and sophisticated city-states of Byblos, Sidon, and Tyre, and who may have, according to the historian Herodotus, even circumnavigated Africa. These people were so wealthy that when empires came to conquer, they paid tribute rather than go to war, a method which worked for a time - that is until the armies of the Persians under Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great came to the city walls. Conquered, many of the Phoenicians left for Carthage. Once again, the Phoenician acumen for trading and making money created yet another powerful city, one so affluent that up-and-coming Rome grew envious and acquisitive.
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]]>Title: The Kingdom of Hawai’i: The History of the Hawaiian State Before It Was Annexed by America]]>Categories: America, Australasia, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-27-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Hawaiian kingdom existed for about a century, from the early 1790s to 1893, starting when King Kamehameha finally united the islands and lasting until American planters and businessmen staged a coup and forced Queen Lili’uokulani to abdicate. During the century of its existence, the kingdom offered its native peoples considerable protection. For example, in the later 1800s, several thousands of Pacific islanders were, in effect, kidnapped and forced to serve as indentured laborers in places like the Guano Islands in Peru and plantations in Queensland in the nefarious practice called “Blackbirding”. The kingdom offered literacy, converted its people to Christianity, and accommodated its people to the intrusive outside world. The achievement of establishing the kingdom belongs to an outstanding warrior king, Kamehameha the Great. Kamehameha was born about 1738 on Hawaii, the Big Island. He was an ali’i, from a chiefly line of descent of high social status. He was a canny leader and a formidable warrior who, by the 1790s, had taken over most of the islands except for stubborn Kauai and its small satellite island, Niihau.
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]]>Title: Catholic History]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Catholic Church, Starting with the Teachings of Jesus Christ Through the Roman Empire and Middle Ages to the Present]]>Categories: Christianity, Ecclesiastical, Education, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-24-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that the Catholic Church is the oldest institution to exist in the Western world? The Catholic Church has a history that spans over 2,000 years, and it began with none other than Jesus Christ himself. At least, that is what modern popes believe. But at first, there was just one church, and there was no division between Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox, and other branches of Christianity. Christians all over the known world were united, and together, they made their spirituality bloom. Their religion took over the lives of villagers, nobles, kings, queens, and even newly arrived pagan armies that came to conquer Europe. In Catholic History, you will find out: Scroll up, buy now, and learn more about Catholic history!
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]]>Title: Thirty Years' War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military, Renaissance]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-14-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you had to name the most destructive conflicts in human history, you likely wouldn’t put the Thirty Years’ War near the top of that list, but in fact, this conflict resulted in more than eight million fatalities throughout Europe. The war, which began as a religious conflict, was fought between 1618 and 1648. It resulted in widespread destruction, and it bankrupted the majority of the powers involved. The Thirty Years’ War began when Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II was elected, and he began to impose religious uniformity - Catholicism - throughout Central Europe. That caused a revolt on the part of Protestant communities, and before long, the conflict began to draw in many other European powers on one side or the other. Once the dust settled, there was an enduring mistrust of the “other” throughout Europe, and the first witch hunts had begun. For such a destructive war, the Thirty Years’ War is not well-known, and yet it changed the geopolitical face of Europe as well as the role of religion and nation-states in society. This audiobook tells the compelling story of the Thirty Years’ War.
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]]>Title: Aftermath]]>Subtitle: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Harald Jähner]]>Narrator: Rob Shapiro]]>Publisher: Random House Audio]]>Release date: 01-11-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more? This internationally acclaimed revelatory history of the transformational decade that followed World War II illustrates how Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors of the Holocaust. The years 1945 to 1955 were a raw, wild decade that found many Germans politically, economically, and morally bankrupt. Victorious Allied forces occupied the four zones that make up present-day Germany. More than half the population was displaced; 10 million newly released forced laborers and several million prisoners of war returned to an uncertain existence. Cities lay in ruins - no mail, no trains, no traffic - with bodies yet to be found beneath the towering rubble. Aftermath received wide acclaim and spent 48 weeks on the best seller list in Germany when it was published there in 2019. It is the first history of Germany's national mentality in the immediate postwar years. Using major global political developments as a backdrop, Harald Jähner weaves a series of life stories into a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change.
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]]>Title: The Lakhmids]]>Subtitle: The History of the Ancient Arab Kingdom that Fought in the Roman-Persian Wars]]>Categories: Ancient, Arabian Peninsula, History, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-10-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>During the first half of the first millennium CE, an empire arose in Persia that extended its power and influence to Mesopotamia in the east, Arabia in the south, the Caucasus Mountains in the north, and as far east as India. This empire, known alternatively as the Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, was the last of three great dynasties in Persia - the Achaemenid and the Parthian being the first two dynasties - before the rise of Islam. In fact, many scholars consider the Sasanian Empire to be the last great empire of the ancient Near East because once it had been obliterated, Islam became the standard religion of the region, ushering in the Middle Ages. The Sasanian Empire was important for a number of reasons. Besides being the last of three great Persian dynasties, they carried on many Persian cultural traditions relating to religion and kingship. The Sasanians fostered and promoted the native religion of Zoroastrianism to the point of persecuting other religions from time to time.
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]]>Title: Maya History for Kids]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Maya Civilization, from the Olmecs Through the Founding of Teotihuacan in Ancient Mesoamerica to the Spanish Conquest]]>Categories: America, Ancient, For Children, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-10-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Get your Indiana Jones gear ready for this adventure! We are going on a journey to the jungles of Mesoamerica (Central America) to visit the amazing sights left behind by the ancient society of the Maya people! Secrets await you on this special journey, so keep reading… Did you know that the Egyptians weren’t the only ones to build pyramids? Around 2,000 years ago, the Maya people were raising pyramids to house their many gods and to bury their kings. This is just one of the special secrets uncovered by archaeologists in their stunning finds in parts of Central America. Modern-day Indiana Jones scientists have told us so much about these tribes. Are you ready to learn more? This audiobook uncovers the mysteries surrounding the Maya, who suddenly dropped off the face of the earth - or so it would seem. Find out the latest theories surrounding their disappearance, and learn about: More than anything, the Maya left us with many questions. It’s the job of scientists and archaeologists to explain how a thriving people came to such a quick end.
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]]>Title: John Lennon]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Musicians)]]>Categories: Biography, Celebrity, Europe, Great Britain]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-06-2022]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>John Lennon is often known as the rebellious, troubled Beatle - as if his disposition was just a bit gloomier than the rest. Lennon did indeed have his struggles in life. He was raised by an austere and controlling aunt, and he barely knew his own mother and father. As a result, Lennon grew up with a serious need for love, affection, and attention. It was this desire for recognition that would drive Lennon to reach for the stars. Come along as we explore the life and legend of John Lennon, from his troubled childhood in Liverpool, to his superstardom with the Beatles and eventual assassination in 1980.
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]]>Title: Seven Years' War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Colonialism, Europe, Great Britain]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-28-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Seven Years’ War, also known as the French and Indian War in North America, was fought between 1756 and 1763, and it involved all of Europe’s great powers and many of the so-called middle powers. The war spanned five continents and divided Europe into two coalitions, one led by Great Britain and the other led by France. By the end of the conflict, Britain would gain control over Canada and Florida, but the war would nearly bankrupt the country as it doubled its national debt. Still, the war marked the beginning of the era of British dominance in North America. France would meanwhile lose all possessions east of the Mississippi River, with the exception of two small islands off Newfoundland. The war also had profound consequences for indigenous groups in North America. This book tells the story of the little-known but consequential conflict known as the Seven Years’ War.
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]]>Title: Tank Battles of the Cold War 1948-1991]]>Categories: History, Military, Weapon]]>Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones]]>Narrator: Jonathan Cowley]]>Publisher: Tantor Audio]]>Release date: 12-28-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>As Anthony Tucker-Jones shows in this wide-ranging history, for most of the Cold War the tank retained its preeminence on the battlefield. The Arab-Israeli wars witnessed some of the biggest tank battles of all time, and tanks played key roles in conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan as well as in the Iran-Iraq War and the wars fought between India and Pakistan. But then in the mid-1960s anti-tank weapons became ever deadlier, and the Mechanized Infantry Fighting Vehicle (MIFV), which was designed to support infantry and fight tanks, emerged and the heyday of the tank was over. Chapters cover each major phase in the evolution of the tank and of tank warfare during the period, from the battles fought in the late 1940s and 1950s with World War II armored vehicles like the T-34 and the Sherman, through to the designs common in the 1960s and 1970s like the T-55, Centurion, Challenger, and M60 Patton, to the confrontation between the M1 Abrams and the T-72 during the Gulf War in 1991.
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]]>Title: Irish Americans in the Civil War]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Irish Units Who Fought on Both Sides of the War]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-27-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Americans have long been fascinated by the Civil War, marveling at the size of the battles, the leadership of the generals, and the courage of the soldiers. The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in American history, and had the two sides realized it would take four years and inflict over a million casualties, it might not have been fought. Since it did, however, historians and history buffs alike have been studying and analyzing the military and political history of the conflict ever since. Given the extent of Irish immigration in the 19th century, it should come as no surprise that the Irish played important roles in the Civil War. While exact numbers are not known, the most commonly cited figures are 150,000 Irish serving in the Union Army, 20,000 or so in the Union Navy, and 20,000 more in the Confederate military. Immigrants were 13 percent of the total American population in 1860, and in the 1840s alone, 780,000 immigrants came from Ireland, almost half the total immigration for that decade. In the 1850s, 914,000 immigrants came from Ireland, a third of the total.
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]]>Title: The Suebi]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Germanic Groups]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, Germany, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-22-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"[The] largest and the most warlike nation of all the Germans." (Caesar’s description of the Suebi) Despite all the accomplishments, widespread victories, and conquests that the ancient Romans accrued over the centuries, one of their most critical failures was the inability to subjugate Germany. Indeed, historians have singled out this one failure as central to the ultimate downfall of Rome, as the constant wars against the Germanic tribes and the need to defend the frontier on the Rhine helped bring the Roman Empire to its knees. There are elements of truth in such a conclusion, but the reality was far more fluid than is often realized. From the first century BCE until the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century CE, the relationships between the Romans and those living in what is now modern Germany were extremely complicated, involving much more than simple warfare. As a Roman territory, Germania at one point included significant areas of land east of the Rhine, all the way up to the Elbe.
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]]>Title: The Battle of the Golden Spurs]]>Subtitle: The History of the Franco-Flemish War’s Most Famous Battle]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Medieval, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-21-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the time period between the fall of Rome and the spread of the Renaissance across the European continent, many of today’s European nations were formed, the Catholic Church rose to great prominence, some of history’s most famous wars occurred, and a social class system was instituted that lasted over 1,000 years. A lot of activity took place during a period frequently labeled derogatively as the “Dark Ages”, and while that period of time is mostly referred to as the “Middle Ages” instead of the Dark Ages today, it has still retained the stigma of being a sort of lost period of time in which Western civilization made no worthwhile progress after the advances of the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome. In reality, this oversimplification of the Middle Ages overlooks the progress made in the studies of sciences, especially during the High Middle Ages.
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]]>Title: Mechanized Death]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the First Machine Guns Used in War]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Weapon, World War I]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-20-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Soon after dawn on July 1, 1916, British and Commonwealth troops climbed out of damp, muddy trenches in the Somme valley and began to advance across no-man’s land toward German positions. This was the biggest Anglo-French attack of the First World War to date, and British commanders were confident that their troops would quickly push the Germans back out of France and perhaps even begin a drive into Germany itself. The tactics they used in planning this battle had changed little since the Napoleonic Wars. After an artillery bombardment, a mass of infantry would move forward to overwhelm the defenses, and then three cavalry divisions would exploit the breakthrough and drive deep into German-held territory. The British commander, Field Marshal Douglas Haig, was certain that this battle would lead to a decisive victory. The Germans had been worn down by fighting on other parts of the Western Front in 1915 and the British attacking force was one of the largest bodies of men at arms ever sent on the attack.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Blair Mountain]]>Subtitle: The History of America’s Largest Labor Uprising]]>Categories: America, History, Military, Politics]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-17-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“I have been in West Virginia more or less for the past 23 years, taking part in the interminable conflicts that arose between the industrial slaves and their masters. The conflicts were always bitter. Mining is cruel work. Men are down in utter darkness hours on end. They have no life in the sun. They come up from the silence of the earth utterly wearied. Sleep and work, work and sleep. No time or strength for education, no money for books. No leisure for thought. With the primitive tools of pick and shovel they gut out the insides of the old earth. Their shoulders are stooped from bending. Their eyes are narrowed to the tiny crevices through which they crawl. Evolution, development, is turned backward.” (Mother Jones) As labor unions and movements began to form and coalesce in the 19th century, the tensions between workers and companies led to demonstrations, encounters, and even conflicts that descended into violence. Among those, none were larger than the colloquially known Battle of Blair Mountain, which pitted West Virginian miners against authorities in 1921.
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]]>Title: Jesse James]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Criminals)]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, True Crime]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-17-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The American Civil War brought out the best and the worst in the country’s citizens. Jesse James, a member of a slave-owning family in Missouri, saw his way of life destroyed by the war. By the time of his early teens, he had joined his local gang of outlaws, fueled by a hatred of the loss of Southern traditions he knew and loved. Following the end of the war, Jesse and his brother Frank continued their crusade by robbing banks and raiding trains. With the help of a newspaper reporter, a legend was created of Jesse James as a hero and defender of the South. That legend gave Jesse James 20 years to rob and kill at will, as it was usually disguised in the press as heroism. No lawman was ever able to bring Jesse James down; ultimately, he died at the hands of one of his own men. This book tells the story of his life from beginning to end.
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]]>Title: The Jutes]]>Subtitle: The History of the Nordic Tribe that Settled in England during the Early Middle Ages]]>Categories: Civilization, Europe, Great Britain, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-14-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Over 1,100 years before William the Conqueror became the King of England after the Battle of Hastings, Julius Caesar came, saw, and conquered part of “Britannia”, setting up a Roman province with a puppet king in 54 BCE. In the new province, the Romans eventually constructed a military outpost overlooking a bridge across the River Thames. The new outpost was named Londinium, and it covered just over two dozen acres. By the second century CE, Londinium was a large Roman city, with tens of thousands of inhabitants using villas, palaces, a forum, temples, and baths. The Roman governor ruled from the city in a basilica that served as the seat of government. What was once a 30-acre outpost now spanned 300 acres and was home to nearly 15,000 people, including Roman soldiers, officials, and foreign merchants. The Romans also built heavy defenses for the city, constructing several forts and the massive London Wall, parts of which are still scattered across the city today.
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]]>Title: Boxer Rebellion]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (History of China)]]>Categories: Asia, China, History, Military, Planet Earth]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-14-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Boxer Rebellion saw impoverished Chinese peasants strike a blow against the Western powers, particularly the British, who had come to challenge China’s sovereignty. The uprising was both a harbinger of things to come for China and a by-product of simmering decades of friction between the Chinese and the British. The Chinese had been able to call the shots during the initial engagement of trade with the West, but lost control after the British began smuggling opium into the country. What was a lucrative product for British trade was devastating to the Chinese as addiction began to take its toll on the population. The British fought and won the Opium Wars, and with the victory came trade advantages that eroded China’s autonomy. By the late 1800s, humiliated by Chinese military defeats, enraged by the encroachment of Christian missionaries, and alarmed at the role that Western influence played in China’s politics, a group of rebels known as the Boxers, so-named because of their emphasis on physical fitness and the martial arts, rose up against the foreign enemy and set the stage for cataclysmic changes to come in China’s history.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Flodden]]>Subtitle: The History of the Most Famous Battle Between England and Scotland]]>Categories: Christianity, Civilization, Europe, Great Britain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-14-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The relationship between Scotland and England has always been rocky. For most of their history, they have been at loggerheads and frequently at war, and, even after the Act of Union of 1707 which united the two nations, there were at least four Scottish uprisings. Today, the Scottish threat to separate from the post-Brexit UK is well-known. England has historically viewed the northern nation as a threat, and Scotland for its part has feared, with justification, its richer and more powerful neighbor. Famous encounters between the two countries include Falkirk (1298), Bannockburn (1314), Solway Moss (1542), Prestonpans (1745), and Culloden (1746), but the Battle of Flodden, or Flodden Field, fought on September 9, 1513, was the largest and perhaps most spectacular of the clashes between the ancient enemies. It involved the deployment of 56,000 men and vies with the 1461 Battle of Towton during the Wars of the Roses as the largest battle ever fought on British soil. At the time of Flodden, England and Wales were ruled by the Tudor dynasty, founded by Henry VII in 1485.
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]]>Title: Animals in Ancient Rome]]>Subtitle: The History of the Roles That Different Animals Played Across the Roman Empire]]>Categories: Ancient, Civilization, History, Planet Earth, Rome]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-09-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Rome's complex relationship with animals goes right back to its foundation myth, and even today, the wolf remains a symbol of the Eternal City, forming part of the logo for the capital's football team, AS Roma. According to tradition, the city of Rome was founded by Romulus, who, with his brother Remus, was nursed and sheltered by a she-wolf. That tale, widely believed as a historical fact by ancient Romans, had a profound influence on Roman culture, and in part, shaped Roman attitudes toward their animals. The actual cave where Romulus and Remus were said to have been raised, the Lupercal, is thought to have been situated on the Palatine Hill in the very heart of Rome, and there was a claim by some archaeologists that it had been found in 2007.
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]]>Title: Audie Murphy]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Celebrity, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-06-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Audie Murphy was a movie star, writer, and one of the most decorated soldiers who ever lived. He was barely 18 years old when he was shipped off to fight Fascists in Italy during World War II. As he himself would later liken it, he went “to hell and back” and lived to tell the tale. In this book, we will dive deeper to bring you the man behind the medals. Here is a telling of the life and legend of Audie Murphy in full.
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]]>Title: The Berlin Wall]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-01-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>For 28 years, the Berlin Wall was a symbol of communist oppression and tyranny. The barricade was built in August 1961 to keep East German citizens from defecting to West Germany. Those who defied the authorities and attempted to defect paid with their lives in at least 140 cases. Nevertheless, more than 5,000 East Germans successfully defected to the West — a testament to the desperation they felt. They were willing to risk their lives for freedom, and they often did so in innovative ways, using such means as tunnels, aerial lines, and homemade hot air balloons. This book tells the story of the context in which the Berlin Wall was erected as shared Allied governance of Germany post-World War II quickly became divided between the two political ideologies of communism and capitalism. Those divisions would spark the Cold War when Soviet forces sought to restrict Western access to East Berlin. However, the Soviets didn’t count on the perseverance of the Allied support for West Germany and West Berlin, and they didn’t count on the desire for freedom within the East.
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]]>Title: Ancient India]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Indian History, Starting from the Beginning of the Indus Valley Civilization Through the Invasion of Alexander the Great to the Mauryan Empire]]>Categories: Ancient, Asia, History, India, South Asia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 12-01-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>From the first agricultural settlement more than 7,000 years ago to the Indian campaign of Alexander the Great and the vast Maurya Empire, ancient India tells a story interweaved with captivating legends and cultural legacy. Find out how the Indus Valley civilization became one of the oldest societies in the history of humankind, and how small agricultural settlements transformed into the urban centers of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. Dive into the origin story of Buddhism, and follow the path of a privileged young prince who became one of the most famous religious figures. Learn everything about Ashoka the Great, his grandfather Chandragupta of Maurya, and the greatest empire in the history of India: the Maurya Empire. Our captivating guide about ancient India will take you on a journey through the rich past of the Indian subcontinent, from the beginning of civilization to the fall of the Maurya Empire. In this audiobook, you'll discover the answers to the following questions:
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]]>Title: History of Virginia]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Mother of States, Starting from Jamestown Through the American Revolution and the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House to the Present]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Saffir]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-29-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of Virginia, then keep reading... From being the home of some of the first people in America to being the birthplace of the United States, Virginia has had an incredibly rich and interesting history even before its inauguration as a state. Virginia was once the most populous and affluent state in the country and the birthplace of many of the most important figures in early United States’ history. Yet, despite Virginia’s successes and great heritage, it has, for much of history, been a divided state that has found itself debating even the most basic rights and issues. This, of course, is no more obvious than the splitting of Virginia into Virginia and West Virginia in the years following the American Civil War. In this audiobook, you will discover: So if you want to learn more about the History of Virginia, buy this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: The Battle of Saipan]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Pacific D-Day]]>Categories: Asia, History, Japan, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-29-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The powerful forces of the United States Navy (USN), Marine Corps, and Army advanced inexorably against Imperial Japan in 1944. Following massive interdiction of Japanese merchant shipping by American submarines and multiple naval victories, the Americans stood poised to liberate the Philippines, then move on to locations closer to the Japanese home islands. In early 1944, arguments raged over the best approach to the “strategic triangle” created by Formosa, Luzon, and China. Finally, on March 12th, the Joint Chiefs of Staff - consisting of Admirals William D. Leahy and Ernest J. King, and Generals George C. Marshall and Henry H.”Hap” Arnold - issued a directive picking the next target: “[T]he most feasible approach to the Formosa-Luzon-China area is by way of Marianas-Carolines-Palau-Mindanao area, and that the control of the Marianas-Carolines-Palau area is essential to the projection of our forces into the former area, and their subsequent effective employment therefrom.” (Crowl, 1994, 19). The Americans' plans focused on three islands near the southern end of a 15-island, north to south aligned island chain: Saipan, Tinian, and Guam. These islands, relatively large, offered space for the construction of large air bases within strategic bomber range of Japan itself, as well as closer targets.
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]]>Title: Hedy Lamarr]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Influential Actress and Inventor]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, Celebrity, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-29-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.” (Hedy Lamarr) The “Golden Age” of American film that began in the pre-World War II years has never truly ended, moving from its early connection with “film noir” to the epics of the 1960s and beyond. Similarly, movie stars still enjoy a degree of exoticism they have possessed since the days of silent film. However, in the modern day, the screen actor is not so narrowly constrained by public image as to prevent the leading of a double life, once impermissible for powerful studio heads. A sideline of political and social activism is not uncommon, and even academic pursuits are now mere points of interest, where they were once forbidden. Put simply, for much of Hollywood’s early history, brains and beauty were considered mutually exclusive. During the first half of the 20th century, American crowds developed a fascination with foreign actors whose native accents lent an enhanced air of mystery to their on-screen personae. Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, and Marlene Dietrich, all European-born, ruled at the box office.
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]]>Title: Churchill, Master and Commander]]>Subtitle: Winston Churchill at War 1895-1945]]>Categories: Biography, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones]]>Narrator: Nick Biadon]]>Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc]]>Release date: 11-25-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Bloomsbury presents Churchill, Master and Commander by Anthony Tucker-Jones, read by Nick Biadon. Masterful research, impeccable detail, with a beautifully flowing narrative of which Churchill himself would have been proud.' – Professor Peter Caddick-Adams From his earliest days Winston Churchill was an extreme risk taker and he carried this into adulthood. Today he is widely hailed as Britain’s greatest wartime leader and politician. Deep down though, he was foremost a warlord. Just like his ally Stalin, and his arch enemies Hitler and Mussolini, Churchill could not help himself and insisted on personally directing the strategic conduct of World War II. For better or worse he insisted on being political master and military commander. Again like his wartime contemporaries, he had a habit of not heeding the advice of his generals. The results of this were disasters in Norway, North Africa, Greece and Crete during 1940–41. His fruitless Dodecanese campaign in 1943 also ended in defeat. Churchill’s pig-headedness over supporting the Italian campaign in defiance of the Riviera landings culminated in him threatening to resign and bring down the British Government.
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]]>Title: Italian Wars]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, History, Italy, Medieval, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-22-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Italian Wars refers to a period of prolonged conflict between 1494 and 1559 when the major European powers of the time fought for control over Italy. While it began with a French attempt to gain control over the territory of Naples, it soon expanded to a general struggle between the royal houses of Valois and Habsburg - specifically, Francis I of France and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. By the time the dust settled, the French were expelled from the Italian Peninsula, and the Spanish Habsburgs emerged with control over large parts of Italy, from Milan to Naples. Italians would not fully regain their independence from this control until the mid-19th century. The Italian Wars represented a change in warfare tactics from the contract armies common in the Medieval period to full-time standing armies common in the modern era. For this reason, they are often viewed as being the dividing line between Medieval times and the modern era in Europe.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Mon, 22 Nov 2021 14:36:02 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Dv3fKJOW Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Saint Peter: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Christians]]>Series: #2 in Biographies of Christians]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Catholicism, Christianity]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-22-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Saint Peter, also known as Peter the Apostle, was one of the main figures of the early Christian Church. He began his life as a simple fisherman who caught fish in the Sea of Galilea, but one day, this fisherman became a “fisher of men” instead. In good time, he would help to form one of the largest religious movements the world had ever known, eventually giving his life to the cause when he was sentenced to death by crucifixion. Here, in this audiobook, we discover the life of Saint Peter from beginning to end.
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]]>Title: Constantine the Great]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Roman Emperors)]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-16-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Constantine the Great was one of the most pivotal figures in the history of the Roman Empire and the widespread expansion of the Christian religion. This is in no way an understatement; Constantine was not only one of the last truly powerful Roman emperors, but he also successfully reconstituted the whole empire according to his vision of Rome’s future. He played the most significant role in transforming the Empire from a Greco-Roman pagan dominion into a bulwark of the Christian faith, granting for the first time real temporal power for the early Christian church. Without a doubt, Constantine the Great changed the world as we know it. This is the story of his life and his vision in full.
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]]>Title: The Russian Empire]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Third-Largest Empire in History, Starting from Peter the Great to the Russian Revolution]]>Categories: Europe, History, Russia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-12-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>What happened to Imperial Russia? Russia has long been a powerful country. Even today, Russia stands as one of the great powers on the planet. But modern-day Russia is just a vestige of the greater territory that once constituted Imperial Russia. The Russian Empire spanned continents, and at one time, Imperial Russia could claim territory from Alaska to Poland and just about everything else in between. Russian rulers felt that they were the inheritors of the Byzantine Empire, and like the Caesars of old, they stylized themselves as "tsars". These tsars ruled as absolute autocrats, directing the empire through the sheer force of their own willpower. However, despite its size and power, the Russian Empire was often plagued with massive internal problems. An entire class of Russian peasants known as serfs, for example, were basically enslaved to the land they toiled on, unable to escape their lot in life. For much of the empire, the average Russian’s feelings were ignored by the tsar and the elite, but in the latter years of Imperial Russia, these unresolved problems would come back with a vengeance. For the Russian Empire was not extinguished by an outside foe, but rather collapsed from within.
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]]>Title: History of Eastern Europe]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to a Shortened History of Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Moldova, Belarus, and Romania]]>Categories: Eastern Europe, Europe, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-11-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>How much Eastern European history do you know? The story of Eastern Europe is one of successes and failures, competing interests, and the rise and fall of states and empires. The ancient Greek and Roman empires knew the importance of Eastern Europe for trade and settlement. Later, during the Migration Period, also known as the “Barbarian Invasions", Eastern Europe became the stomping grounds for many people. The Visigoths, Huns, Slavs, and central Asian Turkic tribes like the Avars and Khazars all made their way into Eastern Europe. With so many people moving in, the first states started to rise. Some of them would break apart as soon as they started, while others would form full-fledged empires. The medieval period would see some of the greatest empires of European history, like Kievan Rus, the Bulgarian Empire, Serbia, and the German Crusader states. By the early modern period, these great states would be replaced by Russia, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Ottoman Empire. In this audiobook, you will learn about: To learn more about Eastern Europe than you ever thought possible, add History of Eastern Europe to your cart today!
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]]>Title: The Wobblies]]>Subtitle: The History of the Industrial Workers of the World in the Early 20th Century]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-11-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“We are here to confederate the workers of this country into a working class movement that shall have for its purpose the emancipation of the working class from the slave bondage of capitalism. There is no organization, or there seems to be no labor organization, that has for its purpose the same object as that for which you are called together to-day. The aims and objects of this organization should be to put the working class in possession of the economic power, the means of life, in control of the machinery of production and distribution, without regard to capitalist masters.” (Big Bill Haywood) History is full of tales of men who were in the right place at the right time and thereby rose to greatness, but rarely is the story told of a man who was in the right place at the wrong time. The life of Eugene V. Debs is such a tale. Debs was born in Middle America just before the outbreak of the Civil War, and had he been born a century later, or in a large city on one of the coasts, his story might have been much different.
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]]>Título: Historia de Roma [Rome History]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la historia de Roma, desde la leyenda de Rómulo y Remo, la República romana, Bizancio, la época medieval y el ... hasta la historia moderna [A Fascinating Guide to the History of Rome, from The Legend of Romulus and Remus, the Roman Republic, Byzantium, Medieval Times and the ... to Modern History]]]>Categorías: Ancient, Education, History, Learning, Rome]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 11-05-2021]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si desea descubrir la fascinante historia de Roma, siga leyendo.... Roma comenzó como un reino, prosperó como república, conquistó vastos territorios cuando era un imperio y se convirtió en la Ciudad Santa durante la Edad Media. Incluso hoy en día, Roma sigue intrigándonos con su rica historia, arquitectura, arte, literatura, religión, leyes y lengua. Los abundantes hallazgos arqueológicos de Roma y sus alrededores no son más que un fragmento de lo que fue la ciudad. Sin embargo, es suficiente para engancharnos, despertar nuestra imaginación y satisfacer nuestra sed de conocimiento. La importancia de Roma es indiscutible. Su historia no es la historia de Italia ni de su pueblo. Roma forma parte de los cimientos de Europa, al igual que Atenas. Sin ella, el mundo tal y como lo conocemos hoy no existiría. En Historia de Roma: Una guía fascinante de la historia de Roma, partiendo de la leyenda de Rómulo y Remo, la República romana, Bizancio, el periodo medieval y el Renacimiento hasta la historia moderna, descubrirá temas como: ¡Adquiera este libro ahora para saber más sobre la historia de Roma! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Gastronomy in Mesoamerica]]>Subtitle: The History of Indigenous People’s Diets Before and After European Contact]]>Categories: America, Civilization, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-01-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Mesoamerica is a cultural area including central and southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, and El Salvador. In this area, Prehispanic societies developed over thousands of years before coming into contact with Spanish conquistadores in the early 16th century. Mesoamerican civilizations flourished, developing complex social, political, and economic systems-based, to a certain extent, on their knowledge of nature. Indigenous groups settling in Mesoamerica had different languages, political and social organizations, traditions, and beliefs, but there were a series of traits that included the use and consumption of many food sources present throughout the entire territory. The domestication of important plants like maize, beans, squash, and chili peppers eventually led to full-scale agricultural societies supporting large populations through intensified food production and complex trade networks. Anyone who delves deeply into Mexico's ancient history will be surprised to find that most food sources consumed by many Prehispanic people are still present in the everyday Mexican diet, as are many cooking techniques dating back to that time.
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]]>Title: Mayan Warfare]]>Subtitle: The History of the Maya’s Battles and Military Tactics]]>Categories: America, Ancient, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-30-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Many ancient civilizations have influenced and inspired people in the 21st century, and the Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate the West today, but of all the world’s civilizations, none have intrigued people more than the Mayans, whose culture, astronomy, language, and mysterious disappearance all continue to captivate people. In the past decade especially, there has been a renewed focus on the Mayans, whose advanced calendar led many to speculate the world would end on the same date the Mayan calendar ended in 2012. The focus on the “doomsday” scenario, however, overshadowed the Mayans’ true contributions to various aspects of culture in the region. While many incorrectly presume that the Maya were predicting the world to end on that date, it is not a coincidence that their calendar ended on the winter solstice.
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]]>Title: The Kingdom of Judah]]>Subtitle: The History and Mystery of the Ancient Jewish Kingdom]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Judaism]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-28-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Before any type of unified political entity named Israel existed, the Jewish groups whose descendants would later form Israel identified themselves by their particular tribe. If asked their nationality or country of origin, they would likely identify themselves as Danites (from the tribe of Dan; Ex. 31:6) or Ephraimites (from the tribe of Ephraim; Judg. 12:5), etc. The main way to differentiate these tribes from other tribes in Canaan was their common worship of the deity YHWH, but in terms of language or other cultural characteristics, it would have been difficult to tell a Canaanite from an Israelite. Eventually, these separate tribes united together as a type of confederation, allies who made a treaty (covenant) to provide military aid for one another when threatened by an enemy state. It was only under the charismatic leadership of David that the 12 tribes united into a single political entity. Scholars refer to the period encompassing the reign of David and his son Solomon as the United Monarchy.
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]]>Title: The Gulf War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: History, Iraq, Iraq War, Middle East]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-21-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Gulf War took place between August 1990 and February 1991, when Iraq, led by Saddam Hussein, invaded neighboring Kuwait, a small, oil-rich country in the Middle East. His actions horrified and terrified world leaders and average citizens alike, as fears about his use of chemical weapons and his plans for further expansion spurred the United Nations into action. Eventually, a coalition led by the United States would launch a counter-offensive against Iraq, pushing the Iraqis out of Kuwait and placing limits on their military growth for years to come. As the first major global crisis after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Gulf War was a test in foreign relations and set an important precedent for how the world’s superpowers would respond in moments of crisis moving forward.
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]]>Title: Rosalind Franklin]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Women in History)]]>Series: #1 in Biographies of Women in History]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-14-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Rosalind Franklin was what can only be called an overlooked genius. Although she was not fully credited for the feat at the time, her work led to major breakthroughs in our understanding of DNA. In fact, she took the first X-ray photo of DNA in all of its double helix glory. By the time her former colleagues were being showered with accolades for results they made at least partially based on her findings, Franklin would not be around to see it. Sadly, it’s believed that her use of X-ray equipment gave her terminal cancer, cutting her life short at age 37. Rosalind Franklin has only recently received widespread attention for her achievements. This book follows the life story of this often-unsung hero of modern-day science.
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]]>Title: The Picts]]>Subtitle: The History of the People Who Inhabited Scotland in Antiquity and the Middle Ages]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, Great Britain, History, Rome]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-11-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the second century CE, Londinium was a large Roman city, with tens of thousands of inhabitants using villas, palaces, a forum, temples, and baths. The Roman governor ruled from the city in a basilica that served as the seat of government. What was once a 30 acre outpost now spanned 300 acres and was home to nearly 15,000 people, including Roman soldiers, officials and foreign merchants. The Romans also built heavy defenses for the city, constructing several forts and the massive London Wall, parts of which are still scattered across the city today. Ancient Roman remains continue to dot London’s landscape today, reminding everyone that almost a millennium before it became the home of royalty, London was already a center of power. Shortly after Emperor Hadrian came to power in the early second century CE, he decided to seal off Scotland from Roman Britain with an ambitious wall stretching from sea to sea. To accomplish this, the wall had to be built from the mouth of the River Tyne - where Newcastle stands today - 80 Roman miles (76 miles or 122 kilometers) west to Bowness-on-Solway.
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]]>Title: The Chernobyl Disaster]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Eastern Europe, Europe, History, Physics, Science]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-06-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Chernobyl Disaster, which occurred in late April 1986, was the worst nuclear accident in history. It not only caused widespread radioactive contamination, but even more importantly, it claimed many lives and caused panic worldwide about the safety of nuclear power. In short, it changed the face of nuclear energy globally. Discover the real story of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the infamous disaster that bears its name, as well as its long aftermath.
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]]>Title: Joan Crawford: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Actors, Book 15]]>Series: #15 in Biographies of Actors]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-05-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Joan Crawford was a legend. Few could compare to the charm and grace that she brought to the silver screen. Little did anyone know, however, of the charmed yet ultimately tragic life she led away from the camera and the main stage. Crawford was married four times and ended up disinheriting two of her children from her will. She certainly had her share of problems, but no one could keep this ambitious leading lady down for long. In this audiobook, we cover the life and legend of Joan Crawford in full.
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]]>Title: Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Age of the Pyramids and the Egyptian Pharaohs Who Ruled]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, Egypt, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-01-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover how the first Egyptians built the colossal pyramids and the rise of the kings who ruled as gods. The Egyptian pyramids are some of the greatest building feats ever achieved. At a time when the rest of the world was in the Bronze Age, living in small villages sustained by subsistence farming, the Egyptians built the pyramids. It is mind-boggling to think they did this when mankind had not yet invented iron or the wheel. They did this when the only tools workmen had were made from either bronze, which had to be constantly re-sharpened, or stone or wood. It’s truly remarkable. It raises a question: did the people of Egypt really cut great blocks of stone and arrange millions of tons of them into the perfect pyramid shape we all know so well? When you examine the evidence, the answer to that question is obvious. But many more questions arise from that answer.
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]]>Title: Queen Victoria]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Queen of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland Along with Her Impact on the Victorian Era]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-30-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Who was Queen Victoria? People all over the world are fascinated with royalty. And Queen Victoria herself, despite being gone for over 120 years, still holds us spellbound when we consider her life and legacy. She came to power during a time of great change. Technological change in the form of new inventions and rapid industrialization were taking place, as well as the great political changes that were occurring in governance. In the first few years of her reign, great social upheavals, such as the potato famine in Ireland and the so-called “Chartists” revolts, were enough to keep even the most experienced of prime ministers up at night, yet Queen Victoria kept a steady hand throughout it all. Her beloved husband, Albert, was often viewed as a great stabilizing force for the queen, but when his life was cut short at just 44 years old, she had to look elsewhere for comfort. Nevertheless, through all of the pain and heartache, the queen showed a determination few world leaders could match. And by the time of her Diamond Jubilee, which marked 60 consecutive years of her reign, there was no question of just how special she was.
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]]>Title: Eastern Han Dynasty]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (History of China)]]>Categories: Ancient, Asia, China, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-28-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If the history of the Eastern Han dynasty were limited to the accomplishments of its scholars, scientists, and inventors, it would be a glorious saga of the innovation and creativity of the human mind. Anesthesia was first used during surgical procedures in the years of the Eastern Han emperors, earthquake tremors were measured, and perhaps, most remarkable of all, a process for manufacturing paper was developed by a eunuch of the imperial court. But the imperial court of the Eastern Han is also an account of the abuse of power, the murder of children unfortunate enough to be placed upon the Dragon Throne, the heedless, reckless incompetence of emperors, the malignant ambition of scheming empress dowagers, and the rebellions that arose as ordinary people struggled. The accomplished governing of Emperors Guangwu, Ming, and Zhang established a central authority that expanded China’s might and stability. Their less-capable successors — a number of them merely children when they became emperor — left the Chinese people deprived of those benefits which competent government provides. When the last Eastern Han emperor was forced to abdicate, China, no longer united as a single empire, was split into three different regions, each ruled by an ambitious warlord.
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]]>Title: Pancho Villa]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (History of Mexico)]]>Categories: America, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-22-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Pancho Villa was many things to many people. To some, he was a freedom fighter and revolutionary; to others, he was nothing more than a bloodthirsty bandit and killer. Villa’s life did indeed take many twists and turns, and some of the decisions he made would undoubtedly make many of us question his motives. This book seeks to cut through all of the moral ambiguity and deliver a testament of his life as it really was. Here, you will find the life and legacy of Pancho Villa in full.
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]]>Title: The Moors of the Maghreb]]>Subtitle: The History of the Muslims in North Africa During the Middle Ages]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, History, Medieval, Religious Study]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-22-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The term Moor is a historical rather than an ethnic name. It is an invention of European Christians for the Islamic inhabitants of Maghreb (North Africa), Andalusia (Spain), Sicily and Malta, and was sometimes use to designate all Muslims. It is derived from Mauri, the Latin name for the Berbers who lived in the Roman province of Mauretania, which ranged across modern Algeria and Morocco. Saracen was another European term used to designate Muslims, though it usually referred to the Arabic peoples of the Middle East and derives from an ancient name for the Arabs, Sarakenoi. The Muslims of those regions no more refer to themselves by that term than those of North Africa call themselves Moors. Maghreb, or al-Maghreb, is a historical term used by Arabic Muslims for the territory of coastal North Africa from Alexandria to the Atlantic Coast. It means “The West” and is used in opposition to Mashrek, “The East,” used to refer to the lands of Islam in the Middle East and north-eastern Africa. The Berbers refer to the region in their own language as Tamazgha.
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]]>Title: 1906 San Francisco Earthquake: A Captivating Guide to the Deadliest Earthquake in the History of the United States]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-15-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that the 1906 San Francisco earthquake is thought to be one of the deadliest earthquakes in history? In the early morning of April 18th, 1906, in San Francisco, California, the ground heaved up. Buildings swayed like blades of grass and collapsed, and soon after, fires consumed everything in their path. It is believed that around 3,000 people died, and almost all those left standing after the ground settled had become homeless. This audiobook will take you on a journey of one of the most terrible earthquakes in recorded history. You will discover stories of average citizens just trying to survive and those courageous enough to face danger, whether it be fire or collapsing buildings. From the initial panic to battling crisis after crisis to an incredible aftermath, the story of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shows that history can be more captivating than fiction. In this audiobook, you will learn about: Buy this audiobook now to learn more about the history of 1906 San Francisco Earthquake!
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]]>Title: New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Egyptian Empire and the Pharaohs Who Ruled]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, Egypt, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-15-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that it was during the New Kingdom period that ancient Egyptian kings started calling themselves “pharaohs"? Previously, they were simply referred to as kings. But the fact that we call all of them pharaohs today speaks about how important and influential the New Kingdom was. It is also the most researched period of ancient Egyptian history because it has an abundance of surviving evidence. This is also the time when some of the best-known pharaohs ruled, such as Ahmose, Hatshepsut, Thutmose, Nefertiti, and Ramses II. In this audiobook, you will find everything you need to know about these kings and queens of old. Learn who united Egypt and started the Eighteenth Dynasty. Listen to the audiobook and find out: Listen to this audiobook to learn more about the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt!
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]]>Title: Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Period of Reunification and the Egyptian Pharaohs Who Ruled]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, Egypt, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-15-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Listen to the exciting things that happened during the Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt. Did you know that in this period, Osiris became the main god of the popular religion? His cult was respected by the pharaohs of the Eleventh Dynasty, but it quickly spread throughout Egypt, and ordinary people became his followers. The Middle Kingdom is a short period in Egypt’s history, but it is important because it was a period of political unity and prosperity. Because of that, it is sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Egypt. Pharaoh Mentuhotep II united the previously divided Egypt and established a new capital in Thebes. Listen to Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt to learn: There are many intriguing pieces of information such as these in this audiobook on the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, so don’t miss out!
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]]>Title: Second Sino-Japanese War]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to a Military Conflict Primarily Waged Between China and Japan and the Rape of Nanking]]>Categories: Asia, China, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-15-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Second Sino-Japanese War, then pay attention.... Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: Many people in the West look upon the Second Sino-Japanese War, which took place in the 1930s and 1940s, as a sort of sideshow to the larger Second World War, but there is no separating the two. Imagine the Pacific War, the theater of World War II that took place in the Pacific. If the Japanese were not busy fighting on another front, they would have had millions of more troops available to fight the Americans and the British. In all likelihood, World War II would have ended the same way, but it would have taken much longer and cost that many more lives. Some of the topics covered in Part 1 include: Some of the topics covered in Part 2 include: Scroll up, and click the “buy” button to learn more about the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Rape of Nanking.
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]]>Title: History of the Franks]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to a Group of Germanic Peoples Who Invaded the Western Roman Empire]]>Categories: Education, Europe, Germany, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-14-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that the barbarian tribe known as the Franks were the founders of present-day France? After assimilating with the Romans in the imperial province of Gaul, the Franks established a unified dominion under King Clovis in the late fifth and early sixth centuries. Under Clovis’ successors, the Frankish kingdom fractured. Warring factions of Franks, under the leadership of the royal descendants of Clovis, imprisoned or more often killed each other. They forced the luckiest of their rivals into monasteries and removed potential royal wives by exiling them to convents. The several kings of France not only fought each other, but also fought off barbarian and Christian invaders. Their various domains were under continuous threat from warlike ethnic groups who pushed into Frankish territories from the west and south. It was not until the rise of a military genius by the name of Charles Martel in the eighth century that the Franks were able to recreate the unified country that Clovis had established. This history of the Franks is peppered with assassinations, marriages for political alliance, deception, and intrigue.
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]]>Title: Imhotep]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the High Priest Who Designed Ancient Egypt’s First Major Pyramid]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Egypt, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-13-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe nearly 5,000 years later. From the Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria to the Great Pyramid at Giza, the ancient Egyptians produced several wonders of the world, revolutionized architecture and construction, created some of the world’s first systems of mathematics and medicine, and established language and art that spread across the known world. With world-famous leaders like King Tut and Cleopatra, it’s no wonder that today’s world has so many Egyptologists. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of ancient Egyptian civilization was its inception from the ground up, as the ancient Egyptians had no prior civilization which they could use as a template. In fact, ancient Egypt itself became a template for the civilizations that followed. The Greeks and the Romans were so impressed with Egyptian culture that they often attributed many attributes of their own culture usually erroneously to the Egyptians. With that said, some minor elements of ancient Egyptian culture were, indeed, passed on to later civilizations.
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]]>Title: The Most Notorious Art Thefts of the 20th Century]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Recent Attempts to Steal Valuable Artwork]]>Categories: Art, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-13-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Hans Memling, a painter from Flanders, is the holder of an unfortunate record. He painted a triptych, The Last Judgment, commissioned by Medici banker Angelo Tani. The paintings were intended for a new chapel in Fiesole in Tuscany, near the city of Florence. However, in April 1472, the ship on which they were being transported from Bruges to Florence was intercepted by Polish privateer and Danzig Town Council leader Paul Beneke. The captured ship and its cargo were taken to the Polish city of Gdansk, and Memling’s triptych was placed on display in St Mary’s Church in that city. The Last Judgment remained as an altarpiece in Gdansk until it was moved to the National Museum in Gdansk in the 20th century. This is generally accepted as the first documented instance of modern art theft, and it marks an important turning point. Prior to this, no self-respecting privateer would have bothered to steal a painting - they would have instead concentrated on coinage, gold or silver, or precious stones, items that, in other words, had a high intrinsic value. Paintings had no such value, though many had great subjective importance. In the 16th and 17th centuries, this began to change.
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]]>Title: Modern Greece]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the History of Greece, Starting from the Greek War of Independence Through the Balkan Wars, World War I and II, to the Present]]>Categories: Europe, Greece, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-10-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that while the Greek civilization is thousands of years old, Greece itself has only been a nation since the early 1800s? Many people know about the glories of ancient Greece: the Acropolis, the Parthenon, the sculptures, the writings of Homer, and the adventures of Achilles and Jason and the Argonauts. They know about the Greek gods and goddesses, of Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Hermes, Aphrodite, Poseidon, and many others. Even the term “Trojan Horse", named after the trick that the Greeks played on the inhabitants of Troy, has made it into our language. Ancient Greece gave us philosophy, math, medicine, the roots of many languages, and so much more. And then...nothing. The Golden Age of Greece ended more than 2,000 years ago, and that’s where most people’s knowledge ends, but in the over 2,000 years since the glories of Athens and Sparta, the Greeks have endured occupation, rebellion, slavery, war, and triumph again and again. Your knowledge of Greece is about to get an update. In this new Captivating History audiobook, you will discover the truth about modern Greece. You will learn that: Scroll up, and click the “buy now” button to learn more about modern Greece!
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]]>Title: Nelson Mandela]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Activist, Africa, Biography, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-10-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Nelson Mandela is a figure who has been revered throughout the world. Even his enemies eventually had to admit that there was something extraordinary about Nelson Mandela; he was the kind of bold yet gracious leader who only comes once in a lifetime. Mandela led his people to freedom, became the first president of his nation, and then — like some South African George Washington — humbly stepped down from power so that he could pass the torch of democracy to others. This is his life and his story.
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]]>Title: History of Argentina]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Argentine History, Starting from the Pre-Columbian Period Through the Inca Empire and Spanish Colonization to the Present]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, South America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jay Herbert]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-03-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that as of 2018, Argentina has a literacy level of 99 percent? Are you curious to find out how it achieved this? Argentina has a long and complex history. For hundreds of years, Argentina was inhabited by hunter-gatherer groups. In time, the Inca Empire rose to prominence and took over the Argentinian communities one by one. The Spanish arrived about 20 years later, bringing a new wave of invasion to the native inhabitants. The people of Argentina wouldn’t declare their independence until 1816, and after that, they faced civil war after civil war. Although it might seem like Argentina’s history is only compromised of conquest and warfare, it is also filled with fascinating civilizations and influential figures, such as José de San Martín and the less-revered Juan Manuel de Rosas. While almost everyone knows that Argentina is located in South America, not everyone knows that Argentina’s successful May Revolution inspired other countries in Latin America to rebel. Many may have heard of Juan Perón and his wife, Eva, but not everyone knows about Perón’s third wife, Isabel, and her time as the president of Argentina.
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]]>Title: Rembrandt]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Painters)]]>Series: #7 in Biographies of Painters]]>Categories: Art, Biography, Europe, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-18-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Dutch painter and printmaker Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn is considered one of the greatest artists of all time. As a painter, he never considered glamorizing what he saw, and he was a master of creating extraordinary scenes with light and shadows. His paintings were unique for their ability to depict action and moods. Sadly, having a mistress and spending recklessly went far to ruin his reputation during his lifetime. Rembrandt died penniless and was buried in a pauper’s grave.
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]]>Title: Great Northern War: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 18th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-12-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Great Northern War was a war waged by Russia, Denmark-Norway, and Saxony-Poland-Lithuania against the Swedish Empire from 1700 to 1721. It also engaged several of the other great powers of Europe at the time, engulfing much of the continent and its colonies in more than two decades of war. It was part of a long and almost constant series of wars fought home and around the world by European nations over control of more land, resources, and wealth. By its end, Russia had firmly established its ascendency, while Sweden would no longer pose a threat as a major empire. The history of the Great Northern War is an important piece of the history of Europe and imperialism.
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]]>Title: Boston Tea Party: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: American Revolutionary War, Book 11]]>Series: #10 in American Revolutionary War]]>Categories: America, History, Insurrection, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-12-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On a December night in 1773, in an iconic act of civil disobedience, American colonists dressed as Native Americans boarded a merchant ship laden with tea. They tossed the tea into the Boston Harbor in protest of taxation without representation. Their motivation at the time was not one of a battle for independence; rather, they sought what they viewed as their constitutional right to representation in the British Parliament. While not meant to instigate a revolution, this single protest would eventually lead to an all-out conflagration with Great Britain and the American Revolutionary War. This audiobook tells the story of the rising tensions between the American colonies and Great Britain that would result in what became known as the Boston Tea Party. It also tells of how this act of defiance ignited the passions of American patriots and led to the formation of the United States of America. It’s an example of how one moment in time can lead to historical changes that affect the entire world.
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]]>Title: The Bishops’ Wars]]>Subtitle: The History of the Religious Conflicts That Engulfed Britain and Led to the First English Civil War]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-12-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the mid-16th century, England had Queen Mary I of England, who earned herself the less-than-pleasant moniker of “Bloody Mary". While in power, Mary vowed to restore papal authority and revert England to Catholicism, placing the bullseye on Protestants. Laws against heresy made a bloody comeback, which saw hundreds of Protestants dragged to the stakes. Naturally, the oppressed began to revolt. Bands of insurgents flooded the city streets, torching city buildings and governmental establishments. Ambitious assassination plots were hatched across the land as conspirators conjured up planned poisonings, midnight sneak attacks, and other desperate ways to dispose of the tyrants. Despite assassination attempts, King James I would continue to reign, and England has more often been faced with the claims of competing kings and queens than with a period of no monarch at all. The major exception to that rule came in the 11 years between 1649 and 1660, when England was a republic. Following the disastrous reign of Charles I and the civil wars that led to his execution, Parliament, and the army ruled England. That situation was one that would not have been possible without the Bishops’ Wars that preceded it.
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]]>Titel: Germanien]]>Untertitel: Ein fesselnder Führer zur Geschichte einer Region, in der germanische Stämme herrschten und wie sie sich zu Deutschland entwickelte]]>Kategorien: Education, Europe, Germany, History, Learning]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Erzähler: Alexander Ballinger]]>Herausgeber: Captivating History]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-05-2021]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Wenn Sie die fesselnde Geschichte Germaniens entdecken wollen, lesen Sie weiter. Deutschland ist ein relativ junger Nationalstaat. Mit seiner Gründung im Jahr 1871 ist er sogar jünger als die Vereinigten Staaten. Die von Deutschen besiedelten Territorien verfügen jedoch über eine vielfältige Geschichte, die weit zurück in die Antike und Vorgeschichte reicht. Im Zentrum Europas gelegen, war Deutschland Zeuge jahrhundertelanger Konflikte, Einwanderung und Verhandlungen. Infolgedessen wandelte sich seine Gestalt, Größe und seine Ethnie über seine gesamte Geschichte hinweg. Die Territorien, die das heutige Deutschland bilden, waren häufig Kriegsschauplätze und zu manchen Zeiten verbanden sie sich gegen einen gemeinsamen Feind oder brachen aufgrund innerer Konflikte auseinander. Aufgrund dieser Konflikte veränderten sich Deutschlands Grenzen durch seine Geschichte hindurch ebenso wie die Vorstellung von deutscher Identität, die sich in gewisser Weise immer noch entwickelt. Die lange und von Konflikten geprägte Geschichte der Region beeinflusst seine Gegenwart, seine Politik und seine Nationalität. In Germanien: Ein fesselnder Führer zur Geschichte einer Region in Europa, in der germanische Stämme herrschten und wie sie sich in Deutschland verwandelte, werden Sie u.a. folgende Themen finden: Wenn Sie also mehr über die Geschichte Germaniens erfahren wollen, scrollen Sie nach oben und klicken Sie auf die Schaltfläche “In den Einkaufswagen”!
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]]>Title: Aztlán]]>Subtitle: The History and Mystery of the Aztec’s Ancestral Home]]>Categories: America, Ancient, History, Indigenous, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-05-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Who were the Aztec and from whence - it is answered in their mythico-histories. Like all other such origin myths, these differ in detail, not in basic content.... And so, the Aztec they found in a cave the Hummingbird Wizard, the famous Huitzilopochtli.... The idol gave them advice. It sounded well: wander, look for lands, avoid any large-scale fighting, send pioneers ahead, have them plant maize, when the harvest is ready move up to it; keep me, Huitzilopochtli, always with you, carrying me like a banner, feed me on human hearts torn from the recently sacrificed.... All of which the Aztec did.” (Victor W. Von Hagen) From the moment Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortés first found and confronted them, the Aztecs have fascinated the world, and they continue to hold a unique place both culturally and in pop culture.
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]]>Título: Hammurabi (Spanish Edition)]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante acerca del sexto rey de la primera dinastía babilonia, incluyendo el Código de Hammurabi (Spanish Edition)]]>Categorías: Ancient, History, Iraq, Middle East]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 08-04-2021]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Descubra la fascinante historia de Hammurabi La historia de Hammurabi es la historia de treinta y tres años llenos de conquistas, construcciones de templos, obras de irrigación y desarrollo de leyes, pero también una historia de ruptura de relaciones y de imperios que surgieron y cayeron. Es una historia de traiciones y de alianzas cambiantes, en la que hasta los dioses se inmiscuyen en los asuntos de los hombres. Y el caso es que, aunque ocurrió hace miles de años, parece contemporánea, como si Hammurabi aún estuviera respirando entre nosotros. Y, como ocurre con todos los grandes momentos de la historia del género humano, nos enseña que todos los grandes logros tienen un precio, y que la naturaleza humana siempre ha sido igual de compleja, como cuando los babilonios alababan a Marduk y aclamaron a Hammurabi como a un auténtico dios. En Hammurabi: Una guía fascinante acerca del sexto rey de la primera dinastía babilonia, incluyendo el Código de Hammurabi, encontrará contenidos como estos: ¡Obtenga este libro y aprenda más acerca de Hammurabi! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Audrey Hepburn: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Actors, Book 14]]>Series: #14 in Biographies of Actors]]>Categories: Biography, Celebrity, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-29-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Very few lives can be described as fit for a Hollywood film. Audrey Hepburn’s life, however, is undoubtedly one of those few. After a difficult childhood that saw her parents divorce and her young existence shattered by the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, Audrey Hepburn’s career as an actress knew no bounds. Audiences flocked to see her, and actors yearned to star alongside her. Dressed often exclusively by Givenchy, Audrey was the epitome of chic and elegance. After divorcing two husbands, Audrey ended up with the love of her life, and when she gave up acting, she became a UNICEF ambassador and created awareness of childhood illness and hunger throughout the world. Audrey Hepburn was the type of woman who made her own dreams come true.
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]]>Title: The Rape of Nanking]]>Subtitle: The Nanjing Massacre That Occurred During the Second Sino-Japanese War]]>Categories: Asia, China, History, Japan]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 07-28-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the history of the Rape of Nanking, then pay attention. Between December 13, 1937, and the beginning of February 1938, Japanese soldiers entered the Chinese city of Nanjing, following a very brief fight for the city. For over six weeks, they committed some of the worst atrocities, first against the Chinese soldiers after they surrendered, then against the civilians. The Westerners who did not flee from the city prior to the Japanese arrival set up a safety zone in the weeks leading up to the Imperial Army entering the city. This was the only place where there was relative safety. While Japanese soldiers did enter the safety zone to remove citizens, their actions and behavior in the rest of the city were far worse. The primary war crimes for which they would eventually be charged were rape, looting, arson, and the execution of soldiers and civilians. In less than two months, they killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese people and destroyed roughly a third of the buildings within the city.
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]]>Title: The Order of Assassins]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Secretive Persian Sect During the Middle Ages]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-23-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Like the shinobi, more commonly known as the ninja, the assassin is yet another fabled figure with ancient roots that remains astonishingly relevant to this day. Assassins in the context of contemporary pop culture often conjure up images of brooding, silver-tongued individuals in peak physique, equipped with impeccable style, flawless marksmanship, and exemplary hand-to-hand combat skills. Others visualize strapping, muscular men, their mysterious faces almost entirely obscured by the heavy hoods of their capes, toting quivers, an assortment of daggers strapped to their waists, and glinting blades hidden up their sleeves, a portrayal popularized by the chart-topping video game franchise Assassin's Creed. These invisible executioners lurk soundlessly in the shadows, clocking their target's every move before lunging forth, restraining them with acrobatic stunts and cat-like reflexes, and going in for the kill. But again, like the shinobi, the genuine lore and long-lived legends surrounding the assassin, along with fanciful fabrications stemming from creative liberties taken by modern storytellers, have become so homogenized that the differences between historical and mythical assassins are imperceptible to most.
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]]>Title: The Gran Sasso Raid]]>Subtitle: The History of the Nazi Operation to Rescue Benito Mussolini from Captivity During World War II]]>Categories: America, Europe, Germany, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-21-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>As Sicily fell and the Allies prepared to press on, Italy’s fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, was actually arrested to prevent him from doing further damage. Il Duce still held considerable power in the eyes of many ground-level activists, and if left unchecked, the possibility of violence in the streets was genuine. He was jailed in Campo Imperatore on August 28, 1943, on one of the largest mountains in Central Italy, but when the new Italian government surrendered to the Allies, most of the Italian mainland was still controlled by the Germans, who now pushed out to oppose not just the Western Allies but the Italians. In one tragic move, the Germans attacked the Italians without mercy on all fronts, slaughtering their former allies and taking no prisoners, while the remnants of the Italian military, located on national soil, fought to stop their former allies from the far-reaching south to the last man to allow easy access to British and American troops.
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]]>Title: The Franco-Prussian War]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the War of 1870 Between the French Empire and German States and the Role Otto von Bismarck Played in the Unification of Germany]]>Categories: Education, Europe, Germany, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 07-01-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Have you ever wondered how Germany became a military and economic powerhouse that placed its bid for world domination in the 20th century? If so, have a look at our guide about the Franco-Prussian War! This audiobook will transport you to the late 19th century, allowing you to “witness” one of the seminal moments of modern history. You’ll learn what events preceded the confrontation between the waning old European power of France and the up-and-coming Prussian state, and how a war led to the unification of Germany into an empire. Through this guide, you’ll find out how significant the famous “Iron Chancellor” Otto von Bismarck was in preparing the ground for a conflict, and how his political genius allowed Prussia to spearhead the German union. This audiobook will also expose all the faults in French military thought and the blunders committed by their leaders. Through their mistakes, you’ll learn how indecisiveness and stubborn traditionalism can lead to disaster, at least on the battlefield.
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]]>Title: Mercia]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of England and the Invasions of the Vikings during the 9th Century]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, Europe, Great Britain]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 06-30-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of Mercia, then pay attention... The Kingdom of Mercia lasted for more than 500 years. Such a long period of time brought change to all aspects of Mercian life, and it is the role of history and this audiobook to follow that change through the centuries. But it wasn’t just the kings and queens that changed. The events of the period resonated within social and cultural life, religious beliefs, artistic expression, and trade. Everything evolved under the patronage of Mercia. We are able to understand these changes as they are still ongoing in modern times. The world we are living in is constantly shifting and developing, and as people, we are no different than the Anglo-Saxons from the old times. As such, it is no wonder we show interest in their way of life and the persons who ruled them. In fact, it is almost as if we feel a deep connection with the society of our ancestors, as if we feel there is some familiarity.
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]]>Title: Nathaniel Hawthorne]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #6 in Biographies of American Authors]]>Categories: America, Author, Biography, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-30-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of America’s most influential writers and also one of the most complex. He was the essential New Englander, a believer in hard work and simple living, and his personality and writing were tremendously influenced by his Puritan ancestry and the Salem Witch Trials. He obsessed over sin and redemption his entire life. Hawthorne’s unequivocal belief in the dark side of humanity proved to be one of the greatest assets of his writing. His obsession with mankind’s downfall and its basic imperfections flows throughout every page of his novels. Evil fascinated him, and he spent his life pondering how to overcome what he considered man’s essential sinful nature. This produced some of the most dramatic literature by any American writer.
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]]>Title: Operation Gunnerside]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Allied Mission to Sabotage Nazi Germany’s Nuclear Weapons Program During World War II]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-30-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"What if the enemy should get the atomic bomb before we did! We could not run the mortal risk of being outstripped in this awful sphere." (Winston Churchill) Tens of millions died during World War II as the warring powers raced to create the best fighter planes, tanks, and guns, and eventually that race extended to bombs which carried enough power to destroy civilization itself. While the war raged in Europe and the Pacific, a dream team of Nobel Laureates was working on the Manhattan Project, a program kept so secret that Vice President Harry Truman didn’t know about it until he took the presidency after FDR’s death in April 1945. The Manhattan Project would ultimately yield the “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” bombs that released more than 100 Terajoules of energy at Hiroshima and Nagaski, but not surprisingly, Nazi Germany was not far behind with their own nuclear weapons program. When the Nazis’ quest for a nuclear weapon began in earnest in 1939, no one really had a handle on how important nuclear weapons would prove to war and geopolitics.
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]]>Title: Pablo Picasso: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Painters, Book 5]]>Series: #5 in Biographies of Painters]]>Categories: Biography, Celebrity, Visual Artist]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 06-28-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Pablo Picasso. Free bonus inside. Pablo Picasso, born on October 25, 1881, in Málaga, Spain, was one of the 20th century’s most prolific and successful artists. A natural-born prodigy, he began painting at the age of two and never stopped until his death at the age of 91. From a young age, Picasso oozed defiance against formal authority. This was reflected not only in his personal life, which was a tangle of mistresses and wives, but especially in his art. His aim was to recreate reality and change the viewers’ preconceived thinking. In his own words, Pablo Picasso painted “objects as I think them, not as I see them”. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So, if you want a concise and informative book on Pablo Picasso, simply scroll up and click the "buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Homo Habilis]]>Subtitle: The History of the Archaic Hominins and Their Use of Stone Tools]]>Categories: Ancient, Biology, Civilization, Evolution]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-23-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The evolutionary path from the original primates to modern man is a long one and has taken many twists and turns, but naturally, as the fossil record grows, scientists gain a more complete understanding of our own mental and physical history in terms of genetics and anatomy. However, the correct order and relationships of the various specimen types are difficult to pin down. Many representative samples have been found in such minute amounts as to not preclude anomalies. They have been discovered in various stages of wear. Modern features did not occur simultaneously or uniformly, taking millions of years to become manifest in later types. Up to the present day’s Homo sapiens, examples of the main types have been hybrids of older and more modern features. One of the earliest species of the genus Homo to be discovered is Homo habilis, which basically means “handy man”. The name comes from the belief at the time of its discovery that this species was the first to start using stone tools. The first fossils to be uncovered in Olduvai Gorge were from the same stratigraphic layer as simple stone tools.
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]]>Title: Pontiac's War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (Native American History)]]>Categories: 18th Century, History, Military, Modern]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-23-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Pontiac’s War erupted in the Great Lakes region of North America just as the French and Indian War came to a close in 1763. The French, who had initially established a European presence there, were usurped by the British, whose relations with indigenous peoples were notoriously less diplomatic and more destructive. As a result, a Native American man named Pontiac helped lead a coalition against the British. The outcome of Pontiac’s War was not what either side intended, but it nevertheless helped shape the history of the region for decades to come.
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]]>Title: The History of Asian Immigrants in the United States During the 20th Century]]>Categories: America, Asia, History, Migration]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-23-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The story of early Asian immigration to the United States is also one about race legislation and discrimination at a time when global populations were moving with more frequency and merging ahead of their ability to practically assimilate. The greatest involuntary migration in history took place as some 12.5 million Black African crossed the Atlantic as slaves. In the New World, the advent of abolition created a knock-on labor crisis that was filled in many instances by contract or indentured labor from India and China, while at the same time, opportunist migration was taking place from the old cultures of Asia and Europe to the New World and the emerging European colonies. Chinese immigration of a large scale did not begin until the 1850s when they began arriving by the thousands. The general record of US immigration suggests that this wave of incoming Chinese occurred pursuant to the California Gold Rush of 1849, and although this is certainly true, many other factors also contributed. Most Chinese immigrants of the mid-19th and early-20th century originated from the Guangdong Province of Southern China and particularly its capital city of Guangzhou, then known as Canton.
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]]>Title: Aftermath]]>Subtitle: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Harald Jähner]]>Narrator: Sam Peter Jackson]]>Publisher: Penguin Audio]]>Release date: 06-17-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Brought to you by Penguin. Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2021. Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. How can a functioning society ever emerge from this chaos? In bombed-out Berlin, Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, journalist and member of the Nazi resistance, warms herself by a makeshift stove and records in her diary how a frenzy of expectation and industriousness grips the city. The Americans send Hans Habe, an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist and US army soldier, to the frontline of psychological warfare - tasked with establishing a newspaper empire capable of remoulding the minds of the Germans. The philosopher Hannah Arendt returns to the country she fled to find a population gripped by a manic loquaciousness, but faces a deafening wall of silence at the mention of the Holocaust. Aftermath is a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. 1945 to 1955 was a raw, wild decade poised between two eras that proved decisive for Germany's future - and one starkly different to how most of us imagine it today.
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]]>Título: Historia Americana [American History]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la historia de Estados Unidos, la Revolución americana, la guerra civil, Chicago, los años veinte, la Gran Depresión, ... y la guerra del Golfo [A Fascinating Guide to American History, the American Revolution, the Civil War, Chicago, the 1920s, the Great Depression, ... and the Gulf War]]]>Categorías: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Gustavo Gomez, Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 06-11-2021]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>8 manuscritos completos en 1 libro ¡Obtenga este libro ahora para saber más sobre Historia Americana! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Asian Immigration in the 19th Century]]>Subtitle: The History and Experiences of Early Asian Immigrants in the United States]]>Categories: America, Asia, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-09-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>One of the most important and memorable events of the United States’ westward push across the frontier came with the discovery of gold in the lands that became California in January 1848. Located thousands of miles away from the country’s power centers on the East Coast at the time, the announcement came a month before the Mexican-American War had ended. Among the very few Americans who were near the region at the time, many of them were army soldiers who were participating in the war and garrisoned there. San Francisco was still best known for being a Spanish military and missionary outpost during the colonial era, and only a few hundred called it home. Mexico’s independence, and its possession of those lands, had come only a generation earlier. While the Forty-Niners are often remembered for panning gold out of mountain streams, it required advanced mining technology for most to make a fortune. Nevertheless, the California Gold Rush became an emblem of the American Dream and the notion that Americans could obtain untold fortunes regardless of their previous social status. As historian H.W.
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]]>Title: Stonewall Jackson]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-09-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Although he finds himself on the wrong side of history, Stonewall Jackson has become known as one of the American Civil War’s most brilliant strategists. His ride to acclaim was not easy; Jackson grew up poor, was orphaned by seven, jumped between different relatives’ homes, and had no real education, yet at 18 he was accepted into the prestigious military academy at West Point. Jackson spent most of his adult life teaching, and when he joined the Confederates to fight in the Civil War in 1861, he was entirely out of military practice. Nevertheless, throughout Jackson’s two-year service in the war, he won all but one battle he led. From the First Battle of Bull Run to his campaign in the Shenandoah Valley, Jackson managed to conquer most of his battles with his impressive military wits, often achieving what many considered to be impossible.
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]]>Title: History of California]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Golden State, Starting from When Native Americans Dominated Through European Exploration to the Present]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 06-02-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the influential and captivating history of California, then read on.... California’s transformation into the most populous state in America and the home of some of the country’s richest citizens spread amongst Silicon Valley and Hollywood, was certainly no accident. California has always been one of the most diverse and multicultural states in the United States, way before it was a state at all, and even before the arrival of the Europeans. With California’s rugged yet diverse terrain, the first settlers spread into hundreds of different tribes, all with their own lifestyles, religions, diets, and culture, much of which was based on the landscape they ended up in. Over the course of the 18th century, California truly developed into the state we know it as today. Within the century, the region passed through the hands of the Spaniards, the Republic of Mexico, and finally, the United States of America, which warred over acquiring California’s fertile and diverse lands.
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]]>Title: Teresa of Avila]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Christians)]]>Series: #1 in Biographies of Christians]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Religion]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-29-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The first female Doctor of the Church, Teresa of Ávila, was a visionary who took matters of reform into her own hands. Even when the church authorities came against her, she stood her ground and held fast to her convictions. In so doing, she managed to persuade the Catholic powers to come around to her point of view. Teresa was not someone who took “no” for an answer; she charted her own course in life. This book chronicles Teresa of Ávila’s tragedies and triumphs, both her agonies and her ecstasies. This is the incredible story of this stalwart warrior of the faith, from beginning to end.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Chosin Reservoir]]>Subtitle: The History of the Chinese Victory That Pushed UN Forces Out of North Korea During the Korean War]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Korean War, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-25-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest, and that we have joined the issue thus raised on the battlefield; that here we fight Europe’s war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose the war to communism in Asia the fall of Europe is inevitable; win it, and Europe most probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom. As you pointed out, we must win. There is no substitute for victory.” (Douglas MacArthur, 1951) The Korean War is often labeled “the forgotten war”, and though it has received renewed attention in recent years, it still pales compared to others in recent history like the Vietnam War or even the more recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. What’s mostly overlooked is that the Korean War was one of the most intense conflicts the United States fought, and the soldiers who served in it were arguably in greater peril than in any other war over the last 75 years.
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]]>Title: Billy the Kid]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to a Notorious Gunfighter of the American Old West and His Feud with Pat Garrett]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, True Crime, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 05-24-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Do you want to know more about the Old West’s most legendary outlaw? Then, pay attention... Billy the Kid once said that he killed 22 men - one for each year that he lived. While it’s more likely that he only killed eight or nine, this young outlaw was clearly deadly. But his brief and brutal life reveals how his tragic existence led him into a life of crime. After growing up in poverty as an Irish immigrant in New York City and losing his father at a young age, Billy the Kid had to endure losing his mother when he was only 15. His stepfather walked out on him, and he was left with absolutely nothing. He turned to steal, which started him out on a slippery slope that led him to murder after murder. Billy the Kid has been lauded time and time again as a folk hero, even though he was a murderer. Yet, it’s easy to empathize with this young outlaw with a baby face and big blue eyes. His story is filled with jailbreaks, treachery, gangs, and bloodthirsty Old West feuds.
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]]>Title: Mary Baker Eddy Timeline]]>Subtitle: A Short Timeline of Mary Baker Eddy]]>Series: #5 in Timelines]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Religion]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-20-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>This is a short timeline of Mary Baker Eddy.
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]]>Title: King Philip's War: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Native American History, Book 9]]>Series: #9 in Native American History]]>Categories: America, Colonialism, History, Indigenous, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-20-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>King Philip’s War was a conflict fought between English colonists and indigenous peoples in North America toward the end of the 17th century. Primarily, the clash occurred because the European migrants were encroaching on native land. But more than that, it was also a struggle for survival: The fledgling colonies were fighting to establish a semblance of European society against the Native Americans, who saw their cultures evaporating with the tremendous loss of land and life. Although King Philip’s War is not always well remembered, some historians have argued that it is of critical importance to understanding colonial history, as well as to the development of America itself.
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]]>Title: Irish History]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the History of Ireland]]>Categories: Europe, History, Ireland]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 05-10-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that a poet named William Drennan was the first to name Ireland the “Emerald Island”? He was referring to the green hills of Ireland’s countryside in his poem “When Erin first rose”. The countryside is what defines Ireland probably the best since, for a long time, it played a major role in the economy and culture of the nation. The Emerald Island was a place of conflict that developed throughout the centuries, and perhaps lingers even today. By overcoming the difficulties that troubled the Emerald Island since the medieval ages, the proud Irish men and women forged a wealthy nation, turning Ireland into a role model for many European countries. This guide through Ireland’s history offers a new and unique perspective on the events and people who shaped the island’s landscape and its nation. Learn about how Christianity came to the island and the myth of St. Patrick.
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]]>Título: Historia de Corea [Korean History]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la historia coreana, con episodios como las invasiones mongolas, la división en norte y sur, y la guerra de Corea]]>Categorías: Asia, History, Korea]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Agustín Cammisa]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 05-07-2021]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de Corea, siga leyendo.... Hoy en día la península de Corea se divide en dos, pero hubo una época en la que esta península estaba dividida en muchos estados. Con el paso del tiempo, y el asedio de grandes dinastías extranjeras, estas tierras fueron invadidas por diversos clanes y tribus. Ninguno de todos esos poderosos y codiciosos caciques logró prevalecer. La tierra está regada con la sangre de la gente que hizo posible Corea y es el pueblo coreano, que salió victorioso entre la vorágine de imperios liderados por tiranos odiados y guerras libradas por personas provenientes de tierras muy lejanas. Los coreanos son supervivientes, conocidos por su persistencia y valentía. En Historia de Corea: Una guía fascinante de la historia coreana, con episodios como las invasiones mongolas, la división en norte y sur, y la guerra de Corea, descubrirá temas como: ¡Consiga este libro ahora para aprender más sobre la historia de Corea! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Jesse Livermore: The Life and Legacy of America’s Most Famous Stock Trader]]>Categories: America, Biography, Business, Economic]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-05-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“I learned early that there is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again. I've never forgotten that.” (Jesse Livermore) Since the beginning of time, money and trading have shaped the economy of civilization. The earliest societies began with barter, otherwise known as the mutual exchange of goods and services. Grains, plant products, cattle, camels, sheep, and other livestock were the first forms of currency. In Eastern and African countries, money came in the likes of cowrie shells. Currency evolved as time progressed, passing through the ages as primitive copper coins, stamped coins, leather squares, stringed beads, gold, and finally, to the paper and electronic currency used today. Over the years, Wall Street has been equally glamorized and demonized for what it represents. To some, this is where lifelong dreams of riches, power, and fast living come to meet. To others, it is the breeding ground of the corrupt and greedy one percent.
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]]>Title: Malayan Campaign]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (World War 2 Battles)]]>Categories: Asia, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-05-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Prior to December 1941, Great Britain commanded an empire that stretched across the globe. However, after the Malayan Campaign, which began on December 8, 1941 and ended on January 31, 1942, the world order was up for grabs as the Empire of Japan contested British rule and American military might in the Pacific in the early years of World War II. Influenced by racial stereotypes, the West initially failed to perceive the full expanse of Japan’s growing power in Asia. That ignorance enabled the Japanese to begin the war in the Pacific against the Western Allied Powers, invading the British colony of Malaya after Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. From the beginning, the Japanese commanded both air and sea, while the British, Malayan, Indian, and Australian forces struggled to defend Malaya. By the end of January 1941, the Allies were retreating to Singapore, and Malaya was under Japanese control, after nearly 50,000 troops belonging to the Commonwealth had been killed or captured.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Wed, 05 May 2021 04:46:07 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xEPfLLpW Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Gunpowder]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Explosive that Modernized Warfare]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Military, Weapon]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-05-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.” (Wendell Phillips) The crucial importance of education in China, a prized virtue instilled in the population among all classes by beloved teacher and philosopher Confucius in the sixth century BCE, generated an unprecedented and long-lived golden age of literature and art. It also gave rise to a cornucopia of transformative innovations and groundbreaking technology, particularly following the dawn of the Common Era. In addition to the wheelbarrow, the seismograph, the waterwheel, deep drilling, suspension bridges, and ship rudders, among countless other life-changing contraptions, the Chinese developed what were later dubbed the “Four Great Inventions of China.” One of those was none other than gunpowder, which was developed no later than the ninth century and was being used for military purposes by the 11th century. Its use slowly spread through South Asia and the Middle East before making it to Europe in the late 13th century. For a time it was a mere curiosity, but its destructive power and military potential would be realized quickly.
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]]>Title: The Suez Canal]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the World’s Most Famous Waterway]]>Categories: 20th Century, Egypt, History, Middle East, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-03-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 1831, a 26-year-old French foreign service official by the name of Ferdinand de Lesseps was sent to Alexandria to serve as vice-consul. While undergoing an obligatory period of quarantine, the French Consul-General, Monsieur Mimaut, sent his new understudy a number of books to help pass the time, and one of these books proved to be a lengthy memorandum composed by French engineer Jacques-Marie le Père, writing on instructions from Napoleon Bonaparte. The subject was the linking of the Red Sea with the Mediterranean by the construction of a canal. This study made a deep impression on the mind of the young diplomat, and for the remainder of his term of service in Egypt, he applied himself to studying the question. Eventually, he came to believe that it was not only a viable project, but a potentially profitable one too, and, of course, it would be nothing less than a stupendous gift to mankind. As it turned out, the concept of linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean was not by any means new. In fact, the idea was as old as trade across the isthmus itself.
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]]>Title: History of Southeast Asia]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the History of a Vast Region Containing Countries Such as Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma, and More]]>Categories: Asia, History, Southeast Asia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 05-03-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>What do you know about Southeast Asia? Would you like to know more? Southeast Asia has a long and complicated history. The many threads of its history are often found tangled with many other times, places, and political personalities. It can be a little difficult untangling the strands of these powerful Southeast-Asian civilizations, but this audiobook has really run the gamut as it pertains to finding the individual wellsprings from which all of these nations, kingdoms, and empires have sprung. Here you will learn the origins of majestic realms such as Indonesia, Burma, and the Philippines. Not only will you learn about their origin, but you will also discover how they evolved over the years and their current status today. This audiobook covers ancient Southeast Asia, the mid-period, colonialism, World War Two occupation by the Japanese, the aftermath of the war, and the subsequent revolutions. The history of this region is a riveting story full of all manner of plot twists and developments.
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]]>Title: James Buchanan: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of US Presidents]]>Series: #15 in Biographies of US Presidents]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Head of State]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-29-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>James Buchanan began life as a country boy in rural Pennsylvania. He would later leave the farm for law school and, after that, politics. Buchanan’s ascent to the presidency was a careful and steady rise; he checked all of the requisite boxes and took all of the necessary steps he believed the office required, but nevertheless, when Buchanan was inaugurated president in March of 1857, he had inherited a powder keg that was just waiting to explode into the turmoil that was the American Civil War. James Buchanan has since been vilified as being the great appeaser who placated the South enough to embolden them to secede from the Union. He is frequently listed as one of the worst presidents in the history of the United States. Buchanan himself, however, always held out the hope that history would vindicate him and the role he played. In this book, we explore James Buchanan’s life - before, during, and after the American Civil War - in full.
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]]>Título: Historia de Inglaterra [History of England]]]>Subtitular: Fascinante Guía de la Historia Inglesa, Desde la Antigüedad, el Gobierno de los Anglosajones, los Vikingos, los Normandos y los Tudor Hasta el Fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial]]>Categorías: Ancient, Education, Europe, Great Britain]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Tomás Cebral]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 04-29-2021]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de Inglaterra, siga leyendo... Hay pocos lugares que atraigan la imaginación como Inglaterra. Solo una pequeña isla frente a la costa occidental de Europa continental, cuenta con una rica historia que se remonta a los primeros humanos modernos. Desde entonces, sociedades enteras han surgido y caído cuando los pueblos aprendieron a fabricar herramientas de piedra y hueso, enterrar a sus muertos y fortificar sus ciudades contra los invasores extranjeros. Desde los temibles guerreros celtas de la prehistoria hasta los hábiles inventores y estadistas de la era moderna, la historia de Inglaterra está repleta de magníficos castillos, complejos reyes y reinas, campesinos rebeldes y horripilantes plagas. A lo largo de la historia, más pueblos han hecho de Inglaterra su hogar tal vez más de lo que la mayoría de nosotros nos hemos dado cuenta. En Historia de Inglaterra: Fascinante Guía de la Historia Inglesa, Desde la Antigüedad, el Gobierno de los Anglosajones, los Vikingos, los Normandos y los Tudor Hasta el Fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, descubrirá temas tales como: ¡Obtenga este audiolibro ahora para conocer más sobre la historia de Inglaterra! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Título: Aníbal Barca [Hannibal Barca]]]>Subtitular: Una Fascinante Guía del General Cartaginés Que Luchó En la Segunda Guerra Púnica Entre Cartago y la Antigua Roma]]>Categorías: Ancient, Education, History, Learning, Rome]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Mono Vazquez]]>Editor: Vicelane LLC]]>Fecha de publicación: 04-29-2021]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si quiere descubrir la cautivadora vida de Aníbal Barca, siga leyendo... Uno de los nombres más emblemáticos de un brillante estratega militar es Aníbal. Fue el legendario general cartaginés quien marchara con elefantes sobre los nevados Alpes y se enfrentó a Roma, en ese momento el creciente poder en Europa. Superó a los mejores estrategas que Roma tenía para ofrecer y se apostó dos veces frente a las puertas de Roma con su ejército. Nunca hubo duda alguna de que Aníbal serviría a su país en el ejército, pero nadie podría haber predicho cuán bien serviría a Cartago. Incluso siglos después, los romanos usaban la frase "¡Aníbal está a las puertas!" como una forma de indicar una desgracia o miedo. Incluso los desastres naturales se comparaban con él. En Aníbal Barca: Una Fascinante Guía del General Cartaginés Que Luchó En la Segunda Guerra Púnica Entre Cartago y la Antigua Roma, descubrirá temas tales como: ¡Obtén este audiolibro ahora para conocer más sobre Aníbal Barca! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Título: La Guerra de 1812: Una Fascinante Guía del Conflicto Militar entre los Estados Unidos de América y Gran Bretaña en las Guerras Napoleónicas [The War of 1812]]]>Categorías: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Nicolás Riedel]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 04-28-2021]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de la guerra de 1812, entonces siga leyendo.... De entre todos los conflictos acaecidos en la historia de América, la guerra de 1812 es uno de los más singulares, y clave en el devenir americano. Fue una batalla llena de sorpresas e ironías - las debilidades de ambas partes en el conflicto a lo largo de los dos años de lucha constante terminarían por convertirse en sus respectivas fortalezas. Además, la guerra de 1812 fue uno de los conflictos más infructuosos en el que se involucraron los contendientes, ya que las fronteras geográficas en disputa terminarían por retornar a su estado previo a la guerra, lo que implica que todos los recursos económicos y humanos que se invirtieron fueron en vano. La guerra de 1812 se trató de una guerra interna entre Canadá (que aún estaba bajo dominio británico) y los EE.
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]]>Title: The Hubble Space Telescope]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the World’s Most Famous Telescope]]>Categories: America, History, Science, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-28-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on the Space Shuttle Program’s 35th mission, but this was no ordinary mission. In its payload bay, Discovery was carrying the Hubble Space Telescope, with the objective of putting the telescope into orbit. By the time the Hubble telescope reached orbit, it was already the world’s most famous telescope, but it was also the most scorned. The telescope cost nearly $2 billion more to complete than anticipated, and to make matters worse, the first images it sent back were skewed. When the telescope immediately began transmitting defective images, NASA and the telescope became laughingstocks, literally. In the popular comedy movie Naked Gun 2 1/2, released in 1991, one scene in a café shows a picture of the telescope between pictures of the Titanic and the Hindenburg, implying it was a disaster. It would take three years to launch another space shuttle mission to fix the telescope, and that would be just the first of five servicing missions that have been performed in the 21 years the telescope has been in orbit.
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]]>Title: Seth Bullock]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Deadwood’s First Sheriff Who Tamed This Wild West Town and Was Later Appointed US Marshal by Theodore Roosevelt]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-27-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Do you want to get to know the man who tamed the wildest corner of the West? Then pay attention.... Deadwood, 1876: a notorious little mining town in modern-day South Dakota that was a hive of criminal activity. Thieves, drunkards, prostitutes, and murderers ran rampant among its booming streets. There were over 300 murders in this town during the first year of its existence. When Wild Bill Hickok was brutally shot and killed at point-blank range in the back of the head, it was obvious that someone had to rise up and save the town of Deadwood from itself. Someone with nerves of steel and a keen sense of justice. Someone like Seth Bullock. This Canadian-born legend has been immortalized in television and film as the steely-eyed sheriff who brought Deadwood to its knees without killing a single person in an era of bloody frontier justice, but there is far more to Bullock than just his short career in Deadwood. He was a businessman, sheriff, US marshal, soldier, husband, friend, and survivor.
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]]>Título: Historia de Armenia [History of Armenia]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la historia de Armenia, empezando por los tiempos antiguos y llegando hasta la declaración de soberanía con ... la extinta unión soviética [A Fascinating Guide to the History of Armenia, Starting from Ancient Times and Working Up to the Declaration of Sovereignty with ... the Former Soviet Union]]]>Categorías: Europe, History, Russia]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Christian Pérez]]>Editor: Vicelane LLC]]>Fecha de publicación: 04-27-2021]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si desea descubrir la fascinante historia de Armenia, entonces siga leyendo.... La historia de Armenia comienza con un antiguo y glorioso reino, que se ganó el respeto del mundo y acumuló tanto poder como Egipto o Babilonia. Conforme su historia se abre paso entre las tinieblas, cada capítulo de la misma alcanza niveles tan legendarios como otros mucho más conocidos, y con personajes tan importantes como, por ejemplo, Marco Antonio y Cleopatra, Alejandro Magno, Gengis Kan O Federico Barbarroja. Armenia vio crecer el enorme poder de Roma; conoció a los grandes faraones egipcios, la Horda de Oro, la Unión Soviética, aparte de sufrir la primera invasión de la historia de un ejército musulmán.
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]]>Title: Persian Empire]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Ancient, Arabian Peninsula, History, Middle East]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-26-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Persian Empire.... The history of the Persian Empire (or Empires) stretches from ancient times well into the 20th century. Through biblical events, to the dawn and spread of Islam, to the revolutions of the 20th century, Persia - or Iran - has played an integral role in nearly all major events of world history. Uncover the fascinating story of this influential and unique civilization. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on the Persian Empire, simply scroll up and buy now for instant access!
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]]>Title: Bob Marley: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Musicians]]>Categories: Activist, Biography, Celebrity, Music]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-26-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Bob Marley.... Bob Marley, the most prominent reggae musician of all time, was truly an icon. He lived a life about as full as his 36 years on this earth would allow. By the time he was 16, he was in the studio making records, and although superstardom didn’t come to him immediately, Marley never ceased his pursuit of it. He also never ceased in his pursuit of wisdom and spiritual well-being. In later life, Marley became a champion for political freedom and even managed to get two vehemently opposed political leaders to shake hands on stage - all to the backdrop of a reggae groove. Bob Marley was many things to many people - in this book, we explore all facets of his unique personality. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on Bob Marley, simply scroll up and buy now for instant access!
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]]>Title: History of Thailand]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Thai People and Their History]]>Categories: Asia, History, Southeast Asia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-21-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of Thailand, then pay attention.... Did you know that Thailand is the only country in Southeast Asia that a European power has not colonized? Thailand has seen its fair share of struggles. Today, the Thai government struggles to find its place in the world, oscillating between democracy and authoritarian regimes. Even though its name translates to “Land of the Free”, it seems the country has some trouble living up to that name. This captivating guide to the Thai people and their history details the interesting events that led the country to where it is today. In this book, you will learn about the country’s rich history, from when the first people settled the land hundreds of thousands of years ago to its modern-day role in the world.
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]]>Title: The Reformation]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Religious Revolution Sparked by Martin Luther and Its Impact on Christianity and the Western Church]]>Categories: Christianity, Ecclesiastical, Education, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-21-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Reformation and why it occurred, then pay attention.... Most of us have probably heard the story of how a German monk named Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of a church. These Ninety-five Theses were essentially ninety-five complaints lodged against the Catholic Church. In those days, the Catholic Church was the big guy on the block when it came to religion. Those who dared question Catholic doctrine were inevitably said to be in error, and if they did not immediately correct their “errors”, they would be labeled heretics. And it wasn’t that good to be a heretic in those days since it usually meant a one-way ticket to getting burned at the stake. The Catholic Church had kept its solid grip on church dogma for well over a thousand years, yet Martin Luther dared to stand up and raise his voice in objection.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Wed, 21 Apr 2021 00:11:15 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-beqfwkaB Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Hititas (Spanish Edition)]]>Subtitular: Una fascinante guía del antiguo pueblo de Anatolia que estableció el imperio hitita en la antigua Mesopotamia]]>Categorías: History, Middle East, Turkey]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Mono Vázquez]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 04-20-2021]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¿Sabía usted que el Imperio hitita una vez cubrió la mayor parte de la actual Turquía y Siria? Mucha gente podría reconocer su nombre en varias historias de la Biblia cristiana, pero los hititas también tenían toda una cultura e historia basada en su hogar en Anatolia. Esta antigua civilización fue una vez una potencia, un influyente de la religión, y un verdadero conquistador capaz de superar incluso a Egipto. Los hititas construyeron una civilización notable que merece un lugar en la historia. Lamentablemente, pocos historiadores han estado dispuestos a abordar la tarea de descubrir la verdadera historia de este asombroso pueblo. Y, por lo tanto, puede ser difícil para los lectores encontrar un recurso fácil de leer y consistente sobre esta fascinante civilización. Pero eso está por cambiar. En este nuevo e interesante libro de historia, usted descubrirá la verdad sobre esta fascinante civilización antigua. En Hititas: Una Guía Fascinante de la Antigua Civilización de Anatolia que Estableció el Imperio Hitita en la Antigua Mesopotamia, descubrirá: ¡Obtenga este libro ahora para aprender más sobre los hititas! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Haile Selassie]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 20th Century, Africa, Biography, East Africa]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-16-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Haile Selassie.... The last ruler of the House of Solomon, Haile Selassie, was not only the final Emperor of Ethiopia but also the link to a bygone past. In the days of Haile Selassie, absolute rule was given as an unquestioned divine right. Even though Selassie in many ways was a moderate progressive, he was still an autocratic ruler. It was when Menelik II perished in 1913 that a young Haile Selassie struggled to assert himself as successor by virtue of his blood ties to the ancient Solomonic dynasty that traced Ethiopia’s royal roots to none other than the biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. In the end, however, even this distinction would not save the last Emperor of Ethiopia from student protests, high gas prices, and an abrupt communist takeover. In this book, we bring you the life, the legend, and the wonder of Haile Selassie in full. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on Haile Selassie, simply scroll up, and click the "Buy" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Revolutions of 1848]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Massive Social Uprisings Across Europe]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Insurrection]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-16-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“We have been beaten and humiliated...scattered, imprisoned, disarmed and gagged. The fate of European democracy has slipped from our hands.” (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, a French politician) The year 1815 marked the beginning of a time of repression in Europe. Napoleon Bonaparte had been defeated at Waterloo and sent to the remote South Atlantic island of Saint Helena, the torrent of blood unleashed by the French Revolution had finally run dry, and the dispossessed princes were returning to their thrones. Bourbon King Louis XVIII returned to Paris, King Ferdinand VII was restored in Madrid, and the numerous petty princes of Germany and Italy took back power in their localities. In Vienna, the victorious powers - Austria, Prussia, Russia, and the United Kingdom - re-established the old order on the principle of the divine right of kings, and with that, the ancient regime had been restored. Nonetheless, the French Revolution had changed the situation permanently, and the lid could not be put back on the box. The revolution and Napoleon’s rise had abolished feudalism across Western Europe, inspired nationalism, empowered the middle classes, and enshrined religious liberty and freedom of speech in theory, if not always in fact.
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]]>Title: The Siege of Vienna (1529)]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Decisive Battle That Prevented the Ottoman Empire’s Expansion into Western Europe]]>Categories: History, Middle East, Military, Turkey]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-16-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the fourth century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul. In the wake of taking Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire would spend the next few centuries expanding its size, power, and influence, bumping up against Eastern Europe and becoming one of the world’s most important geopolitical players.
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]]>Title: The Ninja]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Feudal Japan’s Secret Agents]]>Categories: Ancient, Asia, History, Japan]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-16-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“They traveled in disguise to other territories to judge the situation of the enemy, they would inveigle their way into the midst of the enemy to discover gaps and enter enemy castles to set them on fire and carried out assassinations, arriving in secret.” (Hanawa Hokinoichi) To most people in the West, particularly the youth, the mere mention of Japan immediately evokes various images. A delectable rainbow of sushi, hand-rolled temaki, and platters of crispy, golden-brown tempura. An idyllic, crystal-clear lake flanked by trees covered with delicate, cotton-candy-pink sakura blossoms. A montage of unique, hand-drawn cartoons that are a masterful mix of delightfully exaggerated proportions, features, and colors, and elements of arresting realism, collectively known as “anime”. Then, of course, there's the ninja, a willowy, graceful figure decked out in black from head to toe, his glinting eyes peering out from the window of his balaclava. He flits from rooftop to rooftop in stunning somersaults and slinks into the shadows, watching his unsuspecting marks from afar and calculating their every move.
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]]>Title: Cristero War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, History, Mexico]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-01-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Cristero War.... The Cristero War took place in Mexico between 1926 and 1929. It was a war of rebellion by Mexican Catholics against the government, which had enforced restrictions on their faith. It was mainly a guerilla war, in which the Cristeros launched sudden, quick attacks against strategic locations. It began in central Mexico but quickly engulfed the entire country. In the end, the United States and the Catholic hierarchy intervened to help the combatants reach a peace agreement, but not before nearly 100,000 Mexicans had lost their lives in a struggle between different visions for Mexico’s future. Discover a plethora of topics, such as So if you want a concise and informative book on the Cristero War, simply scroll up and buy now for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Mandate for Mesopotamia]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of British Occupation and Iraq’s Independence After World War I]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-01-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The United Nations is one of the most famous bodies in the world, and its predecessor, the League of Nations, might be equally notorious. In fact, President Woodrow Wilson’s pet project was controversial from nearly the minute it was conceived. At the end of World War I, Wilson's pleas at the Paris Peace Conference relied on his Fourteen Points, which included the establishment of a League of Nations, but while his points were mostly popular amongst Americans and Europeans alike, leaders at the Peace Conference largely discarded them and favored different approaches. British leaders saw their singular aim as the maintenance of British colonial possessions. France, meanwhile, only wanted to ensure that Germany was weakened and unable to wage war again, and it too had colonial interests abroad that it hoped to maintain. Britain and France thus saw eye-to-eye with both wanting a weaker Germany and to maintain their colonies. Wilson, however, wanted both countries to rid themselves of their colonies, and he wanted Germany to maintain its self-determination and right to self-defense.
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]]>Title: History of the Jews]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Jewish History, Starting from the Ancient Israelites Through Roman Rule to World War 2]]>Categories: History, Levant, Middle East]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-01-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Jews, then pay attention.... The Jewish people are one of the oldest living people groups on the planet. The Jews lived alongside the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, and Sumerians - all of whom have since disappeared from the pages of history. Yet the Jews still remain. Despite all of the odds, Jewish culture, language, laws, and religion have remained intact over the course of thousands of years. Even after being kicked out of their homeland and scattered all over the globe, the Jews were able to hold their customs close to their heart. While in exile, they developed special rules to live by through rabbinical works, such as the Talmud, which gave them a moral compass by which to live, no matter where they might end up. This was a great source of comfort for the Jewish people even while having to live in less than encouraging environments.
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]]>Título: La Historia y Folclor De Los Vampiros [The History and Folklore of Vampires]]]>Subtitular: Las Historias Y Leyendas Detrás De Estos Seres Míticos [The Stories and Legends Behind These Mythical Beings]]]>Categorías: Cultural Heritage, Europe, Folklore, History]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Manuel de Jesus Beauchamp]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 03-31-2021]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>La gente siempre ha tenido miedo de los muertos. Desde los albores de la humanidad, las personas se han preocupado por aquellos que han fallecido, y también han tratado de mantenerlos alejados. Hay una miríada de leyendas y creencias acerca de muertos que regresan, y una de las más persistentes, es la del vampiro. Todo el mundo ha oído hablar de vampiros, pero pocas personas están realmente familiarizadas con la historia y el folclor que han hecho tan populares a estos seres míticos. De hecho, hay tantas leyendas de tantas culturas que se hace difícil establecer una definición concluyente, y el folclor es, por su propia naturaleza, no científico, pero la mayoría de la gente en el mundo Occidental considera que vampiros son los que regresan de la tumba para chupar la esencia de vida o la sangre de los vivos. Esta concepción común de los vampiros de hecho oculta a muchas tradiciones europeas, y casi todas las no europeas, de monstruos chupasangre. Por ejemplo, en China, Japón y el Medio Oriente, hay espíritus que drenan la fuerza vital de las personas incautas, pero estas criaturas mágicas nunca fueron humanos mortales.
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]]>Title: Operation Crossbow]]>Subtitle: The History of the Allied Bombing Missions Against Nazi Germany’s V-2 Rocket Program During World War II]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-30-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>After the last shots of World War II were fired and the process of rebuilding Germany and Europe began, the Western Allies and the Soviet Union each tried to obtain the services of the Third Reich's leading scientists, especially those involved in rocketry, missile technology, and aerospace research. Naturally, this was a delicate affair due to the fact many of the German scientists were not only active Nazis, but had helped the Nazi war machine terrorize the world. At the same time, near the end of the war, the Anglo-American Allies formed a clear picture of the Soviet state. Though forced to ally with the USSR's dictator Joseph Stalin, the West came to understand that Communist Russia represented yet another hungry totalitarian power and, thus, a very real threat to an independent Europe. Of course, both the Western Allies and the Soviets knew of the Nazis’ V-2 rocket program, the forerunner of ballistic missiles and the Space Race. Indeed, the efforts to snatch up Nazi scientists reflected the fact that everyone recognized the immense strategic value of these technologies and wished to secure their benefits for themselves.
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]]>Title: The Ni-Go Project]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Imperial Japan’s Nuclear Weapons Program During World War II]]>Categories: Asia, History, Japan, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-29-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“What if the enemy should get the atomic bomb before we did! We could not run the mortal risk of being outstripped in this awful sphere.” (Winston Churchill) Before the Second World War, military conflicts were fought under orthodox conditions, usually termed “conventional warfare”, but several innovations had significantly changed combat, leading inextricably to the race for a nuclear weapon in the 1930s and 1940s. Conflicts had been fought by armies on horseback with guns of varying sophistication since the 16th century, but mechanized warfare and machine guns changed this calculus and set the stage for future combat by the end of World War I. Other sinister changes entered the fray during this conflict, such as chemical weapons like chlorine and mustard gas. The total warfare brought about by World War I and ensuing wars like the Spanish Civil War made the quest for the most powerful weapons somewhat necessary. Tens of millions died during World War II as the warring powers raced to create the best fighter planes, tanks, and guns, and eventually that race extended to bombs which carried enough power to destroy civilization itself.
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]]>Title: Mary Wollstonecraft]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of British Authors)]]>Series: #7 in Biographies of British Authors]]>Categories: Activist, Biography, Female Protagonist]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-29-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Mary Wollstonecraft.... Mary Wollstonecraft is an undisputed icon for women’s rights, and this is not a status she earned lightly. Daring to demand equality at a time when it was incredibly risky to do so, Wollstonecraft developed a long resume of standing up to those that wished to subvert her rights and the rights of those she loved. She stood up to her own father as a teenager when he abused her mother, and she didn’t hesitate to help her sister escape from a similarly tyrannical husband. As was evidenced by her masterpiece A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary wasn’t afraid to state her case, even when it was unpopular to do so. She also defied convention when it came to marriage and the nature of a loving relationship. Mary Wollstonecraft lived life on her own terms. This is her story. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on Mary Wollstonecraft, simply scroll up and click the "Buy" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: History of Romania]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Romanian History, Including Events Such as the First Roman-Dacian War, Raids of Vlad III Dracula Against the Ottoman Empire, the Great War, and World War 2]]>Categories: Eastern Europe, Europe, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-24-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Do you want to discover more about the country that inspired the story of Dracula? Then, dive into the captivating history of Romania! In this audiobook, you will discover how Romania developed from a distant Roman province on the fringes of the Roman Empire to a modern state in eastern Europe, one ready to adopt Western values. Romania lies on Europe’s eastern border, and as such, it is often neglected in history. Although it is a culturally very rich country, the world displayed little interest in its promotion. By listening to this captivating history of Romania, you will learn about the turbulent past of the region, the many wars it fought, and the people who led them. You will also learn the truth behind the character of Vlad the Impaler and decide for yourself if he was a ruthless, bloodthirsty ruler or a politician, tactician, and national hero. Here is a tiny fraction of what you will discover in this audiobook: So, if you want to learn more about the history of Romania, scroll up and click the "buy now" button!
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]]>Title: Taiping Rebellion]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Asia, China, History, Insurrection]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-22-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Taiping Rebellion.... In 1837, Hong Xiuquan failed the notoriously difficult exam to gain entry to the Chinese Civil Service and suffered a nervous breakdown. In a weakened state, he had visions which he later interpreted to be messages from God, telling him that he is the younger brother of Jesus Christ and, therefore, the second son of God. By 1850, Hong had built an army, challenged an empire, and plunged China into the bloodiest civil war in human history, one that lasted 14 years and costed more lives than the First World War. This is the story of Hong Xiuquan’s Taiping Rebellion, of his “Heavenly Kingdom” and the death and destruction that came with it. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So, if you want a concise and informative book on the Taiping Rebellion, simply scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Project Mercury]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of America’s First Human Spaceflight Program]]>Categories: America, Astronomy, History, Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-22-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.” (John Glenn) Today, the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the moon that culminated with Apollo 11 “winning” the race for the United States. In fact, it encompassed a much broader range of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States that affected everything from military technology to successfully launching satellites that could land on Mars or orbit other planets in the Solar System. Moreover, the notion that America “won” the Space Race at the end of the 1960s overlooks just how competitive the Space Race actually was in launching people into orbit, as well as the major contributions the Space Race influenced in leading to today’s International Space Station and continued space exploration. The successful Apollo 11 mission was certainly an astonishing technological triumph, but what is less well remembered now are that many programs preceded Apollo and were essential to its success. Project Mercury was one of those, and in many ways, it represented the greatest step forward in terms of the conquest of space.
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]]>Título: Historia de Asiria [Assyrian History]]]>Subtitular: Una Guía Fascinante de los Asirios y Su Poderoso Imperio en la Antigua Mesopotamia [A Captivating Guide to the Assyrians and Their Powerful Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia]]]>Categorías: Ancient, Education, Egypt, History]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 03-17-2021]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Explore la fascinante historia del Imperio asirio. Situado en el actual Irak, la antigua Mesopotamia, la tierra entre los grandes ríos Tigris y Éufrates, fue donde todo comenzó. Es la parte del mundo donde hace unos 6.000 años la gente finalmente se despidió de sus vidas de cazadores y recolectores, y comenzó a cultivar e iniciar la construcción de civilizaciones. Es de estas civilizaciones de donde obtenemos algunas de las más famosas contribuciones a la historia y cultura mundial, desde la Epopeya de Gilgamesh hasta el famoso código de leyes de Hammurabi, que dio origen al popular dicho "ojo por ojo". La historia de Mesopotamia está llena de fronteras en constante cambio, civilizaciones en ascenso y descenso y, por supuesto, guerra y conquista. Los primeros imperios del mundo surgirían aquí y pasarían miles de años intercambiando territorios, intercambiando alianzas y luchando por la supremacía. Era un juego de riesgo de la vida real que jugaban algunos de los líderes más venerados y temidos del mundo. En Historia de Asiria: Una Guía Fascinante de los Asirios y Su Poderoso Imperio en la Antigua Mesopotamia, usted descubrirá temas como: ¡Obtenga este audiolibro ahora para aprender más sobre la historia asiria! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Título: Historia de Escocia [Scotland History]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la historia de Escocia [A Fascinating Guide to Scottish History]]]>Categorías: Europe, Great Britain, History, Planet Earth]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Joe Rodriguez]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 03-17-2021]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¿Sabía usted que los escoceses nunca ganaron una batalla cuando eran favoritos? Un sentido de ironía poética se registra cuando se aprende que Escocia nunca ganó una batalla militar importante cuando las probabilidades estaban a su favor. En 1513, el mayor ejército escocés que jamás haya invadido Inglaterra fue derrotado por un ejército inglés significativamente más pequeño en Flodden Field. En solo dos horas, los escoceses perdieron diez mil hombres. La historia se repitió en 1542, cuando un ejército escocés de 15.000 hombres fue derrotado por solo 3.000 soldados ingleses. A pesar de su número mucho menor, los ingleses se las arreglaron para tomar 1.200 hombres escoceses como prisioneros. Esta humillante derrota contribuyó finalmente a la muerte del rey Jacobo V. Este nuevo y fascinante libro de historia le lleva a un viaje extraordinario desde el primer registro histórico extenso de Escocia a través de la larga lucha hacia la nacionalidad, hasta la Escocia de la posguerra. En Historia de Escocia: Una guía fascinante de la historia de Escocia, descubrirá temas como: ¡Obtenga este libro ahora para aprender más sobre la historia escocesa! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Hedy Lamarr]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Actors)]]>Series: #12 in Biographies of Actors]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-10-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Hedy Lamarr.... Free BONUS Inside! Hedy Lamarr was a rare kind of woman. She was not only a strikingly beautiful actress who took Hollywood by storm in the 1940s, but she was also an inventor - and not just any inventor. Hedy Lamarr’s work with radio frequencies is credited with paving the way for wi-fi. It seems that the greatest bomb that this bombshell dropped would only fully explode until the last years of her life because when Lamarr passed away in the year 2000, the computing world was just then mainstreaming many of her ideas. Sadly, as amazing as her early career was, in later life, Lamarr became reclusive and had very limited contact with the outside world. It is perhaps ironic that it was the ideas of this recluse that would bring so many people together in the modern world of interconnectedness. In this book, we delve deep into the full unvarnished life and legacy of the woman we know as Hedy Lamarr. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on Hedy Lamarr, simply scroll up and click the "Buy" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Dutch Revolt]]>Subtitle: The History of the Dutch Republic’s War of Independence Against Spain]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-06-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>During the 17th century, the Netherlands, despite having only 1.5 million people in 1600, became a global maritime and trading power. By contrast, France at the time had 20 million people, Spain had eight million, and England had five million. Nevertheless, Amsterdam became one of the most important urban centers in the world and the location of the world’s first stock market, and Dutch merchant ships and pirates plied the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean. The Dutch acquired colonies in the East Indies, where they seized control of the spice trade from the Portuguese, and in the West Indies, they acquired a number of islands from the Spanish (several of which are still Dutch today). They became the only Westerners who were allowed to trade with Shogunate Japan from a small island next to Nagasaki, and they settled the town that ultimately became New York City. Naturally, all of this imperialism generated enormous amounts of wealth that flowed into the Netherlands. The Netherlands has had a complex and turbulent history involving the interplay of multiple political entities, ethnicities, and languages.
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]]>Title: Underground Railroad]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Routes, Places, and People That Helped Free African Americans During the Nineteenth Century and the Life of Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-05-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, then pay attention.... Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: The Underground Railroad wasn’t underground. Nor was it a railroad. It was, however, an awe-inspiring piece of history, and one that speaks of hope even today. Two hundred years ago, slavery had the Southern United States firmly in its evil grip. Around four million African Americans languished in the most appalling of living conditions, their lives controlled by people who saw them as objects. They were starved, whipped, and put to work despite being pregnant, sick, or so young that they could barely walk. Here are just some of the topics covered in Part 1 of this audiobook: Here are just some of the topics covered in Part 2 of this audiobook: So if you want to learn more about the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, scroll up and click the "buy" button!
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]]>Title: Germania: A Captivating Guide to the History of a Region in Europe Where Germanic Tribes Dominated and How It Transformed into Germany]]>Categories: Education, Europe, Germany, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-05-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of Germania, then pay attention.... Germany is a relatively young nation-state. United in 1871, it's even younger than the United States. However, the territories inhabited by the Germanic people have a rich history that reaches far back in prehistory and antiquity. Located in the heart of Europe, Germany witnessed centuries of conflicts, immigration, and negotiations. Consequently, its shape, size, and ethnicity changed throughout history. The territories which constitute Germany today were often war zones, and at times they would join forces against a common enemy or break apart due to internal conflicts. Because of these conflicts, Germany’s boundaries, as well as what it means to be German, fluctuated throughout history and, in some way, are still evolving. The region's long and troubled history influences its present, its politics, and its nationality. In Germania: A Captivating Guide to the History of a Region in Europe Where Germanic Tribes Dominated and How It Transformed into Germany, you will discover topics such as So if you want to learn more about the history of Germania, scroll up, and buy now.
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]]>Title: John Wilkes Booth]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (American Civil War)]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-02-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of John Wilkes Booth.... Free BONUS Inside! By the age of 26, John Wilkes Booth had achieved success on the stage. He had rugged good looks and the fame he craved. Yet that wasn’t enough for the fanatical actor. On April 14, 1865, just a few days following the end of the American Civil War, Booth stepped into the presidential box at Ford’s Theatre in Washington and shot Abraham Lincoln. He subsequently managed an incredible escape until he himself was killed. What would drive a man who had everything going for him to commit such a heinous act? What were his motives? This book unravels a tale of fanatical hate and deadly vengeance. John Wilkes Booth saw himself as a southern hero - the rest of the world will remember him as a stone-cold assassin. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on John Wilkes Booth, simply scroll up, and click the "Buy" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Kingdom of Alashiya]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Trading Kingdom on Cyprus During the Bronze Age]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Middle East, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-27-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>International trade in the ancient world was a more intricate and far-reaching system than many have been led to believe. The Silk Road and the Incense Trade Route have been heavily researched in recent decades, and the Amber Road trade network dominating northern Europe has become a more prominent area of focus for historians as well. Trade was at the forefront of the Late Bronze Age (c. 1500-1200 BCE), especially in the Near East, where great kingdoms developed a network of trade and diplomacy stretching from Persia to Egypt and from Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) down to Arabia. The system these kingdoms built is well-documented in texts from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and other places, and archaeological excavations have uncovered more. Studies of the Late Bronze Age system have revealed that although it may have lacked the technology of later eras, it was just as sophisticated as any other geopolitical system in terms of the manner in which the kingdoms interacted and conducted business with each other.
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]]>Title: The Underground Railroad]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Network of Routes, Places, and People in the United States That Helped Free African Americans During the Nineteenth Century]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 02-19-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad, then pay attention... The Underground Railroad wasn’t underground. Nor was it a railroad. It was, however, an awe-inspiring piece of history, and one that speaks of hope even today. Two hundred years ago, slavery had the Southern United States firmly in its evil grip. Around four million African Americans languished in the most appalling of living conditions, their lives controlled by people who saw them as objects. They were starved, whipped, and put to work despite being pregnant, sick, or so young that they could barely walk. They were despised, downtrodden, and degraded in every way. They longed for freedom, yet to reach the free land of Canada, they would have to cross thousands of miles filled with the threat of slave catchers, men who had made it their business to snatch desperate people who were on the very brink of liberty. It was a hopeless time, but it was also a time of heroes. The only hope that these enslaved people had of escaping their brutal fates was the Underground Railroad.
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]]>Title: Winter War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (World War 2 Battles, Book 16)]]>Categories: Europe, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-19-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Winter War.... Free BONUS Inside! The Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union was a match-up between a mighty, powerful, aggressive nation and its smaller and weaker neighbor. Throughout its history, Finland had learned that in order to survive as a nation, it was obliged to dodge, when possible, the threat of neighboring countries that possessed more people, resources, and ambition than the small country locked in between. As a predatory threat to its borders, the Winter War was nothing new to Finnish security; what was new, however, was that Finland did not immediately capitulate to the massive Soviet force. Lasting 105 days, the fighting saw the Finns mount an unexpectedly vigorous defense against the Soviets in a contest that the Russians had confidently believed would be over in a couple of weeks.
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]]>Title: The Great Sioux War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (Native American History, Book 8)]]>Series: #8 in Native American History]]>Categories: America, History, Indigenous, Military, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-19-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Great Sioux War.... Free bonus inside! The Battle of the Little Bighorn, or Custer’s Last Stand, has gone down in legend, but this was just one part of an epic struggle between the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians and the United States of America. The Great Sioux War was the bloodiest of all of the conflicts in the 300 years of American Indian Wars and would effectively close that tragic chapter of American history. The war resulted in the deaths of hundreds of US soldiers, countless Indian warriors, women and children, and the end of a way of life. This book tells the story of the Great Sioux War in full. Discover a plethora of topics such as So, if you want a concise and informative book on the Great Sioux War, simply scroll up, and click the "buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Project Gemini]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of NASA’s Human Spaceflight Missions Before the Apollo Program]]>Categories: America, Astronomy, History, Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-19-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Today, the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that culminated with Apollo 11 “winning” the race for the United States. In fact, it encompassed a much broader range of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States that affected everything from military technology to successfully launching satellites that could land on Mars or orbit other planets in the Solar System. Moreover, the notion that America “won” the Space Race at the end of the 1960s overlooks just how competitive the Space Race actually was in launching people into orbit, as well as the major contributions the Space Race influenced in leading to today’s International Space Station and continued space exploration. In some ways, Project Gemini is a neglected part of the US space program. Sandwiched between the excitement of Project Mercury and the sending of the first American astronauts to space and the euphoria of the Apollo Moon landings, Gemini was a step forward rather than a dramatic leap. However, this project achieved many important firsts, including the first spacewalk, the first rendezvous and docking between two spacecraft, the first flights of more than one week’s duration, and many more.
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]]>Title: William the Conqueror]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the First Norman King of England Who Defeated the English Army Led by the King of the Anglo-Saxons in the Battle of Hastings]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 02-18-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating life of William the Conqueror, then pay attention... The tale of William the Conqueror is written down by numerous contemporaries with various perspectives. It's a tale that would inspire some, while fascinate and even terrify others. It’s a tale of a man from a seemingly small land rising to rule one of the most powerful, stable kingdoms in all of Europe at the time - a kingdom that would sow the seeds of an empire that would sprout many centuries later. William’s story is a fascinating yarn full of twists and turns, wins and losses, political intrigue, and good, old-fashioned raw bursts of emotion. In William the Conqueror: A Captivating Guide to the First Norman King of England Who Defeated the English Army Led by the King of the Anglo-Saxons in the Battle of Hastings, you will discover topics such as: So if you want to learn more about William the Conqueror, scroll up and click the "buy now" button!
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]]>Title: The Normans]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Norman Conquest and William the Conqueror]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 02-18-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Norman Conquest and William the Conqueror, then pay attention... Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: Here are just some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook: Here are just some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook: So, if you want to learn more about the Norman Conquest and William the Conqueror, then listen to this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: The Ottoman-Russian Wars of the 19th Century]]>Subtitle: The History of the Conflicts Between Russia and the Ottoman Empire Leading up to World War I]]>Categories: History, Middle East, Russia, Turkey]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-18-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the fourth century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul. In the wake of taking Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire would spend the next few centuries expanding its size, power, and influence, bumping up against Eastern Europe and becoming one of the world’s most important geopolitical players.
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]]>Title: Italian History]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the History of Italy and Rome]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History, Italy, Rome]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 02-12-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of Italy and Rome, then pay attention... Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include: Some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook include: So, if you want to learn more about the history of Italy and Rome, get this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: History of Spain: A Captivating Guide to Spanish History, Starting from Roman Hispania Through the Visigoths, the Spanish Empire, the Bourbons, and the War of Spanish Independence to the Present]]>Categories: Europe, History, Spain]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 02-10-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of Spain, then pay attention.... Throughout the centuries, Spain has been subject to the lordship of other countries. It was occupied by the ancient Greeks and Romans, the Visigoths, the French, and the Muslims. It has been the playground of both the respectful and the ruthless. The Spanish coasts have been occupied by the trading empires of Carthage and Rome. All that time, Spain was told by others how to run their country, how to fight, whom to fight, and where to fight. They had one of the largest empires in the world - something history barely mentions - as they had acres of land in both North and South America, the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, and some islands in the Mediterranean. Evidence of Spanish architecture dots the world. Yet Spain was also a battlefield for countries fighting for other causes. They were sucked into wars fought by the Carthaginians, Romans, Moors, Visigoths, British, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and Austrians, just to name a few. Some of the most famous men in history traversed Spanish soil, including Hannibal Barca, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Pompey, Hadrian, Vespasian, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, and Napoleon.
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]]>Title: The Ottoman-Russian Wars of the 18th Century]]>Subtitle: The History of the Conflicts that Strengthened Russia and Led to the Decline of the Ottoman Empire]]>Categories: History, Middle East, Russia, Turkey]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-08-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the fourth century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul. In the wake of taking Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire would spend the next few centuries expanding its size, power, and influence, bumping up against Eastern Europe and becoming one of the world’s most important geopolitical players.
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]]>Titel: Die Kultur der Zapoteken]]>Untertitel: Ein fesselnder Führer zur Geschichte des präkolumbianischen Wolkenvolks im Tal von Oaxaca in Mesoamerika]]>Serie: #3 in Captivating History [German]]]>Kategorien: America, Ancient, History, Mexico]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Erzähler: Alexander Ballinger]]>Herausgeber: Captivating History]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 02-08-2021]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Entdecken Sie die fesselnde Geschichte der Kultur der Zapoteken Die Kultur der Zapoteken lebte und blühte und weckte das Interesse der spanischen Konquistadoren. Als eine der größten mesoamerikanischen Zivilisationen jener Zeit trugen sie dazu bei die Welt, die die Konquistadoren bei ihrer Ankunft vorfanden, zu formen und zu gestalten. In Größe und Komplexität ihrer Gesellschaft nahmen sie es mit ihren Nachbarn, den Maya, auf. Sie waren Erneuerer und Intellektuelle, die eine Gesellschaft schufen, die den Königreichen und Sozialstrukturen der Maya sehr ähnlich war. Die Zapoteken waren ein faszinierendes Volk und dieses Buch versucht, einen frischen Blick auf eine Kultur zu werfen, die ebenso komplex, strukturiert und majestätisch war wie jedes ihrer mesoamerikanischen, südamerikanischen oder europäischen Pendants. Die Themen dieses Buches sind: Kaufen Sie das Buch jetzt und erfahren Sie mehr über die Kultur der Zapoteken!
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]]>Title: Napoleonic Wars: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-02-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Napoleonic Wars. The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts fought between France and various coalitions in Europe between 1803 and 1815 (though some put the start date at 1799). The prelude to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Napoleonic Wars is the French Revolution, and the conflicts that continued after Napoleon seized power would radically affect Europe and indeed political philosophies not confined by artificial boundaries. When Napoleon rose to power, he had first to get his country on stable financial ground. After he did so, he created a professional, well-trained army that would go on to dominate Europe for years to come. And, it wasn’t only his army that changed the continent; it was also the liberal ideals - including democracy, the abolition of serfdom, and the reduction in power of the church - that would change the course of history and leave an enduring legacy. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative audiobook on the Napoleonic Wars, simply buy this audiobook now to begin listening!
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]]>Title: The Death of Hitler's War Machine]]>Subtitle: The Final Destruction of the Wehrmacht]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Samuel W. Mitcham]]>Narrator: Grover Gardner]]>Publisher: Blackstone Publishing]]>Release date: 02-02-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The endgame for Hitler’s Reich Hitler’s army had dared all to win all on the Western Front with its surprise winter campaign in the Ardennes, the “Battle of the Bulge”. But when American and Allied forces recovered from their initial shock, the German Army, the Wehrmacht, was left fighting for its very survival - especially on the Eastern Front, where the Soviet Army was intent on matching, or even surpassing, Nazi atrocities. At the mercy of the Fuhrer - who refused to acknowledge reality and insisted on forbidding German retreats - the Wehrmacht was slowly annihilated in horrific battles that have rarely been adequately covered in histories of the Second World War, perhaps most especially the brutal Soviet siege of Budapest, which became known as “the Stalingrad of the Waffen-SS”. Now, at last, veteran military historian Dr.
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]]>Title: Sojourner Truth]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Activist, Biography, Female Protagonist]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-01-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Sojourner Truth.... Sojourner Truth was born a slave in 1797. One day, she decided she didn’t want to be a slave anymore and simply walked away from her master. Truth spent the rest of her life preaching and lecturing against slavery and for freedom and equality. While helping former slaves integrate into a free society, she lectured fervently against the discriminations against women, and especially African American women. Her speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” is considered one of the most riveting women’s rights speeches ever given. Sojourner Truth demanded that African Americans should have equal rights to support themselves and live independently of the dictates of a master or the government. She didn’t just demand her rights, she seized hold of them - such as when she rode the white section of a trolley car. During her lifetime, Sojourner Truth became famous throughout the country, and her funeral in Battle Creek, Michigan, was the largest the town had ever seen. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on Sojourner Truth, simply scroll up and click the "buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Fermi Paradox: The History and Legacy of the Famous Debate over the Existence of Aliens]]>Categories: 20th Century, Astronomy, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-01-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The size and age of the universe incline us to believe that many technologically advanced civilizations must exist. However, this belief seems logically inconsistent with our lack of observational evidence to support it. Either (1) the initial assumption is incorrect and technologically advanced intelligent life is much rarer than we believe, or (2) our current observations are incomplete and we simply have not detected them yet, or (3) our search methodologies are flawed and we are not searching for the correct indicators, or (4) it is the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself.” (The Fermi Paradox) As technological advances and the creation of flying aircraft became realities, the sighting of UFOs increased, as did the interest in potential contact with aliens. While incidents like the one at Roswell led to conspiracies and a craze among those who insisted the government was hiding proof of extraterrestrials’ existence, governments across the world were actually secretly studying UFO sightings by the mid-20th century. Given all of that, it would hardly be groundbreaking for scientists in the 20th century to have a lunchtime discussion in which the search for extraterrestrial life arises, and the question of where it might reside is innocuous enough.
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]]>Título: Walt Disney y Salvador Dalí [Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí]]]>Subtitular: Una Guía Fascinante sobre las Vidas de un Animador Americano y un Pintor Surrealista Español]]>Categorías: Biography, Celebrity, Visual Artist]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Pablo Rowinski]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 01-29-2021]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>2 manuscritos completos en 1 libro Un hombre verdaderamente vive incluso después de su muerte si deja un legado que lo transcienda durante años. Albert Einstein, Harriet Tubman, Karl Marx, Mozart, Marie Curie, Van Gogh, Marsha Johnson - hay tantos ejemplos de hombres y mujeres cuyas acciones revolucionaron la historia y allanaron el camino para que las generaciones futuras prosperaran. Un nombre que destaca en este sentido en el mundo del entretenimiento es el de Walt Disney. Puede que no fuera un pionero de la animación o de las películas en sí, pero fue más bien el Shakespeare de su género: tomaba la inspiración de aquí, de allá y de todas partes, y la combinaba para crear algo que es relevante incluso hoy en día. Sus contribuciones no se limitan al mundo del cine. Pero no se equivoque, la vida de Disney no fue perfecta ni carente de controversia. A pesar de todo, Walt Disney fue un verdadero icono cultural, cuyas ideas y visión revolucionarias eran ejemplares y demasiado avanzadas para la época.
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]]>Title: Heaven’s Gate]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Marshall Applewhite’s Notorious Doomsday Cult]]>Categories: Biography, Cult, History, Mass Murder]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-29-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Hale-Bopp brings closure to Heaven's Gate.... Our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion - 'graduation' from the Human Evolutionary Level. We are happily prepared to leave 'this world' and go with Ti's crew." To most people, it is almost impossible to understand the mere existence, let alone the baffling yet indubitable appeal of doomsday cults, but they have been morbidly fascinating phenomena throughout history. The bizarre and often objectively comical beliefs of these offbeat denominations are so far removed from most people in society that even the horrific fates that befell the devoted disciples of the latter cults have repeatedly been reduced to cheap throwaway punchlines.
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]]>Title: Yuri Bezmenov]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Influential KGB Informant Who Defected to the West]]>Categories: Biography, Espionage, Liberty, Politician]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-29-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The main emphasis of the KGB is not in the area of intelligence at all. Only about 15 percent of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage and such. The other 85 percent is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion or active measures...or psychological warfare.” - Yuri Bezmenov The KGB is one of the most famous abbreviations of the 20th century, and it has become synonymous with the shadowy and often violent actions of the Soviet Union’s secret police and internal security agencies. In fact, it is often used to refer to the Soviet state security agencies throughout its history, from the inception of the inception of the Cheka (Extraordinary Commission) in 1917 to the official elimination of the KGB in 1992.
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]]>Title: The Panic of 1792: The History and Legacy of America’s First Financial Crisis]]>Categories: 18th Century, America, Colonialism, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-21-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>During the Revolution, relatively little consideration had been given to the role of the federal government in the new nation, and the precise role and authority of an overarching entity with responsibility for all states within the union was a major problem. Having fought against and defeated a distant government that imposed seemingly arbitrary rules on the colonies, many people were suspicious about the role of the federal government. The only federal institution during the war was the Continental Congress, which had little real power and was unable to levy taxes from individual states. When the Constitution was drafted in 1787 and George Washington became the first president six years after the end of the Revolutionary War, he immediately began the task of creating the new federal administration. One of the most urgent tasks Washington faced was the establishment of a treasury to oversee the finances of America and regulate its currency. This was desperately needed, both because the banking sector barely existed and because America was completely and comprehensively out of money. Indeed, it faced the very real possibility of becoming bankrupt since the massive costs of the Revolution had required borrowing on a vast scale.
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]]>Title: The Crusades and Silk Road]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Religious Wars During the Middle Ages and an Ancient Network of Trade Routes]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Planet Earth]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-21-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Crusades and Silk Road, then pay attention.... Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: Here are just some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook: Here are just some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook: So, if you want to learn more about the Crusades and Silk Road, get this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: The Pleistocene Era]]>Subtitle: The History of the Ice Age and the Dawn of Modern Humans]]>Categories: Ancient, Civilization, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-21-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Pleistocene spans a period from around 2.5 million years ago (mya) to just over 12,000 years ago, and it was an epoch of enormous change on Earth, mainly characterized by climate changes involving fluctuations between periods of extreme heat and long periods of glaciation. This period is commonly known as the Ice Age, despite the fact there were actually a number of separate periods of cold. Along with the climate challenges, this was also the period that saw the development of modern humans. The origin of our ancient ancestors is still a matter of debate among paleontologists, and classification systems for early hominoids are constantly being updated as new discoveries are made. What is generally agreed upon is the species Homo sapiens belong to the order primates and the suborder anthropoids. Within the anthropoids suborder, humans belong to the family hominids, which also includes other animals such as the orangutan and the great apes. Drilling down even further, humans belong to a subgroup of hominids known as hominin.
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]]>Title: Apollonius of Tyana]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Influential Ancient Greek Philosopher]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Europe, Greece]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-20-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Even after Greek power waned, the Romans borrowed Greek culture, so it should come as little surprise that various Greeks continued to be influential in antiquity. In fact, if people in the third century CE were asked which religious or philosophical figure from the first century CE was most likely to found or inspire a global religion that would attract millions of followers and last for centuries, they would not have answered Jesus of Nazareth. Instead, a Pythagorean philosopher, orator, and teacher known as Apollonius of Tyana would have been the likeliest name brought forward. Today, very few have heard of him, but he became a major philosophical and religious figure through the publication of his thoughts, travels, and miracles by Philostratus the Elder (c. 170-247 CE), written about a century after Apollonius of Tyana’s death.
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]]>Title: SETI: The History and Legacy of the Search for Extraterrestrial Life]]>Categories: 20th Century, Astronomy, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-19-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The question of man’s place in the extended universe has been pondered by every known culture since the beginning of recorded history. Lacking the means to prove otherwise, discussions of an alternative to Earth’s solitary existence have remained conceptual. The ongoing debate is spurred by the appearance of unexplainable phenomena through the centuries in the atmosphere and the space beyond, so much so that contact with alien civilizations has been depicted in some of the most ancient examples of representational art. In the rock drawings of Valcamonica on Italy’s Lombardy Plain, tantalizing etchings suggest that ancient man experienced the same type of appearances as those revealed to modern man. These drawings dating back to 10,000 BC serve as the counterpart to the present day’s alleged evidence of such contact. In addition to aerial craft, depictions include light-emitting, helmeted human figures carrying unidentifiable artifacts.
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]]>Title: The Gilded Age]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to an Era in American History That Overlaps the Reconstruction Era and Coincides with Parts of the Victorian Era in Britain Along with the Belle Époque in France]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-12-2021]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Gilded Age, then pay attention... From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United States was a major powerhouse since its early days. Its present-day economic, military, and cultural strength gives out an aura of everlasting magnificence, possibly even that it was God-given. That’s how some may see it, at least. However, the truth is far from it. The American story started hundreds of years ago when it was a lowly European colony, far from the grandeur and magnificence the world associates with it today. Generations worked hard to gradually transform the humble, dependent colonies into bustling independent states, which were united under a single flag. This transformation from a weak and relatively poor dominion into a world-class international power was undoubtedly a long process, yet it achieved its peak in the late 19th century. At that time, the US managed to achieve change in many aspects, from economic and social to political and military.
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]]>Titel: Die Olmeken]]>Untertitel: Ein Fesselnder Führer zu der Frühesten Bekannten Hochkultur in Mexiko]]>Kategorien: America, Ancient, History, Mexico]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Erzähler: Alexander Ballinger]]>Herausgeber: Captivating History]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-30-2020]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Wussten Sie, dass die Olmeken vielleicht das erste Volk waren, das die Schrift einführte? Das erste Volk, dem es gelang, sich zu einer Kultur zu entwickeln, waren die Olmeken. Aber warum sind sie bisher relativ unbekannt geblieben, versteckt in den langen, dunklen Korridoren der vergessenen Geschichte? Die Wahrheit ist, dass nur wenige Historiker bereit sind, sich der Aufgabe zu stellen, die wahre Geschichte der Olmeken zu entschlüsseln. Daher kann es selbst für interessierte Hörer schwierig sein, eine leicht verständliche und zusammenhängende Darstellung dieser faszinierenden Zivilisation zu finden. Aber das ändert sich gerade, denn in diesem neuen Band der Reihe Captivating History werden Sie die Wahrheit über die erste bekannte Zivilisation Amerikas erfahren. Die Olmeken: Ein Fesselnder Führer zu der Frühesten Bekannten Hochkultur in Mexiko bietet: Wenn Sie also mehr über die Olmeken erfahren wollen, kaufen si jetzt dieses Hörbuch an.
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]]>Title: Alfred Nobel]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End, Biographies of Inventors, Book 7]]>Series: #7 in Biographies of Inventors]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, STEM, Scandinavia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-23-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Alfred Nobel! Alfred Nobel began his career as a distinguished inventor, but his inventions often failed to bring him the peace of mind he craved. One invention in particular - explosive dynamite - left him full of regret. He knew that it wouldn’t be long before his creation would be used to hurt others, and for this, he felt awful. As part of his final act in life, he would seek to vindicate himself as well as the rest of the world as he pursued the establishment of what would become the Nobel Prize. This is the story of the man who brought us that prize and so much more. Discover a plethora of topics such as: For a concise and informative audiobook on Alfred Nobel, simply scroll up, and click the "buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Jesse James]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to a Wild West Outlaw Who Robbed Trains, Banks, and Stagecoaches Across the Midwestern United States]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, True Crime, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 12-22-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating life of Jesse James, then pay attention.... In the minds of many Americans, the name of Jesse James and the Wild West are practically synonymous. The bank robberies, with bullets flying from one side to the other of a dusty little town of the American frontier; the daring train robberies, with locomotives being chased by horses and forced to make a halt only to be boarded by gentlemanly bandits; the spectacular escapes of horse riders camouflaged by long coats, firing two revolvers, one in each hand. All these are episodes that correspond to the life of Jesse James, that notable son of Missouri. In this sense, he is a vital and representative part of American history and life. Jesse James was a robber, a murderer, and a notorious outlaw, who carried as many weapons as he could. He could shoot with both hands while he held the reins of his horse in his teeth. He was an extremely popular man in his day, a phenomenon that he readily accepted because he was a person who craved attention.
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]]>Title: The Start of the Russo-Turkish Wars]]>Subtitle: The History of the Initial Conflicts Between the Russian Empire and Ottoman Empire]]>Categories: History, Middle East, Military, Russia, Turkey]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-22-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the fourth century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul. The end of the Byzantine Empire had a profound effect not only on the Middle East but Europe as well. Constantinople had played a crucial part in the Crusades, and the fall of the Byzantines meant that the Ottomans now shared a border with Europe.
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]]>Title: Nuremberg Trials: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Judaism, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-22-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Nuremberg Trials... In 1933, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, triumphant after the July 1932 elections, was the largest political party in Germany. The Nazis quickly banned all other political parties and, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, proceeded to implement the policies which aroused the anti-Semitic sentiment of the German people. By 1933, the first concentration camp in Dachau was already in operation, punishing Jews, intellectuals, the mentally and physically handicapped, homosexuals, and Romani because, in Nazi ideology, they were inferior and unfit to live in the Third Reich. In September 1935, the Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws, which consisted of the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor. These laws established the legal foundation upon which the systematic persecution and extermination of Jews and non-Aryans became the law of the land. Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis established more than 42,000 camps and ghettoes to implement this policy. When the Allied Powers joined forces to fight the Nazis, they were determined to bring the German leaders to justice in an international court where they would be tried for their war crimes.
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]]>Title: The Romans in Scotland]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Ancient Rome’s Northernmost Campaigns]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, Great Britain, History, Rome]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-22-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Romans were master builders, and much of what they built has stood the test of time. Throughout their vast empire, they have left grand structures, from the Forum and Pantheon in Rome, to the theatres and hippodromes of North Africa, and the triumphal gates in Anatolia and France. Wherever they went, the Romans built imposing structures to show their power and ability, and one of their most impressive constructions was built on the northernmost fringe of the empire. Shortly after Emperor Hadrian came to power in the early second century CE, he decided to seal off Scotland from Roman Britain with an ambitious wall stretching from sea to sea. To accomplish this, the wall had to be built from the mouth of the River Tyne - where Newcastle stands today - 80 Roman miles (76 miles or 122 kilometers) west to Bowness-on-Solway.
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]]>Title: Dreams and Death in African Mythology]]>Subtitle: The History of Legends and Folk Stories About Dreams and Death Across Africa]]>Categories: Cultural Heritage, Folklore, Indigenous, Social Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-16-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. When they began to arrive in sub-Saharan Africa in the early 16th century, Christian missionaries replaced established animist practices with the tenets of Christianity. This was particularly true for the Catholics who offered a faith promising eternal paradise upon the simple confession of sin. In an age of slavery, disease, and intertribal warfare when life was unembellished, brutal, and usually short, this was a particularly seductive message. Add to this the ritual inherent in Catholic worship, the drinking of blood and the eating of flesh, and the susceptibilities of a society defined by elaborate religious rituals, and the conversion succeeded with extraordinary ease. It is also true that the Catholic spiritual hierarchy reflected the structure of African spiritual life. The first line of African worship is composed of the spirits of passed ancestors whose relationship with the living remains direct and active. This overlapped with the idea of a host of saints endowed with specific functions and responsibilities.
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]]>Titel: Geschichte der Azteken]]>Untertitel: Ein fesselnder Führer zum Reich, der Mythologie und der Zivilisation der Azteken]]>Kategorien: America, Ancient, History, Mexico]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Erzähler: Alexander Ballinger]]>Herausgeber: Captivating History]]>Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-16-2020]]>Sprache: Deutsch
]]>Zusammenfassung:]]>Wussten Sie, dass die Azteken jedes Jahr 500 bis 700 Menschen opferten, um die Götter zufrieden zu stellen? Seit vielen Jahren regen die Azteken unsere Vorstellungskraft an. Geschichten der ersten europäischen Eroberer über einzigartige, Ehrfurcht gebietende Ruinen und Legenden von Palästen aus Gold erschaffen ein Bild der aztekischen Gesellschaft, das aus Erhabenheit, Reichtum und Pracht besteht. Aber wer genau waren die Azteken? Wo kamen sie her? Wie gelang es ihnen, ein Gebiet von solchen Ausmaßen zu beherrschen? Und wenn sie so mächtig waren: Wie war es möglich, dass sie ihre vorherrschende Stellung und Macht nur drei Jahre, nachdem sie mit den Spaniern in Kontakt gekommen waren, verloren? Das sind nur einige der Fragen, die dieses neue, aufregende Geschichtsbuch zu beantworten sucht. In der Geschichte der Azteken: Ein fesselnder Führer zum Reich, der Mythologie und der Zivilisation der Azteken entdecken Sie Themen wie: Kaufen Sie dieses Hörbuch jetzt, um mehr über die Geschichte der Azteken zu erfahren!
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]]>Title: The Anglo-Saxon Settlement of England]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Anglo-Saxons at the Start of the Middle Ages]]>Categories: Civilization, Europe, History, Medieval, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-10-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Shortly after Emperor Hadrian came to power in the early second century CE, he decided to seal off Scotland from Roman Britain with an ambitious wall stretching from sea to sea. To accomplish this, the wall had to be built from the mouth of the River Tyne - where Newcastle stands today - 80 Roman miles (76 miles or 122 kilometers) west to Bowness-on-Solway. The sheer scale of Hadrian’s Wall still impresses people today, but as the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century, Hadrian’s Wall was abandoned and Roman control of the area broke down. Little is known of this period of British history, but soon the Anglo-Saxons - who had been harassing the Saxon Shore as pirates - showed up and began to settle the land, creating a patchwork of little kingdoms and starting a new era of British history. Several early medieval historians, writing well after the events, said the Anglo-Saxons were invited to Britain to defend the region from the northern tribes and ended up taking over.
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]]>Title: Mau Mau Rebellion]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-09-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Mau Mau Rebellion.... The Mau Mau Rebellion took place in Kenya, beginning in 1952. A group of native Kenyan peoples, mostly from the Kikuyu tribe, rose up against their British colonizers, who had held the region since 1895. With a complicated story, it can be difficult to place the Mau Mau Uprising within the larger history of Kenyan nationalism and nationhood. Regardless of nuance, though, its importance in the history of Kenya, Africa, and British colonialism cannot be understated. This is the complete history of the Mau Mau Rebellion. Discover a plethora of topics, such as: So, if you want a concise and informative book on the Mau Mau Rebellion, simply scroll up and click the "buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Agatha Christie: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of British Authors, Book 6]]>Series: #5 in Biographies of British Authors]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Press]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-08-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Agatha Christie.... Free Bonus Inside! Agatha Christie, born in upper-middle-class British society during the late Victorian era, turned into one of the most prolific and popular mystery writers of all time. Her novels have been translated into 44 languages and have sold over two billion copies worldwide. Her mysteries continue to sell as new generations of readers discover the delights of her main characters, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. In addition, Christie’s plays have been a tremendous success, with The Mousetrap running in London for the past 70 years. This is the story of the best-selling fiction writer of all time - Dame Agatha Christie. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on Agatha Christie, simply biu now for instant access!
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]]>Title: Modern Zimbabwe]]>Subtitle: The History of Zimbabwe from the Colonial Era to Today]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, Great Britain, History, South Africa]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-08-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the White man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismark, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event - known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 - galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa.
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]]>Título: Guerras Púnicas [Punic Wars]]]>Subtitular: Una Guía Fascinante de las Guerras Púnicas y de Aníbal Barca]]>Categorías: Ancient, Education, History, Learning, Rome]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Mono Vázquez]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 12-07-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Dos manuscritos completos en un audiolibro: La primera parte de este audiolibro incluye: Segunda parte de este audiolibro: ¡Obtén este audiolibro ahora para conocer más sobre Las Guerras Púnicas y Aníbal Barca! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Título: Emperadores Romanos [Roman Emperors]]]>Subtitular: Una Guía Fascinante de Augusto, Tiberio, Nerón, Constantino El Grande y Justiniano I]]>Categorías: Ancient, Education, History, Learning, Rome]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Claudio Munda]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 12-07-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Cinco manuscritos completos en un audiolibro: La primera parte de este audiolibro incluye: Segunda parte de este audiolibro, usted: Tercera parte de este audiolibro, usted: Cinco parte de este audiolibro, usted: ¡Escuche este audiolibro ahora y aprenda más sobre emperadores romanos! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Mon, 07 Dec 2020 14:57:11 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-x2AfJA4j Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: India (Spanish Edition)]]>Subtitular: Una Guía Fascinante Sobre la Historia de la India, la Compañía De las Indias Orientales y la Compañía Holandesa de las Indias Orientales]]>Categorías: Asia, Education, History, India]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Leandro Chico]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 12-07-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Tres manuscritos completos en un audiolibro: La primera parte de este audiolibro incluye: Segunda parte de este audiolibro, usted: La tercera parte de este audiolibro incluye: ¡Obtenga este audiolibro ahora para aprender más sobre India! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Mon, 07 Dec 2020 01:41:40 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-DoPfa0re Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Colonies of British South Africa]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of British Imperialism in Modern South Africa and Zimbabwe]]>Categories: 19th Century, Africa, Europe, Great Britain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-05-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Napoleonic Wars radically altered the old, established European power dynamics, and in 1795, the British, now emerging as the globe’s naval superpower, assumed control of the Cape as part of the spoils of war. In doing so, they recognized the enormous strategic value of the Cape as global shipping routes were developing and expanding. Possession passed back and forth once or twice, but more or less from that point onward, the British established their presence at the Cape, which they held until the unification of South Africa in 1910. However, it would only come after several rounds of conflicts. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event - known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 - galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa.
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]]>Title: Historia Maya [Maya History]]]>Subtitle: Una guía fascinante de la civilización, cultura y mitología mayas, y del impacto de los pueblos mayas en la historia de Mesoamérica]]>Categories: America, Ancient, History, Mexico]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-30-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>¿Sabías que los mayas usaban las saunas con fines curativos? En la última década o dos, ha habido un aumento de interés en la historia maya. Esto fue en parte alimentado por la mítica predicción maya del fin del mundo en 2012, que por un corto período de tiempo puso a esta civilización bajo la atención de los medios de comunicación. Pero hay mucho más en su cultura que la idea errónea común sobre su calendario. Historia Maya: Una fascinante guía de la civilización, cultura, mitología y el impacto de los pueblos mayas en la historia de Mesoamérica incluye: ¡Obtenga este libro ahora para aprender más sobre la historia maya! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:58:23 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b4Yfal8m Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac Killer]]>Subtitle: The History of the Most Famous Serial Killers Who Were Never Caught]]>Categories: America, Biography, Europe, Great Britain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-25-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When one hears the term “Victorian”, many images come to mind. For some, the term conjures up visions of lace and gloves and delicate fans. Others think of tight corsets and even tighter morals. Others, swayed perhaps by one too many British costume dramas, envision gentle elegance and long-lost beauty. Naturally, few people think of multiple dead bodies cast about in the streets or dark bedrooms, most mutilated to a shocking degree, and yet, those tragic images played a significant role not only in late Victorian London, but ever since. In 1888 and 1889, a killer stalked the dark backstreets of the city through the notoriously overcrowded and crime-ridden Whitechapel district, murdering young women and then cutting their bodies up like a butcher.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:45:27 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b1zfzzyr Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Legacies of Haiti’s Most Notorious Rulers]]>Categories: America, Biography, Caribbean, Head of State]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-25-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Bullets and machine guns capable of daunting Duvalier do not exist. They cannot touch me.... I am already an immaterial being. No foreigner is going to tell me what to do!” (Papa Doc Duvalier) The island of Hispaniola is the second largest island in the Antilles chain behind Cuba, and host to the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti covering the western third of the island, is a French-speaking territory, while the Dominican Republic, which occupies the other two thirds, is a Spanish-speaking territory. The Dominican Republic, although classified as a developing nation, has never been struck to the same degree by the malaise of poverty, corruption of its neighbor, languishing in the lower 10 percent of nations ahead only of some of the most conspicuous failed states in Africa. Many historians and analysts have posed the question of why, and the answer seems to lie in Haiti’s uniquely tortured history. The improbable Haitian Revolution, and in particular the 1804 massacres, lived on to bedevil the West and the process of emancipation in every corner of the slave-owning world, hobbling the progress of the republic and lending substance to calls for a continuation of slavery.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Wed, 25 Nov 2020 06:35:12 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bXEfwwZK Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Espartaco [Spartacus]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante del gladiador tracio que lideró la rebelión de los esclavos, llamada la tercera guerra servil, contra la República romana]]>Categorías: Ancient, Biography, Europe, Greece]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 11-18-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de Espartaco, siga leyendo... Espartaco, un esclavo de origen tracio cuyos primeros años de vida están escondidos en las brumas de la historia, es una de las figuras más famosas de la antigüedad. Probablemente fue el gladiador más famoso de todos y parte de su historia sirvió de inspiración para la galardonada película Gladiador (2000). A pesar de que millones de personas están familiarizadas con su historia, Espartaco sigue siendo una figura extrañamente misteriosa y su faceta más íntima nunca ha sido revelada al mundo. Todos los registros existentes sobre Espartaco y la guerra que comenzó y perdió fueron escritos por historiadores romanos. Ninguno de los relatos de los esclavos ha sobrevivido al paso de los años; por lo tanto, muchas de las acciones de Espartaco y sus motivaciones son pura especulación. En Espartaco: Una guía fascinante del gladiador tracio que lideró la rebelión de esclavos llamada la tercera guerra servil contra la República romana, descubrirá temas como: ¡Consiga este libro ahora para aprender más sobre Espartaco! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Wed, 18 Nov 2020 22:23:12 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bXEfaqze Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Historia de Chicago [Chicago History]]]>Subtitle: Una Guía Fascinante Acerca de las Personas y Eventos que Determinaron la Historia de la Ciudad de los Vientos [A Fascinating Guide to the People and Events That Shaped the History of the Windy City]]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Luis Trumper]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-18-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Descubra la fascinante historia de Chicago Fundada como un pequeño asentamiento temporal, Chicago se convirtió en un punto crucial del comercio de pieles estadounidense antes de convertirse en una de las potencias de la Revolución Industrial. Desde la adquisición de agua potable hasta la implementación de la igualdad racial, nada ha sido sencillo para las personas que han llamado hogar a Chicago, y sin embargo, existe un inmenso orgullo entre los habitantes de Chicago por lo que ellos y sus miembros han logrado. La ciudad ha sido el hogar de algunas de las personas más influyentes de Estados Unidos, ya sean presentadores de programas de entrevistas o presidentes de la nación. Cada estrella en la bandera de Chicago representa un logro para ser recordado; cada edificio una era que ha ayudado a dar forma a la ciudad moderna que es actualmente. En este libro, descubrirá historias notables de personas y eventos que determinaron la historia de esta fascinante ciudad. Historia de Chicago: Una Guía Fascinante Acerca de las Personas y Eventos que Determinaron la Historia de la Ciudad de los Vientos incluye temas como:
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:53:56 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Vg0fN9wr Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Los Felices Años Veinte [The Happy Twenties]]]>Subtitle: Una Guía Fascinante sobre un Período de Dramático Cambio Social y Político, una Falsa Sensación de Prosperidad y su Impacto en la Gran Depresión [A Fascinating Guide to a Period of Dramatic Social and Political Change, a False Sense of Prosperity, and its Impact on the Great Depression]]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Luis Trumper]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-18-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore la Fascinante Historia de los Felices Años Veinte Pocas décadas capturan la imaginación como la de 1920. Como tantas buenas historias, tuvo su comienzo a partir de una época de gran agitación y terminó de manera dramática. Lo ocurrido entre 1920 y 1929 ha pasado más allá de la historia y se ha convertido en leyenda. Las lecciones de la década de 1920 siguen siendo relevantes hoy. Muchos de los debates y temas de la época siguen siendo parte de la conversación nacional. Las políticas económicas, los comportamientos de los consumidores y la cultura de masas de la década de 1920 se reflejan en nuestra cultura casi 100 años después. Al comprender el pasado, podemos prepararnos mejor para el futuro, y este nuevo y fascinante libro de historia trata de entregarle ese conocimiento. Este libro incluye temas como: ¡Obtenga este libro ahora para aprender más de los felices años veinte! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: The Albigensian Crusade]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Catholic Campaign Against the Cathars in France]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Ecclesiastical, Europe]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-18-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The Roman Church...[says] that the heretics they persecute are the church of wolves. But this is absurd, for the wolves have always pursued and killed the sheep, and today, it would have to be the other way around for the sheep to be so mad as to bite, pursue, and kill the wolves, and for the wolves to be so patient as to let the sheep devour them!” (Excerpt from the alleged writings of the Cathars) Christianity was not a state religion for its first three centuries, and it was only when Emperor Constantine the Great declared it so in the early fourth century that the Church was faced with the thorny problem of state-sanctioned violence.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Wed, 18 Nov 2020 08:08:05 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-VNef3GjR Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Toussaint L'Ouverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Haitian Revolution’s Most Famous Leaders]]>Categories: 18th Century, America, Biography, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-18-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man....” - Toussaint L'Ouverture The island of Hispaniola is the second largest island in the Antilles chain behind Cuba, and host to the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti, however, covering the western third of the island, is a French-speaking territory, while the Dominican Republic, which occupies the other two thirds, is a Spanish-speaking territory. The Dominican Republic, although classified as a developing nation, has never been struck to the same degree by the malaise of poverty, corruption of its neighbor, languishing in the lower 10 percent of nations ahead only of some of the most conspicuous failed states in Africa. Many historians and analysts have posed the question of why, and the answer seems to lie in Haiti’s uniquely tortured history. Hispaniola entered the European record in 1492 when Christopher Columbus made landfall on its southern shore during his first transatlantic voyage, and he named his discovery in honor of the Spanish Crown that had funded and sponsored the voyage.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Wed, 18 Nov 2020 04:54:12 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Vg0fPQpe Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Haitian Revolution]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Slave Uprising that Led to Haiti’s Independence]]>Categories: America, Europe, History, Planet Earth, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-18-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man....” (Toussaint L'Ouverture) The island of Hispaniola is the second largest island in the Antilles chain behind Cuba, and host to the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti, covering the western third of the island, is a French-speaking territory while the Dominican Republic, which occupies the other two thirds, is a Spanish-speaking territory. The Dominican Republic, although classified as a developing nation, has never been struck to the same degree by the malaise of poverty, corruption of its neighbor, languishing in the lower 10 percent of nations ahead only of some of the most conspicuous failed states in Africa. Many historians and analysts have posed the question of why, and the answer seems to lie in Haiti’s uniquely tortured history. Hispaniola entered the European record in 1492 when Christopher Columbus made landfall on its southern shore during his first trans-Atlantic voyage, and he named his discovery in honor of the Spanish Crown that had funded and sponsored the voyage.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Wed, 18 Nov 2020 04:40:35 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bkWfmdv2 Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Walt Disney (Spanish Edition)]]>Subtitular: Una Fascinante Guía sobre la Vida de un Empresario Americano y Pionero en los Dibujos Animados [A Captivating Guide to the Life of an American Entrepreneur and Pioneer of Animated Cartoon Films]]]>Categorías: Biography, Business, Business Leader, Celebrity]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Pablo Rowinski]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 11-18-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si usted quiere descubrir la fascinante vida de Walt Disney, entonces siga leyendo.... Un hombre verdaderamente vive incluso después de su muerte si deja un legado que lo transcienda durante años. Albert Einstein, Harriet Tubman, Karl Marx, Mozart, Marie Curie, Van Gogh, Marsha Johnson - hay tantos ejemplos de hombres y mujeres cuyas acciones revolucionaron la historia y allanaron el camino para que las generaciones futuras prosperaran. Un nombre que destaca en este sentido en el mundo del entretenimiento es el de Walt Disney. Puede que no fuera un pionero de la animación o de las películas en sí, pero fue más bien el Shakespeare de su género: tomaba la inspiración de aquí, de allá y de todas partes, y la combinaba para crear algo que es relevante incluso hoy en día. Sus contribuciones no se limitan al mundo del cine. Pero no se equivoque, la vida de Disney no fue perfecta ni carente de controversia. A pesar de todo, Walt Disney fue un verdadero icono cultural, cuyas ideas y visión revolucionarias eran ejemplares y demasiado avanzadas para la época.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Wed, 18 Nov 2020 03:42:36 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Vqlf2QKd Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Domestication of Cats]]>Subtitle: The History of the Only Domesticated Felidae Species and Their Relationship with Humans]]>Categories: Ancient, Animal, Biology, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-17-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Mankind's obsession with felines is an enigma in and of itself. Unlike dogs, famously known as man's most excitable, trustworthy, and loyal friend, cats are oftentimes indifferent, guarded, and yet finicky little furry creatures that only yearn for attention and affection when one is neck-deep in work or otherwise preoccupied. And still, people adore them all the same. In a recent poll that surveyed 600 American college students, 60 percent of the participants identified themselves as “dog lovers” whereas only 11 percent pledged their love for cats. The remaining 29 percent regarded themselves as fans of both critters or fans of neither. Be that as it may, there is said to be anywhere between a staggering 88 - 94 million pet cats in the United States alone, which eclipses the roughly 84 - 90 million pet dogs in the country. In the same breath, while more households around the world share a roof with a canine companion, as reflected in the results of this particular survey and most other similar polls, more cat owners have taken it upon themselves to look after more than one pet.
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]]>Title: Frédéric Bastiat]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Influential French Economist]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-17-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.” (Frédéric Bastiat) Much of the systematic mechanics and the continual advancement of modern civilization have been shaped by history's most brilliant economists and greatest thinkers. In economics, the most famous figure is undoubtedly Adam Smith, an 18th century philosopher and one of the original champions of the free market, whose ideas were encapsulated in his most famous works, The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, published in the midst of the Scottish Enlightenment. Many of Smith's ideas were recycled and expanded upon by various experts within the realm in the centuries that followed, among them 20th century Austrian-born economist Friedrich Hayek and the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize winner Milton Friedman, a proponent of laissez-faire capitalism who first proposed the notion of modern currency markets. Towards the center of the spectrum were conservative intellectuals like British economist John Maynard Keynes, an advocate of both free trade and democratic socialist policies who explored the need for governmental intervention in certain scenarios, such as the Great Depression, as well as the dangers of excessive savings, which he argued leads to lower demand, and in turn, economic ruin.
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]]>Título: La guerra hispano-estadounidense [The Spanish-American War]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante sobre la guerra entre los Estados Unidos de América y España después de la intervención de ... de Independencia de Cuba]]>Categorías: America, Caribbean, Education, History, Learning]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Manuel Lopez]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 11-17-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de la guerra hispano-estadounidense, siga leyendo.... La guerra hispano-estadounidense en realidad solo duró unas diez semanas (la preparación y la decisión de ir a la guerra tomaron más tiempo que la guerra misma), pero no se firmó un tratado de paz hasta diciembre de 1898. En La guerra hispano-estadounidense: Una guía fascinante sobre la guerra entre los Estados Unidos de América y España después de la intervención de Estados Unidos en la Guerra de Independencia de Cuba, escubrirá temas como: ¡Obtenga este libro ahora para aprender más sobre la guerra hispano-estadounidense! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Título: La Guerra del Golfo [The Gulf War]]]>Subtitular: Una Guía Fascinante Sobre la Guerra del Golfo Pérsico Dirigida por Estados Unidos Contra Irak por su Invasión y Anexión de Kuwait]]>Categorías: History, Iraq, Middle East, Military]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Luis Trumper]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 11-17-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de la Guerra del Golfo, siga leyendo... Los últimos años de la década de 1980 y principios de la de 1990 fueron tiempos de cambios significativos. La Guerra Fría se acercaba a su fin mientras que el comunismo se desmoronaba lentamente. En la mayor parte del mundo las nuevas tecnologías cibernéticas y de comunicación se generalizaban, los medios se volvían más importantes y diversos, la economía crecía constantemente y los partidos políticos y movimientos de derecha estaban ganando popularidad en todo el mundo. En medio de todos esos cambios, se produjo una guerra breve, pero impactante, entre Estados Unidos, con la ayuda de varios aliados, e Irak. Hoy se la conoce con muchos nombres, entre ellos, la primera guerra de Irak, la guerra de Kuwait y, más comúnmente, la guerra del Golfo o primera guerra del Golfo. Fue un conflicto bastante breve, que duraría apenas siete meses, de finales de 1990 a principios de 1991.
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]]>Title: History of East Asia]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the History of China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan]]>Categories: Asia, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Edwin Andrews]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-17-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of East Asia, then pay attention... Four captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: Here are just some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook: Here are just some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook: Here are just some of the topics covered in part three of this audiobook: Here are just some of the topics covered in part four of this audiobook: So, if you want to learn more about the history of East Asia, then listen to this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: Krishna: The History and Legacy of the Popular Hindu Deity]]>Categories: Asia, Hinduism, History, India, South Asia]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-11-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the West, Hinduism is a religion that everyone has heard of but one that few non-practitioners truly understand. Today it is widely regarded as one of the world’s great religions and considered the indigenous religion of India, with practices and beliefs stretching back thousands of years. Hinduism as a religion spans more than 3,000 years, and now it includes nearly one billion people. At the same time, it is not a specific term, since there are clear sectarian boundaries, the same way there are differences between Protestantism and Catholicism, and even differences between the various Protestant sects and the various Catholic sects, Hinduism may be broken down into many major sub-groupings that may or may not have much in common at all. Additionally, in the same way Christianity contains many smaller, spirituality heterodox groups like Gnostic Christianity (which are sometimes called cults), Hinduism also contains many groups that have beliefs that do not fit easily within the common corpus of Hindu belief systems.
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]]>Título: La Guerra Filipina-Estadounidense (1899-1902) [The Philippine-American War (1899-1902)]]]>Subtitular: Una fascinante guía de la insurrección filipina que comenzó cuando los Estados Unidos de América reclamaron posesión de las Filipinas]]>Categorías: Asia, History, Military, Southeast Asia]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Manuel Lopez]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 11-04-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de la guerra entre Filipinas y Estados Unidos entre 1899-1902, siga leyendo.... En La Guerra Filipina-Estadounidense (1899-1902): Una fascinante guía de la insurrección filipina que comenzó cuando los Estados Unidos de América reclamaron la posesión de las Filipinas, descubrirá temas como: ¡Obtenga su libro ahora para conocer más sobre la guerra entre Filipinas y los Estados Unidos! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish
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]]>Título: Antoni Gaudí: La vida y el legado del arquitecto del modernismo catalán [Antoni Gaudí: The Life and Legacy of the Architect of Catalan Modernism]]]>Categorías: Biography, Europe, History, Spain, Visual Artist]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Aurelio Dominguez]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 11-04-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>“Los que buscan las leyes de la Naturaleza como soporte para sus nuevas obras colaboran con el creador "- Antoni Gaudí. A mediados del siglo XIX, la Cataluña española experimentó una profunda transformación cuando fue empujada no en una, sino en dos épocas doradas: la Renaixença y la Revolución Industrial. Fue durante este período explosivo de creatividad, prosperidad floreciente y patriotismo vigorizado que nació un icono inconformista y fascinantemente excéntrico, uno que estaba a punto de asaltar Cataluña con su brillante ojo para el arte no ortodoxo y sus ideas legendarias -o como algunos dirían, notoriamente- descabelladas. Salvador Dalí, el célebre surrealista, fue uno de los muchos que encontraría en él una fuente de inspiración, aunque alguna vez delirando sobre la Sagrada Familia, el punto culminante de la carrera de este icono, dijo: "Los que no han oído hablar de la esencia cromática y resplandeciente de su color, la asombrosa polifonía de sus torres como tubos de órgano y sorprendidos por su naturalismo mutante, son traidores".
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]]>Title: Giotto di Bondone]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Painters, Book 6)]]>Series: #6 in Biographies of Painters]]>Categories: Art, Biography, Europe, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-30-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Giotto di Bondone... The name Giotto di Bondone may not be as well-known as Leonardo da Vinci, but it was Giotto who made da Vinci and his contemporaries of the Renaissance possible. Giotto, born in the late 13th century, was the first painter to escape the artistic chains of the Dark Ages and revive the natural art of Ancient Greece. Instead of creating flat, expressionless figures, as was the custom of the Middle Ages, Giotto painted characters with personalities and emotions. Since almost all art of that time was commissioned by the Church, Giotto spent his life painting magnificent frescos for churches and chapels. He became the most famous painter of his time and opened the artistic doors to the splendid Renaissance to come. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So, if you want a concise and informative book on Giotto di Bondone, simply scroll up and click the "buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Umayyad Caliphate]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Second Islamic Kingdom Established After Muhammad’s Death]]>Categories: Europe, History, Islam, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-30-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The split between the two forms of Islam was already in the process of forming upon the death of the Prophet Muhammad. Muhammad had constructed around himself not only a potent new religious movement but also a powerful young state called the Ummah (the "Community" for lack of a better translation). Belonging to the Islamic faith also meant belonging to the Ummah, which was governed by its own laws and had many of its own institutions. In his own lifetime, Muhammad had ruled the Ummah through what sociologists call "charismatic authority", a term coined by Max Weber that is defined as "resting on devotion to the exceptional sanctity, heroism or exemplary character of an individual person, and of the normative patterns or order revealed or ordained by him". Hence, Muslims believe Muhammad ruled because he was uniquely chosen and endowed by God as the exemplar of all humanity, giving him a unique (though not perfect or infallible) ability to govern humanity. This was a holistic form of governance because the Prophet did not simply deliver God's words (what became the Holy Qur'an), nor did he simply pronounce upon court cases and create laws.
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]]>Title: Robert the Bruce]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Scottish History, Book 4)]]>Series: #5 in Scottish History]]>Categories: Biography, Historical Fiction, History, Politician]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-29-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Robert the Bruce... Robert the Bruce is one of the most iconic figures of Scottish history. Born in Scotland’s desperate hour of need, Robert stepped forward to answer the call. In the early 1300s, the situation looked bleak for the Scottish with the might of England and its eager monarch King Edward I threatening to crush any resistance to his rule. In 1305, the former freedom fighter William Wallace had already been captured and cruelly executed. Robert the Bruce and his family initially tried to stay out of the fray, but the sudden onslaught of a series of circumstances would soon dictate Robert’s ultimate destiny.
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]]>Título: Historia de Mesoamérica [Mesoamerican History]]]>Subtitular: Una Fascinante Guía Sobre las Cuatro Antiguas Civilizaciones que Existieron en México: La Olmeca, la Zapoteca, la Maya y la Azteca]]>Categorías: America, Ancient, History, Mexico]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 10-29-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Cuatro manuscritos completos en un audiolibro: La primera parte de este audiolibro incluye: Segunda parte de este audiolibro, usted: Tercera parte de este audiolibro, usted: Cuatro parte de este audiolibro, usted: ¡Obtenga el audiolibro ahora para conocer más sobre la historia de Mesoamérica! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Christopher Columbus]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Life of an Italian Explorer and His Voyages to the Americas]]>Categories: America, Biography, Explorer, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-29-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating life of Christopher Columbus, then pay attention.... Christopher Columbus was one of the most courageous of the world’s explorers. He embraced risk in an era when the blinding expanse of the Atlantic Ocean frightened the Europeans. The cartography of the day was incorrect, as he learned through bitter experience. Columbus is credited with the discovery of America but never realized it during his lifetime. His career as a navigator was peppered with mishaps that shattered the ignorance of the age. Although he was no scientist, Columbus initiated new fields of study and analysis. In 1492, he landed at San Salvador in the Islands of the Bahamas, and he was the first European to have explored the Caribbean Sea. He was the first European to set foot in Cuba, Haiti, and Trinidad, as well as the countries in Central America. Columbus’s voyages astonished all of Europe and started a virtual stampede of competitors in search of the East Indies by sailing west. His life was fraught with adversities such as betrayal and character assassination. It still is today.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Thu, 29 Oct 2020 09:39:29 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-VqlfdaKz Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Mary Todd Lincoln]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #1 in First Ladies of the United States]]>Categories: Biography, Female Protagonist, Politician, Politics]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-29-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Mary Todd Lincoln! It is no secret that Mary Todd Lincoln is one of the least popular first ladies in American history. She was considered a shrew, a spendthrift, and her own son had her declared insane. The truth behind Mary Todd Lincoln lies in the fact that she was unable to conform to the feminine expectations of her times. Well-educated and filled with opinions, she defied conventions and incurred the wrath of the public who hated her for it. Mary Todd Lincoln’s life ran the gamut from Southern aristocrat, first lady, to a lonely old woman who was shunned by those who knew her. Not for one moment, however, was it a dull life. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So, if you want a concise and informative book on Mary Todd Lincoln, simply scroll up and click the "buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Reckoning]]>Subtitle: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Prit Buttar]]>Narrator: Richard Trinder]]>Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc]]>Release date: 10-29-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Bloomsbury presents The Reckoning by Prit Buttar, read by Richard Trinder. 'The Reckoning is vivid history, the tragic Eastern Front brought to life through the widest range of Russian and German sources I've ever read. Bravo.' – Peter Caddick-Adams, author and broadcaster From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar, The Reckoning is a masterful re-evaluation of the fateful year of 1944, and how the Red Army irrevocably turned the tide of war until the final defeat within the heart of Germany itself was guaranteed. The fighting throughout the Ukraine and Romania was brutal, with the German defence dogged and desperate. But for too long the Wehrmacht had relied on the superior combat prowess of its fighting men. What had not been taken into account, however, was that the Red Army would not only rely on its sheer size, but would fine-tune its fighting performance from its senior commanders right down to the individual soldier battling both fear and the elements to take each line, each trench, each inch of land. Ultimately it is a story not of how the Germans lost, as is all too often told, but of how the Russians increasingly learned how to win.
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]]>Title: Pocahontas]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End (Native American History, Book 7)]]>Series: #7 in Native American History]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Indigenous]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-29-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Pocahontas... The name Pocahontas is one of the most recognized in the world, and many think they know the story of how she met and fell in love with a European colonist meddling in her Native American affairs. But is this really what happened? It certainly has been a popular theme, and whole Disney movies have been made celebrating this narrative, but besides these conveniently glossed-over tales, what is the real story? In this book, we will brush aside artistic license and get to the true-life story of who Pocahontas was, what she did, and the legacy that she left behind. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So, if you want a concise and informative book on Pocahontas, simply scroll up and click the "buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Ancient African Kingdoms]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Civilizations of Ancient Africa Such as the Land of Punt, Carthage, the Kingdom of Aksum, the Mali Empire, and the Kingdom of Kush]]>Categories: Africa, Ancient, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-28-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Africa and the Kingdom of Kush, then pay attention.... Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: Africa is the continent where the first humans were born. They explored the vast land and produced the first tools. And although we migrated from that continent, we never completely abandoned it. From the beginning of time, humans lived and worked in Africa, leaving evidence of their existence in the sands of the Sahara Desert and the valleys of the great rivers such as the Nile and the Niger. Some of the earliest great civilizations were born there, and they give us an insight into the smaller kingdoms of ancient Africa. Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include: Some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook include: So, if you want to learn more about ancient Africa and the Kingdom of Kush, then get this audiobook now!
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:17:45 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Vg0fZ6Am Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Hudson Taylor: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Christians, Book 8]]>Series: #4 in Biographies of Christians]]>Categories: Biography, Religion, Religious Figure]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-23-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Hudson Taylor.... Hudson Taylor was a man always on the move. Born in Britain, he toured the world spreading the gospel, but it was in China in particular that Hudson would carve out his biggest legacy in Christ. It was here that he pushed the limits, going deeper and farther than any other Christian had gone before. Reaching the hearts and minds of the Chinese that lived there, he preached a gospel that they had not yet heard. Hudson Taylor was following the prime directive laid out in the Bible to preach the good news to every creature, great and small, and in doing so, he changed the world. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on Hudson Taylor, simply scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Hernan Cortes: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Explorers, Book 3]]>Series: #3 in Biographies of Explorers]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Explorer, History, Spain]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 10-20-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Hernan Cortes. Hernán Cortés, the famed Spanish conquistador, had always dreamed of becoming the next Christopher Columbus. Little did he suspect that he would surpass his hero as he settled various islands and marched into the heart of Mexico to conquer the Aztec empire for Spain. Cortés discovered more gold and riches than could be imagined in the New World, but greed soon became his driving passion. He killed his own men and thousands of native Americans in his quest for more. Although Cortés brought the mighty Montezuma II to his knees, even the king of Spain was unhappy with his cruelty. When Cortés demanded to be named governor of his settlement in New Spain, the king refused. At the time of his death, Cortés was wealthy but alone and forgotten. He had conquered the New World but had been defeated by his own avarice. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative audiobook on Hernan Cortes, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Cultural Revolution]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong]]>Categories: Asia, China, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm, Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-15-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Cultural Revolution, then pay attention... Two captivating manuscripts in this audiobook: Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include: Some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook include: So, if you want to learn more about the Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong, scroll up and click the "buy now" button!
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]]>Title: Stalingrad]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Battle of Stalingrad and Its Impact on World War II]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-14-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of Stalingrad, then pay attention... The Battle of Stalingrad is rightfully known as the “turning point” of the Second World War. Before the battle, which took place from August 1942 until the beginning of February 1943, the Germans were victorious everywhere, despite some localized setbacks (for example, at Moscow in 1941). After Stalingrad, the Germans were constantly pushed back, with some notable examples being Kursk in the summer of 1943 and the Bulge in 1944. During WW II, the Soviet Union suffered somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 million dead. For those of you in the United States and the United Kingdom, the death toll for those nations in the war was around 415,000 and 483,000, respectively. In the approximate six months of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Germans, their Hungarian, Romanian, and Italian allies, and the Soviets lost an estimated one million men. In Stalingrad: A Captivating Guide to the Battle of Stalingrad and Its Impact on World War II, you will discover chapters such as: So, if you want to learn more about Stalingrad, scroll up and click the "buy now" button!
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Wed, 14 Oct 2020 16:53:36 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b8pf99nl Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Ancient Africa]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Ancient African Civilizations, Such as the Kingdom of Kush, the Land of Punt, Carthage, the Kingdom of Aksum, and the Mali Empire with Its Timbuktu]]>Categories: Africa, Ancient, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-14-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Africa, then pay attention... Africa is the continent where the first humans were born. They explored the vast land and produced the first tools. And although we migrated from that continent, we never completely abandoned it. From the beginning of time, humans lived and worked in Africa, leaving evidence of their existence in the sands of the Sahara Desert and the valleys of the great rivers, such as the Nile and the Niger. Some of the earliest great civilizations were born there, and they give us an insight into the smaller kingdoms of ancient Africa. As the home of the many pharaohs, Queen Sheba, Hannibal Barca, and Mansa Musa, Africa deserves our full attention. It has stories to tell us and cultural riches to share with us. Africa is where paganism, Christianity, and Islam left their trails and created a cultural fusion that is unique to the continent. Some modern countries are popular tourist destinations, while others are war-torn lands still unable to industrialize.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Wed, 14 Oct 2020 05:42:40 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b4Yf4kLl Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Inglaterra en la Edad Media [England in the Middle Ages]]]>Subtitular: Una Guía Fascinante Sobre la Historia de Inglaterra Durante el Periodo Medieval y la Carta Magna [A Captivating Guide to English History During the Medieval Period and Magna Carta]]]>Categorías: Europe, Great Britain, History, Medieval]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Gustavo Dardes]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 10-13-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Dos manuscritos completos en un audiolibro: La historia de la Inglaterra medieval comienza con la caída del Imperio romano en el siglo quinto. En el siglo XI, la élite anglosajona fue completamente reemplazada por los normandos invasores. Guillermo el Conquistador y sus sucesores trajeron novedades a Inglaterra, como castillos y caballería. La última fase de la Inglaterra medieval comenzó con la gran hambruna y la peste negra en el siglo XIV, cuando se perdieron millones de vidas, lo que provocó que Inglaterra perdiera la mitad de su población. En este audiolibro, obtendrá información sobre todos los eventos anteriores y muchos más. Prepárese para descubrir Inglaterra en uno de sus momentos más interesantes. La primera parte de este audiolibro incluye: Segunda parte de este audiolibro: ¡Adquiera este audiolibro libro ahora y aprenda más sobre Inglaterra medieval y la Carta Magna! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Argentina and Peronism]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-10-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Includes a bibliography for further reading Includes a table of contents “It is a doctrine whose object is the happiness of man in the human society through the equilibrium of the material and spiritual, the individual and the collective forces.” (Raúl Mendé, Justicialism: The Peronist Doctrine and Reality) Until the 1930s, nationalism had always tended to be a phenomenon of the right-wing or the immigrant anarchists and Bolsheviks. Now, however, the emphasis shifted to the middle ground, and ironically, one of the issues driving Argentine nationalism was the outsized British presence in Argentine affairs, stoked recently by the preferential trade agreement. Perhaps most importantly, the seizure by the British in 1833 of the Islas Malvinas (or as the British termed them, the Falkland Islands) remained a sore point. This wave of cultural nationalism was very different to the more visceral, political nationalism that came before it, and it gathered a considerable following in Buenos Aires among liberal intellectuals and the middle classes. The movement was given further impetus by the outbreak of World War II and the freezing of European markets, along with the British emphasis on the imperial preference as a means of saving foreign currency.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Sat, 10 Oct 2020 08:16:12 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xzjf8Baz Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Cat and Mouse on the Niger]]>Subtitle: The History of the Competition Between the British and French for Control of the Niger River]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, France, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-06-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"They have soldiers. We only have arguments." (French Foreign Minister Théophile Delcassé) Near the end of the 19th century, Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event, known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa.
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]]>Title: The Romanovs]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Last Imperial Dynasty to Rule Russia and the Impact the Romanov Family Had on Russian History]]>Categories: History, Russia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-28-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Romanovs, then pay attention... An undoubtedly interesting, exciting, and dramatic chapter of Russian history was when it was ruled over by the Romanov dynasty. This powerful ruling family came to power shortly after the frightening rule of a legendary figure in Russian history: Ivan the Terrible. After murdering his own son and unborn grandson, Ivan died without an heir, resulting in the formation of a new dynasty. This was the Romanov family. The Romanovs included some of the most famous names in all of history, from Peter the Great, who expanded its borders, to the mighty Empress Catherine the Great, a powerful female ruler in a time of rife male supremacy and who is still a symbol of feminine power to this day. The Romanovs ruled from the end of the Middle Ages to the dawn of a modern era that forcefully rejected the last Romanovs from a nation that no longer tolerated a monarchy. And every last one of these mighty monarchs had quirks and idiosyncrasies, likes and dislikes, pasts that were often troubled, and complicated family lives. Every one of them was a person who was complex, intricate, flawed, and fascinating.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Mon, 28 Sep 2020 04:05:22 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bkWf7WQn Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Age of Reptiles]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Mesozoic Era and the Dinosaurs]]>Categories: Ancient, History, STEM, Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-25-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The early history of our planet covers such vast stretches of time that years, centuries, and even millennia become virtually meaningless. Instead paleontologists and scientists who study geochronology divide time into periods and eras. The current view of science is that planet Earth is around 4.6 billion years old. The first four billion years of its development are known as the Precambrian period. For the first billion years or so, there was no life in Earth. Then the first single-celled life-forms, early bacteria and algae, began to emerge. We don’t know where they came from or even if they originated on this planet at all. This gradual development continued until around four billion years ago when suddenly (in geological terms!) more complex forms of life began to emerge. Scientists call this time of an explosion of new forms of life the Paleozoic Era and it stretched from around 541 to 250 million years ago (Mya). First of all, in the oceans and then on land, new creatures and plants began to appear in bewildering variety.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Fri, 25 Sep 2020 22:29:46 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xzjfg5Xp Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Individual Lives of an American Animator and a Spanish Surrealist Painter]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-25-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating lives of Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, then pay attention... Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: Part one of this audiobook covers the life of Walt Disney and here are some of the topics included: Part two of this audiobook covers the life of Salvador Dalí and here are some of the topics included: So if you want to learn more about Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, buy this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: The Jurassic Period]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Geologic Era Most Associated with Dinosaurs]]>Categories: Ancient, Animal, Biology, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-24-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The early history of our planet covers such vast stretches of time that years, centuries, and even millennia become virtually meaningless. Instead, paleontologists and scientists who study geochronology divide time into periods and eras. The current view of science is that planet Earth is around 4.6 billion years old. The first four billion years of its development are known as the Precambrian period. For the first billion years or so, there was no life in Earth. Then, the first single-celled life-forms, early bacteria and algae, began to emerge. We don’t know where they came from or even if they originated on this planet, at all. This gradual development continued until around four billion years ago, when suddenly (in geological terms) more complex forms of life began to emerge. Scientists call this time of an explosion of new forms of life the Paleozoic Era, and it stretched from around 541 to 250 million years ago (Mya). First of all, in the oceans and then on land, new creatures and plants began to appear in bewildering variety.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Thu, 24 Sep 2020 07:24:11 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-VZNfa7G2 Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: King Philip II]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Royalty, Spain]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-22-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of King Philip II of Spain.... As the heir to the Spanish Empire of his father Charles V, Philip II came into this world with some rather big shoes to fill. Eventually, Philip would prove himself in his own right even though he turned out to be a much different ruler than his father. He won a life or death struggle against a resurgent Ottoman Empire, he consolidated Spanish dominion in the Americas, and he fought to maintain Spanish holdings in Europe. He also used a ruthless Spanish Inquisition in order to keep his subjects in line with his own version of the Catholic faith. Even now, the legacy of this powerful ruler is being sorted out. As such, some are beginning to change their long hardened views of the monarch, and new aspects of his dynamic and complicated life are starting to come forth. Hear for yourself the life, the legacy, and the unbridled achievement of this colossal potentate — King Philip II of Spain. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on King Philip II of Spain, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Napoleonic Wars]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Napoleonic Wars and War of 1812]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-22-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Napoleonic Wars, then pay attention.... Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: Some of the topics covered in part 1 of this audiobook include: Some of the topics covered in part 2 of this audiobook include: So if you want to learn more about The Napoleonic Wars and The War of 1812, scroll up and click the "Add to Cart" button!
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]]>Title: History of China]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Chinese History, Including Events Such as the First Emperor of China, the Mongol Conquests of Genghis Khan, the Opium Wars, and the Cultural Revolution]]>Categories: Asia, China, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Edwin Andrews]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-18-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of China, then pay attention... The history of China is complex - perhaps, more complex than that of other nations. The ethnic groups that compose China go back to prehistoric times, and each group lent its own color to the enormous nation. It is not like a diluted mixture of all its cultures; rather, it is a collage. Yet, there are immutable elements still present today. Rice originated in China, and so did stir-frying. Anyone who has enjoyed a snack or two from a delightful swimming pool imitates the same practice in the water towns of China from times past. Brocade and printed silk fabrics were first created in China. Iridescent porcelain is a product of the Ming dynasty. The Chinese were among the first to develop blast furnaces. They were the first to invent fireworks and gunpowder. And the list goes on and on. As you listen to this book, you will note that history tends to repeat itself in the rise and fall of the many dynasties of China.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:55:56 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-x9RfyXA2 Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: History for Kids]]>Subtitle: The History of Saber-Toothed Tigers and Woolly Mammoths]]>Categories: Ancient, Animal, Biology, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-17-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Imagine a feline with the spirit of a lion, the sneakiness of a puma, the terrifying walk of a black bear, and the strong arms of a gorilla. Sounds cool? Now, add some huge dagger-like fangs. Even cooler, right? This amazing creature was best known as the saber-toothed tiger, an animal so fearless, it could beat beasts even twice their size! As cool as he sounds, this Ice Age feline earned quite a villainous reputation. You can even see them be the bad guys in movies! Ever watched the movie Ice Age? All saber-toothed tigers, except Diego, seemed to be dangerous. Or, do you remember Wolverine’s enemy Victor Creed “Sabertooth”? Yes, he was scary. Beyond its reputation, the saber-toothed tiger is an Ice Age celebrity, and so is the woolly mammoth. In September 2012, on a chilly morning, a Russian kid named Yevgeny Zhenya and his dogs were walking to school, when an awful smell made them stop. The 11-year-old wanted to find out what smelled so bad, and with the help of his furry friends, he went to explore the land.
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]]>Title: The Eureka Rebellion]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Gold Miners’ Uprising Against the British in Australia]]>Categories: Australasia, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-11-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“A company of troopers & military carried the war into the enemies camp. In a very short time numbers were shot and hundreds taken prisoner.... The sight in the morning was truly appalling - Men lying dead slain by evil. The remedy is very lamentable but it appears it was necessary. It is hoped now rebellion will be checked.” (Reverend Theophilus Taylor) A land of almost three million square miles has lain since time immemorial on the southern flank of the planet, so isolated that it remained entirely outside of European knowledge until 1770. However, the first human footprints on this vast territory were felt 70,000 years earlier, as people began to cross the periodic land bridges and the short sea crossings from Southeast Asia. The history of the indigenous inhabitants of Australia, known in contemporary anthropology as the “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia”, is a complex and continually evolving field of study, and it has been colored by politics.
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]]>Title: Falklands War: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 09-09-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Falklands War... The Falklands War, which erupted in 1982, was a conflict between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Argentina over sovereignty of the Falklands, a group of largely uninhabited islands in the South Atlantic. The islands had under two thousand inhabitants and little particular strategic or commercial importance when they became the object of the war. Still, disputes over whether these islands belonged to Great Britain or Argentina had been underway for many years. During negotiations in the late 1970s, Britain seemed willing to consider transferring the sovereignty of the islands to Argentina. Continuing lobbying by the islanders themselves, however, prevented this from happening. In Argentina, the brutal rule of a military dictatorship was tottering under rising unemployment, massive inflation, and popular unrest. A short, successful war seemed like the perfect way to bolster the popularity of the military junta. After all, it seemed very unlikely that Britain would actually go to war over a few small islands eight thousand miles away. To the surprise of almost everyone, that is precisely what happened. Within three days of the Argentine invasion, a British naval task force was on its way to the South Atlantic.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:41:53 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b6afQQl6 Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Denisovans]]>Subtitle: The History of the Extinct Archaic Humans Who Spread Across Asia During the Paleolithic Era]]>Categories: Ancient, Civilization, Earth Science, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-08-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The study of paleoanthropology is the branch of anthropology that examines the development of humans and pre-humans - often called collectively hominins - through history. Although paleoanthropology is directly concerned with human history, it diverges from traditional historical studies in that historians use historical records as their primary sources to reconstruct history, while paleoanthropologists work with bones and other artifacts hominins left as their records. Historians deal with the last 5,000 years of human history, while paleoanthropologists go back more than four million years to when the first proto-humans walked the Earth. Although the subject of paleoanthropology covers a much longer chronology than historical studies, the study itself is actually fairly new. As soon as man discovered writing, he began engaging in historiography (historical writing and philosophy), but paleoanthropology only really began in the late 1800s.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Tue, 08 Sep 2020 03:19:16 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Dv3fPA7d Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Historia de Armenia [Armenian History]]]>Subtitular: Una Guía Fascinante sobre la Historia de Armenia y el Genocidio Armenio [A Captivating Guide to the History of Armenia and the Armenian Genocide]]]>Categorías: Ancient, Europe, History]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Christian Perez]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 09-02-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Two manuscritos completos en 1 audiolibro: La historia de Armenia comienza con un antiguo y glorioso reino, que se ganó el respeto del mundo y acumuló tanto poder como Egipto o Babilonia. Conforme su historia se abre paso entre las tinieblas, cada capítulo de la misma alcanza niveles tan legendarios como otros mucho más conocidos, y con personajes tan importantes como, por ejemplo, Marco Antonio y Cleopatra, Alejandro Magno, Gengis Kan O Federico Barbarroja. Armenia vio crecer el enorme poder de Roma; conoció a los grandes faraones egipcios, la Horda de Oro, la Unión Soviética, aparte de sufrir la primera invasión de la historia de un ejército musulmán. Durante una parte de su historia bastante larga y desagradable tuvo que sufrir el yugo de diversos imperios: El romano, el parto, el persa, el bizantino, el timúrida, el mongol y el otomano, por nombrar solo a unos cuantos. La primera parte de este audiolibro incluye: Segunda parte de este audiolibro, usted: ¡Obtenga ahora este audiolibro para aprender más sobre Historia de Armenia y el genocidio armenio! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Charles Babbage]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Father of Modern Computers]]>Categories: 19th Century, Biography, History, Modern, STEM]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-01-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“If unwarned by my example, any man shall undertake and shall succeed in really constructing an engine...upon difference principles or by simpler means, I have no fear of leaving my reputation in his charge, for he alone will be fully able to appreciate the nature of my efforts and the value of their results...” (Charles Babbage) In the last 50 years, life has been simplified by the awe-inspiring advancements that have been achieved in the world of computer science and technology. In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak unveiled the Apple I, the first-ever computer that operated on a single-circuit board, just five years after a team of IBM engineers introduced the “floppy disk,” which revolutionized data-sharing. In 1981, the first personal computer - IBM's Acorn - equipped with an optional color monitor, two floppy disks, and an intel chip was rolled out to the masses, and the dynamic evolution of the world wide web soon followed. Today, the world is in the midst of the transformative and ever-developing Digital Age, otherwise referred to as the “Age of Information".
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:45:49 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bYJfQp3V Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Simón Bolívar]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Venezuelan Leader Who Liberated Much of Latin America from the Spanish Empire]]>Categories: 19th Century, America, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-01-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.” (Simón Bolívar) Although he is unquestionably one of the most studied leaders of the 19th century, Simón Bolívar remains today as enigmatic as he was two centuries ago, when his vision and presence largely inspired the overthrow of the Spanish Empire in the New World. The legend of Simón Bolívar has a great deal to do with the Siddhartha-like transition of a Creole aristocrat into an impoverished revolutionary; a sparsely educated but pampered aesthete into a premier Enlightenment thinker; and a privileged youth into a warrior of almost mythological prowess. And while all of it, to a greater or lesser extent, is true, Simón Bolívar was also a revolutionary of an atypical variety. The transformational ideals of Simón Bolívar did not always conform to the uncompromising canons of the French Revolution or the libertarianism and individual freedoms of the American, and nor was he instinctively hostile to the concept of monarchy or aristocracy.
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]]>Title: Coco Chanel]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Celebrity, Fashion Designer]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 08-29-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Coco Chanel... The legendary French designer Coco Chanel was born in 1883. She changed the way women thought about fashion and themselves; her dresses were meant to free women of the corset and allow them to move freely and elegantly. At the dawn of a new century, Chanel stood for a new type of woman. Chanel worked her way up from living in an orphanage to dining with royalty. She personified her own designs. Always independent, she never married, took on lovers as she pleased, and never apologized. A century after Coco Chanel opened her first small shop in Paris, her designs still define luxury. Discover a plethora of topics, such as: So, if you want a concise and informative book on Coco Chanel, simply scroll up and click the "buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Moon Missions Before Apollo]]>Subtitle: The History of NASA’s Pioneer, Ranger, and Surveyor Programs]]>Categories: America, Astronomy, History, STEM]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-25-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Today, the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that culminated with Apollo 11 “winning” the race for the United States.
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]]>Title: The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt]]>Subtitle: The History of Antiquity’s Most Famous Monuments]]>Categories: Ancient, Architecture, Egypt, History, Middle East]]>Author: Phaistos Publishers]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Phaistos Publishers]]>Release date: 08-22-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In addition to being one of the ancient wonders of the world, the Great Pyramid of Giza is extraordinary for a number of reasons. It is one of the greatest feats of engineering in the ancient world, to the extent that it remained the tallest built structure in the world from the time it was finished up until the Lincoln Cathedral was completed around 1300 CE. The fact the nearly 520 feet-tall spire of the cathedral was erected nearly 3,800 years after the Great Pyramid of Giza was constructed is a testament in its own way to the longevity of the pyramid itself.
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]]>Title: Marco Polo: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Explorers, Book 2]]>Series: #2 in Biographies of Explorers]]>Categories: Biography, Explorer, Politician, Politics]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 08-21-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Marco Polo... Marco Polo, a Venetian merchant, was a great explorer of far and unfamiliar lands. He traveled the world in order to find things that no one else had seen, but what did he really discover? The stories that he told upon his return to his homeland of the Republic of Venice were so unusual that his fellow compatriots often had a hard time believing him. When he described things such as paper money, gun powder, and coal, these were still so far out of the daily routine of the West that they seemed utterly bizarre to his contemporaries. But even now that Marco Polo’s discoveries are less exotic and more commonplace, do we truly understand what it was that he uncovered? This audiobook will delve deep into the life and legend of Marco Polo. Discover a plethora of topics, such as: So, if you want a concise and informative book on Marco Polo, simply scroll up and click the "buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Glorious Revolution]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Insurrection]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 08-19-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the glorious revolution! On August 28, 2019, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked Queen Elizabeth II to prorogue Parliament. She approved the request. The elaborate ritual of the queen granting the prime minister permission to do what he intended to do anyway demonstrates how the legacy of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 made the British Parliament, not the monarch, the ultimate source of power in government. But it was not always so. Under the Stuart kings, battles between the Parliament and the throne were far from unusual, with no ceremonial rituals to preserve popular fictions regarding who was in power. King Charles I believed ardently in the divine right of kings and went to his execution firmly convinced that he was God’s anointed. His second son James II believed the same.
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]]>Título: La Guerra de Estados Unidos y México [The United States and Mexico War]]]>Subtitular: La Historia De La Polémica Guerra Que Resultó en La Anexión Del Suroeste Y California Por Parte De Los Estados Unidos]]>Categorías: America, History, Mexico, United States of America]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Aurelio Dominguez]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 08-19-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>La política del “destino manifiesto” aumentó las tensiones con México en la década de 1840. La mitad norte de México formaba la frontera occidental del territorio que había sido adquirido en la Compra de Luisiana. Naturalmente, la noción de que los Estados Unidos se expandieran hacia el Océano Pacífico alarmaba a México, que para entonces comprendía lo que hoy es la costa oeste de los Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, México comenzó a ver por primera vez la expansión estadounidense como un problema serio con la migración de estadounidenses hacia el territorio nordeste mexicano. Estos estadounidenses se declararon independientes de México y crearon una nación en la provincia mexicana de Texas. Tras ganar la independencia en 1836, Texas se convirtió en una república independiente. En 1845, Texas solicitó formalmente la anexión a los Estados Unidos. Esto enfureció al gobierno mexicano, que aún consideraba a Texas como parte de su territorio. México había advertido anteriormente que la anexión de Texas daría causa para declarar la guerra a los Estados Unidos. El presidente James K. Polk hizo campaña prometiendo la expansión de los Estados Unidos hasta el Océano Pacífico, y pretendía tomar el territorio mexicano por la fuerza si era necesario.
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]]>Title: The Ranger Program]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of NASA’s Initial Attempts to Land a Spacecraft on the Moon]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, Astronomy, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-18-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Today, the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that culminated with Apollo 11 “winning” the race for the United States.
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]]>Title: Kimpa Vita]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Influential Christian Prophet in the Kingdom of Kongo]]>Categories: Africa, Christianity, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-15-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe, nearly 5,000 years later. From the Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria to the Great Pyramid at Giza, the ancient Egyptians produced several wonders of the world, revolutionized architecture and construction, created some of the world’s first systems of mathematics and medicine, and established language and art that spread across the known world. With famous leaders like King Tut and Cleopatra, it’s no wonder that today’s world has so many Egyptologists, but interest in Africa has been present long before the modern era. In the Middle Ages, the Holy Lands were lost to Christianity, and Christian Europe was under siege. Folktales began to circulate - their origins obscure, but first noted in historic texts around the 12th century CE - of a lost Christian kingdom in the East, the kingdom of Prester John.
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]]>Title: Ernest Shackleton: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Explorers, Book 1]]>Series: #1 in Biographies of Explorers]]>Categories: Biography, Explorer, History, Polar Region]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 08-13-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Ernest Shackleton.... Ernest Shackleton was not just a great explorer - he was also a great commander. When the chips were down, he could always be depended upon to put others ahead of himself. Shackleton knew how to push the limits until he was able to exceed well above even the most generous of expectations that had been laid out for him. Yet time and time again, he also proved to be a compassionate leader who made sure that he never left a single man behind on his expeditions. This compassionate concern for those under his charge was brilliantly evidenced in his famous journey to the Antarctic on the ship prophetically named the Endurance.
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]]>Title: Saint Brigid of Kildare]]>Subtitle: The Life, Legends, and Legacy of One of Ireland’s Patron Saints]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Ireland, Religion]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-07-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God.” (Saint Brigid of Kildare) The drumbeat of horses’ hooves and clatter of chariot wheels echo through the rolling green hills of what will be known much later as the Emerald Isle. The driver is a lone woman whose long hair and homespun cloak whip through the wind behind her. Headstrong, confident, and intelligent, she blazes a trail that will change her nation forevermore, yet not in her own name or for her own sake, but for that of the God who sent her. This is a woman who will love the poor, feed the hungry, house the homeless, teach the ignorant, and defy the odds doing it all. This is Brigid of Kildare. Saint Brigid of Kildare survives as a model of the religious life, a woman who cared for the earth and its people, who strove for justice, equality, and peace.
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]]>Title: The Infiltrators]]>Subtitle: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Germany, History]]>Author: Norman Ohler]]>Narrator: Kris Dyer]]>Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd]]>Release date: 08-06-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Drawing on unpublished diaries, letters and Gestapo files, Norman Ohler spins an unforgettable tale of love, heroism and sacrifice. Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet - and one of history's greatest conspiracies is born. Harro Schulze-Boysen had already shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of antifascists that stretched across Berlin's bohemian underworld. Harro himself infiltrated German intelligence and began funnelling Nazi battle plans to the Allies, including the details of Hitler's surprise attack on the Soviet Union. But nothing could prepare Harro and Libertas for the betrayals they would suffer in this war of secrets - a struggle in which friend could be indistinguishable from foe.
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]]>Title: Jefferson Davis Timeline]]>Subtitle: A Short Timeline of Jefferson Davis (Timelines, Book 4)]]>Series: #4 in Timelines]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Head of State]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Justin Zeppa]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 08-04-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Jefferson Davis Timeline and for a short timeline of Jefferson Davis.
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]]>Title: German Revolution]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Insurrection]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 08-04-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the German Revolution of 1918.... The brief history of the Weimar Republic is generally seen as an abbreviated intermission between the First and Second World Wars. It was the government, led by the Social Democratic Party, which took power, albeit with some trepidation, after Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated the German throne. Socialists saw this as the opportunity they had been waiting for, the day when workers would be the ones in power. For the conservatives who could not accept the German defeat in World War I, however, the Weimar Republic was a feeble entity which had capitulated to Germany’s enemies. The German Revolution of 1918-1919 told the story of a bruised nation attempting to overcome its military defeat at the hands of enemies who wanted to punish Germany for starting the war.
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]]>Title: The English Sweating Sickness]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Mysterious Disease That Plagued Medieval London]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, Health, Health Care]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Ray Howard]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-25-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Plague and pestilence have both fascinated and terrified humanity from the very beginning. Societies and individuals have struggled to make sense of them, and more importantly, they’ve often struggled to avoid them. Before the scientific age, people had no knowledge of the microbiological agents - unseen bacteria and viruses - which afflicted them, and thus, the maladies were often ascribed to wrathful supernatural forces. Even when advances in knowledge posited natural causes for epidemics and pandemics, medicine struggled to deal with them, and for hundreds of years, religion continued to work hand-in-hand with medicine. It was only in the mid-19th century that scientists established a definitive link between viruses and bacteria and disease, and this allowed the development of vaccines to prevent the spread of killers such as smallpox, typhus, and diphtheria. In the early 20th century, the development of antibiotics helped immensely, but as the Spanish Flu of 1918 and the recent coronavirus outbreak demonstrated, people have not succeeded in conquering all infectious diseases.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Sat, 25 Jul 2020 20:04:07 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-DQQfwrBl Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The 1889-1890 Flu Pandemic]]>Subtitle: The History of the 19th Century’s Last Major Global Outbreak]]>Categories: Contagious Disease, Disease, Health, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-23-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Plague and pestilence have both fascinated and terrified humanity from the very beginning. Societies and individuals have struggled to make sense of them, and more importantly, they’ve often struggled to avoid them. Before the scientific age, people had no knowledge of the microbiological agents - unseen bacteria and viruses - which afflicted them, and thus, the maladies were often ascribed to wrathful supernatural forces. Even when advances in knowledge posited natural causes for epidemics and pandemics, medicine struggled to deal with them, and for hundreds of years, religion continued to work hand-in-hand with medicine. It was only in the mid-19th century that scientists established a definitive link between viruses and bacteria and disease, and this allowed the development of vaccines to prevent the spread of killers such as smallpox, typhus, and diphtheria. In the early 20th century, the development of antibiotics helped immensely, but as the Spanish Flu of 1918 and the recent coronavirus outbreak demonstrated, people have not succeeded in conquering all infectious diseases.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:26:54 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xEPfy2EG Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Los sármatas y los escitas [The Sarmatians and the Scythians]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante sobre los bárbaros de origen iraní y cómo estas tribus antiguas lucharon contra el Imperio romano, los godos, los hunos y los persas [A Fascinating Guide to Iranian-Born Barbarians and How These Ancient Tribes Fought the Roman Empire, the Goths, the Huns, and the Persians]]]>Categorías: Ancient, Education, History, Iran]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: César Martínez]]>Editor: Vicelane LLC]]>Fecha de publicación: 07-22-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si desea descubrir la fascinante historia de los sármatas y los escitas, siga leyendo.... Como maestros del caballo, los escitas y los sármatas abrieron la estepa euroasiática a civilizaciones nómadas como nunca antes se había visto. Por primera vez, un grupo de tribus que comparten una cultura común llamaron a la estepa su hogar, adaptándose a su crueldad. Nacidos en este entorno, adoptaron una forma muy particular de vivir y luego se extendió a los pueblos de Asia Central: el estilo de vida nómada pastoral. Sería la ruina de los ejércitos organizados de los grandes imperios, ya que la excelente movilidad otorgada por sus habilidades superiores de equitación no era rival en comparación con la infantería lenta y organizada. En Los sármatas y los escitas: Una guía fascinante sobre los bárbaros de origen iraní y cómo estas tribus antiguas lucharon contra el Imperio romano, los godos, los hunos y los persas, you will discover topics such as So if you want to learn more about Sarmatians and Scythians, descubrirá temas como Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:23:24 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Dm4fY0jx Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: La Batalla del Pequeño Gran Cuerno [The Battle of the Little Big Horn]]]>Subtitle: Una Fascinante Guía sobre una de las Acciones Más Significativas de la Gran Guerra Sioux [A Fascinating Guide to One of the Most Significant Actions of the Great Sioux War]]]>Categories: America, History, Military]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Salvador Marini]]>Publisher: Vicelane LLC]]>Release date: 07-22-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Si quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de la guerra hispanoamericana, La Batalla del Pequeño Gran Cuerno.... La Batalla del Pequeño Gran Cuerno, a la cual los historiadores americanos también se refieren comúnmente como La última resistencia de Custer, es uno de los acontecimientos más emblemáticos durante la Gran Guerra Sioux que tuvo lugar entre 1875 y 1876. La guerra misma se extendería a otras tribus dentro de las regiones circundantes al territorio Black Hills (Colinas Negras), de la actual Dakota del Sur después de que comenzaran los conflictos entre el gobierno de los EE. UU. y las tribus locales Lakota y Cheyenne en 1854, que duraron hasta 1890. La mayoría de los libros de texto y los aficionados a la historia a menudo idealizaron la última postura de Custer asemejándola a La Batalla de las Termópilas de hoy, a menudo retratándola como la valiente última resistencia de un guerrero experimentado, durante más de medio siglo después de la batalla, pero los hallazgos arqueológicos posteriores tienden a sugerir lo contrario.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:43:03 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-V5yf4dR6 Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Bohemians]]>Subtitle: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis]]>Categories: Biography, Espionage, Europe, Germany]]>Author: Norman Ohler]]>Narrator: Peter Ganim]]>Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]]>Release date: 07-14-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>From the New York Times best-selling author of Blitzed, the incredible true story of two idealistic young lovers who led the anti-Nazi resistance in the darkening heart of Berlin. Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow of a passing boat. Their eyes meet—and one of history’s greatest conspiracies is born. Harro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of antifascist fighters that stretched across Berlin’s bohemian underworld. Harro himself infiltrated German intelligence and began funneling Nazi battle plans to the Allies, including the details of Hitler’s surprise attack on the Soviet Union. But nothing could prepare Harro and Libertas for the betrayals they would suffer in this war of secrets—a struggle in which friend could be indistinguishable from foe. Drawing on unpublished diaries, letters, and Gestapo files, Norman Ohler spins an unforgettable tale of love, heroism, and sacrifice in The Bohemians.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Norman Ohler) Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:27:11 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b1zfBJRJ Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Aztec Civilization: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Mesoamerican History, Book 5]]>Series: #5 in Mesoamerican History]]>Categories: America, Central America, Civilization, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 07-14-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Aztec Civilization.... The Aztec Empire dominated Mesoamerica for a relatively short time — less than 100 years — but it is remembered today more than other ancient cultures in the region which sustained for much longer. Partly that is because this was a relatively recent culture which was widely reported by the first Europeans to make contact with it. Another one of the reasons is because the Aztecs have become indelibly associated with human sacrifice. The sheer scale of these rituals caused horror and fascination in the first Europeans to encounter it. Anything up to eighty thousand victims may have been brutally killed during a single religious festival, and up to a quarter of a million people may have been sacrificed each year of Aztec rule. The seemingly insatiable need for victims to placate the Aztec gods even led to wars whose purpose was not conquest or plunder, but obtaining sacrificial victims. Yet there was a great deal more to the Aztecs than human sacrifice. These people created a complex society and one of the largest cities in the world. They developed a sophisticated set of laws and made notable advances in astronomy and agriculture.
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]]>Title: Sulla: The Controversial Life and Legacy of the Roman Dictator]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-10-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“If Sulla could, why can’t I?” (Pompey the Great) When the topic of Roman dictators during the 1st century BCE comes up, one name instantly springs to mind. In 49 BCE, the “die was cast” as Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon at the head of the 13th Legion and ushered in a civil war that permanently destroyed the Roman Republic, leaving a line of emperors in its place. Caesar’s legacy is so strong that his name has become, in many languages, synonymous with power: The emperors of Austria and Germany bore the title Kaiser, and the czars of Russia also owe the etymology of their title to Caesar. His name also crept further eastward out of Europe, even cropping up in Hindi and Urdu, where the term for “emperor” is Kaisar. However, it’s quite possible that none of what Caesar did would’ve happened without the template for such actions being set by Lucius Cornelius Sulla 40 years earlier. At the time, when Caesar was in his teens, war was being waged both on the Italian peninsula and abroad, with domestic politics pitting the conservative, aristocratic optimates against the populist, reformist populares, and this tension ultimately escalated into an all-out war.
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]]>Título: Revolución haitiana [Haitian Revolution]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la abolición de la esclavitud]]>Categorías: America, Caribbean, History, Insurrection]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Vicelane LLC]]>Fecha de publicación: 07-07-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Explore cómo se liberaron los esclavos en la Revolución haitiana La Revolución haitiana fue una rebelión de esclavos que comenzó en 1791 en la colonia francesa de Saint-Domingue, conocida ahora como Haití. En esta pequeña isla los tiranos fueron los dueños de esclavos, gente que no solo privaba de libertad a sus esclavos, sino que también pensaba que estaba justificado quitarles la vida. La Revolución haitiana empezó a cambiar la imagen de los esclavos en el mundo. Aunque costó otros 100 años erradicar la esclavitud en occidente, era imposible ignorar el paralelismo entre lo que los americanos y los franceses hicieron a los esclavos. La Revolución haitiana fue el primer y único caso en el que una rebelión de esclavos desembocó en la creación de un nuevo estado. Algunos de los temas incluidos en este libro son: ¡Consiga su libro ahora para aprender sobre la Revolución haitiana! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:22:55 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b1zfpevd Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Magna Carta]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Great Charter and its Influence on Medieval England and the Rest of the World]]>Categories: Education, Europe, History, Learning, Medieval]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Vicelane LLC]]>Release date: 07-01-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Magna Carta, then pay attention... The Magna Carta is celebrated as one of the most important documents in human history. It is the main source of constitutional law around the world, promising people liberties and protection from the arbitrary power of the government. However, it is also a set of promises extorted in bad faith from an unwilling king, and these promises dealt with the problems of the 13th-century aristocracy. Among the ordinary problems of fees, customs, and land law, greater ideas found their way into the document, revolutionary ideas that would change the world. However, in 1215, they were sparse, mentioned here and there in the form of high ideals more than in the form of a law. Some parts of the Magna Carta are still quoted, such as clauses that deal with justice before peers, freedom from unlawful imprisonment, freedom of the church, and so on. However, in medieval times, these clauses did not have the same meaning as they do today.
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]]>Título: Carta Magna [Magna Carta]]]>Subtitular: Una fascinante guía de la historia de la Carta Magna y su influencia en la Inglaterra medieval y el resto del mundo]]>Categorías: Education, Europe, History, Learning, Medieval]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Gustavo Dardes]]>Editor: Vicelane LLC]]>Fecha de publicación: 06-29-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si quiere descubrir la cautivadora historia de la Carta Magna, siga leyendo.... La Carta Magna es reconocida como uno de los documentos más importantes de la historia de la humanidad. Es la principal fuente de derecho constitucional en todo el mundo, y ofrece a las personas libertades y protección frente al poder arbitrario del gobierno. Sin embargo, es también un conjunto de promesas extraídas a mala fe de un rey no comprometido, y esas promesas lidiaban con los problemas de la aristocracia del siglo XIII. Entre asuntos ordinarios referidos a tasas, aduanas y leyes sobre la tierra, en el documento también encuentran su lugar las más importantes ideas revolucionarias capaces de cambiar el mundo. No obstante, en 1215 estas eran escasas, se mencionaban por aquí y por allá, y en la forma de altos ideales, más que en la de una ley. En Carta Magna: Una fascinante guía de la historia de la Carta Magna y su influencia en la Inglaterra medieval y el resto del mundo, descubrirá temas como: ¡Adquiera este libro libro ahora y aprenda más sobre la Carta Magna! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:09:33 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-VqlfvA8E Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Crypto-Jews]]>Subtitle: The History of the Forcibly Converted Jews Who Secretly Practiced Judaism During the Inquisition]]>Categories: Christianity, Europe, History, Judaism, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-25-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The road to the modern age of cultural harmony and acceptance is one of the finest feats of human progress, but having said that, there was once a time when the mere doubt of a religious figure's existence was not only punishable by law, it could very well cost a man his life. This was the crime of heresy. This kind of religious persecution has been around for thousands of years, and Christians were often the victims, but when the Catholic Church began its rapid expansion throughout Europe during the Middle Ages, the tables were turned. In 1184, Pope Lucius III issued a papal bull that would kick off a long-standing tradition of heretic-hunting, and as a result, the Age of the Inquisitions commenced. By the end of the 14th century, the distrust and prejudice against Jewish communities quickly spread to Spain. In 1391, James II of Aragon boarded the bandwagon; backed into a corner by the Roman Catholic Church, he established a law that banned Jews from Spain altogether. Jews were shunned in droves, and the remaining were given an ultimatum to either convert/revert to Catholicism or face immediate death.
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]]>Title: The Devil's Bridge]]>Subtitle: The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Strategy, World War II]]>Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones]]>Narrator: Roger May]]>Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc]]>Release date: 06-25-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Bloomsbury presents The Devil's Bridge by Anthony Tucker-Jones, read by Roger May. This fascinating title offers a new look at Operation Market Garden and the Arnhem campaign from the perspective of the German forces who defended against the Allies. In the late summer of 1944, SS-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm ‘Willi’ Bittrich found himself in the Netherlands surveying his II SS Panzer Corps, which was in a poor state having narrowly escaped the defeat in Normandy. He was completely unaware that his command lay directly in the path of a major Allied thrust: the 17 September 1944 launch of the largest airborne and glider operation in the history of warfare. Codenamed Operation Market Garden, it was intended to outflank the German West Wall and ‘bounce’ the Rhine at Arnhem, from where the Allies could strike into the Ruhr, Nazi Germany’s industrial heartland. Such a move could have ended the war. However, Market Garden and the battle for Arnhem were a disaster for the Allies. Put together in little over a week and lacking in flexibility, the operation became an all-or-nothing race against time.
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]]>Title: Ada Lovelace Timeline]]>Subtitle: A Short Timeline of Ada Lovelace (Timelines Book 3)]]>Series: #3 in Timelines]]>Categories: Biography, Female Protagonist, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Ross Pipkin]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 06-24-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>This audiobook is a short timeline of Ada Lovelace, a mathematician and writer, born to the English poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabella Byron.
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]]>Title: Louisa May Alcott: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of American Authors, Book 4]]>Series: #4 in Biographies of American Authors]]>Categories: America, Author, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 06-24-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Louisa May Alcott... Louisa May Alcott was everything a woman in the 19th century shouldn’t be - uninterested in marriage, financially independent, and a tomboy. Even as a young child, Louisa May was exposed to the leading radical minds of her time, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, both of whom became her lifelong friends. Louisa May Alcott had to help support her family from an early age and was both proud of her ability to do so and frustrated by her family’s perpetual poverty. Her most famous novel, Little Women, was a semi-biographical version of her life with her three sisters and how they grew up.
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]]>Title: Harriet Tubman]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to an American Abolitionist Who Became the Most Famous Conductor of the Underground Railroad]]>Categories: Activist, America, Biography, History, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Vicelane LLC]]>Release date: 06-16-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating life of Harriet Tubman, then pay attention... Harriet Tubman was known as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad. But this wasn’t a railroad that carried trains and freight but rather human lives that were desperately seeking freedom. It was a clandestine group of individuals (hence the name “underground”) scattered across the United States and Canada who helped facilitate the migration of those ensnared in the South’s scourge of slavery to the so-called free states and provinces of the North. Harriet’s years of bondage were dreadful, and she had the scars to prove it. She also had recurring headaches from when a heavy two-pound weight used for weighing produce struck her in the head. Neither her scars nor her headaches would ever leave her, and they served as a constant reminder of what she had gone through. In fact, some biographies assert that as she got older, the headaches only grew worse. But Harriet was a fighter. And she insisted on those around her having that same fighting spirit, as well. Her steely determination was forged on the Underground Railroad, where to turn back meant slavery, severe punishment, and possibly death.
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]]>Title: Mahdist War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Africa, East Africa, Egypt, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 06-16-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Mahdist War.... The Mahdist War took place at the end of the 19th century between Sudanese rebels and their Egyptian colonizers. A religious leader claiming to be the Islamic Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmad, raised an army and led a movement to guide not only Sudanese Muslims, but Muslims worldwide. He and the Mahdists envisioned a future in which they would live by the teachings of the Qur’an. However, larger global forces, especially those of global imperialism, would stand in their way. From the Mahdist grassroots movement to independence to reconquest, this is the story of the Mahdist War. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on the Mahdist War, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Título: Las Cruzadas [The Crusades]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de las expediciones militares durante la Edad Media que partieron de Europa con el objetivo de liberar Jerusalén y ayudar ... en Tierra Santa [A Fascinating Guide to the Military Expeditions During the Middle Ages that Set out from Europe with the Aim of Liberating Jerusalem and Helping ... in the Holy Land]]]>Categorías: Education, Europe, History, Learning, Medieval]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Javier Lopez Ortega]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 06-16-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si usted quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de las Cruzadas, entonces siga leyendo.... Se podría decir que los reyes y nobles europeos de la Edad Media estaban locos por las cruzadas. La enorme cantidad de combatientes que periódicamente zarpaban hacia el Cercano Oriente para luchar contra los musulmanes son una prueba de la popularidad generalizada del aventurerismo en el extranjero en ese momento. La idea de una cruzada, en la que grandes ejércitos procedentes de varias regiones de Europa se reunían con el fin de luchar contra los musulmanes turcos y árabes, quedó tan arraigada que se amplió para incluir a las cruzadas contra las sectas cristianas europeas heréticas. En Las Cruzadas: Una fascinante guía de las expediciones militares durante la Edad Media que partieron de Europa con el objetivo de liberar Jerusalén y ayudar al cristianismo en Tierra Santa, descubrirá temas como: ¡Obtenga este libro ahora para aprender más sobre las cruzadas! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Título: Primera guerra mundial [World War I]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante sobre la primera guerra mundial y cómo el tratado de Versalles de 1919 influyó en el surgimiento de la Alemania Nazi]]>Categorías: History, Military, Military Conflict, Planet Earth, World War I]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Ernesto Tissot]]>Editor: Vicelane LLC]]>Fecha de publicación: 06-16-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Explore la fascinante historia de la Primera Guerra Mundial. La Primera Guerra Mundial fue uno de los conflictos más devastadores de nuestra historia. El número de muertos no se pareció a nada experimentado anteriormente, y se estima que más de 11 millones de soldados fueron asesinados, heridos o desaparecieron, y muchos de esos cuerpos nunca se han encontrado. Independientemente de cómo la gente recuerde la Primera Guerra Mundial, y si tienen o no una visión romántica de la vida de un soldado en primera línea, es importante que el mundo nunca olvide este conflicto brutal y sangriento. El tumulto y el caos que quedaron a raíz de la Primera Guerra Mundial tuvieron consecuencias devastadoras y de largo alcance, no solo para Europa y los sobrevivientes de la guerra, sino también para todo el mundo.
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]]>Title: The Winter War: A Captivating Guide to the Russo-Finnish War Between Finland and the Soviet Union]]>Subtitle: The Eastern Front, Book 1]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Vicelane LLC]]>Release date: 06-15-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Winter War, then pay attention.... In December 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a speech about a conflict that had some leading figures in Britain and France, including Churchill himself, briefly discussing the idea of going to war with the Soviet Union, even though they were already fighting Adolf Hitler. Of course, war makes strange bedfellows, and one year later, Churchill would find himself allied with the Soviet Union against Germany and Finland. It’s an interesting saga, one with roots in imperial Russian history and the desire of the Finns to be free in their northern forests. In The Winter War: A Captivating Guide to the Russo-Finnish War between Finland and the Soviet Union, you will discover topics such as So if you want to learn more about the Winter War, scroll up and click the "add to cart" button!
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]]>Title: Inca Empire: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Ancient, Civilization, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 06-12-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Inca Empire... In the space of less than one hundred years, the Inca people expanded from being a small kingdom in the highlands of Peru to becoming one of the largest and most powerful empires in the Americas. At the height of its power, the Inca Empire stretched for more than one thousand miles down the Andes Mountains and the west coast of South America. It incorporated more than two hundred distinct ethnic groups and somewhere around fourteen million people were ruled by a much smaller number of Incas. Inca engineers designed and built an extensive and sophisticated system of roads and created buildings and walls from massive blocks of worked stone. Inca temples were opulent and featured the abundant use of gold, silver, and precious stones. Massive Inca armies won victory after victory as they steamrollered potential competitors. The Inca government controlled every aspect of the lives of its subjects, from the food that they ate to the clothes that they wore. By around 1500 CE, the Inca Empire had reached its greatest extent and looked set to persist for a very long time indeed.
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]]>Title: The Domestication of Dogs]]>Subtitle: The History of Dogs’ Genetic Divergence from Wolves and the Origins of Their Relationship with Humans]]>Categories: Animal, Biology, History, Outdoor]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-12-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Isn't it strange that our being such an intelligent primate, we didn't domesticate chimpanzees as companions, instead? Why did we choose wolves, even though they are strong enough to maim or kill us?” (Wolfgang Schleidt) As the oft-repeated and invariably accurate pearl of wisdom goes, a dog truly is man's best friend. For a long time, people have almost universally loved dogs, and it seems to have been that way for at least tens of thousands of years. When affection is abundantly and consistently expressed, this pure, unspoken, wholesome love is one that is very much requited, and then some. This bond can be demonstrated by the mere existence of pet keepers who unironically refer to themselves as “dog parents,” not merely “dog owners”. Of course, this camaraderie between man and dog did not materialize overnight. Quite the contrary, the relationship between people and dogs gradually evolved and steadily strengthened over several millennia, following a premise best summed up by the dog's metamorphosis from a predator to a lifelong companion.
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]]>Title: Carthage]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Carthaginian Empire and Its Conflicts with the Ancient Greek City-States and the Roman Republic in the Sicilian Wars and Punic Wars]]>Categories: Africa, Ancient, History, North Africa]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Richard L. Walton]]>Publisher: Vicelane LLC]]>Release date: 06-09-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Carthage, then pay attention... Very few of the ancient empires and nations were able to challenge the Romans, who were famous for their military might. Even fewer were able to make them shiver just by mentioning their name. In fact, only one enemy of Rome managed to engrave such fear into their bones. That was Carthage, sometimes called the Carthaginian Empire. It was a formidable state that stretched across northern Africa, from Algeria and Tunisia to the shores of Morocco and southern Spain. In its heyday, it was a formidable force that controlled much of the western Mediterranean. As such, it was the first real obstacle to the rise of the Roman state, the only one which almost brought it down before it even became an ancient superpower. Hannibal Barca, the most famous Carthaginian leader, was at one point in front of the gates of Rome.
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]]>Title: Thomas Aquinas: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Christians, Book 6]]>Series: #3 in Biographies of Christians]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Italy]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 06-09-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Thomas Aquinas is known as a great theologian, and his treatises and theories are studied by clergy all over the world. He is celebrated for his words of wisdom as well as the alleged miracles that he performed while he was still alive. Yet as large as his acclaim may be, Aquinas has also had his fair share of detractors both during his lifetime and long thereafter. In the 20th century, for example, esteemed British philosopher and writer Bertrand Russel went so far in his criticism as to say that he believed that Thomas Aquinas was not a philosopher in the classical sense of the word but rather that he relied more on dogmatic Catholic faith than any sense of inquiry or inductive reasoning. There are of course those that would vehemently argue the opinions of Bertrand Russel. While it is not the purpose of this book to take one side or the other, these arguments and criticisms will be examined as we delve into the history of this great thinker. Casting all accolades and critiques aside, in this book, you will find the raw, bare bones of the man who Thomas Aquinas came to be.
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]]>Title: Umma]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Sumerian City]]>Categories: Civilization, History, Middle East, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Ray Howard]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-08-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When American archaeologists discovered a collection of cuneiform tablets in Iraq in the late 19th century, they were confronted with a language and a people who were at the time only scarcely known to even the most knowledgeable scholars of ancient Mesopotamia: the Sumerians. The exploits and achievements of other Mesopotamian peoples, such as the Assyrians and Babylonians, were already known to a large segment of the population through the Old Testament. The nascent field of Near Eastern studies had unraveled the enigma of the Akkadian language that was widely used throughout the region in ancient times, but the discovery of the Sumerian tablets brought to light the existence of the Sumerian culture, which was the oldest of all the Mesopotamian cultures. Although the Sumerians continue to get second or even third billing compared to the Babylonians and Assyrians, perhaps because they never built an empire as great as the Assyrians or established a city as enduring and great as Babylon, they were the people who provided the template of civilization that all later Mesopotamians built upon.
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]]>Title: The Spanish Flu]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (Pandemic History, Book 2)]]>Series: #2 in Pandemic History]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, History, Modern]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 06-04-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Spanish Flu.... The 1918 outbreak of the H1N1 strain of influenza, popularly known as the Spanish flu, killed more people worldwide than World War I, which ended the same year. It infected nearly one-third of the world's population and killed 10 percent of those it struck. In its wake, schools and businesses closed, hospitals became overwhelmed, and the sick spilled out into makeshift care centers in public spaces. Policemen, public transportation workers, and everyday citizens in face masks were a common - and eerie - sight. Yet, discussion of this global pandemic often takes a backseat to World War I and other contemporary events. In this book, we revisit this terrifying time that left the world in fear. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative book on the Spanish Flu, simply scroll up and click the "Buy" button for instant access!
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Thu, 04 Jun 2020 17:56:30 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b1zfO2ea Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: La gran Depresión [The Great Depression]]]>Subtitular: Una Fascinante Guía de la Depresión Económica Mundial Que Comenzó en los Estados Unidos, Incluyendo El Colapso De Wall Street, El Nuevo Acuerdo de FDR, El Ascenso de Hitler y Más]]>Categorías: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Gustavo Gómez]]>Editor: Vicelane LLC]]>Fecha de publicación: 06-03-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¿Sabía que la tasa de desempleo entre 1933 y 1934 fue una de cada cuatro personas? El colapso del mercado de valores de 1929 no provocó la Gran Depresión en sí misma, pero fue un poderoso punto de partida simbólico para el mayor desastre económico del siglo XX. En ese oscuro día de octubre de 1929, se perdieron fortunas y el temor a la inseguridad financiera aumentó en todo Estados Unidos y el mundo. En 1932, el punto más bajo de la Depresión, un tercio de los estadounidenses no tenían trabajo e incluso había más gente desempleada que en otros países. El mercado de valores alcanzaría su punto más bajo y no llegaría a los niveles previos a la depresión sino después de casi veinte años. En La Gran Depresión: una guía fascinante de la depresión económica mundial que comenzó en los Estados Unidos, incluido el desplome de Wall Street, el nuevo acuerdo de FDR, el ascenso de Hitler y más, descubrirá temas como: ¡Obtenga este libro ahora para saber más sobre la gran depresión! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Marlon Brando: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Actors, Book 9]]>Series: #9 in Biographies of Actors]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 05-29-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Marlon Brando.... Marlon Brando has been a household name for decades, and even though he passed away in 2004, his life’s work still stands as a testament to the unique ability he possessed for his craft. Whether he was playing a sentimental yet ruthless mafioso in The Godfather, an insane megalomaniac colonel of the U.S. Army in Apocalypse Now, or a misguided and misunderstood teenager in The Wild One, Brando was a man of all seasons. Very few could bring characters to life in the way that Marlon Brando did. He was a great observer of life, and his observations were set on a finer scale than most. It was precisely this eye for detail that allowed him to take the world of Hollywood by storm. Despite his success on the big screen, however, Brando’s personal life was plagued by persistent tragedy.
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]]>Title: History of Korea]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Korean History, Including Events Such as the Mongol Invasions, the Split into North and South, and the Korean War]]>Categories: Asia, History, Korea]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Edwin Andrews]]>Publisher: Vicelane LLC]]>Release date: 05-28-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of Korea, then pay attention... The Korean Peninsula today is divided into two, but there was a time when this peninsula was divided into many states. Over the course of time, and besieged by expansive transient dynasties outside of this modest piece of land, many clans and tribes overran their lands. Of all those malicious and greedy potential overlords, none managed to prevail. The soil is rich with the blood of the people who made Korea happen, and it is the Korean people who rose victorious among the maelstrom of dead empires led by hated tyrants and wars fought by people in lands far beyond their own. The Koreans are survivors, known for their persistence and courage. In History of Korea: A Captivating Guide to Korean History, Including Events Such as the Mongol Invasions, the Split into North and South, and the Korean War, you will discover chapters, such as: So, if you want to learn more about the history of Korea, scroll up and click the "buy now" button!
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]]>Title: John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854]]>Subtitle: The History of the Outbreak and Its Impact on Public Health Measures]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, STEM]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-22-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Plague and pestilence have both fascinated and terrified humanity from the very beginning. Societies and individuals have struggled to make sense of them, and more importantly, they’ve often struggled to avoid them. Before the scientific age, people had no knowledge of the microbiological agents - unseen bacteria and viruses - which afflicted them, and thus, the maladies were often ascribed to wrathful supernatural forces. Even when advances in knowledge posited natural causes for epidemics and pandemics, medicine struggled to deal with them, and for hundreds of years, religion continued to work hand-in-hand with medicine. Inevitably, that meant physicians tried a variety of practices to cure the sick, and many of them seem quite odd by modern standards. By the time Rome was on the rise, physicians understood that contagions arose and spread, but according to Galen, Hippocrates, and other Greco-Roman authorities, pestilence was caused by miasma - foul air produced by the decomposition of organic matter. Though modern scientists have since been able to disprove this, on the face of it, there was some logic to the idea.
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]]>Title: John Wesley Powell]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of One of 19th Century America’s Most Influential Explorers]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Explorer]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steven Groothuis]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-21-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.” (John Wesley Powell) Exploration of the early American West, beginning with Lewis and Clark’s transcontinental trek at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson, was not accomplished by standing armies, the era’s new steam train technology, or by way of land grabs. These came later, but not until pathways known only to a few of the land’s indigenous people were discovered, carved out, and charted in an area stretching from the eastern Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and the present-day borders of Mexico and Canada. Even the great survey parties, such as Colonel William Powell’s exploration of the Colorado River, came decades later.
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]]>Title: Brian Boru: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Irish History, Book 6]]>Series: #6 in Irish History]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History, Ireland]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 05-18-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Brian Boru.... Ireland is a country steeped in history, myth, and legend. During ancient times a long line of kings reined over this fairytale land, and one of those kings was a man named Brian Boru. Ruling the Emerald Isle from 1002 to 1014, Brian’s tenure is indeed so immersed in mythology that it is sometimes hard to glean the fact from the fiction. But Brian Boru himself was not the product of a fanciful tale - he did indeed exist in the flesh. His body is buried at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh where countless admirers of his life still come to visit. In 2014, as a testament to his enduring character, at the 1000th anniversary of the Battle of Clontarf and Brian Boru’s ultimate demise, thousands made their way to the site of the former fray to pay homage. This book seeks to flesh out every detail of his character and his experiences as they transpired. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on Brian Boru, simply buy now for instant access!
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]]>Title: John Quincy Adams: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of US Presidents, Book 6]]>Series: #6 in Biographies of US Presidents]]>Categories: America, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 05-18-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of John Quincy Adams... The son of the second president of the United States, John Quincy Adams was prepped and primed from his youth to be the quintessential statesmen. At just 14 years of age, he was given a diplomatic post in St. Petersburg, Russia. This was the beginning of a political career that would last until his last breath. Adams became a one-term president thanks to the populism of his archrival Andrew Jackson, but even after being ousted from the White House, the unsinkable John Quincy Adams came right back to the fore, getting himself elected as a Congressman in the House of Representatives. Here John Quincy Adams would be a force to be reckoned with, entering into endless debates with his colleagues. It was, in fact, in the middle of this congressional wrangling that John Quincy Adams would suffer a stroke and collapse on the House floor. His life was truly one of service, and he had lived it well.
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]]>Title: Battle of Iwo Jima - World War II: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: World War 2 Battles, Book 15]]>Series: #15 in World War 2 Battles]]>Categories: Asia, History, Japan, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 05-18-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Battle of Iwo Jima.... After the shock and devastation of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the Americans were determined to take their revenge on the Empire of Japan. The Japanese were just as determined to become the dominant power in the Pacific, a goal they were well on their way to achieving as they occupied China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaya, Burma, Northern Borneo, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines. As the Allied victories began to mount, the Pacific was no longer the guaranteed province of the Japanese. Yet for Japan, the American advance merely provided a reason to fight even harder. By the time the two adversaries were locked in battle on the island of Iwo Jima, the Americans had no idea that they would have to shed blood for every hard-earned inch of ground that they gained.
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]]>Title: The Caste War of Yucatán]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Last Major Indigenous Revolt in the Americas]]>Categories: America, History, Latin America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-15-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When the Spaniards "discovered" Yucatán, they thought it was an island. Although they later realized that it was part of the vast country that Cortés had conquered, they were not very wrong to think of it as an isle, considering the zealous and independent spirit that has characterized its inhabitants then and now. Although it has been part of Mexico for 170 years, it was encouraged by the example of Texas, compelling the peninsula to twice proclaim its independence and create the short-lived Republic of Yucatán. Many presidents in Mexico had to repress the great peninsula that, despite its longing for independence, had a vibrant foreign trade with the world capitals and a privileged geographical location, even as it lacked the abundance of resources that Texas and California possessed. It was especially the cultivation of henequen, a resistant fiber obtained from an agave that’s useful for many industries, that propelled the economic development in Yucatán. This helped interest many capitalists when it came to settling in Mérida, one of the most beautiful cities in Mexico and the Americas, the so-called "white city." As that suggests, Yucatán was not a wasteland when the first shipwrecked, battered Spaniards arrived on its shores.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Ain Jalut]]>Subtitle: Discover How Supercharge Your Car Sales Career and Become a Showroom Executive]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Delaine Daniels]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-15-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Egypt in the 13th century was a glorious kingdom to behold. Spice merchants from Europe, Asia, and Africa sailed up the Nile River to the great port city of Alexandria, carrying riches such as silk, jewels and spices. Cairo, the capital of Egypt, was the greatest city in the Islamic world, with a larger population and more wealth and splendor than any city in Europe. Cairo was a shining pinnacle of cosmopolitan splendor in the medieval world, and besides being a major trading hub, Cairo was famous for its scholars and intellectual class, offering countless academic opportunities for scholars across the Islamic world. The culture of Cairo was dynamic and famous for its wide range of intellectual debates on Islamic sciences and other academic fields, all of which far surpassed any contemporary city at the time. From across the Islamic world, scholars from all the major schools of thought were represented in Cairo. Spirited lectures occurred frequently in public squares and madrasas were often packed with patrons eagerly listening to readings by famed scholars. Cairo was a city filled with art, trade and knowledge. However, there was another factor that made Cairo infamous.
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]]>Title: Crimean War: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Eastern Europe, Europe, History, Russia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 05-14-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Crimean War... The Crimean War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 19th century, but it is also one of the least remembered. More men died in the Crimean War than in the American Civil War which followed soon after, but while the Civil War has been the subject of countless books, articles, and movies, the Crimean War has been virtually ignored. Part of the reason for this is that the causes of the Crimean War are not well understood. Just what made four empires go to war in the Black Sea in 1854? The outcome of the war was also partly responsible; it can be argued that the Crimean War changed nothing and that it is not at all clear why and for what half a million men died. Even the name by which this war is now known was not used at the time; until the 20th century, this war was known in Britain as the Russian War. Yet the Crimean War is important for a number of reasons.
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]]>Title: The Cretaceous Period]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Geologic Era That Ended with the Extinction of Dinosaurs]]>Categories: Ancient, Animal, Biology, Earth Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-13-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Scientists have long attempted to understand Earth’s past, and in service to that effort, they have divided the world’s history into eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages. For example, the current eon is called the Phanerozoic Eon, which means “visible life”. This is the eon in which multicellular life has evolved and thrived. Before this, life was microscopic (single cells). The Phanerozoic eon is divided into three eras - Paleozoic (“old life”), Mesozoic (“middle life”), and Cenozoic (“new life”). The Mesozoic era is divided into three periods - Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. Before the Triassic, primitive life had built up in the oceans and seas, and some lifeforms finally had crawled onto land during the Paleozoic era. With that, life had become well-established, but then came the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, the worst extinction event in the history of the planet. At the end of the Triassic, another extinction event cleared the way for dinosaurs to become the dominant set of species in the Jurassic.
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]]>Title: Christian Eschatology: The History and Legacy of Christianity’s Beliefs About the End of the World]]>Categories: Ancient, Catholicism, Christianity, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Hadrian Howard]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-12-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Lay people, scientists, philosophers, and theologians have long theorized about death, immortality, and eternity. With science making huge strides forward, some now suggest that science may well be able to extend life, making immortality scientifically feasible, but put simply, nobody can see the future, which relies on creative imaginations. Given that immortality has been out of reach throughout human history, death has always been a central focus of life, and a belief in the afterlife is a fundamental tenet of many religions. Not surprisingly, a plethora of different views exist, and Christian eschatology is mostly unique, without signs of pantheism or dualism and no doctrine of pre-existence or any trace of Egyptian or Greek ideas or practices. Even those who don’t practice Christianity know that the religion deals heavily with life, death, and the end of the world. Those with real faith in the God of the Bible believe that Christian thinking is not based on human imagination but on the word and authority of God. Christian dogmas are scriptural, meaning they can be traced back to the Bible, and reformed theology insists that all authority is seated in the ultimate author of scripture: God.
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]]>Title: African Mythology and Folklore]]>Subtitle: The Origins and History of Legends and Myths Across Africa]]>Categories: Africa, Civilization, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-08-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. When they began to arrive in sub-Saharan Africa in the early 16th century, Christian missionaries replaced established animist practices with the tenets of Christianity. This was particularly true for the Catholics who offered a faith promising eternal paradise upon the simple confession of sin. In an age of slavery, disease, and inter-tribal warfare when life was unembellished, brutal, and usually short, this was a particularly seductive message. Add to this the ritual inherent in Catholic worship, the drinking of blood and the eating of flesh, and the susceptibilities of a society defined by elaborate religious rituals, and the conversion succeeded with extraordinary ease. It is also true that the Catholic spiritual hierarchy reflected the structure of African spiritual life. The first line of African worship is composed of the spirits of passed ancestors whose relationship with the living remains direct and active. This overlapped with the idea of a host of saints endowed with specific functions and responsibilities.
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]]>Title: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the Republic of Turkey]]>Subtitle: The History of the Ottoman Empire’s Collapse and the Establishment of a New State]]>Categories: Biography, Head of State, History, Middle East, Turkey]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tim Planiden]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-08-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science.” (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk) The long agony of the “sick man of Europe”, an expression used by the tsar of Russia to depict the falling Ottoman Empire, could almost blind people to its incredible power and history. Preserving its mixed heritage - coming from both its geographic position, rising above the ashes of the Byzantine Empire, and the tradition inherited from the Muslim conquests - the Ottoman Empire lasted more than six centuries.
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]]>Title: Africa’s Origin Stories]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Ancient African Stories that Sought to Explain Life]]>Categories: Africa, Ancient, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-07-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the dawn of the 17th century, Portuguese influence in Africa fell into decline, and the occasions of European contact with Ethiopia became very few and far between. It would be another three centuries before another European would venture into the holy precincts of Lalibela as part of a British military expedition mounted in 1867. Thus, the “rediscovery” of the remarkable churches and the story of Christianity in Ethiopia would only be recently written. As that indicates, the modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. When they began to arrive in sub-Saharan Africa in the early 16th century, Christian missionaries replaced established animist practices with the tenets of Christianity. This was particularly true for the Catholics who offered a faith promising eternal paradise upon the simple confession of sin. In an age of slavery, disease, and inter-tribal warfare when life was unembellished, brutal, and usually short, this was a particularly seductive message.
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]]>Title: Medieval England]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to English History in the Middle Ages, Including Events Such as the Norman Conquest, Black Death, and Hundred Years' War]]>Categories: Education, Europe, History, Learning, Medieval]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Vicelane LLC]]>Release date: 05-04-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of Medieval England, then pay attention... Medieval England’s history starts with the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century. In the 11th century, the Anglo-Saxon elite was completely replaced by the invading Normans. William the Conqueror and his successors brought novelties to England such as castles and cavalry. The last phase of Medieval England started with the great Famine and Black Death in the 14th century, when millions of lives were lost, resulting in England losing half of its population. In this book, you'll get insights into all of the above events and many more. Prepare to discover England in one of its most interesting times. In Medieval England: A Captivating Guide to English History in the Middle Ages, Including Events Such as the Norman Conquest, Black Death, and Hundred Years' War, you will discover topics such as: So if you want to learn more about the Medieval England, scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button!
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]]>Title: The Sandinistas]]>Subtitle: The Controversial History and Legacy of the Socialist Party’s Revolution, Civil War, and Politics in Nicaragua]]>Categories: America, Central America, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-04-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I will not abandon my resistance until the... pirate invaders...assassins of weak peoples...are expelled from my country...I will make them realize that their crimes will cost them dear....There will be bloody combat...Nicaragua shall not be the patrimony of Imperialists. I will fight for my cause as long as my heart beats... If through destiny I should lose, there are in my arsenal five tons of dynamite which I will explode with my own hand. The noise of the cataclysm will be heard 250 miles. All who hear will be witness that Sandino is dead. Let it not be permitted that the hands of traitors or invaders shall profane his remains." (Augusto César Sandino) For much of the 20th century, Latin American governments in large part lived under a system of military junta governments. The mixture of indigenous peoples, foreign settlers and European colonial superpowers produced cultural and social imbalances into which military forces intervened as a stabilizing influence. The proactive personalities of military heads and the rigid structures of such a hierarchy guaranteed the “strong man” commanding officer an abiding presence in the form of executive dictator.
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]]>Title: Cola di Rienzo]]>Subtitle: The Controversial Life and Legacy of the Medieval Roman Who Attempted to Unify Italy]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-04-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Hail then our Camillus, our Brutus, our Romulus! Or if you prefer to be addressed by some other name hail author of Roman liberty, of Roman peace, of Roman tranquility. The present age owes you the fact that it will die in liberty; posterity will owe you the fact that it is conceived in liberty.” (Petrarch in a letter to Cola di Rienzo) In the wake of the Roman Empire’s collapse, Italy found itself fractured, and nearly 1,000 years after Rome lost its grip in the late 5th century, there were several sovereign regional powers on the peninsula, such as Milan, Venice, Florence, the Papal States, and Naples. Centuries of conflict ensued, precipitating great anxiety among Western thinkers, and Italians responded to the fragmentation of the area in many ways. While local leaders often maintained rivalries or alliances in an attempt to increase their power, some always held on to the idea of reestablishing the Roman Empire, a concept that had compelled rulers as far back as Byzantine Emperor Justinian the Great to attempt to conquer the entire peninsula.
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]]>Title: The Silk Road]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Network of Trade Routes Established During the Han Dynasty of China and How It Connected the East and West]]>Categories: Asia, China, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Vicelane LLC]]>Release date: 05-04-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Silk Road, then pay attention.... The Silk Road, which has been understood as a generalized route of trade between the East and the West, is different from European, North African, and Near Eastern trade routes because until recently, it has been understood as solely being a land route; in fact, it was believed to be the longest overland trade route in human history. The history of the Silk Road is extremely complex. It cannot be told as a singular chronological narrative. Different cultures and societies rose and vanished along the Silk Road, and peoples migrated from one region to another. In short, for most of its history, there was fluidity as to the dominant cultures along the route or routes.
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]]>Title: Fighting the Plague in Antiquity and the Middle Ages]]>Subtitle: The History of Ancient and Medieval Efforts to Prevent the Spread of Diseases]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-04-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Plague and pestilence have both fascinated and terrified humanity from the very beginning. Societies and individuals have struggled to make sense of them, and more importantly they’ve often struggled to avoid them. Before the scientific age, people had no knowledge of the microbiological agents - unseen bacteria and viruses - which afflicted them, and thus the maladies were often ascribed to wrathful supernatural forces. Even when advances in knowledge posited natural causes for epidemics and pandemics, medicine struggled to deal with them, and for hundreds of years religion continued to work hand-in-hand with medicine. Inevitably, that meant physicians tried a variety of practices to cure the sick, and many of them seem quite odd by modern standards. By the time Rome was on the rise, physicians understood that contagions arose and spread, but according to Galen, Hippocrates, and other Greco-Roman authorities, pestilence was caused by miasma, foul air produced by the decomposition of organic matter. Though modern scientists have since been able to disprove this, on the face of it there was some logic to the idea.
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]]>Title: The Studebaker Brothers]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Legacy of the Family Behind the Famous Automobile Company]]>Categories: America, Biography, Business, Economic]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-04-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The automobile has come to stay. But when a man has no business, it is a rather expensive luxury, and I would advise no man, be he farmer or merchant, to buy one until he has sufficient income to keep it up. A horse and buggy will afford a great deal of enjoyment...” (John M. Studebaker) For a couple of generations of Americans, along with Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors, there was Studebaker, and though it is no longer in existence, the Studebaker Automobile Company is still part of the popular culture. When a 1950's family is depicted on television today, the likelihood is that the family car is a Studebaker. The symbolic power of the Studebaker name was recently exemplified when South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg announced his candidacy for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Kris Maher, writing in The Wall Street Journal, noted “For decades, the biggest symbol of this Midwestern city’s decline was the vacant Studebaker plant at one end of the city with its broken windows". Kevin Smith, a business owner in South Bend who bought the property to renovate it, said "the empty relic was holding the city back.
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]]>Title: Teddy Roosevelt]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Life of Theodore Roosevelt Who Served as the 26th President of the United States of America]]>Categories: America, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Vicelane LLC]]>Release date: 05-04-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating life of Teddy Roosevelt, then pay attention... By the time Teddy Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, the Roosevelts were one of the most affluent families in America. Despite the fact that he was born into great wealth, Teddy’s parents tried hard to make sure that their son didn’t take his inheritance for granted. His father, Theodore Senior, who was himself a wealthy businessman, made it a habit to make sure that his son Teddy realized how blessed they were. In Teddy Roosevelt: A Captivating Guide to the Life of Theodore Roosevelt Who Served as the 26th President of the United States of America, you will discover chapters, such as: So, if you want to learn more about Teddy Roosevelt, scroll up and click the "buy now" button!
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]]>Title: Victor Lustig: The Life and Legacy of the 20th Century’s Most Notorious Con Artist]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, History, Modern, True Crime]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Pickering]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-01-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Never pry into a person's personal circumstances (they'll tell you all eventually).” (“The Ten Commandments for Con Men”, attributed to Victor Lustig) The art of the confidence trick is a controversial craft that is as old as time itself. In the early years of civilization, unscrupulous folks bottled and peddled assortments of fake cures and potions. Snake oil salesmen aside, charlatans posed as mystical beings with supernatural powers, promising to end droughts and other misfortunes of the gullible with what were in reality parlor tricks and illusions. Indeed, throughout history, unabashedly brazen characters managed to make careers out of deception. Seventeenth-century Britain, for instance, was terrorized by William Chaloner, the most infamous serial counterfeiter and con artist of his time before he was ultimately bested by Sir Isaac Newton himself.
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]]>Title: Light-Horse Harry Lee and Robert E. Lee]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Military Careers of the Revolutionary War Hero and His More Famous Son]]>Categories: America, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Stephen Platt]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-01-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Aside from George Washington, many Americans are likely able to name just as many foreign generals on the rebel side as American generals. While names like Lafayette, Pulaski, Kosciuszko, and Baron von Steuben are quickly associated with the Revolution, American officers like Nathanael Greene, Anthony Wayne, Horatio Gates, Henry Knox, and Light-Horse Harry Lee are often overlooked. Over 200 years later, Lee is best remembered not for his military or political service, but for being Robert E. Lee’s father, and all the attendant controversy that comes with his son’s legacy. This is unfortunate, given that he was one of the most distinguished individuals of the age. With the exception of George Washington, perhaps the most famous general in American history is Light-Horse Harry’s son, despite the fact Robert E. Lee led the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia against the Union in the Civil War. Lee was imbued with a strong sense of honor and duty from the beginning, and as a top graduate of West Point, Lee had distinguished himself so well before the Civil War that President Lincoln asked him to command the entire Union Army.
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]]>Title: Rome and Germania]]>Subtitle: The History of the Roman Empire’s Conflicts and Interactions with Germanic Tribes]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, Germany, History, Rome]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-01-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Despite all the accomplishments and widespread victories and conquests throughout the long history of Republican and Imperial Rome, general perception still deems the Romans to have failed in one crucial conquest: the subjugation of Germany. Indeed, historians have singled out this one failure as central to the ultimate downfall of the entire empire, as the constant wars against the Germanic tribes and the need to defend the frontier on the Rhine at great expense against those tribes, helped bring the empire to its knees. There are elements of truth in such a conclusion, but the reality was far more fluid than is often realized. From the first century BCE until the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century CE, the relationships between the wider empire and those living in what is now modern Germany were extremely complicated, involving much more than simple warfare. In fact, archaeologist Are Kolberg suggested that there were four distinct aspects that must be considered: military, trade, gifts, and plunder.
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]]>Title: Dorothy Dandridge]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of One of Hollywood’s First Successful Black Actresses]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kelly McGee]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-01-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“If I were white, I could capture the world.” (Dorothy Dandridge) The bright summer sun shined blissfully on a secluded valley tucked into the romantic Costa del Sol in southern Spain. Water bubbled friskily over a rocky streambed as trees swayed in the gentle tropical breeze and dappled the banks in playful shadows. A closer look reveals a man and a woman entwined on the rocky shore in an intimate embrace. The man trembles with longing as he bends over the woman, his parted lips just inches from hers. She eagerly folds her arms around him, her fingertips passionately digging into the skin on his back as she draws him closer. Suddenly, a director’s voice rings out, “Cut!” The man was white. The woman was black, and in Hollywood in 1959, that was still taboo. The steamy scene was being shot for the film Malaga, and Dorothy Dandridge, the actress in the scene, had just shared Hollywood’s controversial first interracial kiss on screen, a year earlier. Despite this distinction and other more notable accomplishments, many people today are not familiar with the groundbreaking actress, even though she was among the most charismatic and beautiful actresses of the era.
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]]>Title: Catalonia and Basque Country]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Autonomous Communities in Spain]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-01-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Shaped like an uneven triangle, Catalonia is comprised of four provinces that occupy an area of 12,390 square miles: Girona, Barcelona, Tarragona, and Lleida. Catalonia also has a variety of different kinds of communities surrounding it, as its northern neighbors include the powerful country of France and the tiny nation of Andorra. To the south it has the autonomous community of Valencia, to the west is the autonomous community of Aragon, and on the east, it borders the Mediterranean Sea. Furthermore, there are natural boundaries that serve to divide Catalonia from its neighbors, namely the Pyrenees mountains, which separate it from France, and the pre-Pyrenees and the Ebro River basin, which mark its border with Aragon. It is home to several main rivers, including the Ter, Llobregat, and the Ebro, all of which end in the Mediterranean Sea. It would not be a stretch to say that for a very tiny geographical territory (just 20,747 square kilometers), the Basque Country has inspired a plethora of intense stereotypes. Some of these stereotypes have been cast upon its people from the outside while others have been strategically propagated by the people themselves.
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]]>Title: The Chinese Triads]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of China’s Most Famous Organized Crime Syndicates]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, China, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-01-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>From running guns to white-collar crimes in cyberspace and illegal seafood, the Triads, the mafia of China, are potent figures in the world of organized crime. Going by enigmatic names like the 14K Triad and the United Bamboo Gang, these criminal groups are enormous, with some organizations boasting memberships ranging in the tens of thousands. A powerful factor in China and throughout Asia, Triads are entrenched in society and the masters of multiple enterprises ranging from extortion, narcotics, prostitution, and white collar crime. Despite their origins in mainland China, the Triads are most powerful in Hong Kong and Taiwan; as an international organization, the Triads have expanded into North America and other Western countries. The various Triad organizations are different but share many similarities, including a hierarchical structure, exclusive membership, common commercial money-making activities, the use of violence as a tool and the codification of rituals for the group. Although the various Triad groups share a common Chinese ethnic origin, these groups are fiercely territorial and do not collaborate together too often. The modern Triads trace their lineage to a group called the Hung Mun (Heaven and Earth Association).
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]]>Title: German South West Africa]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Germany’s Biggest African Colony]]>Categories: 19th Century, Africa, History, Modern, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Stephen Platt]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-01-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.” (Otto von Bismarck) The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event, known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa.
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]]>Title: The Pan-Hellenic Games in Ancient Greece]]>Subtitle: The History of the Olympics and the Other Major Greek Competitions]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, Greece, History, Sport History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Stephen Platt]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-01-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.” (Epictetus) “Many are the sights to be seen in Greece, and many are the wonders to be heard; but on nothing does Heaven bestow more care than on the Eleusinian rites and the Olympic games.” (Pausanias) The Pan-Hellenic Games is the collective term for the four major sports festivals held in ancient Greece. These include the Olympic Games, held in honor of Zeus at Olympia every four years; the Pythian Games in honor of Apollo, held at Delphi every four years; the Nemean Games, held to celebrate Zeus and Heracles at Nemea near Corinth every two years; and the Isthmian Games, honoring Poseidon at Isthmia every two years. The Olympiad, a period of four years, was one of the main ways the Greeks measured time. The Olympic Games were used as a starting point, effectively year one of the cycle. The Nemean and Isthmian Games were both held in different months in year two, followed by the Pythian Games in year three, and the Nemean and Isthmian Games again in year four.
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]]>Title: French Senegal]]>Subtitle: The History of the French Colony and Senegal’s Transition to Independence]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, France, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-01-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life.” (Léopold Sédar Senghor) Near the end of the 19th century, Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event, known as the Berlin Conference of 1884 - 1885, galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa.
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]]>Title: The Yakuza and the Triads]]>Subtitle: The History of Asia’s Most Notorious Transnational Criminal Organizations]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, China, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-01-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A pack of men in sharp, tailored suits and dark sunglasses strut down the street. Their eyes are shielded, but the icy scowl on their faces is a clear sign to stay out of their paths. A few of their collars hang open, showing off a glimpse of the vibrant and intricate ink work on their chests, and presumably, their entire bodies. Tattoos are the norm these days, but then, one suddenly spots a man with a peculiarly pint-sized pinkie. Perhaps it is only a deformity, but upon a closer look, it appears that the entire upper half has been sliced cleanly off, almost as if it were done intentionally. Since the beginning of civilization, crime and injustice has existed. At the same time, gangs in all shapes and sizes have been around - from rebels, dissidents, and rogue soldiers to the average circle of miscreants loitering in alleys and behind convenience stores. In Japan, a gang of a different breed would arise - one underscored by honor, respect, family, and a code of ethics. They are the Yakuza.
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]]>Title: Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid Persian Empire]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Macedonian King’s Campaign Against the Persians]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, Greece, History, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-01-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Over the last 2,000 years, ambitious men have dreamed of forging vast empires and attaining eternal glory in battle, but of all the conquerors who took steps toward such dreams, none were ever as successful as antiquity’s first great conqueror. Leaders of the 20th century hoped to rival Napoleon’s accomplishments, while Napoleon aimed to emulate the accomplishments of Julius Caesar. But Caesar himself found inspiration in Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE), the Macedonian king who managed to stretch an empire from Greece to the Himalayas in Asia by the age of 30. It took less than 15 years for Alexander to conquer much of the known world. When Alexander crossed the Hellespont in 334 BCE, his first encounter with Persian forces took place along the Granicus River. The Persian commanders had met at the city of Zeleia along with Memnon of Rhodes, the leader of their Greek mercenary forces, and Memnon advised the Persians not to fight Alexander head on. Since the Persian forces were slightly outnumbered for the battle, Memnon advised that the Persians should scorch the nearby lands and make travel and supplying the army difficult for Alexander.
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]]>Title: Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung]]>Subtitle: The Pioneering Lives and Works of History’s Most Influential Psychologists]]>Categories: Biography, STEM, Social Scientist]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Hadrian Howard]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-01-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known around the world as the “Father of Psychoanalysis,” and for good reason. If anything, Freud’s first patient was himself. A sufferer of psychosomatic symptoms, Freud diagnosed himself as having a repressed antagonism against his father. From there, Freud began to build on his now famous concepts of the unconscious, infantile sexuality and repression. And of course, there’s his famous theory on the structure of the mind, which has made Id and Ego a commonly used part of the English lexicon. In addition to all but creating a new field of science, Freud also contributed to entire industries. One of the first to try to analyze dreams, Freud’s work has led patients in search of psychological explanations for various physical and mental symptoms and phenomena. The Interpretation of Dreams is Sigmund Freud's best known work, focusing on his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation. To Freud, dreams represented the unconscious attempt to fulfill some sort of wish, either by resolving a conflict or bringing certain memories to the surface. Carl Gustav Jung, the man who created analytical psychology both as a concept and as a practice, was a complicated person.
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]]>Title: Basque Country]]>Subtitle: The Turbulent History and Legacy of the Basque Autonomous Community in Spain]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History, Rome, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-01-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It would not be a stretch to say that for a very tiny geographical territory (just 20,747 square kilometers), the Basque Country has inspired a plethora of intense stereotypes. Some of these stereotypes have been cast upon its people from the outside, while others have been strategically propagated by the people themselves. For such a small area of land that is home to only 3,000,000 people, the Basque Country is anything but small in terms of its history, which is why opinions about its people are so intense, so consequential, and so contradictory. The Basque people have been called “the people who sing and dance at the foot of the Pyrenees”, a description that evokes not only their geographical location but also their strong folk traditions. Those words, said by the famous French writer Victor Hugo, infuriate the Basque people to this day. They have also been described pejoratively as “Europe’s aboriginals”, a reference to the age-old status of their culture, which has led many people to fetishize them and their language as ancient.
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]]>Title: Virginia Woolf]]>Subtitle: A Life From Beginning to End (Biographies of British Authors, Book 5)]]>Series: #4 in Biographies of British Authors]]>Categories: Biography, Celebrity, Europe, Female Protagonist]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 04-28-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Virginia Woolf.... Virginia Woolf ranks among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Embracing the Post-Impressionist times in which she lived, her novels reflect the artistic shift from romanticism to abstract. Plot mattered very little to Woolf. Her writing was a stream of consciousness outside of time and place. Her novels, including her best-known work, Mrs. Dalloway, invariably dwell on gender roles and the concept of reality. Woolf suffered from mental illness throughout her life. Her inner torment formed the basis of much of her writing. Virginia made multiple suicide attempts and was institutionalized several times throughout her life as she feared a loss of control due to her increasing depression and manic episodes. Her husband, Leonard Woolf, with whom she had mainly a platonic relationship, remained supportive of her until her death. On March 28, 1941, Virginia Woolf walked into the River Ouse wearing a heavy coat with pockets filled with rocks. Her body was found three weeks later. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on Virginia Woolf, simply buy now!
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]]>Title: Peaky Blinders: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, True Crime]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 04-27-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Peaky Blinders.... Peaky Blinders is a popular BBC television series about an organized crime family in post-World War I Birmingham, England, but does this series depict the factual history of Birmingham? As it turns out, there were Peaky Blinders in Birmingham, and they terrorized those streets long before World War I. The Peaky Blinders rose to prominence in the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions of late Victorian Birmingham in the 1870s. Their ranks were composed of the working poor — trade union members who were fiercely loyal to each other — children who had no place else to go, and career criminals. Just how organized they became and the exact extent of their involvement in crimes other than street fighting and assault is a subject of some debate, but they did build a fierce reputation as violent criminals that plagued the citizens of this industrial city for a little over a decade. The Peaky Blinders were well-known for both their stylish clothing and their violent nature. No man, woman, or child was safe when they were on the prowl.
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]]>Title: Toltec Civilization: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Mesoamerican History, Book 4]]>Series: #4 in Mesoamerican History]]>Categories: America, Ancient, Civilization, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 04-23-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Toltecs. The Toltecs are one of the most mysterious and little understood of all the ancient cultures of Mesoamerica. This culture was venerated by later civilizations, such as the Aztecs. Even today, “Toltec knowledge” is used as a kind of shorthand for arcane wisdom from an ancient culture. However, discussing the actual history of the Toltecs is extremely difficult. Much of what we know of these people comes from writings and oral traditions of the Aztecs, as translated and interpreted by the European invaders. This Aztec history is so mingled with myth and legend that it is very difficult to discern what may be historical facts. In the 19th and 20th centuries, most historians seemed to accept that the Toltecs were a distinct and warlike culture centered around the Valley of Mexico and who conquered large parts of Mesoamerica.
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]]>Title: Richard Petty: The Life and Legacy of The King of NASCAR]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Sport, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-23-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.” (Richard Petty) A person may not know anything about baseball, but they still likely know the name Babe Ruth. Others may not watch football, but they still likely know who Tom Brady is. And most people have never been to a stock car race, but they’ve likely heard of Richard Petty, along with his simple but fitting nickname: “The King”. Of course, there are plenty of reasons why Petty is so legendary, and why “The King” is more than merely a nickname. The name is an acknowledgment that Richard Petty is quite possibly the greatest driver in the history of stock car racing, and while some may debate that, nobody can argue that he is the winningest driver in the history of National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing-sanctioned events. Over the course of 34 years, Petty won 200 races in his career, was the first driver to win the NASCAR Cup Championship seven times (the others being Dale Earnhardt and Jimmie Johnson), and to date is the only driver to win under different points systems.
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]]>Title: India]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the History of India, the East India Company and Dutch East India Company]]>Categories: Asia, History, India, Planet Earth, South Asia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Randy Whitlow]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-23-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of India, then pay attention... Three captivating books in one audiobook: Some of the chapters covered in part one of this audiobook include: Some of the chapters covered in part two of this book include: Some of the chapters covered in part three of this book include: So, if you want to learn more about the India, scroll up and click the "buy now" button!
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]]>Title: Frederic Remington and Charles Marion Russell]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the America’s Most Iconic Western Artists]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-20-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Many of the first artists in the West were assigned to exploration and geological parties, working as archivists and obedient to demands of cold accuracy. However, a few were driven by an imaginative mix of real events and fantastical visions to whet the appetite of Eastern consumers and preserve their own nostalgia on canvas. Among the most prominent artists depicting the "old" West was Charles Marion Russell, a prolific painter, sculptor, writer, and storyteller based in the heart of the Montana country. Through his years of capturing scenes of daily life between cowboys and Indians before a backdrop of exquisite Montana scenery, he was known by the names of C.M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell. As an artist greatly esteemed among art devotees and virtually all Westerners who knew him, he acquired monikers such as the "Rembrandt of the Range" and the "Cowboy Artist". Entirely self-trained, Russell left over 4,000 works that include paintings and bronze sculptures of cowboys, Indians, and the landscapes of the West, as well as Alberta, Canada.
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]]>Title: Frederic Remington]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Wild West’s Most Famous Artist]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-20-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The West was an endless source of fascination for those who were either personally or circumstantially ill-suited to travel there. As explorers opened trails and people expanded the frontier, unusual walks of life like cattle drives and hunting became commonplace, as did images of dusty boomtowns. Before the Transcontinental Railroad connected the Atlantic and Pacific, the Old West possessed a distinctly separate culture from the East Coast, and cowboys, early settlers, and an enormous array of indigenous peoples produced a hybrid culture that seemed doomed to disappear as a result of the inevitable modernization. The subsequent growth of print journalism fed the East Coast’s interest in the West, whether it was based on fantasy and non-fiction, but with the art of photography in its infancy by the years of the Civil War, a more familiar type of artist stepped in to fill the need, one who like the storytellers in print could simultaneously bring both fantasy and reality to life.
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]]>Title: Subhas Chandra Bose]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, History, India]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 04-16-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Subhas Chandra Bose. Subhas Chandra Bose was a revolutionary who sought Indian independence, but as many would contend, he ended up on the wrong side of history. In order to shake off the British yoke, Bose enlisted aid from Germany and Japan during World War II. This has led some to roundly condemn Bose as nothing more than a fascist cast in the same mold as Adolf Hitler, Hideki Tojo, and Benito Mussolini. But is there more to this complicated figure than meets the eye? In this book, we will take a look at the big picture when it comes to one of India’s first freedom fighters of the modern era. Discover a plethora of chapters in this audiobook, such as: So, if you want a concise and informative book on Subhas Chandra Bose, simply scroll up and click the "buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Sarmatians and Scythians]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Barbarians of Iranian Origins and How These Ancient Tribes Fought Against the Roman Empire, Goths, Huns, and Persians]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, History, Iran]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Randy Whitlow]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-16-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Sarmatians and Scythians, then pay attention.... Masters of the horse, the Scythians and Sarmatians opened the Eurasian Steppe to nomadic civilizations like it had never seen before. For the first time, a group of tribes sharing a common culture called the Steppe their home, adapting themselves to its harshness. Born out of this environment, a very particular way to live was adopted and later spread to peoples of Central Asia - the pastoral nomadic lifestyle. It would be the bane of organized armies of great empires, as the excellent mobility granted by their superior horse-riding skills were no match compared to the slow, organized infantry. The tale of the Scythians and Sarmatians have lasted through history, and although they had not one written historical record of their own, their presence was registered by dozens of classical historians.
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]]>Title: The Vandals]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Barbarians That Conquered the Roman Empire During the Transitional Period from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, History, Learning, Rome]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Randy Whitlow]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-15-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Vandals, then keep reading... In the modern world, when one imagines a vandal, it's often a youth with a covered face drawing graffiti on a wall of a public building. And the act of deliberate defacement, destruction, or damage to public or private property is known as vandalism. This idea became an integral part of world culture with most people using it without knowing that this word is linked to an ancient Germanic tribe called the Vandals. The small number of people that are aware of this link often envision these Vandals as outright barbarians who pillaged and burned, killed and destroyed. They were the antithesis of civilized and cultured life. That image has been engraved in our collective consciousness by centuries of historical propaganda. This was possible because the Vandals didn't leave us any histories written by themselves. Thus, most of the ancient sources on their past were written by their enemies and adversaries, who didn't look too kindly on them. This is especially true for later historians who idealized ancient Rome and blamed the Vandals for its fall.
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]]>Title: Pierre-Auguste Renoir: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #4 in Biographies of Painters]]>Categories: Art, Biography, Celebrity, Visual Artist]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 04-15-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Pierre-Auguste Renoir... Pierre-August Renoir, leader of the 19th-century Impressionist movement, spent his entire life perfecting his style. Rejected for decades, he depended on friends for a place to stay and money for painting supplies. Renoir lived in poverty until his 40's, and when he was finally discovered and hailed as a great artist, his health began to fail him. Still, Renoir never gave up his passion for painting. When he became crippled by arthritis, Renoir painted confined to a wheelchair with the paintbrush bound to his wrist. His need to create beauty was the driving force of his life, and throughout rejections and deteriorating health, Renoir retained an optimism that is reflected in his paintings. Discover a plethora of topics such as So if you want a concise and informative audiobook on Pierre-Auguste Renoir, simplybuy this audiobook now for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Cultural Revolution]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to a Decade-Long Upheaval in China Unleashed by Mao Zedong to Preserve Chinese Communism]]>Categories: Asia, China, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Vicelane LLC]]>Release date: 04-15-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Cultural Revolution, then pay attention... The Cultural Revolution, known in full as the “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”, was launched by Mao Zedong, the chairman of the Communist Party of China, as a means of quashing capitalism in China. He wanted to ensure that the desire for a communist government would remain strong in the country long after his death. Like other previous leaders who attempted to continue to rule after their death, his attempt did not work out quite the way he had planned. Over the course of a decade, from the summer of 1966 to 1976, Mao Zedong implemented a number of changes that have led him to be known as one of the most brutal tyrants of the modern age. In The Cultural Revolution: A Captivating Guide to a Decade-Long Upheaval in China Unleashed by Mao Zedong to Preserve Chinese Communism, you will discover topics such as: So if you want to learn more about the Cultural Revolution, buy today!
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]]>Title: The English Bulldog and French Poodle in Africa]]>Subtitle: The History of the Imperial Conflicts Between France and Great Britain Across the African Continent]]>Categories: 18th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-15-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Napoleon could not have known it, but his campaign was the start of 150 years of imperialism along the Nile River, as Europeans endeavored to explore, control, and colonize the Nile River. This would bring them into all kinds of conflicts, not just with the indigenous natives residing there but also with each other, as each empire sought to get a leg up on the competition. Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign failed in all of its objectives other than in the acquisition of knowledge. Far from frustrating British ambitions in the Orient, the British triumphed in the minor war that Napoleon triggered, and it was the British who would dominate Egypt for the next 150 years. Even after the British took control of Egypt, knowledge about the Nile remained sparse, most importantly the source of the river, and exploration all over the continent took place among adventurers of various nationalities.
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]]>Title: Armenian History]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the History of Armenia and the Armenian Genocide]]>Categories: Asia, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-14-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of Armenian history, then pay attention... Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: Their story is tragic, but their survival is incredible. And that is what makes their tale so inspiring. Some of the topics covered in part 1 of this audiobook include: Some of the topics covered in part 2 of this audiobook include: So if you want to learn more about Armenian history, scroll up and click the "add to cart" button!"
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]]>Title: The Maccabean Revolt]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Jewish Uprising against the Seleucid Empire that Restored Judea’s Religious Freedom]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Judaism]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-14-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 722 BCE, the Neo-Assyrian Empire destroyed the kingdom of Israel, and after a siege of three years, the city of Samaria fell to the troops of Sargon II. As was a common practice in the ancient world, the victor uprooted the inhabitants and forced them into exile, scattering the refugees throughout Asia Minor and possibly Africa to destroy them as a cohesive group and prevent them from possibly revolting. That exile brought about the end of the 10 lost tribes of Israel. Only the much smaller and less important kingdom of Judah, nestled in the arid lands of the south, survived the campaign of the king of Assyria in 701 BCE, which the Bible attributed to the intervention of angels. Modern historians believe that the failure of an army as powerful as Sennacherib's to finish the job was due to a plague or a disease spreading among the ranks and forcing them to withdraw. However it happened, for a few more decades, the kingdom of Judah survived, at the southern tip of the ancient Promised Land, along the western shore of the Dead Sea.
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]]>Title: Saber-Toothed Tigers]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Most Famous Extinct Cat Species]]>Categories: Ancient, Animal, Biology, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-10-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Unrelenting angst through every fiber Forever hanging over the precipice of defeat It follows you: a rapacious saber-toothed tiger Implacable stare, neither attacks nor retreats...” (Tom Quigley, Savanna Mind (2016)) It is difficult to ignore the effortless cool of a saber-toothed tiger. The fanged feline was equipped with the savage strength of a lion, the lethal stealth of a puma, the intimidating gait of a black bear, and the strapping, muscular arms of a gorilla. Amazingly, however, those traits did not stand out as much as the long, dagger-like fangs that earned the Smilodon its famous nickname. The saber-toothed tiger, legend has it, was as ferocious as it was fearless, often tackling beasts twice its size. Saber-toothed tigers were arguably the most fabled of all the Ice Age creatures. The fearsome beast has earned itself quite the reputation, and it has been referenced to, appeared in, and inspired unique characters in endless books, films, comics, and other pop culture mediums. For example, Marvel's Victor Creed, otherwise known as “Sabretooth”, is most known as Wolverine's nemesis, and he’s depicted as a hulking, vigorously robust menace in a red and orange-gold jumpsuit with a hunched back, a shock of wild blond hair, tiger-like claws, and frightening fangs.
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]]>Title: The Zulu War and Boer War]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Conflicts That Cemented British Control of South Africa]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-10-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event - known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 - galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa.
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]]>Title: The Punic Wars]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the First, Second, and Third Punic Wars Between Rome and Carthage, Including the Rise and Fall of Hannibal Barca]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, History, Learning, Rome]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Vicelane LLC]]>Release date: 04-10-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Punic Wars, then pay attention.... The Punic Wars between 264 BCE and 146 BCE were a series of wars fought between the armies of ancient Carthage and Rome. In the years before the battles broke out, Carthage had risen from a small port community to the Mediterranean region's richest and most powerful city. Carthage had a powerful navy, a mercenary army, and ample resources to act as an authority in trade and politics. As such, Carthage prohibited Roman trade in the Western Mediterranean through an agreement with what was then just a small city called Rome. Without an organized military, Rome had little choice but to abide by the treaty. As history shows, however, Rome didn’t stay small and insignificant for long. As its size and power grew, so, too, did Rome’s desire to fight back against its Carthaginian oppressors: so followed the three Punic Wars. At the start of the conflict, Carthage dominated the Mediterranean. By the end of the wars, Rome had not only conquered Carthage, but had become the strongest society in the Western Mediterranean.
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]]>Title: The Napoleonic Wars]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Conflicts That Began Between the United Kingdom and France During the Rule of Napoleon Bonaparte and How They Stemmed from the French Revolution]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-09-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Napoleonic Wars, then keep reading... The Napoleonic Wars, which took place between 1803 and 1815, were spearheaded by probably France’s best tactician and military strategist to date: General Napoleon Bonaparte. His tactics and strategies were so grounded that it has served as the basis for many major warfare campaigns and maneuvers, both during his lifetime as well as after his demise.
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]]>Title: The Anglo-Zulu War]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the British Empire’s Conflict with the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-08-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“He is Shaka the unshakeable, Thunderer-while-sitting, son of Menzi He is the bird that preys on other birds, The battle-axe that excels over other battle-axes in sharpness, He is the long-strided pursuer, son of Ndaba, Who pursued the sun and the moon. He is the great hubbub like the rocks of Nkandla Where elephants take shelter When the heavens frown...” (A Zulu song) The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event - known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 - galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa.
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]]>Title: British Covert Operations in World War I]]>Subtitle: The History of Britain’s Espionage and Dark Arts During the Great War]]>Categories: Espionage, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Hadrian Howard]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-08-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>World War I, also known in its time as the “Great War” or the “War to End all Wars”, was an unprecedented holocaust in terms of its sheer scale. Fought by men who hailed from all corners of the globe, it saw millions of soldiers do battle in brutal assaults of attrition which dragged on for months with little to no respite. Tens of millions of artillery shells and untold hundreds of millions of rifle and machine gun bullets were fired in a conflict that demonstrated man’s capacity to kill each other on a heretofore unprecedented scale, and as always, such a war brought about technological innovation at a rate that made the boom of the Industrial Revolution seem stagnant. The most iconic images of the First World War are of the war on land. They depict the trench lines, the shell holes, and the barbed wire.
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]]>Title: Miyamoto Musashi]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of Japan’s Most Legendary Samurai]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-07-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.” (Miyamoto Musashi) Samurai Sasaki Kojiro was growing increasingly impatient as he waited on the beach at Funa Island in Kokura. An undefeated master swordsman, he was tense, and his anger was getting the better of him. He was on the small island for a duel - a clash of steel between two swordsmen where a man’s life could end in seconds. The duel was the ultimate test of the swordsman, and Sasaki, one of the best in Japan, was known as “The Demon of the Western Provinces”. However, the Sasaki on the beach did not resemble the fierce warrior of his reputation as he paced back and forth, frustrated by the tardiness of his opponent: the enigmatic Miyamoto Musashi. Sasaki knew nothing about Musashi except that the mysterious swordsman was undefeated, because aside from that, little was known about Musashi’s style or lineage.
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]]>Title: D.W. Griffith]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Hollywood Director Who Made the Birth of a Nation]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-03-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>*Includes contemporary reviews of Griffith's movies *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.” (D.W. Griffith) He was a pioneering film director who had 518 films to his credit. His work spanned the silent and sound eras. Most of his films were completed in a span of 15 years. But today he is known only for one of his films, one considered by historians to be a landmark in cinema as well as the most controversial ever made. He could not escape the controversy of this one film before he died in relative obscurity, his contributions to the motion picture industry forever marred. The story of D.W. Griffith is one of triumph and tragedy, of a man who almost single-handedly created the American motion picture industry, but whose prejudices and ego have permanently colored how he is perceived.
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]]>Title: The Great Siege of Malta]]>Subtitle: The History of the Battle for the Mediterranean Island Between the Ottoman Empire and Knights Hospitaller]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Middle East, Turkey]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-02-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The darkness of the night then became as bright as day, due to the vast quantity of artificial fires. So bright was it indeed that we could see St Elmo quite clearly. The gunners of St Angelo...were able to lay and train their pieces upon the advancing Turks, who were picked out in the light of the fires." (Francisco Balbi, a Spanish soldier at the siege) For centuries, Christians and Muslims were embroiled in one of the most infamous territorial disputes of all time, viciously and relentlessly battling one another for the Holy Land. In the heart of Jerusalem sat one of the shining jewels of the Christian faith - the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Legend has it that this was where their Savior had been buried before his fabled resurrection. What was more, it was said to house the very cross Jesus Christ had died upon. It was for precisely these reasons that fearless pilgrims, near and far, risked their lives and made the treacherous trek to Jerusalem. Like other secretive groups, the mystery surrounding the Catholic military orders that sprung up in the wake of the First Crusade helped their legacies endure.
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]]>Title: Western Democracy]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Representative Governments in the West from the Ancient World to Today]]>Categories: Democracy, History, Political Ideology, Political Science, Politics]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-30-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In today’s modern world every political regime, even the most authoritarian or repressive, describes itself as democracy or a Democratic People’s Republic. The concept of rule by the people, on behalf of the people, has come to be accepted as the norm, and very few would overtly espouse the cause of dictatorship, absolute monarchy or oligarchy as the most desirable political system upon which to base the government of any country. It is also generally accepted that democracy, as a political ideology, began in Greece, specifically in Athens, in the 7th century BCE and reached its zenith in the 5th century under the leadership of Pericles. Dating an exact starting point is impossible, but at the beginning of the 7th century BCE, Solon inaugurated a series of reforms that began the movement away from rule by individuals, or tyrants, and by the end of that century the reforms of Cleisthenes provided the basis of the Athenian democratic system that culminated in the radical institutions introduced by Ephialtes and Pericles in the 5th century.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Mon, 30 Mar 2020 21:47:32 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xa6f8ZXm Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Careers of History’s Most Influential Nurses]]>Categories: Biography, Female Protagonist, History, Medical, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-27-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Today, nursing is one of the most ubiquitous professions in the world, and images of war immediately call to mind nursing the wounded, but it was not long ago that such ideas were relatively primitive. Indeed, schoolchildren are still taught about the revolutionary exploits of Florence Nightingale, the war nurse who is often credited as the founder of modern nursing. As The Times wrote of Nightingale, “She is a ‘ministering angel’ without any exaggeration in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired for the night and silence and darkness have settled down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds.” Florence Nightingale first came to prominence during the Crimean War in the middle of the 19th century when she helped organize efforts to treat wounded soldiers, and the image of her doing rounds among those she treated at night became extremely popular in Europe, but her efforts extended far beyond the scope of battle.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:21:10 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Vg0fdrRM Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Clara Barton]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Civil War Nurse Who Founded the American Red Cross]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Female Protagonist]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-27-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them." (Clara Barton) The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in American history, and had the two sides realized it would take four years and inflict over a million casualties, it might not have been fought. Since it did, however, Americans have long been fascinated by the Civil War, marveling at the size of the battles, the leadership of the generals, and the courage of the soldiers. For over 150 years, the war has been subjected to endless debate among civilians, historians, and the generals themselves. The Civil War is often considered one of the first modern wars, and while technology affected what happened on the battlefield, technology and new methods also improved the way soldiers were cared for away from the front lines.
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]]>Title: The Republic of Zimbabwe]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Nation Since Its Independence from the British Empire]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, Great Britain, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-25-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.” (Robert Mugabe) The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismark, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event - known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 - galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa.
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]]>Title: Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia]]>Subtitle: The Controversial History and Legacy of the British Colonies in the 20th Century]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, Great Britain, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-25-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The modern history of Africa was until very recently written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismark, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event - known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 - galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:30:32 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-V5yfMjNA Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Irish Civil War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (Irish History, Book 5)]]>Series: #5 in Irish History]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Ireland, Modern]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 03-25-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Irish Civil War.... The Irish War of Independence, which ended in July 1921, led directly to the agreement of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, an agreement that provided Ireland with a measure of independence. The Irish Free State was created, and Ireland was granted a level of autonomy it had not enjoyed for more than 100 years. However, the treaty contained a clause that was to divide Ireland, literally and politically. The six counties in the north that formed Ulster were allowed to opt out and to remain a part of the United Kingdom. The island of Ireland became two separate countries for the first time - the Irish Free State in the South and West and Northern Ireland in the North. This division caused bitterness among many Irish people who had fought for independence. Some even viewed the signing of the treaty and the creation of a separate Northern Ireland as a betrayal of all they had fought for.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Wed, 25 Mar 2020 08:13:26 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b1zf9vBA Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Historia de Japón [History of Japan]]]>Subtitular: Una Fascinante Guía de la Historia Japonesa, que Incluye la Guerra Genpei, las Invasiones Mongolas, la Batalla de Tsushima y los Bombardeos Atomicos de Hiroshima y Nagasaki]]>Categorías: Asia, History, Japan]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Agustín Cammisa]]>Editor: Vicelane LLC]]>Fecha de publicación: 03-25-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si quiere descubrir la cautivante historia de Japón, siga leyendo.... Japón es uno de los países que más se adaptan en el mundo. Puede hacer un cambio muy rápido, aun después de crisis que detendrían el progreso de otras naciones. Cuando los shogunatos colapsaron en el siglo XVII, el sistema feudal se desintegró. Sin embargo, en menos de un año, los ferrocarriles reemplazaron a los carros de bueyes. Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, surgió una economía de primer nivel en tierras de cultivo desiertas. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, las modestas islas de Japón florecieron en un imperio con una de las marinas más poderosas del mundo. Después de la devastación de esa guerra mundial, Japón emergió como uno de los países más modernos del mundo. Los japoneses han sobrevivido a frecuentes terremotos y tsunamis y reconstruyeron sus ciudades utilizando tecnologías envidiables. En Historia de Japón: Una Fascinante Guía de La Historia Japonesa, Incluidos Acontecimientos como La Guerra Genpei, Las Invasiones Mongolas, La Batalla de Tsushima y los Bombardeos Atómicos de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, descubrirá temas como: ¡Obtenga este libro ahora para saber más sobre la historia de Japón! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: The Fight for Zimbabwe]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the British Empire's Attempt to Establish a Colony in the 19th Century]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, Great Britain, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-24-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismark, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event - known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 - galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:25:04 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-x2AfNZ9K Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Walt Disney]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Life of an American Entrepreneur and Pioneer of Animated Cartoon Films]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Vicelane LLC]]>Release date: 03-24-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating life of Walt Disney, then pay attention.... A man truly lives on even after his death if he leaves a legacy that survives him for years to come. Albert Einstein, Harriet Tubman, Karl Marx, Mozart, Marie Curie, Van Gogh, Marsha Johnson - there are so many examples of men and women whose deeds revolutionized history and paved the way for future generations to thrive. One name that stands out in this regard in the world of entertainment is that of Walt Disney. He may not have been a pioneer per se of animation or films, but he was more like the Shakespeare of his genre - he took inspiration from here, there, and everywhere, and he punched it together to create something that is relevant even today. His contributions are not restricted to the world of films. But do not be mistaken, Disney’s life was neither perfect nor devoid of controversy. Regardless, Walt Disney was truly a cultural icon, whose revolutionary ideas and vision were exemplary and far too advanced for the times.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Tue, 24 Mar 2020 03:19:35 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b4YfL7nO Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Zimbabwe Under the British Empire]]>Subtitle: The History of Great Britain’s Colonization and Decolonization Before the Country’s Independence]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-24-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The British South-African Company's shares, May be at a discount (Trade-martyrs! trade-martyrs!) - But he, our Colossus, strides on, he declares, Whether with or without chums or charters - or charters. Hooray! We brave Britons are right now to the front - Provided we've someone to boss us - to boss us; And Scuttlers will have their work cut out to shunt This stalwart, far-striding Colossus - Colossus!” (Excerpt from an editorial in Punch, December 10, 1892) The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismark, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event - known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 - galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Tue, 24 Mar 2020 01:50:25 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xAWfyLZb Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: La Edad Media [The Middle Ages]]]>Subtitular: Una Guía fascinante del período de la historia entre la caída del Imperio romano y el Renacimiento]]>Categorías: Education, Europe, History, Learning, Medieval]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Miguel de Ugarte Jesse]]>Editor: Vicelane LLC]]>Fecha de publicación: 03-18-2020]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si usted quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de la Edad Media, entonces continúe leyendo.... Tras la caída de Roma en 476 d. C., toda la dinámica de Europa experimentó un cambio total en torno al poder y la cultura. La Edad Media fue un período de la historia interesante de aproximadamente seis siglos, durante el cual Europa estaba tratando de descubrir su identidad y cómo sobreviviría al caos provocado por la caída de Roma. En La Edad Media: una Guía Fascinante sobre el Período de la historia que transcurre desde la Caída del Imperio Romano hasta el Renacimiento, usted descubrirá temas como: ¡Compre este libro ahora y aprenda más sobre La Edad Media! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Wed, 18 Mar 2020 23:49:42 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-VBZfgkK9 Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Dodo]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Extinct Flightless Bird]]>Categories: 17th Century, Animal, Biology, Environment]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-16-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.” (Willy Cuppy, 19th century American humorist and literary critic) At one point or another, just about everyone has heard of the dodo bird, which is almost universally described as a cuddly, whimsical creature renowned for its alleged stupidity. This prehistoric avian had been known for hundreds of years, before it was made popular around the world in Lewis Carroll’s 1865 classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The character, the Dodo, satirized the author himself. According to pop culture lore, Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, regarded the dodo as his spirit animal due to his alleged stutter, which led to him often presenting himself as “Do-do-Dodgson".
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Mon, 16 Mar 2020 07:29:38 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bkWf1GLj Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: History of Japan]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Japanese History, Including Events Such as the Genpei War, Mongol Invasions, Battle of Tsushima, and Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]]>Categories: Asia, Education, History, Japan, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: James Peters]]>Publisher: Vicelane LLC]]>Release date: 03-13-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of Japan, then pay attention... Japan is one of the most adaptable countries in the world. It is capable of very rapid change, even after crises that would halt the progress of other nations. When the shogunates collapsed in the 17th century, the feudal system disintegrated. Within a year’s time, though, railroads replaced ox carts. During World War I, a first-rate economy sprung up on deserted farmlands. During World War II, the modest islands of Japan burgeoned into an empire with one of the most powerful navies in the world. After the devastation of that world war, Japan emerged as one of the most modern countries in the world. The Japanese have survived frequent earthquakes and tsunamis and rebuilt their cities using enviable technologies. The Japanese progressed throughout the eras because of the emperor, but they also progressed despite him. These are people who never let go of their sacred history, and their story is told and retold in art, film, literature, and even graphic novels across the entire world. Terms such as shoguns, samurai, haiku, anime, and manga are familiar to many in the Western world today.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:20:59 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Dv3fX4rb Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Dark Ages]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Period Between the Fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance]]>Categories: Education, Europe, History, Learning, Medieval]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Randy Whitlow]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-10-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Dark Ages, then pay attention.... Following the fall of Rome in 476 CE, the entire dynamic of Europe underwent a complete shift in power and culture. The Dark Ages was an interesting period of about six centuries, and during it, Europe was still trying to figure out what it was and how it would survive the chaos that followed the fall of Rome. In The Dark Ages: A Captivating Guide to the Period Between the Fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, you will discover topics such as: So if you want to learn more about the Dark Ages, scroll up and click the "Add to Cart" button!
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]]>Title: The Middle Ages]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the History of Europe, Starting from the Fall of the Western Roman Empire Through the Black Death to the Beginning of the Renaissance]]>Categories: Education, Europe, History, Learning, Medieval]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Richard L Walton]]>Publisher: Vicelane LLC]]>Release date: 03-09-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Middle Ages, then pay attention... One of the least understood periods of European history occurred between the 6th century and the 14th or 15th century (depending on which historian you ask). Commonly called the Middle Ages, this was a time period of extreme change for Europe, beginning with the fall of the Western Roman Empire. To a continent that had seen a drastic shift in the power structure, the world seemed to be particularly harsh. Rome had been a major player across Europe for well over a millennium. Then it was gone. In The Middle Ages: A Captivating Guide to the History of Europe, Starting from the Fall of the Western Roman Empire Through the Black Death to the Beginning of the Renaissance, you will discover topics such as: So if you want to learn more about the Middle Ages, get this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: The Etruscans]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Etruscan Civilization of Ancient Italy that Preceded the Roman Republic]]>Categories: Civilization, Education, History, Learning, Planet Earth]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Richard L. Walton]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-07-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Etruscans, then pay attention... The importance of the Etruscans can be traced back to Rome. The Roman Republic, and later the Roman Empire, was an unusual conqueror because it would absorb and assimilate elements of the cultures it dominated. A standing practice was to allow the defeated to continue practicing their culture and religion so long as they paid their taxes on time. Such a procedure was part of why Christianity would seep into the Roman Empire around the 1st century CE, for example. For the Etruscans, this meant they influenced aspects of Roman civilization, one of the most powerful cultures in the history of the Western world. Through the Etruscans, the Romans developed monarchy, walls, drainage systems, and the powerful forum. In The Etruscans: A Captivating Guide to the Etruscan Civilization of Ancient Italy That Preceded the Roman Republic, you will discover topics such as: So if you want to learn more about the Etruscans, scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button!
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]]>Title: John Adams]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to an American Founding Father Who Served as the Second President of the United States of America]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jaimie Peters]]>Publisher: Vicelane LLC]]>Release date: 03-06-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating life of John Adams, then pay attention.... John Adams once wrote, “People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.” That was very much Adams’ experience. Although he was often maligned, he didn’t deserve it. Having been born in the English colony of Massachusetts in 1735, he not only witnessed a new nation emerging from the shell of infancy, but he also participated in its growing pains. Adams was a man who was frequently asked to assume roles in which he had little experience, like that of a diplomat to France and England. In a sense, he was a part of the vanguard that the government had thrown into the fray. But why would the government choose him to represent their interests? Perhaps the main reason was that John Adams was a lawyer and understood the legal significance of treaties and agreements.
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]]>Title: Founding Fathers]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and James Monroe]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: David Patton, Desmond Manny, Jason R. Gray, Jamie Peters]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-05-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating lives of the Founding Fathers. Eight captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: So if you want to learn more about the life of Founding Fathers, get this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: Modern Democracy]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the World’s Democratic Institutions Since the American Revolution]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Democracy, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-03-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In today’s modern world, every political regime - even the most authoritarian or repressive - describes itself as democracy or a democratic people’s republic. The concept of rule by the people and on behalf of the people has come to be accepted as the norm. Very few would overtly espouse the cause of dictatorship, absolute monarchy, or oligarchy as the most desirable political system upon which to base the government of any country. It is also generally accepted that democracy, as a political ideology, began in Greece - specifically in Athens - in the seventh century BCE and reached its zenith in the fifth century under the leadership of Pericles. Dating an exact starting point is impossible, but at the beginning of the seventh century BCE, Solon inaugurated a series of reforms that began the movement away from rule by individuals, or tyrants, and by the end of that century, the reforms of Cleisthenes provided the basis of the Athenian democratic system that culminated in the radical institutions introduced by Ephialtes and Pericles in the fifth century.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Tue, 03 Mar 2020 06:47:54 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b6afEvpJ Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: John C. Fremont]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary American Explorer Known as The Pathfinder]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Explorer]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-25-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The exploration of the American West, beginning with Lewis and Clark’s transcontinental trek at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson, was not accomplished by standing armies, the era’s new steam train technology, or by way of land grabs. These came later, but not until pathways known only to a few of the land’s indigenous people were discovered, carved out, and charted in an area stretching from the eastern Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and the present-day borders of Mexico and Canada. Even the great survey parties, such as Colonel William Powell’s exploration of the Colorado River, came decades later. The first views of the West’s enormity by white Americans were seen by individuals of an entirely different personality, in an era that could only exist apart from its home civilization. Naturally, the West was an endless source of fascination for those who were either personally or circumstantially ill-suited to travel there. As explorers opened trails and people expanded the frontier, unusual walks of life like cattle drives, and hunting became commonplace, as did images of dusty boomtowns.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:03:04 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-DoPfq5Lb Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Silk Road]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Asia, China, Civilization, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 02-24-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Silk Road... Whether you approve or disapprove, globalization is an inescapable feature of the modern world. Trade between nations and continents is now commonplace, and this exchange of goods is inevitably accompanied by the exchange of ideas and cultures. This is not, as you might expect, a new phenomenon. A series of trade routes which were first established almost 2,000 years ago provided one of the first examples of intercontinental trade. Although these overland routes between Europe and Asia were not generally given a name during the period when they were in use, a 19th century German writer and traveler Ferdinand von Richthofen used the name by which they have become famous - he called them the Seidenstrasse (the Silk Road). Of course, it wasn’t just silk that was traded on these routes. Many other commodities traveled in both directions. For more than a thousand years, the Silk Road (or rather roads; there were actually several routes) provided the main trading link between the East and the West, which also enabled an exchange of philosophy, art, culture, and religion.
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]]>Title: J. R. R. Tolkien (A Life From Beginning to End)]]>Subtitle: Biographies of British Authors, Book 4]]>Series: #3 in Biographies of British Authors]]>Categories: Author, Biography, Celebrity, Europe]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 02-21-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of J. R. R. Tolkien.... Free bonus inside! J. R. R. Tolkien, an orphan in love with words, spent most of his life as an unassuming Professor of Literature at Oxford studying and teaching old languages. During his time there, he created his very own languages and a mythological world, Middle-earth. Middle-earth was inhabited by Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves, and other fascinating creatures. It was a world that became almost more real to Tolkien than the one he lived in. Tolkien’s two masterpieces, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, have set the standard in mythological literature. Translated into more than 70 languages, the books and their battles of good and evil are as relevant today as they were when Tolkien first wrote them. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on J. R. R. Tolkien, then buy now!
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]]>Title: Robert E. Lee (A Life From Beginning to End)]]>Subtitle: American Civil War, Book 4]]>Series: #4 in American Civil War]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 02-21-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Robert E. Lee.... Free bonus Inside! Robert E. Lee was a hero to some and a villain to others. For one side, he embodied the rebellion of the slave-holding South which had seceded from the Union; for the other side, he was a champion of the little guy, willing to marshal the forces of liberty to stand up against the federal government. How in the world do we get such divergent views on one single man? It seems that such diversity of opinion is simply a symptom of the American experience, and at certain points in history, these sentiments become embodied on individual people. In many ways, Robert E. Lee was just an average man of his time that was foisted into a role that he never wanted nor asked for. This book presents an objective analysis of what Robert E. Lee’s life was really like. Avoiding the bramble bushes of historical bias, this book takes us through the long, winding, and treacherous path that was trodden by Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on Robert E. Lee, then buy now!
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]]>Title: Bette Davis (A Life From Beginning to End)]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Actors, Book 9]]>Series: #11 in Biographies of Actors]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 02-21-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Bette Davis.... Free bonus inside! Bette Davis didn’t fit the usual Hollywood image of beauty, but by sheer force of will she became one of the most famous and prominent actresses of the twentieth century. Her entire life was focused on her six-decades-long career. This invariably led to the loss of three husbands and estrangement from her oldest daughter. Still, Bette Davis lived with few regrets. Her most famous movies, Jezebel, All About Eve, and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? are still considered classics, discovered by a generation that wasn’t even born when the movies were made. Bette’s tombstone, which reads “She did it the hard way,” aptly sums up her life. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on Bette Davis, then buy now!
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]]>Title: Jefferson Davis (A Life From Beginning to End)]]>Subtitle: American Civil War, Book 5]]>Series: #5 in American Civil War]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 02-21-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Jefferson Davis.... Free bonus Inside! Jefferson Davis - was he a rebel for a bad cause, or just a greatly misunderstood man? Davis was certainly lambasted as the ultimate evil during the American Civil War since he was the leading statesman of the Southern Confederacy. But what do we really know about Jefferson Davis? What motivated him and what made him tick? What inspired him to lead a cause that very nearly ripped the United States asunder? Davis was a statesman and politician for sure, but he was also a soldier, a husband, and a father. In this book, we will explore the full character of Jefferson Davis from beginning to end. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on Jefferson Davis, then buy now!
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]]>Title: Paul Newman (A Life from Beginning to End)]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Actors, Book 8]]>Series: #8 in Biographies of Actors]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 02-21-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Paul Newman.... Free bonus Inside! Paul Newman lived the life of a legend. He was not only a jack of all trades but in many cases a master of all trades. During his tenure on planet Earth, he was an award-winning actor, a philanthropist, a founder of a food company, a race car driver, and even an owner for the Indianapolis 500. Just about anything Newman put his hand on turned to gold. Even over a decade after his death, much of what he achieved is still being discovered. In this book, we bring to light the accomplishments of one of the greatest actors of all time, Paul Newman. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a concise and informative book on Paul Newman, then buy now!
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]]>Title: World War II]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Judaism]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 02-21-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of World War II... Until 1939, World War I was known as “the war to end all wars”, but when Nazi Germany capped its mounting aggression against its neighbors by invading Poland, Europe was plunged into a second global conflict. It threatened the entire continent as well as the far-flung colonial possessions claimed by the French, the British, and the Dutch. German triumphs saw nation after nation fall, until only Great Britain remained defiant against Hitler’s dreams of conquest. By late 1941, the United States was forced from neutrality into war after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Meanwhile, Joseph Stalin’s Nonaggression Pact with the Germans became meaningless after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. In Europe, along the Eastern Front, and in the Pacific, the Allies battled the Axis Powers, and then, on D-Day - June 6, 1944 - the invasion of Normandy brought the fighting closer and closer to Berlin. In the Pacific, the Allies fought the Japanese, island by island, in bloody battles where the bodies of fallen soldiers attested to the Japanese willingness to die for their emperor.
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]]>Title: Maya Civilization: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Mesoamerican History, Book 3]]>Series: #3 in Mesoamerican History]]>Categories: America, Ancient, Central America, Civilization]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 02-21-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Maya Civilization... For more than one thousand years, the Maya people dominated areas of Central America and modern-day Mexico and made important advances in architecture, astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. Then, after the Spanish occupation in the 16th century, Maya culture and thinking were deliberately suppressed. Only in the 20th century did scientists appreciate just how advanced these people had been and how important they were in the history of Mesoamerica. The excavation and investigation of several large Maya cities in the second half of the 20th century completely changed how we view these people. We now know that the Maya were capable of building vary large stone structures that were precisely aligned with astronomical features, though we do not know how this was done. We are still learning about Maya cities - as recently as 2018, the use of new technology uncovered more than 60,000 previously undiscovered Maya ruins in the jungles of Guatemala. Many scholars now believe that the Maya were one of the most important of all the ancient Mesoamerican cultures. There are still many mysteries about the Maya.
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]]>Title: Ada Lovelace: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Women in History, Book 12]]>Series: #7 in Biographies of Women in History]]>Categories: Biography, Female Protagonist, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 02-21-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Ada Lovelace... As the sole legitimate child of Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace was the progeny of literary royalty. Many might have naturally expected her to go into the field of her father, but instead of delving into poetry, she delved into the hard sciences of mathematics and analytic thinking. Even so, Ada still had the imagination of a lyricist when writing scientific treatises, at times referring to her own work as nothing short of “poetical science”. Everything she did, she did with passion and dogged determination. It was this drive that led Ada to look farther and search deeper than her contemporaries. Her unique vision led her to become one of the pioneers of the modern computer and one of the world’s first computer programmers. But what exactly do we know about Ada Lovelace, and how can it be quantified? Listen to this book to find out more about the 19th-century mathematician and writer Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace. Discover a plethora of chapters, such as: So, if you want a concise and informative audiobook on Ada Lovelace, simply scroll up and click the "buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: Battle of Tarawa - World War II: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: World War 2 Battles, Book 13]]>Series: #14 in World War 2 Battles]]>Categories: America, Asia, History, Japan]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History Limited]]>Release date: 02-20-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of the Battle of Tarawa... “It’s hell out there” was how one Marine described the assault on Tarawa, the US Navy’s first amphibious landing in World War II’s arduous Pacific campaign to bring the Empire of Japan to its knees. In 76 hours of fighting, the Marines lost nearly as many men as had died during the six months of the Guadalcanal campaign. Military intelligence had failed to take into account the reefs around Betio, the target of the assault, or the low tides which prevented transport vehicles from bringing the Marines safely to shore. As Marines were forced to wade 700 yards from the stranded vehicles to the shore, many of them were shot by enemy fire or drowned from the weight of their packs. When Americans back home saw the photographs of the bodies in the waters around Tarawa, they were horrified to realize that the route to Japan and victory would be strewn with the bodies of their young soldiers. Discover a plethora of chapters, such as: So, if you want a concise and informative book on the Battle of Tarawa, simply scroll up and click the "buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Battle of the Little Bighorn]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to One of the Most Significant Actions of the Great Sioux War and How Custer's Last Stand Impacted the Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Vicelane LLC]]>Release date: 02-12-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, then pay attention.... The Battle of the Little Bighorn, which is also commonly referred to by American historians as Custer’s Last Stand, is one of the most iconic events during the Great Sioux War that occurred between 1875 and 1876.
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]]>Title: Early Democracy]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the World’s Democratic Systems from Antiquity to the French Revolution]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, Greece, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-10-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In today’s modern world, every political regime, even the most authoritarian or repressive, describes itself as democracy or a democratic people’s republic. The concept of rule by the people and on behalf of the people has come to be accepted as the norm. Very few would overtly espouse the cause of dictatorship, absolute monarchy, or oligarchy as the most desirable political system upon which to base the government of any country. It is also generally accepted that democracy, as a political ideology, began in Greece, specifically in Athens, in the seventh century BCE and reached its zenith in the fifth century under the leadership of Pericles. Dating an exact starting point is impossible, but at the beginning of the seventh century BCE, Solon inaugurated a series of reforms that began the movement away from rule by individuals, or tyrants, and by the end of that century the reforms of Cleisthenes provided the basis of the Athenian democratic system that culminated in the radical institutions introduced by Ephialtes and Pericles in the fifth century. The result was the first, and possibly only, truly participative democratic state. Of course, not every inhabitant of Athens enjoyed the right to vote.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:16:58 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-xnGfzeLD Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Arches Across the Roman Empire]]>Subtitle: The History of the Roman Arches Built in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Minor, and North Africa]]>Categories: Ancient, Architecture, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-07-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Some of the most iconic symbols of the Roman Empire that have survived into the modern world today are the arches that Romans erected to commemorate military victories and glorify individual emperors. The story of how arches came to be used throughout the Roman world in such a way is one that involves the evolution of the military and its leaders into the political forces that came to dominate the state. Those arches, along with the triumphs that came to be associated with many of them, were key parts in the process of exhibiting the might of both Rome. At the same time, they were meant to mark the individual achievements of Rome’s rulers, making them an enormous and expensive PR exercise that steadily grew over the years. At its most basic and in its earliest incarnation, the arch was a celebration of achievement and, as such, was part of a whole series of methods used by the Romans to record, reward, and publicize success. However, as the imperial period progressed, the arch came to symbolize much more. It became exclusively associated with imperial might through the building of triumphal arches.
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]]>Title: Emperor Hirohito]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of Japan’s Ruler During World War II]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-05-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“It was not clear to me that our course was unjustified. Even now I am not sure how historians will allocate the responsibility for the war.” (Emperor Hirohito) The man known to most of the world as Emperor Hirohito ruled during some of the most tumultuous years in Japanese history. When he came to the throne in 1926, he inherited control of a country which had only recently emerged as a major industrial and world power. Through the aggressive expansion and wars of the 1930s, Hirohito was at the head of one of the world’s foremost powers. Throughout the maelstrom of World War II, he remained in power, a distant and, to most outsiders, inscrutable factor in the rise of the Japanese Empire. Before and during the war, many people in America and elsewhere believed that Emperor Hirohito was at least partly responsible for both the confrontational Japanese approach to foreign affairs and for the often brutal conduct of the Japanese armed forces during the wars which followed. As such, when the war ended, there were plenty of calls for the emperor to be indicted for war crimes along with other senior figures in Japan.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Sekigahara]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Battle that Unified Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate]]>Categories: Ancient, Asia, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-29-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On October 21, 1600, two massive Japanese armies, totaling an estimated 200,000 soldiers armed to the teeth with swords, yari (spears), arrows, muskets, and cannons, faced off on a battlefield near the town of Sekigahara. A bitter fight to the death ensued, and the results would determine the course of Japanese history for the next 250 years. On the battlefield was the warlord Leyasu Tokugawa, a man desiring domain over the entire island of Japan, but standing in his way was Ishida Mitsunari, a warlord controlling vast swaths of western Japan. Moving with his armies from the east, Ieyasu maneuvered into a position at Sekigahara. Leyasu was relying heavily on the legendary Japanese samurai, but contrary to popular belief, the samurai warriors of that era were avid firearm users, and this battle would be no exception, as both armies bristled with muskets and cannons. Leyasu was outnumbered, but he had a trump card: Traitors placed in the enemy army.
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]]>Title: Catalonia]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Spain’s Most Famous Autonomous Community]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-29-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Set in the northeastern corner of Spain and nestled next to France is the autonomous region of Catalonia. The name Catalonia is thought to mean the Land of Castellans (castlan means the governor of a castle), while another version of the story suggests that the name actually comes from Gothalanda, or Land of the Goths, who occupied it in the fifth century. More than seeing themselves as Spaniards, Catalonian people see themselves as Catalan first and foremost, and they all are natively fluent in the language, Catalan. This fiercely guarded sense of identity no doubt comes from having been squeezed between the two major empires of France and Spain, as well as having been at the crossroads of those two powers’ violent struggles for centuries. Shaped like an uneven triangle, Catalonia is comprised of four provinces that occupy an area of 12,390 square miles: Girona, Barcelona, Tarragona, and Lleida. Catalonia also has a variety of different kinds of communities surrounding it, as its northern neighbors include the powerful country of France and the tiny nation of Andorra.
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]]>Title: The Internment of Japanese-Americans and German-Americans During World War II]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Federal Government’s Most Controversial Wartime Policy]]>Categories: America, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-22-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The internment of Japanese Americans in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor is second only to slavery in terms of America’s most tragic and regrettable chapters in history. While the forced relocation and internment of Japanese Americans living on the West Coast during the Second World War is widely recognized - they have even received apologies and compensation from the US government - what is not as well-known is that between 1941 and 1948, approximately 10,000 Americans of German descent were also forcibly interned at camps scattered across the United States. Some refugees who had fled from Germany, in an attempt to escape Nazi persecution, were rounded up, interned, and later used in a prisoner exchange program between the United States and German governments. The American government also went to great lengths to secure Germans living across Latin America, who they believed posed a tangible threat, should they cross America’s southern border. In spite of a preponderance of evidence affirming the occurrence of these events, the United States government persistently denied it for decades. The public was largely unaware that these atrocities had occurred, and hardly a single account of history was found to mention them.
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]]>Title: Woolly Mammoths]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Most Famous Extinct Elephant Species]]>Categories: Ancient, Ecology, History, Outdoor]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-21-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It was a frosty, wintry September morning in 2012 when 11-year-old Yevgeny “Zhenya” Salinder donned his warmest quilted jacket, a knitted woolen cap, and matching mittens and headed out the door with his faithful, tail-wagging dogs in tow. Like most mornings, the kid ambled about near the Sopkarga polar weather station, an isolated region in the northern Russian Taymyr Peninsula where he resided, but this particular morning, his pace was slowed by a foul, almost eye-watering stench. Intrigued, Salinder and the dogs sniffed out the source of the strange miasma, and in the process, they stumbled upon a defrosted pair of heels from an unknown creature protruding from the cold earth. When young Salinder relayed what he had found to his parents, they alerted the authorities, but initially, nobody had the slightest notion how profound the discovery was. The heels, as it turned out, were attached to the carcass of a 16-year-old woolly mammoth that perished some 30,000 years ago, almost completely intact. The mammoth, initially nicknamed “Zhenya” after its discoverer, was said to be the most significant discovery of a mammoth since 1901, and it is the second-best preserved of its kind that has ever been uncovered.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Chaldiran]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Ottoman Empire’s Decisive Victory over the Safavid Dynasty in Anatolia]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-08-2020]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The town of Caldiran (Chaldiran) in Turkey is home to about 60,000 people. On a plain close to the Iranian border, it it backdropped by the Armenian Ranges and very close to a Faultline, which has ensured it’s suffered from seismic activity many times in the past. But in the early 16th century, it was the site of different kinds of faultlines, serving as a battleground between the region’s two greatest powers as they clashed over politics and religion. In the wake of taking Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire would spend the next few centuries expanding its size, power, and influence on the way to becoming one of the world’s most important geopolitical players.
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]]>Title: John Barrymore]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of Early 20th Century America's Most Famous Actor]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-24-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” (John Barrymore) Movie stars are revered for their ability to captivate audiences, and Hollywood began to flourish before the onset of television, allowing movies to enjoy relatively uncontested supremacy over American entertainment. The popularity of various actors would, thus, extend well beyond the success of any of their individual films, reflecting their much broader cultural significance as monuments of Hollywood during its Golden Age. In the 1920s, the burgeoning movie industry was starting to come into its own, and virtually no actor was as famous - or infamous - as John Barrymore. Like many other film stars his age, Barrymore’s career had started in other forms of entertainment, in his case theater. By the time movies were becoming popular, Barrymore was one of the world’s foremost Shakespearean actors. After standout performances in productions of Richard III and Hamlet, Barrymore transitioned for a time to working on films, including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Sherlock Holmes (1922), and The Sea Beast (1926).
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]]>Title: The Battle of Red Cliffs]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Decisive Battle Fought Near the Start of Ancient China's Three Kingdoms Period]]>Categories: Ancient, Asia, China, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-19-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Even before the first Chinese dynasty, complex societies inhabiting the area now known as China, organized into settlements. The most important settlements were protected by rammed earth walls. The first dynasty, the Shang (1600-1050 BCE), built large walls as early as around 1,550 BCE. Differing from later walls, which were built along a strategic defense line, these walls were built to enclose the settlements and areas. The Shang would eventually be conquered from the west by the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BCE), which developed a complex system of government. In fact, it was the Zhou system’s decline that Confucius (551-479 BCE) witnessed and drew from greatly for his political philosophy. The Zhou also created walled cities, and it was at this time that the first major conflicts with northern tribesman, the Xianyun, were recorded. As the newly independent states vied for supremacy in a state of constant warfare, northern barbarians were also a constant menace. Eventually, the Chinese succeeded in eliminating many of those on their immediate northern border, but it was a bittersweet victory because it meant there was no longer a buffer between China and the even fiercer Mongols further north.
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]]>Title: John Dee]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the English Occultist, Alchemist, and Philosopher Who Became Queen Elizabeth I's Spiritual Advisor]]>Categories: Biography, Occult, Philosopher, STEM]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Delaine Daniels]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-18-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.” (John Dee) With the golden glow of the candlelight kissing his cheeks, he hovered over a spirit mirror - a flat, exquisitely lustrous “shew-stone” fashioned out of raven-black obsidian. Gazing intently upon his reflection in the dark volcanic glass, he chanted in hushed tones as he ran his fingers across the engravings on the oat-colored wax wheel next to him, the Sigilla iEmeth, which featured a septogram and runic carvings and symbols in minuscule print. Contrary to what one might expect, it was not a phantom, hobgoblin, or demon that he sought, but rather, the seraphic voice, and perhaps even the face of an angel - the one bridge between mankind and their Creator, one who holds the key to all of life's unanswerable questions. Was this man delusional? Perhaps so, but perhaps, not. But there was no question among those on hand that this was not an ignorant, philistine, unlettered buffoon of a man who readily boarded the train of groundless superstition.
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]]>Title: Clausewitz and Jomini]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Legacies of the Modern Era’s Most Influential Military Theorists]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-18-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz died almost 200 years ago, yet he remains one of the most important and influential of all military thinkers. His teachings combined strategy with military knowledge to produce a dialectic approach to the philosophy of warfare, and his work is still widely taught in military academies around the world. There are few senior military leaders anywhere who are not familiar with his seminal book, On War. In fact, with the exception of Napoleon Bonaparte, no man was more influential on the military tactics and strategy of 19th century warfare than Clausewitz, a Prussian soldier and military theorist who stressed the moral and political aspects of war. On War was mandatory for all military students and officers to read during the 19th century, and it was common practice for generals during the American Civil War to carry Clausewitz’s treatise and read it to assist them in strategy and tactics. On War covered every conceivable facet of warfare, using historical battles as examples of what to do and what not to do. The treatise discusses how opposite forces interact, and how unexpected new developments unfolding under the "fog of war" called for rapid decisions by alert commanders.
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]]>Title: Chechnya and Dagestan]]>Subtitle: The History of the North Caucasus Republics and Their Conflicts with Russia]]>Categories: Europe, History, Military, Russia, Strategy]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-18-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Today, Chechnya is a republic with some degree of autonomy in the contemporary Russian Federation. Its population is just over a million people, and it stretches over an area of 17,000 square kilometers. The majority of Chechnya’s population is comprised of Sunni Muslims, meaning religion has played a key role in the territory’s development. In southwestern Russia, landlocked within 100 kilometers of the Caspian Sea, Chechnya is north of the Caucasian mountains, bordering other North Caucasus provinces such as North Ossetia, and Dagestan, and Georgia. Russia itself is a well-established Slavic, Orthodox Christian country, though its majority Muslim provinces were not obvious to outsiders until the post-Soviet conflicts of the 1990's. The history of the Chechen people in the region is, nevertheless, long-established, and Chechnya has become synonymous with conflict, civil war, and discontent. While many people are aware of that, few understand how things reached that point. The area is complex and fascinating, representing one of the world’s true fault lines in terms of religion, empire, and geography. Wedged in the North Caucasus mountain range and bordering the Caspian Sea, Dagestan is a true meeting point of cultures, religions and geopolitical rivalries.
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]]>Title: Antoine-Henri Jomini]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Swiss General and His Famous Military Treatises about the Napoleonic Wars]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Military, Strategy]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-17-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“War in its ensemble is not a science, but an art. Strategy, particularly, may indeed be regulated by fixed laws resembling those of the positive sciences, but this is not true of war viewed as a whole. Among other things, combats may be mentioned as often being quite independent of scientific combinations..." (Jomini) With the exception of Napoleon Bonaparte, few men were more influential on the military tactics and strategy of 19th century warfare than Antoine-Henri Jomini, yet the introduction for a 1947 English translation of Jomini’s Art of War noted, “The military world that today burns gun-powder at the altar of Clausewitzian doctrine has all but forgotten Antoine-Henri Jomini.” The author of that introduction, Lt. Col. J.D. Little of the US Marine Corps, was right then, and he remains correct today. While Carl von Clausewitz’s aphorisms are still used to support everything from military action to business management, the work of his contemporary writer Jomini has been all but forgotten. During the Napoleonic Era and throughout the 19th century, however, the situation was very different. Jomini was regarded as the preeminent strategist and writer of his generation, while Clausewitz was virtually unknown outside the General Staff of the Prussian Army.
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]]>Title: The Edomites]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Kingdom of Edom in the Ancient Near East]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Judaism]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Delaine Daniels]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-05-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“These are the kings who ruled in the land of Edom before a king ruled the children of Israel. And Bela ben Beor ruled in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhabah. And Bela died, and Jobab ben Zerah from Bozrah ruled in his place. And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani ruled in his place. And Husham died, and Hadad ben Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, ruled in his place, and the name of his city was Avith. And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah ruled in his place. And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth on the river ruled in his place. And Saul died, and Baal-hanan ben Achbor ruled in his place. And Baal-hanan ben Achbor died, and Hadar ruled in his place, and the name of his city was Pau, and his wife's name was Mehetabel bat Matred bat Mezahab.
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]]>Title: Napoleon's Grande Armée]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the French Army During the Napoleonic Wars]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel Houle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-05-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Nearly 50 years after Napoleon met his Waterloo, generals across the West continued to study his tactics and engage their armies the same way armies fought during the Napoleonic Era. Despite advances in military technology and the advent of railroads for transportation, all of which made defensive warfare more effective, acclaimed military geniuses like Robert E. Lee used flank attacks and infantry charges against superior numbers in an effort to win decisive victories, and it would not be until World War I that concepts of modern warfare made the Napoleonic Era of the early 19th century outdated. For those questioning why generals continued using tactics from the Napoleonic Era even as technology changed the battlefield, the Battle of Austerlitz may provide the best answer. Napoleon is regarded as one of history’s greatest generals, and Austerlitz was his greatest victory.
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]]>Title: The Livonian Brothers of the Sword]]>Subtitle: The History of the Medieval Catholic Military Order That Fought Pagans in Eastern Europe]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-02-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>For centuries, Christians and Muslims were embroiled in one of the most infamous territorial disputes of all time, viciously and relentlessly battling one another for the Holy Land. In the heart of Jerusalem sat one of the shining jewels of the Christian faith, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Legend has it that this was where their Savior had been buried before his fabled resurrection. What was more, it was said to house the very cross Jesus Christ had died upon. It was for precisely these reasons that fearless pilgrims, near and far, risked their lives and made the treacherous trek to Jerusalem. Like other secretive groups, the mystery surrounding the Catholic military orders that sprung up in the wake of the First Crusade helped their legacies endure. While some conspiracy theorists attempt to tie the groups to other alleged secret socities like the Illuminati, other groups have tried to assert connections with them to bolster their own credentials.
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]]>Title: Darius the Great and Xerxes I]]>Subtitle: The History of the Achaemenid Persian Emperors Who Invaded Ancient Greece]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-27-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It was not until the excavations of the 1930's that many of the relics, reliefs, and clay tablets that offer so much information about Persian life could be studied for the first time. Through archaeological remains, ancient texts, and work by a new generation of historians, a picture can today be built of this remarkable civilization and their capital city. Although the city had been destroyed, the legacy of the Persians survived, even as they mostly remain an enigma to the West and are not nearly as well understood as the Greeks, Romans, or Egyptians. In a sense, the Achaemenid Persian Empire holds some of the most enduring mysteries of ancient civilization. When considering this empire’s rulers, the two most often referenced are Xerxes, the leader of the Persian invasion of Greece which caused the heroic sacrifice of the Spartans and their allies at Thermopylae, or Cyrus the Great, the man who created the Persian Empire. But the Persians had another critical ruler sandwiched between them, and Cyrus’s accomplishments and Xerxes’s defeats would not have been possible without him.
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]]>Title: The First Battle of Heligoland Bight]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Royal Navy’s Greatest Victory in World War I]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-27-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The most iconic images of the First World War are of the war on land. They depict the trench lines, the shell holes, and the barbed wire. They show a generation of young men in uniform, living in holes dug from the dirt, rifle in hand, waiting for the next devastating artillery bombardment. But part of that same generation faced a very different war, one that was just as important in deciding the fate of Europe, but which is often forgotten in popular histories. This was the war at sea. It was vital to the economic side of the war, as the Allies cut off Germany's supply lines from the outside world and so placed a squeeze on their opponents' military industries. Here events took place that would draw America into the war, providing the Allies with a new pool of manpower and so ensuring that the scales of the conflict tipped in their favor. The war at sea saw innovations tested. Some, such as Germany's submarine fleet, were a huge success that defined the future for warfare. Some, such as seaborne planes, played only a small part but acted as a prelude to bigger changes to come.
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]]>Title: The Young Turks]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Political Movement That Attempted to Reform the Ottoman Empire Before Its Collapse]]>Categories: History, Middle East, Planet Earth, Turkey]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-20-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In August 2017, Turkey’s president Recip Tayyip Erdogan gave a directive to the foreign ministry to go into ravaged Syria and rescue an 87-year-old Turkish man stranded in Damascus by the civil war. The elderly gentleman lived his life simply and quietly. He disliked drawing attention to himself, and he was grieving for his wife who had just died. The man called himself Dundar Abdulkerim Osmanoglu, but many affixed the title Sehzade (“Prince”) to his name, for he was head of the Imperial House of Osman and heir to the defunct throne of the Ottoman Empire. His ancestors had created an empire that had lasted for over 600 years and caused the greatest rulers of both the Muslim East and the Christian West to tremble. Osmanoglu was the great grandson of Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1841-1918), who was notable for introducing constitutional government to the Ottoman Empire. He had been brought reluctantly to this act by a revolution guided by a group of political activists known as the Young Turks. They believed they could save the dying Ottoman state by instituting reforms that would transform the empire into a secular constitutional state on par with the great powers of Europe.
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]]>Title: Italy's Most Powerful Mafias]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Cosa Nostra, La Camorra, and 'Ndrangheta]]>Categories: 19th Century, 20th Century, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-19-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The word “mafia,” Sicilian in origin, is synonymous with Italy, but Italy is home to several different mafias, with three being particularly notorious. While the Cosa Nostra of western Sicily is the most infamous, other powerful groups include the ferocious ‘Ndrangheta of Calabria and the Camorra, the third-largest mafia, which is active in Naples and the Campania region. A “mafia” is loosely defined as a criminal organization that is interested in social, economic, and political power, combining elements of a traditional secret society with those of a business, but further levels of nuance are necessary in order to understand these groups. In a general sense, this is because each mafia creates a myth about the development of the organization, which becomes like an unquestionable truth. In essence, part of what makes its members so completely loyal to it is also what makes outsiders so utterly afraid of it. Over the course of the 19th century, the people of Sicily found themselves at the center of a struggle for freedom, one that ended up being long and often very bloody. It was during these crucial years of struggle that the Sicilian mafia, La cosa nostra (“Our thing”), started to take shape.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Nicopolis]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Decisive Siege That Ended One of the Last Medieval Crusades Against the Ottomans]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Delaine Daniels]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-19-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In terms of geopolitics, perhaps, the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the fourth century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul. Naturally, the Byzantines and Europeans didn’t take the Ottoman incursions lying down, and in the generations before the Ottoman victory at Constantinople, European alliances frequently tried to check Ottoman advances, couching their campaigns in the terms of crusading.
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]]>Title: Mysterious Polynesia: The Myths, Legends, and Mysteries of the Polynesians]]>Categories: Ancient, Exploration, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-15-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Taking into account similarities of appearance, customs and languages spread across a vast region of scattered islands, it was obvious that the Polynesian race emerged from a single origin, and that origin Cook speculated was somewhere in the Malay Peninsula or the “East Indies.” In this regard, he was not too far from the truth. The origins of the Polynesian race have been fiercely debated since then, and it was only relatively recently, through genetic and linguistic research, that it can now be stated with certainty that the Polynesian race originated on the Chinese mainland and the islands of Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. Oceania was, indeed, the last major region of the Earth to be penetrated and settled by people, and Polynesia was the last region of Oceania to be inhabited.
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]]>Title: The Germans in Normandy]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Richard Hargreaves]]>Narrator: Chris MacDonnell]]>Publisher: Tantor Audio]]>Release date: 11-12-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>An account of the D-Day invasion - from the German point of view. The Allied invasion of Northern France was the greatest combined operation in the history of warfare. Up until now, it has been recorded from the attackers' point of view - whereas the defenders' angle has been largely ignored. While the Germans knew an invasion was inevitable, no one knew where or when it would fall. Those manning Hitler's mighty Atlantic Wall may have felt secure in their bunkers, but they had no conception of the fury and fire that was about to break. After the initial assaults of June established an Allied bridgehead, a state of stalemate prevailed. The Germans fought with great courage - hindered by lack of supplies and overwhelming Allied control of the air. This book describes the catastrophe that followed, in a unique look at the war from the losing side.
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]]>Title: Carl von Clausewitz]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Prussian General Who Wrote On War]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Military, War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-09-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz died almost 200 years ago, yet he remains one of the most important and influential of all military thinkers. His teachings combined strategy with military knowledge to produce a dialectic approach to the philosophy of warfare, and his work is still widely taught in military academies around the world. There are few senior military leaders anywhere who are not familiar with his seminal book, On War. In fact, with the exception of Napoleon Bonaparte, no man was more influential on the military tactics and strategy of 19th century warfare than Clausewitz, a Prussian soldier and military theorist who stressed the moral and political aspects of war. On War was mandatory for all military students and officers to read during the 19th century, and it was common practice for generals during the American Civil War to carry Clausewitz’s treatise and read it to assist them in strategy and tactics. On War covered every conceivable facet of warfare, using historical battles as examples of what to do and what not to do. The treatise discusses how opposite forces interact, and how unexpected new developments unfolding under the "fog of war" called for rapid decisions by alert commanders.
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]]>Title: The Hundred Years War: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, France, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-08-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable history of The Hundred Years War... The Hundred Years War was a series of conflicts waged between England and France between 1337 and 1453. The war involved several generations of kings on both sides and was fought over a single issue: whether the English had the right to rule the kingdom of France. The origins of the war can be traced back to the invasion of England in 1066 by William the Conqueror, the duke of Normandy. William became king of England, but he also retained control over his lands in Normandy. From that time on, English kings ruled not just over their own country but also over areas of western France. What is now France was at the time of the Norman conquest not a single country but rather a group of semi-independent principalities. By the early 1300s, the kingdom of France was consolidating and emerging as an important European power, and it was almost inevitable that there would be a conflict between France and England over the English lands in western France. The Hundred Years War marked important changes in the very nature of warfare.
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]]>Title: The Roma]]>Subtitle: The History of the Romani People and the Controversial Persecutions of Them Across Europe]]>Categories: Civilization, Europe, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-07-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder, and our souls are deep with dreams.” (Old Romani proverb) In the 21st century, cultural differences and individuality are often celebrated and protected across much of the world, and given society's conscientious awareness of such phenomena, it is, therefore, all the more surprising when considering the ignorance or indifference that the world, at large, exhibits toward the Romani people. Otherwise known as the “Roma” or by their popular misnomer “the gypsies”, the members of this highly undervalued and grossly misrepresented community have long been considered outcasts. More often than not, the Romani are branded by even those who fancy themselves liberals as “pikeys”, “gyppos”, and “gips”.
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]]>Title: The Fall of Saigon]]>Subtitle: The History of the Battle for South Vietnam's Capital and the End of the Vietnam War]]>Categories: America, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Bernard]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-07-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren’t so deadly and tragic. In 1951, while war was raging in Korea, the United States began signing defense pacts with nations in the Pacific, intending to create alliances that would contain the spread of communism. As the Korean War was winding down, America joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, pledging to defend several nations in the region from communist aggression. One of those nations was South Vietnam. Before the Vietnam War, most Americans would have been hard-pressed to locate Vietnam on a map. South Vietnamese president Diem’s regime was extremely unpopular, and war broke out between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam around the end of the 1950s. Kennedy’s administration tried to prop up the South Vietnamese with training and assistance, but the South Vietnamese military was feeble. A month before his death, Kennedy signed a presidential directive withdrawing 1,000 American personnel, and shortly after Kennedy’s assassination, new President Lyndon B. Johnson reversed course, instead opting to expand American assistance to South Vietnam. Over the next few years, the American military commitment to South Vietnam grew dramatically, and the war effort became both deeper and more complex.
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]]>Title: 'Ndrangheta: The History of Italy’s Most Powerful Organized Crime Syndicate]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Italy]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-07-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The word “mafia,” Sicilian in origin, is synonymous with Italy, but Italy is home to several different mafias, with three being particularly notorious. While the Cosa Nostra of western Sicily is the most infamous, other powerful groups include the ferocious ‘Ndrangheta of Calabria and the Camorra, the third-largest mafia, which is active in Naples and the Campania region. A “mafia” is loosely defined as a criminal organization that is interested in social, economic, and political power, combining elements of a traditional secret society with those of a business; but further levels of nuance are necessary in order to understand these groups. In a general sense, this is because each mafia creates a myth about the development of the organization, which becomes like an unquestionable truth. In essence, part of what makes its members so completely loyal to it is also what makes outsiders so utterly afraid of it. The ‘Ndrangheta (pronounced an-drang-et-ah) is a close neighbor of the Cosa Nostra and currently considered the most powerful (and difficult to spell) criminal organization in Italy. The ‘Ndrangheta is centered around Calabria, the most southwestern region of Italy, almost touching the Sicilian city of Messina.
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]]>Title: Stephen Decatur and Oliver Hazard Perry]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Careers of America’s Most Famous Naval Officers during the War of 1812]]>Categories: America, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-07-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"We have met the enemy and they are ours.” (Oliver Hazard Perry) Sandwiched between the Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 is one of America’s forgotten conflicts, and the stalemated nature of the war (which resolved virtually none of either side’s war aims) has also ensured that it is often given merely a cursory overview. Great Britain, as the leader of several coalitions of conservative European countries trying to isolate and snuff out the revolutionary spirit and the ambitions of Napoleon, had been at war with France almost continuously since 1792. Under President Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) and James Madison (1809-1817), the United States tried to steer a course that would keep it from being drawn into the European war and defend its neutrality on the high seas. However, both Britain and France wanted to hurt the other side economically by keeping goods out of their enemy’s hands. Thus, they did not faithfully respect the rights of neutral nations.
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]]>Title: Stephen Decatur]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Youngest Navy Captain in American History]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-07-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Our country, right or wrong.” (Stephen Decatur) Between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, the United States engaged in several wars that have mostly been overlooked. The War of 1812 is one of America’s forgotten conflicts, and the stalemated nature of the war (which resolved virtually none of either side’s war aims) has also ensured that it is often given merely a cursory overview. Great Britain, as the leader of several coalitions of conservative European countries trying to isolate and snuff out the revolutionary spirit and the ambitions of Napoleon, had been at war with France almost continuously since 1792. Under President Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) and James Madison (1809-1817), the United States tried to steer a course that would keep it from being drawn into the European wars and defend its neutrality on the high seas. However, both Britain and France wanted to hurt the other side economically by keeping goods out of their enemy’s hands.
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]]>Title: Eli Whitney]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the American Inventor Whose Cotton Gin Transformed the Antebellum South]]>Categories: America, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-05-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Between the 18th and early 19th centuries, the West experienced massive leaps in technological, scientific, and economical advancement. This powerful period has since been immortalized as the great Industrial Revolution, during which Britain and other European countries became a formidable force that boasted unmatched economical growth, drastic changes in living conditions, and even the emergence of a neglected social class. Vast portions of rural lands were transformed into interconnected, complex, and multitasking cities, and dozens of innovative inventions and products were churned out in bulk and sold to the masses for the first time ever. Some of the greatest thinkers and creators ventured forth from the shadows. Scientists, engineers, merchants, and manufacturers alike were at the height of their prime, nurtured by a culture that embraced the vision of growth, progress, and industrial unity. In the 1600s, cotton and silk fabrics that bore colorful and exotic printed patterns, known as “calico”, were flying off the shelves of the East India Company’s stores. The rapidly escalating demand for calico had taken a visible toll on the European textile businesses.
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]]>Title: Alexander Hamilton]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to an American Founding Father Who Wrote the Majority of the Federalist Papers]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jamie Peters]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-05-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating life of Alexander Hamilton, then pay attention.... Alexander Hamilton, unlike many of the other founding fathers of the United States, was born outside of wedlock and was an orphan at the age of 13 after his mother died. He was thrown into the world, depending on the charity of friends and neighbors. That perhaps is one of the reasons why Alexander Hamilton was fiscally sensitive and always anxious about funding and finance, not only for himself but for the new nation of the United States, where he emigrated when he was in his late teens. It is no wonder then that he became the first secretary of the treasury of the United States and that he even saved banks from financial collapse. Hamilton had a brilliant mind. Although the law was his calling, he was blessed with charisma that could persuade even the stoniest of hearts.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Shanghai]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Battle That Started the Second Sino-Japanese War]]>Categories: 20th Century, Asia, China, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-31-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On October 29, 1937, a large crowd of people gathered on the bank of the Wusong River in Shanghai to watch a spectacle - a life and death struggle unfolding directly in front of them across the river. The crowd was a curious blend of Chinese, European, and American civilians and journalists. Their focus was on the Sihang Warehouse across the river, but it wasn’t the warehouse itself that fascinated the onlookers. Instead, it was the men inside the warehouse - the men of the 524th regiment and the 88th division of the Chinese Nationalist Army. The soldiers were elite, and they were widely considered the best of the Nationalist Army. They proudly called themselves “the generalissimo’s own”, after Jiang Jieshi, the generalissimo of the Nationalist government and leader of China. The Chinese soldiers were prepared to fight and die to the last man, and they were making their last stand there. By then, the city of Shanghai was in shambles. The Imperial Japanese Military had invaded Shanghai on August 13, 1937, rapidly reducing the once-prosperous city to a pile of burning rubble after three months of brutal urban combat.
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]]>Title: Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of Early 19th Century America's Most Famous Naval Officer]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-30-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"We have met the enemy and they are ours.” (Oliver Hazard Perry) Sandwiched between the Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 is one of America’s forgotten conflicts, and the stalemated nature of the war (which resolved virtually none of either side’s war aims) has also ensured that it is often given merely a cursory overview. Great Britain, as the leader of several coalitions of conservative European countries trying to isolate and snuff out the revolutionary spirit and the ambitions of Napoleon, had been at war with France almost continuously since 1792. Under President Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) and James Madison (1809-1817), the United States tried to steer a course that would keep it from being drawn into the European war and defend its neutrality on the high seas. However, both Britain and France wanted to hurt the other side economically by keeping goods out of their enemy’s hands.
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]]>Title: On a Knife’s Edge]]>Subtitle: The Ukraine, November 1942-March 1943]]>Categories: Eastern Europe, Europe, Germany, History]]>Author: Prit Buttar]]>Narrator: Roger Clark]]>Publisher: Tantor Audio]]>Release date: 10-29-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of World War II. The German capture of the city, their encirclement by Soviet forces shortly afterwards, and the hard-fought but futile attempts to relieve them, saw bitter attritional fighting and extremes of human misery inflicted on both sides. The surrender of General Friedrich von Paulus's army left Germany's eastern armies severely weakened, but the Red Army had suffered enormous losses as it overreached itself in trying to exploit its great victory. The war was not over. Germany would continue the fight, and the battles that took place in the winter of 1942/43 would show the tactical and operational skill of Erich von Manstein and the Wehrmacht as they attempted to avert total disaster. In this title, a renowned expert on warfare on the Eastern Front reveals the often-overlooked German counteroffensive post-Stalingrad, and how it prevented the whole Axis front line from collapsing. Drawing on firsthand accounts, On a Knife's Edge is a story of brilliant generalship, lost opportunities, and survival in the harshest theater of war.
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]]>Title: James Clerk Maxwell: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Scottish History, Book 4]]>Series: #4 in Scottish History]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-28-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of James Clerk Maxwell in just an hour.... James Clerk Maxwell was a brilliant mathematician and scientist, but his impact on this world goes even deeper than that. Maxwell singlehandedly overturned what was believed to be fact with a whole new outlook on fundamental aspects of the universe. Maxwell is often credited as one of the first pioneers of quantum physics and rightly so because it was Maxwell who envisioned particles such as electrons spinning inside an electric current before anyone else had so much as guessed that such a thing might be possible. The rarefied scientific mind of James Clerk Maxwell has left us with a lasting legacy of incredible innovations in thought that still affect us to this very day. Listen to this book in order to get a full grasp of just what kind of enlightening fire this 19th-century Prometheus has gifted all of humanity with. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a straightforward book on James Clerk Maxwell, simply scroll up and click the "buy now" button for instant access!
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]]>Title: The Birth of the Italian Republic]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Allied Occupation of Italy After World War II]]>Categories: America, Europe, History, Italy]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mandy Mitcheson]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-28-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On March 25, 1957, Italy signed the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Community (EEC), a forerunner of the European Union (EU) that was promoted as a guarantor of future peace in Europe. For the soldiers on both sides of World War II fighting each other 13 years earlier in the mountains around Monte Cassino, south of Rome, this would have seemed a highly improbable outcome. Despite British diplomatic efforts, Italy had joined the Axis in 1940 with the intention of expanding its African empire and reliving the glories of Ancient Rome. That proved to be a major mistake, and by the spring of 1943 Italy had lost all its African possessions. The Axis’ North African defeat opened up the possibility of taking the war in the west to the European continent for the first time since France's lightning conquest by the Wehrmacht in 1940. The British and Americans debated the merits of landing in France directly in 1943, but they ultimately opted against it.
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]]>Title: John Moses Browning: The Life and Legacy of the American Gunsmith Who Modernized Automatic and Semi-Automatic Firearms]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, United States of America, War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-25-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Industrial Revolution that unfolded in Western societies at the dawn of the 19th century altered daily life as a rapidly developing paradigm. One historian suggests that in Europe and America, the highest known form of technology was the pipe organ before the rise of factories, steam drive combustion, and railway and communication breakthroughs built upon the mastery of electricity and transformed the standard processes of society. Such a rapid alteration of the prevailing world seemingly took place in a historical instant that propelled technology all the way to the age of powered flight. No less affected were the technological accomplishments that cast their influence over the wars so rampant in Europe through the past centuries. Military weapons benefited from various upgrades and innovations, even as the soldiers and generals remained confined within Napoleonic tactics while struggling to learn about the new principles of physics and engineering. Technological advancement within the field of mechanical engineering experienced a golden age in the 19th century. Virtually every profession that worked in the traditional materials of wood and metal developed a capacity for precision and functionality hitherto unknown.
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]]>Title: Admiral George Dewey]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Most Decorated Naval Officer in American History]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-24-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Didn't Admiral Dewey do wonderfully well? I got him the position out there in Asia last year, and I had to beg hard to do it; and the reason I gave was that we might have to send him to Manila. And we sent him - and he went!" (Theodore Roosevelt, 1898) In 1898, one of Spain's last possessions in the New World, Cuba, was waging a war for independence, and though Cuba was technically exempted from the Monroe Doctrine because it was already a Spanish territory when the Monroe Doctrine was issued, many Americans believed that the United States should side with Cuba against Spain. Initially, Republican President William McKinley wanted to avoid any wars, and for its part, Spain also wanted to avoid any conflict with United States and its powerful navy. However, Spain also wanted to keep Cuba, which it regarded as a province of Spain rather than a colony.
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]]>Title: Sinn Féin: The History and Legacy of the Irish Republican Political Party]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Ireland]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-24-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“In Arthur Griffith there is a mighty force in Ireland.” (Michael Collins) From Gaelic, the words Sinn Féin translate loosely into English as “We Ourselves”, or “Ourselves Alone”. The implications of this are that Ireland, historically subject to the political domination of England, could look to none but itself for liberation. The saga of English predominance in Ireland began in the 12th century following the Norman invasion of England, when a band of Norman adventurers, established on the Welsh mainland, set off across the Irish Sea to test their prospects on the shores of England’s western neighbor. Ireland at the time was ruled in provinces by local kings, each with limited power and authority, and often at war with one another. The incoming Normans did not attempt any direct control over the country, and in due course they assimilated with the Irish. Nonetheless, by this means, England gained a foothold in the southeast of the island which was later reinforced in 1171 when the English King Henry II, utilizing intrigues among local rulers, brought over a large army which made landfall in County Wexford.
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]]>Title: King Richard III: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: House of York, Book 3]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-23-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of King Richard III in just an hour.... Free bonus inside! Richard III has gone down in history as one of the most hated and vilified British monarchs of all time. His two-year-long reign as king of England ended in 1485 when he was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth by Henry Tudor, making him the last English king to die on the battlefield. Despite the brevity of his reign, Richard III managed to earn an enduring - albeit unflattering - reputation which lives on to this day. William Shakespeare painted him as a ruthless, hunch-backed usurper, who killed not only his brother but also his two young nephews to get his hands on the crown. Amazingly, Shakespeare’s claims are not completely unfounded. This audiobook attempts to separate fact from fiction to present the true life story of one of Britain’s most controversial kings: Richard III. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So, if you want a straightforward resource on King Richard III, listen to this audiobook!
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]]>Title: Retribution]]>Subtitle: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943-44]]>Categories: Eastern Europe, Europe, Germany, History]]>Author: Prit Buttar]]>Narrator: Matthew Waterson]]>Publisher: Tantor Audio]]>Release date: 10-22-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>From critically acclaimed Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar comes this detailed and engrossing account of the war on the Eastern Front as the German forces were driven back following the Battle of Kursk. Making use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers to bring their story to life, the narrative follows on from On A Knife's Edge, which described the encirclement and destruction of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad and the offensives and counter-offensives that followed throughout the winter of 1942-43. Beginning towards the end of the Battle of Kursk, Retribution explores the massive Soviet offensive that followed the end of Operation Zitadelle, which saw depleted and desperate German troops forced out of Western Ukraine. In this title, Buttar describes in detail the little-known series of near-constant battles that saw a weakened German army confronted by a tactically sophisticated force of over six million Soviet troops. As a result, the Wehrmacht was driven back to the Dnepr and German forces remaining in the Kuban Peninsula south of Rostov were forced back into the Crimea, a retreat which would become one of many in the months that followed.
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]]>Title: Kosmos 954 and Operation Morning Light]]>Subtitle: The History of Efforts to Contain Radioactive Debris Spread Across Canada by a Soviet Satellite]]>Categories: America, Canada, Engineering, Environment]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-22-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“We are just not good enough to tell New York City, for instance, that a satellite is coming and will knock King Kong off the Empire State Building at 2 P.M.” (Lieutenant Colonel Yanchek, Space Defense Center chief, 1978) In the predawn sky of northern Canada, on the morning of January 24th, 1978, a long streak of blue fire suddenly rushed across the starry vista northeast of the remote town of Yellowknife. Those out on the bitterly cold night, with a temperature many tens of degrees below zero Fahrenheit, saw a brilliant leading object sheathed in flames, blue or bluish red, and shining with incandescent intensity. Other smaller objects or fragments shed off it, arcing or tumbling earthward on their own trajectories. Even in this remote location, a number of individuals saw and reported the unusual phenomenon.
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]]>Title: Cantre'r Gwaelod]]>Subtitle: The Mysterious Legend of the Ancient Sunken Kingdom Known as the Welsh Atlantis]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Ireland]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Bernard]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-22-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales." (Evelyn Waugh, English novelist) Wales is a whimsical country with a powerful, complex, myth-filled, and oft disputed history. In 2004, geneticists working with geographers and archaeological colleagues undertook a "People of the British Isle" study. They sought out thousands of volunteers, all four of whose grandparents had been born in the same place, and they analyzed their genetic make-up. "Modern genetic analysis can read the patterns of variation in our complete set of DNA...that change subtly over time," producing a genetic signature that reveals geographical origins. This provides a window into history and helps explain why Wales is so singular and self contained. ("Settlers: Genetics, geography, and the peopling of Britain." ND). The results of this project confirmed that the Welsh are unique, despite the common belief that the term "Celtic" is an homogenous concept that can be used as an overall term that includes the Irish, the Welsh, the Scottish clans, and Cornwellians.
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]]>Title: Battleground Prussia]]>Subtitle: The Assault on Germany’s Eastern Front 1944-45]]>Categories: Europe, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Prit Buttar]]>Narrator: Nigel Patterson]]>Publisher: Tantor Audio]]>Release date: 10-22-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hitler's regime were like no other in the Second World War. The Soviet Army's intent to take revenge for the horror that the Nazis had wreaked on their people produced a conflict of implacable brutality in which millions perished. From the great battles that marked the Soviet conquest of East and West Prussia to the final surrender in the Vistula estuary, this book recounts in chilling detail the desperate struggle of soldiers and civilians alike. These brutal campaigns are brought vividly to life by a combination of previously unseen testimony and astute strategic analysis recognizing a conflict of unprecedented horror and suffering.
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]]>Title: La Camorra: The Notorious History and Legacy of the Neapolitan Mafia]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Italy]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-22-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“I saw four knights with lance and buckler, black capes around their shoulders. They saw me and smiled. At that moment I understood that I was given the task of rebuilding the Camorra on new and more efficient bases, so that the tradition of our fathers would not be lost. I am the reincarnation of the most glorious moments of the Neapolitan past, I am the messiah for the suffering prisoners, I dispense justice, I am the only real judge who takes from the usurers and gives the poor. I am the true law, I do not recognize the Italian justice.” (Don Raffaele Cutolo) The history of Naples is long and tortured, or at least for centuries that was how its history has been told. Inhabited almost continuously from the Neolithic era to the present, Naples was founded by the Greeks and conquered by the Romans. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Naples passed between various foreign rulers for its entire history prior to Italian unification.
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]]>Title: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the U.S. Pacific Fleet's Commander in Chief During World War II]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-18-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“It is the function of the navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on US soil.” (Admiral Nimitz) All Americans are familiar with the “day that will live in infamy”. At 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor, the advanced base of the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet, was ablaze. It had been smashed by aircraft launched by the carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. All eight battleships had been sunk or badly damaged, 350 aircraft had been knocked out, and over 2,000 Americans lay dead. Indelible images of the USS Arizona exploding and the USS Oklahoma capsizing and floating upside down have been ingrained in the American conscience ever since. In less than an hour and a half the Japanese had almost wiped out America’s entire naval presence in the Pacific. Despite fighting in North Africa and the Atlantic, the United States still had the resources and manpower to fight the Japanese in the Pacific. Though the Japanese had crippled the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, its distance from Japan made an invasion of Pearl Harbor impossible, and Japan had not severely damaged important infrastructure.
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]]>Title: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Germany, History, Religion]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-17-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the face of ruthless totalitarian rule, it is only the rare few who stand up at risk of their own life to do what is right. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of those exceptional individuals. Even on pain of death, he would not bend, he would not budge - this German pastor fought the Nazi regime with every fiber of his being. Inside you will hear about.... Today, Dietrich Bonhoeffer is recognized by the United Methodist Church as a Christian martyr, one of only a few to have been bestowed this honor since the Reformation. His legacy as a man who practiced what he preached lives on and has inspired movements all over the world, ranging from the Civil Rights Movement in the United States to the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa.
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]]>Title: Holy Roman Empire]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Holy Roman Empire and Carolingian Dynasty]]>Categories: Education, Europe, Germany, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-15-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Holy Roman Empire, then pay attention... Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: Throughout the story of the Holy Roman Empire, a wealth of fascinating tales from interesting people proliferates. Monks and emperors will clash, poets sing the praises of kings, and the pope rides blind and bareback on a frightened donkey through the streets of Rome. The mightiest monarch in all of the world walks barefoot in the snow in repentance for his angry deeds, and two rival families stand toe-to-toe for the monarchy. Crusades are lost in war and won in diplomacy, while kings are held ransom, revolts are suppressed, and antipopes crowned. Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include: Some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook include: So if you want to learn more about the history of the Holy Roman Empire and Carolingian Empire, get this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: Voltaire]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Author, Biography, Europe, France]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-15-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of Voltaire in less than an hour.... Free bonus inside! Voltaire, born François-Marie Arouet in Paris, France, was a writer and leading figure of the Enlightenment. His insistence that all authority could and must be questioned was so radical, he ended up in prison several times and was ultimately exiled. Voltaire’s writings were instrumental in influencing the American and French revolutions. Man as a being with natural rights was a radical concept at the time, but one which the American founding fathers embraced. Voltaire’s anger was specifically directed at the arbitrary powers of the state and the church. The French legal system treated aristocrats differently than ordinary citizens. The Catholic church, too, wielded its dictatorial power. Voltaire incurred the wrath of both kings and bishops with his unrelenting attacks on such abuses of freedom. Unwilling to be silenced, Voltaire continued his demand for individual freedom throughout the span of his entire life. Only after his death was he officially welcomed back to Paris, and Voltaire’s remains now rest in the Parisian Panthéon, the burial place for the country’s national heroes. Discover a plethora of topics such as So, if you want a quick and easy audiobook on Voltaire, listen now!
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]]>Title: The Mamluks]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of The Medieval Slave Soldiers Who Established a Dynasty in Egypt]]>Categories: Egypt, Europe, History, Medieval, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Bernard]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-14-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Egypt in the 14th century was a glorious kingdom to behold. Spice merchants from Europe, Asia, and Africa sailed up the Nile River to the great port city of Alexandria, carrying riches such as silk, jewels, and spices. Cairo, the capital of Egypt, was the greatest city in the Islamic world, with a larger population and more wealth and splendor than any city in Europe. Cairo was a shining pinnacle of cosmopolitan splendor in the medieval world, and besides being a major trading hub, Cairo was famous for its scholars and intellectual class, offering countless academic opportunities for scholars across the Islamic world. The culture of Cairo was dynamic and famous for its wide range of intellectual debates on Islamic sciences and other academic fields, all of which far surpassed any contemporary city at the time. From across the Islamic world, scholars from all the major schools of thought were represented in Cairo. Spirited lectures occurred frequently in public squares and madrasas were often packed with patrons eagerly listening to readings by famed scholars. Cairo was a city filled with art, trade, and knowledge. However, there was another factor that made Cairo infamous.
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]]>Title: King Henry VII: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: House of Tudor, Book 1]]>Series: #1 in House of Tudor]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-11-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the remarkable life of King Henry VII in less than an hour.... Free bonus inside! Henry VII was not destined to be the well-known (or perhaps better described as infamous) king that his son was after him, but his place in history remains important. With his victory over Richard III in 1485, Henry brought England out of the Middle Ages and ushered it into the modern era. His reign ended decades of bloody civil wars and provided the wealth and stability necessary for commerce and art to thrive in England. When Henry’s son, Henry VIII, ascended the throne in 1509, it marked England’s first uncontested transfer of power in almost 90 years. This fact alone is a testament to Henry’s achievements. In this audiobook, we will discover the story of how Henry VII became the last English king to win his crown on the battlefield and by doing so established the Tudor dynasty which would remain in power for over 100 years. Discover a plethora of topics such as: So if you want a quick and easy audiobook on King Henry VII, listen to this audiobook!
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]]>Title: The Crusades]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Military Expeditions during the Middle Ages That Departed from Europe with the Goal to Free Jerusalem and Aid Christianity in the Holy Land]]>Categories: Education, Europe, History, Learning, Medieval]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-08-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Crusades, then pay attention... It could be said that European kings and nobles in the Middle Ages were Crusade mad. The enormous amount of fighting men who periodically sailed off to the Near East to do battle with Muslims are evidence of the widespread popularity of overseas adventurism at the time. The notion of a Crusade, in which large armies assembled from various regions of Europe for the purpose of doing battle with Turkish and Arab Muslims, became so fixed that it was expanded to include Crusades against heretical European Christian sects. In The Crusades: A Captivating Guide to the Military Expeditions during the Middle Ages That Departed from Europe with the Goal to Free Jerusalem and Aid Christianity in the Holy Land, you will discover topics such as: So if you want to learn more about the history of the Crusades, get this audiobook now!
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]]>Título: Antigua Roma [Ancient Rome]]]>Subtitular: Una Introducción Fascinante a la República Romana, el Ascenso y la Caída del Imperio Romano y el Imperio Bizantino]]>Categorías: Ancient, Education, History, Learning, Rome]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 10-04-2019]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Si quiere descubrir historias cautivadoras de personas y eventos de la antigua Roma, entonces siga leyendo.... La civilización romana es probablemente la civilización más importante de la historia del planeta. Su expansión definió a Europa. Su constitución formó sociedades desde Rusia en el este hasta los Estados Unidos y América Latina en el oeste. Ni siquiera sus conquistadores fueron inmunes a la cultura romana superior. En este nuevo libro de historia cautivadora, aprenderá todo lo que necesita saber sobre las instituciones y la política romana. Estos son algunos de los temas tratados en laAntigua Roma: Una introducción fascinante a la República Romana, El ascenso y la caída del Imperio Romano y el Imperio bizantino: ¡Obtenga este libro ahora para conocer más sobre la antigua Roma! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Battle of Okinawa - World War II]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (World War 2 Battles, Book 13)]]>Series: #13 in World War 2 Battles]]>Categories: Asia, History, Japan, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-03-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Battle of Okinawa was the deadliest campaign of the Pacific during World War II. The Americans had come back from the demoralizing defeat at Pearl Harbor to mount a ferocious attack against the Japanese. To be able to invade Japan, the Americans had to take Okinawa. But the Japanese, determined to defend their homeland and preserve their way of life, would fight to the death against the invaders. As the Army and Marines fought bloody battles to gain Okinawa inch by inch, the Navy was subjected to kamikaze attacks. Inside you will hear about... And much more! For almost three months, the Americans and the Japanese contested one another in a battle of endurance that highlighted the courage of the fighting men of both nations. Ultimately, the Japanese lacked the resources of the Americans, and the Americans claimed the island. But the Americans had learned a deadly lesson from the Battle of Okinawa: if the Japanese fought this hard to protect one island, how much harder would they fight to preserve Japan itself, the last vestige of their empire? To save American lives, military leaders decided that they would utilize another, deadlier weapon to bring the Japanese to their knees.
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]]>Title: Babe Ruth: The Life and Legacy of Major League Baseball's Most Famous Player]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Sport, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-03-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.” (Babe Ruth) As one of America’s oldest and most beloved sports, baseball has long been touted as the national pastime, but of all the millions of people who have played it over the last few centuries, the first name that many associate with Major League Baseball is Babe Ruth, whose career spanned over 20 years on the way to becoming the sport’s biggest legend. The Bambino came onto the scene as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, only to be infamously sold to the rival New York Yankees, where he went on to set records for most home runs (714), runs batted in (2,213), walks (2,062), slugging percentage (.690), and on-base plus slugging (1.164). The Sultan of Swat’s records would take decades to be surpassed, but he also managed to win more than 20 games as a pitcher for Boston, along with three World Series before heading to New York.
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]]>Title: Hannibal Barca: A Captivating Guide to the Carthaginian General Who Fought in the Second Punic War Between Carthage and Ancient Rome]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, History, Learning, Rome]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jason Zenobia]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-02-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating life of Hannibal Barca, then pay attention... One of the names most synonymous with brilliant military strategy is Hannibal. He was the legendary Carthaginian general who marched elephants over the snowy Alps and took on Rome, the growing power in Europe at the time. He outsmarted the best strategists that Rome had to offer and twice sat in front of the gates of Rome with his army. There was never any doubt that Hannibal would serve his country in the military, but no one could have predicted just how well he would serve Carthage. Even centuries later, Romans used the phrase “Hannibal’s at the gates!” as a way of indicating misfortune or fear. Even natural disasters were compared to him. His actions would go on to haunt the Romans for centuries. Because of the threat he had been to them, the Roman Republic was forced to learn how to outsmart their opponents and not just beat them.
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]]>Title: Patrice Lumumba]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Pan-African Politician Who Became Congo’s First Prime Minister]]>Categories: Africa, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Bernard]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-26-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Without dignity there is no liberty, without justice there is no dignity, and without independence there are no free men.” (Patrice Lumumba) The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event - known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 - galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa.
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]]>Title: Samuel Colt and Oliver Winchester]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Careers of America's Most Influential Gunsmiths]]>Categories: America, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-25-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Gunsmiths in early 19th-century America were helped along by noted artisans from Germany, Switzerland, and other European powers, but despite advances made in the European and American musket, the requirement of an exterior spark and percussion to ignite powder for a single-shot discharge remained the paradigm. Similarly, the era was unable to move past the cumbersome weapon that required at least half a minute to reload. The military compensation for such an ungainly and vulnerable process was the alternation of troop lines, in which one fired while the other reloaded from behind. Effective as that was in laying down constant fire and simultaneous reloading, the force as a whole was disabled by a large fraction, and the reloading soldiers were vulnerable to saber attacks on horseback as well. From the bayonet of 1620 to the emergence of repeating firearms in the American Civil War, sometimes referred to as the "first truly modern war," military procedures remained largely the same, based on entrenched European customs.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Hamburger Hill]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of One of the Vietnam War's Most Controversial Battles]]>Categories: America, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-25-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“We are in for some tough fighting ahead, but I feel we have never before been more capable of success than now. The NVA we are going to meet out there will be highly trained, well-equipped, hard-core troops who will stand and fight, especially when we get close to his base camps and supply depots.” (Colonel John Hoefling, 2nd Brigade, March 1, 1969) The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren’t so deadly and tragic. In 1951, while war was raging in Korea, the United States began signing defense pacts with nations in the Pacific, intending to create alliances that would contain the spread of Communism. As the Korean War was winding down, America joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, pledging to defend several nations in the region from Communist aggression. One of those nations was South Vietnam. Faced with such a determined opponent, skilled in asymmetrical warfare and enjoying considerable popular support, the Americans would ultimately choose to fight a war of attrition.
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]]>Title: The Catacombs of Rome and Paris]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Europe's Most Famous Ossuaries]]>Categories: 18th Century, Ancient, Europe, France]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-25-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>An inexplicable draft of wind dances across the dirt floors of the narrow passageway, which seems to stretch on with no end. The flickering flames of the torches mounted onto the rough, sandpaper-like walls of stone create eerie shadows on the dirt floors. One can hear the disembodied whispers intermingling with the chill of the musty air, prompting the hair on many people’s arms to raise. Logically speaking, this is nothing more than the trick of the mind, but the whispers unquestionably feel tangible and real, especially considering the visitor is in the company of thousands upon thousands of corpses stacked onto the walls from floor to ceiling. This kind of imagery is often what springs to mind at the mention of the Roman catacombs, but there was so much more to these underground cemeteries. In the late 18th century, as political unrest stirred in the heart of Paris, local residents of the neighborhoods surrounding the city’s urban cemeteries faced a pressing crisis: the putrefying stink of rotting corpses, many of which were likely friends and family members, crept into every house and business due to overflowing burial grounds.
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]]>Title: King Mithridates the Great of Pontus]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Leader Who Challenged Rome During the Mithridatic Wars]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-24-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Rome faced many formidable enemies over the course of nearly 1,000 years, but perhaps none are as enigmatic and forgotten as King Mithridates the Great of Pontus. Despite numerous ancient sources detailing the life of the foreign monarch and his wars with Rome, and despite being an interesting character who endured years as a fugitive in his youth, enjoyed a fascination with poisons, and held mercy and pragmatic ruthlessness in a delicate balance, very few scholarly books and works have been produced about him. It may be that his largely unsuccessful military campaigns have contributed to his disappearance from active historical examination, but despite his poor record in engagements against the Romans, he dominated much of Asia Minor in the first century BCE, and the Romans themselves considered him one of their most dangerous enemies. In fact, upon his death, the Roman soldiers felt that "in the person of Mithridates 10,000 enemies had died." Mithridates was not a significant threat for his great skills on the battlefield, but rather for his shrewd, calculating nature, his relentless persistence, and his indomitable will.
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]]>Title: The Splintered Empires]]>Subtitle: The Eastern Front 1917-21]]>Categories: Eastern Europe, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Prit Buttar]]>Narrator: Roger Clark]]>Publisher: Tantor Audio]]>Release date: 09-24-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was closer than Russia. After the February Revolution, Russia's ability to wage war faltered and her last desperate gamble, the Kerensky Offensive, saw the final collapse of her army. This helped trigger the Bolshevik Revolution and a crippling peace, but the Central Powers had no opportunity to exploit their gains, and a year later, both the German and Austro-Hungarian empires surrendered and disintegrated. Concluding his acclaimed series on the Eastern Front in World War I, Prit Buttar comprehensively details not only these climactic events, but also the "successor wars" that raged long after the armistice of 1918. New states rose from the ashes of empire and war raged as German forces sought to keep them under the aegis of the Fatherland. These unresolved tensions between the former Great Powers and the new states would ultimately lead to the rise of Hitler and a new, terrible world war only two decades later.
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]]>Title: NASA's Pioneer and Voyager Missions]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the First Space Probes to Explore the Outer Solar System and Beyond]]>Categories: America, History, Science, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-23-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Today, the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that culminated with Apollo 11 "winning" the race for the United States. In fact, it encompassed a much broader range of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States that affected everything from military technology to successfully launching satellites that could land on Mars or orbit other planets in the solar system. Moreover, the notion that America "won" the Space Race at the end of the 1960s overlooks just how competitive the Space Race actually was in launching people into orbit, as well as the major contributions the Space Race influenced in leading to today’s International Space Station and continued space exploration. Space exploration was always an expensive business, and throughout NASA’s history, the agency has had to justify to Congress its need for every dollar it intended to spend. This problem has helped NASA to be more careful and more creative with the money they did receive, and scientists had to justify the equipment they wanted to include on each space probe. They had to justify the size and the power demand, too.
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]]>Title: The Triassic Period]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Geologic Era that Witnessed the Rise of Dinosaurs]]>Categories: Ancient, History, STEM, Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-19-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Scientists have long attempted to understand Earth’s past, and in service to that effort, they have divided the world’s history into eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages. For example, the current eon is called the Phanerozoic, which means “visible life”. This is the eon in which multi-cellular life has evolved and thrived. Before this, life was microscopic (single cell). The Phanerozoic eon is divided into 3 eras - Paleozoic (“old life”), Mesozoic (“middle life”) and Cenozoic (“new life”). From there, the Mesozoic era is divided into 3 periods - Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. Before the Triassic, primitive life had built up in the oceans and seas, and some lifeforms finally had crawled onto land during the Paleozoic era. With that, life had become well established, but then came the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, the worst extinction event in the history of the planet.
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]]>Title: The Salem Witch Hunt]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Hunt and Trials of People Accused of Witchcraft in Colonial Massachusetts]]>Categories: America, Colonialism, Education, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Edwin Andrews]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-18-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Salem Witch Hunt, then pay attention.... Decades after witch-hunting had begun to die down in Europe, North America was about to witness its bloodiest witch hunt in history. The Massachusetts of 1692 was a very different one to the state we know today. Populated by colonists, many of them a generation or less from life in an England bathed in religious turmoil, Massachusetts was not the safe haven that the fleeing Puritans had hoped it would be. Persecuted for their faith in Europe, the Puritans had pictured a kind of utopia founded on biblical principles. They saw the New World as a new beginning, a kind of second chance for humanity. It would be only 72 years after the arrival of the Mayflower that the events in Salem would make it blatantly obvious that humanity had already blown it again. This is not the story of the trials. This is the story of its people. This is not an attempt to explain the events of 1692. It is an attempt to bring to life the victims who died so unjustly.
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]]>Title: John Jay]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to an American Statesman, Patriot, Diplomat, Governor of New York, the First Chief Justice, and One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jamie Peters]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-18-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating life of John Jay, then pay attention.... John Jay was a master statesman and strategic diplomat who associated with all the great men of his day in the mid-18th century. However, his contemporaries said that he was modest and humble. They indicated that they could be at a party or gathering and guests had to coax him into discussing his role during the American Revolution or as the first Supreme Court Justice of the new nation. When he became the first chief justice of America, he established the groundwork for fairness and neutrality in decision-making. Many of the principles he established in the 19th century are practiced today by this high court. His foresight was extremely acute, and leaders of America sought out his opinions even during his retirement.
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]]>Título: La historia azteca [Aztec History]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante sobre el imperio azteca, la mitología y la civilización]]>Categorías: America, Ancient, History, Mexico]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 09-16-2019]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¿Sabía usted que los aztecas sacrificaban entre 500 y 700 personas cada año para satisfacer a los dioses? Durante muchos años, los aztecas han capturado nuestra imaginación. Las historias de los invasores europeos originales combinadas con ruinas y leyendas únicas e impresionantes que hablan de palacios de oro crean una imagen de la sociedad azteca definida por la grandeza, la riqueza y el esplendor. Pero, ¿quiénes eran exactamente los aztecas? ¿De dónde vienen? ¿Cómo ascendieron para controlar una extensión tan amplia de tierra? Y si fueron tan poderosos, ¿cómo era posible que cayeran del poder y la dominación solo tres años después del primer contacto con los españoles? Estas son solo algunas de las preguntas que este nuevo audiolibro de historia fascinante pretende responder. En La historia azteca: Una guía fascinante sobre el imperio azteca, la mitología y la civilización descubrirá temas como: ¡Obtenga este libro ahora para aprender más acerca de la historia azteca! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Famous Dirigibles: The History and Legacy of Lighter than Air Vehicles from the Renaissance to Today]]>Categories: 19th Century, America, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Bernard]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-13-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Wright Brothers initially underestimated the difficulties involved in flying, and they were apparently surprised by the fact that so many others were working on solving the “problem of human flight” already. Decades before their own historic plane would end up in the National Air & Space Museum, Wilbur and Orville asked the Smithsonian for reading materials and brushed up on everything from the works of their contemporaries to Leonardo Da Vinci. Undeterred by the work, and the fact that several would-be pioneers died in crashes trying to control gliders, the Wright Brothers tested out gliding at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina for several years, working to perfect pilot control before trying powered flight. In December 1903, the brothers had done enough scientific work with concepts like lift to help their aeronautical designs, and they had the technical know-how to work with engines. On December 17, the brothers took turns making history’s first successful powered flights. The fourth and final flight lasted nearly a minute and covered nearly 900 feet.
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]]>Title: Mysteries of the Sea]]>Subtitle: A Collection of Lost Ships, Supernatural Stories, and Other Odd Tales Underneath the Waves]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-13-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Water covers the vast majority of the planet, and people have looked upon the oceans for thousands of years with a mixture of awe and fear. The world’s water offers transportation, connections with distant lands, food, and beauty. Furthermore, the deep seas and oceans remain largely unexplored, especially farther below. All of these factors have led to centuries worth of mysteries and stories. Countless people have ventured out on those vast expanses of water, never to return, while others have plumbed the depths and made strange discoveries. The oceans of the world offer no end of intrigue, and people have long been living and telling some of the strangest tales ever heard on the high seas. Mysteries of the Sea: A Collection of Lost Ships, Supernatural Stories, and Other Odd Tales Underneath the Waves chronicles some of the most interesting stories associated with the planet’s oceans. You will learn about mysteries of the sea like never before.
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]]>Title: Native American History]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #1 in Native American History]]>Categories: America, Colonialism, History, Indigenous, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-11-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Until surprisingly recently, most history books noted that America was discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus. The truth was that by the time that Columbus arrived in America, people had been living there for more than 12,000 years. During this time, the indigenous people of North America lived without contact with other continents. Different groups developed separate and distinct ways of life, cultures, and societies but all shared one common characteristic: They relied on the land to provide them with food, and they developed a series of religions that, while separate, shared a respect for nature and imbued many animals and natural features with spiritual characteristics. These beliefs, combined with the fact that most of these societies were relatively primitive compared to those emerging in other parts of the world, meant that the Native Americans were able to live in harmony with the natural world. These people had sophisticated and complex belief systems, but they built no cities, no wheeled vehicles, and developed nothing beyond the most basic written language.
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]]>Title: Operation Rolling Thunder: The History of the American Bombardment of North Vietnam at the Start of the Vietnam War]]>Categories: America, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-11-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Targeting bore little resemblance to reality in that the sequence of attacks was uncoordinated and the targets were approved randomly - even illogically. The North's airfields, which, according to any rational targeting policy, should have been hit first in the campaign, were also off-limits.”(Earl Tilford, US Air Force historian) The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren’t so deadly and tragic. In 1951, while war was raging in Korea, the United States began signing defense pacts with nations in the Pacific, intending to create alliances that would contain the spread of Communism. As the Korean War was winding down, America joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, pledging to defend several nations in the region from Communist aggression. One of those nations was South Vietnam. The seeds of Operation Rolling Thunder, America’s elaborately constrained air war against North Vietnam, appeared almost from the first moment that the USA inherited the conflict from the French. The half-communist, half-nationalist Viet Minh rebels of Ho Chi Minh evicted the French in 1954, but not before the latter partially created an anticommunist state, South Vietnam, in the lower half of the nation.
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]]>Title: Amelia Earhart: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Women in History, Book 11]]>Series: #6 in Biographies of Women in History]]>Categories: Biography, Exploration, Female Protagonist, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Alexander G.]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-11-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Amelia Earhart was a legend - but perhaps an unlikely one at that. You see, Amelia Earhart was not always the dashing heroine that most of us associate with her name. She began life as a rather shy girl, who often found herself having to hide from her troubled upbringing. As her family life spiraled out of control, Amelia Earhart was forced to move from state to state, town to town, never getting the chance to put down roots. The high school she graduated from was one of many she attended, and a caption by her photo for that semester’s yearbook seems to have said it all. It read, “The girl in brown who walks alone.” But even as her peers scoffed at the girl in brown slacks who walked a lonely path, Amelia Earhart was charting a course for a tremendous destiny. Inside, you will listen about: In this book, we will follow all of the hurdles that this heroine surmounted in order to become one of the most famous pilots of all time.
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]]>Title: The History of the United States]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to American History, Including Events Such as the American Revolution, French and Indian War, Boston Tea Party, Pearl Harbor, and the Gulf War]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Jamie Peters]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-10-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the United States, then pay attention.... When the first settlers reached the United States of America and started to chip out a living in the wilderness that seemed so fierce and unfamiliar to their European eyes, they could never have dreamed that someday the land upon which they stood would become one of the most powerful countries in the entire world. When the preachers of the Great Awakening stood on the backs of wagons or bits of old tree stumps and told the American people a new story of individual freedom and the power of ordinary people, they could never have dreamed that their preaching would trigger a landslide of abolitionism that would end in a civil war that almost tore the entire country apart. As for Martin Luther King, Jr., he did dream. He had a dream of equality and brotherhood, and his dream at least partially came true in 2008 when America saw the inauguration of its first black president.
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]]>Title: The Goths]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Visigoths and Ostrogoths Who Sacked Rome and Played an Essential Role in the Fall of the Western Roman Empire]]>Categories: Education, Europe, History, Learning, Scandinavia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Randy Whitlow]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-09-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Goths, then keep reading.... Free History BONUS Inside! When J. R. R. Tolkien was writing his best-known work, The Lord of the Rings, between 1937 and 1949, he drew inspiration from various sources, with the largest well of inspiration being European folklore. However, according to some sources, he would also use real-life historical figures and base his characters on them. Take Théoden, for example. Théoden was an aging king of Rohan, who, after Gandalf the wizard helped him strip the yoke of Grima Wormtongue, rode into battle and died being crushed by his horse. The men picked him up and carried him into battle, nonetheless, singing praises to him and shedding tears.
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]]>Title: Zapotec Civilization: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Mesoamerican History, Book 2]]>Series: #2 in Mesoamerican History]]>Categories: America, Central America, Civilization, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-06-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Zapotecs formed one of the most important of the pre-Columbian civilizations. For 1,000 years, their main city of Monte Albán was one of the largest and most sophisticated in Mesoamerica. Building this city was an astonishing engineering feat - it involved flattening a hill in the center of the Oaxaca Valley to create an artificial plateau and then constructing a series of large, ornate buildings on this inaccessible site. Maintaining this large city on a site with no natural source of water must have required an enormous and willing workforce. Despite this, Monte Albán became one of the largest and most important cities in Mesoamerica, and the Zapotecs came to dominate not just the Oaxaca Valley but many adjacent lands. You will hear about... We don’t know why or how the Zapotecs suddenly seemed to acquire new engineering and architectural skills, but their rise to prominence was astonishingly swift. Once in a position of dominance, they maintained their hold over the region for more than 1,000 years.
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]]>Title: The Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the USSR's Efforts to Build the Atomic Bomb]]>Categories: America, History, Military, Nuclear Warfare]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-06-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Tens of millions died during World War II as the warring powers raced to create the best fighter planes, tanks, and guns, and eventually that race extended to bombs which carried enough power to destroy civilization itself. While the war raged in Europe and the Pacific, a dream team of Nobel Laureates was working on the Manhattan Project, a program kept so secret that Vice President Harry Truman didn’t know about it until he took the presidency after FDR’s death in April 1945. The Manhattan Project would ultimately yield the "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" bombs that released more than 100 Terajoules of energy at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but weeks earlier, on July 16, 1945, the first detonation of a nuclear device took place in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The first bomb was nicknamed the "gadget", to avoid espionage attempts to discover that it was, indeed, a bomb. In some sense, the device detonated in July was not really a "bomb" anyway; it was not a deployable device, though it was a detonatable one. With this success, word reached President Truman, who was then attending the Potsdam Conference, and while there, he presented the news to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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]]>Title: Battle of the Atlantic]]>Subtitle: World War II: A History from Beginning to End (World War 2 Battles, Book 11)]]>Series: #11 in World War 2 Battles]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Naval Force, World War II]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-06-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Battle of the Atlantic - World War II Imagine a battlefield of 3000 square miles, with an enemy that was often invisible when it struck. Imagine a convoy of ships carrying vital supplies from North America to Great Britain, at the mercy of the deadly marauders under the water, waiting to attack them. The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest campaign of World War II, took place upon the Atlantic Ocean as the Allies traveled back and forth from North America to Great Britain with desperately needed oil, provisions, weapons, and supplies for the embattled forces fighting against Nazi Germany. The U-boats, the terror of the undersea, made those convoy journeys particularly precarious, especially after Germany’s Admiral Karl Dönitz developed his dreaded wolf pack strategy. You will hear about: From the start of the war in September 1939 until its end in 1945, the Battle of the Atlantic was fought to keep the Germans from blockading the Atlantic Ocean. The efforts of those valiant seafarers would eventually make D-Day possible, but there were times when even Winston Churchill feared that the prowess of the U-boats would imperil the Allies in their battle against the Nazi menace that had conquered Western Europe.
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]]>Title: Battle of the Coral Sea]]>Subtitle: World War II: A History from Beginning to End (World War 2 Battles, Book 10)]]>Series: #10 in World War 2 Battles]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Naval Force, World War II]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-05-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Battle of the Coral Sea was a major naval conflict which took place a month before the Battle of Midway. Because Midway is regarded as the turning point in the war in the Pacific, Coral Sea is seldom given the respect it deserves. This view fails to take into account the strategic victory that the Allies enjoyed over their powerful, more experienced Japanese foe. Inside you will learn about... Pearl Harbor was only the beginning; in order to achieve its goal of becoming the dominant power in the Pacific, the Japanese knew that they had to finish the destruction of the American fleet. The supply lines that extended between the United States and Australia were an obstacle that the Imperial Japanese Navy intended to remove. But, unknown to the Japanese, the Americans had broken the Japanese code. Upon learning that the Japanese planned to invade Port Moresby in New Guinea as an initial step in isolating Australia, Admiral Jack Fletcher and the American fleet, which included the carriers Yorktown and Lexington, raced to the Coral Sea.
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]]>Title: Tallulah Bankhead: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Actors, Book 6]]>Series: #6 in Biographies of Actors]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-04-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Tallulah Bankhead was known just as much for her off-stage presence as she was for her on-stage performances. Fearless from birth, Tallulah charted her own course in life. She trudged off to New York to make it big in theater when she was still a teen. She then saw opportunity calling on the other side of the Atlantic and didn’t hesitate to hop on a steamship and head to England, chasing her dreams until they became a certain reality. You will listen about: Tallulah Bankhead was a legendary stage performer, a strong voice in both radio and television, and an occasional blockbuster at the movie house. But more than any accolades from theater or film critics, Tallulah is celebrated for her personality and no-holds-barred approach to life. She was someone who refused to conform to anyone’s standards, determined to live life to its fullest, and on her own terms. The life and legacy of Tallulah Bankhead is an impressive one by anyone’s standards.
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]]>Title: Modern Balloons and Airships]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Dirigibles During the 20th Century]]>Categories: America, Europe, History, Military, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Bernard]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-04-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Wright Brothers initially underestimated the difficulties involved in flying, and they were apparently surprised by the fact that so many others were working on solving the “problem of human flight” already. Decades before their own historic plane would end up in the National Air and Space Museum, Wilbur and Orville asked the Smithsonian for reading materials and brushed up on everything, from the works of their contemporaries to Leonardo da Vinci. Undeterred by the work and the fact that several would-be pioneers died in crashes trying to control gliders, the Wright Brothers tested out gliding at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina for several years, working to perfect pilot control before trying powered flight. In December 1903, the brothers had done enough scientific work with concepts like lift to help their aeronautical designs, and they had the technical know-how to work with engines. On December 17, the brothers took turns making history’s first successful powered flights. The fourth and final flight lasted nearly a minute and covered nearly 900 feet.
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]]>Title: Oliver Winchester]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of America's Famous Rifle Manufacturer]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, United States of America, War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-03-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the time weapons industrialist Oliver Winchester was born, the Lewis and Clark Expedition sent to the Pacific by Thomas Jefferson had only recently returned with their report on the first overland continental journey. Outside of a small group of mountain men trapping and trading fur for European fashion magnates, few white settlers had found their way across the Great Plains. The firearms of the Revolution demonstrated little difference between a soldier’s flintlock musket and a hunting weapon taken from the mantle. Gunsmiths in early 19th century America were helped along by noted artisans from Germany, Switzerland, and other European powers, but despite advances made in the European and American musket, the requirement of an exterior spark and percussion to ignite powder for a single-shot discharge remained the paradigm. Similarly, the era was unable to move past the cumbersome weapon that required at least half a minute to reload. The military compensation for such an ungainly and vulnerable process was the alternation of troop lines, in which one fired while the other reloaded from behind.
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]]>Title: The Price of Defeat]]>Subtitle: The History of British Operations to Transfer Personnel, Technology, and Equipment from Germany to Britain after World War II]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-30-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>After the last shots of World War II were fired and the process of rebuilding Germany and Europe began, the Western Allies and the Soviet Union each tried to obtain the services of the Third Reich's leading scientists, especially those involved in rocketry, missile technology, and aerospace research. Naturally, this was a delicate affair due to the fact many of the German scientists were not only active Nazis but had helped the Nazi war machine terrorize the world. At the same time, by the late war period, the Anglo-American Allies formed a clear picture of the Soviet state. Though forced to ally with the USSR's dictator, the West came to understand Communist Russia represented yet another hungry totalitarian power, and thus a very real threat to an independent Europe. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill realized the menacing character of the Soviets from the Katyn Forest Massacre of Polish army officers, if not before, while the Americans only gradually shed a naïve assumption of continued Russian friendliness after the war. The Western approach, however self-interested, typically met with voluntary compliance on the German scientists' parts.
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]]>Title: The Voyager Program]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of NASA's First Probes That Traveled to the Outer Solar System]]>Categories: America, Astronomy, History, Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-30-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Today, the Space Race is widely viewed poignantly and fondly as a race to the Moon that culminated with Apollo 11 “winning” the race for the United States. In fact, it encompassed a much broader range of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States that affected everything from military technology to successfully launching satellites that could land on Mars or orbit other planets in the Solar System. Moreover, the notion that America “won” the Space Race at the end of the 1960s overlooks just how competitive the Space Race actually was in launching people into orbit as well as the major contributions the Space Race influenced in leading to today’s International Space Station and continued space exploration. Although Apollo 11’s successful mission to the Moon is seen as the culmination of the Space Race and the Apollo program remains NASA’s most famous, one of the space agency’s most successful endeavors came about a decade later.
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]]>Title: Early Balloons and Airships]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Dirigibles Before the Invention of Airplanes]]>Categories: 19th Century, Europe, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Bernard]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-27-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Wright Brothers initially underestimated the difficulties involved in flying, and they were apparently surprised by the fact that so many others were working on solving the "problem of human flight" already. Decades before their own historic plane would end up in the National Air & Space Museum, Wilbur and Orville asked the Smithsonian for reading materials and brushed up on everything from the works of their contemporaries to Leonardo Da Vinci. Undeterred by the work, and the fact that several would-be pioneers died in crashes trying to control gliders, the Wright Brothers tested out gliding at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina for several years, working to perfect pilot control before trying powered flight. In December 1903, the brothers had done enough scientific work with concepts like lift to help their aeronautical designs, and they had the technical know-how to work with engines. On December 17, the brothers took turns making history’s first successful powered flights. The fourth and final flight lasted nearly a minute and covered nearly 900 feet.
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]]>Title: Cosa Nostra: The Notorious History and Legacy of the Sicilian Mafia]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Italy]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-23-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"[T]he term mafia found a class of violent criminals ready and waiting for a name to define them, and, given their special character and importance in Sicilian society, they had the right to a different name from that defining vulgar criminals in other countries." (Leopoldo Franchetti, 1876) It is hard to find an island on the map more central than Sicily. Located at the crossroads between Europe and Africa, and between the Eastern and Western Mediterranean, Sicily has rarely been governed as an independent, unified state, yet the island has always occupied a front-row seat to some of the most important events in history, and nowhere is this more obvious than during antiquity. Over the course of the 19th century, the people of Sicily found themselves at the center of a struggle for freedom, one that ended up being long and often very bloody. It was during these crucial years of struggle that the Sicilian mafia, La Cosa Nostra ("Our Thing"), started to take shape. The original word "mafia" was a part of Palermitan slang, and although the origins of the word are not completely certain, some linguistic historians believe it originally meant "flashy".
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]]>Title: The Boxer Rebellion: The History and Legacy of the Anti-Imperialist Uprising in China at the End of the 19th Century]]>Categories: 19th Century, Asia, China, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-23-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The 19th century saw the rise of one of the largest, most powerful empires of the modern era. The sun never set on the British Empire, whose holdings spanned the globe, in one form or another. Its naval supremacy linked the Commonwealth of Canada with the colonies in South Africa and India, and through them trade flowed east and west. An integral but underutilized part of this vast trade network included China, a reclusive Asian kingdom closed off from the Western world that desired none of its goods. Unfortunately for China, the British had the might of an empire and economic force, not to mention modern arms, on their side. Breaking into China’s lucrative trade markets nearly destroyed the nation, severely discredited the Chinese dynasty, wreaked havoc on its people, and further propelled Britain’s empire into a dominant economic and military position. The collision of these two empires took many years and caused much bloodshed. In fact, the troubles started well before the eventual hostilities, festering as frustration mounted until finally boiling over.
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]]>Title: Hannah Duston]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the First American Woman to Have a Statue Built in Her Honor]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Kevin Hung-Liang]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 08-22-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of Hannah Duston, then keep reading... In a time very different from our own, there lived a woman that led an extraordinary life. The single most important event in her existence has stood the test of time. Her character, her actions, and her deepest thoughts and desires are still debated to this day. She has become a symbol of an era that many people today do not understand or comprehend. Hannah Duston lived in a period when women were meant to be delicate, feeble, and more compassionate, but she defied this stereotype. She could be thought of as the ultimate mama bear defending her cubs and warding off all who would harm them. Or she could be seen as the wolf among the lambs that waits for the perfect moment to strike. Her accomplishments in life were great, and her courage stronger than most people. Yet her moral outlook on life was questionable. She was more than just a woman; she was a fighter with a keen sense of survival.
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]]>Title: Reconstruction Era: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 19th Century, America, American Civil War, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-19-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The American Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, produced casualties and destruction on an unprecedented scale. Up to 800,000 soldiers were killed, and huge swathes of the American south were devastated. However, although the defeat of the Confederate States and the end of the war brought peace of a sort, it left many unresolved issues. The period following the end of the Civil War has become known as the Reconstruction Era, and during this time there were efforts to achieve two separate goals: to reintegrate the former rebel southern states fully into the Union and to achieve not only the abolition of slavery - which had been a war aim for the north - but also the emancipation and granting of civil rights to freed slaves. Inside you will listen about: The Reconstruction Era proved almost as divisive as the Civil War itself - the freeing of slaves threatened to undermine the very basis of society and many southerners resisted. For some in the north, the unwillingness of people in the south to adopt new laws and new ways of life seemed to negate the whole point of the war.
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]]>Title: Huitzilopochtli]]>Subtitle: The History of the Aztec God of War and Human Sacrifice]]>Categories: America, History, Indigenous, Mexico, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-15-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Gilgamesh, Hercules, Aeneas, and Lancelot are instantly recognized as mythological heroes in the West, evoking visions of Persian monsters, ghastly labors, and the founding and glorification of cities, but the names of Mesoamerican gods remain as mysterious as their spelling. Even those who have come across their names when learning about the history of Mesoamerica - particularly the Aztec and various gods’ roles in the Spanish conquest of their empire - are often unaware that the Mesoamerican deities have tales that equal any of those in the repertoire of the mythological figures mentioned above. As archaeologists quickly learned, there are numerous temples dedicated to gods all across Mesoamerica, from the Olmec and Toltec to the Aztec and Maya. Furthermore, thousands of people still gather in the ruins of Mesoamerican cities, even as researchers learn more about the civilizations that continue to fascinate modern societies. To the Aztecs, Huitzilopochtli wore a blue-green hummingbird helmet and was draped in pure white heron feathers. He carried a smoking mirror, an obsidian mirror, a shield, darts, and the serpent Xiuhcoatl that carried with it the fury and might of the sun.
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]]>Title: The French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon: The History and Legacy of France's Administration of the Levant after World War I]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-14-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The United Nations is one of the most famous bodies in the world, and its predecessor, the League of Nations, might be equally notorious. In fact, President Woodrow Wilson’s pet project was controversial from nearly the minute it was conceived. At the end of World War I, Wilson's pleas at the Paris Peace Conference relied on his Fourteen Points, which included the establishment of a League of Nations, but while his points were mostly popular amongst Americans and Europeans alike, leaders at the Peace Conference largely discarded them and favored different approaches. British leaders saw their singular aim as the maintenance of British colonial possessions. France, meanwhile, only wanted to ensure that Germany was weakened and unable to wage war again - and it, too, had colonial interests abroad that it hoped to maintain.
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]]>Title: Indus Valley Civilization]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Asia, Civilization, History, India]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-12-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the late 1800s, British engineers building some of the first railways in the Dominion of India discovered large numbers of bricks buried in the dusty plains of the Punjab. This was odd because historians were not aware of any cities or civilizations which might have constructed buildings in this area. It wasn’t until archeological expeditions in the 1920s that it was finally realized that these bricks were the remains of mighty cities built by a previously unknown ancient civilization. Inside you will hear about... And much more! This culture has become known as the Indus Valley Civilization or sometimes the Harappan Civilization, after Harappa, the first city to be discovered. It has proved to be one of the largest ancient cultures, having a population of over five million people at its height and covering an area of one and a half million square kilometers. It also created very large cities, carefully planned and laid out where almost every house had its own bath and flush toilet, thousands of years before such things became common in other parts of the world.
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]]>Title: Uranprojekt]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Nazi Germany's Nuclear Weapons Program During World War II]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregory T. Luzitano]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-12-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"What if the enemy should get the atomic bomb before we did! We could not run the mortal risk of being outstripped in this awful sphere." (Winston Churchill) Both the Western Allies and the Soviets knew of Adolf Hitler's V-2 rocket program, the forerunner of ballistic missiles and the space race. Each recognized the immense strategic value of these technologies and wished to secure their benefits for themselves. As the Soviets contemplated additional expansion following the "Great Patriotic War" and the US military came to understand the putative allies of today would emerge as the enemies of tomorrow, the men possessing knowledge of the V-2 rockets and other Third Reich military technology programs became seen as crucial pieces in the incipient NATO versus Warsaw Pact standoff. The result was the American-led "Operation Paperclip" on the Western side, which resulted in German scientists putting their expertise at the disposal of the US and other NATO members.
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]]>Title: The Olmecs]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #1 in Mesoamerican History]]>Categories: America, Central America, Civilization, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-10-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Many ancient civilizations are described as mysterious, but none provide as many puzzles and unanswered questions as the Olmecs. These people arrived in lands near the Gulf of Mexico around 1500 BCE and brought with them entirely new concepts in terms of engineering, agriculture, and religion. The problem is we have no idea where they came from or how they developed these new ideas. Then, around 400 BCE, the Olmecs vanished as suddenly and inexplicably as they appeared, leaving behind no written records but providing a legacy of beliefs and ideas which permeated virtually every Mesoamerican culture that followed. In this audiobook you will hear about: Respected scholars take very different views on the Olmec civilization. Some feel that the Olmecs must have come to Central America from somewhere else entirely, while others are adamant that they are indigenous people. Some historians believe that the Olmecs were simply one of several cultures that emerged at around the same time, while others are vehement that this is the mother culture from which all subsequent Mesoamerican cultures descended.
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]]>Title: The Decline of the Soviet Union: The History of the Communist Empire in the Last 30 Years of Its Existence]]>Categories: America, History, Russia, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-08-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Leonid Brezhnev became First Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union in late 1964 after a plot to oust Khrushchev. Little is remembered in the public imagination about Brezhnev in comparison to Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Lenin, or Joseph Stalin, despite the fact Brezhnev ruled the USSR from 1964-1982, longer than any Soviet leader other than Stalin. In fact, he held power during a tumultuous era that changed the world in remarkable ways, and that era has been favorably remembered by many former Soviet citizens. It marked a period of relative calm and even prosperity after the destruction of World War II and the tensions brought about by Khrushchev. Foremost amongst Brezhnev’s achievements would be the détente period in the early 1970s, when the Soviets and Americans came to a number of agreements that reduced Cold War pressures and the alarming threat of nuclear war. On the other side of the balance sheet, Brezhnev oversaw a malaise in Soviet society that later became known as an era of stagnation during which the Communist Bloc fell far behind the West in terms of economic output and standard of living.
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]]>Title: The Kingdom of Italy: The History and Legacy of the Italian State from Unification to the End of World War II]]>Categories: 19th Century, Europe, History, Italy, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-06-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Few people in 1830 believed that an Italian nation might exist. There were eight states in the peninsula, each with distinct laws and traditions. No one had had the desire or the resources to revive Napoleon's partial experiment in unification." (Denis Mack Smith) In the 18th century, Italy was still divided into smaller states, but differently than during medieval times when the political entities were independent and were flourishing economic and cultural centers almost unrivaled in Europe. During the 18th century, all of them were submitted to one of the greater hegemonic powers. This process of conquest and submission began during the early 16th century, when France was called on by the Duke Milan to intervene in his favor and from there never stopped. This was the geopolitical picture in Italy when the tumult of the French Revolution crossed the Alps, and the military campaigns of the legendary Napoleon Bonaparte would initiate a chain of events that would have massive reverberations across Italy throughout the 19th century. The different Italian states on the peninsula experienced Napoleonic rule in the early 1800s, followed by a brief restoration that led to widespread political upheavals in the 1820s.
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]]>Title: Weird Television]]>Subtitle: A Collection of Interrupted Broadcasts, Paranormal Apparitions, and Other Mysteries on TV]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Modern, Occult]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-06-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>For more than two generations, television has been a part of most people’s lives, and few could remember a time when it wasn’t there as a familiar, reliable source of information and entertainment. Today, viewers are accustomed to broadcasts running seamlessly with commercials following programming before more programs come on. The occasional glitch might happen here or there, including temporary blackouts due to storms, but for the most part, television runs incredibly smoothly. Of course, that wasn’t all the case. At times, pranksters or political activists hacked into satellite feeds, protestors took over studios while live and on air, and intriguing paranormal events with few good explanations have been seen. In fact, the TV has always been a place of mystery, a battleground for competing ideologies, and a source of anonymous voices. Television broadcasts have been used to support war efforts, topple governments, communicate secretly, and even attempt to communicate with the dead. Weird Television: A Collection of Interrupted Broadcasts, Paranormal Apparitions, and Other Mysteries on TV includes strange stories that will make this familiar medium seem a bit less familiar and far more interesting. You will learn about some of the world’s strangest TV stories like never before.
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]]>Title: Weird Radio and Television]]>Subtitle: A Collection of Spy Transmissions, Unidentified Stations, Paranormal Activities, and Other Mysteries Across the Media]]>Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-05-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>For more than a century, radio has been a part of people’s lives. No one alive today remembers a time when it hadn't always been there as a familiar, reliable source of information and entertainment. Today, it seems a bit mundane, overtaken by the Internet and satellite television. Even in the 1980s, the development of cable television (50 channels instead of five) and the start of MTV made radio seem quaint, and as many once claimed, “Radio is dead”. It wasn't, of course. Radio is still popular today, with as many stations as ever, and it remains a part of the world that is taken for granted. While not dead, its familiarity has made it seem a bit mundane, but people shouldn’t think of it that way. In fact, the airwaves have always been a place of mystery, a battleground of competing ideologies, and a source of anonymous voices. Radio has been used to support war efforts, topple governments, communicate secretly, and even attempt to communicate with the dead. Likewise, for more than two generations, television has been a part of most people’s lives, and few could remember a time when it wasn’t there.
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]]>Title: Into Africa]]>Subtitle: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone]]>Categories: Africa, Biography, Exploration, Explorer]]>Author: Martin Dugard]]>Narrator: Simon Jones]]>Publisher: Random House Audio]]>Release date: 08-02-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>With the utterance of a single line - "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?" - a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily researched account of a thrilling adventure - defined by alarming foolishness, intense courage, and raw human achievement. In the mid-1860s, exploration had reached a plateau. The seas and continents had been mapped, the globe circumnavigated. Yet one vexing puzzle remained unsolved: What was the source of the mighty Nile river? Aiming to settle the mystery once and for all, Great Britain called upon its legendary explorer, Dr. David Livingstone, who had spent years in Africa as a missionary. In March 1866, Livingstone steered a massive expedition into the heart of Africa. In his path lay nearly impenetrable, uncharted terrain, hostile cannibals, and deadly predators. Within weeks, the explorer had vanished without a trace.
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]]>Title: Sicily: The History and Legacy of the Mediterranean's Most Famous Island]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History, Italy]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-29-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It is hard to find an island on the map more central than Sicily. Located at the crossroads between Europe and Africa, and between the eastern and western Mediterranean, Sicily has rarely been governed as an independent, unified state. Nonetheless, the island has been the seat of some of the most important events in history, and nowhere is this more obvious than during antiquity. After the Punic Wars, Sicily would remain a Roman domain until the end of antiquity, and affairs on the island dramatically affected the Romans at home.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Khe Sanh]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Major Battle That Preceded the Tet Offensive During the Vietnam War]]>Categories: America, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-29-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the end of 1967, with nearly half a million troops deployed, more than 19,000 deaths, and a war that cost $2 billion a month and seemed to grow bloodier by the day, President Lyndon Johnson's administration faced skepticism regarding the Vietnam War. Regardless, by then, both sides were preparing to take the war into a new phase. General William “Westy” Westmoreland, commander of American forces in the theater, planned an aggressive strategy to send forces into Laos and Cambodia to sever the “Ho Chi Minh Trail” and other lines of supply. However, unbeknownst to the Americans, the North Vietnamese were planning their own major and hopefully decisive campaign for early 1968. This would come in the form of the Tet Offensive, a coordinated surprise assault on many key locations throughout the conflict zone. Key to both sets of plans was an American base in the extreme northwest region of South Vietnam, close to Laos. It was a part of a chain of US and ARVN (South Vietnamese military) bases designed to screen the South from direct invasion by the North. This base bore the name of a town at its location, Khe Sanh.
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]]>Title: American Indian Wars]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #3 in Native American History]]>Categories: America, Colonialism, History, Indigenous, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-29-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The American Indian Wars, a series of conflicts between white settlers and Native Americans which took place in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, were complex, brutal, and many. An official United States Census report published in 1898 noted at least 40 wars which had taken place in the previous 100 years. The total number of individual wars probably numbers well over 100, though many were localized and on a very small scale. Inside you will hear about: The American Indian Wars were often bafflingly different, each with its own specific causes and precipitating factors. Yet each was also essentially similar: These wars was fought for possession of land. As white settlers gradually spread over what is now the United States of America, they encountered Native American tribes. The white settlers wanted to create farms and ranches. The tribes wanted the land for hunting. There could be no compromise - these were wars to the death for the right to establish or retain a way of life. The conflicts which resulted were numerous, violent, and localized.
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]]>Title: The Inquisition in the New World]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Inquisition After Spain and Portugal Colonized the Americas]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, History, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-24-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“When you tell someone your secret, your freedom is gone.” (Fernando de Rojas) The notorious Spanish Inquisition in the 15th century, the subject of multiple documentaries, movies, and other pop culture mediums, is remembered for its oppression, barbarous torture, and religious tyranny. It was roughly around this time that a period of European exploration began. Trade was able to increase in Europe from around the world due to more effective ships being introduced. The introduction of multiple mast ships and sternpost rudders allowed the ships to travel quicker and be more maneuverable. By the start of the 15th century, ships were much larger and able to support long-distance travel with a minimum number of crew aboard. One explorer, Christopher Columbus, sought funding from the Portuguese to search for a passage to Asia by sailing westward, but he was rejected. At this time in the late 15th century, Portugal’s domination of the West African sea routes prompted the neighboring Crown of Castile and the Catholic monarchs in modern Spain to search for an alternative route to South and East Asia (termed Indies) so they provided Columbus with the funding he required.
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]]>Title: The Great Famine: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #2 in Irish History]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Ireland]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-23-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Great Famine The Great Famine which afflicted Ireland from 1845 to 1849 was one of the most catastrophic events in Europe during the 19th century. More than one-quarter of the population of Ireland died of starvation or associated disease, or were forced to emigrate. Ireland after the famine was a completely different country in many ways. The direct causes of the famine are simple to understand - a large part of the population of Ireland, mainly the poorest families, had become completely dependent on the potato as a source of food. In 1845, the blight appeared, a disease which affected the potato crop. Successive failures of the potato crop in Ireland led to more than one million people dying as a direct result. What is less easy to understand is why this famine was confined to Ireland and why the British government did not do more to help. The potato blight affected parts of Great Britain and other countries in Europe, but nowhere else did it lead to famine.
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]]>Title: Mansa Musa and Timbuktu]]>Subtitle: The History of the West African Emperor and Medieval Africa's Most Fabled City]]>Categories: Africa, Biography, Celebrity, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-23-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“From the far reaches of the Mediterranean Sea to the Indus River, the faithful approached the city of Mecca. All had the same objective: to worship together at the most sacred shrine of Islam, the Kaaba in Mecca. One such traveler was Mansa Musa, Sultan of Mali in Western Africa. Mansa Musa had prepared carefully for the long journey he and his attendants would take. He was determined to travel not only for his own religious fulfillment but also for recruiting teachers and leaders, so that his realms could learn more of the Prophet's teachings.” (Mahmud Kati, Chronicle of the Seeker) Recent research has revealed that the richest person of all time lived in the 14th century in West Africa and went by many names, including Kankan Musa Keita, Emir of Melle, Lord of the Mines of Wangara, Conqueror of Ghanata, and the Lion of Mali II, but today he is usually referred to as Mansa Musa.
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]]>Title: Jan Hus and Ulrich Zwingli]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Deaths of the Reformation's Most Famous Martyrs]]>Categories: Biography, Catholicism, Christianity, History, Religion]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-22-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Therefore, faithful Christian, seek the truth, listen to the truth, learn the truth, love the truth, tell the truth, defend the truth even to death.” (Jan Hus) “The Christian life, then, is a battle so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss. I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that he will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that he break me as a potter's vessel or make me strong, as it pleases him.” (Ulrich Zwingli) Theologian and reformer John Wycliffe never had the opportunity to take his doctrines outside of his native England, but he could never have imagined that his teachings would one day travel as far as 920 miles east to Bohemia. One curious mind, however, was supposedly so inspired by Wycliffe that he was at once galvanized into action. Instead of simply parroting Wycliffe's seditious ideas, he launched an entire movement and remained fervidly true to his cause, even when his own life was at stake.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Mon, 22 Jul 2019 09:45:39 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bRKf7W2E Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Claudius: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Historical Fiction, History, Rome]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-18-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Claudius. Often portrayed as an awkward, disfigured, and clumsy man, Claudius was the unlikely ruler of the Roman Empire from 41 CE to 54 CE. His reign would prove to be one of the longest of the time even though his rise to the throne did not come without opposition. Virtually no-one in Claudius’ family wanted to see him become emperor - only when he turned out to be the last surviving man of the Julio-Claudian dynasty did he ascend to the throne. Inside you will listen about: No-one ever expected that the boy that was used as the comparative standard for stupidity by his own mother would become the emperor of Rome. Yet, he did. Claudius reign was riddled with conspiracies and attempts on his life by the Senate that was supposed to serve him. But despite all the opposition to his rule, Claudius would go on to be an able and efficient leader. He expanded the Roman Empire more than any other emperor had since the reign of Augustus.
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]]>Title: Menachem Begin]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Irgun Leader Who Became Israel’s Prime Minister]]>Categories: Biography, Head of State, History, Levant, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-18-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Mr. President, I wish to tell you something personal - not about me, but about my generation. What you have just heard about the Jewish people's inherent rights to the Land of Israel may seem academic to you, theoretical, even moot. But not to my generation. To my generation of Jews, these eternal bonds are indisputable and incontrovertible truths, as old as recorded time." - Menachem Begin "We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate." - Menachem Begin The conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is over 70 years old and counting but has its roots in over 2,000 years of history. With so much time and history, the Middle East peace process has become laden with unique, politically sensitive concepts like the right of return, contiguous borders, secure borders, demilitarized zones, and security requirements, with players like the Quartet, Palestinian Authority, Fatah, Hamas, the Arab League, and Israel.
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]]>Title: Thomas Paine: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #6 in American Revolutionary War]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Politician]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-16-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The mind of Thomas Paine was gifted to the American Revolution at just the right time. Right when the fervor of the revolutionary spirit was beginning to subside, the pen of Thomas Paine came along and ignited the fires of American liberty once again. Yet decades later, when Paine returned to the American shores that he helped liberate, he was met with a bitter homecoming. Paine had arrived right on the heels of his association with bloody upheavals in revolutionary France and the publication of his unapologetically anti-Christian tracts, which did not go over well in an America swept by the Second Great Awakening. Both of these aspects of his intellectual life made him an insufferable outcast, shunned by nearly all of his former associates. But Thomas Paine always knew that life was a gamble, and depending on the factors involved he was variously known as the greatest hero of the republic, or the greatest villain. Inside you will hear about: And much more! Now that the dust of history has finally begun to settle, we can get a much clearer view of who Thomas Paine was.
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]]>Title: Samuel Colt: The Life and Legacy of the Man Who Invented America’s Most Famous Guns]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, United States of America, War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-15-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“God made men, but Sam Colt made them equal.” (A common 19th century adage) The industrial revolution that unfolded in Western societies at the dawn of the 19th century altered daily life as a rapidly developing paradigm. Military weapons benefited from various upgrades and innovations, even as the soldiers and generals remained confined within Napoleonic tactics while struggling to learn about the new principles of physics and engineering. By the time weapons industrialist Samuel Colt was born, the Lewis and Clark expedition sent to the Pacific by Thomas Jefferson had only recently returned with their report on the first overland continental journey. Outside of a small group of mountain men trapping and trading fur for European fashion magnates, few white settlers had found their way across the Great Plains. The firearms of the revolution demonstrated little difference between a soldier’s flintlock musket and a hunting weapon taken from the mantle. Trapped in the same technological rut, as future wars drew near in the new century, Samuel Colt entered the pool of visionaries in search of the invention that would tip the power balance in favor of those who possessed it.
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]]>Title: The First Italian War]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Italian Wars' Initial Conflict at the Height of the Renaissance]]>Categories: Europe, History, Italy, Renaissance]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-08-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 1494, there were five sovereign regional powers in Italy: Milan, Venice, Florence, the Papal States, and Naples. In 1536, only one remained - Venice. These decades of conflict precipitated great anxiety among Western thinkers. Italians responded to the fragmentation, forevermore, of Latin Christendom, the end of self-governance for Italians, and the beginning of the early modern era in a myriad of ways. They were always heavily influenced by the lived experience of warfare between large Christian armies on the peninsula. Most historians credit the city-state of Florence as the place that started and developed the Italian Renaissance, a process carried out through the patronage and commission of artists during the late 12th century. If Florence is receiving its due credit, much of it belongs to the Medicis, the family dynasty of Florence that ruled at the height of the Renaissance. The dynasty held such influence that some of its family members were even ordained as pope. Among all of the Medicis, its most famous member ruled during the Golden Age of Florence, at the apex of the Renaissance’s artistic achievements.
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]]>Title: The Order of Santiago]]>Subtitle: The History of the Catholic Military Order Sworn to Defend the Iberian Peninsula]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-08-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>For centuries, Christians and Muslims were embroiled in one of the most infamous territorial disputes of all time, viciously and relentlessly battling one another for the Holy Land. In the heart of Jerusalem sat one of the shining jewels of the Christian faith, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Legend has it that this was where their Savior had been buried before his fabled resurrection. What was more, it was said to house the very cross Jesus Christ had died upon. It was for precisely these reasons that fearless pilgrims, near and far, risked their lives and made the treacherous trek to Jerusalem. The Crusades are still a fascinating and controversial topic, so when people think of religious knighthoods, they almost always think of the Knights Templar or the Knights Hospitaller. These orders captured the imagination of medieval authors due to their influence and prestige during the Crusades between the Christian kingdoms and Islamic caliphates of Western Asia and Northern Africa. They were not, however, the only orders in existence, and the Holy Land was not the only region featuring such religious conflicts.
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]]>Title: Anaïs Nin: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #5 in Biographies of American Authors]]>Categories: Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-08-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Anaïs Nin was an influential and acclaimed writer best known for her diaries that cover six decades from the 1910s to the 1970s. In addition to her famous journals, her works include novels, essays, poetry, studies, and erotica - many of which remain popular to this day. As one of the first prominent female authors of erotica, Nin led a controversial life that was subject to many rumors. Her fearlessness when it came to tackling taboo topics such as incest, sexual abuse, and extra-marital affairs would earn her both staunch supporters and zealous critics. Inside you will read about: In the 1960s, Anaïs Nin’s unconventional lifestyle, which included two simultaneous husbands and numerous casual partners, turned her into a feminist icon. Since then, her legacy as a scandalous woman and an exceptional author has continued to captivate audiences.
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]]>Title: Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Multiethnic Nations That Split Apart after the Cold War]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-05-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On New Year’s Day 1993, Czechoslovakia broke into two separate countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Thus ended one of the creations brought about by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, and as a country that had existed for just under 75 years, Czechoslovakia spent most of its time under the tyranny of fascism or communism. The country’s origins go back far longer than the 1910s, and they were complex and convoluted. The very geography of central Europe meant this territory had been conquered and occupied many times, and for much of the modern era, it belonged to much larger empires. Two distinct ethnicities had come to make up the bulk of the territory’s inhabitants: the Czechs and the Slovaks. Czechoslovakia’s split was mostly peaceful. Although nominally all “Slavs”, the country was an amalgamation of languages, alphabets, cultures, religions, and traditions, which ensured its short existence was littered with splits, conflicts, and shocking violence. In a sense, it’s somewhat surprising that it lasted as long as it did. In the wake of World War I, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, initially known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, came into existence with a monarch as its head of state.
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]]>Title: The Progressive Era: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Gender Study, History, Social Science]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jeffrey Howard]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-02-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Progressive Era was the period of American history between the 1890s and 1920s. It was a movement dedicated to political and social reform, largely driven by the middle class. In a world that was dominated by wealthy industrialists and threatened by radical ideas of laborers, the middle class strived for order. In this audiobook, you will explore the following topics: Women played a prominent role in the movement. Their main objective was gaining the right to vote, but they also worked tirelessly on temperance, urban reform, and other social reforms. Women gained a strong influence even before they achieved suffrage. Progressiveness was dominated by optimism for the future and the ability of civilization to find solutions to age-old problems. Those in the movement had an overriding faith, particularly in Western civilization and its apparent greatness. The end of the era embodied a severe questioning of that faith. Ultimately, the Progressive Era left a legacy of hope, but also a warning against hubris.
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]]>Title: Jimi Hendrix: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Rock Stars, Book 2]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Alexander G.]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-27-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Jimi Hendrix took the world of rock music to new heights, and it has never really come back down. Meet the man who single-handedly changed the face of modern music. In this book, you will find the story of Hendrix’s life in full detail - from his childhood to his stint in the US military to his time as an international superstar. We will discuss the man, the myth, and the legend, Jimi Hendrix.
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]]>Title: Mary Baker Eddy: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Women in History, Book 10]]>Series: #5 in Biographies of Women in History]]>Categories: Biography, Female Protagonist, Religion, Religious Figure]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-25-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Mary Baker Eddy Free bonus inside! Mary Baker Eddy stands unique in our collective remembrances of supposed prophets of the bygone past. She was a girl that quite literally felt a calling at an early age when she thought she heard a supernatural voice call her name. Shortly thereafter, she was intermittently beset with chronic illnesses and remarkable bouts of healing. Mary Baker Eddy did not claim to understand where her spontaneous remissions were coming from until much later in life; it was in old age, when no one expected Mary Baker Eddy to do much of anything except retire, that she entered into her great final act, and in doing so, she rocked the entire religious world to its core. Inside you will hear about: And much more! Whether or not you believe her claims of healing and divine intervention, the story of Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, is a riveting one all the same.
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]]>Title: Battle of Berlin - World War II: A History From Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: World War 2 Battles, Book 9]]>Series: #9 in World War 2 Battles]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-24-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Battle of Berlin was a monumental battle between two adversaries who despised one another. For the Russians who had endured the horrific suffering and loss of lives in defending their nation against the Nazi invasion, the opportunity for vengeance seemed as if fate was on their side. For the German civilians who remained in Berlin, the approach of the Red Army invoked terror. The Germans hoped that the Americans would reach them first; they would have preferred to surrender to the Americans. But the Russians were advancing swiftly from the east, and by April of 1945, the Battle of Berlin was underway. You will learn about: Hitler died by his own hand on April 30, and the Third Reich was crumbling. The loss of life on both sizes was catastrophic, but the Germans had no way of replacing the defenders of the city, and on May 2, Berlin surrendered to the Soviet forces intent on retaliation. The Russians attempted to provide services and food to the starving Germans, but not all of the Russian soldiers were inspired by compassion or altruism.
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]]>Title: Haile Selassie: The Life and Legacy of the Ethiopian Emperor Revered as the Messiah by Rastafarians]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, Head of State, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-19-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“By virtue of His Imperial Blood, as well as by anointing He has received, the person of the Emperor is sacred. His dignity is inviolable and His power indisputable.” - Article 4 of the revised Constitution of Ethiopia (1955) The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event - known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 - galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa.
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]]>Title: Japan and World War I]]>Subtitle: The History of the Japanese Empire’s Participation in the Great War]]>Categories: Asia, History, Japan, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-17-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>World War I, also known in its time as the “Great War” or the “War to End all Wars”, was an unprecedented holocaust in terms of its sheer scale. It saw millions of soldiers do battle in brutal assaults of attrition which dragged on for months with little to no respite. It demonstrated man’s capacity to kill each other on a heretofore unprecedented scale, and as always, such a war brought about technological innovation at a rate that made the boom of the Industrial Revolution seem stagnant. The First World War came at an unfortunate time for those who would fight in it, and while the role of Japan in World War II is widely known, Japan’s important role in the First World War is mostly overlooked.
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]]>Title: Anne Boleyn: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-13-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Anne Boleyn is most likely the best-known of Henry VIII’s six wives; she is also the most controversial. History has represented Anne as either a whore or a martyr. The true story, however, is far more complex. Inside you will learn about: Henry VIII of England pursued Anne Boleyn for seven years while he was battling for an annulment from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Catherine had failed to provide Henry with a male heir to the throne, so the king looked to Catherine’s maid of honor, Anne Boleyn, to secure his Tudor lineage. When Anne also failed to give birth to a son, her fate was sealed. She was charged with multiple counts of adultery during a trial everyone agreed was a sham. Found guilty, Anne Boleyn was beheaded immediately afterward and placed in an unmarked grave. Her death served to reveal the true horror dispensed to wives who displeased their royal husbands.
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]]>Title: Jan Hus: The Life and Legacy of the Christian Theologian Executed for Heresy Before the Reformation]]>Categories: Biography, Christianity, History, Planet Earth, Religion]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-12-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Therefore, faithful Christian, seek the truth, listen to the truth, learn the truth, love the truth, tell the truth, learn the truth, defend the truth even to death.” (Jan Hus) Theologian and reformer John Wycliffe never had the opportunity to take his doctrines outside of his native England, but he could never have imagined that his teachings would one day travel as far as 920 miles east to Bohemia. In fact, while his contentious convictions aroused much ado at home, receiving both praise and contempt from followers and ecclesiastical figures, his messages would be far more resonant across the Channel than they ever were back home. The revival of Wycliffe's ideas, many believe, was ignited by receptive Bohemian students who were introduced to the reformer's works at Oxford University and became so moved by his thoughts that they felt it absolutely imperative to spread the good word in their own kingdoms. Questioning Christians quietly perused compilations of Wycliffe's books and were, at the very least, intrigued by the nonconformist's opinions. One curious mind, however, was supposedly so inspired by Wycliffe that he was at once galvanized into action.
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]]>Title: Maimonides and St. Thomas Aquinas]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Works of the Middle Ages’ Most Influential Religious Philosophers]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-03-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“One should accept the truth from whatever source it proceeds.” (Maimonides) Moses Ben Maimon, frequently called Maimonides, was a medieval philosopher who revolutionized thinking about ethics, reason, and the Jewish Torah through his emphasis on reason and evidence. His works were broadly accepted by the Sephardi Jewish community and spread across the medieval world, reaching the Jewish populations as far as Yemen, and though he lived in the 12th century, Maimonides continues to be one of the most studied scholars of Jewish law, philosophy, and theology. Many consider him forward-thinking for his time, and his texts continue to reach numerous modern audiences through translations, commentaries, and in-depth study. Maimonides’ ideas and theological interpretations remain influential in contemporary times. His work influenced numerous Jewish and Islamic scholars, while outside of religion, his ideas were popular topics in philosophy and went on to influence thinkers like Thomas Aquinas, Leibnitz, Leo Strauss, and the Humanist intellectual movement. Of particular importance was his emphasis on personal humility, forming decisions based on a body of evidence, and reasoning through arguments before arriving at a conclusion. His work was diverse, forward-thinking for his time, and demonstrated his intellectual pursuits across numerous fields.
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]]>Title: The Republic of Venice and Republic of Genoa: The History of the Italian Rivals and Their Mediterranean Empires]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-30-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Founded in the wake of the decline of the Roman Empire, the Republic of Venice lasted for more than a thousand years, from 697-1797, and in order to understand its singular position in world history, it is necessary to first note its geographical positioning and its topographical makeup: Located in northeastern Italy at the head of the Adriatic, the city is made up of 120 islands that are connected by 430 bridges that cross over 170 canals, referred to as a “rio” or plural “rii” (Italian for river). As a maritime power, the interests of Venice once reached all the way to Asia, which allowed it to form an important crossroads within the Eastern Mediterranean, in terms of trade. In Venice, a vast array of products (raw materials, spices, cloth) came all the way from North Africa, Russia, and India and were exchanged for the goods and wealth of Europe. In a country that is as crowded with famous cities as Italy, Genoa is usually not one that first leaps to mind, at least for an English-speaking audience.
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]]>Title: King James I: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: House of Stuart, Book 1]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-24-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>James I of England and VI of Scotland was the first king to rule both countries. He was faced with division between his realms and caught between the religious wars of the Reformation. Spending most of his reign at odds with the religious and parliamentary powers around him, James did little to unite his people. Unable to take a firm stand on critical issues, he spent his life avoiding them. Inside, you will listen about.... Still, James was not a bad king. He is best remembered for the translation of the Bible into English, making it accessible to all. During the start of the bloody Thirty Years’ War that would engulf Europe, James did his best to keep England out of the turmoil. His descendants, however, brought about a bloody civil war that was to last for several generations. James I and VI continues to have a reputation as a lazy king who gave too much power to his male favorites.
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]]>Title: Ancient Egypt’s Most Famous Royal Family: The Lives and Deaths of Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Tutankhamun]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Egypt, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-21-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe nearly 5,000 years later. From the Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria to the Great Pyramid at Giza, the Ancient Egyptians produced several wonders of the world, revolutionized architecture and construction, created some of the world’s first systems of mathematics and medicine, and established language and art that spread across the known world. With world-famous leaders like King Tut and Cleopatra, it’s no wonder that today’s world has so many Egyptologists. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of ancient Egyptian civilization was its inception from the ground up, as the ancient Egyptians had no prior civilization which they could use as a template. In fact, ancient Egypt itself became a template for the civilizations that followed. The Greeks and the Romans were so impressed with Egyptian culture that they often attributed many attributes of their own culture - usually erroneously - to the Egyptians. With that said, some minor elements of ancient Egyptian culture were, indeed, passed on to later civilizations.
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]]>Title: Ivan Pavlov: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Russian Psychologist]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, History, Modern, STEM]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-20-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.” (Pavlov) Pavlov's dogs are to Psychology 101 what Rome is to antiquity classes. This particular series of experiments and the concept of classical conditioning likely ring a bell for many readers and listeners because they have been referenced in countless texts, both scientific and otherwise, and they have seeped into various forms of pop culture throughout the years. More often than not, the man behind this universally applicable phenomenon gets mentioned in conjunction with the dogs, which only cements his status as a household name over 80 years after his death. In the critically acclaimed comedy The Office, the resident prankster Jim conditions his coworker Dwight with the default Microsoft jingle that plays when a user “unlocks” their workstation and some mints. For days on end, Jim reboots his computer, prompting the memorable two-note tune, and offers his colleague an Altoid each time. One day, Jim restarts his computer, only this time he makes no further movements, and without missing a beat, Dwight instinctively extends his palm.
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]]>Title: Flinders Petrie: The Life and Legacy of the Father of Modern Egyptology]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Egypt, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-09-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The man who knows and dwells in history adds a new dimension to his existence...He lives in all time; the ages are his, all live alike to him.” (Flinders Petrie) Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe nearly 5,000 years later. From the Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria to the great pyramid at Giza, the ancient Egyptians produced several wonders of the world, revolutionized architecture and construction, created some of the world’s first systems of mathematics and medicine, and established language and art that spread across the known world. With world-famous leaders like King Tut and Cleopatra, it’s no wonder that today’s world has so many Egyptologists. Though he couldn’t have known it, the various scholars and scientists that Napoleon Bonaparte brought to Egypt during his military campaigning there kicked off modern Egyptology, and a general fascination across the West.
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]]>Title: Boudica: The Life and Legacy of the Celtic Queen Who Rebelled Against the Romans in Britain]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, Great Britain, History, Rome]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-08-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The famous conqueror from the European continent came ashore with thousands of men, ready to set up a new kingdom in England. The Britons had resisted the amphibious invasion from the moment his forces landed, but he was able to push forward. In a large winter battle, the Britons’ large army attacked the invaders but was eventually routed, and the conqueror was able to set up a new kingdom. Over 1,100 years before William the Conqueror became the king of England after the Battle of Hastings, Julius Caesar came, saw, and conquered part of “Britannia”, setting up a Roman province with a puppet king in 54 BCE. In the new province, the Romans eventually constructed a military outpost overlooking a bridge across the River Thames. The new outpost was named Londinium, and it covered just over two dozen acres. Londinium had become the largest city in Britannia shortly before being burned down in a native revolt led by an infamous Celtic Iceni queen named Boudica. With a name meaning “Victory”, Boudica was a charismatic woman who commanded nearly 100,000 Celts and led them on a campaign to expel the Roman overlords from Britain around the year 61 CE.
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]]>Title: Flat Earth: A History of Strange Tales, Bizarre Beliefs, and Conspiracy Theories About the Earth’s Surface]]>Categories: 20th Century, Ancient, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-08-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The world is filled with mysteries, and even in the modern age, much of the planet remains unexplored. The depths of the oceans and the intricate and extensive cave systems that honeycomb some parts of the Earth are still largely unknown. Thus, it should come as no surprise that when it comes to this terra incognita, people have projected all sorts of ideas. Tales of sunken cities or lost civilizations are just some of the fanciful theories, and those could even be considered tame in comparison to the idea that Earth is flat. Despite this notion being rejected by the scientific community for millennia, and despite the fact that geology, volcanology, oceanography, and physics have all proven that the planet is not flat, the idea of a hollow Earth continues to intrigue people and gain eager and sincere adherents. This is made all the more remarkable by the fact that space programs are more than 60 years old, and people can fly around the world on planes in a matter of hours. Taken at face value, this idea is patently ridiculous, but it provokes strong emotions in some people, sincere people who have thought extensively about their beliefs.
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]]>Title: Flat Earth and Hollow Earth Theories]]>Subtitle: A History of Strange Tales and Bizarre Beliefs About the Planet]]>Categories: 20th Century, Ancient, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-08-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The world is filled with mysteries, and even in the modern age, much of the planet remains unexplored. The depths of the oceans and the intricate and extensive cave systems that honeycomb some parts of the Earth are still largely unknown. Thus, it should come as no surprise that when it comes to this terra incognita, people have projected all sorts of ideas. Tales of sunken cities or lost civilizations are just some of the fanciful theories, and those could even be considered tame in comparison to the idea that Earth is flat and/or hollow. Despite this notion being rejected by the scientific community for millennia, and despite the fact that geology, volcanology, oceanography, and physics have all proven that the planet is not flat, the idea of a hollow Earth continues to intrigue people and gain eager and sincere adherents. This is made all the more remarkable by the fact that space programs are more than 60 years old, and people can fly around the world on planes in a matter of hours. Taken at face value, the ideas are patently ridiculous, but they provoke strong emotions in some people, sincere people who have thought extensively about their beliefs.
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]]>Title: Muhammad Ali: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, History, Sport]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-02-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Cassius Clay Jr. The Greatest. The Louisville Lip. The People’s Champion. Muhammad Ali. All are names for one of the greatest boxers of all time. Muhammad Ali lived a life that produced some of the most notable boxing matches ever. He also had battles outside of the boxing ring - battles that included fighting with the federal government for his freedom, as well as fighting against his debilitating Parkinson’s disease. Inside, you will listen about.... You’re about to embark on a journey of greatness. Dive into the life of one of the greatest athletes ever to grace the boxing ring, Muhammad Ali. Ali’s life wasn’t perfect - it was full of twists and turns and conflicts - inside, and outside the ring. But his life was truly meaningful, and it made Muhammad Ali worthy of the title he often used to describe himself, “The Greatest”.
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]]>Title: Saint Augustine]]>Subtitle: A Life From Beginning to End]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, History, Religion, Rome]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-25-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Although he was born in what was considered the backwaters of the Roman Empire, Saint Augustine of Hippo has long been renowned for his early religious and philosophical thought. He has been called a doctor of the Church for his unrivaled ability of patching up even the most complex of theological questions. He tackled such things as the condition of the soul and the omnipotence of God. During the course of his tenure as bishop of the North-African city of Hippo, Augustine often gained as many critics as he did followers. Inside you will hear about: To say that this esteemed theologian was a complex man would be an understatement. Saint Augustine’s life held many contradictions from the very beginning. Born to a pagan father and a devoutly Christian mother, he seemed destined to be at a crossroads. In his life he was both a sinner and a saint, and his seminal works, such as the Confessions and the City of God, prove that somewhere at the intersection of tremendous faith and terrible human frailty you will find the greatness of Saint Augustine.
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]]>Title: The Opium Wars: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Asia, China, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-25-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Opium Wars Violent confrontation between armed groups over the supply of illegal narcotics is something we commonly associate with criminal gangs in modern cities, but in the mid-19th century Great Britain went to war with Imperial China in order to continue to supply Chinese addicts with opium. The two wars that followed have become known as the Opium Wars, and they led to the utter defeat of China, the establishment of a British colony in Hong Kong, and the continuation of a narcotics trade that was worth millions of pounds each year to the British. The Opium Wars exposed the weaknesses of the Chinese Qing dynasty in terms of its military abilities and internal corruption. They also exposed divisions in Victorian Britain where people were beginning to question the morality of going to war to support an illegal narcotics trade which caused misery and death for millions of Chinese. In the end, the British were able to overcome their reservations and prosecuted these two wars with great success.
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]]>Title: The Sentinelese: The History of the Uncontacted People on North Sentinel Island]]>Categories: Asia, Civilization, History, India]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-22-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>There is no record of Marco Polo ever visiting the Andaman Islands, so his brief description of the islanders must have been drawn from a secondary source. They were, he wrote, “a most brutish and savage race, having heads, eyes, and teeth like those of dogs. They are very cruel, and kill and eat every foreigner whom they can lay their hands upon.” Most subsequent travelers and travelogues have tended to agree, although in an age of inclusion and diversity, the modern understanding and appreciation of the indigenous Andamanese is somewhat more sympathetic. Nonetheless, that one common theme has persisted, in particular in the many colonial-era chronicles, which were all written at a time when Darwin and his contemporaries were rationalizing evolution and evolutionary divergence. How could it be, they ask, that a small pocket of the human race could be content to linger so far behind in the journey of human development? The Andaman and Nicobar Islands comprise a tiny archipelago of some 200 islands in the Indian Ocean.
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]]>Title: Ancient Japan]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient History of Japan, Their Ancient Civilization, and Japanese Culture, Including Stories of the Samurai, Shoguns, and Zen Masters]]>Categories: Asia, Education, History, Japan, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Richard L. Walton]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-18-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Japan, then pay attention.... All in all, Japan seems to be a country of paradoxes and oppositions, of yin and yang. Yet it doesn’t seem to suffer from it; instead, it is thriving, growing, and developing, and it has been doing so for a long time. From those contradictions, a sense of unity and pride arose, guiding Japanese history and civilizational development through the ages, leaving an unquestionable mark on the world heritage and mankind. But this is only the surface of an astonishing culture that deserves a deeper look. This audiobook will lead you into that dive, showing how those characteristics synonymous with the Japanese civilization gradually appeared, formed, and transformed through time. Learning about Japan’s history, its past failures and successes and how they shaped their nation, will also illuminate how this civilization developed, while at the same time presenting a full array of interesting stories, persons, and events. In Ancient Japan: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient History of Japan, Their Ancient Civilization, and Japanese Culture, Including Stories of the Samurai, you will discover topics such as
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]]>Title: Mata Hari: A Life From Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of Women in History, Book 9]]>Series: #4 in Biographies of Women in History, #8 in World War 1]]>Categories: Biography, Female Protagonist, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-18-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The original international woman of mystery, Mata Hari is maligned as a spy and a traitor. Having seduced a number of the most powerful men in Europe, she was accused of spying for both Allied and Central Powers during the First World War. Mata Hari’s biography tells a different story. From her remarkable transformation from a captain’s wife and mother in the Dutch East Indies to the most celebrated stage presence in Europe, Mata Hari fought for what she believed in. Yet what she believed in was neither France’s independence, nor Germany’s superiority, but her own personal quest for luxury, adventure, and love. Inside you will hear about...
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]]>Title: History of India]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Ancient India, Medieval Indian History, and Modern India Including Stories of The Maurya Empire, the British Raj, Mahatma Gandhi, and More]]>Categories: Asia, Education, History, India]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Randy Whitlow]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-18-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of India, then pay attention.... India is a land of mystery, richness, and deep spiritual discovery. Every facet of this ancient land seems scented with the famous spices that lured European traders to its shores more than five centuries ago. Here, Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, and Buddhists live shoulder to shoulder in a crowded world of multiple gods and juxtaposed pilgrimage routes, each one perfectly peaceful in their own beliefs and traditions. In History of India: A Captivating Guide to Ancient India, Medieval Indian History, and Modern India Including Stories of the Maurya Empire, the British Raj, Mahatma Gandhi, and More, you will discover topics such as: So if you want to learn more about the history of India, get this audiobook today!
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]]>Title: South Africa]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Nation From European Colonization to the End of the Apartheid Era]]>Categories: 20th Century, Africa, Europe, Great Britain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-16-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Boer War was the defining conflict of South African history and one of the most important conflicts in the history of the British Empire. Naturally, complicated geopolitics underscored it, going back centuries. In fact, the European history of South Africa began with the 1652 arrival of a small Dutch flotilla in Table Bay, at the southern extremity of the African continent, which made landfall with a view to establishing a victualing station to service passing Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) ships. The Dutch at that point largely dominated the East Indian Trade, and it was their establishment of the settlement of Kaapstad, or Cape Town, that set in motion the lengthy and often turbulent history of South Africa. For over a century, the Cape remained a Dutch East India Company settlement, and in the interests of limiting expenses, strict parameters were established to avoid the development of a colony. As religious intolerance in Europe drove a steady trickle of outward emigration, however, Dutch settlers began to informally expand beyond the Cape, settling the sparsely inhabited hinterland to the north and east of Cape Town.
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]]>Title: Apartheid in South Africa: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Segregationist Policies in the 20th Century]]>Categories: 20th Century, Africa, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-15-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Although apartheid is typically dated from the late 1940s until its dismantling decades later, segregationist policies had been the norm in South Africa from nearly the moment European explorers sailed to the region and began settling there. Whether it was displacing and fighting indigenous groups like the Khoi and San, or fighting other whites like the Boer, separation between ethnicities was the norm in South Africa for centuries before the election of Malan signaled the true rise of the Afrikaner far right. The man most associated with dismantling apartheid, of course, is Nelson Mandela. With the official policy of apartheid instituted in 1948 by an all-white government, Mandela was tried for treason between the years of 1956-61 before being acquitted. He participated in the Defiance Campaign of 1952, and oversaw the 1955 Congress of the People, but when the African National Congress was banned in 1960, he proposed a military wing, despite his initial reluctance toward violent resistance, a reluctance which had its roots in original nonviolent protests through the South African Communist Party. The ANC did not openly discourage such an idea, and the Umkhonto we Sizwe was established.
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]]>Title: The French and Indian War]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Conflict Between French and British Colonies in North America]]>Categories: America, Colonialism, Europe, Great Britain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-08-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On September 13, 1759, a battle was fought on the Plains of Abraham outside the old city of Quebec that was one of the turning point battles in world history. Thanks to the British victory and the events that followed, Canada went from being a colony of France (New France) to being a colony of Great Britain, which permanently changed Canadian history. In many ways, the outcome of the battle brought about several American attempts to seize Canada during the Revolutionary War and War of 1812, and ultimately it ensured that when Canada became an independent country, it was part of the British Commonwealth with an Anglophone majority and a Francophone minority. Frictions over cultural and political issues between the English Canadians and the Québécois, dating back to the battle, continue to impact the state of affairs in Canada today. While the battle had a profound impact, it has also been romanticized and mythologized beyond even epic proportions. Though often forgotten today (more than 250 years after the battle), the Battle of the Plains of Abraham was the culmination of a long siege, and the decisive action itself was an incredibly short affair at less than half an hour.
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]]>Title: The Spanish Inquisition and Portuguese Inquisition]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Roman Catholic Church's Most Infamous Institutions]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Ken Teutsch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-05-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all law-religions, or religions established by law.” (Thomas Paine, Rights of Man) In this day and age, people will fight tooth and nail to right cases of discrimination and injustice, from seeking legal action to filing criminal charges against the discriminating party. Multiple organizations around the world exist to help combat and protect its citizens from prejudicial inequities. Social media has also become a channel for those around the world to voice these injustices. Resulting boycotts, petitions, and negative backlash from social media and the Internet have been known to play a significant role in contributing to the downfall of individuals and corporations that have been accused of discrimination of any kind. The road to the modern age of cultural harmony and acceptance is one of the finest feats of human progress, but having said that, there was once a time when the mere doubt of a religious figure's existence was not only punishable by law, it could very well cost a man his life. This was the crime of heresy.
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]]>Title: The Colonization of South Africa]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the European Subjugation of South Africa]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, Great Britain, History, South Africa]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-05-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The Boers were hostile toward indigenous African peoples, with whom they fought frequent range wars, and toward the government of the Cape, which was attempting to control Boer movements and commerce. They overtly compared their way of life to that of the Israel patriarchs of the Bible, developing independent patriarchal communities based upon a mobile pastoralist economy. Staunch Calvinists, they saw themselves as the children of God in the wilderness, a Christian elect divinely ordained to rule the land and the backward natives therein. By the end of the 18th century the cultural links between the Boers and their urban counterparts were diminishing, although both groups continued to speak a type of Flemish.” (Encyclopaedia Britannica) The Boer War was the defining conflict of South African history and one of the most important conflicts in the history of the British Empire. In fact, the European history of South Africa began with the 1652 arrival of a small Dutch flotilla in Table Bay, which made landfall with a view to establishing a victualing station to service passing Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) ships.
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]]>Title: Aleister Crowley: The Life and Legacy of the Notorious Cult Leader and Novelist]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Religion]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-29-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!” (William Shakespeare, Hamlet) Any work about the mercurial Aleister Crowley is better off being labeled a “story” than a “biography” thanks to the impossibility of being sure that anything one reads about him is true. The basic recorded facts, including birth date, educational records, and published works, are reliable indicators that can be likened to stars guiding a lost desert traveler if the sky is clear. For the rest, one is wandering in the wilderness. He has been labeled a Satanist, a sociopath, a drug addict, a murderer, and, not to put too fine a point on it, “the wickedest man on earth” by several prominent newspapers. He has also been hailed as the prophet of the New Age charged with bringing about the spiritual awakening of humanity, a brilliant writer, an intrepid mountaineer, a heroic MI6/MI5 agent, and a gifted magician.
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]]>Title: King Edward Vi: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: House of Tudor, Book 3]]>Series: #2 in House of Tudor]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-26-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>King Edward VI, the only legitimate male heir of King Henry VIII, took his seat on the throne at the age of nine. His life would come to an end when he was only 15 years old, but the mark he would come to leave on England’s history has endured to this day. This part of the Tudor period was chock-full of social unrest and economic struggles as well as turmoil over religious reforms, which the young king and his advisors often made worse by imposing substantial changes on their subjects. You will listen about: Edward VI led his country into a new age where the Church of England was no longer tied to the Catholic Church. Putting his efforts into spreading Protestantism throughout all of England, he continued his father’s work of freeing England from the Holy Roman Empire’s grasp. His successor and half-sister, Queen Mary I, better known as “Bloody Mary”, would try to undo many of Edward’s reforms, but the English Reformation to which Edward contributed significantly would resume its course upon her death.
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]]>Title: Fred Rogers]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Man Behind Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Desmond Manny]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-26-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating life of Fred Rogers, then pay attention.... Mister Rogers was more than just a puppeteer, a teacher, or an entertainer, though he was all those things; he was also a trusted friend and adviser. Rogers spoke personably with kids and helped them identify and organize their emotions. He explained how to deal with anger in simple, relatable terms and sang songs to help his guests and viewers cope with their feelings. He told generations of young people that it was okay to cry and show emotion, since these are feelings every person experiences. In Fred Rogers: A Captivating Guide to the Man Behind Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, you will discover topics such as: So if you want to learn more about Fred Rogers, scroll up and click the "add to cart" button!
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]]>Title: Akkadian Empire - A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Mesopotamia History, Book 2]]>Series: #2 in Mesopotamia History]]>Categories: Arabian Peninsula, Civilization, History, Middle East, Planet Earth]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-25-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Akkadian Empire was one of the first empires in human history and certainly the first to involve the central government of a large, multi-ethnic populace. It also introduced things like the very first postal system and facilitated advances in science, art, and medicine. The heart of the empire, the city of Akkad, became the most important trading center in the ancient world and one of the largest cities in the world. Then, in a relatively short time, the empire disintegrated, and the city itself was abandoned. Now, we don’t even know where the city of Akkad was located. How is this possible? How could an empire that controlled most of the civilized world suddenly fall apart? Successors of the Akkadians thought that they had the answer. Many texts from the Babylonians and others talk of the Curse of Akkad, a curse placed on the empire after its king offended the gods, which led to its destruction. For thousands of years, historians assumed that the story of the curse was nothing more than a quaint legend. However, modern research shows that the Akkadian Empire was most likely destroyed by a cataclysmic change as a result of sudden and unprecedented climate change.
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]]>Title: The Portuguese Empire and Africa]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Portugal's Exploration and Colonization of the West African Coast]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, History, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-25-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the mid-15th century, the Byzantine Empire had collapsed and the various Crusades that had taken place in the region had largely disrupted the overland routes of the Silk Road and trade. Compounding the difficulties of trade was the rise of the Ottoman Empire in place of the Byzantines and the outbreak of the Black Death in Europe. Around this time, a period of European exploration began, and major factors that contributed to this period of exploration were introduced by the Chinese, albeit indirectly. The magnetic compass had already been developed and used by the Chinese sailors, the Song Dynasty then began using the device for land navigation in the 11th century. The technology slowly spread west via Arab traders, although a case can be made for the independent European creation for the compass (Southey 1812: 210). Trade was able to increase around the world due to more effective ships being introduced, which were first introduced by the Chinese.
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]]>Title: The Industrial Revolution]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 19th Century, History, Insurrection, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-25-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Industrial Revolution, which took place in Great Britain between the middle of the 18th century and the middle of the 19th, transformed British industry and society and made Great Britain the most powerful nation in the world. The Industrial Revolution didn’t happen due to one, single factor but rather to a number of separate, yet, related developments which interacted to change the world profoundly and completely. Improvements in the production of iron allowed the construction of efficient, reliable steam engines. These steam engines were then used in the production of iron to improve the quality and quantity of iron production even further. Manufacturing became concentrated in factories filled with automated machinery while canals and improved roads allowed raw materials to be brought to these factories and for finished products to be distributed. Inside you will learn about: During the the Industrial Revolution, people became used to the availability of cheap, mass-produced items transported to the point of sale from other parts of the country or even other parts of the world. However, people also became used to living in large cities and working in factories and mills, often for meager wages and in dangerous and exhausting conditions.
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]]>Title: Russian Cyber Warfare]]>Subtitle: The History of Russia's State-Sponsored Attacks Across the World]]>Categories: America, History, Russia, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-25-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Russia has been depicted by the media as a cyberspace boogeyman, a nation of hackers that can and will exploit any and all vulnerabilities of private organizations, government entities, and social media platforms. Over the last 10 years, as hackers all over the world have been mobilized to carry out state agendas, this “nation of hackers” reputation has evolved into something much more serious. The vague notion of “Russian hackers” used to primarily worry CTOs of banks and credit card companies, while merely amusing or fascinating curious people, but today, Russian cyberwarfare keeps military officers, policymakers, and ordinary citizens around the world up at night. From alleged interference in foreign elections to coordinated power outages in Ukraine, numerous large-scale cyber attacks are thought to have been carried out by Russian state agencies and their proxies recently.
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]]>Title: Life in the Third Reich]]>Subtitle: Daily LIfe in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Germany, History]]>Author: Paul Roland]]>Narrator: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart]]>Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Limited]]>Release date: 03-21-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Germany was a deeply divided nation when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in 1933. As the shadow of the swastika lengthened, its citizens quickly came to realize that the Nazis' brutal programme was not optional. Everyone was expected to play their part in "national revival", especially those chosen as sacrificial victims. Much has been written about daily life during World War II from the perspective of the Allied nations, but little about life in Germany during the Third Reich. With the benefit of hindsight, questions have been raised as to why a civilized, cultured nation stood by and let the Nazi Party impose their rule in such inhumane fashion, and why so few individuals made any attempt to rebel. Life in the Third Reich draws on the recollections of those who lived through the rise and fall of one of the most vicious and sadistic regimes the world has ever seen. These are the stories of ordinary people in extraordinary times, living in the grip of a regime that did not care if it destroyed the whole country in pursuit of its perverted goals.
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]]>Title: Queen Mary I: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Female Protagonist, Great Britain]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-19-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Mary I, perhaps best known by the moniker Bloody Mary, was England’s first female monarch who ruled in her own right. A fighter from birth, she was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and his wife, Catherine of Aragon. Mary would make her way back to her father’s good graces after being cast out by him in favor of his numerous wives and would eventually undo her father’s religious reforms by restoring Roman Catholicism in England. The fourth Tudor to rule England, Mary is remembered for burning around 300 Protestants at the stake on her quest for religious reform. In this audiobook, we will discover the true life story of Mary I, the infamous English queen who claimed her place in history after a mere five years as regent.
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]]>Title: Alexandra Feodorovna]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, History, Insurrection, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-15-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Alexandra Feodorovna was one of the most tragic figures of the 20th century. Born in the wrong time, giddy with power, married to a man who ruled one-sixth of the world, she was murdered with her family in 1918. Alexandra’s story is more complex than many realize. She had the rare privilege to marry the man she loved and the rare misfortune to marry a man who never should have been made the leader of an empire. The journey she embarked upon was both of her making and completely out of her control. Inside, you will learn about:
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]]>Title: The Imperial German Army: The History and Legacy of Germany’s Armed Forces During World War I]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-14-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>World War I, also known in its time as the “Great War” or the “War to End all Wars”, was an unprecedented holocaust in terms of its sheer scale. Fought by men who hailed from all corners of the globe, it saw millions of soldiers do battle in brutal assaults of attrition that dragged on for months with little to no respite. Tens of millions of artillery shells and untold hundreds of millions of rifle and machine-gun bullets were fired in a conflict that demonstrated man’s capacity to kill each other on a heretofore unprecedented scale, and as always, such a war brought about technological innovation at a rate that made the boom of the Industrial Revolution seem stagnant. Naturally, as one of the main belligerents of the war and arguably the most powerful, Germany led the way in many respects.
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]]>Title: Desert Fox]]>Subtitle: The Storied Military Career of Erwin Rommel]]>Categories: Biography, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Samuel W. Mitcham]]>Narrator: Nigel Patterson]]>Publisher: Tantor Audio]]>Release date: 03-12-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>This is the strange and fascinating life of Erwin Rommel, from his days as a youth in Imperial Germany - when he had a child out of wedlock with an early girlfriend - through his lauded military exploits during World War I to his death by suicide during World War II, after he attempted a failed coup against Hitler. Rommel was a man of contradictions: a soldier who wrote a best-selling book about World War I, a commander who went from commanding Hitler's bodyguard to trying to kill him, and a serious military mind who was known for participating in practical jokes. In Desert Fox, author Samuel Mitcham (Bust Hell Wide Open) confronts the truth about Rommel and takes a close look at his military actions and reflections.
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]]>Título: Incas: Una Fascinante Guía sobre la Historia del Imperio y la Civilización Inca [Incas: A Fascinating Guide on the History of the Inca Empire and Civilization]]]>Categorías: America, Ancient, History, South America]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 03-11-2019]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Explora la Fascinante Historia de los Incas Una de las culturas antiguas más notables de Sudamérica es, sin lugar a dudas, la civilización inca. Reinaron sobre el imperio más grande de Sudamérica; no solo eso, su imperio era también el más grande del mundo en ese momento. Hay muchos misterios que rodean a los incas. ¿Dónde se originaron? ¿Cómo llegaron a reinar sobre un imperio tan vasto que incluía montañas, selvas tropicales y zonas costeras? ¿Cuáles fueron los logros más destacados de sus grandes reyes? ¿Cómo eran sus templos y monumentos, especialmente la ciudad capital, Cuzco, y su impresionante asentamiento en la cima de la montaña, el Machu Picchu, en lo que hoy es Perú? Algunos temas y preguntas presentados en este audilibro: ¡Adquiere el audiolibro ya y aprende todo lo que puedas sobre la Incas! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Ancient China]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient History of China and the Chinese Civilization Starting from the Shang Dynasty to the Fall of the Han Dynasty]]>Categories: Asia, China, Education, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Desmond Manny]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-11-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient China, then pay attention.... In this audiobook, you will be led on a journey through almost 2,000 years of Chinese history, showing you all the ups and downs of those ancient times, the sufferings and joys of the Chinese people, along with their greatest achievements and failures. Dynasties will change, people will be killed and born, art made and destroyed, but the Chinese civilization will prevail, rising from humble beginnings to an empire that at some points outshined any other in the world at that time. And yet it won’t be only a tale of kings and queens, emperors and rulers. Of palaces and forts, of swords and shields. It will also tell a story of farmers and merchants, artisans and artists, philosophers and scientists. And hopefully by the end of this introductory guide, you will gain a sense of what, who, and how the Chinese civilization was made as great as it was and still is. From that, a better understanding of this amazing Far Eastern culture and its history should arise as well as a greater appreciation of its achievements and contributions to the world.
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]]>Title: The Ottoman Empire]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Eastern Europe, Europe, History, Middle East, Turkey]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-05-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Over the course of just 200 years, the Ottoman Empire grew from a small, obscure Anatolian state into the most powerful Muslim nation in the world, controlling vast swathes of the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and North Africa. Within the empire, science, medicine, technology, and art flourished, and the Ottoman army became one of the most feared and efficient fighting forces in existence. Then came a period of gradual decline. Beset by external enemies and torn apart by conflicting elements inside, over the next 350 years, the Ottoman Empire lost power, territory, and prestige until it became “the sick man of Europe”. Inside, you will hear about: This is the dramatic story of the rise, fall, and eventual disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, of its conquests and defeats, and of its sultans who ranged from the grandeur of Suleiman the Magnificent to the obsession and confusion of Mustafa the Mad. The story begins with the dream of the first Ottoman sultan, Osman I, in 1300, and ended with the nightmare of the last sultan, Abdulmejid II, in 1922. This is the story of the Ottoman Empire from beginning to end.
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]]>Title: Hirohito]]>Subtitle: A Life From Beginning to End]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, Head of State, History, Japan]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-05-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Japanese Emperor Hirohito is one of history’s most enigmatic figures. He led the Japanese during the darkest point of their history as they joined forces with the fascist Nazi Germany and Italy. Upon Japan’s defeat most believed that Emperor Hirohito would stand trial for the war crimes he was accused of presiding over. But the trial never happened. Instead, to the surprise of the whole world - and most likely Hirohito himself - he was placed back on his throne and allowed to administer affairs in Japan until the day he died peacefully in 1989. How did all this come about? Listen to learn more about the life and the legend of Japan’s most notorious leader. From this audiobook, you will hear about:
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]]>Title: Jackie Robinson]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Star Who Broke Major League Baseball’s Color Barrier]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Sport, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-21-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me.... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” (Jackie Robinson) Along the way, listeners learn of a man once consumed by rage who learned, through time and practice, as well as the influence of several important mentors, to rein in his anger and use it to change the world. Though born in a sharecropper’s cabin, he corresponded with presidents. Growing up in the shadow of an Olympian older brother, he found his own place in the sun, and, more importantly, he smoothed the journey to success for countless others. His name has gone down not in just one but in two pantheons of history, both on and off the baseball field as a noble fighter for equal rights. Jackie Robinson: The Life and Legacy of the Star Who Broke Major League Baseball’s Color Barrier profiles how Jackie became one of the most important athletes in history.
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]]>Title: Benito Mussolini]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of Italy’s Fascist Prime Minister]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Head of State, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-20-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It’s easy to forget how young Italy was when Benito Mussolini was born on July 29, 1883. It is hard to conceive a territory with such a long and ancient history was once young and troubled with constant conflict and instability. Similar to Germany, Italy was unified in 1861, but contrary to its northern cousin, its previous history was one of separation. Italy had no great romantic idea of a “Great Germany”, keeping it unified even during the wars between city-states. Benito Mussolini was born and raised in a highly volatile environment where ideas already considered extreme by most contemporary observers, such as socialism, would undergo a deep and violent transformation. Mussolini would ride that wave to power, and he would hold it for decades as he opportunistically tried to strengthen Italy's position and empire. That would lead him to foreign interventions in Africa and eventually an alliance with Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler, ultimately costing him everything and devastating his country throughout World War II. Mussolini’s final act was an attempt to flee his fate. On April 25, 1945, he was able to move about without German interference as the Allies advanced.
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]]>Title: History of Cuba: A Captivating Guide to Cuban History, Starting from Christopher Columbus' Arrival to Fidel Castro]]>Categories: America, Caribbean, Education, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Richard L Walton]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 02-13-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the remarkable history of Cuba, then pay attention.... The themes of the history of Cuba are as vast as they are inspiring. Cuba has stared death in the face throughout its rocky history, and most of the time it has gazed into the eyes of death and smiled. Over and over, oppressors have attempted to seize this island and its riches for their own selfish purposes. And over and over, revolutions have risen up to conquer in an attempt to return Cuba to its people. The story of Cuba is a tale of courage and sacrifice, of horrific oppression and inspiring vision. It is a story about exploitation and hope, about a tiny island that rose to global importance. There are battles and shipwrecks, pirates and Indians, tragic sacrifices and resounding triumphs. The Cuban people over and over show their resilience, courage, and passion in the face of incredible odds. They are a people that one cannot help but admire.
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]]>Title: Jane Austen: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Biographies of British Authors, Book 2]]>Series: #1 in Biographies of British Authors]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Female Protagonist, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-13-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Jane Austen Jane Austen wrote that in her novels she painted the world on a “little bit (two inches wide) of ivory,” working “with so fine a brush.” Her well-known books, such as Pride and Prejudice and Emma, display the power of this approach; her observations about human nature have proven so accurate and entertaining that her books continue to be beloved 200 years after they were written. Inside you will listen to: Jane Austen’s life contains the seeds of her novels - the events, people, and places that inspired her as she created her stories. Here you will discover how Austen’s writing and life developed in parallel, from her teenaged Juvenilia to her unfinished last work The Brothers (published posthumously as Sanditon).
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]]>Title: Russia's Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916–17]]>Subtitle: Eastern Front Series, Book 3]]>Series: #3 in Eastern Front Series]]>Categories: Eastern Europe, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Prit Buttar]]>Narrator: Roger Clark]]>Publisher: Tantor Audio]]>Release date: 02-12-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Russia's Last Gasp, Prit Buttar looks at one of the bloodiest campaigns launched in the history of warfare - the Brusilov Offensive, sometimes known as the June Advance. With British, French, and German forces locked in a stalemate in the trenches of the Western Front, an attack was launched by the massed Russian armies to the east. The assault was intended to knock Austria-Hungary out of the war and divert German troops from the Western Front, easing the pressure on Russia's allies. Russia's dismal military performance in the preceding years was forgotten, as the Brusilov Offensive was quickly characterized by innovative tactics. Most impressive of all was the Russian use of shock troops, a strategy that German armies would later use to great effect in the final years of the war. Drawing on first-hand accounts and detailed archival research, Buttar gives a dramatic retelling of final years of the war on the Eastern Front, with the Russian Army claiming military success at a cost so high that it was never able to recover.
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]]>Title: Cuba: A Captivating Guide to the History of Cuba and Havana, The Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro]]>Categories: America, Caribbean, Education, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: David Patton, Desmond Manny, Richard L Walton]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 02-12-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of Cuba, then pay attention... Four captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: The themes of the history of Cuba are as vast as they are inspiring. Cuba has stared death in the face throughout its rocky history, and most of the time it has gazed into the eyes of death and smiled. Over and over, oppressors have attempted to seize this island and its riches for their own selfish purposes. And over and over, revolutions have risen up to conquer in an attempt to return Cuba to its people. The story of Cuba is a tale of courage and sacrifice, of horrific oppression and inspiring vision. It is a story about exploitation and hope, about a tiny island that rose to global importance. There are battles and shipwrecks, pirates and Indians, tragic sacrifices and resounding triumphs. The Cuban people over and over show their resilience, courage, and passion in the face of incredible odds. They are a people that one cannot help but admire. And in this captivating history audiobook, you'll discover their story. Get this audiobook now to learn more about Cuba!
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]]>Title: Stephen Hawking]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-12-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 1963, Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neuron disease and given two years to live. More than half a century later, Hawking had made some of the most significant contributions to our understanding of the universe since Albert Einstein. The world’s most famous physics professor, a best-selling author, and a father of three, Stephen lived his life to its fullest. Bridging the world of theoretical physics with the reach of pop culture, Stephen Hawking became an emblem of human determination and intellectual curiosity. Inside you will hear about:
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]]>Title: Maimonides]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Medieval Jewish Philosopher]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Europe, Great Britain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-06-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“One should accept the truth from whatever source it proceeds.” (Maimonides) Moses Ben Maimon, frequently called Maimonides, was a medieval philosopher who revolutionized thinking about ethics, reason, and the Jewish Torah through his emphasis on reason and evidence. His works were broadly accepted by the Sephardi Jewish community and spread across the medieval world, reaching the Jewish populations as far as Yemen, and though he lived in the 12th century, Maimonides continues to be one of the most studied scholars of Jewish law, philosophy, and theology. Many consider him forward-thinking for his time, and his texts continue to reach numerous modern audiences through translations, commentaries, and in-depth study. Maimonides’ ideas and theological interpretations remain influential in contemporary times. His work influenced numerous Jewish and Islamic scholars for centuries and contributed to the modern understanding of the Torah and Jewish law, while outside of religion, his ideas were popular topics in philosophy and went on to influence thinkers like Thomas Aquinas, Leibnitz, Leo Strauss, and the Humanist intellectual movement. Of particular importance was his emphasis on personal humility, forming decisions based on a body of evidence, and reasoning through arguments before arriving at a conclusion.
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]]>Title: The Mexican Revolution: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, History, Insurrection, Mexico]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-05-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Over a period of more than 10 years, following the overthrow of the government in 1910, Mexico experienced a period of intense and bloody warfare as a bewildering array of factions in ever-changing alliances took power and then lost it. Presidents were elected (or elected themselves) and were then deposed or assassinated. New factions appeared with impressive sounding slogans, took to the field, and were either wiped out and never heard of again or became the next government. Inside you will listen about: And much more! The Mexican Revolution is confusing and difficult to understand - there is, for example, still no agreement between scholars and historians on when it ended - but it is essential in understanding the national identity of modern Mexico. The civil war produced heroes whose names live on in legend and villains whose bloody exploits are still horrifying. It also caused anything up to two million casualties both as a direct result of the fighting and in the famine, economic hardship, and disease that followed in its wake. Modern Mexico was created out of the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution; this is the story of la revolución mexicana.
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]]>Title: Siberia and the Gulag: The History and Legacy of Russia’s Most Notorious Territory and Prison Camp System]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Modern, Russia]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-05-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Over the long course of Russian history, perhaps no aspect of the giant country has generated interest quite like Siberia, the easternmost part of Russia that lies in Asia. Generally speaking, all that is widely known about Siberia is that it is really big and really cold, which, to be fair, are good starting points for a deeper exploration of this fascinating region. Despite making up nearly 66 percent of the country, Siberia is inhabited by only 40 million people, making it one of the most sparsely populated places on the planet. Given its brutal climate and the strategic depth offered by the region, it should perhaps come as no surprise that the region is best known today for being the location where political prisoners were sent to the infamous Russian labor camps. One of the most idiosyncratic horrors of Soviet Russia was the Gulag system, an extensive network of forced labor and concentration camps. Part of the rationale behind this system was that it could serve as slave labor in the drive for industrialization while also serving as a form of punishment.
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]]>Título: Antiguo Egipto [Ancient Egypt]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la historia de Egipto, antiguas pirámides, templos, mitología egipcia y faraones como Tutankamón y Cleopatra]]>Categorías: Ancient, Education, Egypt, History]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 02-05-2019]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Explore la fascinante historia del antiguo Egipto El antiguo Egipto es una de las civilizaciones más fascinantes y sofisticadas de la historia conocida. Los antiguos egipcios son recordados por sus dioses, pirámides, faraones, momificación, jeroglíficos, agricultura y mucho más. Este libro revela los secretos del fascinante mundo del antiguo Egipto, las intrigantes historias de sus celebridades, como Akenatón, Ramsés el Grande, la Reina Cleopatra y el niño Rey Tut. Aprenderá sobre los poderosos dioses y el vínculo mágico entre el Sol y la gente de Egipto, y explorará los horrendos rituales funerarios que garantizaban un camino seguro hacia la otra vida. Descubra los secretos de una de las sociedades más magníficas que hayan existido y descubra por qué todavía logra captar la atención del mundo. Algunos de los temas tratados en este libro incluyen: Obtenga el libro ahora para aprender más sobre el antiguo Egipto Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Baron von Steuben: The Life and Legacy of the Prussian General Who Drilled the Continental Army at Valley Forge During the Revolutionary War]]>Categories: America, American Revolution, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-05-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"You say to your soldier, 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American, 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.” (Attributed to Baron von Steuben) By the time the Revolutionary War started, military confrontations between the world powers had become so common that combat was raised to the status of a fine art, consuming a large portion of time for adolescent males in training and comprising a sizable component of the economy. Weaponry was developed to a degree of quality not accessible to most North Americans, and European aristocrats were reared in the mastery of swordsmanship with an emphasis on the saber for military use. Likewise, the cavalry, buoyed by a tradition of expert horsemanship and saddle-based combat, was a fighting force largely beyond reach for colonists, which meant that fighting on horses was an undeveloped practice in the fledgling Continental Army, and the American military did not yet fully comprehend the value of cavalry units. Few sword masters were to find their way to North America in time for the war, and the typical American musket was a fair hunting weapon rather than a military one.
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]]>Title: Babylon: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #4 in Mesopotamia History]]>Categories: Civilization, History, Iraq, Middle East, Planet Earth]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-04-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Of all the cities of ancient Mesopotamia, Babylon is virtually the only one still remembered today. The very word Babylon has entered the lexicon of popular understanding as a synonym for decadence and wealth. But what do we really know about the history of this once mighty city? Inside you will read about: Babylon first became important in the 18th century BCE under the rule of King Hammurabi. However, it barely survived his death before it was conquered, first by the Hittites and then by the Assyrians. In the seventh century BCE, the city was completely destroyed after it rebelled against Assyrian rule, and it wasn’t until the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar II that it once again became the heart of a large empire. After that, it was conquered by the Persians and finally, in the fourth century BCE, by Alexander the Great. Alexander planned to make Babylon the capital of his mighty empire, but he died in the city under mysterious circumstances before this was done.
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]]>Title: Benjamin Franklin: A Captivating Guide to an American Polymath and a Founding Father of the United States of America]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Desmond Manny]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 02-04-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating history of Benjamin Franklin! Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father of America and had an enormous impact on America as it is today. In addition to that, there are many little-known facts about the man who is Benjamin Franklin. Unlike many of the other Founding Fathers, he started out in humble circumstances. Franklin never finished college because his parents couldn’t afford it. He hated his first job, and when he did get another one, he left without notice. From a young age, Benjamin Franklin fought for the rights of America at home and abroad. Yet, he bore the burdens of leadership and never shirked nor faltered in his mission. His greatest asset was his charm and friendliness, but he had his detractors as well and felt the emotional impact of that. In Benjamin Franklin: A Captivating Guide to an American Polymath and a Founding Father of the United States of America, you will discover topics such as:
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]]>Title: Saint Nicholas and Santa Claus]]>Subtitle: The History of the Man and the Character Behind the Most Popular Christmas Traditions]]>Categories: Ancient, Christian Living, Christianity, History, Holiday]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-02-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Christmas is the most important holiday of the year. After the corresponding days that exalt the national pride of each country, such as Independence Day in the United States, Victory Day in Russia, or Bastille Day in France, it's December 25 that articulates the life, the work, and the economy in much of the world, including many non-Christian countries. Since ancient times, the beginning of winter has been the occasion for most people to eat, drink, dance, and get together to beat the drum and take a break. Especially since the 20th century on, the days adjacent to the holiday have become an occasion to do big business. The winter season is the most solid stimulus for the economy - more than any fiscal package - since the incomes of families, spending, credit, and consumption in all productive sectors are significantly increased. In the United States alone, Christmas sales are estimated to generate $3 trillion. One of the most important figures constantly brought up during the Christmas season is Saint Nicholas, despite the fact most people know little about him.
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]]>Title: Michelangelo Buonarroti]]>Subtitle: A Life rom Beginning to End: Biographies of Painters, Book 3]]>Series: #3 in Biographies of Painters]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Italy, Visual Artist]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-31-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The ingenious artist we know as Michelangelo lived during the Renaissance in Northern Italy, and you could say that he was indeed a Renaissance man - he was a painter, sculptor, poet, and engineer all rolled up into one. Even though it has been some 450 years since his passing, his legacy remains one of the strongest on record. If the burgeoning art student of today wishes to learn from the best, he takes his notes directly from Michelangelo. Inside you will hear about: He lived for his art, and despite the chaos of kings, popes, and the civil government around him, Michelangelo Buonarroti made sure that his works of artistic expression would withstand the scrutiny of time. In this audiobook you will get to learn more about the incredible personality behind the brushstrokes and caresses of clay. Here you will find the full panoramic display and showcasing of a masterful artist’s life well lived.
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]]>Title: Osman I]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Ottoman Empire’s First Sultan]]>Categories: Biography, Historical Fiction, History, Middle East, Turkey]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-30-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the fourth century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul. The Ottoman Empire would spend the next few centuries expanding its size, power, and influence, and becoming one of the world’s most important geopolitical players.
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]]>Título: El Imperio Romano [The Roman Empire]]]>Subtitular: Una Guía Fascinante sobre el Ascenso y la Caída del Imperio Romano que incluye las historias de Emperadores como Augusto Octavio, Trajano, y Claudio]]>Categorías: Ancient, Education, History, Learning, Rome]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 01-30-2019]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Explora la Fascinante Historia del Imperio Romano. El Imperio Romano fue una de las fuerzas más imponentes del mundo antiguo. Esta no es solo la historia de la conquista o su increíble organización, o de las instituciones que lo hicieron posible. El Imperio Romano no es otro aburrido cuento histórico. Por el contrario, despierta nuestra imaginación, nuestros miedos y hasta nos entretiene. Esta es la historia de los hombres y mujeres fascinantes - los emperadores, sus esposas, padres, hermanos, hermanas e hijos - que constituyen el atractivo de este imperio. Algunos de ellos, como Marco Aurelio y Antonino Pío, eran sabios y virtuosos: otros - como Calígula, Cómodo, y Caracalla - fueron verdaderos monstruos, cuya sed de sangre y apetito sexual no tenían límites. Esta es la historia de los eventos y personajes más relevantes ocurrida en un periodo entre dos acontecimientos importantes: el auge de Augusto en el primer siglo a.C. y el último saqueo de Roma a finales del siglo V d.C. Los temas a tratar incluyen: ¡Adquiere el libro ya y aprende más sobre el Imperio Romano! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Krampus: The History and Legacy of the Mythological Figure Who Punishes Children During the Christmas Season]]>Categories: Christian Living, Christianity, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-25-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“'Tis late night in Bavaria, and all through the village, the grownups are drunk, full of beer and such swillage; While children a-tremble, hide deep in their beds, fearful the Krampus will rip off their heads.” (Ann Hart, “Krampusnacht”, 2016) Krampus: The History and Legacy of the Mythological Figure Who Punishes Children During the Christmas Season examines the pagan and Christian influences of the yuletide villain and dives into the riveting and frightening history behind the creature. You will learn about Krampus like never before. Christmas is the most important holiday of the year. After the corresponding days that exalt the national pride of each country, such as Independence Day in the US, Victory Day in Russia, or Bastille Day in France, it's December 25 that articulates the life, the work, and the economy in much of the world, including many non-Christian countries. Since ancient times, the beginning of winter has been the occasion for most people to eat, drink, dance, and get together to beat the drum and take a break. Though Santa had many influences, his most famous is St. Nicholas, a fiercely religious philanthropist who dedicated his life to helping the disadvantaged.
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]]>Title: The Sumerians: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #1 in Mesopotamia History]]>Categories: Civilization, History, Iraq, Middle East, Planet Earth]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-23-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Sumerians settled in the area known as Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, around 5,000 years ago. They produced many fundamental changes to the way in which human societies developed - these were the first city-builders, the first people to use wheeled vehicles, the first methodical astronomers, and the first people to develop a sophisticated written language. The Sumerians also produced art, music, and literature as well as created some of the first professional soldiers the world had ever seen. But for all that we know about the Sumerians, one central mystery remains: We have no idea where the Sumerians came from when they suddenly arrived in Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago. Many people have put forward answers ranging from the plausible to the esoteric to the (literally) out of this world, but none of the solutions suggested to date appears to provide a complete or final answer. From this audiobook you will learn about... When looking at how Homo sapiens have developed from primitive tribes of hunter-gatherers to today’s urban dwellers, the Sumerians represent one of the biggest and most dramatic single periods of change ever achieved by the human race.
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]]>Title: Fidel Castro]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to a Cuban Communist Revolutionary Who Served as the President of Cuba for Over 30 Years]]>Categories: America, Caribbean, Education, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Desmond Manny]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-18-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating history of Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro. Depending on whom you ask, the name can inspire revulsion, hatred, admiration, incredulity, awe, fear, or even love. His story is one that has changed the course of the history of the world and the face of the island of Cuba. Castro was more than just a politician. His is a story that involves heroic voyages through turbulent oceans, affairs with young women from all over the world, spies, assassins, betrayal, conquest, riots, and battles. He was controversial, inimitable, cruel, courageous, stubborn, disrespectful of human rights, and utterly indomitable. But most of all, he never gave up. And this is his story. In Fidel Castro: A Captivating Guide to a Cuban Communist Revolutionary Who Served as the President of Cuba for Over 30 Years, you will discover topics such as: So if you want to learn more about Fidel Castro, scroll up and click the "add to cart" button!
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]]>Title: Marquis de Lafayette and Baron de Kalb: The Lives of the Legendary Foreign Soldiers Who Sailed to America Together to Fight in the Revolutionary War]]>Categories: America, American Revolution, Biography, Europe]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Ken Teutsch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-18-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the time the Revolutionary War started, military confrontations between the world powers had become so common that combat was raised to the status of a fine art, consuming a large portion of time for adolescent males in training and comprising a sizable component of the economy. Weaponry was developed to a degree of quality not accessible to most North Americans, and European aristocrats were reared in the mastery of swordsmanship with an emphasis on the saber for military use. Likewise, the cavalry, buoyed by a tradition of expert horsemanship and saddle-based combat, was a fighting force largely beyond reach for colonists, which meant that fighting on horses was an undeveloped practice in the fledgling Continental Army, and the American military did not yet fully comprehend the value of cavalry units. German participation in the Revolution is historically noted for the Hessians, mercenary soldiers recruited in whole companies by Britain, whose standing army featured relatively low numbers when the American Revolution began. However, other Germans noted for their mastery of the science of war sided with the colonies, and one of them was Baron Johann von de Kalb, a mentor and elder colleague of the legendary Lafayette.
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]]>Title: Al Capone]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, True Crime, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-17-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Al Capone and Chicago at one time were almost synonymous. While opinions of the infamous mob leader varied from group to group, Capone was at one point seen by many as a lovable outlaw and modern Robin Hood. How could this man who ran the most vicious criminal organization in the country become so beloved by the general public? Was it the rags-to-riches tale of an immigrant that rose from the bottom to make it to the big time that transfixed the nation? Or is it something else entirely? Let us discover just what is it about the life of Al Capone that seems to spark both disgust and admiration in those that hear it. Inside you will hear about: This is the story of the life and enduring legend of the Italian-American mobster that some loved and others loved to hate.
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]]>Title: Baron Johann de Kalb: The Life and Legacy of the German Major General Who Fought in the American Revolution]]>Categories: America, American Revolution, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-17-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the time the Revolutionary War started, military confrontations between the world powers had become so common that combat was raised to the status of a fine art. Weaponry was developed to a degree of quality not accessible to most North Americans, and European aristocrats were reared in the mastery of swordsmanship with an emphasis on the saber for military use. Likewise, the cavalry, buoyed by a tradition of expert horsemanship and saddle-based combat, was a fighting force largely beyond reach for colonists, which meant that fighting on horses was an undeveloped practice in the fledgling Continental Army. Few sword masters were to find their way to North America in time for the war, and the typical American musket was a fair hunting weapon rather than a military one. German participation is historically noted for the Hessians, mercenary soldiers recruited in whole companies by Britain, whose standing army featured relatively low numbers when the American Revolution began. However, other Germans noted for their mastery of the science of war sided with the colonies, and one of them was Baron Johann von de Kalb, a mentor and elder colleague of the legendary Marquis de Lafayette.
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]]>Title: Haunted Castles Across the World]]>Subtitle: A Collection of Supernatural Tales About the World’s Most Historical Fortifications]]>Categories: Europe, History, Occult, Supernatural]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-17-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Castles have always fascinated people. They speak of a bygone time when gallant knights faced each other in mortal combat to win a lady’s favor, and they bring up images of the chivalry and monarchs of old. In countless romance novels and movies, castles have been the backdrop for sweeping drama, romance, and adventure. Of course, the reality was a bit different. In many castles, lice-ridden tyrants abused sick peasants while their offspring and spouses plotted to knock them off. Masters abused servants, servants poisoned masters, and every now and then, an attacking army came through the land, burning and pillaging.
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]]>Title: Suleiman the Magnificent]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Ottoman Empire’s Most Famous Sultan]]>Categories: Biography, Historical Fiction, History, Middle East, Turkey]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-17-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the fourth century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul. In the wake of taking Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire would spend the next few centuries expanding its size, power, and influence, bumping up against Eastern Europe and becoming one of the world’s most important geopolitical players.
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]]>Title: The American Revolution]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the American Revolutionary War and the United States of America's Struggle for Independence from Great Britain]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Randy Whitlow]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-14-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating history of the American Revolution! In an era where political discourse is becoming increasingly polarized, it is worth reflecting on the circumstances of America’s foundation. This captivating history audiobook presents a general outline of the American Revolution, focusing largely on the period between the outbreak of rebellion in 1765 until the ratification of the US Constitution in 1789. In homage to the original 13 colonies, the audiobook is divided into 13 chapters. In The American Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the American Revolutionary War and the United States of America's Struggle for Independence from Great Britain, you will discover topics such as: So, if you want to learn more about the American Revolution, scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button!
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]]>Title: Saint Nicholas of Myra]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Ancient Christian Bishop Who Became the Inspiration for Santa Claus]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Christianity, Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-11-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Christmas is the most important holiday of the year. After the corresponding days that exalt the national pride of each country, such as Independence Day in the US, Victory Day in Russia, or Bastille Day in France, it's December 25 that articulates the life, the work, and the economy in much of the world, including many non-Christian countries. Since ancient times, the beginning of winter has been the occasion for most people to eat, drink, dance, and get together to beat the drum and take a break. One of the most important figures constantly brought up during the Christmas season is Saint Nicholas, despite the fact most people know little about him. In the 21st century, Saint Nicholas (or as people often refer to him, “Jolly Old Saint Nick”) has been reduced to a pretend, adorably portly grandfather-type, a visual often accompanied by a fleet of magical reindeer and a bustling workshop staffed by endlessly cheerful elves. Most assume, quite understandably, that Saint Nicholas was the fount of inspiration that Santa Claus' myth weavers steadily drank from over the centuries.
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]]>Title: Marshal Tito and Nicolae Ceaușescu: The Lives and Legacies of the Eastern Bloc’s Most Notorious Non-Soviet Leaders]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, Europe, Head of State]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-09-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The World War II era produced many leaders of titanic determination, men whose strengths and weaknesses left an extraordinary imprint on historical affairs. The struggle between massively divergent ideologies, exacerbated by huge social changes affected by the world’s technological metamorphosis into the machine age, catapulted some individuals unexpectedly onto the world stage. Josip Broz Tito, better known to history as Marshal Tito, was undoubtedly one of these figures. Originally a machinist, Tito leveraged his success in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) and a number of extraordinary strokes of luck into dictatorial rule over Yugoslavia for a span of 35 years. World War II proved the watershed that enabled him to secure control of the country, leading an ever more powerful army of communist partisans against both the Germans and other Yugoslav factions. During his reign, Tito managed to quash the intense national feelings of the diverse groups making up the Yugoslavian population, and he did so through several methods.
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]]>Title: Nicolae Ceaușescu: The Life and Legacy of Romania’s Notorious Dictator During the Cold War]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-08-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Nicolae Ceaușescu, one of the 20th century’s most notorious dictators, was both typical and unusual. Outwardly, he resembled a standard leader of a communist country in Eastern Europe during the Cold War, yet he was even more repressive and opulent than his contemporaries. In Romania itself, Ceaușescu led a life as an isolated outsider, notably less urbane than the Bucharest elite, and given that he was born in rural poverty to peasant parents, his rise was perhaps the unlikeliest of any of the communists of that generation. As it turned out, circumstances presented themselves in a manner that led to his elevation, including the acquaintances he made whilst serving time in prison in the 1930s and 1940s, the rise of communism after World War II, and the Soviet occupation of a country that had previously banned the ideology. Ceaușescu was a compromise candidate when Romanian leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej died in 1965, and he initially appeared to be a liberal-minded, nationalist-orientated reformer. Ceaușescu did fit very easily into one stereotype, however, by proving that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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]]>Title: The Cuban Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the Armed Revolt That Changed the Course of Cuba, Including Stories of Leaders Such as Fidel Castro, Chè Guevara, and Fulgencio Batista]]>Categories: America, Caribbean, Education, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Desmond Manny]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 01-03-2019]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the remarkable history of an effort that should never have succeeded, then pay attention... The first two chapters of this audiobook will provide a brief overview to the history of Cuba, giving depth and understanding to how the revolution came to be. After that, it will plunge into the lives of Batista, Castro, and Guevara, and tell the tale of the revolution. It is a gripping story, the story of an impossible victory by a disadvantaged underdog who should never have won. It's a story about courage in the face of certain failure and utter determination against incredible odds. And ultimately, it is a story about perseverance, about hope and courage, about never giving up. It's the story of the Cuban Revolution, and it is an incredible adventure. In The Cuban Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the Armed Revolt That Changed the Course of Cuba, Including Stories of Leaders Such as Fidel Castro, Chè Guevara, and Fulgencio Batista, you will discover topics such as:
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]]>Title: The Marquis de Lafayette]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the American Revolution’s Most Famous Foreign Soldier]]>Categories: America, Europe, France, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-31-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the time the Revolutionary War started, military confrontations between the world powers had become so common that combat was raised to the status of a fine art, consuming a large portion of time for adolescent males in training and comprising a sizable component of the economy. Weaponry was developed to a degree of quality not accessible to most North Americans, and European aristocrats were reared in the mastery of swordsmanship with an emphasis on the saber for military use. Likewise, the cavalry, buoyed by a tradition of expert horsemanship and saddle-based combat, was a fighting force largely beyond reach for colonists, which meant that fighting on horses was an undeveloped practice in the fledgling Continental Army, and the American military did not yet fully comprehend the value of cavalry units. Few sword masters were to find their way to North America in time for the war, and the typical American musket was a fair hunting weapon rather than a military one.
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]]>Title: The Partition of Ireland and the Troubles: The History of Northern Ireland from the Irish Civil War to the Good Friday Agreement]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Ireland]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-31-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The Honorable Member must remember that in the South they boasted of a Catholic State. They still boast of Southern Ireland being a Catholic State. All I boast of is that we are a Protestant Parliament and a Protestant State.
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]]>Title: Malcolm X: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Activist, America, Biography, History, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-31-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.” How could Malcolm X, whose favorite mantra was “the white man is the devil,” have been the author of those words? How could this man, who was known for advocating hatred and separation, have come to inspire a nation in their search to eliminate racial prejudices? In this book, you will join Malcolm X on his sincere search for truth. Inside you will read about... And much more! You will discover the painful, tortuous journey of Malcolm X’s life, which holds the key to the influences and experiences that shaped this man’s mind. To get a glimpse of the true Malcolm X, you have to walk alongside him. You have to allow yourself to visualize the dark paths through which he passed.
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]]>Title: Battle of the Bulge - World War II]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (World War 2 Battles, Book 8)]]>Series: #8 in World War 2 Battles]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-28-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The bloodiest battle in American history earned its name from the war correspondents who were covering the conflict. The “bulge” was a protuberance 50 miles wide and 70 miles deep in the American lines. The Germans, who had been in flight from the American invasion of Normandy, were not supposed to be in the Ardennes region, with its terrain deemed too difficult for tanks to move or soldiers to fight. That deadly assumption left the Ardennes and the town of Bastogne insufficiently defended by 80,000 American soldiers, most of whom had minimal battle experience. Attacking them were more than 400,000 well-armed German troops, many of whom had earned their fighting experience on the deadly Eastern Front. Inside, you will hear about: Trapped and surrounded by the Germans, the besieged Americans seemed doomed. But a daring action by General Patton would break through the German lines and end the siege of Bastogne, bringing supplies and reinforcements that would allow the Americans to prove their mettle at the largest battle fought on the Western Front in Europe.
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]]>Title: Battle of Midway - World War II]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End (World War 2 Battles, Book 7)]]>Series: #7 in World War 2 Battles]]>Categories: Asia, History, Japan, Military, Naval Force]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-28-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 had dealt a catastrophic blow to the US Navy, but it had not knocked out all of the US carriers. That was an omission that Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Japan’s fleet commander, intended to rectify by invading a site close to Pearl Harbor. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor had worked out well for the Japanese - why not try another one on Midway Island? The plan was to destroy the Americans when they launched a counterattack. Japan, then, would rule the Pacific and continue the expansion of its empire. What Yamamoto didn’t know was that Japanese fleet codes had been broken and that Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Chester Nimitz, privy to what the Japanese planned to do, was able to place the American carriers where they would catch the Japanese off guard as they prepared to launch air strikes on Midway Island. Inside, you will hear about: After the Battle of Midway, the Japanese were forced into the position of trying to defend the territory they had previously taken; their dreams of expanding their acquisitions and becoming the dominant power in the Pacific were gone.
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]]>Title: Anne Frank: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Female Protagonist, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-26-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Anne Frank’s story is definitely a tragic one; every aspect of it is steeped in the tragedy of the Holocaust. But sadness is not the only thing the account of Anne Frank’s life has to offer - it’s a powerful story about a girl who wasn’t afraid to stand up for what was right. She faced the worst that humanity has to offer, and she did not let it corrupt her. Even the evil oppression of Hitler’s Nazi regime could never crush the indomitable spirit of Anne Frank. In this audiobook, you will discover her life; this is her story. Inside, you will hear about:
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]]>Title: Vikings: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Vikings, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson]]>Categories: Education, Europe, History, Learning, Scandinavia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Desmond Manny, Timothy Burke]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 12-26-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover the captivating history of the Vikings, Erik the Red, and Leif Erikson, then pay attention. Three captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: In this captivating history audiobook, you'll not only learn about heroic warriors in battle but you'll also discover the remarkable achievements made by the Vikings. In the first part of this audiobook, you will discover topics, such as: In part two of this audiobook, you will discover: Some of the topics covered in part three of this audiobook include: So if you want to learn more about the Vikings, get this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: Modern Ireland: The History of the Emerald Isle from the Middle Ages to Today]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Ireland]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-25-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>There are very few national relationships quite as complicated and enigmatic as the one that exists between the English and the Irish. For two peoples so interconnected by geography and history, the depth of animosity that is often expressed is difficult at times to understand. At the same time, historic links of family and clan, and common Gaelic roots, have at times fostered a degree of mutual regard, interdependence, and cooperation that is also occasionally hard to fathom. During World War I, for example, Ireland fought for the British Empire as part of that empire, and the Irish response to the call to arms was at times just as enthusiastic as that of other British dominions such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. And yet, at the same time, plots were unearthed to cooperate with the Germans in toppling British rule in Ireland, which would have virtually ensured an Allied defeat. In World War II, despite Irish neutrality, 12,000 Irish soldiers volunteered to join the Khaki line, returning after the war to the scorn and vitriol of a great many of their more radical countrymen.
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]]>Title: Yugoslavia: The History of the Eastern European Nation from Its Founding to Its Breakup]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-24-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Yugoslavia was arguably one of the most unusual geopolitical creations of the 20th century. The Yugoslav state had never existed in any historical sense, and the ties that bound together its constituent peoples were tenuous at best. Although nominally all “Slavs,” the country was an amalgamation of languages, alphabets, cultures, religions, and traditions, which ensured its short existence was littered with splits, conflicts, and shocking violence. In a sense, it’s somewhat surprising that it lasted as long as it did. In the wake of World War I, as the political boundaries of Europe and the Middle East were redrawn, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, initially known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, came into existence with a monarch as its head of state. Confirmed at the 1919 Versailles Conference, the “first” Yugoslavia was a particularly fragile enterprise, and there was almost constant tension between the majority Serbs and the other Yugoslav nationalities, especially the Croats. As a result, the Kingdom was a land of political assassinations, underground terrorist organizations, and ethnic animosities.
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]]>Title: The History of Ireland and Northern Ireland in the 20th Century]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Ireland]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-21-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“If you strike us down now we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom then our children will win it by a better deed.” -Patrick Pearse There are very few national relationships quite as complicated and enigmatic as the one that exists between the English and the Irish. For two peoples so interconnected by geography and history, the depth of animosity that is often expressed is difficult at times to understand. At the same time, historic links of family and clan, and common Gaelic roots, have at times fostered a degree of mutual regard, interdependence, and cooperation that is also occasionally hard to fathom. During World War I, for example, Ireland fought for the British Empire as part of that empire, and the Irish response to the call to arms was at times just as enthusiastic as that of other British dominions such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. And yet, at the same time, plots were unearthed to cooperate with the Germans in toppling British rule in Ireland, which would have virtually ensured an Allied defeat.
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]]>Title: Famine and Rebellion: The History of Ireland Under the British Empire in the 19th Century]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Ireland]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-18-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“If you strike us down now we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom then our children will win it by a better deed.” -Padraig Pearse There are very few national relationships quite as complicated and enigmatic as the one that exists between the English and the Irish. For two peoples so interconnected by geography and history, the depth of animosity that is often expressed is difficult at times to understand. At the same time, historic links of family and clan, and common Gaelic roots, have at times fostered a degree of mutual regard, interdependence, and cooperation that is also occasionally hard to fathom. During World War I, for example, Ireland fought for the British Empire as part of that empire, and the Irish response to the call to arms was at times just as enthusiastic as that of other British dominions such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. And yet, at the same time, plots were unearthed to cooperate with the Germans in toppling British rule in Ireland, which would have virtually ensured an Allied defeat.
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]]>Title: Andrew Carnegie: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Business, Business Leader, Economic]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-14-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>He has roads, schools, libraries, and the famous Carnegie Hall all named after him. But who was this industrialist and business titan of the late 19th and early 20th century? What were his struggles, and how did he help the world with his philanthropic contributions? Was the story of this Scottish immigrant truly a rags-to-riches one? And what was it that caused Andrew Carnegie’s desire to give his great wealth away? Inside, you will hear about: He built the greatest business empire the world had ever seen. He founded incredible libraries, art museums, and donated to charities by the boatload. In this audiobook, we will discover the incredible story of Andrew Carnegie’s life from beginning to end.
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]]>Title: The Birth of the Republic of Ireland: The History of Ireland’s Split from the British Empire in the Early 20th Century]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Ireland]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-13-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“If you strike us down now we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom then our children will win it by a better deed.” -Patrick Pearse There are very few national relationships quite as complicated and enigmatic as the one that exists between the English and the Irish. For two peoples so interconnected by geography and history, the depth of animosity that is often expressed is difficult at times to understand. At the same time, historic links of family and clan, and common Gaelic roots, have at times fostered a degree of mutual regard, interdependence, and cooperation that is also occasionally hard to fathom. During World War I, for example, Ireland fought for the British Empire as part of that empire, and the Irish response to the call to arms was at times just as enthusiastic as that of other British dominions such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. And yet, at the same time, plots were unearthed to cooperate with the Germans in toppling British rule in Ireland, which would have virtually ensured an Allied defeat.
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]]>Title: The Space Race: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Europe, Exploration, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-10-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>During 14 years, from 1955 to 1969, the Soviet Union and the United States of America were engaged in a dramatic race against each other to conquer space. This period encompassed dramatic victories, humbling defeats, and more than one tragedy. This is a story of human courage and ingenuity at its best and political maneuvering at its worst, of almost unbelievable technological progress undertaken with the object not just of advancing human knowledge but also of proving the superiority of one country over another. Here's what you'll learn about: The space race culminated in man setting foot upon the moon, but each milestone on the way to that final goal was bitterly contested. Two powerful nations pledged a substantial part of their national resources to beat the other in a scientific and technological race to be the first to achieve new records. In terms of contests between major powers, there has never been anything quite as dramatic, public, and sustained as the space race; it remains one of the most fascinating and engaging episodes of the Cold War.
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]]>Title: Marie Curie: A Life From Beginning to End]]>Series: #2 in Biographies of Women in History]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Female Protagonist, France, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-10-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>One of the most famous women of the 20th century, Marie Curie was a trailblazer in the truest sense. Known for her discovery of two radioactive elements, radium and polonium, Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She remains the only woman to win two Nobel Prizes in different sciences. From this audiobook, you will learn about: Marie Curie lived by her own rules in a society marred by misogyny and xenophobia. A scientist, but also a loving wife and mother, she defied expectations as a matter of course. Curie also fought for her country during the First World War the best way she knew how - with science. There is much more to Marie Curie’s story than the discovery of the radioactive elements that eventually killed her.
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]]>Title: History of Havana]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Capital of Cuba, Starting from Christopher Columbus' Arrival to Fidel Castro]]>Categories: America, Caribbean, Education, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: David Patton]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 12-03-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating history of Havana! The story of Havana has all the elements of a great epic. It has tragic heroes and cunning villains, dramatic battles and fine culture, explosions, killings, horrible murders, rousing speeches, and courageous displays of determination. The history of Cuba's capital is about more than just one city. It's about the astounding resilience of the Cuban people, a people that has been through so much and yet continues to bounce back, a people that is known for the irresistible combination of ingrained toughness and emotion always ready to leap to the surface. This captivating history audiobook is for you if you want to go on a startling adventure, starting from the days of Christopher Columbus and continuing through wars, revolutions, protests, and partying. In History of Havana: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Capital of Cuba, Starting from Christopher Columbus' Arrival to Fidel Castro, you will discover topics such as: So if you want to experience firsthand the events that have shaped this battered gem of the Caribbean, listen to this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: Saint Patrick: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Ireland, Religion]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-29-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Just who was Saint Patrick? Many know him as the figure behind the huge festival of fun and drinking that takes place every year on March 17. But look a little more closely and see that there is more to the patron saint of Ireland than meets the eye. Inside, you will hear about: Saint Patrick will amaze as listeners embark on a journey of tough beginnings, holy power, and a story of overcoming adversity to change a nation. Take a look at the saint who devoted his life to bringing Christianity to an entire nation - and succeeded after much difficulty. The saint we know as the reason for a holiday is much more significant than people know.
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]]>Title: Bruce Lee: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #7 in Biographies of Actors]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, Celebrity, China, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-28-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The name Bruce Lee is synonymous with martial arts superstar. Lee’s movie career was cut tragically short by his death at just 32 years old. Starring in six big-release feature movies, Lee revolutionized martial arts movie-making and challenged Western prejudices against the East. Inside, you will hear about: Challenging the status quo of martial arts practice, Lee created his own unique system, Jeet Kune Do. More than a martial art, Jeet Kune Do is a philosophy for life that is founded on the art of fighting without fighting. Lee’s life may have been short, but it burned bright and continues to illuminate today.
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]]>Title: History of the Vikings: A Captivating Guide to the Viking Age and Feared Norse Seafarers Such as Ragnar Lothbrok, Ivar the Boneless, Egil Skallagrimsson, and More]]>Categories: Education, Europe, History, Learning, Scandinavia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Desmond Manny]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-27-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating history of the vikings Men like Ragnar Lothbrok, Eric Bloodaxe, Ivar the Boneless, and Bjorn Ironside are portrayed as preying on unsuspecting communities and spreading fear across Europe as they laid waste to all that lay before them, taking what they wanted at the point of a sword. It is true that the Vikings were, without a doubt, brutal men living in a brutal age. They did use their skills as warriors to relentlessly attack Europe and the British Isles to increase their wealth and territory, but that is not all the Vikings were, and their contribution to world history is far more than warmongering. In this captivating history audiobook, you'll not only learn about heroic warriors in battle but you'll also discover the remarkable achievements made by the Vikings. In History of the Vikings: A Captivating Guide to the Viking Age and Feared Norse Seafarers Such as Ragnar Lothbrok, Ivar the Boneless, Egil Skallagrimsson, and More, you will discover topics such as So listen to this audiobook now if you want to learn more about the history of the Vikings!
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]]>Title: The Great Depression: A Captivating Guide to the Worldwide Economic Depression That Began in the United States, Including the Wall Street Crash, FDR's New Deal, Hitler’s Rise and More]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Desmond Manny]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-20-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that the unemployment rate between 1933 and 1934 was one in four people? The stock market crash of 1929 didn’t cause the Great Depression by itself, but it is a powerful symbolic starting point to the greatest economic disaster of the 20th century. On that dark day in October 1929, fortunes were lost, and fear of financial insecurity rose throughout the United States and the world. In 1932, the low point of the Depression, as much as a third of Americans were out of work, and even more people were unemployed in other countries. The stock market reached its lowest point ever and wouldn’t rise to its pre-Depression levels for almost 20 years. The scale of the crisis demanded new ways of coping and new ideas about the role of government.
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]]>Title: Tsar Nicholas II: A Life From Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, History, Royalty, Russia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-19-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Reigning from 1894 to 1917, Nicholas II was the last emperor of Russia. His rule served as the bookends between what were essentially two Russian empires; the one that his forefathers carved out through imperial ambition and the one dictated by the zealous communists of the Soviet Union bent on socialist expansion. Nicholas was by most accounts a conflicted ruler; a man viewed as kind and generous in his mannerisms, yet alleged to be greatly disconnected and apathetic toward the subjects he was supposed to rule over. From this audiobook you will learn about: Find out how this last Russian tsar rose to power and oversaw the end of a 300-year family dynasty as it teetered, tottered, and finally fell over the edge of oblivion. This is the story of Tsar Nicholas II.
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]]>Title: Russian History]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the History of Russia, Including Events Such as the Mongol Invasion, the Napoleonic Invasion, Reforms of Peter the Great, the Fall of the Soviet Union, and More]]>Categories: History, Russia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Desmond Manny]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-15-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discover the captivating history of Russia! Russia, or the Russian Federation, as it is officially known, is the world’s largest country and covers almost a sixth of the global landmass. The country is often associated with harsh climates and autocratic government. The shadow of communism and the Cold War continues to influence global attitudes toward Russia. This new Captivating History audiobook serves as an overview of Russian history over the span of more than a millennium, from the foundation of the Russian state by the Viking Prince Rurik in AD 862 until the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991. In Russian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Russia, Including Events Such as the Mongol Invasion, the Napoleonic Invasion, Reforms of Peter the Great, the Fall of the Soviet Union, and More, you will discover topics such as: So, listen to this audiobook now if you want to discover more about the startling history of Russia!
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]]>Title: The Cuban Missile Crisis: A History From Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Central America, History, Military, Nuclear Warfare]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-08-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Cold War between the United States of America and the Soviet Union lasted for more than 40 years. In general, this was a war of spies and subterfuge, of covert action and espionage. There was always a danger, however, that an error of judgment on either side could suddenly cause the Cold War to turn red-hot with an exchange of nuclear weapons. On many occasions, tensions between the countries increased, but the prospect of all-out nuclear war between America and Russia was never closer than during a two-week period in October of 1962. In response to the placement of American nuclear missiles in Turkey, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev secretly ordered the transport of Russian nuclear missiles to the island of Cuba in the Caribbean. These were capable of reaching and destroying almost all American cities in a matter of minutes. When this was discovered, the US administration under President John F. Kennedy decided that the threat had to be removed, even if this meant risking war with Russia. The Americans set up a blockade of the island and considered air strikes and even a full-scale invasion of Cuba.
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]]>Title: The Sino-Japanese Wars: The History and Legacy of the Early 20th Century Conflicts That Made Japan the Dominant Power in Asia]]>Categories: Asia, China, History, Japan, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-07-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>For decades, Korea existed as a protectorate of China, paying homage to the mighty Chinese dynasties while minding its own business as best it could. However, sensing weakness in the former regional power after being defeated by the Europeans during the Second Opium War, escalating tensions over Korea between the old power of China and the new power of Japan led to the First Sino-Japanese War. In its first modern war, the modernized Japanese empire went to war against the dominant power in the region, and though interested Western powers favored China, Japan won the day. The conflict paved the way for the future Empire of Japan and the collapse of the Qing Dynasty. Though both nations modernized, and China far outweighed Japan in terms of men and materiel potential, the island nation handily won its first modern war.
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]]>Título: Jackie Kennedy]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante de la vida de Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]]>Categorías: Biography, Celebrity, Politician, Politics]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 11-05-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>¡Explore la fascinante vida de Jackie Kennedy! Sin duda, el nombre Jackie Kennedy atrae a la mente muchos pensamientos. Ella es, quizás, más conocida por su función como primera dama de los Estados Unidos cuando su esposo, John F. Kennedy, asumió el cargo como presidente, y por su papel en la restauración de la Casa Blanca. Además, por supuesto, muchas personas recuerdan a Jacqueline por su influencia en la industria de la moda, en particular, su vestido rosado de Chanel y su sombrero pillbox, que se convirtieron en los símbolos del asesinato de su marido. Jackie es tan famosa y querida que es considerada como una de las primeras damas más populares. De hecho, en 1999, Jacqueline fue incluida en la lista Gallup de los hombres y mujeres más admirados en Estados Unidos en el siglo XX. Si bien ejerció su mayor influencia en la Casa Blanca, Jackie fue mucho más que su título de primera dama. Algunos de los temas abordados en este audiolibro son: Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Mon, 05 Nov 2018 04:28:25 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Dm4fAwWR Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Khmer Rouge: The Notorious History and Legacy of the Communist Regime That Ruled Cambodia in the 1970s]]>Categories: 20th Century, Asia, History, Modern, Southeast Asia]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-02-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The reign of the Khmer Rouge, a Cambodian communist regime, began on April 7, 1975 as Khmer Rouge militants entered the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, ultimately gaining control and forcing out its residents. For the next four years, the regime would remain in power and commit what is now referred to as the Cambodian Genocide. Their reign would result in economic turmoil, cultural destruction, and mass death, impacting Cambodia to this day. That legacy continues to be the subject of discussion among governments and academics, who would debate not only their intentions and actions but also the appropriate course of pursuing legal action against its leaders. The Communist Party of Kampuchea, also known as the Khmer Rouge, took control of Cambodia’s capital city of Phnom Penh on April 7, 1975. Upon seizing Phnom Penh, the Communist forces of the Khmer Rouge began to eliminate all aspects of public life that were viewed as contrary to communist ideals.
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]]>Title: Vladimir Lenin: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Politician, Politics]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-25-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The political theories of Lenin have long outlived him and have even gone on to outlive the Marxist state he help to found: the Soviet Union. The name Lenin still reverberates around the world, and yet Lenin is not even his real name. He was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov; the name Lenin was just the word he used to attach to his ideology. Lenin was just the brand he developed as he attempted to make good on his promise to export Leninism all over the world. Inside, you will hear about: The man who came to be known as Vladimir Lenin almost single-handedly sparked Communist revolution in Russia, and he very nearly brought his brand of Marxism to the rest of the world. What drove him to do this? Where did he derive such an immense desire for societal change? This audiobook serves to examine the landscape that brought such a pivotal figure to such prominence, examining all of the catalysts, from personal to national, that led the man known simply as Lenin down his inexorable path of revolution.
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]]>Title: Peter the Great: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, History, Royalty, Russia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-24-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>What would Russia look like today if there had never been a Peter the Great? Peter I did so much for Russia, including changing the education system to reach more people, reorganizing the government and the Russian Orthodox Church, and even modernizing the dress and social living standards of the Russian people. From this audiobook, you will learn about: Peter grew up in a Russia that was stuck in archaic times, but he recognized the need for change, and when his time came to rule over his country he met the challenge head-on. Peter the Great turned Russia into one of the greatest powers of the world.
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]]>Title: Ancient History]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, Egypt, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm, Timothy Burke]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-24-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Three captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include: Some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook include: Some of the topics covered in part three of this audiobook include: So if you want to learn about ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome without reading boring textbooks, listen to this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: Simón Bolívar: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, Historical Fiction, History, South America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-23-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Simón Bolívar truly earned his nickname “The Liberator” for a large portion of South American people. He was a forward-thinking political figure at a time when Spain was ruling over the region that is now comprised of Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, and Colombia. From this audiobook, you will hear about: Bolívar’s revolutionary thoughts and belief system are what gave so many who lived in that part of the continent their independence and the freedom to enact their own governments with their own laws. Few people in history have achievements that can rival the ones made by this hero of the Latin American people. The world was forever changed by the perseverance of one man, Símon Bolívar.
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]]>Título: Evolución Humana [Human Evolution]]]>Subtitular: La Historia de la Evolución y los Procesos de Selección Natural que Dieron Origen a los Humanos Modernos]]>Categorías: Civilization, History, Planet Earth, STEM, Science]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Jonathan M. Matthews]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 10-23-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Desde que la mente humana desarrolló la capacidad de pensamiento, las personas han considerado no solo el significado de la vida, sino la génesis del mundo, el universo y todas las maravillas naturales y formas de vida preciosas dentro de él. Hasta el día de hoy, todos estos temas intrincados continúan siendo asuntos muy discutidos, a menudo mejor encapsulados en el debate entre el creacionismo y la evolución. Considerando las discusiones saludables en los paneles organizados y conversaciones cotidianas, y los con frecuencia abrasadores argumentos en los foros en línea y otras plataformas o redes sociales, es seguro decir que las llamas de este interminable discurso arden más salvajes y brillantes que nunca hoy en día. En el 2014, un debate público que se centró en si la creación es o no un modelo viable de orígenes fue celebrado entre el científico comunicador y personalidad de televisión Bill Nye, en el lado de los evolucionistas, y Ken Ham, un cristiano fundamentalista y creacionista “de la Tierra joven”. Los 900 asientos en el auditorio del Museo de la Creación en Cincinnati se vendieron en 48 horas.
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]]>Title: Assyrian History: A Captivating Guide to the Assyrians and Their Powerful Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, Egypt, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: David Patton]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-23-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the Captivating History of the Assyrian Empire Of all the famous civilizations to emerge from Mesopotamia, a list that includes the Akkadians, the Sumerians, and the Babylonians, it’s the Assyrians who deserve the fame and glory. The empire they constructed over the course of some 1,200 years survived constant attacks, a few defeats, and the famed Dark Age, known as the Bronze Age collapse, to become one of the largest and most expansive empires the world has ever seen. In Assyrian History: A Captivating Guide to the Assyrians and Their Powerful Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia, you will discover topics such as Listen to this audiobook now if you want to learn about the Assyrians!
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]]>Title: The Aborigines: The History and Legacy of Australia’s Indigenous People]]>Categories: Australasia, Civilization, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-23-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A land of almost three million square miles has lain since time immemorial on the southern flank of the planet, so isolated that it remained almost entirely outside of European knowledge until 1770. From there, however, the subjugation of Australia would take place rapidly. Within 20 years of the first British settlements being established, the British presence in Terra Australis was secure, and no other major power was likely to mount a challenge. In 1815, Napoleon would be defeated at Waterloo, and soon afterward would be standing on the barren cliffs of Saint Helena, staring across the limitless Atlantic. The French, without a fleet, were out of the picture, the Germans were yet to establish a unified state, let alone an overseas empire of any significance, and the Dutch were no longer counted among the top tier of European powers. Australia lay at an enormous distance from London, and its administration was barely supervised. Thus, its development was slow in the beginning, and its function remained narrowly defined, but as the 19th century progressed and peace took hold over Europe, things began to change. Immigration was steady, and the small spores of European habitation on the continent steadily grew.
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]]>Title: Martin Luther King Jr.: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Activist, Biography, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-16-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The life of Martin Luther King Jr. was painfully short but joyously valuable. Using non-violent direct action and the principles of Christian love, King became the most influential pioneer of the civil rights movement in the United States of America. A husband, father, pastor, and leader, King preached a message of hope by taking to the streets and changing the world. You will hear about:
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]]>Title: Ancient Israel: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Israelites, Starting from Their Entry into Canaan Until the Jewish Rebellions Against the Romans]]>Categories: History, Levant, Middle East]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: David Patton]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-15-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating history of ancient Israel! Unlike many other ancient peoples, the culture and beliefs of the Israelites exist in modern society. They managed to survive through wars, persecution, and numerous revisions and adaptations caused by new invaders or internal rebellions. Because of their significance in contemporary society, it’s important to learn more about the Israelites in order to fully understand how they developed and managed to contribute so heavily to the current culture of the Western world. In this captivating history audiobook, you'll learn startling facts about the intriguing ancient Israelites, and when you're finished listening, you might have a discovered things about them that you not would expect. In Ancient Israel: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Israelites, Starting From their Entry into Canaan Until the Jewish Rebellions against the Romans, you will discover topics such as So if you want to learn about Ancient Israel, listen to this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: Marie Antoinette: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, France, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-12-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Her name was Marie Antoinette. She was the last queen of France and among the most notorious of royalty ever to wear the crown. But besides the tales that would make The National Enquirer blush, just what do we know about Marie Antoinette? While the peasants of France were starving for lack of bread, did she really say, “Let them eat cake!”? Or was it all a carefully crafted smear campaign? Inside, you will hear about: Animosity against Marie Antoinette, the Austrian-born woman who many French citizens viewed as a transplanted upstart, had been brewing for several years. But was there any truth to their claims of the queen squandering resources and neglecting the lives of her subjects? In this audiobook, we seek to cut through centuries of bias and preconceived notions when it comes to Marie Antoinette. Never mind what you may think you know about this sensational sovereign; here, we seek to find the real person behind the historical quips and catchphrases. Come along as we rediscover the life and legend of the ill-fated last queen of France - Marie Antoinette.
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]]>Title: Charles I: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-12-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Charles I is one of the most instantly recognizable of the English monarchs. During his reign, the relationship between king and Parliament changed radically, with revolutionary results. A man of deeply held convictions whose refusal to compromise brought about conflict and civil war, King Charles I almost destroyed the English monarchy forever. Inside, you will hear about: When considering the 24-year reign of Charles I, it is difficult not to come to the conclusion that he may have made a much better duke of York (the title historically given to the second son of the royal family) than king of England. And perhaps Charles, too, would have been much happier had his older brother taken the throne instead.
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]]>Title: Charles II: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-11-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Charles II of England remains one of the most easily identifiable and best known of England’s monarchs. Deprived of his throne following the execution of his father, he contended with hardship and exile before achieving a peaceful restoration and the beginning of what would be remembered as a colorful period of English history. His reign includes some of the most iconic moments such as the Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of London in 1666. But it was also significant. It led to the creation of the two-party system that would shape English and later British politics for centuries to come. Charles’ attempts to secure independence for himself from the restrictions of Parliament would also lay the groundwork for a fundamental shift in the English constitution. Inside you will read about: Fondly remembered in history as the “Merry Monarch”, Charles II remains one of England’s most popular and iconic monarchs.
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]]>Title: The British Army During the Second World War]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Army Across All Theaters of World War II]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-10-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Europe’s attempts to appease Hitler failed, as Nazi Germany swallowed up Austria and Czechoslovakia by 1939. The straw that broke the camel's back, however, was Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1 of that year. Two days later, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany, and World War II had begun in earnest. Of course, as most people now know, the invasion of Poland was merely the preface to the Nazi blitzkrieg of most of Western Europe.The narrative is that the British stood alone in 1940 against the Nazi onslaught, defending the British Isles during the Battle of Britain and preventing a potential German invasion. At the beginning of 1941, it was unclear whether the Allies would be able to remain in the war for much longer. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had already immortalized the men of the Royal Air Force with one of the West’s most famous war-time quotes, but the potential of a German invasion of Britain still loomed.
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]]>Title: The British Army in World War I: The History and Legacy of the Army Across All Theaters of the Great War]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-10-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>World War I, also known in its time as the “Great War” or the “War to End All Wars”, was an unprecedented holocaust in terms of its sheer scale. Fought by men who hailed from all corners of the globe, it saw millions of soldiers do battle in brutal assaults of attrition that dragged on for months with little to no respite. Tens of millions of artillery shells and untold hundreds of millions of rifle and machine gun bullets were fired in a conflict that demonstrated man’s capacity to kill each other on a heretofore unprecedented scale. The enduring image of World War I is of men stuck in muddy trenches and of vast armies deadlocked in a fight neither could win. It was a war of barbed wire, poison gas, and horrific losses as officers led their troops on mass charges across no-man’s-land and into a hail of bullets.
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]]>Title: Oscar Wilde: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #3 in Irish History]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Ireland, Press]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-09-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Who was Oscar Wilde? Was he just an author of witty but meaningless plays, only out to get a laugh or two? The answer is a resounding no. Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright in the late 19th century. His controversial plays were riddled with mockery of social status, cleverly covered by the use of comedy. Inside you will hear about: Wilde may have paved the way for people living a little off the center line. He was full of flash and flare, and he wrote some of those colorful traits into his literature. Take a journey into the world of Oscar Wilde, and find out just how individualistic he was.
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]]>Title: Saddam Hussein: A Life From Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, History, Iraq War, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-09-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>From his humble beginnings as a farmhand working on tribal Iraqi land to becoming the president of Iraq for more than two decades, Saddam Hussein’s life story is nothing short of extraordinary. Transforming Iraq first into a prosperous nation then into a war-ravaged shell of its former self, Hussein is one of the key figures of the late 20th and early 21st century. From this audiobook, you will learn about: America nicknamed Saddam “The Butcher of Baghdad” for the atrocities he committed during his reign. The exact number of Iraqi who were killed is unknown, but estimates suggest up to 100,000 Kurds and 100,000 Iraqi civilians and rebels were killed by the Hussein regime. Hussein lost his own life at the hands of his people, executed for his crimes in 2006.
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]]>Título: Historia Afroamericana [African American History]]]>Subtitular: Una Guía Fascinante para entender los eventos y personas que moldearon la Historia de los Estados Unidos]]>Categorías: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 10-02-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Explora hechos e historias fascinantes sobre los Afroamericanos La historia de los Afroamericanos es una larga crónica de eventos trágicos. Aquellos que tuvieron el coraje de rebelarse en contra de esta crueldad del sistema y de esta opresión eran normalmente brutalmente asesinados por este motivo. Este hecho ha creado una larga tradición de atrevidos líderes y seguidores que han sido los verdaderos motores de la evolución del pensamiento en los Estados Unidos de América. Descubre las historias, luchas y logros de personajes como: Los temas a cubrir en este libro son: ¡Adquiere ahora el libro y aprende más sobre la historia Afroamericana! Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Henry Clay Frick]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Railroad and Steel Magnate Who Became One of America’s Most Famous Art Collectors]]>Categories: America, Biography, Business, Economic]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-02-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The term robber baron has largely fallen into disuse in the 21st century but there was a time when it was a popular epithet that described the kind of man who, it was believed, built his fortune by taking things belonging to others. The Gilded Age and the dawn of the 20th century are often remembered as an era full of monopolies, trusts, and economic giants in heavy industries like oil and steel. Men like Andrew Carnegie built empires like Carnegie Steel, and financiers like J.P. Morgan merged and consolidated them. The era also made names like Astor, Cooke, and Vanderbilt instantly recognizable across the globe. Over time, the unfathomable wealth generated by the businesses made the individuals on top incredibly rich, and that in turn led to immense criticism and an infamous epithet used to rail against them: robber barons. Of all the men labeled as robber barons during the Gilded Age, few were as influential as Henry Clay Frick, who rubbed shoulders with men like J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie while overseeing some of the era’s biggest companies.
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]]>Title: China and the West in the 19th Century]]>Subtitle: The History of the Qing Dynasty’s Contacts and Conflicts with the Europeans and Americans]]>Categories: Asia, China, Europe, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Ken Teutsch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-01-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>During the 15th century, China had become economically and technologically advanced compared to civilizations in Europe at the time, and its fleet, which had reached a total of 3,500 ships, was unmatched by any other world power. Nevertheless, after conducting several trade expeditions with the massive fleet, the Chinese ships were either burned in the docks or left to rot. With that, China began to revert to the xenophobic policies of its past and reduce its presence in other lands. By 1525, the largest naval fleet in the world had essentially been destroyed or dismantled by China itself. While China was in the process of isolating itself from the rest of the world, the European explorers were beginning to discover new lands, such as North America and South America. Among the countries doing the most exploring during this time were the Portuguese. The Portuguese had reached India in 1498, and by 1509 they had established part of their empire in India.
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]]>Title: The Six Wives of Henry VIII: A Captivating Guide to Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Katherine Parr]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Desmond Manny]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-01-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the Captivating History of the Six Wives of Henry VIII Henry VIII, King of England and Ireland in the first half of the 16th century, is one of history’s most famous monarchs for many reasons. He ruled ruthlessly, was quick to cry “treason!” and execute, and equally quick to fall in and out of love. Henry changed the religious fabric of England forever and left his mark on the wider world - but what of the six women he took as his queens? From the regal and capable Catherine of Aragon to the patient and generous Katherine Parr, Henry’s wives represented a range of personalities, goals, beliefs, and influences on the king. Each of Henry’s six wives represented a facet of the king himself, whether he liked to admit it or not; unfortunately, a Queen of England at the side of Henry VIII could never be sure of her husband’s love - or her safety. These are the stories of three Catherines, two Annes, and one Jane. This audiobook covers topics such as: So if you want to learn more about the six wives of Henry VIII, buy this audiobook now!
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]]>Título: Los Neandertales [The Neanderthals]]]>Subtitular: La Historia de los Humanos Extintos que Fueron Contemporáneos del Homo Sapiens en Europa]]>Categorías: Ancient, Europe, History]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Jon Matthews]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 09-28-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>En la cultura popular, el término “neandertal” es usado como un insulto coloquial para un degenerado o alguien que es percibido como estúpido. Este parece haber sido el caso incluso desde el primer reconocimiento de los neandertales como una especie. El primer descubrimiento fósil de neandertal fue el cráneo de un niño en Bélgica en 1829, pero estaba gravemente dañado. Otro sería descubierto en 1856 en una mina de piedra caliza de la región de Neanderthal, en lo que hoy es Alemania (por lo que fue llamado “Neandertal 1”), y poco más de una década después sería descubierta una calavera con rasgos distintivos diferentes (que indicaban una especie diferente a los neandertales), en el suroeste de Francia. El último espécimen llegaría a ser reconocido como un ejemplo de la especie H. Sapiens, y estos humanos anatómicamente modernos llegaron a Europa hace 45.000-43.000 años, alrededor del tiempo en que se cree que los neandertales comenzaron a extinguirse. Los neandertales son miembros del género Homo, al igual que el H. sapiens, y comparten aproximadamente el 99.7 por ciento de su ADN con los humanos modernos (Reynolds y Gallagher 2012). Ambas especies incluso vivieron brevemente durante la misma época en Eurasia.
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]]>Título: Sumerios [Sumerians]]]>Subtitular: Una guía fascinante acerca de la historia sumeria antigua, la mitología sumeria y el imperio mesopotámico de la civilización sumeria]]>Categorías: Ancient, History, Iraq, Middle East]]>Autor: Captivating History]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Captivating History]]>Fecha de publicación: 09-27-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Explora la fascinante historia de los sumerios La gran importancia de la cultura sumeria en toda la cultura mundial es evidente y crucial. Esta civilización es la única responsable de algunas de las innovaciones más importantes en prácticamente todos los aspectos básicos para mantener una sociedad civilizada: incluyendo la religión, la legislación, la arquitectura, la educación, el arte, la literatura y hasta el entretenimiento. Naturalmente, la mayoría de lo que vemos actualmente como aspectos negativos de la sociedad también se estableció en la antigua Sumeria. No hubo un aspecto de la vida sumeria que no estuviera plagado de corrupción o devastación de una u otra forma. En otras palabras, los sumerios nos dieron la sublimidad de la fe y la rigidez del pensamiento religioso junto con el deseo de supremacía política. Nos dieron tanto a los monarcas benévolos y afectuosos como a los tiranos crueles y castigadores; el niño educado y el niño mimado; el agrario trabajador y el fiestero borracho; y los imperios épicos, así como también los restos patéticos de ellos.
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]]>Title: The Colonization and Establishment of Liberia]]>Subtitle: The History of the West African Nation Before the Liberian Civil Wars]]>Categories: 19th Century, Africa, History, Modern, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-27-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the spring of 1786, an organization was founded in London to provide some aid for destitute blacks and Asians in the British capital who were by then beginning to become conspicuous. Quite a number of them were resettled blacks from the American colonies who aided British forces in the Revolutionary War and found themselves thereafter no longer welcome in the United States. Others were captives, slaves for one reason or another released on the high seas, and other stevedores and sailors washed up on the shore of England. It was generally believed that the figure was some 15,000, and with limited employment prospects and no community support, most were in very difficult circumstances indeed. The motivations for this were complicated and varied, and in part they could be explained by an interest in creating circumstances advantageous to blacks, but also to give them an opportunity to form and run a colony effectively in order to debunk a widely held belief that no black man could do such a thing.
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]]>Title: Edgar Allan Poe: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #3 in Biographies of American Authors]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Press, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-26-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>What would literature be without the works of Edgar Allan Poe? Would we have the detective story, as was created by this master of the art of deductive reasoning? How would the horror genre have turned out? You will learn about: Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most influential literary figures of all time. He did a lot to change the way people viewed writers and their value. This book dives into the life of this well-known poet and author and explores all the ways he impacted the literary world, both in his own time and in ours. Start listening, and be transported back to the 19th century to learn about one of the most well-known American writers of all time.
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]]>Title: Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #7 in World War 1]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Germany, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-21-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Kaiser Wilhelm II was the last of the German emperors who reigned over the German Empire and Prussia. He was a man who thought himself to be quite adept at foreign affairs and diplomacy. The truth was, however, that this man’s talent seemed to lie in being able to alienate entire countries after only one meeting with government officials or monarchs. Inside, you will hear about: Despite the fact that he was one of the sparks that lit the fire of World War I, Wilhelm was quite an intelligent man. Some say his diplomatic failures happened because of mental illness; others claim it was an inferiority complex caused by the physical disability with which he was born. Whatever the case, Wilhelm II’s time as a world leader was riddled with political blunders and examples of what not to do in terms of diplomatic policies and practices. In this audiobook, we will explore his life, both personal and professional, to find out more about how Kaiser Wilhelm II became the last German emperor.
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]]>Title: The Medina Azahara: The History and Legacy of the Moors’ Medieval Capital in Spain]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-21-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“To Córdoba belong all the beauty and ornaments that delight the eye or dazzle the sight. Her long line of Sultans form her crown of glory; her necklace is strung with the pearls which her poets have gathered from the ocean of language; her dress is of the banners of learning, well-knit together by her men of science; and the masters of every art and industry are the hem of her garments...” (Stanley Lane-Poole, The Moors in Spain) Love, as they often say, is best expressed through meaningful actions, as opposed to syrupy words and hollow promises. To pragmatists, it's the smaller things that make the biggest splash, while hopeless romantics may take it upon themselves to go the extra mile. Apart from showering their better halves with trips abroad to bucket-list destinations and mountains of extravagant gifts, the wealthy might organize benefits and galas and make handsome donations to a cause that deeply resonates with their loved one. Whereas most would deem the tokens of affection exchanged by celebrity power couples to be sweet but inordinately excessive, many of those who pine after storybook romances are especially enamored of these grand gestures.
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]]>Title: The Mosque of Cristo De La Luz]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Moors’ Famous Holy Site in Toledo, Spain]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-19-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Bismila [in the name of Allah]. Ahmad ibn Hadidi had this mosque erected using his own money requesting a reward in paradise for it from Allah. It was completed with the aid of Allah under the direction of Musa ibn Alí, architect and Sa'ada, and concluded in Muharraq in 390.” - An inscription on the foundation of the mosque The Mosque of Cristo de la Luz is nowhere near the largest monument in Toledo. The grand Toledo Cathedral, for instance, dwarfs this modest, two-level structure with its height of 146 feet. The simple elegance of the mezquita pales in comparison to the city's stupendous landmarks. Toledo is, after all, home to the mighty stone fortification known as the Alcazar of Toledo and the breathtaking masonry showpiece that is the Synagogue of Santa Maria la Blanca.
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]]>Title: The Liberian Civil Wars]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Deadly Conflicts and Liberia’s Transition to Democracy in the 21st Century]]>Categories: 20th Century, Africa, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-19-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the spring of 1786, an organization was founded in London to provide some aid for destitute blacks and Asians in the British capital who were by then beginning to become conspicuous. Quite a number of them were resettled blacks from the American colonies who aided British forces in the Revolutionary War and found themselves thereafter no longer welcome in the United States. Others were captives, slaves for one reason or another released on the high seas, and other stevedores and sailors washed up on the shore of England. It was generally believed that the figure was some 15,000, and with limited employment prospects and no community support, most were in very difficult circumstances indeed. The motivations for this were complicated and varied, and in part, they could be explained by an interest in creating circumstances advantageous to blacks, but also to give them an opportunity to form and run a colony effectively in order to debunk a widely held belief that no black man could do such a thing.
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]]>Title: James Monroe]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Founding Father Who Served as the Fifth President of the United States]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Desmond Manny]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-17-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating life of James Monroe. From plantation owner to diplomat to US president, James Monroe was known for his tenacity in pursuing what he thought was right, while also being honored for his fair policies, such as the Monroe Doctrine and policies to develop the country’s infrastructure. These traits were recognized in 1816, when the West African country of Liberia changed its name to Monrovia, in honor of James Monroe. It serves as the only international capital named after a US president and only one of two capitals in the world named after a US president - the other being Washington, D.C. This captivating history audiobook covers topics such as: So if you want to learn more about the remarkable life of James Monroe, listen to this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: Ancient Rome: A Captivating Introduction to the Roman Republic, the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, and the Byzantine Empire]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, History, Learning, Rome]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Timothy Burke]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-14-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of ancient Rome then keep reading.... The Roman civilization is probably the single most important civilization in the history of the planet. Its expansion defined Europe. Its constitution shaped societies from Russia in the east to the United States and Latin America in the west. Not even its conquerors were immune to the superior Roman culture. In this new captivating history book, you’ll learn all you need to know about Roman institutions and politics. But our focus will be on the captivating stories and curious personalities of the Roman emperors, politicians, and generals - from Romulus, Caesar, Augustus, Trajan, and Hadrian to Constantine, Justinian, and Belisarius. Equally important (and perhaps even more interesting) are the stories of influential women - mothers, wives, and lovers, from Cleopatra and Agrippina to Theodora and Zoe with the coal-black eyes - whose schemes often redirected the course of history. Here are some of the topics covered in Ancient Rome: A Captivating Introduction to the Roman Republic, the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, and the Byzantine Empire: Listen to this audiobook now to learn more about ancient Rome!
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]]>Title: Aztec History: A Captivating Guide to the Aztec Empire, Mythology, and Civilization]]>Categories: America, Ancient, History, Mexico]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: David Patton]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-14-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Did you know that the Aztecs sacrificed 500 to 700 people every year in order to satisfy their gods? For many years, the Aztecs have captured our imaginations. Stories from the original European invaders combined with unique, awe-inspiring ruins and legends that speak of palaces of gold create an image of Aztec society defined by grandeur, wealth, and splendor. But who exactly were the Aztecs? Where did they come from? How did they rise to control such a wide expanse of land? And if they were so powerful, how was it possible for them to fall from power and dominance just three years after contact was first made with the Spaniards? These are just some of the questions that this new captivating history audiobook aims to answer. In Aztec History: A Captivating Guide to the Aztec Empire, Mythology, and Civilization you will discover topics such as: Listen to this audiobook now to learn more!
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]]>Title: The Cro-Magnon: The History and Legacy of Europe’s Early Modern Humans]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-13-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In March 1868, in a rock shelter in southwestern France, railroad workers came across relatively modern looking human skulls, flint tools, and animal bones. To investigate the limestone cliff shelter, the French geologist Louis Lartet was brought in to perform excavations, during which he uncovered four partial skeletons and ornaments of shell, ivory and reindeer antler. Given the ancient nature of the remains, the specimen types were named after the Abri de Crô-Magnon (abri = rock shelter, an dcrô= hole) they were discovered in. Notable finds from the rock shelter were the Cro-Magnon 1, a nearly complete male skull (missing only his teeth) with remains of his skeleton, Cro-Magnon 2, partial remains of a female cranium, and Cro-Magnon 3, the partial remains of a male cranium. Based on the remains, the site likely dates to the Upper Pleistocene Era between 32,000 and 30,000 years ago.
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]]>Title: Jay Gould]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became America’s Most Notorious Robber Baron]]>Categories: America, Biography, Business, Economic]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-12-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The term "robber baron" has largely fallen into disuse in the 21st century, but there was a time when it was a popular epithet that described the kind of man who, it was believed, built his fortune by taking things belonging to others. The Gilded Age and the dawn of the 20th century are often remembered as an era full of monopolies, trusts, and economic giants in heavy industries like oil and steel. Men like Andrew Carnegie built empires like Carnegie Steel, and financiers like J.P. Morgan merged and consolidated them. The era also made names like Astor, Cooke, and Vanderbilt instantly recognizable across the globe. Over time, the unfathomable wealth generated by the businesses made the individuals on top incredibly rich, and that, in turn, led to immense criticism and an infamous epithet used to rail against them: robber barons. The industrial might wielded by men like Gould in the later 19th century directly led to a public backlash and made President Teddy Roosevelt the “trust buster”, and there has since been countless regulations to attempt to avoid the types of monopolies found over 100 years ago.
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]]>Title: Erik the Red]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Viking Who Founded the First Norse Settlement in Greenland]]>Categories: Education, Europe, History, Learning, Scandinavia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Desmond Manny]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-12-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating life of Erik the Red. A formidable figure with flaming red hair, a wild beard, and a temper to match is not the type of person most people would choose to cross swords with. And that, by all accounts, is a fitting description of Erik the Red. This was not a man to be taken lightly or challenged in battle. He was courageous on the battlefield, an accomplished seafarer, indomitable warrior, and unstoppable adventurer. In short, Erik the Red was everything we imagine a Viking to be. Some of the topics covered in this audiobook include: Listen to this audiobook now to learn more about Erik the Red!
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]]>Title: Ludwig van Beethoven]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #2 in Composer Biographies]]>Categories: Biography, Celebrity, Europe, Germany]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-11-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>What kind of a man could create the dreaming melodies of the "Moonlight Sonata"? Give birth to the dramatic voice of the "Fifth Symphony"? Compose the "Ode to Joy"? Meet Ludwig van Beethoven, the musical genius, the passionate artist, the incorrigible man, the composer from whose soul music breathed. You will hear about: This will not be an idealistic story of perfection. Just like his music, Beethoven’s story will have its fearful lows and its exulting crescendos. It will have its repeated themes. It will have its sudden surprises. And it will speak to the heart.
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]]>Title: Nero: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Historical Fiction, History, Rome]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 09-06-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Nero. The very name seems to embody the character of a tyrant. The years of his reign come down to us with tales full of self-serving totalitarianism. Wasn’t he the one that fiddled while Rome burned after all? Wasn’t this the mad monarch who wished to embark upon a building project, so he set the old buildings that were in his way on fire? But besides this power-mad tyranny, what do we know about Nero? Surely even the most despotic dictator has a good side? Come along with us as we explore the multifaceted nature of a man who is often presented as a one-dimensional, dictatorial caricature. You will learn about:
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]]>Title: Leif Erikson: A Captivating Guide to the Viking Explorer Who Beat Columbus to America and Established a Norse Settlement at Vinland]]>Categories: Europe, History, Scandinavia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Timothy Burke]]>Publisher: Leif Erikson]]>Release date: 09-06-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating life of Leif Erikson The Vikings were exceptional boat builders, seafarers, adventures, and explorers. They not only raided and attacked settlements across Europe and Britain, but they also sailed far and wide, discovering and colonizing new lands. Their impact on history is far-reaching and the mark that they made on the world, especially during the Viking Age, can still be seen today. In this audiobook, you will learn about the world that shaped Leif Erikson and made him into an adventurous man who was not afraid to sail into the unknown to discover new lands. You will discover how he was able to cross the Atlantic on an open longboat and become the first known European to have set foot on the North American continent, almost half a millennium before Christopher Columbus. Some of the topics covered in this audiobook include: Listen to this audiobook now to learn more about Leif Erikson!
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]]>Title: The Roaring Twenties]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to a Period of Dramatic Social and Political Change, a False Sense of Prosperity, and Its Impact on the Great Depression]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-05-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the Captivating History of the Roaring Twenties Few decades capture the imagination like the 1920s. Like so many good stories, it got its start from a time of great turmoil and ended in a dramatic fashion. What happened between 1920 and 1929 has passed beyond history and has become legend. The lessons of the 1920s are still relevant today. Many of the debates and issues of the era are still part of the national conversation. Economic policies, consumer behaviors and mass culture of the 1920s are reflected in our culture almost 100 years later. By understanding the past, we can better prepare for the future, and this new Captivating History audiobook is all about giving you that knowledge. This audiobook includes topics such as:
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]]>Title: The End of Democracy in Liberia]]>Subtitle: The History of the Coups that Overthrew Liberia’s Leaders in the 1980s and Led to Civil War]]>Categories: 20th Century, Africa, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-04-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the spring of 1786, an organization was founded in London to provide some aid for destitute blacks and Asians in the British capital who were by then beginning to become conspicuous. Quite a number of them were resettled blacks from the American colonies who aided British forces in the Revolutionary War and found themselves thereafter no longer welcome in the United States. The motivations for this were complicated and varied, and in part they could be explained by an interest in creating circumstances advantageous to blacks, but also to give them an opportunity to form and run a colony effectively in order to debunk a widely held belief that no black man could do such a thing.
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]]>Title: Giacomo Casanova]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Explorer, History, Italy]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-29-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Casanova. Womanizer. Playboy. It has been more than 200 years, but Giacomo Casanova’s name is still a slang word. That name, emblazoned across Europe in the 1700s, is synonymous yet today with a player, someone who seduces a woman, makes a sexual conquest of her, and leaves her. It was once something more than that. Beyond the scams and the scandals, beyond the gambling debts, even beyond the lace ruffles and the powdered wigs, Giacomo Casanova was once something more, someone more. Someone formed by the social customs of the day; molded by the unique experiences of a little boy in Venice; sparked into life by the intelligence, philosophy, adventure, and passion that was Giacomo Casanova.
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]]>Title: The Step-by-Step Guide to Yoga for Flexibility]]>Categories: Fitness, Health, Wellbeing, Workout, Yoga]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-28-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Includes step-by-step explanations for 36 poses and stretches. For nearly 1,000 years, people in the East have been practicing what was known as hatha yoga, "a kind of forced yoga or abstract meditation”, but in the West during the 20th century, it came to be known simply as yoga. In the last 50 years, yoga has become incredibly popular as a way to exercise both the mind and body. Yoga means “unity” or “oneness”, and the word is derived from the Sanskrit word yuj, which means “to join”. In spiritual terms, this joining refers to the unity of the individual consciousnesses with the universal consciousness. In practical terms, it refers to balancing and harmonizing the mind, body, and spirit. Yoga can be both a physical exercise and a way of life that bestows several health benefits upon those who practice it.
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]]>Title: The Second Battle of Ypres]]>Subtitle: The History of the Notorious World War I Battle That Witnessed the First Mass Use of Poison Gas]]>Categories: Europe, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-28-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>World War I, also known in its time as the “Great War” or the “War to End all Wars”, was an unprecedented holocaust in terms of its sheer scale. Fought by men who hailed from all corners of the globe, it saw millions of soldiers do battle in brutal assaults of attrition which dragged on for months with little to no respite. Such a war brought about technological innovation at a rate that made the boom of the Industrial Revolution seem stagnant. The arms race before the war and the attempt to break the deadlock of the Western and Eastern Fronts by any means possible changed the face of battle in ways that would have previously been deemed unthinkable. Before 1914, flying machines were objects of public curiosity; the first flights of any account on rotor aircraft had been made less than five years before and were considered to be the province of daredevils and lunatics. By 1918, all the great powers were fielding squadrons of fighting aircraft armed with machine guns and bombs.
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]]>Title: Marcus Aurelius]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, History, Philosopher, Rome]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-27-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Have you ever heard of Marcus Aurelius? It wouldn’t come as much of a surprise if you haven’t. While names like Nero, Caligula, Hadrian, and Constantine grab all the attention with their exploits, Marcus Aurelius tends to sit more in the historical background of the Roman Empire. In many ways, he is a lesser known emperor even though his written works have stood the test of time. Marcus, a prolific writer and formidable scholar, was perhaps the first to fulfill Plato’s dream of the philosopher king. Learn about: Marcus Aurelius reigned over the Roman Empire for almost two decades - from 161 CE until 180 CE - and during that span, he took the time to look back at his own life in the legendary Meditations. Penned in his own words in a mainly diary-styled format, this book was never meant for publication but was discovered several years after the emperor’s death. It was this book that ignited an interest in this otherwise unsung emperor, and that interest lasts to this very day.
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]]>Title: The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The History and Legacy of America’s Largest Art Museum]]>Categories: America, Art, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-27-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.” (Jerry Saltz) Americans are rightfully proud of much of their heritage, especially as it relates to the ideas of democracy and government. The country has spread its ideals throughout the world and rose, in just two short centuries, to a place of global leadership. However, when it comes to art and culture, there’s never been any doubt how young the nation is, especially compared to much older nations across the Atlantic. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was created to assuage some of that and to show the world that America could hold its own with the leading galleries of the rest of the world. From the beginning, the Met has been unique because unlike many European museums, the support for the sprawling New York City museum came from modern tycoons and philanthropists instead of old families with wealth and land.
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]]>Title: Ernest Hemingway: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #1 in Biographies of American Authors]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Press, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-22-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Ernest Hemingway has sometimes been called one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. The titles of his works - novels such as The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls or short stories such as “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” - are recognizable even to many who have never read them. His last novel, The Old Man and the Sea, won him the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, and he also won the Nobel Prize in literature. Hemingway used language to develop an innovative style, purposely seeking to set himself apart from those who had come before with his distinctive pared-down sentences. You will hear about: In this short book, you’ll discover that much of Hemingway’s writing drew on the experiences of his life. From the bullfights of Spain to safaris in East Africa; from being a war correspondent in war zones around the world to surviving multiple airplane and car crashes, Hemingway’s life is a riveting story worth exploring in and of itself.
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]]>Title: Alfred Nobel: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Scientist and the Nobel Prizes]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, STEM]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-20-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.” (Alfred Nobel) It does not take a genius to recognize the dangers of dynamite. The explosive is often glamorized as a colorful and boom-inducing explosion no more dangerous than a firecracker, even though an actual stick of dynamite is packed with a blast big enough to break through or move one cubic yard of solid rock, which weighs more than a ton. Ironically, the individual who invented dynamite left a famous final will and testament, part of which read, “The whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way: the capital, invested in safe securities by my executors, shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind....” This was the final will of none other than Alfred B. Nobel, the man behind the Nobel Peace Prizes.
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]]>Título: La Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba [The Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba]]]>Subtitular: La Historia y el Legado del Mayor Lugar Santo de los Moros en España [The History and Legacy of the Greatest Holy Place of the Moors in Spain]]]>Categorías: Christianity, Europe, History, Medieval, Spain]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Jonathan Matthews]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 08-16-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>“A Córdoba pertenecen toda la belleza y los ornamentos que deleitan la vista o deslumbran el paisaje. Su larga línea de sultanes forma su corona de gloria; su collar está encordado con las perlas que sus poetas han recogido del océano de la lengua; su vestido es de los estandartes del saber, unidos por sus hombres de ciencia; y los maestros de cada arte e industria son el dobladillo de sus vestidos...”. (Stanley Lane-Poole, “Los moros en España”) La calle Cardenal Herrero de Córdoba es una emblemática calle empedrada imposible de pasar por alto, ya que alberga la espectacular Mezquita-Catedral de la ciudad andaluza. Conocido también como “La Mezquita”, este singular lugar de culto morisco y cristiano recibe alrededor de 1,5 millones de visitantes cada año, la mayoría de los cuales se encuentran fascinados por sus hipnóticas características arquitectónicas y la fascinante historia que ha acontecido y continúa dentro de las hermosas y erosionadas paredes de la iglesia dual.
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]]>Title: Spanish Civil War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Modern, Spain]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-15-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Spanish Civil War is sometimes seen as merely a precursor to World War II, and it’s easy to understand why. The troops of the extreme right fought against those of the extreme left, and the soldiers and military hardware of Germany, Italy, and Russia faced off on Spanish battlefields many years before they fought each other on the Russian steppes. For the first time, the world would see bombings of civilians to create terror. There were secret police forces on both sides and large numbers of arbitrary executions, and the use of imprisonment without trial and torture as a means of establishing state power became almost routine. But the Spanish Civil War was much more than just an overture to World War II. It was a war born out of schisms in Spanish society between rich and poor, monarchists and Republicans, the right and the left, and between those who supported the church and those who saw it as an instrument of oppression.
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]]>Title: Mount Athos and Meteora: The History of the Greek Landmarks That Became Orthodox Christian Monasteries]]>Categories: Christianity, History, Orthodox Church]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-15-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The sleepy paradise of Mount Athos is often extolled as the most peaceful and private corner of Greece, if not all of Europe. Mount Athos is the easternmost finger of the Halkidiki peninsula - a mountainous sliver of land that stretches about 37.3 miles long with a surface area of about 150 square miles. Towering over the tightly packed chestnut forests and the blue, crystalline waters of the Aegean Sea at a height of 6,670 feet is the snow-dusted crest of the mighty mountain itself. Known to the locals as Agion Oros, or the “Holy Mountain”, the peninsula today is most famed for its exclusivity, a place that continues to bar all women and their daughters from entry. The fortress-like monasteries scattered among the slopes and the clusters of cells clinging to the cliffs are occupied by monks of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Of course, its male-only population is just one aspect of the peninsula's anomalous nature. Planted on the peninsula's coast is a black Byzantine Cross, a flat, cross-shaped monument with a trinity of flared, wide-armed Greek crosses in place of its arms and a traditional Christian cross in its center, kissed with rust.
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]]>Title: Mayflower]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 17th Century, America, Colonialism, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jimmy Kieffer]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-15-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The story of the Mayflower is one of adventure, courage, and destiny. The Mayflower was the ship that launched a nation. She left from England in September of 1620, carrying 102 English Separatists to a new life, one that came with the freedom to practice their religious beliefs as they saw fit. These Pilgrims had the courage of their convictions. They had already potentially faced execution for practicing their beliefs, and now they were willing to uproot their lives, their families, and their homes, to sign contracts of indentured servitude - all to find what they called freedom in a foreign land. You will learn about: Their journey was one of courage and destiny, as they forged ahead, crossing an ocean to settle in a harsh environment. They faced storms and dangerous adversaries to get to the New World. There, they built a life based on the values they held sacred, and those values would form the foundation of a new nation almost a century later. This book tells the story of their adventure in a concise, yet thorough, manner that is packed with historical detail and enjoyable to hear.
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]]>Title: Augustus Caesar]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-14-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>He was the first emperor of one of the greatest empires ever known to man. He commanded unmatched authority in the ancient world and was always one step ahead of his opponents. He had an intellect and a sharp wit that could cut down his foes just as easily as the steel of his sword. The life of Octavian - later known as Augustus - was so rich and full that it would take several volumes to cover all of his exploits. Although he lived and died over 2,000 years ago, this founder of the Roman Empire is as intriguing as ever. You will hear about: Learn the riveting history and the inspirational life of the most noble Roman of them all - Augustus.
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]]>Title: The Gurkhas: The History and Legacy of the Nepalese Soldiers Used by the British Empire in India]]>Categories: Asia, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-14-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha." (Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw) The Gurkha Regiment is without question one of the most storied regiments of the British Army. Somewhat like the French Foreign Legion, however, it has traditionally been a regiment of adventurers and soldiers of fortune, with the simple difference that the Gurkhas represent only a minor ethnicity of the wider Nepalese population, distinguished by a long and august martial tradition. Traditionally, the officer corps of the various Gurkha regiments have been drawn from the regular ranks of the British Army, with fluency in Nepali a basic requirement. The rank and file, however, and more recently many officers, are drawn from the population of the Nepalese hill country. To the Gurkha, Nepal means not the 56,000 square mile territory known as Nepal today but the Kathmandu Valley, or the Valley of Nepal, drained by the tributaries of the Bagmati River and surrounded by the Himalayan foothills that most Gurkhas call home. Today Nepal is an independent republic sandwiched between India and China and occupying the southern lee of the Himalayas.
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]]>Title: Get Fit Now]]>Subtitle: The Definitive Guide to Getting Six Pack Abs]]>Categories: Fitness, Health, Nourishment, Wellbeing, Workout]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-14-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In today’s world, getting fit and staying fit are two of the greatest obstacles people face in staying both physically and mentally healthy. As statistics indicate, more and more people are losing their battle, which can be both emotionally discouraging and harmful to their health in the long run. As anyone can attest, success requires equal parts desire and discipline. Charles River Editors’ Get Fit Now series provides listeners with the information, advice, and plans necessary to win the battle to get fit and stay fit. If you’ve recently made the decision that you’re going to work toward the goal of getting six-pack abs, it’s vital you take the time to learn the ins and outs of what it will take to achieve success and then put together a proper diet and workout program that’s going to help you go that extra mile. Far too many people set the goal to get a leaner midsection, carving out the "six-pack look", but fail to achieve success because they simply don’t have the right approach.
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]]>Title: Meteora: The History of the Famous Greek Landmark That Houses Eastern Orthodox Monasteries]]>Categories: Christianity, Europe, Greece, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-14-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Tower of Babel is arguably among the most well-known allegories of the Old Testament. As told by the Book of Genesis, the story revolves around a post-flood batch of Noah's descendants who dwelled in Babylon's Mesopotamia, a city erected by King Nimrod. The population multiplied rapidly over the years, and the city's inhabitants fostered the growth of their culture and enhancing the infrastructure of their territories, made easier by the existence of only one common language. Naturally, the pride of the Mesopotamian residents burgeoned, but their contentment, poisoned by their greed and ambition, began to decline. The only way to prevail over this slump, believed a particularly enterprising group of individuals, was to construct a colossal ziggurat (a “rectangular, stepped tower”) that would ascend past the clouds and into the heavens.
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]]>Title: The Maori]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of New Zealand’s Indigenous People]]>Categories: Australasia, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-09-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 1769, Captain James Cook’s historic expedition in the region would lead to an English claim on Australia, but before he reached Australia, he sailed near New Zealand and spent weeks mapping part of New Zealand’s coast. Thus, he was also one of the first to observe and take note of the indigenous peoples of the two islands. His instructions from the Admiralty were to endeavor at all costs to cultivate friendly relations with tribes and peoples he might encounter, and to regard any native people as the natural and legal possessors of any land they were found to occupy. Cook, of course, was not engaged on an expedition of colonization, so when he encountered for the first time a war party of Maori, he certainly had no intention of challenging their overlordship of Aotearoa, although he certainly was interested in discovering more about them. Approaching from the east, having rounded Cape Horn and calling in at Tahiti, the HMS Endeavour arrived off the coast of New Zealand, and two days later it dropped anchor in what would later be known as Poverty Bay.
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]]>Título: Los Fantasmas de Londres [The Ghosts of London]]]>Subtitular: Una Colección de Historias de Fantasmas de la Capital Británica [A Collection of Ghost Stories from the British Capital]]]>Categorías: Europe, Great Britain, History, Occult]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 08-08-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Inglaterra es una antigua tierra llena de historia y tradición, llena de ruinas prehistóricas, majestuosos castillos, y un paisaje esculpido de milenios de vida humana. Su paisaje ondulado está salpicado de túmulos funerarios prehistóricos y círculos de piedra. Los siniestros castillos cuentan historias de derramamiento de sangre y honor. Las iglesias medievales tienen elaborados vitrales y esculturas horripilantes, reflejando una mezcla de esperanza y oscuridad. Cada aldea y pueblo tiene historias que se remontan a siglos atrás, y fiestas populares con raíces paganas. Por lo tanto, no es sorprendente que muchos crean que Inglaterra es una tierra llena de fantasmas. Durante siglos, la gente ha contado historias de fantasmas que acechaban sus edificios históricos, extrañas criaturas acechando en sus primitivos bosques, y caminos inexplicables que unen sus antiguos sitios. Y naturalmente, como una de las capitales más históricas del mundo, cada paso en Londres lleva a los visitantes a través de cientos de años de historia cargados de intriga política, guerra, romance e inspiración de genios artísticos y científicos.
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]]>Title: Emily Dickinson]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Famous American Poet]]>Categories: America, Author, Biography, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-08-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Saying nothing...sometimes says the most.” - Emily Dickinson Like many writers of her day, Emily Dickinson was a virtual unknown during her lifetime. After her death, however, when people discovered the incredible amount of poetry that she had written, Dickinson became celebrated as one of America’s greatest poets. Dickinson was notoriously introverted and mostly lived as a recluse, carrying out her friendships almost entirely by written letters. Her work was just as unique; her poetry is written with short lines, occasionally lacked titles, and often used slant rhyme and unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Only a few of her poems were published in her lifetime, but children across the country read her work today. As a result, Dickinson is, even to those who have studied her the most, an enigma and, even more to the point, a contradiction. Born in an era when women rarely received more than a rudimentary education, she attended college but left before graduating. Considered by many evangelical Christians to be a pioneer of religious poetry, she struggled during her entire life to fully embrace the Calvinist doctrines taught in her New England home.
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]]>Title: The Russian Revolution]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the February and October Revolutions and the Rise of the Soviet Union Led by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks]]>Categories: History, Insurrection, Military, Military Conflict, Russia]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Timothy Burke]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 08-07-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to learn about the Russian Revolution but don't feel like reading or listening to a boring textbook, then keep reading.... The Russian Revolution was the most important and progressive political event of the 20th century. There is a lot to learn from these explosive political episodes and many remarkable stories to discover. But despite this, many people are reluctant to learn about the Russian Revolution because it can require one to go through heavy and, sometimes, overly analytical texts. But that is about to change. This new captivating history audiobook is designed to be a simple yet educational guide, so you can learn the most crucial events of the Russian Revolution while hopefully enjoying yourself. The Russian Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the February and October Revolutions and the Rise of the Soviet Union Led by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks includes topics such as: Listen to this audiobook now to learn more about the Russian Revolution!
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]]>Title: Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Careers of 19th Century America’s Most Famous Poets]]>Categories: America, Author, Biography, Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-07-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Walt Whitman, the great American poet, is also in many ways a great American enigma, for more and less are known about him than other famous men in 19th century American history. As a young man, when most of his peers were sowing their wild oats, he was considered by many to be a stick in the mud who neither drank nor chased women. Then, as a middle-aged man, when his peers had settled down into quieter lives, he remained single and seems to have pursued romantic relationships with both men and women. Then, of course, there was his poetry, words that summarized both the best and worst about his nation. His seminal work, Leaves of Grass, began as little more than a pamphlet but grew for decades, as each new edition added more poems. By the time of his death, it had become a large volume still studied today. While he wrote other pieces for publication, Leaves of Grass remained his magnum opus and his baby, nurturing and developing it throughout his life. Like many writers of her day, Emily Dickinson was a virtual unknown during her lifetime.
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]]>Title: History of Chicago: A Captivating Guide to the People and Events that Shaped the Windy City’s History]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 08-07-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating history of Chicago Founded as a tiny, temporary settlement, Chicago became a crux of the American fur trade before growing into one of the powerhouses of the Industrial Revolution. From procuring drinking water to implementing racial equality, nothing has ever been simple for the people who have called Chicago home - and yet there is immense pride among Chicagoans for what they and their fellow people have achieved. The city has been home to some of America’s most influential people, be they talk show hosts or US Presidents. Every star on the Chicago flag represents an achievement to be remembered; every building an era that has helped shape the modern city into what it is today. In this book, you will discover remarkable stories of people and events who shaped the history of this fascinating city. History of Chicago: A Captivating Guide to the People and Events that Shaped the Windy City’s History includes topics such as: So if you want to learn more about the history of Chicago, buy this audiobook now!
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]]>Title: New Zealand and the British Empire]]>Subtitle: The History of New Zealand Under British Sovereignty]]>Categories: Australasia, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-02-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the mid-17th century, the existence of a land in the South referred to as Terra Australis was generally known and understood by the Europeans, and incrementally, its shores were observed and mapped. Van Diemen’s Land, an island off the South Coast of Australia now called Tasmania, was identified in 1642 by Dutch mariner Abel Tasman, and a few months later, the intrepid Dutchman would add New Zealand to the map of the known world. At the time, the English were the greatest naval power in Europe, but they arrived on the scene rather later. The first to appear was William Dampier, captain of the HMS Roebuck, in 1699, after he had been granted a Royal Commission by King William III to explore the East Coast of New Holland. By then, the general global balance of power was shifting, and with the English gaining a solid foothold in India, their supremacy in the Indian Ocean trade zone began.
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]]>Title: The Greatest Civil War Battles: The Battle of Cold Harbor]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-02-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Overland Campaign that pitted Robert E. Lee against Ulysses S. Grant is one of the most famous campaigns of the Civil War, and May 1864 witnessed the Civil War’s greatest chess match as Lee skillfully blocked Grant’s attempts to destroy the Army of Northern Virginia only to watch his tenacious opponent keep advancing south toward Richmond. Lee and Grant fought to a standstill in the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and along the North Anna, inflicting about 30,000 casualties on each other’s armies. By the time the two armies reached Cold Harbor near the end of May 1864, Grant incorrectly thought that Lee’s army was on the verge of collapse. Though his frontal assaults had failed spectacularly at places like Vicksburg, Grant believed that Lee’s army was on the ropes and could be knocked out with a strong attack. The problem was that Lee’s men were now masterful at quickly constructing defensive fortifications, including earthworks and trenches that made their positions impregnable.
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]]>Title: Francisco Franco]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Controversial Spanish Dictator]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Head of State, History, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-02-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Spanish Civil War has exerted a powerful impact on the historical imagination. Without question, the conflict was a key moment in the 20th century, a precursor to World War II, and an encapsulation of the rise of extremist movements in the 1930s, but it was also a complex narrative in and of itself, even as it offered a truly international theatre of war. It marked one of the seminal moments, along with the 1929 Wall Street Crash, between the two apocalyptic wars of the early 20th century, and since it occurred between 1936 and 1939, Spain proved to be a testing ground of tactics, weaponry, and ideology ahead of World War II. For the Allied powers Britain and France, Spain became a nadir of “appeasement”, yet, as the name suggests, the conflict had distinctly Spanish characteristics. The pressures that led to war were particular to the country, its social challenges, and its long and intricate history, and it was a conflict between two sides that included disparate elements like the clergy, socialists, landowners, and even anarchists.
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]]>Title: Tulip Mania]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the World’s First Speculative Bubble During the Dutch Golden Age]]>Categories: 17th Century, Europe, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-01-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If one were to glide over the Dutch countryside via helicopter in the springtime, the beauty below them would seem almost surreal. The rolling rectangular fields are composed of immaculately neat horizontal stripes in vibrant swatches of scarlet, pink, lavender, cream white, and midnight blue. The ethereal sight is even more breathtaking when one takes a stroll along these fields, surrounded by endless carpets of bright color. These world-famous three-petal, three-sepal flowers, all craning their necks toward the dazzling sun, are none other than Dutch tulips. The Netherlands is now the world's leading commercial producer of tulips, shipping out more than three billion of these colorful beauties each year. Standard tulips, depending on where one is based, typically sell for anywhere between one dollar to $3.50 US dollars per stem today. They are a creative alternative to roses, lilies, and other traditional flowers. Needless to say, like every other floral breed, special tulips - such as hybrids, or ones with unique multicolored streaks and patterns - will cost buyers a pretty penny, but a bouquet is certainly not going to break the bank. Legend has it, however, that this was not always the case.
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]]>Title: The British Colonization of New Zealand]]>Subtitle: The History of New Zealand from Settlement to Dominion]]>Categories: Australasia, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-01-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the mid-17th century, the existence of a land in the South referred to as Terra Australis was generally known and understood by the Europeans, and incrementally, its shores were observed and mapped. Van Diemen’s Land, an island off the South Coast of Australia now called Tasmania, was identified in 1642 by Dutch mariner Abel Tasman, and a few months later, the intrepid Dutchman would add New Zealand to the map of the known world. At the time, the English were the greatest naval power in Europe, but they arrived on the scene rather later. The first to appear was William Dampier, captain of the HMS Roebuck, in 1699, after he had been granted a Royal Commission by King William III to explore the East Coast of New Holland. By then, the general global balance of power was shifting, and with the English gaining a solid foothold in India, their supremacy in the Indian Ocean trade zone began.
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]]>Title: Mount Athos]]>Subtitle: The History of the Greek Mountain and the Center of Eastern Orthodox Monasticism]]>Categories: Ancient, Christianity, Europe, Greece, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-27-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Clear water where evergreens, azaleas cool ceremoniously...a kele lost among cedars, its roof open to eagles, door unhinged...silver leaves like a congregation of spiders....” When one hears these enchanting descriptions, from poet David Posner's 1964 composition “Mount Athos”, it is not difficult to understand why this sleepy paradise is often extolled as the most peaceful and private corner of Greece, if not all of Europe. Mount Athos is the easternmost finger of the Halkidiki peninsula - a mountainous sliver of land that stretches about 37.3 miles long and 4.3 to 7.5 miles wide, with a surface area of about 150 square miles. Towering over the tightly packed chestnut forests and the blue, crystalline waters of the Aegean Sea at a height of 6,670 feet is the snow-dusted crest of the mighty mountain itself. Known to the locals as Agion Oros, or the “Holy Mountain”, the peninsula today is most famed for its exclusivity, a place that continues to bar all women and their daughters from entry. The fortresslike monasteries scattered among the slopes and the clusters of cells clinging to the cliffs are occupied by monks of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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]]>Title: El Escorial: The History and Legacy of Spain's Most Famous Royal Site]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-27-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Nestled among the Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range, El Monte Abantos, or Mount Abantos, towers over its surroundings at a height of 5,751 feet. Indeed, there is nothing aesthetically spectacular about this forested mound, but there is an aura of mystery that hangs over Abantos, much like the curtain of mist that lingers over the mountaintop in the early morning. Madrid, just a little over 37 miles away, is as beautiful and vibrant as they come, yet city folk and tourists alike often find themselves drawn to this landform, in particular the quiet swathe of land on the southern slope of the Abantos. This picturesque place, rich with scenic, panoramic views, is a refreshing escape from the fast-paced city life, but it is also home to an irreplaceable national treasure once lauded as the eighth wonder of the world: El Escorial. Strangers to El Escorial will most likely be left unmoved by the multipurpose complex at first glance. It has complementary, but dull colors, not to mention uniform, yet uninspired proportions of its towers. The facade, while clearly a stalwart structure, lacks warmth and creativity.
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]]>Título: El Imperio Otomano [The Ottoman Empire]]]>Subtitular: La historia y el legado del Imperio Transcontinental que dominó Europa Oriental y Medio Oriente durante casi 500 años]]>Categorías: Europe, History, Medieval, Middle East, Turkey]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Jonathan Matthews]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 07-26-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>En términos de geopolítica, quizás el acontecimiento más importante de la Edad Media fue el exitoso asedio otomano a Constantinopla en 1453. La ciudad había sido una capital imperial ya en el siglo IV, cuando Constantino el Grande cambió el centro de poder del Imperio Romano, estableciendo efectivamente dos mitades casi igualmente poderosas del imperio más grande de la antigüedad. Constantinopla seguiría siendo la capital del Imperio Bizantino incluso después de que la mitad occidental del Imperio Romano se derrumbara a finales del siglo V. Naturalmente, el Imperio Otomano también usaría a Constantinopla como capital de su imperio después de que su conquista terminara efectivamente con el Imperio Bizantino, y gracias a su ubicación estratégica, ha sido un centro comercial durante años y sigue siendo uno de ellos hoy en día bajo el nombre turco de Estambul. El fin del Imperio Bizantino tuvo un profundo efecto no sólo en el Medio Oriente sino también en Europa. Constantinopla había jugado un papel crucial en las Cruzadas, y la caída de los bizantinos significó que los otomanos ahora compartían frontera con Europa.
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]]>Title: The European Discovery of New Zealand]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Early Expeditions and British Settlements on New Zealand]]>Categories: Australasia, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-25-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the mid-17th century, the existence of a land in the south referred to as Terra Australis was generally known and understood by the Europeans, and incrementally, its shores were observed and mapped. Van Diemen’s Land, an island off the south coast of Australia now called Tasmania, was identified in 1642 by Dutch mariner Abel Tasman, and a few months later, the intrepid Dutchman would add New Zealand to the map of the known world. At the time, the English were the greatest naval power in Europe, but they arrived on the scene rather later. The first to appear was William Dampier, captain of the HMS Roebuck, in 1699, after he had been granted a Royal Commission by King William III to explore the east coast of New Holland. By then, the general global balance of power was shifting, and with the English gaining a solid foothold in India, their supremacy in the Indian Ocean trade zone began. The Dutch, once predominant in the region, began slowly to lose ground, slipping out of contention as a major global trading power. So too were the Portuguese, also once dominant in the region.
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]]>Title: World War II Pearl Harbor]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #5 in World War 2 Battles]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Naval Force, World War II]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-23-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>President Franklin D. Roosevelt described December 7, 1941, the date when the Japanese launched a surprise attack against the United States while the two countries were still officially at peace, as a day that would live in infamy. The action hurled the United States into the global conflict of World War II, a violent conflagration that the nation, fiercely isolationist, had intended to ignore. But the rising tide of militarism across the globe meant that American neutrality could not last. War was contagious, and sooner or later, no matter how a nation tried to quarantine itself, the infection would find it. To the people of the United States, the attack came as a complete surprise. Perhaps Americans should have expected it.
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]]>Title: Roman History]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Rome, Including the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and the Byzantium]]>Series: #3 in The Ancient Romans]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, History, Learning, Rome]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 07-20-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Three captivating manuscripts in one book: Some of the topics covered in first part of this book include: Some of the topics covered in second part of this book include: In the third part of Roman History: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Rome, Including the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and the Byzantium, you will: All this and much more awaits you, so get instant access now by downloading now!
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]]>Title: The Byzantine Empire]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Byzantium and How the Eastern Roman Empire Was Ruled by Emperors Such as Constantine the Great and Justinian]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, History, Learning, Rome]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 07-19-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Byzantine Empire then keep reading.... The Byzantine Empire was founded during the chaotic third century. It was the time when revolts and civil wars were common, and Roman emperors merely lasted for a year. Despite being one of the most captivating historical periods of all time, the Byzantine Empire is a lesser known one, and it's rare to find an exciting resource on the topic. But that is about to change. In this new captivating history audiobook, you will: All this and much more awaits you, so get instant access now by downloading now!
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]]>Title: The Mythology and Religion of Ancient Mesoamerica]]>Categories: America, Ancient, History, Indigenous]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-18-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Olmec people are widely recognized as the first major civilization of Mexico and are thus generally regarded as the mother civilization of Mesoamerica, making them the people from which all subsequent Mesoamerican cultures derived. In fact, the term Olmec is thought to have originated with the Aztec people, as Olmec in their Nahuatl language means “the rubber people”, a reference to the inhabitants of the land from which they accessed rubber. By and large, the Olmec culture is perhaps best identifiable by their so-called colossal heads, mammoth basalt head-statues wearing helmetlike headdresses found throughout Olmec habitation sites. From a cultural standpoint, their pyramids, open plazas, their ballgame, and possibly even centers of human sacrifice are thought to have established the societal model that subsequent societies like the Maya, Zapotec, Teotihuacano, Toltec, Mixtec, and Aztec would emulate. In the same vein, some scholars believe they also affected the cultural development of the Native American groups of the US and those of Central and South America as well.
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]]>Title: Armenian Myths and Legends]]>Subtitle: The History of the Mythology and Folk Tales from Armenia]]>Categories: Europe, Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-17-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Armenia is considered to be one of the oldest cradles of civilization, with the area of historical Armenia roughly extending to the area stretching from the Euphrates River in the west, the region of Artsakh, parts of Caucasian Albania to the east, parts of the modern state of Georgia to the north, and its southern boundary abutting the northern tip of Mesopotamia. Armenia is a landlocked mountainous plateau that rises to an average of over 6,000 feet above sea level, and for this reason, the territory was commonly referred to as the Armenian Highlands. In these highlands, Armenian culture, as well as its language, started to develop. Rich cultural material, mythological and legendary tales, toponyms and names, as well as historical sources serve as evidence the Armenian Highlands have been inhabited by Armenians since the dawn of time. Like many other people all over the world, Armenian people also created their own mythology and heroes.
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]]>Title: Portuguese Macau]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Autonomous Chinese Territory That Became the Last European Colony in Asia]]>Categories: Asia, China, Europe, History, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-17-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Portuguese explorer Jorge Álvares visited the Chinese coast in 1513 and was the first European to do so via the sea. Shortly after, more Portuguese visited around the Tunmen Inlet, which is believed to have been somewhere around the Pearl River Delta, and an establishment was set up there in 1514. At this time the Chinese knew nothing of the Portuguese other than their violent takeover of Malacca, a tributary to the Chinese Empire, so the Portuguese were treated with caution. In 1516, Rafael Perestrello was dispatched from Malacca to the islands of Guangdong where his people were well received. Due to this favorable reception, more ships and trading vessels were sent the following year under the command of Perez de Andrade. The fleet anchored on the island Shang-chuan and was at first viewed with suspicion, given the frequent raids from Japanese pirates around the Guangdong region. The Portuguese fleet that arrived in 1518 under the command of Andrade’s brother quickly turned to piracy, and the diplomatic relations between the Chinese and Portuguese deteriorated.
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]]>Título: El Alcázar de Sevilla [The Alcázar of Seville]]]>Subtitular: La historia del más famoso palacio real de España [The History of the Most Famous Royal Palace of Spain]]]>Categorías: Archaeology, Europe, History, Medieval, Spain]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 07-16-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>La mayoría de quienes son lo suficientemente afortunados como para que sus ojos se gocen con el majestuoso complejo que es el Alcázar de Sevilla comparten el mismo sentimiento: su belleza es indescriptible. Es un lugar que rezuma opulencia, un tipo de opulencia aderezada por la clase y el encanto histórico, más que por el excesivo relumbre y la ordinaria ostentación desplegada por los nuevos ricos. Decir que el Alcázar es adecuado para un príncipe sencillamente rebajaría su esplendor. Por supuesto, esto es lo que el Alcázar era exactamente, y continúa siendo, porque este fantástico complejo es la más antigua residencia real europea todavía en uso. La propiedad real, con 17.000 metros cuadrados de espectaculares estructuras y siete hectáreas de frondosos jardines, es aún más sublime al caer la noche. Los interminables arcos moros y el sofisticado detalle de las torres de cuento de hadas y los lienzos murarios - desde la impactante silueta de las rectangulares almenas, rematadas por conos triangulares, a la áspera, envejecida textura, y las huellas de humedad que decoloran la antigua fachada - aún más destacadas por las antorchas distribuidas dentro de sus límites.
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]]>Title: French Revolution: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: One Hour History Revolution, Book 1]]>Series: #1 in One Hour History Revolution]]>Categories: 18th Century, Europe, France, History, Modern]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-12-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>During the late years of the 18th century, the spirit of Enlightenment thinking and revolution were in the air. The world was changing, moving away from ingrained beliefs about religion, reason, society, and the rights of the individual and turning more toward the laws of nature as interpreted by the scientific method. Nowhere was the influence of this radical new way of thinking more apparent than in France, and the upheaval this caused would come to bloody fruition in the form of revolution. You will learn about: Explore the triumph and terror that existed in France during the French Revolution. Review the causes and the lasting effects brought about during this tumultuous time period when the common people of France struggled to remake their world upon the cornerstone of liberty.
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]]>Title: Grigori Rasputin: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, History, Mysticism, Russia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Marc Zeale]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-12-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Grigori Rasputin began life as a peasant in the poorest reaches of Siberia and ended his life as the virtual second-in-command of Tsarist Russia. How did he achieve such a rapid change in fortunes? Was it through palace intrigue or magic and mind control? Or perhaps, the causes were a combination of hypnosis and hemophilia? The tsar’s son Nicholas had been born with the dreaded “royal disease” otherwise known as the blood clotting deficiency named hemophilia. The slightest cut or scrape could be life-threatening for the young boy. The self-proclaimed healer managed to convince the royal family that he was the only way that their son would stay alive. With a role this vital, there was no way that Rasputin would be dropped from the imperial payroll anytime soon. From this audiobook, you will hear about: Through intrigue, divine intervention, or perhaps just the sheer force of his personality, he forever cemented his place in Russian history. Learn about the mad monk turned master minister - listen to the story of the rise and fall that comprised the life of Grigori Rasputin.
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]]>Title: Florence Nightingale]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #9 in Biographies of Women in History]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Female Protagonist, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-11-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Florence Nightingale is usually thought of for her work in the Crimean War, where, as the “Lady with the Lamp”, she tirelessly nursed wounded soldiers at all hours of the night and day. But while these two years were a significant part of her life, she was also much more. She was a daughter and sister who consternated her family by refusing to accept the role Victorian society assigned her. Later, she completed groundbreaking work in the fields of public health and statistics and wielded her vast influence to affect important reforms. Inside, you will hear about: Florence Nightingale is considered the founder of modern nursing, and her ideas continue to resound in the field of healthcare even today. Though she certainly had faults, her life is a fascinating story of courage and determination.
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]]>Title: The Ghosts of the British Isles: A Collection of Ghost Stories and Other Supernatural Tales from Britain and Ireland]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Occult, Supernatural]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-11-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The United Kingdom is an ancient land steeped in history and tradition, filled with prehistoric ruins, majestic castles, and a countryside sculpted from millennia of human habitation. Its rolling countryside is dotted with prehistoric burial mounds and stone circles. Brooding castles hold tales of bloodshed and honor. Medieval churches have elaborate stained glass windows and gruesome carvings, reflecting a mixture of hope and darkness. Every hamlet and village has tales that go back centuries, and folk festivals with roots in pagan times. Thus, it is not surprising that many believe the area is filled with ghosts. For centuries, people have told tales of ghosts stalking its historic buildings, strange creatures lurking in its primeval forests, and unexplained paths linking its ancient sites. Scotland is a fascinating and ancient land filled with history. It has produced explorers, warriors, inventors, writers, and more than a few murderers. For many centuries, it fought bitter wars against England to maintain its independence, and even when those wars were finally lost, Scotland retained its distinct culture and identity.
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]]>Title: John Wycliffe]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Philosopher]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-11-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>John Wycliffe was known as the “Morning Star” of the Reformation. His doctrines of strict adherence to the Bible and his attacks on the wealth and corruption of the Catholic Church would be the spark that would later ignite the fires of the Protestant Reformation. Inside, you will hear about: John Wycliffe was a man of the people who believed all should be allowed a personal relationship with God, and his scriptures gave the world the first English translation of the Bible. He is remembered as a brilliant scholar, philosopher and theologian, and a compelling preacher who touched the hearts and minds of noble and commoner alike.
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]]>Title: The French Invasion of Italy in 1494]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Conflict That Started the Italian Wars]]>Categories: Europe, History, Italy, Renaissance]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-10-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 1494, there were five sovereign regional powers in Italy: Milan, Venice, Florence, the Papal States, and Naples. In 1536, only one remained: Venice. These decades of conflict precipitated great anxiety among Western thinkers, and Italians responded to the fragmentation, forevermore, of Latin Christendom, the end of self-governance for Italians, and the beginning of the early modern era in a myriad of ways. They were always heavily influenced by the lived experience of warfare between large Christian armies on the peninsula. The diplomatic and military history of this 30-year period is a complex one that one eminent Renaissance historian, Lauro Martines, has described as "[B]est told by a computer, so many and tangled are the treatises, negotiations, and battles". At the same time, the fighting went in tandem with the Renaissance and was influenced by it. Most historians credit the city-state of Florence as the place that started and developed the Italian Renaissance, a process carried out through the patronage and commission of artists during the late 12th century. If Florence is receiving its due credit, much of it belongs to the Medicis, the family dynasty of Florence that ruled at the height of the Renaissance.
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]]>Title: Joseph Bazalgette: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-10-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>One man has probably done more good and saved more lives than any single public official of the Victorian era. The man being described was an engineer, city planner, bridge builder, and landscape architect; his name was Sir Joseph Bazalgette. Probably best remembered as the man who designed the London sewer network, he almost single-handedly eliminated virulent epidemics and changed the River Thames from an open sewer into one of the cleanest urban rivers in the world. He also transformed the face of London forever. From this audiobook you will learn about:
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]]>Title: Albert Einstein]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, History, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 07-06-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>How did one insignificant patent clerk change the world? Step into the world of Albert Einstein in this book and find out what was so extraordinary about him. Why did it take so long for him to win the Nobel Prize? What kind of a father was Einstein to his boys? How did his marriages affect his work? What motivated him? And most importantly: What unlocked his mind to grapple with the most profound ideas of all time? You will hear about: Find out why Einstein valued creativity and freedom as the foundation stones of a good life, and how these two traits would inspire him and help to transform the world as it was known up until then. Discover how Einstein, the scientist, became Einstein, the humanitarian, and all of the causes which he so passionately held. Without Albert Einstein, there would be no modern age. See how it all began.
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]]>Title: The Ghosts of Wales]]>Subtitle: A Collection of Ghost Stories Across the Welsh Nation]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Occult, Supernatural]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-06-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.” (Brian Harris) Wales is a fascinating and ancient land filled with history. Prehistoric ruins, medieval castles, and old coaching inns are only some of the historic sites people visit. The Welsh have their distinct language and customs and have always felt themselves to be a people apart from the neighboring English. This division goes back to the fifth century, when the ancient Britons fled west in the face of the Anglo-Saxon incursion. The Anglo-Saxons were made up of three tribes - the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes - from what is now Denmark and Northern Germany. These tribes took advantage of the Roman legion's departure to attack vulnerable Britons, taking over England until the Britons in Wales defied them. This defiance continued into the Middle Ages, and numerous wars occurred as successive English kings tried and eventually succeeded in asserting their will over the rebellious country. With such a storied and violent past, it is no surprise Wales has many tales of ghosts.
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]]>Title: The ANZAC]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps During the 20th Century]]>Categories: Australasia, History, Military, Military Conflict, World War I]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-29-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A land of almost 3-million square miles has lain since time immemorial on the southern flank of the planet, so isolated that it remained almost entirely outside of European knowledge until 1770. From there, however, the subjugation of Australia and New Zealand would take place rapidly. Within 20 years of the first British settlements being established, the British presence in Terra Australis was secure, and no other major power was likely to mount a challenge. In 1815, Napoleon would be defeated at Waterloo, and soon afterwards would be standing on the barren cliffs of Saint Helena, staring across the limitless Atlantic. The French, without a fleet, were out of the picture, the Germans were yet to establish a unified state, let alone an overseas empire of any significance, and the Dutch were no longer counted among the top tier of European powers. New Zealand and Australia lay at an enormous distance from London, so their administration was barely supervised. Thus, its development was slow in the beginning, and their importance remained narrowly defined, but as the 19th century progressed and peace took hold over Europe, things began to change.
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]]>Title: Korean War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Asia, History, Korea, Korean War]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-28-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Korean War, which began in 1950 and ended in 1953, is not considered one of the major wars of the 20th century. However, in reality, it was profoundly impactful on global history. As an early crisis of the Cold War, it set important precedents for how conflicts would be handled during this era. It has also shaped Korea’s history for more than half a century. You will learn about: It was destructive and brought many atrocities on both sides. What is more, still to this day, Korea remains divided along the 38th parallel, and the people of North and South Korea live very different lives.
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]]>Title: Russian Revolution]]>Subtitle: A Concise History from Beginning to End (One Hour History Revolution, Book 3)]]>Series: #3 in One Hour History Revolution]]>Categories: History, Insurrection, Military, Military Conflict, Russia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-28-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Russian Revolution in 1917 was a moment in time when the will of the people put an end to a system of government that had been in place for centuries. The story of Russia’s transition from Imperial reign to eventual Communist dictatorship is a tale rooted in the ranks of the common people and the men who rose to lead them. You will learn about: Dedication to the ideals of socialism remade Russian society. Worker’s rights, human equality, world war, murder, mysticism, blood, and tyranny collide in the heart of Russia to irrevocably alter the culture of this great nation and the world.
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]]>Title: Charles Dickens]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #8 in Biographies of British Authors]]>Categories: Actor, Author, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-27-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>From working in a shoe-blacking factory as a 12-year-old to help his family while his father was in debtor’s prison, Charles Dickens rose to become one of the best-known novelists of all time. Lines like Oliver Twist’s “Please sir, may I have some more” or the opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” are part of the popular vocabulary, and many of Dickens’ works have been translated into movies or TV series. Yet the story of his rise from relative obscurity to immense fame and popularity is not a simple one. Always energetic and unceasingly active, writing until the day before his death, Dickens proves to be a character as interesting as many of those he created. Inside you will hear about: In this book, you’ll meet the author who not only wrote famous novels like Great Expectations and David Copperfield, but whose work also helped to develop and popularize the genre of the novel.
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]]>Title: Elvis Presley]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Marc Zeale]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-27-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Elvis Presley was much more than a cultural icon; he was a reliable barometer of the world in which he grew up. Long before the cultural revolutions of the '60s and '70s, Elvis was sparking a dynastic change of hands in American society. By his own admission, much of it was by accident. Whenever his performances caused a stir, Elvis was always the first to ask what all the fuss was about. When questioned if he was trying to provoke a response from his audience, Elvis innocently replied he was just doing what came naturally. You will learn about: According to Elvis, as much as James Dean was a “rebel without a cause”, he was a rebel completely by accident. If we believe him, everything he did that led to his rise to stardom was just some sort of cosmic alignment of happenstance. Elvis claimed when he went into Sun Records to record his first song, he wasn’t looking to become famous; he maintained he just wanted to record a song for his mom’s birthday. This audiobook will let you decide for yourself as you learn about the life, the legend, and the unmistakable icon - Elvis Presley.
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]]>Title: The Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Moors’ Greatest Holy Site in Spain]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-27-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“To Córdoba belong all the beauty and ornaments that delight the eye or dazzle the sight. Her long line of Sultans form her crown of glory; her necklace is strung with the pearls which her poets have gathered from the ocean of language; her dress is of the banners of learning, well-knit together by her men of science; and the masters of every art and industry are the hem of her garments...” - Stanley Lane-Poole, The Moors in Spain The Calle Cardenal Herrero in Córdoba is an iconic cobbled street impossible to overlook, for it is home to the Andalusian city's spectacular Mosque-Cathedral. Also known as “La Mezquita,” this one-of-a-kind Moorish and Christian place of worship reels in about 1.5 million visitors each year, most of whom find themselves spellbound by its hypnotic architectural features and the riveting history that has transpired and continues to within the beautifully weathered walls of the dual-church. That said, the Mezquita is far more than a mere tourist attraction.
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]]>Title: Vietnam War: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Asia, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-26-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Vietnam War remains one of the most iconic events of the 20th century. In the United States, it polarized public opinion and changed foreign policy. It destroyed the presidency of Lyndon Johnson and was the catalyst for a massively impactful protest movement. More importantly, in Vietnam, as well as surrounding areas, it caused untold destruction, death, and suffering. Inside you will haer about... Millions of Vietnamese and Cambodian people were killed, and many - including Americans - remain missing. Its origins lie in Europe’s colonial conquests, and its legacies endure to this day. Listen to this comprehensive, concise history of the Vietnam War.
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]]>Title: Suleiman the Magnificent: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Historical Fiction, History, Middle East, Turkey]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Christopher Boozell]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-26-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Suleiman the Magnificent, the 10th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, may be an unfamiliar figure to many today. But in the 16th century, his military campaigns played a huge role in the shifting face of European politics. He was a man in search of power. His quest carried him not only to daring military exploits in Europe and Asia, but also through the intricate web of the Ottoman court, where deceit, scheming, and treachery abounded. From this audiobook, you'll learn about: This audiobook describes his life, from his rivalry with the Hapsburg brothers, Charles and Ferdinand, to his doomed friendship with his grand vizier, Ibrahim, and his relationship with the indomitable Roxelana. Here you will find accounts of the battles he fought, the heroics and blunders of his enemies, and his relentless progress toward his colossal ambitions.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Tue, 26 Jun 2018 20:16:50 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-x0Nfe8Er Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The British Subjugation of Australia: The History of British Colonization and the Conquest of the Aboriginal Australians]]>Categories: Australasia, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-26-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame’s sake.” - Henry Lawson, Australian poet A land of almost 3 million square miles has lain since time immemorial on the southern flank of the planet, so isolated that it remained almost entirely outside of European knowledge until 1770. From there, however, the subjugation of Australia would take place rapidly. Within 20 years of the first British settlements being established, the British presence in Terra Australis was secure, and no other major power was likely to mount a challenge. In 1815, Napoleon would be defeated at Waterloo, and soon afterwards would be standing on the barren cliffs of Saint Helena, staring across the limitless Atlantic. The French, without a fleet, were out of the picture, the Germans were yet to establish a unified state, let alone an overseas empire of any significance, and the Dutch were no longer counted among the top tier of European powers. Australia lay at an enormous distance from London, and its administration was barely supervised.
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]]>Title: Eleanor of Aquitaine]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of Medieval Europe’s Most Famous Queen]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Medieval, Royalty]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-21-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Laying next to the tomb effigy of King Henry II in France's Fontevraud Abbey is a curious coffin chiseled in the shape of a young woman in repose. The once-vibrant paint on the effigy is flaking, and several areas of the centuries-old tombs are chipped, but her general features are still somewhat recognizable. The beautiful, crowned queen, depicted with a soft smile on her face, was dressed in a simple but elegant gown in white and blue, an open book in her arms. The effigy is for none other than Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine. Over the years, this mysterious 12th-century figure has been portrayed in countless ways, from a valiant warrior queen and resourceful politician to a control-obsessed and manipulative siren whose only objective in life was power. Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Life and Legacy of Medieval Europe’s Most Famous Queen attempts to provide an unbiased look at Eleanor's life by exploring the achievements and trials of the duchess-queen and deconstructing the “black legends” and other compelling tales that continue to envelop her to this day. You will learn about Eleanor of Aquitaine like never before.
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]]>Title: Rhodes]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Greek Island from Ancient Times to Today]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, Greece, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-21-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Modern perceptions of Classical Greece are almost invariably based on Athens and Sparta, but there are perhaps few areas as consistently undervalued as the island of Rhodes. Although solidly part of the Greek world for as long as there has been one, Rhodes, located just off the coast of Asia Minor, was also from its earliest times a port opening to the civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean, and Rhodes was involved in every significant moment in ancient Greek history. The island often played a key role in world events which far surpassed its small size, and at one point even stood side-by-side with much larger kingdoms as one of the main powers in the Greek world. Rhodes would reach the zenith of its power in the Hellenistic period following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE. Even as the rest of the city-states waned compared to the much larger kingdoms of Alexander’s successors in Egypt and Asia, Rhodes would come to the forefront as a main power in the Greek world, standing toe-to-toe with these Hellenistic kingdoms.
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]]>Título: Los Illuminati [The Illuminati]]]>Subtitular: La historia de una de las más notorias sociedades secretas del mundo [ The History of One of the Most Notorious Secret Societies in the World]]]>Categorías: 18th Century, Europe, History, Modern]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 06-21-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>“G es Gracia, la Estrella Llameante es la Antorcha de la Razón. Aquellos que poseen este conocimiento son en verdad Illuminati.” (Adam Weishaupt) “La palabra misma 'secreto' repugna en una sociedad libre y abierta; y nosotros como pueblo, de manera natural y a lo largo de la historia nos opusimos a las sociedades secretas, a los juramentos secretos, y a los procedimientos secretos...” (Presidente John F. Kennedy) El surgimiento de sociedades secretas ha sido siempre una de las facetas más fascinantes de la civilización, un fenómeno que ha estado presente desde el nacimiento de la humanidad. Incluso siglos después de ser fundadas, algunas de ellas continúan siendo bien conocidas, como la sociedad de los Caballeros Templarios, un grupo de guerreros armados que procedían de Tierra Santa. La Calavera y los Huesos y los Francmasones son también nombres que de inmediato hacen sonar la campana. Pero de todas las sociedades secretas de la historia, la leyenda detrás de una sobrepasa al resto: los Illuminati. De las innumerables sociedades secretas que se han levantado y caído desde la aurora de los tiempos, ninguna podría acercarse a la notoriedad de los Illuminati.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Thu, 21 Jun 2018 05:17:59 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b6afdn0p Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: French Indochina]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the French Empire’s Colonialism in Southeast Asia]]>Categories: Asia, Europe, France, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-20-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The US Naval Station Argentia, located in Placentia Bay, a sheltered harbor on Newfoundland Island, was the unlikely setting for one of the most pivotal summit meetings of the 20th century. The meeting took place on August 9, 1941. World War II was in its second year, and the British had won the Battle of Britain but were still encircled by German U-boats, and the British fleet was being decimated in the North Atlantic. In North Africa, a contest of armor was underway as Axis and Allied armies fought for control of Egypt, while Britain and her Commonwealth allies stood alone against the mighty German Wehrmacht. Roosevelt, however, pictured a very different post-war world than his British counterpart, Winston Churchill. When he and Churchill met at what came to be known as the Atlantic Conference, Churchill’s pleas for US manpower and aid were accepted, but only under clear conditions. If the US was to come to the aid of Britain, it would be for the purpose of defeating the Germans and the Japanese and not to support the insupportable institutions of empire.
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]]>Title: Experience Mumbai]]>Categories: Asia, Guided Tour, History, Planet Earth, Tourism]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-19-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Imagine a place where the red carpets roll out not for Angelinas or Brads, but for Sharukhs, Ishas, or one of the many stars of Bollywood. Imagine a place where extreme poverty coexists with swank clubs, high-class restaurants, and a hotel designed in the spirit of the Taj Mahal. Imagine a place where a local Indian meal with all of its curries, herbs, and vegetables can cost from two to five dollars. Imagine a place where one second you’ll smell incense burning in the air, and in the very next you’ll get a whiff rickshaw exhaust...or cow or even elephant exhaust, if you’re lucky. Imagine a place where perfect people will treat you like family, inviting you to weddings or into their homes, leaving it up to you to decide whether or not to accept or reject their offers of kindness. Imagine a place where anything can happen at any moment - a city where chaos blends with order, pollution with beauty, and misery with opulence. Welcome to Mumbai, one of India’s most bustling, populated, action-packed, creative, and absolutely random cities.
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]]>Title: Horatio Nelson]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-19-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In a world where heroism and self-sacrifice sometimes seem to be in short supply, the exploits of the famed Admiral Horatio Nelson stand out to us as a refreshing reminder. His noble actions serve to show us of what it means to go above and beyond the call of duty and to put petty differences aside for the greater good. But of course, this is only part of the story. Because despite the larger-than-life legend that two centuries have brought us, Horatio Nelson was not some swashbuckling caricature, he was a real flesh and blood human being, just as flawed as the rest of us. Inside you will hear about: The same man who saved Britain but couldn’t save his marriage. The man, who was faithful to God and country beyond anything else, had several mistresses and fathered a child out of wedlock. The truth is that even heroes aren’t perfect. This book gets beyond the two-dimensional figure we learned about in grade school and delves deep into the true character of Horatio Nelson.
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]]>Title: Rhodes After Antiquity]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Famous Greek Island in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era]]>Categories: Europe, Greece, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-19-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the Archaic and Classical periods, Rhodes often stood as a prime exemplar of the highs and lows of its fellow Greek cities, and as the largest island of the Dodecanese, Rhodes’ history is largely in line with that of the rest of those islands. Rhodes was first colonized by the Greeks of the Dorian tribe around the eightth century BC, and it aligned with its fellow Dorian cities on the surrounding islands and the mainland of Asia Minor to form the so-called Doric Hexapolis. Rhodes would reach the zenith of its power in the Hellenistic period following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Even as the rest of the city-states waned compared to the much larger kingdoms of Alexander’s successors in Egypt and Asia, Rhodes would come to the forefront as a main power in the Greek world, standing toe-to-toe with these Hellenistic kingdoms. Rhodes was for a time the foremost naval power in the Eastern Mediterranean, and one of the most powerful and richest cities in the world.
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]]>Title: The Khmer Empire]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of One of Southeast Asia’s Most Influential Empires]]>Categories: Asia, Europe, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-15-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Khmer Empire, also known as the Angkor Empire, was a powerful empire of Southeast Asia that was established in AD 802 and ended in 1431 with the invasion of the Siamese and abandonment of Angkor. The Khmer Empire was responsible for many of the historic monuments and temples found throughout the jungles of modern-day Cambodia and also in other countries of Southeast Asia, all made possible by the fact the Khmer Empire reached across modern-day Cambodia, parts of Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam, making it a strategic trading partner with ships traveling from China and India. Of all the architecture, the empire is best known for constructing Angkor Wat, one of the modern world’s greatest wonders. Known in English as Angkor Wat (“City Temple”), the gigantic complex was built by King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century to serve as the king’s state temple and capital city. Since it has remained so finely preserved, it has maintained religious significance for nearly 900 years, first dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu, and then Buddhist. Understandably, it has become one of Cambodia’s most potent symbols and tourist attractions, and it even appears on the Cambodian national flag.
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]]>Title: The Roman Empire]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire Including Stories of Roman Emperors Such as Augustus Octavian, Trajan, and Claudius]]>Categories: Ancient, Education, History, Learning, Rome]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 06-15-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating history of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire was one of the most powerful forces the world has ever seen. But this isn’t just the story of conquest or the incredible system of institutions that made it possible. The Roman Empire is not yet another boring historical topic. On the contrary, it wakes our imagination, scares us, and entertains us. This is the story of the fascinating men and women - the emperors, their wives, parents, brothers, sisters, and children - who gave the empire its characteristic charm. Some of them, like Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius, were virtuous and wise; others - like Caligula, Commodus, and Caracalla - were monstrous, insane predators whose thirst for blood and sexual habits were beyond believable. This is the story of the most important people and events between the two crucial events - the rise of Augustus in the first century BC and the final sack of Rome in the late fifth century AD. Some of the topics covered in this audiobook include: Get the audiobook now to learn more about the Roman Empire!
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]]>Title: Pirates: The Golden Age of Piracy: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 17th Century, America, Caribbean, History, Modern]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Christopher Boozell]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-15-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Pirates dominate movie box-office profits, they are theme park entertainment, and they occupy a place in popular culture that has outlasted the era when they originally ruled the seas. Contemporary audiences who are safe from the pistols and cutlasses of the men who sailed the Caribbean, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans to prey upon ships and claim their cargo may find it hard to reconcile the perceived glamour of Captain Jack Sparrow with the authentic bloodlust and greed of the real pirates who killed without conscience, kidnapped innocent victims for ransom, and ravaged, bribed, and robbed their way into legend. Tragut Rais, Grace O’Malley, William Kidd, Blackbeard, and their colleagues were dangerous adventurers who lived at a time when piracy was an economic enterprise that yielded both wealth and a hangman’s noose. This audiobook will teach you about: Most pirates had a short life before they were captured and executed. A few lucky ones did die of natural causes, but they were rare. Nonetheless, those tales of swashbuckling adventure under the Jolly Roger continue to mesmerize us. Listen to more about the reality of the golden age of piracy to find out whether or not Hollywood’s version can possibly compare with the truth.
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]]>Title: Mayan Civilization]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Central America, Civilization, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Nathan Bierma]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-15-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Making sense of our universe is an age-old practice that transcends cultures and generations. From our vantage point, the larger-than-life Maya civilization grappled with the urge on a grand scale. Join us as we take a voyage to understand the ways of the Maya. Inside you will hear about: We'll learn what they held as sacred, how the sacred manifested itself in their lives, and about efforts to accurately portray them, despite romanticized versions. This audiobook explores their glories and misfortunes and provides a deeper look at their pre-Columbian battling dynasties and their highly structured approach to religion, science, and society.
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]]>Title: The Palace of the Soviets]]>Subtitle: The History of the Proposed Administrative Center for the Soviet Union]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Modern, Russia]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-14-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Palace of the Soviets (Russian: Dvorets Sovetov) was an unrealized project for the construction of a high-rise administrative building in Moscow to be used for sessions of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and mass demonstrations. According to architect Boris Iofan’s plans, the height of the Palace of the Soviets, together with the 100-meter statue of Vladimir Lenin, would be 415 meters. The palace was to become the center of the new Soviet Moscow and the tallest building in the world, symbolizing the victory of socialism. Designing and the beginning of construction of the palace marked the transition to the Stalin Empire style in Soviet architecture. In 1931, on the proposed site of construction for the Palace of the Soviets, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was blown up. The preparatory works began the following year. The foundation of the palace was completed in 1939, but because of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the project was frozen.
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]]>Title: The British Army in the 19th Century]]>Subtitle: The History of the Soldiers Who Defeated Napoleon and Oversaw the World’s Greatest Empire]]>Categories: 19th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-13-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.” - The Duke of Wellington at Waterloo Today, the British Army is one of the most powerful fighting forces in the world. Its highly trained professional soldiers are equipped with the most advanced military technology ever made. Its international interventions, while controversial both at home and abroad, are carried out with incredible professionalism and little loss of life among British servicemen and servicewomen. Naturally, the history and traditions behind this army are also impressive. Britain has not been successfully invaded in centuries. Its soldiers once created and defended a global empire, and during the Second World War, it was one of the leading nations standing against the brutal Axis forces, leading the way in the greatest seaborne invasion in military history. But it was not always like this. For most of its history, Britain was a patchwork of competing nations. England, the largest of its constituent countries, was often relatively weak as a land power compared with its European neighbors.
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]]>Title: Fidel Castro]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, Caribbean, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Casey Sullivan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-13-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When Fidel Castro died on November 25, 2016, it seemed as if much of the world didn’t quite know what to make of the revolutionary leader. The images of loyal Cubans in Havana openly crying in the streets stood in stark contrast to the Cuban exiles and their descendants just 90 miles away in Miami, Florida. While Cuban citizens were mourning, Cuban Americans were celebrating; they were laughing, dancing, and drinking to celebrate Castro’s demise. It seems Fidel Castro was just as polarizing in death as he was in life. You will learn about: Learn more about the life of one of the 20th century’s most controversial figures.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Wed, 13 Jun 2018 05:59:21 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-VBZfKMEA Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The European Settlement of Australia]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Early Expeditions and British Settlements on the Australian Continent]]>Categories: Australasia, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-12-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame’s sake.” – Henry Lawson, Australian poet A land of almost 3 million square miles has lain since time immemorial on the southern flank of the planet, so isolated that it remained entirely outside of European knowledge until 1770. However, the first human footprints on this vast territory were felt 70,000 years earlier, as people began to cross the periodic land bridges and the short sea crossings from Southeast Asia. The history of the indigenous inhabitants of Australia, known in contemporary anthropology as the “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia”, is a complex and continually evolving field of study, and it has been colored by politics. For generations after the arrival of whites in Australia, the Aboriginal people were disregarded and marginalized, largely because they offered little in the way of a labor resource, and they occupied land required for European settlement. At the same time, it is a misconception that indigenous Australians meekly accepted the invasion of their country by the British, for they did not.
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]]>Title: Roman Egypt]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Ancient Egypt as a Province of Rome]]>Categories: Ancient, Egypt, History, Middle East, Rome]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-12-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Among all the periods in ancient Egyptian history, the Ptolemaic Kingdom and its most famous ruler, Cleopatra, may be the most well-known today. Although Alexander never lived to rule over Egypt, one of his generals, Ptolemy I, did, and it was he who established the last great pharaonic dynasty in Egypt, known as the Ptolemaic Dynasty. The Ptolemies gave ancient Egypt an injection of vitality that had not been seen in the Nile Valley for centuries, preserving many aspects of native Egyptian culture while adding their own layer of Hellenic culture. The end of the Ptolemies also happened to coincide with the most famous period of Roman history. In the latter 1st century BCE, men like Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian participated in two civil wars that would spell the end of the Roman Republic and determine who would become the Roman emperor. In the middle of it all was history’s most famous woman, Cleopatra, who famously seduced both Caesar and Antony and thereby positioned herself as one of the most influential people in a world of powerful men.
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]]>Title: Germany Ascendant: The Eastern Front 1915]]>Subtitle: Eastern Front Series, Book 2]]>Series: #2 in Eastern Front Series]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Prit Buttar]]>Narrator: Roger Clark]]>Publisher: Tantor Audio]]>Release date: 06-12-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The massive offensives on the Eastern Front during 1915 are too often overshadowed by the events in Western Europe, but the scale and ferocity of the clashes between Imperial Germany, Hapsburg Austria-Hungary, and Tsarist Russia were greater than anything seen on the Western Front and ultimately as important to the final outcome of the war. Now, with the work of internationally renowned Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar, this fascinating story of the unknown side of the First World War is finally being told. In Germany Ascendant, Buttar examines the critical events of 1915, as the German Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive triggered the collapse of Russian forces, coming tantalizingly close to knocking Russia out of the war altogether.
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]]>Title: The Great Depression]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Economic, Economic History, Finance]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-11-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Great Depression was one of the most trying eras in American history. All aspects of the US were affected. After the stock market crash of 1929, the nation was thrust into a decade of turmoil and change - in government, the economy, and culture. Many of the changes brought about by the Great Depression remain today. You will learn about:
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]]>Title: Jack the Ripper: The Story of the Whitechapel Murderer]]>Subtitle: True Crime, Book 5]]>Series: #5 in True Crime]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Marc Zeale]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-11-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 1888, between August and November, the women of London’s East End were terrorized by a deranged serial killer. A man was stalking the streets at night, seizing random women who worked those streets and killing them. This man mutilated his victim’s bodies after death, removing body parts and organs. You will hear about: No one has ever been able to identify Jack the Ripper. Despite the best efforts of numerous police officers, media professionals, historians, and amateur detectives over more than a century, we know of dozens of suspects but no definitive perpetrator. What we do know is the identity of Jack the Ripper’s victims - the canonical five women who lost their lives at his hands. This is the story not of Jack the Ripper’s life, about which we know nothing about, but of the lives of the women he destroyed. For better or worse, after Jack the Ripper, life on the streets of London would never be the same again.
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]]>Title: Cleopatra]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Egypt, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Christopher Boozell]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-07-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the last Pharaoh of Egypt, Cleopatra reigned over the end of an era. Cleopatra has been defined by her relationships with powerful Roman statesmen Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, both of whom fathered her children, but there is much more to Cleopatra’s story than romantic intrigue. Discover: One of the first independent female rulers of an ancient kingdom, Cleopatra was a gifted diplomat, efficient administrator, and accomplished linguist who ruled her kingdom with more courage than the majority of her male predecessors. Cleopatra’s death ended an era, but her life promised the dawn of a new age, one where women might dare to rule the world.
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]]>Title: Sumerians]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Sumerian History, Sumerian Mythology and the Mesopotamian Empire of the Sumer Civilization]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Iraq, Middle East]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 06-07-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating history of the Sumerians. The sheer importance of Sumerian culture in regards to world culture as a whole is impossible to overstate. This civilization is single-handedly responsible for some of the most major innovations in nearly every field relevant to maintaining a civilized society - this includes religion, lawmaking, architecture, schooling, art, literature, and even entertainment. Naturally, most of what we see as negative aspects of society were established in ancient Sumer as well. There wasn’t an aspect of Sumerian life that wasn’t plagued with corruption or devastation of one form or another. In other words, the Sumerians gave us both the sublimity of faith and the rigidness of religious thought coupled with a desire for political supremacy. They gave us both the benevolent, caring monarchs and cruel, punishing tyrants; the educated child and the spoiled brat; the hard-working agrarian and the drunken reveler; and the epic empires as well as the pathetic remnants of them. The Sumerians did it all, and they did it first. Some of the topics and questions covered in this audiobook include: Get the audiobook now to learn more about the Sumerians!
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]]>Title: The World’s Most Famous Deserts]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Sahara Desert, Gobi Desert, and Mojave Desert]]>Categories: Ancient, Earth Science, History, Physical Geography, Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-01-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>They say that one is subjected to a sobering sample of what can only be described as an existential crisis when traversing the golden and seemingly infinite terrain of the Sahara Desert. If one climbed any of the countless sand dunes and twirled around in a place, particularly under the starlit sky, they would scarcely be able to tell east from west without a compass, for there would be nothing but dizzying carpets of indistinguishable sand hills unfurling into the distant horizon. Daunting thoughts of purpose and self-worth aside, people fortunate enough to visit this sandy wonderland via a heavy-duty SUV, or more traditionally a hired camel caravan, are treated to a truly breathtaking sight. The wave-like ripples caressing the beautiful collection of irregularly shaped sand dunes, some barely half a story and others close to 600 feet in height, are as unique as the etchings on one's fingertips. To some, they are Mother Nature's stretch marks.
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]]>Title: World War II Battle of Britain]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #4 in World War 2 Battles]]>Categories: Air Force, Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 06-01-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The British people had no sooner finished rescuing their trapped army from Dunkirk than they found themselves preparing for an attack from the Germans once again. This time, the Nazi menace struck from the air, as Hitler’s Luftwaffe bombed the British in an attempt to break their spirit and force Great Britain to accept peace terms. But as the skies above London filled with the German planes, the Royal Air Force pilots, alerted by radar, flew to intercept them. The Luftwaffe had started the Battle of Britain confident the RAF was no match for German aircraft and skill, but the pilots of the RAF, the people of England, and the bulldog tenacity of Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not intend to give way. You will learn about: The heroism of the RAF and the fortitude of the British people turned Germany’s certain victory into defeat, forcing Hitler to abandon his plans to invade England. “We shall never surrender,” Churchill vowed, and his words rallied a nation, delivering a blow to the Nazi war machine that would, in the end, prove to be a turning point in World War II.
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]]>Title: The Luddites]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the English Rebels Who Protested Against Advanced Machinery During the Industrial Revolution]]>Categories: 19th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-01-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Between the 18th and early 19th centuries, Britain experienced massive leaps in technological, scientific, and economical advancement. This powerful period has since been immortalized as the great Industrial Revolution, during which Britain became a formidable force that boasted unmatched economical growth, drastic changes in living conditions, and even the emergence of a neglected social class. Vast portions of rural lands were transformed into interconnected, complex, and multitasking cities. Dozens of innovative inventions and products were churned out in bulk and sold to the masses for the first time ever. Some of the greatest thinkers and creators ventured forth from the shadows. Scientists, engineers, merchants, and manufacturers alike were at the height of their prime, nurtured by a culture that embraced the vision of growth, progress, and industrial unity. The Industrial Revolution saw Britain rise to the top and become the envy of the world's most prestigious nations. At the same time, the pivotal era was far from perfect, featuring a dark underbelly and an army of unsung heroes. It was American writer and futurist Alvin Toffler who once called technology “the great growing engine of change”.
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]]>Title: Napoleon in Egypt]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria]]>Categories: Egypt, Europe, France, History, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-01-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 1798, an initial review of France’s naval forces had led Napoleon to conclude his navy could not hope to outfight the power of the Royal Navy, which had been the dominant naval power for centuries, so he was forced to look elsewhere. After months of planning, Napoleon crafted a scheme to attack and conquer Egypt, denying the British easy access to their colonies in India, with the ultimate goal of linking up with the Sultan Tipoo in India itself and defeating the British in the field there. Napoleon sailed with Admiral Brueys and 30,000 troops that June, heading for Egypt. Notionally part of the Ottoman Empire, Egypt was de facto a weak independent regime run by the breakaway Mamelukes. For France, it offered an overland route to India and a chance to beat Britain at its own game via economic strangulation. Ironically, in their attempt to intercept Napoleon and the French fleet, Admiral Horatio Nelson and the British forces beat the French to Africa, failing to take into account their slower troop transports. While the British turned north, only two days later, on June 28, 1798, Napoleon’s army disembarked at Alexandria.
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]]>Title: William the Conqueror: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-31-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066, permanently changing the landscape of the English countryside and the course of English history. No one debates his importance; whether the influence was good or bad is a much more involved conversation. To understand English history over time, it is important to understand the transition from Anglo-Saxon history of the country to the Anglo-Norman control that existed until approximately the 15th century. From this audiobook, you will learn about: Learn about the transition of the Duke of Normandy from his early years as William the Bastard to his final years as King William I of England, often styled as William the Conqueror. Gain an understanding of how the Norman occupation changed English culture, language, and sense of law, while also laying down the threads of conflicts that would continue for centuries. In this short history of William the Conqueror, the Battle of Hastings, and the influence of Norman presence in England, you will get a crash course in the early history of England as we understand it today.
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]]>Title: The Egyptian Scientific Institute]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the French Expedition Established by Napoleon Bonaparte to Study Egypt]]>Categories: Ancient, Egypt, History, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-31-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The genius of liberty, which made you, at her birth, the arbiter of Europe, wants to be genius of the seas and the furthest nations.” - Napoleon’s address to his soldiers before leaving for Egypt In 1798, an initial review of France’s naval forces had led Napoleon to conclude his navy could not hope to outfight the power of the Royal Navy, which had been the dominant naval power for centuries, so he was forced to look elsewhere. After months of planning, Napoleon crafted a scheme to attack and conquer Egypt, denying the British easy access to their colonies in India, with the ultimate goal of linking up with the Sultan Tipoo in India itself and defeating the British in the field there. Napoleon sailed with Admiral Brueys and 30,000 troops that June, heading for Egypt. Notionally part of the Ottoman Empire, Egypt was de facto a weak independent regime run by the breakaway Mamelukes.
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]]>Title: Henry Ford]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, Business, Business Leader]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Scott R. Pollak]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-30-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Henry Ford once announced to a young schoolboy that it was he who had invented the modern age. Born on a farm in rural Michigan three weeks after the battle of Gettysburg, Ford hated everything about farming as soon as he could understand what it was about. So he turned his attention to the farm machinery that made the family farm run and never looked back. It was his love of machines, then engines, and finally automobiles for which Henry Ford is best known. He designed and manufactured cars that would transform not just his family's little farm and not just the city of Detroit; the automobile would change the world, ushering in a whole new way of living one's life. A modern life, to be sure. Beneath this diligent tycoon lay a man of many contradictions. He worked hard to give the average American an affordable car and believed mass consumerism was the key to keeping the world safe from war.
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]]>Title: Spanish-American War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, History, Spain]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Scott R. Pollak]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-29-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“A splendid little war" - that’s how one contemporary observer described the Spanish-American War, a war that is arguably one of the most important wars ever fought. The duration was short and the victory decisive, thus little and splendid, the latter at least from the victor’s point of view. The impacts of the war, however, were anything but little. In fact, the aftermath of the Spanish-American War is still affecting global affairs today. The dominant superpowers of 1898 watched as a new player on the international scene, the US, shifted its ideology from isolationism to expansionism and emerged as a force to reckoned with, a true superpower. You will hear about: The result was a series of bloody battles fought in both the Caribbean and the Pacific over Spanish territorial holdings. This audiobook takes the listener on a journey from what set the stage for war to the aftermaths that continue to impact each of the players in the present day. From the explosion that sank the USS Maine to the recent détente in Cuban-American relations, this audiobook describes the events and their consequences in a thorough yet concise manner that is enjoyable to listen to and packed with historical information.
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]]>Title: Sam Houston]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Man Who Led the Texas Revolution]]>Categories: America, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-29-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.” - Sam Houston More than most men in history, Sam Houston was a contradictory individual. He was born in the United States while George Washington was in office, and in an era when the native people who were gradually being subjugated were considered savages, he called them friends and even lived among them. He was abandoned by his first wife and, after suffering the sting of divorce, married again in the manner of his native family, only to abandon his Indian bride to return to life among his own people. In the interim, he fought for their rights in the halls of government, defending them even as he obtained favor in the eyes of one of their worst enemies.
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]]>Title: Hittites: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Civilization, History, Middle East, Planet Earth]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Scott R. Pollak]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-28-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Hittites lived among gods and kings and captivated the mysterious Sir Lawrence of Arabia, among many eager minds. Who were they? Simply warlike conquerors on a mission to impose Hittite power on the world? How did they become part of the elite highly-exclusive club of kings as great as Egyptian, Assyrian, and Babylonian empires of the second millennium BCE? They created a complex system of collective governance and changed the metallurgy of the ancient world. This mysterious empire remained the unknown fourth empire and thanks to their tradition of preservation we continue solving mysteries buried in their ancient past.
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]]>Title: Napoleon Bonaparte’s Invasion of the Levant]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the French Campaign in Syria]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Middle East, Turkey]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-28-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Soldiers! You are one of the wings of the French army. You have made war on the mountains, on the plains, and in cities; it remains for you to fight on the seas. The Roman legions, that you sometimes imitated but no longer equaled, fought Carthage now on this same sea and now on the plains of Zama.... Soldiers, sailors, you have been neglected until this day; today, the greatest concern of the Republic is for you.... The genius of liberty, which made you, at her birth, the arbiter of Europe, wants to be genius of the seas and the furthest nations.” (Napoleon’s address to his soldiers before leaving for Africa) An initial review of France’s naval forces had led Napoleon to conclude his navy could not hope to outfight the power of the Royal Navy, which had been the dominant naval power for centuries, so he was forced to look elsewhere.
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]]>Title: Karl Marx]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Germany, History, Philosopher]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Marc Zeale]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-28-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If anything, Karl Marx’s life reminds us of the power of the pen over the sword. During his lifetime, he lived in relative obscurity. Rather than making any waves, Marx was usually lucky just to make the rent. And to make the ongoing hardship of his life even worse, Karl Marx was afflicted with boils from the top of his head to the soles of his feet. This painful skin condition in his later years made even his beloved vocation of writing rather difficult. But his pen would indeed demonstrate its power, and by the time 70-some years had passed since his demise, one-third of the entire planet would be living under regimes based upon his ideology. You will hear about: Love him or hate him, the power of Karl Marx’s pen, and his legacy, cannot be denied.
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]]>Title: H. H. Holmes: The Life of the American Ripper]]>Subtitle: True Crime, Book 3]]>Series: #3 in True Crime]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Murder]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Marc Zeale]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-28-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>H. H. Holmes’ story has become one of legend. Holmes committed his crimes at a time in history where the idea of murdering on a mass scale was just being introduced to the world through the actions of Jack the Ripper. Unlike Jack the Ripper though, Holmes’ motives were clear; he killed out of greed, convenience, and curiosity. Listen and learn about: Fueled by an intense desire for money, Holmes sought the fastest way to make money with the least amount of effort possible. Throughout his life, he would commit devastating murders for money, appropriately earning him the title of America’s first serial killer.
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]]>Title: Nostradamus]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, France, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-25-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It is difficult to think of many historical figures who have been able to build up such a cult following as Nostradamus. Indeed, he may have lived centuries ago, but his name is still thrown around in the world today whenever a disaster or global event occurs. From his work as a doctor fighting against the plague with mixed success to becoming the physician of the French royal family, this is a tale of an individual who was not afraid to reveal his true self at a time when this was certainly frowned upon. You will hear about: The story of Nostradamus is tougher to determine than one would have ever imagined. Considering the books that have been written about his predictions, his own story is often shrouded in mystery.
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]]>Title: The Opium Wars]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the 19th Century Conflicts Between Britain and China]]>Categories: Asia, China, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-18-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The 19th century saw the rise of one of the largest, most powerful empires of the modern era. The sun never set on the British Empire, whose holdings spanned the globe, in one form or another. Its naval supremacy linked the Commonwealth of Canada with the colonies in South Africa and India, and through them trade flowed east and west. An integral but underutilized part of this vast trade network included China, a reclusive Asian kingdom closed off from the Western world that desired none of its goods. Unfortunately for China, the British had the might of an empire and economic force, not to mention modern arms, on their side. Breaking into China’s lucrative trade markets nearly destroyed the nation, severely discredited the Chinese dynasty, wreaked havoc on its people, and further propelled Britain’s empire into a dominant economic and military position. The collision of these two empires took many years and caused much bloodshed. In fact, the troubles started well before the eventual hostilities, festering as frustration mounted until finally boiling over.
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]]>Title: Sigmund Freud]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Social Scientist]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-16-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Sigmund Freud was a catalyst who signaled a seat change in how humanity came to understand the world and how it relates to the human mind. And if you have ever had a “Freudian slip”, you know full well that the concepts and theories of Mr. Freud are well ensconced in the modern lexicon. But as much as many of us are familiar with his work, what about the man? What do we know about the person? Just who was Sigmund Freud? Inside, you will hear about:
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]]>Title: Tadeusz Kościuszko]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of Poland’s Most Famous General]]>Categories: America, American Revolution, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-16-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Many Americans labor under the misconception that the nation’s colonial and national heritage was almost wholly accomplished by an English migration, and the notion of early American diversity ends at an acknowledgment of the slave trade conducted between Southern buyers, Northern shippers, the African continent and the Caribbean region. However, early America witnessed the development of New York by the Dutch, the southernmost regions by Spain, and what would become eastern Canada by the French after lengthy battles with Britain. In fact, the Seven Years’ War during the 1750s was fought on a nearly global scale between several European belligerents. As a result, when the Revolution began, the Continental Army sported numerous volunteers from Ireland, Scotland, virtually every European nation between France and Russia, and men from the northern and southern borders of the European continent. Poland’s famous soldier, artist, engineer, and statesman Tadeusz Kościuszko possessed a uniquely expanded vision that perceived the American conflict as the test of a new universal paradigm. A philosophical revolution in itself, the vision held by Locke and Jefferson for a previously unknown standard of individual liberty found an obsessive place in Kościuszko’s life view.
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]]>Title: Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Casimir Pulaski]]>Subtitle: The Lives of the Revolutionary War’s Most Famous Polish Officers]]>Categories: America, American Revolution, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Ken Teutsch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-16-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the time the Revolutionary War started, military confrontations between the world powers had become so common that combat was raised to the status of a fine art, consuming a large portion of time for adolescent males in training and comprising a sizeable component of the economy. Weaponry was developed to a degree of quality not accessible to most North Americans, and European aristocrats were reared in the mastery of swordsmanship with an emphasis on the saber for military use. Likewise, the cavalry, buoyed by a tradition of expert horsemanship and saddle-based combat, was a fighting force largely beyond reach for colonists, which meant that fighting on horses was an undeveloped practice in the fledgling Continental Army, and the American military did not yet fully comprehend the value of cavalry units. However, with European nations unceasingly at war, soldiers from one side or the other often found themselves in disfavor, were marked men in exile, or were fleeing from a superior force. To General George Washington’s good fortune, a few found their way to the colonies to join in the cause.
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]]>Title: History of India]]>Subtitle: A History in 50 Events]]>Categories: Asia, History, India, Planet Earth, South Asia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Eiman]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-15-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In The History of India in 50 Events, you will explore the rich and storied culture of the Indian subcontinent. This region of the world, largely considered to be one of the cradles of civilization, has developed over a period of over 5,000 years. Consequently, this long run of history has drawn up a national history filled with intrigue, philosophy, art, architectural wonders, and the births and deaths of great men and women. Inside you will read about: From Buddha to Gandhi, this account of Indian history is but a taste of the full spectrum of historical flavor that one can experience when exploring Indian history.
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]]>Title: James Dean: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #4 in Biographies of Actors]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Kevin Arteaga]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-15-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>James Dean is known as the first rebel. He was a ‘50s-styled, leather-clad biker rebuking authority. With his black turtleneck and a penchant for bongo drums and poetry, he could also easily be a kind of forerunner to the beatniks. And with his unkempt, wild hair and far-reaching philosophies, he is often cited as a kind of early hippie, as well. But whatever category you put him in, James Dean was the embodiment of cool. He had a cool look, cool clothes, cool attitude, and a cool backstory that most know nothing about. James Dean began life in Indiana as the descendant of a long line of farmers. After the tragic passing of his mother at a young age and the virtual abandonment of his father, he was left to be raised by his sister and her husband on a farm in Fairmount, Indiana. From this audiobook, you'll learn about: So just how did this Indiana farm boy become a Hollywood legend and kickstart a counterculture rebellion that would last throughout the ‘50s, ‘60s, and beyond? Who was James Dean? Come along as we find out more about the man, the legend, and the eternal rebel without a cause: James Dean.
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]]>Título: El surgimiento del Imperio Otomano [The Rise of the Ottoman Empire]]]>Subtitular: La Historia del Establecimiento del Imperio Turco en el Medio Oriente y Europa del Este]]>Categorías: Europe, History, Medieval, Middle East, Turkey]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Jonathan Matthews]]>Editor: Matthews]]>Fecha de publicación: 05-15-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>En términos de geopolítica, quizás el acontecimiento más importante de la Edad Media fue el exitoso asedio otomano a Constantinopla en 1453. La ciudad había sido una capital imperial ya en el siglo IV, cuando Constantino el Grande cambió el centro de poder del Imperio Romano, estableciendo efectivamente dos mitades casi igualmente poderosas del imperio más grande de la antigüedad. Constantinopla seguiría siendo la capital del Imperio Bizantino incluso después de que la mitad occidental del Imperio Romano se derrumbara a finales del siglo V. Naturalmente, el Imperio Otomano también usaría a Constantinopla como capital de su imperio después de que su conquista terminara efectivamente con el Imperio Bizantino, y gracias a su ubicación estratégica, ha sido un centro comercial durante años y sigue siendo uno de ellos hoy en día bajo el nombre turco de Estambul. El fin del Imperio Bizantino tuvo un profundo efecto no sólo en el Medio Oriente sino también en Europa. Constantinopla había jugado un papel crucial en las Cruzadas, y la caída de los bizantinos significó que los otomanos ahora compartían frontera con Europa.
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]]>Title: The Roman Republic: A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic, SPQR and Roman Politicians Such as Julius Caesar and Cicero]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History, Italy, Rome]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 05-15-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating history of the Roman republic When we think of ancient Rome, the first notion that comes to mind is the one of the empire, followed by the image of a mighty emperor, his legions, colossal buildings, and the Gladiators (or the rhetoric and poetry, depending on your preferences). Some may recall the image of a “unified” Europe under a single sovereign - the emperor of Rome. However, Rome did not become remarkable at this considerably late phase. In fact, many historians see the history of Rome under the Emperors as a long, gradual decline. It was during the republic that Rome gained an empire. Most of the achievements that the first emperor of Rome, Octavian Augustus, claimed to have completed were, in fact, earned during the Roman republic. In this audiobook, we’ll have a close look at the beginning of Roman civilization, the foundation of the city and the Senate, the expansion of the Roman republic, its glory, and its end. Some of the topics covered in this audiobook include: Get the audiobook now to learn more about the Roman republic.
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]]>Title: The Renaissance: A History From Beginning to End]]>Categories: 17th Century, Europe, History, Modern, Renaissance]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matthew J Chandler-Smith]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-15-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>During the Middle Ages, the nations of Europe forged new identities that moved them away from the lost glory of the Roman Empire into their own ethnicity. The experience of maturation was often clumsy and out of step, an evolutionary process that saw the nation's developing at their own pace as they struggled to replace the protection of Rome with their own home-grown strength. What the nations, once they were ready to be described in that manner, did have was the Roman Catholic Church, which defined itself as the spiritual protector of Christian believers. But the dutiful Christians of the Middle Ages who sought orthodoxy and for the most part obeyed the papal rules underwent a change when the Middle Ages ended. The Renaissance, or rebirth, was a period of time when Europeans began to question what they had been told was sacrosanct.
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]]>Title: Thomas Edison]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, STEM, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jimmy Kieffer]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-11-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Thomas Edison passed on many decades ago, but his inventions still echo loudly through time. If you watch TV, listen to your favorite songs, or simply click on the lamp next to your bed, it was Thomas Edison who brought all of these innovations into the world. Inside you will hear about... And much more! Edison is sometimes regarded as someone who loved arguing with other inventors who were going in different directions from him, yet his tenacity and dedication to his own work were what made so many of his inventions workable. No matter which way you look at Edison, from failed businessman, renowned inventor, distant father to his children, to an argumentative scientist, there is one thing everyone can agree on: Thomas Edison was pure genius. After all, in his world, nothing less would do.
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]]>Title: Swahili]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Africa’s Indigenous Culture and the Effects of European Colonization]]>Categories: 19th Century, Africa, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-11-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismark, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event—known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 - galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the "Scramble for Africa." The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa.
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]]>Title: Ulysses S Grant: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: One Hour History US Presidents, Book 8]]>Series: #8 in Biographies of US Presidents]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Head of State]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Ryan Whiting]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-08-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The list of American war heroes who went on to become presidents includes men as little remembered as Zachary Taylor and as famous as Dwight D. Eisenhower. While these men are venerable with a significant their place in American history, they cannot equal the status of Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general who rose through the ranks from virtual obscurity to command. You'll learn about: He was a modest man with a series of failures behind him, but when success came to him on the battlefield, it brought a nation back to wholeness. Grant faced financial ruin, alcoholism, family trials, and cancer with the same steady courage that he employed in battle. He is one of the most famous, yet also one of the least well-known, of America’s heroes, well worth an introduction.
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]]>Title: Spartacus and the Slave Wars: A History From Beginning to End]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-08-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Spartacus has passed into legend as an enduring symbol of righteousness in his noble battle for the freedom of man. This transcendent icon did not appear from the aether and had plenty of inspiration from the brave and often forgotten figures that stood before him. The actions of Spartacus and his rebellion against the Roman Republic offer a unique look into the details of commercial slavery in Rome, and its long-lasting effects on the evolution of a nation. You'll learn about: This book will take you through the Servile Wars, also known as the Slave Wars, which were a series of slave rebellions over a 60-year period of the Roman Republic’s history. Occurring in relatively quick succession, each Servile War increased in strength and fervor, until Spartacus and his allies nearly managed to bring the Republic to its knees.
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]]>Title: Michael Faraday: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #5 in Biographies of Inventors]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Tom Sleeker]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-08-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Michael Faraday is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern physics. His work in the field of electromagnetism revolutionized society, leading to new avenues of study and developments of technology that would leave the world changed forever. Without Faraday’s discoveries, there would be no electronics or electrical power. There would be no technology as we recognize it, or at the very least those technologies would have taken much longer to arise, causing our time to look very different. Inside you will hear about.... And much more! This book tells the story of Michael Faraday’s life from birth to death and the remarkable discoveries he made during his lifetime.
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]]>Title: The Inquisition: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Religious Study]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Scott R. Pollak]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-07-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Roman Catholic Inquisition was one of the most controversial organizations in human history. Although it has been painted in a negative light, the Inquisition was too broad in scope to define as simply good or bad. It was a period where conflict and bloodshed were inevitable. It was a time where war, famine, plague, and poverty were common factors of human life. From the 1180s to the 1830s, the Inquisition was the judicial arm of the Catholic Church. Created to root out and punish heretics within the Catholic faith, the Inquisition became an institution that would carve its name into history. Inside you will hear about.... And much more! Throughout its many variations, the Inquisition took hold in France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy and in the process, both hastened and stunted progress in Western society. The Inquisition was as multi-faceted in its failure as it was in its successes. Though it was responsible for the deaths of thousands, it was also responsible for the sparing of thousands more. The Inquisition put to death some of the brightest minds of the time, and yet their brutality quickened the pace of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.
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]]>Title: Eleanor of Aquitaine]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, France, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Nelson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 05-07-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Eleanor of Aquitaine became the queen of both France and England, the wife of two kings, and later the mother of two kings. Heiress to the rich French provinces of Aquitaine and Poitou, she was undoubtedly one of medieval Europe’s most powerful and wealthiest women. Inside you will read about: Eleanor of Aquitaine has, not surprisingly, captured many imaginations. From inciting her sons to rebel against their father to the tale of her “courts of love”, where she reportedly fostered the idea of courtly love and promoted the arts, to her captivity and later tireless work to rescue her son Richard the Lionheart from his imprisonment, Eleanor’s life is a tangle of legend mixed with the struggle to interpret the sometimes scarce facts. This does not make it any less fascinating - or any less worthy of study. In this audiobook, you will find a concise exploration of the life of one of the medieval world’s most memorable figures.
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]]>Title: Fred Rogers: The Life and Legacy of the Legend Behind Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-03-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he is unique. I end the program by saying, 'You've made this day a special day, by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you; and I like you just the way you are.' And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health.” -Fred Rogers An anomalous YouTube video crudely entitled “Mr. Rogers is a [sic] Evil Man” stands at over 1.8 million views, with 1,000 likes and a whopping 30,000 dislikes. Similarly, saying an ill word about the universally adored Mister Rogers on the forums of the imageboard, 4Chan, will get the commenter torn to shreds by even its notoriously toxic anonymous users, and almost definitely ousted from the Online community for good.
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]]>Title: The Alcázar of Seville]]>Subtitle: The History of Spain’s Most Famous Royal Palace]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-03-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The majority of those fortunate enough to feast their eyes upon the majestic complex that is the Alcázar of Seville share the same sentiment: its beauty is indescribable. This is a place that oozes opulence, a kind of opulence flavored by class and historical charm, rather than the garish flamboyance and tawdry ostentation often displayed by the nouveau riche. To say that the Alcázar is fit for the fussiest prince would simply be downplaying its splendor. Of course, this was exactly what the Alcázar was, and continues to be, for this fantastical compound is the oldest European royal residence still in use. The royal estate, with 17,000-square meters of spectacular structures and 7 hectares of lavish gardens, is even more sublime in the nighttime. The rambling Moorish arches and the gorgeous detail of the fairy-tale turrets and curtain walls - from the striking shapes of the rectangular merlons capped with triangular cones to the coarse, aged texture and smears of damp discoloring the ancient facade - are all the more emphasized by the torches dotted throughout the premises.
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]]>Title: Medieval Ireland: The History and Legacy of the Irish During the Middle Ages]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Ireland]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-02-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“What have you done for Ireland? How have you answered the Call? Are you pleased with the part you’re playing in the job that demands us all? Have you changed the tweed for the khaki to serve with rank and file, as your comrades are gladly serving, or isn’t it worth your while?” – An extract from a World War I recruitment poster There are very few national relationships quite as complicated and enigmatic as the one that exists between the English and the Irish. For two peoples so interconnected by geography and history, the depth of animosity that is often expressed is difficult at times to understand. At the same time, historic links of family and clan, and common Gaelic roots, have at times fostered a degree of mutual regard, interdependence, and cooperation that is also occasionally hard to fathom. During World War I, for example, Ireland fought for the British Empire as part of that empire, and the Irish response to the call to arms was at times just as enthusiastic as that of other British dominions such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
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]]>Título: Operación Entebbe: La Historia Y El Legado De la Más Famosa Operación Rescate De Israel [Operation Entebbe: The History and Legacy of the Most Famous Operation Rescue of Israel]]]>Categorías: 20th Century, History, Levant, Middle East, Modern]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 05-01-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>“De la sangrienta historia de la nación judía, aprendemos que la violencia que comienza con el asesinato de judíos termina con la propagación de la violencia y el peligro a todos los pueblos, en todas las naciones. No tenemos otra opción que atacar a las organizaciones terroristas dondequiera que podamos llegar a ellas. Esa es nuestra obligación hacia nosotros mismos y hacia la paz”. Golda Meir Durante la Guerra de los Seis Días en 1967, las fuerzas israelíes atacaron repentinamente el Sinaí en respuesta a la violación por parte de Egipto de un tratado anterior que permitía el paso de barcos israelíes a través del importante Estrecho de Tirán. En una campaña relámpago, las fuerzas israelíes bien entrenadas y bien dirigidas, equipadas con vehículos y aviones americanos y franceses, destrozaron decisivamente a las fuerzas armadas egipcias de baja calidad. Cuando Jordania y Siria atacaron a Israel en apoyo de Egipto, los israelíes también aplastaron sus fuerzas.
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]]>Title: The Neanderthals]]>Subtitle: The History of the Extinct Humans Who Were Contemporaries of Homo Sapiens in Europe]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-26-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In popular culture, the term Neanderthal is used as a colloquial insult for a degenerate or someone perceived as stupid. This seems to have been the case even from the first recognition of the Neanderthals as a species. The first Neanderthal fossil discovery was that of a child’s skull in Belgium in 1829, but it was badly damaged. Another would be discovered in 1856 in a limestone mine of the Neanderthal region of what is present-day Germany, and a skull with differing distinct traits (indicating a different species than the Neanderthals) would be discovered just over a decade later in southwestern France. The latter specimen would come to be recognized as an example of the species Homo Sapiens, and these anatomically modern humans arrived in Europe between 45,000 and 43,000 years ago, around the time the Neanderthals are believed to have started going extinct. The Neanderthals are a member of the genus Homo just like Homo sapiens and share roughly 99.7 percent of their DNA with modern humans (Reynolds and Gallagher 2012). Both species even lived briefly during the same time in Eurasia.
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]]>Title: Agrippa Hull]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Revolutionary War’s Most Famous Black Soldier]]>Categories: America, American Revolution, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-25-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the time the Revolutionary War started, military confrontations between the world powers had become so common that combat was raised to the status of a fine art, consuming a large portion of time for adolescent males in training and comprising a sizeable component of the economy. Weaponry was developed to a degree of quality not accessible to most North Americans, and European aristocrats were reared in the mastery of swordsmanship with an emphasis on the saber for military use. Nations such as France undoubtedly had an elevating effect on America’s capacity to make formal war, and Lafayette is the most famous foreigner to serve in the Continental Army, but one of the most important individuals who arrived was a Polish nobleman named Tadeusz Kościuszko, who had military and engineering experience. Raised in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Hull’s increasing fame is accessible in large part due to his association with Kościuszko, who is still a hero across America today for helping design and construct the defenses of West Point, among other things. Serving as Kościuszko’s orderly for a period of 50 months in nearly every major battle, Hull was described by noted historian Gary Gary Nash as a great “unnoticed American”.
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]]>Title: Mao Zedong]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Chairman of the Communist Party of China, the Cultural Revolution and the Political Theory of Maoism]]>Categories: Asia, China, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-25-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating life of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong is recognized alongside Chiang Kai-Shek and Sun Yat-Sen as one of the most influential figures of modern Chinese history. His political control of the nation waned during his later years, but he remained the Chairman of the Community Party of China since it was established in 1949 to the day he died on September 9, 1976. As the founding father of the People’s Republic of China and the centerpiece of one of the world’s most intense personality cults, the extent of his influence is difficult to understate. Today, Mao’s legacy can inspire slavish devotion, outright condemnation, as well as, a hesitance to look too closely at the negative aspects of his legacy. The fact that his influence spanned over nearly three decades also makes it difficult to arrive at a holistic understanding of his impact on China. The official line from the Community Party of China, which was popularized by Deng Xiaoping, is that Mao was “70 percent correct and 30 percent wrong”. This biography details Mao’s remarkable journey from being the son of a peasant to one of modern history’s greatest - and highly polarizing - leaders.
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]]>Title: Walt Disney: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, Business, Business Leader]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Al Henderson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-24-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The name Disney is celebrated throughout the world because of its association with blockbuster animated films and iconic cartoon characters. Just about everyone on the planet, regardless of time, place, or culture, has at one time or another become acquainted with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and everybody’s favorite anthropomorphic dog, Goofy. These are the characters that we know and love. From this audiobook you will learn about: In recent years Disney has become set to become even larger by adopting a new host of characters from George Lucas’ Star Wars franchise. It seems that the name Disney, even 50 some years after Walt Disney’s death, is destined to get even bigger. But as much as we can associate the name Disney with these incredible films, it is amazing how little most people know about Walt Disney himself. Few know of Disney’s humble upbringing in rural America, learning to draw farm animals and flowers. Very few know the origin of Mickey Mouse, and even fewer know of the role that Donald Duck played during the war effort of World War II. Come along as we present to you a tale just as fascinating as any plot sequence to have ever graced Walt Disney’s storyboard.
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]]>Title: Hannibal Barca: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, History, Military, Strategy, War]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Christopher Boozell]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-24-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>There are notorious figures in history who have withstood the test of time, and then there is Hannibal Barca. This man stands in a unique category of his own because the name of Hannibal Barca not only went down in history, it changed the course of it. This headstrong North African leader did the impossible. He not only led a massive army flanked by elephants - yes, elephants - from North Africa and into Europe, Hannibal also managed to check the growing superpower of Rome through sheer ingenuity. From this audiobook you will learn about: Hannibal Barca crossed the Alps to present himself as ancient Rome’s own insurmountable mountain. He positioned himself directly between the Old World Empire of Carthage and the young upstart of the Roman Republic, creating a clash of civilizations on a colossal scale. And the world has been trying to recover ever since.
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]]>Title: Human Evolution: The History of the Evolution and Natural Selection Processes That Gave Rise to Modern Humans]]>Categories: Ancient, History, STEM, Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-24-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Ever since the human mind developed the capacity for thought, people have pondered not just the meaning of life, but the genesis of the world, the universe, and all the natural marvels and precious forms of life within it. To this day, all of these intricate subjects continue to be matters of great contention, and they are often best encapsulated in the debate between creationism and evolution. On the one hand are those who are adamant that it was God, or some other supreme being, that designed and crafted every detail of the universe, as evidenced by the plethora of creation myths from various creeds and traditions. Among one of the most well-known etiological tales is the classic story of the Christian God who constructed the world in six days, and man and woman out of clay and man's rib, respectively. This is a concept that many still cling to today; approximately 38 percent of Americans believed in creationism in 2017, as reported by a Gallup Poll.
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]]>Título: Platillos voladores: La misteriosa historia del fenómeno OVNI [ Flying saucers: The mysterious story of the UFO phenomenon]]]>Categorías: 20th Century, History, Modern, Occult]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 04-23-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>“El punto es que la idea de los vehículos espaciales en forma de platillos voladores fue impresa en la psique nacional durante muchos años antes de 1947, cuando tuvo lugar el incidente de Roswell. A los primeros observadores de los OVNIs no les costó mucho trabajo suponer que los objetos desconocidos que flotaban en el cielo tenían la misma forma de disco que los vehículos de ciencia ficción"- Frank Wu, ilustrador de revistas de ciencia ficción. Cuando la gente piensa en objetos voladores no identificados (OVNIS), tiende a pensar en discos voladores pilotados por seres grises con grandes cabezas y enormes ojos. Tienden a pensar que estos avistamientos apenas comenzaron hace relativamente poco tiempo y que la creencia en los OVNIs es una especie de religión moderna provocada, quizás, por los temores justificados de una era nuclear. Pero un estudio del fenómeno revela rápidamente que la humanidad ha estado viendo OVNIS desde el principio de la historia registrada y quizás mucho más tiempo que eso. La Ufología moderna se centra en luces misteriosas sobre “Ceres” o cuentos de abducción alienígena, pero no siempre fue así.
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]]>Title: Boer War]]>Subtitle: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, Great Britain, History, South Africa]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-20-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>This audiobook provides an introduction to one of the most intriguing wars of modern times - a war that saw several innovations, including the use of heliography and indirect fire, and caused the complete overhaul of the great Imperial British fighting machine in its aftermath. It also tells of the first example of the brilliant use of guerrilla warfare by the people who, to this day, have never been outclassed: the Boer commandos. However, the Boer War was also an intensely emotional journey cutting to the very core of the horror of war; leaving women and children in a deliberately destroyed landscape, watching their home and all their possessions burn to the ground. You will learn about the the causes of the war; the commando system; phase one; phase two; phase three; the concentration camps; a gentleman's war; and much more. This audiobook gives a broad overview so that the interested listener will be able to find a point of entry to study the war further. Perhaps studying and understanding this subject is the only way to ask the question: When is a war not a war?
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]]>Título: Los antiguos cananeos: la historia de las civilizaciones que vivieron en Canaan antes de los israelitas [The Ancient Canaanites: The History of the Civilizations That Lived in Canaan Before the Israelites]]]>Categorías: Ancient, History, Judaism]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 04-18-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>“Y fue el término de los cananeos desde Sidón, en dirección a Gerar hasta Gaza; en dirección de Sodoma y Gomorra, Adma, y Zeboim, hasta Lasa.” - Génesis 10,19 “Y queda dicho: Os sacaré de la aflicción de Egipto, a la tierra de los cananeos, heteos, amorreos, fereceos, heveos y jebuseos, a una tierra que mana leche y miel.” - Éxodo 3,17 “Y cuando el SEÑOR tu Dios te los haya entregado, y tú los hayas derrotado, y destruido por completo; no harás pacto con ellos, ni les mostrarás compasión…” - Deuteronomio 7,2 Las personas que deciden estudiar el Antiguo Testamento de la Biblia, en principio se enfrentan a la dificultad de identificar a los distintos pueblos que los hebreos conocieron, y con los que en ocasiones estuvieron en conflicto cuando entraron al territorio que con el tiempo se convirtió en Israel.
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]]>Título: El Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Lourdes: La Historia y Legado del Centro de Milagros de la Iglesia Católica [The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes: The History and Legacy of the Center of Miracles of the Catholic Church]]]>Categorías: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, France, History]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 04-17-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Aunque es una admirable obra de arte creada por la acción de las aguas del otrora turquesa río Gave de Pau, la modesta gruta a sus orillas, escondida en el desfiladero al norte de la Massabielle (“Vieja Misa”) en la pintoresca ciudad de Lourdes difícilmente sea la más majestuosa en la colección de la Madre Naturaleza. De hecho, la estrecha cueva era tan poco excepcional que permaneció, en buena parte, sin ser perturbada hasta mediados del siglo XVII, a excepción de alguno que otro pescador o arriero que se refugiara allí durante una tempestad inesperada. Rodeada de tupidos arbustos y envuelta en enredaderas de hiedra, la pequeña gruta, tan húmeda como es oscura, no es lo suficientemente espaciosa para albergar ni a un aquelarre de brujas. A pesar de su exterior común y dimensiones menos que impresionantes, la gruta atrae hoy en día a millones y millones de visitantes cada año sin falta. Largas filas zigzagueantes de lugareños, visitantes, y peregrinos cristianos por igual esperan pacientemente su oportunidad para no solo apreciar, sino ofrecer sus respetos a la fascinantemente magnética gruta.
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]]>Título: Los fantasmas de Inglaterra: Una Colección de Historias de Fantasmas a través de la Nación Inglesa [The Ghosts of England: A Collection of Ghost Stories Across the English Nation]]]>Categorías: Europe, Great Britain, History, Occult]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Nicolás Villanueva]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 04-16-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Inglaterra es una antigua tierra llena de historia y tradición, llena de ruinas prehistóricas, majestuosos castillos, y un paisaje esculpido de milenios de vida humana... Su paisaje ondulado está salpicado de túmulos funerarios prehistóricos y círculos de piedra. Los castillos inquietantes cuentan historias de derramamiento de sangre y honor. Las iglesias medievales han elaborado vitrales y esculturas horripilantes, reflejando una mezcla de esperanza y oscuridad. Cada aldea y pueblo tiene historias que se remontan a siglos atrás, y fiestas populares con raíces paganas. Por lo tanto, no es sorprendente que muchos crean que Inglaterra es una tierra llena de fantasmas. Durante siglos, la gente ha contado historias de fantasmas que han acechado sus edificios históricos, extrañas criaturas acechando en sus bosques primitivos y caminos inexplicables que unen sus antiguos sitios. Los Fantasmas de Inglaterra: Una Colección de Historias de Fantasmas a través de la Nación Inglesa ofrece una muestra de las muchas historias extrañas de fantasmas y fenómenos inexplicables que hacen de Inglaterra un lugar tan intrigante. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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]]>Title: Martin Luther]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Germany, History, Religion]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Arthur Rowan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-13-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Martin Luther is famous for the moment he nailed his 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, yet the scope of his influence on the modern world is hardly limited to that one act. He emerged as a leader of the Reformation, coming onto the European scene at a time when modes of thought were changing, adapting from the medieval norm of reliance on authoritative sources such as Aristotle to modern ideas of discovering knowledge through textual interpretation, experience, and experimentation. Inside you will hear about.... As his life followed a tumultuous path from student to monk to reformer and church leader, his emphasis on salvation by faith and the authority of the Bible alone - not priests or the Pope - had lasting impact on the history of the church. While Martin Luther may remain a controversial figure, his life and writings undoubtedly played an important role in the religious, intellectual, and political development of the Western world.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Fri, 13 Apr 2018 22:54:53 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b76fj5RD Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: La KGB y la Stasi: la historia de las agencias de inteligencia más infames del bloque del este [The KGB and the Stasi: The Story of the Most Infamous East Block Intelligence Agencies]]]>Categorías: Europe, Germany, History, Russia]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 04-13-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>La KGB es una de las abreviaturas más famosas del siglo XX, y se ha convertido en sinónimo de las tenebrosas y a menudo violentas acciones de la policía secreta de la Unión Soviética y de las agencias de seguridad interna. De hecho, se utiliza a menudo para referirse a las agencias de seguridad del Estado Soviético a lo largo de su historia, desde la creación de la Checa (Comisión Extraordinaria) en 1917 hasta la eliminación oficial de la KGB en 1992. Tanto si se relaciona con los excesos de la Guerra Civil rusa, las purgas de Stalin e incluso con Vladimir Putin, la KGB ha sido considerada durante mucho tiempo como el peor ogro del Occidente durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX. La historia de Alemania Oriental estuvo estrechamente ligada al desarrollo de sus servicios de seguridad, concretamente de la Stasi. En una época de países totalitarios dominados por agencias estatales represivas, la Stasi se destacaba por su tamaño y por la amplitud y profundidad de su vigilancia.
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]]>Title: The Royal Air Force in World War II: The History and Legacy of British Air Power against the Luftwaffe and Nazi Germany]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-13-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The gratitude of every home in our island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world except in the abodes of the guilty goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unweakened by their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of world war by their prowess and their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” – Winston Churchill, August 21, 1940. At the end of August 2012, BBC ran a report about the commemoration of a young man who had been killed more than 70 years earlier. “A Battle of Britain pilot who was killed when his Spitfire crashed following a dogfight in the skies above Kent has been honored. Flying Officer Oswald St John ‘Ossie’ Pigg lost his life in the crash at Elvey Farm on 1 September 1940. The 22-year-old had been involved in an aerial fight with a Messerschmitt.
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]]>Title: The Great Pyramid of Giza: A History from Beginning to Present]]>Categories: Africa, Ancient, Egypt, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Al Henderson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-12-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Great Pyramid of Giza Ancient Egypt has mystified and entranced generation after generation. The Egyptians' mastery of architecture, their complex religious ideologies, and their peculiar views on death have given modern-day readers much to ponder. Few, if any, of their remaining relics have produced the awe and spectacular wonder of the Great Pyramids of Giza. These three architectural masterpieces have stood for more than 5,000 years despite looting, exploitation, and the slow erosion of time. Inside you will learn about: This book will describe the history, theory, and ideology behind the construction of the last remaining ancient wonder of the world.
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]]>Title: The Desert Rats: The History and Legacy of the British Army’s 7th Armoured Division during World War II]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-12-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The fighting in North Africa during World War II is commonly overlooked, aside from the famous battle at El Alamein that pitted the British under General Bernard Montgomery against the legendary 'Desert Fox', Erwin Rommel. But while the Second Battle of El Alamein would be the pivotal action in North Africa, the conflict in North Africa began all the way back in the summer of 1940 when Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared Italy’s entrance into the war. From his perspective, the fact that the British and French had their hands full with the Germans created an opportunity for Italy to enlarge its colonial holdings in Africa by seizing portions of the British Empire. However, British troops in the colony of Egypt responded to Italy’s declaration of war by driving through the Egyptian-Ethiopian border and attacking Italian troops stationed in the Italian colony of Ethiopia.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Thu, 12 Apr 2018 02:56:36 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-DdBfzYjd Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Tiro, Biblos y Sidón [Tiro, Byblos and Sidon]]]>Subtitular: La historia de los tres más importantes ciudades antiguas fenicias en el Levante [The History of the Three Most Important Ancient Phoenician Cities in the Levant]]>Categorías: Ancient, Archaeology, Europe, Greece]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 04-11-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>A lo largo del occidente del Mediterráneo se han descubierto gran número de objetos cuya apariencia o materiales son extraños a las culturas locales, ya sea un amuleto egipcio en Grecia, un vaso griego en África, o miles de extraños amuletos en Gibraltar. Los restos son evidencia de que una gran cantidad de productos fueron alguna vez movidos de un lugar a otro, transportados sistemáticamente y comerciados a lo largo del Mediterráneo por la antigua red comercial de los fenicios. Comenzando en el siglo 13 A.C., y continuando por más de un milenio, esta civilización dominó el más importante cuerpo de agua conocido por los antiguos. Con sus barcos formidables y sus habilidades comerciales, se hicieron famosos comerciando por entre Egipto, Grecia, Roma, Cartago, Cerdeña, España y finalmente hasta el océano Atlántico, estableciéndose como los señores indiscutibles del mar. Los fenicios fueron bien conocidos a lo largo de muchas civilizaciones en todo el mundo antiguo y su influencia se puede apreciar en muchos lugares del occidente hoy en día porque a ellos se les atribuye la invención del precursor del alfabeto griego, del que se derivó directamente el alfabeto latino.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:28:30 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Vy2fzkZd Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Wright Brothers: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #3 in Biographies of Inventors]]>Categories: 20th Century, Aviation, Biography, Engineering]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Felix Grey]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-10-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Wilbur and Orville Wright have gone down in history as pioneers of flight and the inventors of the first airplane. This is the story of how their mechanical interest in printing presses and bicycles led them towards finding solutions to the conundrum of flight. Find out how their methodological research and innovative ideas set them apart from other inventors, and learn about the newspaper editors and scientists’ reactions to the Wright brothers’ achievement - the slow transformation of skepticism and disbelief to amazement. You will learn about: This is not only the story of the success of two determined brothers from Dayton, but it is the story of a new chapter of history.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:09:46 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-Dj9fEKNp Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Alexander Hamilton: A Captivating Guide to One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America]]>Categories: Biography, Historical Fiction, History, Insurrection]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 04-10-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the fascinating life of Alexander Hamilton! Alexander Hamilton is one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. A deep thinker, a military leader, and a political dynamo, he was George Washington's right-hand man and perhaps the most important figure in the shaping of the Constitution. His policies and practices in government set the United States down a path of commercial wealth and economic stability. His ideas still resonate in the powerful nation he helped create. During his time, Hamilton was a divisive figure. A political extremist who antagonized the conservative parts of the new republic while protecting its former opponents. The man at the heart of the nation's first major sex scandal. A political operator whose actions outraged opponents and eventually led to the duel that cost him his life. It was an extraordinary life, made more extraordinary by Hamilton's origins. He was an outsider, an immigrant from the Caribbean who arrived in New York to make a new life for himself. In doing so, he helped to shape the framework of politics and commerce in America.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Captivating History) Tue, 10 Apr 2018 04:07:18 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-bRKfWABd Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Escucha este audio libro completo gratis : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Título: Sidón: Historia y Legado de la Antigua Ciudad Fenicia [Sidon: History and Legacy of the Ancient Phoenician City]]]>Categorías: Ancient, Europe, Greece, History, Planet Earth]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 04-09-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>De todos los pueblos del antiguo cercano oriente, los fenicios están entre los más reconocidos, pero quizás también entre los menos comprendidos. Los fenicios nunca construyeron un imperio como los Egipcios y los Asirios; de hecho, los fenicios nunca crearon un estado fenicio único, en cambio existieron como ciudades-estados que eran reinos independientes, dispersos por toda la región del Mediterráneo. Sin embargo, a pesar del hecho de que nunca hubo un “imperio fenicio’, los fenicios se mostraron más prolíficos en su exploración y colonización que ningún otro pueblo en la historia universal hasta los españoles en la época del descubrimiento. Los fenicios fueron bien conocidos a lo largo de muchas civilizaciones en todo el mundo antiguo y su influencia se puede apreciar en muchos lugares del occidente hoy en día porque a ellos se les atribuye la invención del precursor del alfabeto griego, del que se derivó directamente el alfabeto latino.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:15:39 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-blZfNaop Voice Vault false Escucha Libro de audio completo gratis https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: Taj Mahal]]>Subtitle: A History From Beginning to Present]]>Categories: Architecture, Asia, History, India, South Asia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mike Eiman]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-06-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Taj Mahal in Agra is arguably the most iconic image of India and is visited by eight million tourists annually. It was characterized as “pure, perfect and unutterably lovely” by the British Viceroy Lord Curzon, and in 1983, UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site of “outstanding universal value.” For centuries, the world believed that it was built by Shah Jahan in 1631 to immortalize his love for his wife Mumtaz Mahal. Certain mysteries and myths that surround the monument have recently come to the fore in the country, and stimulated a public debate about the place it holds as a true representation of Indian culture. Listen to stories about: the life of Mumtaz Mahal, considered the jewel of the place; the building of the Taj Mahal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site; the myths, conjecture, and controversy; the 22 locked rooms in the basement; and much more! This audio presents the five main historical figures of the Mughal Empire in India during that period and the many details of how the Taj Mahal was built. It traces the events that have led to the present controversy.
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]]>Title: Vikings: A Concise History of the Vikings]]>Categories: Europe, Exploration, History, Planet Earth, Scandinavia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 04-05-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The saga of the Vikings rises and falls on the banks of history, ebbing and flowing with popular opinion and whimsical anecdotes. The Vikings are routinely typecast and labeled anywhere from bloodthirsty tyrants to valiant heroes. They have been condemned as pirates and praised as explorers. We have all heard the stories of the fierce warriors with long ships and horned helmets storming onto the shores of medieval Europe - but who were these men really? From this audiobook, you will learn about: This audiobook helps to unravel the mystery. Helping to finally shed the light on why the Vikings abruptly descended onto the world stage in such dramatic fashion, this audiobook begins to explore the motives of the Viking exodus like no other and takes an in-depth evaluation of all the geographical, political, economic, and religious underpinnings that led the Viking Age.
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]]>Title: Casimir Pulaski: The Life and Legacy of the Polish Commander Who Became the Father of the American Cavalry During the Revolutionary War]]>Categories: America, American Revolution, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-04-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I came here, where freedom is being defended, to serve it, and to live or die for it." - Pulaski Many Americans labor under the misconception that the nation’s colonial and national heritage was almost wholly accomplished by an English migration, and the notion of early American diversity ends at an acknowledgment of the slave trade conducted between Southern buyers, Northern shippers, the African continent, and the Caribbean region. However, early America witnessed the development of New York by the Dutch, the southernmost regions by Spain, and what would become eastern Canada by the French after lengthy battles with Britain. In fact, the Seven Years’ War during the 1750's was fought on a nearly global scale between several European belligerents. As a result, when the Revolution began, the Continental Army sported numerous volunteers from Ireland, Scotland, virtually every European nation between France and Russia, and men from the northern and southern borders of the European continent. There are good reasons America doesn’t possess a constitutionally-confirmed national language, despite an English-speaking majority. Among the early proposals for such a common language, German and French served as contenders, with the latter going on to become Western Europe’s official diplomatic language.
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]]>Title: Operation Catapult]]>Subtitle: The History of the Controversial British Campaign Against the Vichy French Navy During World War II]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-04-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“You are charged with one of the most difficult and disagreeable tasks that a British admiral has ever been faced with. But we have complete confidence in you and rely on you to carry it out relentlessly.” (Prime Minister Winston Churchill) “90% of senior naval officers, including myself, thought [Operation Catapult] a ghastly error and still do.” (Royal Navy Admiral Andrew Cunningham, 1950) Emerging from France's catastrophic 1940 defeat like a bedraggled and rather sinister phoenix, the French State – better known to history as “Vichy France” or the “Vichy Regime” after its spa-town capital – stands in history as a unique and bizarre creation of German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler's European conquests. A patchwork of paradoxes and contradictions, the Vichy Regime maintained a quasi-independent French nation for some time after the Third Reich invasion until the Germans decided to include it in their occupation zone. While the French later disowned the Vichy government with considerable vehemence, evidence such as fairly broad-based popular support prior to Case Anton suggests a somewhat different story. Of course, this precarious position left Britain in the unenviable position of figuring out what to do with its once erstwhile ally.
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]]>Title: The Suez Crisis]]>Subtitle: The History of the Suez Canal’s Nationalization by Egypt and the War that Followed]]>Categories: 20th Century, Egypt, History, Middle East, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-03-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Nobody was kept more completely in the dark than the President of the United States.” - Anthony Nutting, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs World War II changed the dynamics of colonization irrevocably. India was granted independence in 1947, and that set the tone for decolonization across the European imperial spectrum. But as it turned out, decolonization was preempted in Egypt by a military coup in 1952. On January 25, 1952, British forces in the Suez Canal region took aggressive action when it ordered a police post in Ismailia to surrender for alleged support of anti-British activities. When the commander of the police post refused and mounted defenses, the British attacked, killing approximately 40 and injuring 70 Egyptian policemen. Outrage spilled out onto the streets in the form of protests and riots, leading to violence, looting, and the burning down of foreign businesses in Cairo. This coup, a minor revolutionary movement, had begun with the limited objective of overthrowing King Farouk, the incumbent ruler, but it became a far larger, anti-West, anti-imperialist and non-aligned nationalist movement.
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]]>Title: Operation Entebbe: The History and Legacy of Israel’s Most Famous Rescue Operation]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Levant, Middle East, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-02-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“From the blood-drenched history of the Jewish nation, we learn that violence which begins with the murder of Jews ends with the spread of violence and danger to all people, in all nations. We have no choice but to strike at terrorist organizations wherever we can reach them. That is our obligation to ourselves and to peace.” (Golda Meir) “July 4, 1976, was a great day to be an American, and a great day to be Jewish, and was, I am assured, an absolutely sensational day to be American and Jewish.” (George Will) During the Six-Day War in 1967, Israeli forces struck suddenly into Sinai in response to an Egyptian violation of an earlier treaty agreement that allowed Israeli ships passage through the important Straits of Tiran. In a lightning campaign, the well-trained and well-led Israeli forces, equipped with American and French vehicles and aircraft, shattered the low-quality Egyptian army forces decisively. When Jordan and Syria attacked Israel in support of Egypt, the Israelis smashed their forces also.
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]]>Title: Thomas Edison: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, STEM, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-28-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating life of Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison was born into a hard-working but attentive family. He struggled in school and became deaf at an early age. Born on February 11, 1847, Edison would become, arguably, the best-known American inventor of all time. His invention of the light bulb was one of more than 1,000 patents he held during his lifetime. Others included the phonograph, the electrical grid, and motion pictures. His work changed the way we see and hear the world around us. Some of the topics covered in this audiobook include: Learn more about Thomas Edison!
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]]>Title: Aaron Burr: A Captivating Guide to the Life of Aaron Burr and the Most Famous Duel in American History]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Politician]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 03-27-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating life of Aaron Burr and his duel with Alexander Hamilton. Based on his early achievements, Aaron Burr, Jr., should have become an obscure but respected figure in American history. An officer in the Continental Army, a high-flying lawyer, and an influential politician, his career peak was becoming the third vice president in US history. But after all these achievements, Burr's name is now associated with corruption and cruelty. He killed a man in an illegal duel while in office, and interest in that man, Alexander Hamilton, has revived Burr's reputation as one of history's villains. It was a reputation earned not just through the duel, in which he killed one of the brightest lights in the political firmament, but through a treasonous conspiracy after leaving the vice presidency. Who was Aaron Burr? What drove him to such achievements and such failures? And how did a respected politician become a publicly reviled villain? Pick up this audiobook now to find out. This audiobook covers Aaron Burr as: Get the audiobook now and learn more about Aaron Burr!
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]]>Title: Charles Darwin: The Life and Legacy of the 19th Century’s Most Famous Scientist]]>Categories: 19th Century, Biography, History, Modern, STEM]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-27-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." (Charles Darwin) "We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin." (Charles Darwin) Ever since the human mind developed the capacity for thought, people have pondered not just the meaning of life, but the genesis of the world, the universe, and all the natural marvels and precious forms of life within it. To this day, all of these intricate subjects continue to be matters of great contention, and they are often best encapsulated in the debate between creationism and evolution. On the one hand are those who are adamant that it was God, or some other supreme being, that designed and crafted every detail of the universe, as evidenced by the plethora of creation myths from various creeds and traditions.
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]]>Title: Frederick Douglass: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Al Henderson]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-26-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Slavery is a dark spot in the history of the United States, a time when the rights of African Americans were non-existent. Slaves were beaten, mutilated, raped, and killed with impunity. Their lives were a living hell from which death was the only escape they could dare to hope for. From this darkness, many heroes emerged, one of which was a man named Frederick Douglass. Born a slave in Maryland, Douglass believed he had found the key to the power of the white man - education. He taught himself to read and write, and then he proceeded to teach other slaves to read and write as well. Inside you will hear about.... And much more! As a slave, Frederick Douglass endured many cases of abuse and indignity while he waited to make his escape. On his third attempt, he finally succeeded, and once free, he proceeded to fight tirelessly throughout his life for the freedom and equality of all people. He was a true believer in the principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence and codified in the United States Constitution. He became a celebrated orator, writer, and statesman, and he was always an abolitionist.
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]]>Title: Alexander Graham Bell: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #2 in Biographies of Inventors]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Nathan Bierma]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-26-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Educator. Innovator. Inventor. These three words sum up Alexander Graham Bell, one of the greatest scientific men of his era. He is most famous for the invention of the telephone, a device which he predicted would transform human society. And it did. But the telephone is just one of the many innovations and inventions that Bell brought into being. Inside you will hear about.... A man who epitomizes the word visionary, Alexander Graham Bell predicted the use of light as a medium for transmitting information and how humanity would be transformed by flight. This is his story.
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]]>Title: Cold War: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Modern]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-23-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted from the end of World War II until the end of the 1980s. Over the course of five decades, they never came to blows directly. Rather, these two world superpowers competed in other arenas that would touch almost every corner of the globe. Inside you will hear about.... Both interfered in the affairs of other countries to win allies for their opposing ideologies. In the process, governments were destabilized, ideas silenced, revolutions broke out, and culture was controlled. This overview of the Cold War provides the story of how these two countries came to oppose one another and the impact it had on them and others around the world.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: An Illustrated Biography of Charles Lindbergh for Children]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, STEM, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-22-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"If one took no chances, one would not fly at all." (Charles Lindbergh) In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise but comprehensive audiobook will keep your kid’s attention all the way to the end. In many ways, Charles Lindbergh represented the best and worst of America during the first half of the 20th century. Lindbergh became famous for being an aviation pioneer whose solo flight across the Atlantic captured the imagination of an entire world, yet he was an isolationist who wanted to keep American freedoms safe for Americans and no one else. Lindbergh was the quintessential family man, yet he fathered illegitimate children and suffered an unspeakable tragedy that became known as "The Crime of the Century". Lindbergh embodied some of his era’s greatest virtues and harbored some of its worst prejudices. Lindbergh was a 25-year-old US Air Mail pilot who was probably best known for two crashes before shooting to fame with his non-stop flight across the Atlantic from New York City to Paris on May 20-21, 1927.
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]]>Title: The Gobi Desert: The History and Legacy of the Asia’s Largest Desert]]>Categories: Asia, Europe, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-21-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The Gobi Desert seems like earth reduced to its most basic elements: rock, sky,glaring sunlight, and little else. The apparent emptiness is both compelling and intimidating. But the Gobi is not empty, it is filled with space, sky, history, and landscapes...." (Conservation Ink) In August of 2008, London-based Jane Macartney published this striking description of the Gobi Desert in The Times: "On the Mongolian steppes, the emptiness and the silence inspire awe. From time to time, a huge, tawny eagle drifts on the breeze, watching for small animals to snatch amid the grasses. The only movement on the ground comes from the flocks of sheep and goats, yaks and cattle that roam, heads down, as they much their way across the grasslands...." Alongside this stunning and therapeutic view of the grassland critters are a smattering of white yurts which belonged to the Mongolian nomads who now inhabit the land. Gazing upon the rest of the Gobi, furnished with rolling plains, sweeping steppes, cragged mountains, and singing sand dunes, the desert instills in one a similar sense of inner peace.
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]]>Title: The Long Range Desert Group and SAS]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Great Britain’s Most Elite Secret Units in North Africa During World War II]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-20-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The passive resistance to war, in which we have acquitted ourselves so well, must come to an end." (Prime Minister Winston Churchill) The fighting in North Africa during World War II is commonly overlooked, aside from the famous battle at El Alamein that pitted the British under General Bernard Montgomery against the legendary "Desert Fox", Erwin Rommel. But while the Second Battle of El Alamein would be the pivotal action in North Africa, the conflict in North Africa began all the way back in the summer of 1940, when Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared Italy’s entrance into the war. From his perspective, the fact that the British and French had their hands full with the Germans created an opportunity for Italy to enlarge its colonial holdings in Africa by seizing portions of the British Empire.
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]]>Title: Harriet Tubman: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Female Protagonist]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Sean Tivenan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-20-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Slavery in the United States has left deep, unhealed wounds in American society. It was a dark period in American history that saw the emergence of a number of heroes. One of these was a small woman, about five feet tall, who was a former slave. Her name was Harriet Tubman, and she changed the world. After escaping from a life of slavery that left her with permanent scars including a lifelong disability, she dedicated herself to freeing other slaves and working tirelessly for equality for oppressed people. Inside you will hear about.... Harriet Tubman was an uncommonly brave person who, on several occasions, put her life at risk to re-enter slave territory, and later, to assist the Union army in the American Civil War. She was the first Black woman to lead an assault in the war. After the war, she dedicated herself to the cause of women’s suffrage. She used any money she made in any of her endeavors to help those less fortunate than herself, despite the fact that this caused her to live a life of poverty.
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]]>Title: Winston Churchill: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Barry Shannon]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-20-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The man that the world knows as Winston Churchill looms large on the stage of world history. Like some sort of colossus from antiquity, Churchill strides between two major epochs in the world, one foot planted in the glory days of the British Empire when the sun never set on history’s largest known conglomeration of imperial holdings, and the other planted firmly in the aftermath of World War Two, and a post-war order that saw that empire collapse, with Britain barely hanging on to its own sovereignty in the wake. Inside you will hear about.... And much more! With the Iron Curtain descending over Europe, Churchill was the first to raise the alarm bell that signaled the start of the Cold War. Churchill was a master at the helm, navigating his country and to a much larger extent the world through some of its darkest hours, even while he battled some of his own personal demons of depression and doubt. Follow along as Churchill guides us through uncharted and uncertain waters through the sheer power of his own pugnacious pizzazz.
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]]>Title: Catherine the Great: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, History, Royalty, Russia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-15-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Catherine the Great is one of the most influential rulers in Russian history. Though born in Prussia, she endeavored to gain the throne of Russia and went on to be the longest-ruling empress in Russian history. She ruled as an enlightened despot, promoting the principles of the European Enlightenment as she sought to modernize her beloved country. She reformed the educational system of Russia, creating a national system that utilized modern educational theory in a co-educational setting. She attracted some of the most brilliant thinkers to her court and engaged their assistance in modernizing the arts and sciences as well as the Russian economic system. Because of her efforts, she ruled over what is considered the Golden Age of Russian Enlightenment. Inside you will hear about.... And much more! Catherine the Great counted among her successes many glorious military victories which succeeded in expanding Russia’s realm to over 200,000 square miles. She was, by all accounts, an efficacious leader and reformer in Russian history. Despite her professional successes, her personal life was far from ideal. Catherine never loved her husband and was alleged to have been complicit in his assassination.
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]]>Title: The Special Air Service]]>Subtitle: The History of the Secret British Special Forces Unit from World War II to Today]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-13-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The passive resistance to war, in which we have acquitted ourselves so well, must come to an end.” (Prime Minister Winston Churchill) Europe’s attempts to appease Adolf Hitler, most notably at Munich in 1938, failed, as Nazi Germany swallowed up Austria and Czechoslovakia by 1939. Italy was on the march as well, invading Albania in April of 1939. The straw that broke the camel's back, however, was Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1 of that year. Two days later, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany, and World War II had begun in earnest. Of course, as most people now know, the invasion of Poland was merely the preface to the Nazi blitzkrieg of most of Western Europe, which would include Denmark, Belgium, and France by the summer of 1940. The resistance put up by these countries is often portrayed as weak, and the narrative is that the British stood alone in 1940 against the Nazi onslaught, defending the British Isles during the Battle of Britain and preventing a potential German invasion. At the beginning of 1941, it was unclear whether the Allies would be able to remain in the war for much longer.
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]]>Title: Rosa Parks: The Woman Who Ignited a Movement]]>Series: #3 in Biographies of Women in History]]>Categories: Activist, Biography, Female Protagonist]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Sean Tivenan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-13-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Rosa Parks was a quiet, dignified African-American woman who, in a world of injustice, decided to politely defy a racist policy. In doing so, she ignited a fire in the soul of a community whose "cup of endurance" would permit not even one more comparatively small injustice. Her case resulted in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, wherein some 40,000 African-Americans crippled the Montgomery transportation industry with their non-violent protest of the racist policy that mandated Parks to give up her seat for white riders. But, as an unknown Black minister who was elected to lead the boycott protest, one Martin Luther King, Jr., noted, it wasn’t just the bus policy that the African-American community was protesting; it was over 100 years of horrific injustice heaped upon a community whose founders had been forcibly brought to the United States. Inside you will hear about... It was time for a change, and the act of defiance by Parks, though not the first sacrifice, created the spark that would ignite the US Civil Rights Movement.
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]]>Title: Anne Bradstreet: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Puritan Poet in the American Colonies]]>Categories: America, Biography, Colonialism, Female Protagonist]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-10-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"And when I could no longer look, I blest His grace that gave and took, That laid my goods now in the dust. Yea, so it was, and so 'twas just. It was his own; it was not mine. Far be it that I should repine." - Anne Bradstreet, "Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666" One of the greatest dangers of any generation is to see those who came before as one-dimensional characters with little to nothing to offer in the way of understanding of modern life. For instance, it is assumed by many that the Puritans who founded Massachusetts were a grim, dour lot devoted to spreading their strict, religious views across society. To some extent, this is true, but of course, not all Puritans were the same; there were outliers who made their own way within their culture and yet remained true to their own sense of self. Anne Bradstreet and her husband, Simon, were two of these people. Anne Bradstreet was born into an unusual family that, in the early years of the 17th century, believed in educating daughters as well as sons.
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]]>Title: Queen Elizabeth I: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Royalty Biography, Book 3]]>Series: #2 in Royalty Biography]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Barry Shannon]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-08-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>There are many versions of Queen Elizabeth I of England; the beautiful young Tudor Queen courted by all the princes of Europe; a fearless virgin warrior in white velvet, rousing her troops on the battlefield; an irascible old woman in a powdered wig, surrounded by fawning young men. A formidable woman, Elizabeth I ruled alone at a time when Europe was a hotbed of conflict, dominated by empire-seeking Kings with opposing religious beliefs. Inside you will hear about.... A shrewd politician, Elizabeth manipulated these Kings using any means necessary, including her own hand in marriage, to transform what had been a small, relatively impoverished half-island nation into one of the greatest powers in the world. "Queen of the Seas", "The Virgin Queen", "Gloriana" and "Good Old Bess", Queen Elizabeth I inspired a cult following during her lifetime that endures to this day.
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]]>Title: The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Catholic Church’s Haven of Miracles]]>Categories: Christianity, Europe, France, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-07-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>While an admirable work of art created by the lapping waters of the once turquoise Gave de Pau, the unassuming riverside grotto tucked away on the northern neck of the Massabielle (“Old Mass”) in the quaint town of Lourdes is hardly the most majestic in Mother Nature's collection. In fact, the cramped cave was so unexceptional that, for the most part, it remained untouched until the mid-19th century, save for a few stranded fishermen or herdsmen who took refuge there from unanticipated tempests and thunderstorms. Surrounded by hearty shrubs and swathed in winding vines of ivy, the shallow grotto, as damp as it is dim, is not even large enough to accommodate a coven of witches. Despite its quotidian exterior and underwhelming dimensions, the grotto draws in millions upon millions of visitors year after year without fail today. Zigzagging queues of locals, out-of-towners, and Christian pilgrims alike wait patiently for their chance to not only appreciate but pay their respects to the mystifyingly magnetic grotto.
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]]>Title: French and Indian War: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #4 in Native American History]]>Categories: America, Europe, France, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jimmy Kieffer]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-07-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The French and Indian War is one of the most significant, yet least acknowledged and understood, periods of American history. Fought chiefly between the two imperial powers of England and France in the mid-18th century, the struggle would also draw in native Indian nations who sought to exert their own strength and sovereignty over the North American continent. Inside, you will hear about.... From the first shots fired in the Ohio Valley wilderness in 1754 until the Treaty of Paris signed in 1763, the French and Indian War became a conflict that encircled the globe, drawing in nation after nation and inciting battles from the Caribbean to the Philippines. This audiobook tells the story of this mighty struggle and how its outcome ultimately laid the foundations for the modern world we inhabit today.
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]]>Title: The Cathars and Carcassonne]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Medieval Christian Group and Its Last Stronghold]]>Categories: Christianity, Europe, History, Medieval, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-05-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“The Roman Church...[says] that the heretics they persecute are the church of wolves. But this is absurd, for the wolves have always pursued and killed the sheep, and today it would have to be the other way around for the sheep to be so mad as to bite, pursue, and kill the wolves, and for the wolves to be so patient as to let the sheep devour them!” – Excerpt from the alleged writings of the Cathars Carcassonne today is the capital of the Aude department in the Occitanie region of southwestern France, about 58 miles from Toulouse. It lies by the “eastward bend” of the glittering cobalt waters of the River Aude, which serves as a barrier between the two towns of the city: the Cité and the Ville Basse. It is the old Cité that attracts most of Carcassonne's visitors (3 million of them each year), for it houses the historic fortress that looks like it came straight out of a fairy tale and supposedly became the muse behind the captivating castles featured in Walt Disney's acclaimed 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty.
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]]>Title: Tiberius]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of Ancient Rome’s Second Emperor]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-05-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“His character too had its distinct periods...Again, while his mother lived, he was a compound of good and evil; he was infamous for his cruelty, though he veiled his debaucheries, while he loved or feared Sejanus. Finally, he plunged into every wickedness and disgrace, when fear and shame being cast off, he simply indulged his own inclinations.” – A description of Tiberius written by the ancient historian Tacitus. Throughout the history of the Roman Empire, many rulers held the reins of ultimate power. Some of them, like Octavian, Trajan, Hadrian, Constantine, and Marcus Aurelius, are still celebrated and considered among antiquity’s great statesmen, generals and thinkers. Conversely, the Roman Empire also had its fair share of notorious villains, from the sadistic Nero to the debauched Commodus, and all of Rome’s poor rulers pale in comparison to the record and legacy of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, a young man remembered by posterity as Caligula. One of the most overlooked emperors was also one of the first, and he lived in chaotic times.
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]]>Title: Marquis de Lafayette: A Life From Beginning to End]]>Series: #4 in American Revolutionary War]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, France, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Bridger Conklin]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 03-02-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Marquis de Lafayette may be a name that sounds vaguely familiar. If you've studied even a little American history, you'll recall Lafayette as George Washington's right-hand man during the American Revolution. This remarkable man was just a teenager when he ventured across the seas from France to fight in a conflict that he was in no way obligated to participate in. Yet, here he was, this young man full of idealistic thoughts, ready to help a country set their path on the road to independence. Little did Lafayette know that this would be just the first ride among many that he would take in his lifetime. You will learn about.... For what Lafayette accomplished in America and what he brought home to France was unmistakably unique in his own time. For over 70 years this man would be the well-known and intimate friend of world leaders on both sides of the Atlantic. The Marquis de Lafayette can truly be called an American patriot; one who tried his best to bring America's best to the world's stage. Lafayette reached out to all; the poor, the middle classes, and the nobility.
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]]>Title: Henry VIII: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Royalty Biography, Book 7]]>Series: #5 in Royalty Biography]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Barry Shannon]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-28-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Since his death in the year 1547, King Henry VIII has been celebrated as a chivalrous pioneer and reviled as a brutal tyrant, but he has never been ignored. Henry was responsible for the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church, the ramifications of which reverberated through subsequent centuries of European history. Domestically, Henry revolutionized the English Constitution, elevating his own status to that of a God. Inside you will hear about.... Henry’s belief in his own divine right certainly played a part in his six marriages, his penchant for executing those who disagreed with him, and his many disagreements with the Pope. Chauvinistic, chivalrous, tyrannical, visionary; it is possible that King Henry VIII was all of these things, and yet, however you view his place in British history, his reign was nothing short of momentous.
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]]>Title: Napoleon: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: One Hour History Military Generals, Book 1]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, France, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matt Haynes]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-27-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>This audiobook is for anyone that enjoys crucial turning points in history. Napoleon was an unremarkable man who managed to change the entire landscape of the world 200 years ago. He has been hailed as a military genius, and his victories are still studied by international armed forces to this day. Inside you will hear about.... Through military exploit and the Napoleonic code, he was a man who came out of nowhere and changed the world. This audiobook describes not only how he did it, but why he did it; delve into the psychology of one of the most heroic despots ever known - Napoleon Bonaparte!
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]]>Title: The Culper Ring]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to George Washington's Spy Ring and Its Impact on the American Revolution]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 02-26-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the captivating history of the Culper Ring! Spying and warfare have always gone hand-in-hand. From Julius Caesar to modern generals, we have accounts of commanders covertly gathering information about their opponents, ensuring they have the intelligence they need to conduct a war. George Washington was not late to realize he needed a spy ring to defeat the British in the American Revolution. So, the Culper Ring was created, and their work during the American Revolutionary War was carried out in the shadows, often informally, and with a great deal of care for secrecy. Anyone caught spying was liable to be hanged by the British. Based in New York during the British occupation, the Culper Ring provided vital intelligence from behind enemy lines. Their work gave Washington an insight into the British forces and their plans. They helped to turn the war in the revolutionaries' favor. And now, their story can be told once more. Some of the topics covered in this book include: Get the audiobook now to learn more about the Culper Ring!
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]]>Title: George Washington: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: President Biographies, Book 1]]>Series: #1 in Biographies of US Presidents]]>Categories: 18th Century, Biography, Head of State, History, Modern]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jimmy Kieffer]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-22-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>George Washington, the first president of the United States, is much more than a monument on Mount Rushmore. Who was Washington, the general, president, and husband? He was first and foremost a man of impeccable honor which, despite military adversity and political wrangling, never abandoned him. The Founding Fathers who squabbled and competed among themselves did agree on one thing: Only Washington could lead the country, first in the country’s military fight for freedom and then as the man charged with transforming 13 individual states into a united country. But in his youth, George Washington did not intend to become the Father of his Country. As a younger son of a middling class Virginian, he intended to earn his living as a surveyor, and in that role, he was introduced to the vast potential of the country that would one day be a nation.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Thu, 22 Feb 2018 02:39:34 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-DpwfGJ6N Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: The Munich Massacre: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Terrorist Attack on Israeli Athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Levant, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-21-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>At 10:00 a.m. on September 12, 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir appeared before a special session of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. Wasting no time, the austere, chain-smoking grandmother addressed a full house of 120 members. "I want to share my plans with you," she said. "I’ve decided to pursue each and every one of them. Not one of the people involved in any way will be walking around on this earth for much longer. We will chase them to the last." These determined and resolute words were spoken in reference to the surviving operatives and planners of one of the most audacious terrorist attacks mounted against Israel since the founding of the nation in 1948. A week earlier, on September 5, 1972, eight Palestinian terrorists belonging to the Black September faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) entered the Olympic Village in Munich, West Germany, and took 11 Israeli athletes and team members hostage. After a lengthy standoff and a bungled rescue operation, all 11 were killed. Black September was a shadowy and loosely configured organization, the nature and structure of which has been disputed by historians and journalists since it first appeared in 1972.
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]]>Title: James Cook: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #5 in Biographies of Explorers]]>Categories: Biography, Exploration, Explorer, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Bridger Conklin]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-21-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The association of the name James Cook with ideas of seafaring adventure and discovery is truly an indelible one. Even if you do not know the details of this extraordinary man’s life, you can probably avow that he left a unique stamp on history. In this audiobook, we will explore the life of James Cook from his birth in 1728 in a humble Yorkshire village all the way to his death on the newly discovered Sandwich Islands - today known as Hawaii - in 1779. You will gain insight into the character of this famous yet markedly private man, and explore the factors that might have contributed to this tragic downfall. James Cook’s legacy is by no means without controversy. While gifted, he was a complex and imperfect character. This book will immerse you in his life and help you imagine his adventures at sea in the 18th century.
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]]>Title: The Boer War: The History and Legacy of the Conflict That Solidified British Rule in South Africa]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, Great Britain, History, South Africa]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-21-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Boer War was the defining conflict of South African history and one of the most important conflicts in the history of the British Empire. Naturally, complicated geopolitics underscored it. The European history of South Africa began with the 1652 arrival of a small Dutch flotilla in Table Bay, at the southern extremity of the African continent, which made landfall with a view to establishing a victualing station to service passing Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) ships. The Dutch at that point largely dominated the East Indian Trade, and it was their establishment of the settlement of Kaapstad, or Cape Town, that set in motion the lengthy and often turbulent history of South Africa. For over a century, the Cape remained a Dutch East India Company settlement, and in the interests of limiting expenses, strict parameters were established to avoid the development of a colony. As religious intolerance in Europe drove a steady trickle of outward emigration, however, Dutch settlers began to informally expand beyond the Cape, settling the sparsely inhabited hinterland to the north and east of Cape Town.
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]]>Title: Byzantine Empire: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Ancient, Civilization, History, Planet Earth, Rome]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jimmy Kieffer]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-21-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>According to history books, the Roman Empire ended in 476 CE with the fall of Rome. But if you asked most people alive at that time, they would have pointed you to what they considered the continuation of the Roman Empire - the civilization we now call the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines, however, were more than just a remnant of Roman glory. At its geographical peak, the Byzantine Empire stretched out across the Mediterranean world. Culturally, the Byzantines both preserved the knowledge of the classical world, much of which was lost in the West, and added to it. Inside you will hear about.... And much more! Shaped by its classical roots, its Christian religion, and the changing medieval world, the story of the Byzantine Empire is one of both glorious victories and terrible defeats, of a civilization that rose from the brink of destruction again and again, and of the development of a culture whose vestiges remain today.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: An Illustrated Biography of Stephen Douglas for Children]]>Categories: For Children, History, North America, Political Science, Politics]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-19-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Perfect for ages 7-10 In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid’s attention all the way to the end. The most famous debates in American history were held over 150 years ago, and today they are remembered and celebrated mostly because they included future president Abraham Lincoln, one of the nation’s most revered men. But in the fall of 1858, Lincoln was just a one-term congressman who had to all but beg his US Senate opponent to debate him. That’s because his opponent, incumbent US senator Stephen Douglas, was one of the most famous national politicians of the era. Though Douglas is remembered today almost entirely for his association to Lincoln, in 1858 he was “The Little Giant” of American politics and a leader of the Democratic Party. In particular, it was Douglas who had championed the idea of “popular sovereignty”, advocating that the settlers of federal territory should vote on whether their state would become a free state or a slave state.
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]]>Title: The Kurds: The History of the Middle Eastern Ethnic Group and Their Quest for Kurdistan]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Middle East, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-15-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On September 29, 2017, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stated that the United States did not recognize the decision of the Iraqi Kurdish independence referendum. "The vote and the results lack legitimacy and we continue to support a united, federal, democratic and prosperous Iraq." For all of the international community’s efforts to support and provide safe haven to refugees as well as religious and ethnic minorities, it is the Kurdish people who have had a particularly difficult situation within this realm. Following skirmishes with the Iraqi government and international condemnation of the move, the Iraqi Kurds are not retracting the independence request at the moment. The Kurds lack a well-defined boundary - by international standards - and broach the lands of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. All of these neighboring countries have had a contentious relationship with the Kurdish people. The Kurds have different languages, different religious traditions, and different cultures.
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]]>Title: Galileo Galilei: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Italy, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Bridger Conklin]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-15-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Galileo Galilei began his career as a mathematician. Yet as fate would have it, he became far more than a numbers whiz. Here was a true Renaissance man; one who was greatly educated and a genuine lover of the arts. He was a fan of poets and a fine lute player. When in 1609 Galileo created his first telescope and turned his attention to the skies, everything changed. His discoveries, as they came, could not be denied. Because of his years of study in the arts and humanities, Galileo was well prepared to bring his ideas into the light of day. Inside you will hear about.... Discoveries often don't come easy and introducing them to a doubting world is even more challenging. It takes a certain kind of person to do that and Galileo was just the man for the job. It was his brilliance that supported the Copernican system of how the solar system was laid out. It was his original thinking which kept him fearless in the face of the greatest adversary there was - the Church. Come along to discover what made Galileo so great. And why his achievements can influence your life, too.
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]]>Title: Wahabbism]]>Subtitle: The History of the Conservative Islamic Religious Movement in Saudi Arabia]]>Categories: Arabian Peninsula, History, Islam, Middle East, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-14-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In May 2017, President Donald Trump made his first foreign visit, and the first stop was to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. For Trump, this visit signified a step towards not only reaffirming and strengthening alliances in the Muslim world, but also taking the opportunity to explicitly lay out the new administration's approach to dealing with terrorism. During his speech in Riyadh, Trump stated his pleasure with the opening of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology in Saudi Arabia. What is ironic is that the very same extremist ideology that radical Muslim extremists practice is inspired by the Wahhabi ideology propagated by Saudi Arabia and the surrounding countries in the Arabian Gulf. Nonetheless, the West has maintained a close relationship with the Al-Saud family for nearly two centuries, not only most notably due to Saudi Arabia’s oil supply, but also because they have provided a counterbalance against adversaries in the region. Despite this long history, there is speculation that President Trump’s approach to extremist ideology will be markedly different from past presidents, and the world was waiting for his speech in Riyadh to confirm this change.
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]]>Title: Julius Caesar: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, History, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Grant Finley]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-14-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A little over 2000 years ago a man named Julius Caesar changed the world. Even if you have never heard of him his lasting legacy has no doubt had an impact on your life. No doubt, even the very calendar that you use is based upon the system he created, with the month of July bearing his name. So who was this man that single-handedly changed the course of history? Inside you will hear about.... This audiobook follows the life and legacy of the man whose life stood as a footnote between Republic and Empire. The man who has inspired playwrights, governments, and the very days of the week, the life of Julius Caesar is an incredible journey to behold.
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]]>Title: James Madison: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: One Hour History US Presidents, Book 3]]>Series: #3 in One Hour History US Presidents]]>Categories: 19th Century, Biography, Head of State, History, Modern]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Bridger Conklin]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-14-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>There have been countless words written about the Founding Fathers. As the people who crafted the documents that would win Americans freedom from Great Britain and establish a constitutional republic, they were indeed a special group. One of the most overlooked Founders is James Madison. His life was as extraordinary as the others, but for some reason, he doesn't often find himself in the popularity column. Inside you will hear about.... This audiobook will introduce you to James Madison. Besides becoming the fourth president of the United States, he served in government for most of his life. You will meet him as he goes off to college, when he returns home to Montpelier, and when he decides to assist with the greatest achievement of his life, the writing of the US Constitution. James Madison was a man not to be forgotten. This audiobook will prove to you why.
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]]>Title: Benito Mussolini: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History, Italy]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-13-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Benito Mussolini was a figure that was both revered and dreaded. He climbed the ladder of power rapidly in Italian politics, and he was brought down just as fast. Mussolini wished to stir up a united front of nationalism within his people. But, in the end, the only thing he united was their hatred and contempt for him as a despotic leader. Inside you will hear about.... And much more! There were several twists and turns in the life of Benito Mussolini, and this book will take you through them all. Follow his astonishing rise and his dramatic fall.
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]]>Title: The Ghosts of London]]>Subtitle: A Collection of Ghost Stories from the British Capital]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Occult, Supernatural]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-13-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>England is an ancient land steeped in history and tradition, filled with prehistoric ruins, majestic castles, and a countryside sculpted from millennia of human habitation. Its rolling countryside is dotted with prehistoric burial mounds and stone circles. Brooding castles hold tales of bloodshed and honor. Medieval churches have elaborate stained glass windows and gruesome carvings, reflecting a mixture of hope and darkness. Every hamlet and village has tales that go back centuries, and folk festivals with roots in pagan times. Thus, it is not surprising that many believe England is a land filled with ghosts. For centuries, people have told tales of ghosts stalking its historic buildings, strange creatures lurking in its primeval forests, and unexplained paths linking its ancient sites. And naturally, as one of the world’s most historic capitals, every step in London takes visitors through hundreds of years of history laden with stories of political intrigue, war, romance, and the inspiration of artistic and scientific geniuses. From the most magnificent avenues and monuments to the humbler minor streets and private homes, it seems every brick and cobblestone has a story to tell. The English are enchanted with the spirits of the dead.
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]]>Title: The Crusades: A History From Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, History, Levant, Medieval, Middle East]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jimmy Kieffer]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-12-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Crusades are the prototype and epitome of the Holy War. The fight to take control of the city of Jerusalem, believed to be the most sacred Holy City to two distinct religions of Christianity and Islam, has lasted far longer than the two centuries of the Crusades, and its reach has extended far further than Europe and the Middle East. Over the course of nine organized campaigns and many more unorganized ones, the Christian West militarized in the name of God to push back the threat of Islam advancing from the East. Inside you will read about.... Understanding the Crusades is key in understanding the religious divides that still threaten the order of the world.
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]]>Title: World War I: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #1 in World War 1, #9 in World War 1]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-09-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>World War I, or the Great War, was believed to be "the war to end all wars". Because of the incredible extent of destruction and the staggering number of wounded and dead, even those who lived through it could scarcely comprehend its horror. Beginning in 1914, alliances between powerful nations soon plunged the world into a global conflict. Fighting - including miserable trench warfare - broke out in practically every corner of Europe and spread around the world to Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Inside you will hear about.... And much more! Even the peace treaty in 1919, which occurred during a deadly worldwide influenza pandemic, brought no relief; another world war, intricately connected to the first, would break out in only two short decades.
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]]>Title: Confucius: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, China, History, Philosopher]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Bridger Conklin]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-09-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When Confucius spoke, people listened, and they still listen today. The wisdom of this Chinese philosopher, teacher, politician, and writer still rings as true today as it did over 2,000 years ago. Who was the legend who has become revered as a sage throughout the ages? To put it shortly, he was a simple man. Confucius was born into poverty, but at an early age he came to value education, integrity, and moral behavior. He developed the knowledge to become a teacher by his early 30s. He also developed an ethical code that valued, above all else, personal integrity, ethical behavior, ritual propriety, and compassion. Throughout his brief political career and his long journey afterward, he sought to spread his philosophy in the hopes that it would be adopted as political policy. While his political goals were not realized in his lifetime, his philosophy would live long after he died. This audiobook tells the story of the life of the world-renowned philosopher and scholar, and it describes the tenets of his philosophy in a succinct manner which is packed with information.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: An Illustrated Biography of Susan B. Anthony for Children]]>Categories: Biography, Coming of Age, Female Protagonist, For Children]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Zarbock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-09-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Perfect for ages 7-10. "The true woman will not be exponent of another, or allow another to be such for her. She will be her own individual self.... Stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strength.... She will proclaim the ‘glad tidings of good news’ to all women, that woman equally with man was made for her own individual happiness, to develop...every talent given to her by God, in the great work of life." - Susan B. Anthony In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise but comprehensive audiobook will keep your kid’s attention all the way to the end. During the last 100 years, Susan B. Anthony has been one of the most venerated women in American history, but in the 80 years before that, she was one of the most hated women in American history. Anthony took note of her contemporaries’ distaste for her but remained defiant, asserting, “I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more.
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]]>Title: The Thuggee]]>Subtitle: The History of the Thugs, the World’s First Organized Gang of Professional Assassins]]>Categories: Asia, Europe, History, India]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-08-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“In the reign of that sultan [about 1290], some Thugs were taken in Delhi, and a man belonging to that fraternity was the means of about a thousand being captured. But not one of these did the sultan have killed. He gave orders for them to be put into boats and to be conveyed into the lower country, to the neighbourhood of Lakhnauti, where they were to be set free. The Thugs would thus have to dwell about Lakhnauti and would not trouble the neighbourhood of Delhi any more.” (Sir H.M. Elliot, History of India) To most people, the typical “thug” in this day and age lurks on a shadowy street corner, toting ready-to-sell packets of “product”, and is more often than not, packing a glinting, unlicensed pistol under his shirt. One might even describe the bully that relentlessly terrorizes peers they deem weaker as such, or perhaps a young hoodlum that ventures out in the dead of the night, tagging their initials or the insignia of their “crew” on public property, and pursuing other kinds of petty mischief.
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]]>Title: Mozart: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #1 in Composer Biographies]]>Categories: Biography, Celebrity, Europe, History, Music]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jimmy Kieffer]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 02-08-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a figure that is cemented in the annals of history as one of the greatest composers of all time. A fascinating and enigmatic character, Mozart was hailed in his own lifetime as a child prodigy and a musical genius. His travels throughout Europe exposed him to art, music, and education, offering plentiful opportunities for his gifts as a composer and musician to evolve and thrive. Despite his preternatural talents, the artist struggled significantly throughout his life, and he died in his prime. Explore the life of one of history’s greatest classical composers as his ambitions and remarkable skills catapult him into the highest aristocratic courts of the Age of Enlightenment. Inside you will hear about.... And much more!
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]]>Title: The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire]]>Subtitle: The History of the Turkish Empire’s Creation and Its Destruction Over 600 Years Later]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Middle East, Turkey]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-30-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the fourth century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul. The end of the Byzantine Empire had a profound effect not only on the Middle East but Europe as well. Constantinople had played a crucial part in the Crusades, and the fall of the Byzantines meant that the Ottomans now shared a border with Europe.
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]]>Título: Tiro: Historia del antiguo centro de comercio bajo dominación fenicia, griega y romana]]>Categorías: Ancient, Europe, Greece, History, Planet Earth]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 01-30-2018]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Hijo de hombre, porque Tiro ha dicho contra Jerusalén: ‘¡Ja, ja! ahí está rota, la puerta de los pueblos; se vuelve hacia mí, su riqueza está en ruinas, por eso así dice el Señor Yahveh: Aquí estoy contra ti, Tiro. Voy a hacer subir contra ti a naciones numerosas, como el mar hace subir sus olas. Derruirán las murallas de Tiro y abatirán sus torres...Tiro será presa propicia para las naciones. Y sus hijas que están tierra adentro, serán muertas a espada. Y se sabrá que yo soy Yahveh.” (Libro de Ezequiel 26: 1-14) A lo largo del occidente del Mediterráneo se han descubierto gran número de objetos cuya apariencia o materiales son extraños a las culturas locales, ya sea un amuleto egipcio en Grecia, un vaso griego en África, o miles de extraños amuletos en Gibraltar. Los restos son evidencia de que una gran cantidad de productos fueron alguna vez movidos de un lugar a otro, transportados sistemáticamente y comerciados a lo largo del Mediterráneo por la antigua red comercial de los fenicios. Comenzando en el siglo 13 A.C., y continuando por más de un milenio, esta civilización dominó el más importante cuerpo de agua conocido por los antiguos.
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]]>Title: The Samurai: The History and Legacy of Japan’s Military Elite]]>Categories: Asia, Europe, History, Japan, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-29-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The samurai are among the most iconic warriors in history. The fighting elite of feudal Japan, they have played a dominant role in the country's life for over 1,000 years. Even today, a century and a half after the rule of the samurai has formally ended, they remain a powerful symbol of martial might, and the embodiment of the stoic warrior. Like the knights who fought in Europe during the same era, the samurai were a feudal aristocracy. Militarily, politically, socially, and economically, they were the most powerful, the most influential, and the most privileged members of society. Though not all samurai were equal in power and status, they were almost always better off than the rest of Japanese society. The word samurai, meaning "those who serve", indicates the foundation upon which their power was built. As a feudal society, medieval Japan was shaped by a hierarchy of land ownership and its associated obligations. Most samurai held their land for a more senior overlord, to whom they owed military service. That overlord owed service to his overlord, and so on up the hierarchy, which allowed the most powerful lords to raise great armies.
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]]>Title: The Rise of the Ottoman Empire]]>Subtitle: The History of the Turkish Empire’s Establishment Across the Middle East and Eastern Europe]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Middle East, Turkey]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-29-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the fourth century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul. The end of the Byzantine Empire had a profound effect not only on the Middle East but Europe as well. Constantinople had played a crucial part in the Crusades, and the fall of the Byzantines meant that the Ottomans now shared a border with Europe.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: An Illustrated Biography of Hillary Clinton for Children]]>Categories: Biography, For Children, History, North America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-26-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Perfect for ages 7-10. In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise but comprehensive audiobook will keep your kid’s attention all the way to the end. During the presidential campaign in 1992, Democratic challenger Bill Clinton announced that by voting for him, Americans would get two presidents "for the price of one". The reference to his wife Hillary signified that she would be no ordinary first lady, and indeed she was employed frequently by her husband in the White House to try to push legislation through Congress, most notably universal healthcare. While that proved to be one of the Clinton Administration’s greatest failures, Hillary and her staff continued to act as a political surrogate for the president during his two terms. Of course, describing Hillary Clinton as just a first lady belittles all of her accomplishments. Today she is the most powerful woman in the world and one of the most recognizable, working so seamlessly with her former rival Barack Obama that her popularity has easily eclipsed his within a year of his victory over her in the Democratic primaries.
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]]>Title: Pirates and Privateers]]>Subtitle: The History of Piracy from Ancient Times to Today]]>Categories: Europe, Exploration, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-26-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The people who have lived outside the boundaries of normal societies and refused to play by the rules have long fascinated the world, and nowhere is this more evident than the continuing interest in the pirates of centuries past. As the subjects of books, movies, and even theme park rides, people continue to let their imaginations go when it comes to pirates, with buried treasure, parrots, and walking the plank all ingrained in pop culture’s perception of them. The word "pirate" conjures up a romantic image of wild sea-faring rogues, living free on the high seas, and the pirates people usually think of lived during the Golden Age of Piracy, when fighting ships were powered by sail and fights between them were decided with cannons and boarding actions. Indeed, it would be an understatement to say that pop culture’s perception of piracy and pirates has been primarily influenced by Captain Edward Teach, known to the world as Blackbeard, the most famous pirate of all time.
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]]>Title: Otto von Bismarck: The Life and Legacy of the German Empire's First Chancellor]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Germany, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-26-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 1832, 17-year-old Otto von Bismarck had just entered university and was already rejecting the republican indoctrination of his grade school years. Unlike so many of his day who had championed representative government, Bismarck longed for the glory of a nation he believed would only be found under a single, strong leader. Though his early university days showed him he would be isolated by this thinking, he strongly believed not only in the ideal of a national German state, but in its possibility. In his memoirs, Bismarck recalls that at this young age, he “retained [his] own private National sentiments, and [his] belief that in the near future events would lead to German unity; in fact, [he] made a bet with [his] American friend Coffin that this aim would be attained in 20 years.” Though it would take longer than he had predicted, Germany would eventually be united and he would be the person responsible for accomplishing it. Bismarck would go on to accomplish his goal and strengthen Germany into a modern political state by embracing specific political principles, despite their lack of popularity.
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]]>Title: Genghis Khan: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, History, Military, Strategy, War]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Joseph Boyer]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-26-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Genghis Khan: a man who managed to unify the warring nomadic Mongol clans, who orchestrated military victories from China all the way to Russia, who founded an empire that continued to expand across Asia and into Europe during the generations that followed his reign. Riding across the steppes, bow and arrows at his side, he was a man who believed himself to be on a divinely appointed mission and would stop at nothing to fulfill it. He valued loyalty above all else and destroyed kingdoms that got in his way. Inside you will hear about.... Genghis Khan’s great victories were preceded by destitution and captivity. This is a rags to riches tale - not just a theme for fairy tales and legends, but the real story of a leader who overcame hardship and setbacks to play a role in shaping the modern world.
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]]>Title: Battle of Waterloo: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 19th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History, Modern]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jimmy Kieffer]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-25-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Battle of Waterloo has become synonymous with the word defeat, but who lost, and why was it important? In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte left the island of Elba and, in a space of 100 days, took power and challenged the entire world to meet him on his terms. When that failed, he offered them a fight, one that would end at Waterloo, and left repercussions which can still be felt, even now, centuries later. Inside you will hear about.... Who was this man, and what happened on the battlefield that made this fight in particular so important? What was the lesson of Waterloo?
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]]>Title: Easter Rising: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #1 in Irish History]]>Categories: Europe, History, Insurrection, Ireland]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Bridger Conklin]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-24-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the midst of World War I, the Easter Rising took place in Dublin and throughout Ireland in April 1916. The revolutionary movement faced many problems from the beginning, including splintered leadership, disorganized support, opposition from moderate supporters of home rule, and prepared retaliation from the British. Inside you will hear about.... Even though the rebels did not achieve their ultimate goal of Irish independence, they were successful, because they rallied many more of their countrymen to the cause of independence. The legacy of their bravery and love of country inspired generations of Irish men and women, and helped lead to independence. This is the story of what led to the uprising, the events of the rising, and its impact.
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]]>Title: The Cambridge Five: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Soviet Spy Ring in Britain during World War II and the Cold War]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Russia]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-24-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The spy novel emerged from the intrigues of the mid-20th century for good reason. The war with the Third Reich involved an unseen cloak-and-dagger struggle between the participants, but beyond that, an even larger and longer contest took place in the shadows. Communism gained its first major foothold in statehood with the success of the Russian Revolution at the end of World War I, a success bizarrely assisted by the massive funding provided to the revolutionaries by some Western businessmen. Armand Hammer’s father, Julius, for instance, gave the new Soviet Union $50,000 in gold to back their new currency. In exchange, he received asbestos mining and oil concessions, plus a pencil manufacturing monopoly in the USSR lasting until the Stalin era. Soviet Russia followed a philosophy demanding international, global revolution - which, in practice, often resembled conquest by any means available, direct or indirect.
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]]>Title: Mary Queen of Scots: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #1 in Royalty Biography]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Medieval]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Barry Shannon]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-24-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Mary Stuart was born into a powerful royal dynasty that was at war with the rest of Europe and with itself. Mary’s ascent to the throne was disarmingly easy and she reached adulthood completely unprepared for the plots and betrayals she would be subject to. As the head of a resolutely unstable country, Mary struggled to maintain her grip on the precarious crown on her head and was removed from the throne by an armed rebellion. Inside you will hear about.... Held as a prisoner for more than 18 years, Mary suffered the final betrayal of her life aged 44 when she was executed by her own cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England.
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]]>Title: Christ the Redeemer: The History and Legacy of the Western Hemisphere’s Most Famous Christian Monument]]>Categories: 20th Century, Christianity, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-24-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace." - Ephesians 1:7 Particularly to those who harbor an inexplicable and irrational fear of heights, a trip to the pinnacle of Mount Corcovado is bound to rouse the kaleidoscope of butterflies in one's stomach, and at the very least, cover one's palms with a glistening film of sweat. A maximum of 345 passengers board the boxy, ribbon-red Trem do Corcovado. These modern, Swiss-made train carriages are perfectly safe, but the mechanical whirring and the rhythmic click-click-clicks as the train chugs up a set of sturdy tracks about 2.4 miles in length to a summit that is 2,329 feet above ground only adds to the suspense. But they say that what lies on the top of Corcovado makes the jarring trip up the mountain well worth its while, for this is none other than the home of the Cristo Redentor, one of the most famous statues in the world. Others say this fabled monument is best appreciated after dark and from a distance, ideally from the crest of Sugar Loaf Mountain, the aptly-named loaf-shaped peak sitting opposite the Corcovado.
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]]>Title: The Black Death: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #1 in Pandemic History]]>Categories: Contagious Disease, Disease, Europe, Health]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jimmy Kieffer]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-24-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Sweeping across the known world with unchecked devastation, the Black Death claimed between 75 million and 200 million lives in four short years. In this engaging and well-researched audiobook, the trajectory of the plague’s march west across Eurasia and the cause of the great pandemic is thoroughly explored. Inside you will hear about.... Fascinating insights into the medieval mind’s perception of the disease and examinations of contemporary accounts give a complete picture of what the world’s most effective killer meant to medieval society in particular and humanity in general.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Hourly History) Wed, 24 Jan 2018 08:36:29 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b1zfOaJ4 Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: History for Kids: An Interactive Biography of John Wayne for Children]]>Categories: Biography, For Children, North America, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Roger Nelson]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-24-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Perfect for ages 7-10. "Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West - the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it." - John Wayne Hollywood has produced no shortage of famous movie stars, but none have been as culturally significant as John Wayne. Marion Morrison was born in a quintessentially quaint Midwestern town, but he eventually grew up to become John Wayne, the legend of the silver screen who embodied the Western frontier.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Caesar Augustus]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, For Children, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-23-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Perfect for ages 7-10. "Young men, pay heed to an old man, whom old men harkened when he was still young." - Augustus In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise but comprehensive audiobook will keep your kid’s attention all the way to the end. The importance of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (or as he was known from birth, Gaius Octavius “Octavian” Thurinus) to the course of Western history is hard to overstate. His life, his rise to power, his political, social, and military achievements, all laid the foundations for the creation of an empire which would endure for almost five centuries, and whose traditions, laws, architecture, and art continue to influence much of Europe and the world today. Octavian was the first true Roman Emperor, and the first man since the Etruscan Tarquins, five centuries earlier, to establish a successful hereditary ruling dynasty in what had been a proud Republic for over half a millennium.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of King Tutankhamun]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, For Children, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-23-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Perfect for ages 7-10. In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise but comprehensive audiobook will keep your kid’s attention all the way to the end. Tutankhamun: he who is the living image of the god Amun, the image of rebirth, one of perfect laws, who pacifies the two lands, one who has raised the crowns, the pacifier of the gods, the god Ra is the possessor of forms; Tutankamun, Tut-mesut, Neferhepu-segerehtaui, Wetjes-khau-sehetep-netjeru, Nebkheprure. These are the names and titles of a king who died at a young age, and who is today remembered as one of Ancient Egypt’s most famous rulers. The mere mention of his name, Tutankhamun, brings to mind visions of gold and splendor and thoughts of a majestic kingdom, but the reality of this young king is something quite different. His fame has less to do with his position in history and nearly everything to do with the discovery of his tomb by Howard Carter in 1922. There are many questions and mysteries still surrounding this famous king of Egypt.
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]]>Title: World War II Auschwitz: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Judaism, Military]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-22-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Auschwitz is a monument to the barbaric inhumanity of the Nazi regime. It is the site where more than one million people were systematically tortured and killed in support of Adolf Hitler’s determination to eradicate entire populations that he viewed as racially impure. Dr. Josef Mengele conducted horrific experiments on live victims, treating his subjects as if they weren’t human. The Jews, homosexuals, Communists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the mentally and physically disabled were less than human to the Nazis. The “Final Solution”, a cornerstone of Nazi ideology, enacted a devastating sentence upon people whose only crime was their ethnic origin or their religious and political beliefs. But the voices of Auschwitz continue to be heard. Anne Frank’s diary speaks for all the innocent who were sent there. Elie Wiesel spent his life speaking out against the horrors he and others endured at Auschwitz. The recorded histories of the survivors of the camps keep the memories alive for generations whose only knowledge of the Holocaust would otherwise be through a school assignment to read The Diary of Anne Frank or by watching a movie like Schindler’s List. Auschwitz holds a bizarre fascination for those who hear about it.
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]]>Title: Kashmir: The History and Legacy of the Indian Subcontinent’s Most Disputed Territory]]>Categories: 20th Century, Asia, History, India]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-12-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>After the Sepoy Rebellion, India was governed directly from England through a dedicated department: the India Office, headed by the Secretary of State for India. The territory was divided into “British India”, which came under direct British control, and the Princely States. The latter were the territories and sovereignties of various powerful tradition leaders, remnants of the old system of rule, who were permitted, under various weights of British superintendentship, to maintain their positions and continue their rule. British India ultimately covered some 54 percent of the landmass and 77 percent of the population. By the time the British began to contemplate a withdrawal from India, 565 princely states were officially recognized, in addition to thousands of zamindaris and jagirs, which were in effect feudal estates. The stature of each Princely State was defined by the number of guns fired in salute upon a ceremonial occasion honoring one or other of the princes. These ranged from nine-gun to 21-gun salutes and, in a great many cases, no salute at all. The Princely States were reasonably evenly spread between ancient Muslim and Hindu dynasties, but bearing in mind the minority status of Muslims in India, Muslims were disproportionately represented.
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]]>Title: Lourdes: The History and Legacy of France's Most Famous Christian Pilgrimage Site]]>Categories: Christianity, Europe, France, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-11-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>They say that judgment does not exist in Lourdes. Once one sets foot on this hallowed soil, all barriers of race, social status, background, and religious differences cease to exist. One is no more than a humble soul in search of a renewal of one's connection to God. In a statement released to the French press in mid-August of 2008, Father Jacques Nieuviarts guaranteed the following: "Those who touch the rock at the grotto in Lourdes.... Perhaps they are praying to be imbued with the strength of this rock. Those who drink the water from the fountain feel that their inner thirst is being quenched, that they have been changed, and that the water has purified them....
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Amelia Earhart]]>Categories: Biography, Coming of Age, Female Protagonist, For Children]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-10-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have I seen so many. I always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but I was sure of it that night." - Amelia Earhart In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. During the early 20th century, groundbreaking technology revolutionized transportation both on the ground and in the sky, with new motors making automobiles and airplanes a reality in the 1910s. Around that same time, the feminist movement was underway in the United States, spearheaded by women seeking the right to vote, lobbying for the temperance movement, and trying to make their voices heard. It was at that crossroads that flight pioneer Amelia Earhart found herself in 1919, the very year President Wilson and Congress were trying to shepherd through the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote.
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]]>Title: Blood Diamonds]]>Subtitle: The Controversial History of Mining Operations in Africa That Subsidize Conflicts Across the Continent]]>Categories: 20th Century, Africa, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-10-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The commercial exploitation of Sierra Leonean diamonds began in the early 1930s, in the Kono District in the east of the country. The first discoveries had been made by a British-held concern called Consolidated African Selection Trust, or CAST, in which a British shareholder body, Selection Trust Limited, shared a significant interest with the diamond giant, De Beers. Transparency, of course, was not by any means absolute, but under British colonial oversight, the movement of diamonds out of the country was regulated and royalties channeled reasonably appropriately. In the past, all diamond mining in Sierra Leone had fallen under the control of the Sierra Leone Selection Trust - or SLST - a private investor body with exclusive rights to mine diamonds in Sierra Leone. By the mid-1950s and 1960s, illegal and illicit mining had taken over large areas of production. Figures vary, but by the 1960s, one can assume a figure of upwards of 100,000 illegal miners, both domestic and foreign, were active in the Kono District.
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]]>Title: Battle of Gettysburg: A History From Beginning to End]]>Series: #2 in American Civil War]]>Categories: 19th Century, America, American Civil War, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Bridger Conklin]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-09-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Battle of Gettysburg The bloodiest battle of the Civil War was also its turning point. From this point onwards, the Confederate forces would never gain a hold in the North again. Inside you will hear about.... Heroes would be born from places such as Little Roundtop and among the soldiers of Picketts Charge. And later, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, martyrs were created in the aftermath of the conflict, giving reason to a war that no one quite believed in fully until this point.
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]]>Title: Aztec Civilization: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Civilization, History, Mexico, Planet Earth]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Grant Finley]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-09-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Aztec Empire did not recoil from the face of an impending doom, it struggled faithfully. Destined to emerge from humble beginnings, it grew into a highly complex devoted civilization refusing to live at the mercy of more neighboring powerful rulers. Its powerful pochteca combed the valley for luxury items while markets dotted their lands. Inside you will find.... Isolated from the Old World until the devastating Spanish conquest, the Aztec mācēhualtin (commoners) and nobles enhanced their positions while kings and relentless warriors dealt with the political realities of powerful dynasties and rivaling kingdoms. They developed a philosophy, an order, and a society built on loyalty, stoic honor, and sacrifice as they embraced the temporary nature of things. Investigate the era of the Fifth Sun and what defined the Aztecs and their relationship with the divine.
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]]>Title: William Shakespeare: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Celebrity, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: William Irvine]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-08-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>William Shakespeare is one of the most recognizable names in the world. Regardless of country, language, age, or gender, people are familiar with the Bard’s work and his contributions to literature, theater, art, and music. His genius was so evident that he became famous and respected throughout England in his own lifetime, eventually earning the attention and patronage of the king himself. Inside you will hear about.... From his humble birth to his sudden death, William Shakespeare’s life is traced through the theatrical legacy he left behind.
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]]>Title: Alexander the Great: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Europe, Greece]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jimmy Kieffer]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-08-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Alexander the Great. A boy, groomed for greatness from the earliest age, who would put his stamp on the world for generations to come. A man who sought immortality and achieved it in just 10 years. A soldier whose genius for strategy and tactics is still studied in the modern world. A ruler who understood how to win the hearts and minds of his subjects. This is the story of a Titan of the ancient world, a man who rose but, though he died, never truly fell. Inside you will hear about....
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]]>Title: Charlemagne: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, France, History, Medieval]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Nate Sjol]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-08-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It is possible that no man has ever dominated a time as much as Charles the Great dominated the Early Middle Ages. It is true that the era had its kings, warriors, scholars, and religious leaders, but in many ways, Charlemagne was all of these things. Inside you will hear about.... He conquered land for the Franks and sent in missionaries to convert the pagans to Christianity. He was probably illiterate, but he brought in Europe’s most renowned scholar, Alcuin of York, to transform education for both clergy and laity. He was much-married and virile, but he cherished his children and provided education for both his sons and his daughters. When he was named the Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III, his title was a Christian benediction for the conquest that unified Western Europe. The unification did not last, but the legend never faded.
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]]>Title: Angkor Wat: The History and Legacy of the World’s Largest Hindu Temple]]>Categories: Europe, Hinduism, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-04-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Hinduism is one of the world’s great religions, dominating the Indian subcontinent for most of the last millennium, and its largest temple is an unbelievably magnificent structure located in Angkor, Cambodia. Known in English as Angkor Wat ("City Temple"), the gigantic complex was built by King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century to serve as the king’s state temple and capital city. Since it has remained so finely preserved, it has maintained religious significance for nearly 900 years, first dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu, and then Buddhist. Understandably, it has become one of Cambodia’s most potent symbols and tourist attractions, and it even appears on the Cambodian national flag. Angkor Wat continues to fascinate the world, both due to its sheer grandeur and size, as well as its ornamental decorations both inside and out. With political strife in Cambodia having cooled, Angkor Wat is now a major tourist attraction, bringing upwards of over half a million foreigners per year, which accounts for over half of the nation’s tourists. Angkor Wat: The History and Legacy of the World’s Largest Hindu Temple chronicles the remarkable history of the site and the religious influence it has had over the centuries.
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]]>Title: Caligula: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Historical Fiction, History, Rome]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Donn Swaby]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-04-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Caligula was one of the first rulers of the Roman Empire, and yet numbers among the most famous. His family history is mired in political scandals, tragedy, and murderous plots to forward the agendas of shadowy cabals that sought to oppose the nation in its early infancy. The full story of his life begins long before his birth, and his legacy continues long after his sensational murder at the hands of those closest to him. Inside you will hear about.... A true product of his time, Caligula’s rich and colorful story is sure to draw you in until the very end.
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]]>Title: Haitian Revolution: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Caribbean, History, Insurrection]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Bridger Conklin]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-04-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 in the French colony of Saint Domingue, when a group of slaves rebelled in order to secure their freedom and the end of slavery. In the midst of the French Revolution, slaves took advantage of volatile political, racial, and social circumstances. Inside you will hear about.... With legendary leaders like Toussaint Louverture, they eventually defeated Napoleon’s France to form the independent nation of Haiti. The Haitian Revolution had both global causes and consequences. In the end, the entire world was impacted by the heroic actions of the most dispossessed people in the population.
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]]>Title: The Russian Revolution of 1917]]>Subtitle: The History of the Russian Empire’s Collapse and the Establishment of the Soviet Union]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Modern, Russia]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-04-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The 17th century was marked by multiple pro-democratic revolutions exploding in both hemispheres. In Europe and its neighbors to the east, border-changing wars were fought incessantly. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the underlying premises of political, governmental and social structures within several European and Asian states were shaken to the core after centuries of royalty and one-family rule. By the onset of World War I, royal families began to experience a long, slow decline, with some quietly fading into the status of national symbols and others experiencing political overthrow. Some were horrified by the suddenness of a changing public, while others barely noticed. In the ensuing chaos brought about by the Great War, the last ruling family in Russia suffered the most brutal form of regime change at the hands of the Bolsheviks following a revolution in 1917, as the public outcry for individual equality mirrored the violence of the French Revolution from a prior century. The Romanov dynasty, which had enjoyed unbroken control over the throne since the early 1600s, represented a dilemma for a dissatisfied and restless workforce that nevertheless viewed the royal family through the lens of an ancient mystique.
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]]>Title: Charles Darwin: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Biology, Evolution, STEM, Science]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: William Irvine]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-02-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Charles Darwin thought he would be a clergyman after an uneventful childhood, where he hated school but loved the natural world. All that would change when he was allowed to be a part of a worldwide expedition to faraway lands. He was able to collect specimens and keep notes on all he experienced. Inside you will hear about.... This audiobook takes a closer look at who Charles Darwin was, how he lived his everyday life and how influential he became; not just in his own day but into the modern world as well. Find out what interested his incredible mind and how Darwin presented his theories to a yet unsuspecting world. From beetles to butterflies, coral reefs and tropical islands, from apes to humans, learn how Charles Darwin's evidence speaks even to the world today.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: An Illustrated Biography of Cicero for Children]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, For Children, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-02-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Perfect for ages 7-10. "Genius is fostered by energy." - Cicero In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise but comprehensive audiobook will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) was one of the most famous Romans in his day, and posterity has been even kinder to him. Cicero was a legend in his own time for his oratory abilities, which he used to persuade fellow Senators and denounce enemies like Catiline and Mark Antony, but he was also one of Rome’s most prodigious writers and political philosophers. Alongside Pericles, Cicero was one of antiquity’s greatest politicians, and he has remained one of the most influential statesmen in history, relied upon by the Romans of his day, political philosophers like John Locke, Enlightenment thinkers like Rousseau, and America’s founding fathers.
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]]>Title: Battle of Antietam: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #3 in American Civil War]]>Categories: 19th Century, America, American Civil War, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Bridger Conklin]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-02-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Battle of Antietam was a turning point in the Civil War. In the span of several hours, there would be more loss of American life than in any other battle before or since, leaving one in four of the soldiers who took part either dead or wounded by the end of the day. Inside you will hear about.... What led to such a disastrous conclusion? And could something positive come from such an appalling massacre? The focus of the war was about to change. So, too, was how the American people viewed war as a whole.
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]]>Title: King Louis XIV: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Royalty Biography, Book 6]]>Series: #4 in Royalty Biography]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, France, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Chance Hartman]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 01-02-2018]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>He was born on September 5, 1638, in the French lap of luxury otherwise known as the Chateau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. This extravagant palace of French excess is located about 12 miles west of Paris. His birth name, Louis-Dieudonne, is French for, literally, "gift for God". This belief of divine right, initially inspired by his mother, Queen Anne, would be a powerful theme throughout Louis XIV’s life. In this book you will learn about.... Although he didn’t create absolutism in France, King Louis XIV seemed to embody the divine right of kings better than anyone had before him. Louis XIV directly correlated his own private good with that of the public good. There was really no concept of private property under Louis. The French king viewed all of France as his personal estate, with all who lived and toiled in his domain doing so only under his express permission; even so, not everyone in France had the same sentiment. The ones who most notably resisted the notion of the king’s absolutism were the French nobles and aristocrats that Louis depended upon to raise armies and defend the country.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: An Illustrated Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt for Children]]>Categories: Biography, Coming of Age, Female Protagonist, For Children]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Zarbock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-29-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Perfect for ages 7-10. In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise but comprehensive audiobook will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. If Dolley Madison was instrumental in molding the role of first lady in the 19th century, credit can be given to Eleanor Roosevelt for revolutionizing the political nature of the role in the 20th and 21st centuries and making it possible for presidents like Bill Clinton to enlist their wives to handle political duties. At the same time, history might remember Eleanor more for what she did outside of the White House, as she became a critically acclaimed and world-famous international author and advocate of civil rights and women's rights.
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]]>Title: Ancient Egypt: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Ancient Civilizations, Book 2]]>Series: #2 in Ancient Civilizations]]>Categories: Africa, Ancient, Egypt, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-29-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Ancient Egypt was a highly developed civilization that lasted for thousands of years and left behind fascinating clues in the form of impressive structures and monuments. It was a culture balanced between the lush fertility of the Nile Valley and the barrenness of the surrounding vast deserts. The same balance holds true for our knowledge of the history of Egypt. In spite of the evidence we have, so much remains hidden and yet to be fully understood. You will read about.... New methods of scientific investigation reveal new ways of interpreting the ancient evidence. As the shifting desert sands overflowed and then disclosed the Great Sphinx, after thousands of years of study, ancient Egypt still holds much that has yet to be revealed.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: An Illustrated Biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt for Children]]>Categories: Biography, For Children, History, North America, Politics]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Zarbock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-29-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Perfect for ages 7-10. In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise but comprehensive audiobook will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Franklin Delano Roosevelt might be America’s greatest 20th century president, but there’s no question that he was the most unique. A well-connected relative of Theodore Roosevelt, FDR was groomed for greatness until he was struck down by polio. Nevertheless, he persevered, rising through New York politics to reach the White House just as the country faced its greatest challenge since the Civil War, beginning his presidency with one of the most iconic lines ever spoken during an inaugural address. For over a decade, President Roosevelt threw everything he had at the Great Depression, and then threw everything the country had at the Axis powers during World War II.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Barack Obama]]>Categories: Biography, For Children, History, North America, Politics]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-28-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Perfect for ages seven to nine. In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise but comprehensive audiobook will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. On November 4, 2008, 47-year-old Barack Obama walked onto the stage in Grant Park to deliver an election night speech less than an hour after he had been officially declared president-elect of the United States. As he came out to an audience numbering in the hundreds of thousands, with millions more watching on television, the first African American elected president in the nation's history told Americans, "If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer." Although it was a reference to his historic election, the quote applied equally to the very unique path Obama took in life to reach that moment.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: An Illustrated Biography of Marco Polo for Children]]>Categories: Biography, Exploration, For Children, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-28-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Perfect for ages 7-10. "I have not told half of what I saw." - Marco Polo In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise but comprehensive audiobook will keep your kid’s attention all the way to the end. Marco Polo (1254-1324) is an instantly recognizable name, and he is known for his travels, but it's safe to say that his influence and importance has been greatly overlooked in the nearly 700 years since he died. Born in Venice, Marco Polo was in a fortuitous position to participate in the Mediterranean trade, but he was still a young man when he went on the journey that would make him famous and greatly inspire the Age of Exploration. Though he was destined to become famous, Marco Polo was simply following in the footsteps of his own family, and it’s believed that he was already a teenager before he met his father and uncle, who had been traveling to the Far East and, according to Marco Polo, had met Kublai Khan, the famous grandson of Genghis Khan.
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]]>Title: The Canaanites and Philistines: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Israelites' Enemies in the Land That Became Israel]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Levant, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Individuals who decide to take up learning about the Old Testament of the Bible are immediately faced with the difficult proposition of identifying the various peoples that the Hebrews met and sometimes came into conflict with when they entered the territory that eventually became Israel. The Moabites and Edomites were just two of the many Canaanite groups that the Hebrews dealt with, often violently, but there were dozens of other Canaanite groups, which were all for the most part identified through the names of their respective cities. Today, the term Philistine is often used as a euphemism for a person who is particularly uncouth, uncultured, ignorant, and possibly violent. Most people probably do not know the etymology of the word when they use it, and those that do probably only know the Philistines as villains from the Old Testament who were the eternal enemies of the Hebrews prior to and immediately after the latter formed the kingdom of Israel. The Canaanites and Philistines: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Israelites' Enemies in the Land That Became Israel looks at the various groups and their impact on the region and subsequent cultures.
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]]>Title: Christopher Columbus: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #4 in Biographies of Explorers]]>Categories: Europe, Exploration, History, Planet Earth, Spain]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Nate Sjol]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Everyone knows who Christopher Columbus is, and everyone knows what he discovered and what he is famous for. Who, really, is this man, so shrouded in mystery? Columbus would tell you he was inspired by God to make his voyages, and it takes a brave soul indeed to sail out into the ocean blue where no one has gone before. Inside you will read about.... In this audiobook, you'll find out all about this most remarkable of men. You will uncover why he thought it so important to never give up on his dream and how impossible his struggles became with each voyage he made. What was it like to sail over the edge of the ocean? This was a voyage not just anyone could undertake. It was the bravery and the brilliance of a man like Christopher Columbus who would make his dream come true and inspire a world to follow him.
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]]>Title: The Italian Invasion of Africa]]>Subtitle: The History of Italian Colonization in Africa and the Rise and Fall of the Italian Empire]]>Categories: 19th Century, Europe, History, Italy, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 1884, Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event—known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885—galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa. The first of these was that no recognition of annexation would granted without evidence of a practical occupation, and the second, that a practical occupation would be deemed unlawful without a formal appeal for protection made on behalf of a territory by its leader, a plea that must be committed to paper in the form of a legal treaty. This began a rush, spearheaded mainly by European commercial interests in the form of Chartered Companies, to penetrate the African interior and woo its leadership with guns, trinkets and alcohol, and having thus obtained their marks or seals upon spurious treaties, begin establishing boundaries of future European African colonies.
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]]>Title: Collision of Empires]]>Subtitle: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914]]>Series: #1 in Eastern Front Series]]>Categories: 20th Century, Eastern Europe, Europe, History]]>Author: Prit Buttar]]>Narrator: Roger Clark]]>Publisher: Tantor Audio]]>Release date: 12-26-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes between three towering empires - Russia, Austro-Hungary, and Germany - remains a comparatively unknown facet of the Great War. With the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the war in 2014, Collision of Empires is a timely expose of the bitter fighting on this forgotten front - a clash that would ultimately change the face of Europe forever. Drawing on firsthand accounts and detailed archival research, this is a dramatic retelling of the tumultuous events of the first year of the war, with the battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes in East Prussia followed by the Russo-Austrian clashes in Galicia and the failed German advance toward Warsaw.
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]]>Title: Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Legacies of Mexico’s Most Famous Revolutionaries]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Mexico, War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-22-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Pancho Villa,” people whispered at the beginning of the 20th century, "can march 100 miles without stopping, live 100 days without food, go 100 nights without sleep, and kill 100 men without remorse." The legend of Francisco Villa is full of heroism, tragedy and romance. It is the story of a poor farmer boy who became a bandit out of necessity, after avenging an injustice on his family; a military genius who flew from an oppressive government to lead the largest revolutionary army in his country's history, and defeated dictatorship to become Mexico´s liberator, only to fall again in disgrace when his troops abandoned him or were massacred by the enemy. Pancho Villa and his cavalry, Mexicans point out with a certain amount of pride, invaded the United States, and although they came and tried to capture him, they never found him. This is, at least, the version that most of them know, but it's certainly not the same as in their textbooks. The story of Francisco Villa bypassed official censorship from generation to generation, like leaves sailing at full speed on the surface of a stream. But the historical reconstruction is full of nuances.
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]]>Title: Oliver Cromwell: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 17th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History, Modern]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: William Irvine]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-22-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>One of the most controversial figures in British history, Oliver Cromwell entered the world as an insignificant member of the English gentry and left it as the all-powerful Lord Protector of the entirety of England, Scotland, and Ireland. A radical Puritan, Cromwell believed that his meteoric rise through the ranks of the English military and parliament was an expression of God's will. Inside you will hear about.... Proving himself on the battlefields of England’s Civil war, Cromwell signed King Charles I’s death warrant only to later become a de facto king himself, ruling the short-lived commonwealth as what some have called a military dictatorship. Love him or loathe him, Cromwell’s life changed the political landscape of Great Britain and beyond.
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]]>Title: American Civil War: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #1 in American Civil War]]>Categories: 19th Century, America, American Civil War, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Grant Finley]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-22-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Beginning with the birth of the nation, slavery divided and caused conflict for the United States of America, worsening during the country's early decades as the practice became more economically vital. Finally, in 1861, the American Civil War erupted after the election of President Abraham Lincoln. Never acknowledging the South’s right to secede, Lincoln and the North fought the South through four long, bloody, destructive years; much longer than anyone thought the war would last. Inside you will hear about.... By 1865, more than 700,000 American soldiers and civilians were dead (including Lincoln himself), a race of people had been freed from bondage, and an entire country needed to rebuild. The Civil War is of such crucial importance to the history of the United States not just because of these factors, but also because its legacy still lives on.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Alexander the Great]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, For Children, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-22-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Perfect for ages seven to nine. "There is nothing impossible to him that will but try." - Alexander In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise but comprehensive audiobook will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Over the last 2,000 years, ambitious men have dreamed of forging vast empires and attaining eternal glory in battle, but of all the conquerors who took steps toward such dreams, none were ever as successful as antiquity’s first great conqueror. Leaders of the 20th century hoped to rival Napoleon’s accomplishments, while Napoleon aimed to emulate the accomplishments of Julius Caesar. But Caesar himself found inspiration in Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), the Macedonian King who managed to stretch an empire from Greece to the Himalayas in Asia at just 30 years old. It took less than 15 years for Alexander to conquer much of the known world. As fate would have it, Alexander died of still unknown causes at the height of his conquests, when he was still in his early 30s.
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]]>Title: Kim Jong-il: The Controversial Life and Legacy of North Korea’s Second Supreme Leader]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, Head of State, History, Korea]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-22-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"When General Kim Jong-il was born, the clouds opened up, and he came down from heaven, and then there was a huge snowstorm! When General Kim Jong-il shouts out loud, storms always happen, huge storms always happen!" - "Dear Leader," a state-issued anthem dedicated to Kim Jong-il North Korea has long been the butt of jokes, and it has been a longstanding target of international criticism, but the startling satellite image was anything but amusing, for it demonstrated the truly catastrophic conditions North Koreans find themselves in. Statistics show that the average South Korean uses up to 10,162 kilowatt hours of power per year, whereas their neighbors in the north consume only 739. This is only one amongst a slew of stumbling blocks affecting the state, impeding it from proper progress. The mismatching network of sprawling, yet lifeless cities and squalid, poverty-stricken provinces stands eerily silent next to the bustling metropolises on either side of it. North Korea is trapped in an impenetrable, soundproof bubble, the entire state frozen in time.
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]]>Title: American Revolution: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: One Hour History Revolution, Book 2]]>Series: #2 in One Hour History Revolution]]>Categories: 18th Century, America, History, Modern, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-21-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The American Revolution, which had its roots in 1765 with a rejection of British authority to tax the colonies without fair representation and ended with the British defeat at Yorktown, was one of the most momentous events in the history of the North American continent. The odds faced by the colonists were almost overwhelming. Facing the superpower of the day, which boasted a professional army equipped with the latest weapons and the ability to properly finance the war, the rebels were reliant on the goodwill of men to continue fighting without pay and in dreadful conditions. In this audiobook, American Revolution, you will discover the history behind the conflict and why it came about. The chapters lead you through the major events which took place, including the Boston Tea Party and the significant clashes between the armies.
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]]>Title: English Civil War: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 17th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History, Modern]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: William Irvine]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 1642, King Charles I and the elected Parliament of England went to war over the future of the Stuart kingdom. Over the next nine years, three civil wars would be fought, devastating the populations of England, Scotland, and Ireland and claiming a death toll of an estimated 800,000 people, including King Charles I himself. You will hear about.... With the authority of the monarchy, the freedom of Parliament, and the power of religion at stake, the English Civil Wars decided the future of Great Britain and influenced the future of politics around the world.
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]]>Title: Francisco Franco]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Spain, War]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Nate Sjol]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It has been several decades now since Francisco Franco’s passing in 1975, and yet his legacy still seems very much in the air. Depending on who you talk to, Franco was a fascist and a peacemaker, a destroyer and a savior, an idiot and a genius. Even after all this time, opinions of just who Franco was and how he contributed to modern civilization are up for open debate. You will learn about: And much more! Franco himself believed that he was doing a great service to his people. He never tired of making grandiose statements about his perceived mission to save Spanish society. Whether this was deluded self-righteousness is for others to decide. Discover Francisco Franco’s story in this audiobook and draw your own conclusions.
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]]>Title: The Kim Dynasty of North Korea]]>Subtitle: The Notorious History of the Hermit Kingdom's Supreme Leaders]]>Categories: 20th Century, Asia, History, Korea, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"We are of a single nation, of the same blood, but forcibly divided." - attributed to Kim Il-sung North Korea has long been the butt of jokes, and it has been a longstanding target of international criticism, but the startling satellite image was anything but amusing, for it demonstrated the truly catastrophic conditions North Koreans find themselves in. Statistics show that the average South Korean uses up to 10,162 kilowatt hours of power per year, whereas their neighbors in the north consume only 739. This is only one among a slew of stumbling blocks affecting the state, impeding it from proper progress. The mismatching network of sprawling yet lifeless cities and squalid, poverty-stricken provinces stands eerily silent next to the bustling metropolises on either side of it. North Korea is trapped in an impenetrable, soundproof bubble, the entire state frozen in time.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of John Adams]]>Categories: Biography, For Children, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” (John Adams) In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid’s attention all the way to the end. John Adams has become one of the more popular presidents in history relatively recently, but it was not always so. For most of his life he was seen as a bit of an outsider, different from his fellow first presidents in his temperament, birth, life, and politics. Adams and his son were the only presidents out of the first seven who were born north of the Mason Dixon line, and he was not an easy man to understand or work with. Not only did he have few friends, but he also often fell into long-term quarrels with those he had. Politically, Adams shared Washington’s preference for Britain as well as his preference of noninterference. However, while he was certainly the more significant man in his work and his governing, he could never seem to move out of Washington’s shadow.
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]]>Title: The Roaring Twenties: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, History, Modern, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Sean Tivenan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Roaring Twenties was a golden age of economic prosperity and liberal social change. Innovations in numerous industries revived a sluggish post-World War I economy, and mass production methods allowed for the standardized, rapid production of various goods, the most notable of which was the automobile. The roar of thousands of newly manufactured vehicles filled the city streets, and the ripple effect of the industry spawned a myriad of ancillary industries, such as car dealerships and mechanic shops. Innovations in the entertainment industry heralded the Golden Age of Radio and resulted in the replacement of vaudeville with cinema as "talkies" replaced silent films and movies came alive with color. The most iconic image of the era was the flapper - a thoroughly modern, young woman, unafraid to flout the social norms of her parents' generation and break with long-standing traditions.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Rosa Parks]]>Categories: Biography, Coming of Age, Female Protagonist, For Children]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-19-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was 42. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in." (Rosa Parks) In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Rosa Parks is one of the most famous women in American history, and an instantly recognizable name among Americans of all ages, thanks to the events of December 1, 1955. That afternoon, on her way home from work, Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person in defiance of Montgomery's segregated bus policies. Within days of her arrest, Montgomery's civil rights activists had organized a wide-scale boycott of Montgomery's buses by blacks.
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]]>Title: The Six Day War]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and Its Impact on the Middle East]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Levant, Middle East, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-19-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In early June 1967, the Israelis captured Jordanian intelligence that indicated an invasion was imminent, and at 08h10 on June 5, 1967, the Israel Broadcasting Authority aired an Israeli Defense Force communique. "Since the early hours of this morning", it read, "heavy fighting has been taking place on the southern front between Egyptian armored and aerial forces, which moved against Israel, and our forces, which went into action to check them." This was followed up a little over two hours later by a publicly aired message to the armed forces of Israel, released by Israeli Minister of Defense Moshi Dayan in his first day in office. "We have no aims of conquest", was Dayan's simple message. "Our only aim is to frustrate the attempt of the Arab armies to conquer our country, and to sever and crush the ring of blockade and aggression which has been created around us." By then, the Israeli Air Force had been in action over the skies of Egypt since 07h45 that morning, and as a consequence, almost the entire Egyptian Air Force lay smoldering on the tarmacs of various forward Egyptian airbases.
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]]>Title: World War II D-Day: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-18-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>D-Day, June 6, is one of the most significant dates in the calendar. The 20th century's fate hung in the balance as Nazi Germany had marched across Europe, bringing the blitzkrieg, the Holocaust, and the mad dreams of Adolf Hitler across the bloodied landscape of Europe. France had fallen, and until the Americans joined the battle in December, 1941, the balance of power was securely in the hands of the Third Reich. But even as the Allied forces joined together under the leadership of Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany continued to win battles. In order for the Nazis to be stopped, the Allies had to invade occupied Europe. And invade they did, launching the most massive amphibious landing the world had ever seen. You will hear about.... The pantheon of heroes of the Normandy invasion includes soldiers who are unknown except for the crosses that bear their names in the cemeteries where they were buried, but all - those who died and those who survived - played their part in the liberation of Europe.
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]]>Title: Kim Il-sung]]>Subtitle: The Controversial Life and Legacy of North Korea's First Supreme Leader]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, Head of State, History, Korea]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-18-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"We are of a single nation, of the same blood, but forcibly divided." - attributed to Kim Il-sung A tyrannical lineage secured by nepotism. An entire nation indoctrinated by chilling, mind-boggling propaganda, molded by fear and forced ignorance. Mass purges doled out seemingly on whims, without fair trials. Unparalleled paranoia and cold-blooded assassinations left and right, seemingly around every curve and corner. An impoverished sphere of barren wastelands inhabited by malnourished masses, orbiting a world glittering with the gross opulence and superfluous riches of the elite. These sound like the elements of a particularly perilous period of autocracy enforced by some mad monarch of a bygone era, or perhaps a generic blurb for a far-fetched thriller set in a dystopian future. Alas, in certain areas of the world, even to this day, these horrifically archaic conditions are anything but fiction.
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]]>Title: Celtic Mythology]]>Subtitle: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas, and Beliefs]]>Categories: Europe, Fiction, History, Ireland]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Bridger Conklin]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-14-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The gifted W.B. Yeats wrote of his own people, "...[E]ven a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for everyone is a visionary if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt, unlike any other, is a visionary without scratching." This introduction to Celtic mythology will serve the novice well - for it is a complicated history with the earliest written records destroyed by the marauding Vikings. Inside you will read about.... The oral tradition harks back to 4000 BCE and is a compilation of myths and cultures of many different peoples, including the Indo-Iranians, Slavs, Greeks, Germans, Austrians, and finally, the Gauls, who washed up on the shores of the Emerald Isle. Whatever aspect of this rich, mystical, and lavishly embellished heritage you would like to investigate further, you will find the author has supplied a marker to guide you on your way.
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]]>Title: George Stephenson: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: William Irvine]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-14-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>George Stephenson is one of the world’s most famous engineers. His pioneering work on steam-powered locomotion would supercharge the industrial revolution in the United Kingdom and help bring about the heyday of the British Empire. Through his talent and passion for engineering, Stephenson was able to transform the landscape around him, ushering in an era when travel across the country could be achieved in hours instead of days or even weeks. He is the epitome of the self-made man, rising from the lowest of origins to dominate the society in which he lived. In this book you will hear about... This book tells the story of George Stephenson from the humblest of origins to his final days as one of the country’s most revered and successful men.
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]]>Título: La Partición de la India Británica [The Partition of British India]]]>Subtitular: La Historia y el Legado de la División del Raj Británico en India y Pakistán]]>Categorías: Asia, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 12-14-2017]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>"Un hecho significativo que se destaca es que aquellas partes de la India que permanecieron por más tiempo bajo el dominio británico son hoy las más pobres. De hecho podría trazarse un gráfico para indicar la estrecha relación entre la duración del gobierno británico y el progresivo crecimiento de la pobreza" - Jawaharlal Nehru, El Descubrimiento de la India La Compañía Británica de las Indias Orientales fue uno de los factores clave en la formación del Imperio Británico. Desde sus orígenes como compañía comercial luchando por mantenerse a la altura de sus superiores competidores holandeses, portugueses y españoles, a su ejercicio como la autoridad gobernante del subcontinente indio a su espectacular caída final, la Compañía de las Indias Orientales sirve como un lente a través del cual se puede explorar las fuerzas económicas y sociales que moldearon la formación del Imperio Británico global.
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]]>Title: Egyptian Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Ancient Gods and Beliefs of Egyptian Mythology]]>Subtitle: Greek Mythology - Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology, Book 3]]>Series: #3 in Greek Mythology - Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology]]>Categories: Africa, Ancient, East Africa, Egypt]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Bridger Conklin]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-14-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In this brief introduction to the subject of Egyptian mythology, the author has given a lot of thought to the context of the subject. There is a useful historical timeline which allows the listener to follow the complexities of Egyptian history and locate the mythology within the development of the country. Inside you will learn about.... The audiobook includes the myths of creation in some detail and introduces the top deities in a pantheon of over two thousand god and goddesses. The presence and importance of the Nile is discussed, and details of daily life, including the rituals followed in the temples, essentially the backbone of the economy, are well covered.
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]]>Title: Olaudah Equiano]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Freed Slave Whose Autobiography Fueled Britain's Abolitionist Movement]]>Categories: 18th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-14-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I believe there are few events in my life which have not happened to many; it is true the incidents of it are numerous, and, did I consider myself an European, I might say my sufferings were great; but when I compare my lot with that of most of my countrymen, I regard myself as a particular favorite of heaven, and acknowledge the mercies of Providence in every occurrence of my life." (Olaudah Equiano) Olaudah Equiano challenged the image of the unconscious African beast with such intellect, philosophical refinement, public presence, and elegant writing that standard British perceptions began to unravel. It is rational to assume that with his emergence as a respected world traveler, abolition of the slave trade was pushed forward by an incalculable number of years. Within his life, Equiano was to become the first Black British politician, with a constituency of slaves and freemen enjoying representation for the first time in their cultural history. Equiano's written account of his birth and early childhood has been met with some controversy, and in the absence of written records, the precise details may never be known.
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]]>Title: Abraham Lincoln: A Concise History of the Man Who Transformed the World]]>Subtitle: One Hour History US Presidents, Book 1]]>Series: #1 in One Hour History US Presidents]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Head of State]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Jimmy Kieffer]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-14-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Abraham Lincoln's determination to hold the North and South together would ultimately lead to the bloodiest war in American history, the abolition of slavery, and his own untimely death from an assassin’s bullet. But to see Lincoln solely as a tragic figure consumed with the strife of mid-19th century America is to miss meeting him as a man who never allowed himself to be defeated by adversity, grief, or turmoil. From his earliest days on the frontier, he endured the loss of his beloved mother and the demanding physical challenges of a rough-and-ready land where death came easily and education was rare; where ambition was rewarded if a man proved himself willing to work hard; where love was attainable, even for a man whose physical appearance was most charitably described as homely. Inside you will hear about.... Lincoln arose from poverty and ignorance to become a man of influence and eloquence, whose speeches continue to resonate with a nation that aspires to meet his ideals. Lincoln had his detractors and enemies, but throughout his years, he had a remarkable ability to remain unpoisoned by his foes and to retain compassion for those who opposed him.
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]]>Title: The Controversial History of North Korea's Nuclear Weapons and the Islamic Republic of Iran's Nuclear Program]]>Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-14-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>North Korea has long been the butt of jokes, and it has been a longstanding target of international criticism. But the startling satellite image was anything but amusing, for it demonstrated the truly catastrophic conditions North Koreans find themselves in. North Korea would be horrific enough if it was a fictional place, but its nuclear weapons program is all too real. On September 17, 2017, President Donald Trump tweeted another nickname of the type he has infamously coined for his opponents: "I spoke with President Moon of South Korea last night. Asked him how Rocket Man is doing. Long gas lines forming in North Korea. Too bad!" The "Rocket Man" in question, of course, was none other than the notoriously brutal and wildly erratic North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un. Capitalizing on the viral nature of the controversial tweet, Trump repeated the nickname just a few days later in his speech before the UN General Assembly. He warned the congregation of fidgety ambassadors about the grave threats posed by North Korea's depraved regime: "The United States had great strength and patience, but if forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea....
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]]>Title: Leon Trotsky]]>Subtitle: A Life From Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, History, Politician, Politics, Russia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Matt Haynes]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-13-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The man that history came to know by the name of Trotsky has the well-established legacy of being one of the most mysterious of all the cast and characters involved with the Russian Revolution. If the Russian Revolution was a Shakespearean tragedy, Trotsky would undoubtedly be cast into the role of an Othello or King Lear type figure who means well but seems to hamstring himself with his never-ending ideological speculation and theorizing. In many ways, Trotsky could be said to be a brilliant thinker that was miscast in the wrong role. Almost seeming to refute Plato's idea of the philosopher king, Trotsky appeared to be just a little bit too introspective for his own good. While the likes of Joseph Stalin were taking action and seizing the reins from Lenin, Trotsky seemed to be lost in his thought. This book takes a look at the great mind that the Russian Revolution forgot, Leon Trotsky.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: An Illustrated Biography of Blackbeard for Children]]>Categories: Biography, For Children, Historical Fiction, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-12-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise but comprehensive audiobook will keep your kid’s attention all the way to the end. It would be an understatement to say that pop culture's perception of piracy and pirates has been primarily influenced by Captain Edward Teach, known to the world as Blackbeard, the most famous pirate of all time. An English pirate who terrorized the high seas near the Carolinas in the early 18th century, a period often referred to as the Golden Age of Piracy, Blackbeard was the gold standard, and in the 300 years since his death he has inspired legends that have spanned books like Treasure Island, movies, and even theme park rides. Of course, like any legendary figure, Blackbeard is remembered today based more on myths than reality. People continue to let their imaginations go when it comes to Blackbeard, picturing a pirate who captured more booty than any other pirate, hid buried treasure, and lit his hair on fire before battle.
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]]>Title: The Middle Ages: A History From Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, Historiography, History, Medieval, Planet Earth]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-08-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>What do you think of when you consider the Middle Ages? Knights in armor and damsels in distress? Vikings plundering monasteries? Religious dissenters burning at the stake? The dead bodies piling up as war, famine, and plague devastated Europe? Think again. While all these are part of the tapestry of the medieval era, the threads of politics, personality and war, culture, religion, education and the arts are vastly more intricate and fascinating. Think Charlemagne, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Joan of Arc, Peter Abelard, Geoffrey Chaucer and a riveting cast of thousands. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Western Europe had to reinvent itself and redefine its philosophical parentage. Inside you will hear about... As the Christian Church filled the void left by the loss of Roman authority, nations would emerge out of blurred geographical boundaries and dynastic kings would evolve from warlords. Rome gets the glory, and the Renaissance gets the glamor, but they are bookends for the dynamic centuries that are known as the Middle Ages.
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]]>Title: The Sassanid Empire]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Neo-Persian Empire Before the Arab Conquest and Rise of Islam]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-07-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>During the first half of the first millennium CE, an empire arose in Persia that extended its power and influence to Mesopotamia in the east, Arabia in the south, the Caucasus Mountains in the north, and as far east as India. This empire, known alternatively as the Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, was the last of three great dynasties in Persia - the Achaemenid and the Parthian being the first two dynasties - before the rise of Islam. In fact, many scholars consider the Sasanian Empire to be the last great empire of the ancient Near East because once it had been obliterated, Islam became the standard religion of the region, ushering in the Middle Ages. The Sasanian Empire was important for a number of reasons. Besides being the last of three great Persian dynasties, they carried on many Persian cultural traditions relating to religion and kingship. The Sasanians fostered and promoted the native religion of Zoroastrianism to the point of persecuting other religions from time to time.
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]]>Title: World War II Stalingrad: A History from Beginning to End]]>Series: #1 in World War 2 Battles]]>Categories: Europe, History, Military, Strategy]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-07-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Battle of Stalingrad, perceived by historians as the most important battle of World War II and regarded by Russians as the most significant battle in their country’s history, cannot be viewed solely as a military engagement between two powerful, long-time foes. The Soviet Union, which had climbed to power from the shambles of the 1917 Revolution that saw communism overthrow the czar, and Germany, which had risen from the ashes of World War I’s Treaty of Versailles, certainly had a complicated history. Stalingrad was a battle between the Allies and the Axis Powers; it was a struggle between the Soviet Union and Germany for victory; and it was also a test of wills between Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler, two totalitarian dictators who were willing to do whatever was necessary to demonstrate the supremacy of their systems of government. Inside you will read about.... Stalin had succeeded Vladimir Lenin as the leader of the Soviet Union, and his entry upon the world stage ushered in a reign of absolute power as he bent a battered nation to conform to his will.
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]]>Title: The Korean Demilitarized Zone]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Border Between North Korea and South Korea]]>Categories: 20th Century, Asia, History, Korea, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-07-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Korean War was a watershed event for a number of reasons. Not only was it considered the first military action of the Cold War, as well as one of the first to utilize jet planes kitted out with bombs and missiles, the United Nations immersed itself in the precarious politics of warfare for the very first time. A total of 41 countries gifted shiploads of provisions and equipment to South Korea. Another 16 countries provided their own soldiers to serve as backup for the South Koreans. Their mission, put simply, was to extinguish Communism on the Korean peninsula once and for all. After a series of heated but unproductive negotiations that lasted two brutal years and 17 miserable days, North Korea and South Korea found themselves locked in a stalemate. Finally, on July 27, 1953, representatives from both parties gathered at the village of Panmunjom, located on a semi-neutral zone by the border. Here, they devised a document entitled the Korean Armistice Agreement and scrawled their names across the bottom of the parchment, calling for a ceasefire, effective immediately. In essence, this agreement was no more than a truce, for there were no victors.
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]]>Title: British India]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the British Raj and the Partition of India and Pakistan into Separate Nations]]>Categories: Asia, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-07-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The British East India Company served as one of the key players in the formation of the British Empire. From its origins as a trading company struggling to keep up with its superior Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish competitors ,to its tenure as the ruling authority of the Indian subcontinent, to its eventual hubristic downfall, the East India Company serves as a lens through which to explore the much larger economic and social forces that shaped the formation of a global British Empire.
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]]>Title: The KGB]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Soviet Union's Notorious Spy Agency]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Modern, Russia]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-07-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The KGB is one of the most famous abbreviations of the 20th century, and it has become synonymous with the shadowy and often violent actions of the Soviet Union’s secret police and internal security agencies. In fact, it is often used to refer to the Soviet state security agencies throughout its history, from the inception of the Cheka (Extraordinary Commission) in 1917 to the official elimination of the KGB in 1992. Whether it’s associated with the Russian Civil War’s excesses, Stalin’s purges, or even Vladimir Putin, the KGB has long been viewed as the West’s biggest bogeyman during the second half of the 20th century. The KGB: The History and Legacy of the Soviet Union’s Notorious Spy Agency examines the history of one of the most famous agencies in history. You will learn about the KGB like never before.
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]]>Título: La Alhambra: Historia y legado del más famoso palacio de los Moros en España [The Alhambra: History and Legacy of the Most Famous Palace of the Moors in Spain]]]>Categorías: Europe, History, Medieval, Spain]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 12-07-2017]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>Escondida en la cima de la colina Al-Sabika en Granada, región de Andalucía, España, al lado de la rumorosa corriente del río Darro, hay una estructura majestuosa con vista a la encantadora ciudad y a los místicos prados de La Vega. Esta fortaleza palaciega y la fabulosa Alhambra son la misma cosa. Para los que la vieron en todo su esplendor, esto fue el cielo en la tierra. Muchos cayeron pronto bajo el hechizo de su asombrosa belleza; sus admiradores la apodaron amorosamente “una perla engastada en esmeraldas.” Hubo una época en que este lugar estaba engalanado con una red de cautivadores castillos, casas angelicales y jardines preciosos, y una hermosa fortaleza militar que era la envidia de los reinos vecinos. Esta no es otra que la Alhambra, que alguna vez fue tan hermosa que, muchos de aquellos que la visitaron en sus días de esplendor, la llamaron el paraíso en la tierra.
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]]>Title: Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #1 in Biographies of Inventors]]>Categories: Biography, History, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Bridger Conklin]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-07-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Nikola Tesla was a major figure in the world in which he lived. As the 19th century gave way to the 20th, it was Tesla who would contribute to some of the world's most amazing inventions. It was Tesla's theories, patents, and experiments that would pave the way for the digital, wireless world we are so familiar with today. Tesla didn't enjoy the high honors bestowed on so many of his contemporaries, yet he enjoyed the power of knowing that it was his inventions that were powering the world, literally. Inside you will learn about.... This book will take you through the life of Nikola Tesla. From his humble beginnings in Croatia to all he would accomplish as a citizen of the United States, Tesla shows how his imagination fueled his creativity and brought his inventions to life. See Nikola Tesla for what he truly was; an extraordinary visionary who sparked the world.
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]]>Title: King Arthur: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Royalty Biography, Book 4]]>Series: #3 in Royalty Biography]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: William Irvine]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-06-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Dating back to the fifth century, the legend of King Arthur, his Queen Guinevere, and the Knights of the Round Table is an integral part of British national mythology. From its beginning as a few lines of Latin text written in a sixth-century monk’s hand, Arthurian legend has blossomed over the years into a unique universe built on the real foundations of Britain’s Dark Ages and the principles of ancient chivalry. Inside you will read about... Liberally expanded over the years to include romantic entanglements, an imaginary ancient empire, and the threat of the supernatural, the legend of King Arthur remains as engaging today as it was in medieval times. King Arthur’s life, whether it happened or not, cuts to the core of the Matter of Britain and reveals the heart of Britain’s fanciful idea of its origin.
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]]>Title: Che Guevara: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, Caribbean, History, War]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Floyd]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-06-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara has long been revered as a hero by countless teenagers with an ax to grind. You can see them wearing his t-shirts with the iconic image of Che, with long unkempt hair stylishly sticking out of a jauntily slanted beret on his head. For many, he is the standard bearer of a revolution that they know very little (if anything) about. Many who have pointed to the exploits of Che Guevara as a revolutionary ideal don’t have much of an idea of what his revolution was about. What did Che Guevara actually stand for? What was he trying to achieve? Inside you will read about.... In this audiobook, we will explore the man behind the revolution, explore the good and the bad of the man who - despite his lionization - was still a man with all of the foibles and complexities that can plague us all. From his days as a carefree medical student roving the South American countryside to his tenure as the most preeminent revolutionary in the world, the true story of Che Guevara is finally uncovered. Beyond all of the hype and hyperbole, the real man behind the beret is revealed.
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]]>Title: John D. Rockefeller: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: America, Biography, Business, Business Leader]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Bridger Conklin]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-06-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>John D. Rockefeller, the wealthiest man of all time, amassed a fortune as he led the Standard Oil Company to an unprecedented position of power in the industrial markets. In addition to being a successful businessman, he was also a generous philanthropist. But somewhere between the money he earned and the money he gave away lies a mystery that remains unsolved. How could someone so generous have been so hated in his time? How could someone so successful have been so despised by the public, the press, and the government? Was Rockefeller a villain or a hero? The truth is that he was both. Inside you will read about.... In an era which saw American businessmen accrue unprecedented power and wealth by means of practices that would later be judged illegal by the Supreme Court, Rockefeller saw his opportunities as both a gift from God and a responsibility to the public, with a dash of Darwinian survival tactics thrown in for good measure. Today’s captains of industry may not use the same techniques that Rockefeller employed, but in many ways, the bold entrepreneurs who dominate the stock market and the headlines are apprentices to his ruthless genius.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: An Illustrated Biography of Bill Clinton for Children]]>Categories: Biography, For Children, North America, Politics, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-05-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid’s attention all the way to the end. It would be impossible to sum up the life and legacy of Bill Clinton in one sentence or even one paragraph, as the former president represents many different things to many different people. Indeed, the yin and yang of Clinton’s life and career are inescapable. Widely hailed as the greatest politician of his era, Clinton proved to be his own worst enemy, creating unnecessary scandals through his womanizing. Clinton was one of the first politicians to truly connect with young adults, yet in the process he provided ludicrous sound bytes like “I did not inhale”. Long considered the Democratic Party’s greatest spokesman and surrogate, Clinton’s presidency was defined by centrist “triangulation”. And though he is still publicly popular and considered a great president, Clinton became just the second president to be impeached in the House of Representatives. Regardless of what Americans think of him, one thing Clinton does represent is the American dream.
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]]>Title: North Korea’s Nuclear Program: The History of the Hermit Kingdom’s Development of Nuclear Weapons]]>Categories: 20th Century, Asia, History, Korea, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-05-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"There is no force in the world that can block the powerful march of our army and people, who are holding high the banner of the suns of great Comrade Kim Il-sung and great Comrade Kim Jong-il and continuing to advance under the leadership of the party and with strong faith in sure victory." - Kim Jong-un North Korea would be horrific enough if it was a fictional place, but its nuclear weapons program is all too real. On September 17, 2017, President Donald Trump, whose use of Twitter may be what he’s best known for, tweeted another nickname of the type he has infamously coined for his opponents: "I spoke with President Moon of South Korea last night. Asked him how Rocket Man is doing. Long gas lines forming in North Korea. Too bad!" The Rocket Man in question, of course, was none other than the notoriously brutal and wildly erratic North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-Un. In less than 24 hours, the viral tweet had not only racked up tens of thousands of retweets and triple the likes, it had spawned countless Elton John-themed memes and inspired headlines from just about every news source around the world.
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]]>Title: Joan of Arc: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Female Protagonist, France, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Nate Sjol]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-05-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>No historical figure’s life story offers a more intriguing and insightful look at a specific moment in French - and European - history than that of Joan of Arc. Over the course of a life that sadly lasted just 19 years, Joan of Arc completely altered the course of the Hundred Year’s War. Acting on the counsel of divine voices, Joan left her small village behind, swapped her peasant dress for a suit of armor, and transformed herself into a revered military leader. From her first miracle, freeing the besieged city of Orléans, to her finest moment, leading King Charles VII to Reims for his coronation, the Maid of Orléans stunned the world with her courage, her goodness, and her faith. Inside you will read about.... Ultimately, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for her insistence that she received counsel from God, but what she achieved as a result of this guidance is a truly incredible story.
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]]>Title: Wars of the Roses: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Medieval]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: William Irvine]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-02-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Wars of the Roses were a series of civil wars in England fought between the House of Lancaster and the House of York between 1455 and 1485. Over a 30-year period, England had five rulers, three of whom were killed or executed. Power changed hands on even more occasions as an ineffective king, Henry VI, was subject to mental breakdowns. Protectors of the realm were regularly appointed to rule during these episodes, thereby disaffecting Henry’s ambitious queen, Margaret of Anjou. Though the battles fought were limited in scope, one of these, the Battle of Towton, is considered the bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil. The nearby river was described as running red with the blood of some 38,000 soldiers who lost their lives that day. You will hear about.... By the end of the Wars, a new dynasty - the Tudor dynasty - was born, the powers of the nobility were significantly diminished, and the system of feudalism was all but eradicated. The monarchy was strengthened, and the royal line of succession was secured for the Tudor line. As family feuds go, the Wars of the Roses were historically significant in changing the trajectory of power in England.
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]]>Title: Charlie Chaplin: A Life From Beginning to End]]>Series: #3 in Biographies of Actors]]>Categories: Biography, Celebrity, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Sean Tivenan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-01-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Charlie Chaplin is most famously known for his "tramp" character - the homeless hobo that can be seen hopping from trains and lining up in the soup kitchens of the Great Depression. At a time when the whole world was struggling from economic meltdown, Charlie Chaplin made "destitute" a term of endearment. We may laugh when we see Charlie Chaplin so broke that he has to boil his shoes and eat them, but during the worst parts of the economic collapse of the 1920s and 1930s, some people had to do just that. So, at the time, even though many would laugh at the crazy tramp's antics, they could also relate and identify with them. And the fact that Charlie Chaplin's tramp character could be completely broke with his pockets turned out, sitting in a gutter with the rain pouring down, yet still be happy, gave people quite a bit of encouragement.
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]]>Title: Benjamin Franklin: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #4 in Biographies of Inventors]]>Categories: 18th Century, Biography, History, Modern, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Grant Finley]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 12-01-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Founding Father Benjamin Franklin came from humble beginnings to take his place in the annals of history as one of the most celebrated Americans ever to stand on the world stage. The Boston apprentice who ran away because of his brother's ill-treatment found his destiny in Philadelphia, where he became a printer, a scientist, an author, an inventor, a politician, and a citizen of the world. His inventions and his philosophies had the same ultimate goal - to make the world a better place - and Franklin achieved that goal. Europeans saw him as a symbol of what America represented; Franklin saw himself as the result of what America produced. Pragmatism ruled his life, and yet he believed passionately that it was the role of the government and the church to improve the world for all. He has been called the first American, but every American who followed owes something to this remarkable man who designed his own destiny.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Death of President John F. Kennedy]]>Categories: Chapter Book, Fiction, For Children, History, North America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-30-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explains the lead-up to November 22, 1963 and why Kennedy took his fateful trip to Texas. "We never had any hope of saving his life." In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. In the annals of American history, few moments have been so thoroughly seared into the nation's conscience that Americans can remember exactly where and when they heard about an earth-shattering event. In the 20th century, there was Pearl Harbor and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. November 22, 1963 started as a typical Friday, and many Americans were unaware that President Kennedy was even heading to Dallas, Texas. John and Jackie arrived in Dallas in the morning, with Texas Governor John Connally alongside them and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson due to arrive later to meet them there. The Kennedys and the Connallys intended to participate in public events later in the day, and Jackie and John were welcomely surprised by the warm reception they received.
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]]>Title: Richard the Lionheart: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Royalty Biography, Book 8]]>Series: #6 in Royalty Biography]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: William Irvine]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-29-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>You might have heard of King Richard the Lionhearted, the “good king” in the tales of Robin Hood. But what do you really know about this 12th-century ruler of England? Do you know why he left England, or why he was taken prisoner by another sovereign as he tried to return? Did you know Richard had other brothers besides the famed scoundrel, Prince John? Have you heard tales of Richard not only as a missing king but as a leader who rode boldly into battle alongside his knights? You will learn about.... In this audiobook, you’ll learn the actual story of King Richard, a king who may not have been exactly "good", but was certainly brave, charismatic, and dashing - a historical character with a story to remember.
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]]>Title: The Dutch East India Company: A History from Beginning to End]]>Categories: 17th Century, Europe, History, Modern, West Europe]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Bridger Conklin]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-29-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Once valued at close to seven trillion dollars by today’s standards, the Dutch East India Company, formed in 1602, became the world’s first multinational corporation. In the nearly 200-year reign of their empire at sea, the Dutch East India Company amassed unfathomable fortunes, laid the foundation of the modern globalized world, and built monopolies that controlled the economy of the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and the East Indies. The rich history of the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, commonly referred to as the VOC, and its titanic exploits are as astonishing as the twelve labors of Hercules. Uncover the organization that in no small part built the world we live in from the ground up. You will learn about:
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]]>Title: British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Aldous Huxley]]>Categories: America, Author, Biography, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." – Aldous Huxley A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ British Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of Great Britain’s most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In 19th century England, few families were as accomplished as the Huxley family, which included prominent figures in the arts, sciences, and literature, but the most famous of them all would come of age in the early 20th century. Aldous Huxley was one of the most unique intellectuals of his age, but he was also one of the greatest. While he was controversial for dabbling with mysticism, a belief in parapsychology and the supernatural, and for advocating the use of psychedelic drugs, nobody could deny his abilities.
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]]>Title: The Workers' Party of Korea: The History and Legacy of the Political Party That Founded and Rules North Korea]]>Categories: 20th Century, Asia, History, Korea]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 2014, the International Space Station unleashed a series of photographs that had netizens around the globe simultaneously slapping their cheeks in disbelief for more reasons than one. For starters, the world was astounded by the crisp definition and stellar resolution of the images captured by the space agency's NightPod lenses, which showed striking satellite shots of the world at nighttime, illuminated by its dazzling city lights. But it was a close-up snap of the China-North Korea border that elicited reactions far greater than the rest, for the image, as terrific as it was, was equally troubling. Backed by a time-lapse video of the area, the images show an enormous patch of pitch-blackness - roughly 47,000 square miles of it, to be precise - flanked by two sweeping stretches of gold, the coruscating clusters of light marking the largest cities in the land. On one side lay the shimmering Chinese territories, and the other, the glittering grounds of South Korea.
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]]>Title: The Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Ptolemy Dynasty and the End of the Egyptian Empire]]>Categories: Ancient, Egypt, History, Middle East, Rome]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Among all the periods in ancient Egyptian history, the Ptolemaic Kingdom and its most famous ruler, Cleopatra, may be the most well-known today. By the 4th century BCE, it appeared as though ancient Egypt was in its final death throes. It had long ceased to be an influential kingdom in the Near East and Mediterranean regions, and it had been ruled over by a succession of foreign peoples including Libyans, Nubians, Assyrians, and Persians. But just when Egypt seemed was doomed to pass forever into obscurity, it was reinvigorated by outsiders, most notably Alexander the Great. While in the process of campaigning to destroy the Achaemenid Persian Empire and conquer the world in 331 BCE, he made a pit stop in Egypt that forever changed the course of Egyptian history.
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]]>Title: Alexander Hamilton: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: One Hour History US Presidents, Book 10]]>Series: #10 in One Hour History US Presidents, #7 in American Revolutionary War]]>Categories: America, Biography, Colonialism, Head of State]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Bridger Conklin]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-22-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Alexander Hamilton did not rise to public prominence as an austere New Englander or a gentlemanly Virginian. He was not born in the colonies at all. He was born in the West Indies, the son of a woman of French descent who had left her husband for another man. As an illegitimate child, Hamilton could not be educated in the local church school, so businessmen, impressed by his remarkable intelligence, sent him to America for his schooling. The American Revolution would interrupt his vacation but accelerate his promotion to the national stage from his service as George Washington's aide-de-camp to his position as the new nation's first Secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton understood money and knew that for the nation to thrive, it had to become financially strong, a stance which brought him into contention with other Founding Fathers who distrusted his enthusiasm for a strong central government. Inside you will hear about... His extramarital affair with a married woman brought his public career to a conclusion but he continued to involve himself in political intrigue. It was his role in a contested election that brought him to a duel with Aaron Burr, the shadowy character in American history.
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]]>Title: Ivan the Terrible: A Life From Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, History, Royalty, Russia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: William Irvine]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-22-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Just what was so terrible about Ivan the Terrible? Most of us are familiar with this infamous nickname, but most fall short of being able to describe how he received such an ominous moniker. Maybe you’ve heard the stories of how Ivan killed his own son, poisoned his wives, and waged war on his neighbors, but these anecdotes are just minor details in the scheme of this man’s complicated life. Inside you will read about... Ivan IV, otherwise known as Ivan the Terrible, was born with a heavy burden on his shoulders. He was thrust into the seat of what the Russians considered the Third Rome, granting him all the rights and privileges of the official steward of Orthodox Christian civilization in the east. In order to hold on to that right, he did indeed do some pretty terrible things.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Ulysses S. Grant]]>Categories: Biography, For Children, Historical Fiction, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Zarbock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-22-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid’s attention all the way to the end. In the 19th century, one of the surest ways to rise to prominence in American society was to be a war hero, like Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison. But few would have predicted such a destiny for Hiram Ulysses Grant, who had been a career soldier with little experience in combat and a failed businessman when the Civil War broke out in 1861. However, while all eyes were fixed on the Eastern Theater at places like Manassas, Richmond, the Shenandoah Valley, and Antietam, Grant went about a steady rise up the ranks through a series of successes in the West.
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]]>Title: Marilyn Monroe: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #1 in Biographies of Actors]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Sean Tivenan]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-21-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>She vigorously played the dumb-blonde stereotype in her movie roles, but there is nothing at all dumb about Marilyn Monroe. Born to a single mother who suffered from severe mental illness, the odds were stacked against the girl originally named Norma Jeane from the very beginning. She became a ward of the state and bounced around from foster home to foster home. The fact that she rose from such impoverished beginnings to become one of the top-billed acts in Hollywood speaks for itself. Inside you will read about.... Discover the life and legend that is Marilyn Monroe.
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]]>Title: Queen Victoria]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: William Irvine]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-17-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Queen of Great Britain and Ireland for 63 years, the mother of nine children and grandmother to 42, Queen Victoria’s life was one of magnificent proportions. Victoria’s childhood was difficult and lonely, but from the time she took the throne aged just 18, she blossomed into a powerful woman, both frivolous and formidable. You will hear about.... In her later years, Victoria struggled to find balance between her wish to live a very private life as a widow and her duty to live the very public life of a queen and later empress. The world Victoria was born into was a very different world to that which she left behind, and her life story is an incredible journey from infant heir to matriarchal queen and empress.
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]]>Title: King George VI: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, Royalty]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Barry Shannon]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-15-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>King George VI In Britain The phrase "an heir and a spare" refers to the imperative for members of the royal family to provide both an heir to take on their title and a spare. In this equation King George VI was the spare - the second son of King George V and Mary, and never expected to sit on the throne. King George VI, or Albert as he was known prior to his kingship, had a career in the Royal Navy and served during the First World War before King Edward VIII’s decision to abdicate his throne. Determined to restore the British royal family in the eyes of the people, King George VI played a pivotal role in the victory of the allied nations in the Second World War. In this audiobook you will hear about... King George VI ruled long enough to oversee the tumultuous postwar years in Britain, the collapse of the British Empire, and the emergence of the Commonwealth. Succeeded by his daughter Elizabeth at just 55 years old, King George VI had a deep sense of honor and duty and was completely dedicated to his turbulent role as king.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Albert Einstein]]>Categories: Biography, For Children, History, North America, STEM]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-14-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.” - Albert Einstein In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid’s attention all the way to the end. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) needs no formal introduction. He is known around the world as one of history’s most brilliant geniuses, and one of its most influential scientists. Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics, and he received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "...for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." And though he is best known for his contributions to science with over 300 scientific papers, the witty Einstein also wrote over 150 non-scientific works, many of them infused with his humor.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Harriet Tubman]]>Categories: Biography, Coming of Age, Female Protagonist, For Children]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-14-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise but comprehensive audiobook will keep your kid’s attention all the way to the end. Harriet Tubman is one of the most famous women in American history, and from an early age, every American learns of her contributions to abolition and the Underground Railroad. The woman who became known as the Moses of her people personally led more than 13 expeditions to free slaves in the South, and she was so integral in helping escaped slaves achieve freedom that her name is practically synonymous with the Underground Railroad today. If anything, the central role she played in the Underground Railroad has become so ingrained among subsequent generations that Tubman’s life has been shrouded in legend, and other important aspects have been overlooked. In order to fully appreciate and understand Harriet Tubman’s life and the important role she played in the abolitionist movement, it is necessary to examine the circumstances in which she was raised and what events drove her to the path she chose.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Christopher Columbus]]>Categories: Biography, Exploration, For Children, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-14-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“At two o'clock in the morning the land was discovered.... As I saw that they were very friendly to us, and perceived that they could be much more easily converted to our holy faith by gentle means than by force, I presented them with some red caps, and strings of beads to wear upon the neck, and many other trifles of small value, wherewith they were much delighted, and became wonderfully attached to us.” - Christopher Columbus’s diary, October 11-12, 1492 In Charles River Editors’ History for Kids series, your children can learn about history’s most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The most seminal event of the last millennium might also be its most controversial. As schoolchildren have been taught for over 500 years, “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” In October of that year, the Italian Christopher Columbus immortalized himself by landing in the New World and beginning the process of European settlement in the Americas for Spain, bringing the Age of Exploration to a new hemisphere with him.
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]]>Title: The Partition of the British Mandate of Palestine]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the United Nations Partition Plan and the Creation of the State of Israel]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Levant, Middle East, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-14-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is technically 69 years old and counting, but it has its roots in over 2,000 years of history. With so much time and history, the Middle East peace process has become laden with unique, politically sensitive concepts like the right of return, contiguous borders, secure borders, demilitarized zones, and security requirements, with players like the Quartet, Palestinian Authority, Fatah, Hamas, the Arab League and Israel. Over time, it has become exceedingly difficult for even sophisticated political pundits and followers to keep track of it all. Nearly a century before the state of Israel was founded in 1948, Palestine was under the control of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, consisting mostly of Arabs. During the 1850s, Jews began settling in small villages across the lands that once comprised Judea and Samaria, which the Jews considered their ancient Biblical homeland. These efforts to buy property were driven by the motivation of some Jews to help reestablish the land as the Jewish homeland. These Jews became known as Zionists, in reference to Zion, which is often thought of as a reference to all of Israel but is in fact a reference to part of Jerusalem.
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]]>Title: Norse Mythology: A Concise Guide to Gods, Heroes, Sagas, and Beliefs of Norse Mythology]]>Subtitle: Greek Mythology - Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology, Book 2]]>Series: #2 in Greek Mythology - Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology]]>Categories: Europe, Fiction, History, Scandinavia]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Tony Scheinman]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-14-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>An introduction to such a vast subject as Norse mythology can be problematic, as it could well fall between two stools; so packed with details as to put one off, or so vague, that one is none the wiser for having read it. This audiobook manages a pleasing balance, succeeds in whetting the appetite and supplying excellent resources for the listener who wishes to know more. You will hear about... The author quotes generously from the most important relevant source which is freely available via Project Gutenberg, and you are left with the sounds and taste of the times... ringing in your ears and tingling on your tongue.
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]]>Title: Mysterious Canada: A Collection of Hauntings, Mysteries, and Strange Creatures Across the Canadian Nation]]>Categories: America, Canada, History, Occult]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-13-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Canada has the reputation of being a boring place. More tranquil than its southern neighbor, it goes along in its quiet way sustaining one of the most stable and prosperous democracies in the world, and does so with little fuss or drama. It doesn't get in the news much, which considering the content of most news stories is a good thing. People get along, the economy is expanding, and there are no regular disasters. While all this makes Canada a pleasant place to live, it does not make it particularly interesting. But dig a little below the surface, and you'll find a different Canada, a stranger Canada, one of murder, mystery, and paranormal experiences. The stories that follow will show that Canada, far from being a dull, staid nation where nothing much happens, is an epicenter of the mysterious. Mysterious Canada: A Collection of Hauntings, Mysteries, and Strange Creatures Across the Canadian Nation offers a sampling of the many strange stories and unexplained phenomena that make Canada such an intriguing place.
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]]>Title: Vlad the Impaler]]>Subtitle: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History, Medieval]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Stephen Floyd]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-08-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The character of Count Dracula is well-known throughout the world. He is a dark, seductive, pale man wearing a cape. His gaze is quite literally captivating, and he has the strength of ten men. The story, written by Bram Stoker in 1897, has been retold hundreds of times, but is there a historical figure upon whom the character is based? Is there really a Dracula? Many scholars argue that Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad the Impaler, is the real Dracula. He was known in Western Europe for his cruelty, most especially his penchant for impaling his victims. He is said to have killed somewhere between 40,000 and 100,000 people during his crusade to stop the Ottoman Empire from expanding into Eastern Europe. He was equally harsh on the people he ruled and is said to have taken great pleasure in torturing his victims. Inside you will read about: His story, however, is much more complicated than the oft-reported details of his atrocities would imply. He lived in a time of conflict where many were equally as cruel, and he is viewed as a hero in Romania where he is remembered as a protector of his people.
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]]>Title: The Life and Legacy of James Joyce]]>Subtitle: Pioneer of Modern Literature]]>Categories: Author, Biography, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-06-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"His writing is not about something. It is that something itself." (Samuel Beckett, Joyce’s friend and secretary, about Finnegans Wake) James Joyce is the high priest of modernist writing who lived a life of endless sacrifice to literature, loaded with poverty and petty humiliations. He blazed the path of the writer as resolute individualist, rejecting all conformity and risking everything, even public shaming, in order to "communicate" over the supine body of language with his enthralled readers. He once remarked to his younger brother Stanislaus, “Don’t you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do? I mean that I am trying...to give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of everyday life into something that has a permanent artistic life of its own...for their mental, moral, and spiritual uplift.” Joyce pioneered modern literature through his use of stream of consciousness, a literary technique that lets readers get straight into the mind of the book’s characters and stands in stark contrast to Ernest Hemingway's "iceberg" style of leaving things to the readers' imaginations.
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]]>Title: Isaac Newton: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mark Rossman]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-06-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Isaac Newton seemed to be a most unwanted child of the world. Ignored by his mother, scorned by contemporaries, seemingly at war with the world in which he lived, Newton turned his energies to things unseen. His laws of motion and law of universal gravitation would set the stage for a most extraordinary life. Inside you will hear about.... Follow along as you travel from a rugged stone farmhouse to Trinity College, Cambridge to the halls of London exhibitions where Newton found himself the celebrity of the age. Looking back on Aristotle, and inspired by all that Galileo had brought the world, Newton made his life work much of what is heralded as the modern age. He saw what no one else did, and his vision saw into the universe. See how he did it, and why.
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]]>Title: British Legends: The Life and Legacy of King George III]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, Celebrity, Europe]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-03-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explains George III's role and policies during the American Revolution and Napoleonic Era. Discusses George III's mixed legacy and whether criticisms of it are fair. “I wish nothing but good; therefore, everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.” – King George III When he died in 1820, King George III had presided over the longest reign by a monarch in England’s history and ruled the British Empire during one of its most turbulent and important periods, but he was remembered by the unappealing sobriquets "The Mad King” and ”The King Who Lost America". The British remembered him based on the fact that he began suffering serious mental illnesses by the end of his life, and he was even more despised in America, with Jefferson summing up the public opinion of the British king in a letter to then-ambassador John Adams: "We I hope shall be left free to avail ourselves of the advantages of neutrality: and yet much I fear the English, or rather their stupid king, will force us out of it. (...) Common sense dictates therefore that they should let us remain neuter: Ergo they will not let us remain neuter.
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]]>Title: Ancient Rome: A History from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: Ancient Civilizations, Book 1]]>Series: #1 in Ancient Civilizations]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History, Italy, Rome]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Ronald Bruce Meyer]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 11-03-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Rome is a city of myth and legend. The Eternal City, the city of the seven hills, the sacred city, the caput mundi, the center of the world, Roma, Rome, by any of her many names is a city built of history and blood, marble and water, war and conquest. Inside you will hear about.... From legendary beginnings, a city rose from the swamp surrounded by the seven hills and split by the Tiber River. Built and rebuilt, a sacred republic and a divine empire, blessed by a thousand gods and by One, the story of her rise and fall has been told and retold for a thousand years and is still relevant in today's world, as echoes of her ancient glory have shaped our culture, laws, lifestyle, and beliefs in subtle and pervasive ways.
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]]>Title: Nikola Tesla: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Genius Inventor]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, STEM, United States of America]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 11-02-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the Captivating Life of Nikola Tesla! Obsessive, brilliant, and tortured, Nikola Tesla was lauded for his invention of the alternating current (AC) and other significant contributions to science. His claim that “harnessing the forces of nature was the only worthwhile scientific endeavor" both impressed and enraged the scientific community. Eventually his peers could no longer dismiss his eccentricities and began to view him as a crackpot - a potentially dangerous one. Although Tesla’s work was a major factor in the success of the second Industrial Revolution, he died alone, impoverished, and largely shunned by the scientific community that once hailed him a genius. Beset by visions, without a wife or children, Nikola Tesla’s brilliant mind changed the world, even though at the time of his death he passed unnoticed into obscurity. Some of the topics covered in this audiobook include: Listen to this audiobook now to learn more about Nikola Tesla.
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]]>Title: Bethlehem & Nazareth: The History and Legacy of Jesus Christ's Birthplace and Hometown]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Planet Earth, Rome]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-31-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Bethlehem is amongst the oldest cities in the world, one that has been conquered and ruled by Caananites, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Crusaders, the Mamluks of Egypt, and the Ottomans. In the last century alone, it has been controlled by various parties. The British took Bethlehem during World War I and controlled the city from 1920-1948, and in the wake of the 1948 war between Israel and its neighbors, Jordan annexed Bethlehem and controlled it until the Six Day War in 1967. It was during the Six Day War that Israel took control of Bethlehem, remaining in power over the city until 1995, when, in compliance with the Oslo Peace Accords, control of the city and of the surrounding West Bank was handed over to the Palestinian National Authority. What was it that caused this one small, unassuming settlement to be the focus of so much attention and strife? The primary reason that Bethlehem is so famous today is the Biblical passages that relate the town as the birthplace of Jesus Christ. Moreover, the oldest continuously used Christian church in the world is the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: An Illustrated Biography of Nikola Tesla for Children]]>Categories: Biography, For Children, History, North America, STEM]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-30-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature." (Nikola Tesla) In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Nikola Tesla was one of history's greatest scientists, and though he is best known for his pioneering work with electricity, the fact that he is mostly remembered solely for that actually does a disservice to his legacy. Born a Serb in the Austrian Empire, Tesla came to the United States and worked in a laboratory for none other than the Wizard of Menlo Park, Thomas Edison. It was through his work on behalf of Edison that Tesla flourished and became a well-known figure in his own right.
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]]>Title: The Age of Enlightenment: A History From Beginning to End]]>Categories: 18th Century, Europe, History, Modern]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: John Riddle]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-26-2017]]>Language: English
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of Spartacus]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Europe, Greece]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-26-2017]]>Language: English
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]]>Title: Pontiac: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Native American Chief]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Indigenous]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-23-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It is important for us, my brothers, that we exterminate from our lands this nation which seeks only to destroy us…. Therefore, my brothers, we must all swear their destruction and wait no longer. Nothing prevents us: They are few in numbers, and we can accomplish it." (Pontiac) Throughout history, there have been men of war and men of peace, but few have actually had a war named after them. One of them was Pontiac, also known as Obwandiyag, an Odawa chief who left his mark on history by continuing the battle against the British after their official triumph during the French and Indian War. While modern historians question how important Pontiac's role was in shaping America's destiny, his leadership during Pontiac's War was seen, at that time, as important enough to warrant significant articles and even a few 18th century books. Since these books were written by the British, or at least men who supported their cause, the descriptions of Pontiac were often not complimentary. Likewise, 19th century authors tended to portray him as something of an evil genius who plotted against the British and then drove his people into battle.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of James Dean]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-23-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." (James Dean) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. It would be no exaggeration to say that James Dean has been mythologized more than any other actor in history, a development due more to his off-screen personality and conduct than the films he actually starred in. Much of Dean's appeal derives from his humble and ordinary origins, and audiences are drawn to the romance of the Indiana farm boy who catapulted to the top of the motion picture industry in a single year - the same year that would see him die. Of course, James Dean remains well-known for being anything but humble and ordinary.
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]]>Title: Election 2012: The Lives of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney]]>Categories: America, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Ken Teutsch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-23-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>This audiobook comprehensively weaves the lives and careers of both candidates into one entertaining and educational narrative. In November 2012, Americans went to the polls to make yet another historic decision. Their choice was to reelect the nation's first African-American president or to elect the first Mormon president. Though Obama was still young by presidential standards, the biracial native of Hawaii had already traveled a great distance physically and spiritually, learning about himself and discovering his self-identity along the way. After receiving a blue chip education that took him to Harvard Law School and helped him become a law professor and community organizer in Chicago, he began a rapid ascent through state politics to become a US Senator in 2004. In 2012, America's first African-American president, Barack Obama, faced one of the least conventional Republican politicians the country ever had. From his Mormon faith to his governorship of the very blue Massachusetts, Mitt Romney left many on the right wondering whether he possessed the traditional conservative values that they deemed necessary, even as he spent two straight Republican primary seasons burnishing his conservative credentials.
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]]>Title: Decisive Moments in History: The Manhattan Project]]>Categories: America, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-20-2017]]>Language: English
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]]>Title: John F. Kennedy: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Series: #12 in Biographies of US Presidents]]>Categories: America, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Mark Wangerin]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-18-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>John F. Kennedy is the president that everyone knows. He was a rich man's son, an athlete, a war hero, a ladies' man, an author, a president - his face rendered forever young because the last time Americans saw him, he was riding in a convertible in Dallas, his glamorous wife at his side. Then the bullets struck, and the assassinated president became a legend, the truth of his life obscured by his tragic and untimely death. But JFK had more depth to his character than the magazine covers indicated. Inside you will hear about.... The rich man's son was the grandson of Irishmen who knew what it was to be denied jobs because Irish weren't welcome in Boston. The athlete suffered from poor health all his life, from a bad back to Addison's disease. The war hero whose PT-109 boat became part of his campaign legend was the son who survived; elder brother Joe, flying on a secret mission, was killed for his heroism. The ladies' man loved his wife, but fidelity was not a concept revered by the Kennedy men.
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]]>Title: The Order of the Holy Sepulchre]]>Subtitle: The History of the Catholic Order Established During the Crusades for the Promised Land]]>Categories: Christianity, Europe, History, Medieval, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-17-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me." (Luke 19:27) For centuries, Christians and Muslims were embroiled in one of the most infamous territorial disputes of all time, viciously and relentlessly battling one another for the Holy Land. In the heart of Jerusalem sat one of the shining jewels of the Christian faith, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Legend has it that this was where their Savior had been buried before his fabled resurrection. What was more, it was said to house the very cross Jesus Christ had died upon. It was for precisely these reasons that fearless pilgrims, near and far, risked their lives and made the treacherous trek to Jerusalem. Of course, this also made the basilica a perfect target, so much so that a powerful company of knights was founded to guard the church and defend its presence in the Promised Land. Though the Equestrian Knights of the Holy Sepulchre no longer sport the fancy coats of mail or shiny swords of their ancestors, their noble cause lives on, and they continue to aim to protect one of Christianity's holiest sites.
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]]>Title: The East India Company: A History From Beginning to End]]>Categories: 17th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: John Riddle]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-16-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Founded at the dawn of the 17th century as European nations were establishing global empires, the English East India Company would become a vital part of burgeoning British supremacy. Begun as a joint-stock company for trade with the East Indies, this organization would evolve into one of the world's first capitalistic corporations. Inside you will hear about.... Over the course of their 250+ years, they've built a global trading empire, raised an army and waged war, and conquered vast territory, including the entire subcontinent of India. Without their involvement, the British presence in India would look very different in the historical record. Though the company was dissolved by 1874, their influence on world history cannot be overstated.
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]]>Título: La Inquisición española [The Spanish Inquisition]]]>Subtitular: Historia y legado de la infame persecución de los herejes por la Iglesia Católica [The History and Legacy of the Infamous Persecution of Heretics by the Catholic Church]]]>Categorías: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, History, Medieval]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Nicolas Villanueva]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 10-16-2017]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>"La persecución no es una característica original de ninguna religión; pero es una característica extraordinariamente notable en todas las religiones legales o religiones establecidas por ley." (Thomas Paine, Los derechos del hombre) El camino hacia la edad moderna de armonía y aceptación cultural es una de las hazañas más hermosas del progreso humano, pero habiendo dicho esto, hubo un tiempo en que la simple duda de la existencia de una figura religiosa era no solo un crimen punible legalmente, sino que muy bien podía costarle a una persona la vida. Este era el crimen de herejía. Esta clase de persecución religiosa ha estado presente por miles de años, y los cristianos fueron con frecuencia sus víctimas, pero cuando la Iglesia Católica comenzó su rápida difusión a través de Europa durante la edad media, las cosas cambiaron. En 1184, el Papa Lucio III promulgó una bula papal que iba a desatar una larga tradición de caza de brujas, lo que dio como resultado el comienzo de la época de la Inquisición. Por un giro de los acontecimientos, los perseguidos se volvieron perseguidores.
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]]>Title: The Gallipoli Campaign of World War I]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Ottoman Empire's Lone Victory During the Great War]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kenneth Ray]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-13-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Early in the war, the Ottomans knew the Dardanelles strait would most certainly be attacked and had prepared significant defenses. The plan drafted by the then First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, was meant to destroy Ottoman defenses along the Dardanelles. However, Allied forces comprised of British, Irish, Australian, and New Zealand troops were unable to penetrate the Ottoman defenses, advancing only about 100 meters from the shores. The Ottomans, led by German General Liman von Sanders, further reinforced their positions. The later attempt of the British to establish a new beachhead was more successful, yet the British government refused to send significant reinforcements. In December 1915, what was certainly the most successful part of the Gallipoli offensive, the evacuation of the British forces began. The Ottomans' successful defense of the Dardanelles led to Churchill's resignation. More importantly, it bolstered the rising popularity of Mustafa Kemal, then Lieutenant Colonel, and offered hope that the Ottomans could indeed counter-balance their territorial losses. The successful defense of Gallipoli, however, convinced both Enver and Djemal that a second operation should be launched. Reinforcements arrived from Gallipoli and the Ottomans launched the second attempt in August 1916.
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]]>Title: Francis Marion: The Life and Legacy of the Revolutionary War's Legendary Swamp Fox]]>Categories: America, American Revolution, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-13-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"As for this damned old fox, the Devil himself could not catch him." - Colonel Banastre Tarleton "Well, now, this is exactly my case. I am in love; and my sweetheart is Liberty. Be that heavenly nymph my companion, and these wilds and Woods shall have charms beyond London and Paris in slavery. To have no proud monarch driving over me with his gilt coaches; nor his host of excise-men and tax-gatherers insulting and robbing me; but to be my own master, my own prince and sovereign, gloriously preserving my national dignity, and pursuing my true happiness; planting my vineyards, and eating their luscious fruits; and sowing my fields, and reaping the golden grain: and seeing millions of brothers all around me, equally free and happy as myself. 'This, sir, is What I long for." - A quote attributed to Francis Marion In 2000, The Patriot, starring Mel Gibson, captured the nation's attention with the highly dramatized story of an American patriot fighting the British in South Carolina during the American Revolution.
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]]>Title: Maya Civilization: A Captivating Guide to Maya History and Maya Mythology]]>Categories: Civilization, Education, History, Learning, Planet Earth]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-12-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In this captivating guide, you will discover why Maya have gained such worldwide admiration over the many other civilizations that existed in Mesoamerica at the time. You will learn how the Maya civilization developed, the major turning points in their 3,000-year-long history, the mysteries surrounding their demise, and some of the unique places where Maya exist to this day. In the first part of this audiobook, you will discover the origins of the Maya civilization and the Mesoamerican cultures that may have influenced them. You will find out why Maya (out of all the different tribes that existed in the region at the time) have captured the imagination of the West so much. The audiobook will reveal how they lived, ate, slept, whom they worshipped, and how they used herbal medicines and hallucinogenic plants to treat the sick. You learn about their trading routes and rivalries with another famous Mesoamerican tribe - the Aztecs. The audiobook will go into the decline of the Maya civilization and how their rivalries with the Aztecs aided the victory of the Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century, led by the famous Spaniard Hernán Cortés.
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]]>Title: North Korea: The History of the Notorious Hermit Kingdom]]>Categories: 20th Century, Asia, History, Korea]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-11-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"There is no force in the world that can block the powerful march of our army and people, who are holding high the banner of the suns of great Comrade Kim Il-sung and great Comrade Kim Jong-il and continuing to advance under the leadership of the party and with strong faith in sure victory." (Kim Jong-un) In 2014, the International Space Station unleashed a series of photographs that had netizens around the globe simultaneously slapping their cheeks in disbelief. They showed striking satellite shots of the world at nighttime, illuminated by its dazzling city lights. But it was a close-up snap of the China-North Korea border that elicited the biggest reactions, for the image, as terrific as it was, was equally troubling. The images show an enormous patch of pitch-blackness flanked by two sweeping stretches of gold, the coruscating clusters of light marking the largest cities in the land. On one side lay the shimmering Chinese territories, and the other, the glittering grounds of South Korea.
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]]>Title: Franklin Roosevelt]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Life of FDR]]>Categories: America, Education, History, Learning]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 10-06-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore how FDR went from almost dying at birth to leading the United States through the Great Depression and World War II As the 32nd president of the United States of America, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a common household name in both his home country and the world. Known as the man who led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, Roosevelt was a leader and a statesman, a scholar, and a politician. Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only president to have served for three consecutive terms and voted in for a fourth, a fact that allows him to stand out among the long list of American presidents. Outside of his role as president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt lived a full life. He was a father and a son, a husband and a career man. He was a bank officer and attended prestigious universities - Harvard University and Columbia University Law School - before practicing law. Additionally, he served as vice president for the Fidelity and Deposit Company. Perhaps most famously, Roosevelt served as governor of New York and president of the United States while he suffered from polio.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Kim Novak]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-05-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>From the moment the film industry became a burgeoning business that offered actresses an opportunity to seek fame and fortune, millions of girls across America have dreamed of making it big on screen, despite the long odds against them. And yet, among the few that have catapulted to superstardom, few did it as quickly, effortlessly, or as seemingly disinterestedly as Kim Novak. An art student in her early 20s, Novak found herself in Los Angeles by chance and appeared as an extra in a 1954 film to earn money, only to be almost immediately discovered by Columbia and turned into a star when she appeared in Picnic (1955). Just about every actress would kill to have the success Novak had during her first decade as an actress, but after 1965, she'd decided that she was mostly through with making films, despite still being near the peak of her career. After starring in The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965), Novak only made a dozen more films over the next 26 years, and she has not appeared in a movie since Liebestraum (1991).
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]]>Title: Titanic: The Story of the Unsinkable Ship]]>Categories: Engineering, History, Planet Earth, STEM]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: John Riddle]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 10-05-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It has been more than one hundred years since the RMS Titanic sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic ocean. The disaster has captivated history buffs and non-history buffs alike, and it is easy to see why. Some of the most illustrious people of the day were on board: some survived, and some did not. Legends abound about whether the ship's maiden voyage was cursed. And then there is the ship itself: arguably the most luxurious vessel to ever travel oversea.
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]]>Title: Antoni Gaudí: The Life and Legacy of the Architect of Catalan Modernism]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Spain, Visual Artist]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-05-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator." (Antoni Gaudí) Halfway into the 19th century, Spain's Catalonia underwent a sweeping transformation when it was thrust into not one, but two golden eras - the Renaixença and the Industrial Revolution. It was during this explosive period of creativity, thriving prosperity, and invigorated patriotism that a steadfastly nonconforming and fascinatingly eccentric icon was born, one that was about to take Catalonia by storm with his brilliant eye for unorthodox art and his legendary - or as some would say, notoriously - out-of-the-box ideas.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: A Biography of Harry Truman for Children]]>Categories: America, Biography, For Children, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-03-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Among America's presidents, Harry Truman's presidency produced some of the nation's most crucial decisions and left one of the nation's most unique legacies. When President Franklin Roosevelt died in April 1945, Vice President Truman, somewhat unprepared for the Presidency, now had to fill some of the biggest shoes in American history. Incredibly, Truman had not been informed of the country's secret attempt to build atomic bombs, confiding in his diary after learning about it, "We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesied in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark." The new president had to usher America through victory in Europe in his first month and decide to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki a few months later, but the end of World War II produced only the first of many consequential decisions Truman would face during his nearly eight years in office.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: A Biography of Lyndon B. Johnson for Children]]>Categories: Biography, For Children, History, North America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-02-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Of all the politicians who have left their mark on American history, few have had a political career or list of accomplishments and accolades that can even come close to rivaling Lyndon B. Johnson. Johnson is one of only four Americans to serve as a House Rep, US Senator, Vice President, and President, and he made the most out of each experience. The hard-nosed Texas Democrat became one of the legendary strongmen in the Senate, mastering that political body from 1949-1961 and spending six years as Senate Majority Leader, two as Senate Minority Leader, and two as Senate Majority Whip. A fateful chain of events propelled then propelled Johnson from Capitol Hill to the White House. After Johnson's failed run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, winner John F. Kennedy chose Johnson as his running mate over his brother Bobby's objections.
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]]>Title: Hancock the Superb: The Life and Career of General Winfield Scott Hancock]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-29-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"General Hancock is one of the handsomest men in the United States Army. He is tall in stature, robust in figure, with movements of easy dignity...in action...dignity gives way to activity; his features become animated, his voice loud, his eyes are on fire, his blood kindles, and his bearing is that of a man carried away by passion - the character of his bravery." (Regis de Trobriand) Winfield Scott Hancock was an intimidating figure who impressed friends, foes, and fellow generals alike. Known as Hancock the Superb after McClellan described his performance as such during the Battle of Williamsburg in the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, Hancock eventually rose to become the Army of the Potomac's greatest corps commander. Though his reputation and legacy gradually faded over time, Hancock was one of the North's foremost war heroes by the end of the war, and he nearly became president in 1880 when he was just barely defeated by a less decorated Civil War veteran, James Garfield. Nobody in the Army of the Potomac was in the thick of its biggest battles as often as Hancock and the men he commanded.
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]]>Title: Hollow Earth]]>Subtitle: A History of Strange Tales, Bizarre Beliefs, and Conspiracy Theories about the Earth's Core]]>Categories: 19th Century, 20th Century, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-29-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The world is filled with mysteries, and even in the modern age, much of the planet remains unexplored. The depths of the oceans and the intricate and extensive cave systems that honeycomb some parts of the Earth are still largely unknown. Thus, it should come as no surprise that when it comes to this terra incognita, people have projected all sorts of ideas. Tales of sunken cities or lost civilizations are just some of the fanciful theories, and those could even be considered tame in comparison to the idea that Earth is hollow and there's a whole other world, complete with alien beings, inside it. Despite this notion being rejected by the scientific community for at least 300 years, and despite the fact that geology, volcanology, oceanography, and physics have all proven that the planet does not have any substantial empty space inside of it, the idea of a hollow Earth continues to intrigue people and gain eager and sincere adherents.
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]]>Title: Kim Jong-Un: The Mysterious and Controversial Life of North Korea's Supreme Leader]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-29-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"There is no force in the world that can block the powerful march of our army and people, who are holding high the banner of the suns of great Comrade Kim Il Sung and great Comrade Kim Jong Il and continuing to advance under the leadership of the party and with strong faith in sure victory." (Kim Jong-Un) A tyrannical lineage secured by nepotism. An entire nation indoctrinated by chilling, mind-boggling propaganda, molded by fear and forced ignorance. Mass purges doled out seemingly on whims, without fair trials. Unparalleled paranoia and cold-blooded assassinations left and right, seemingly around every curve and corner. An impoverished sphere of barren wastelands inhabited by malnourished masses, orbiting a world glittering with the gross opulence and superfluous riches of the elite. These sound like the elements of a particularly perilous period of autocracy enforced by some mad monarch of a bygone era, or perhaps a generic blurb for a far-fetched thriller set in a dystopian future. Alas, in certain areas of the world, even to this day, these horrifically archaic conditions are anything but fiction.
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]]>Title: Hercules]]>Subtitle: The Origins and History of Ancient Mythology's Most Famous Hero]]>Categories: Ancient, Classic, Collection, Europe]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>There are few mythological characters that require less of an introduction than Hercules. His labors are known and have been reimagined by cultures far beyond their Greek beginnings, and he continues to influence modern culture in more ways than any other ancient Greek hero. What is curious about Hercules's character is that, despite his fame even in the ancient world, there was no authoritative source for his biography. The Library of Myths, commonly though falsely attributed to Apollodorus, is frequently used to illustrate the key episodes of Hercules's life. Despite being written at some time during the 2nd century CE, the Library encapsulates much of the conglomerate of popular tales that has become Hercules's vulgate biography. Ultimately, though these tales are well known, their true beauty lies in the social and religious influence of their telling and the historical memories that remain, to this day, as shadows in their lines. The truth is that Hercules's biography is an amalgamation of many myths from across the Mediterranean and beyond, with many mythographers seeing fit to include a symbol here and a descendent there according to the needs of the society at that time.
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]]>Title: The Black Hand]]>Subtitle: The History of the Secret Serbian Nationalist Group Whose Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Sparked World War I]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Although a couple of wars were fought on the European continent during the 19th century, an uneasy peace was mostly maintained across the continent for most of the 19th century after Napoleon. Despite this ostensible peace, the Europeans were steadily conducting arms races against each other, particularly Germany and Britain. Britain had been the world's foremost naval power for centuries, but Germany hoped to build its way to naval supremacy. The rest of Europe joined in on the arms race in the decade before the war started. With Europe anticipating a potential war, all that was missing was a conflagration. That would start in 1908, when Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Balkan Peninsula, drawing it into dispute with Russia. Moreover, this upset neighboring Serbia, which was an independent nation. The final straw came June 28, 1914, when a Serbian assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
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]]>Title: The Tanks of World War I]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Tank Warfare during the Great War]]>Categories: Europe, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-25-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>World War I, also known in its time as the "Great War" or the "War to End all Wars", was an unprecedented holocaust in terms of its sheer scale. Fought by men who hailed from all corners of the globe, it saw millions of soldiers do battle in brutal assaults of attrition which dragged on for months with little to no respite. Tens of millions of artillery shells and untold hundreds of millions of rifle and machine gun bullets were fired in a conflict that demonstrated man's capacity to kill each other on a heretofore unprecedented scale, and as always, such a war brought about technological innovation at a rate that made the boom of the Industrial Revolution seem stagnant. One of the most important breakthroughs in military technology associated with World War I, and certainly the one that continues to capture the public imagination, was the introduction of a war machine that came to dominate the face of land battles throughout most of the 20th century: the tank.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Attack on Pearl Harbor]]>Categories: America, For Children, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-25-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"We won a great tactical victory at Pearl Harbor and thereby lost the war." (Admiral Hara Tadaichi) All Americans are familiar with the "day that will live in infamy." At 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor, the advanced base of the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet, was ablaze. It had been smashed by aircraft launched by the carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. All eight battleships had been sunk or badly damaged, 350 aircraft had been knocked out, and over 2,000 Americans lay dead. Indelible images of the USS Arizona exploding and the USS Oklahoma capsizing and floating upside down have been ingrained in the American conscience ever since. In less than an hour and a half the Japanese had almost wiped out America's entire naval presence in the Pacific. Less than 24 hours earlier, Japanese and American negotiators had been continuing their diplomatic efforts to stave off conflict in the region, but as they did, President Roosevelt and his inner circle had seen intelligence reports strongly suggesting an imminent attack - though they did not know where.
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]]>Title: The Siege of Yorktown]]>Subtitle: The Greatest Revolutionary War Battles]]>Categories: America, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-25-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Yorktown was a former tobacco trading post now in decline, not much bigger than a large village. But Yorktown was tucked away on the northern edge of the York peninsula in rural Virginia, and in 1781 it became the site of a brief siege between two small armies, fought with all the decorum and formality of 18th century European warfare. About 5,000 British and Germans faced perhaps 18,000 Americans and French. After only three weeks the smaller garrison surrendered, tired and low on ammunition. Casualties for both sides totaled less than 1,000 dead and wounded. By contrast, at the siege of Stalingrad 161 years later, 107,000 Germans surrendered to one-point-two million Russians after five months of desperate fighting. At least a million died. At Waterloo in 1815, 190,000 troops slugged it out, leaving 14,000 dead in 10 hours. Another siege would take place at Yorktown during the Civil War 81 years after the more famous siege. Yorktown does not rank as a major military engagement by the conventional criteria of size, duration or casualties, but this small scale encounter was one of the most decisive battles in military history.
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]]>Title: Jackie Kennedy: A Captivating Guide to the Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]]>Categories: America, Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Duke Holm]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 09-25-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore the fascinating life of Jackie Kennedy! Without a doubt, the name Jacqueline Kennedy draws multiple thoughts to mind. She is, perhaps, most well-known for her service as the first lady of the United States when her husband, John F. Kennedy, took office as the president, and for her role in restoring the White House. Then, of course, other people remember Jackie for her role in the fashion industry, particularly her pink Chanel suit and matching pillbox hat, which became symbols of her husband's assassination. Jackie is so renowned and beloved that she ranks as one of the most popular first ladies. In fact, Jacqueline was named, in 1999, in Gallup's list of Most Admired Men and Women in 20th century America. While she made major impacts on the White House, Jackie was much more than her title of first lady. Some of the topics covered in this audiobook include:
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Life of Wyatt Earp]]>Categories: America, Biography, For Children, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Zarbock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Of all the colorful characters that inhabited the West during the 19th century, the most famous of them all is Wyatt Earp (1848-1929), who has long been regarded as the embodiment of the Wild West. Considered the toughest and deadliest gunman of his day. Earp symbolized the swagger, the heroism, and even the lawlessness of the West, notorious for being a law enforcer, gambler, saloon keeper, and vigilante. The Western icon is best known for being a sheriff in Tombstone, but before that he had been arrested and jailed several times himself, in one case escaping from prison, and he was not above gambling and spending time in houses of ill-fame.
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]]>Title: The History of Syria: 1900-2012]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Middle East, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>As one of the hottest political topics in the world today, nearly everyone is aware of the ongoing violence in Syria, between forces loyal to the regime of Bashar al-Assad and opposition looking to overthrow the regime. Within that narrative are a number of sensitive issues, including sectarian strife between the majority Sunni population and the Alawites, not to mention Christians. People may know what's going on in Syria today, but how did Syria get to where it is today, at the forefront of the Arab Spring? The history of Syria in the last century is one of turbulence, violence, and political intrigue, with local religious sects battling for control of the land while foreign powers vied to maintain influence over the region. What resulted was a toxic and twisted mess that has precipitously affected the entire region, from Israel and Lebanon to Iran and Iraq. The History of Syria: 1900-2012 comprehensively and descriptively unweaves the web, progressing through the history of Syria from the days of the Ottoman Empire to now, by examining all of the different religious, political, foreign, and military issues that affect Syria and are affected by Syria today.
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]]>Title: George Rogers Clark: The Life and Legacy of the Revolutionary War's Conqueror of the Old Northwest]]>Categories: America, American Revolution, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Includes Clark's quotes about his life and career Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia." - George Rogers Clark The last days of the colonial era in America seemed to spawn a number of Renaissance men, unique individuals who were as comfortable in a log cabin as a ballroom and could write as well as they could hunt. George Rogers Clark was one of these men, and in many ways he was a paler, less-accomplished version of his illustrious neighbor, George Washington. Like the Continental Army's leader, George Rogers Clark was an accomplished surveyor who helped map out their Virginia homeland, a good soldier, and an officer in the Virginia militia before and during the Revolutionary War. While Washington led the army, he tasked Clark with leading the American troops along the frontier border in that portion of Virginia that would one day become Kentucky. While he did not necessarily share Washington's success and military genius, Clark played a major part in winning the war, including capturing the important town of Kaskaskia, Illinois, then in the hands of the British, on July 4, 1778.
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]]>Title: An Illustrated Biography of Samuel Adams for Children]]>Subtitle: History for Kids]]>Categories: Biography, For Children, History, North America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-19-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. The American Revolution had no shortage of compelling characters with seemingly larger than life traits, including men like the multi-talented Benjamin Franklin, the wise Thomas Jefferson, the mercurial John Adams, and the stoic George Washington. But no Revolutionary leader has been as controversial as Samuel Adams, who has been widely portrayed over the last two centuries as America's most radical and fiery colonist. Among his contemporaries, Adams was viewed as one of the most influential colonial leaders, a man Thomas Jefferson himself labeled "truly the Man of the Revolution" and the one who the Boston Gazette eulogized as the "Father of the American Revolution." Adams was an outspoken opponent of British taxes in the 1760s, one of Boston's hardest working writers and orators, a leader of the Boston Caucus, active in the Sons of Liberty, and a political leader who organized large gatherings in settings like Faneuil Hall and the Old South Meeting House.
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]]>Title: A Timeline History of Hezbollah]]>Categories: History, Levant, Middle East, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-18-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The phrase "east meets west" is a worn cliché, but it is entirely appropriate for Lebanon, which is situated at the western end of the trade routes from Asia and the eastern end of the sea routes to Europe through the Mediterranean. It has thus bred seafarers and traders, and even today there is a widespread diaspora of Lebanese merchants. As one of the most diverse nations in the Middle East, Lebanon has at times enjoyed a strong reputation for its cultural history (with Beirut often being compared to Paris), but it has also experienced destructive conflicts sown by social, political and religious divides, both within itself and among its neighbors. All of these factors would ultimately contribute to the formation of Hezbollah ("The Party of God"), the Shi'ite militia that is now widely considered one of the most powerful non-state groups in the world. Though their name is instantly recognizable across much of the globe, the history of Hezbollah is extremely complex.
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]]>Title: Florence: The History and Legacy of the Birthplace of the Renaissance]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History, Renaissance, Rome]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-15-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When historians are asked to pick a point in history when western civilization was transformed and guided down the path to modernity, most of them point to the Renaissance. Indeed, the Renaissance revolutionized art, philosophy, religion, the sciences, and math, with individuals like Galileo, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Dante, and Petrarch bridging the past and modern society. Most historians credit the city-state of Florence as the starting place of the Italian Renaissance, a process carried out through the patronage and commission of artists during the late 12th century. If Florence is receiving its due credit, much of it belongs to the Medici family, a Florentine dynasty that ruled at the height of the Renaissance. The dynasty held such influence that some of its family members even became popes. Of all the fields that were advanced during the Renaissance, the period's most famous works were works of art, including iconic paintings, like Leonardo's Mona Lisa, and timeless sculptures, like Michelangelo's David. It is fitting that both Leonardo and Michelangelo were at times members of Lorenzo de Medici's court.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated History of the Boston Tea Party]]>Categories: America, For Children, History, North America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-13-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. In the years before the American Revolution, the disputes between the colonies and Great Britain produced no shortage of legendary events, all of which can be recited by schoolchildren from an early age, but none has been mythologized or misunderstood quite like the Boston Tea Party, colonial Boston's most unique act of (relatively) nonviolent protest. The formation of a group of Americans calling themselves the Tea Party in 2009, more than 235 years after the Boston Tea Party, is testament to the enduring legacy of that iconic moment in American history. On the night of December 16, 1773, a group of 30-130 men boarded the tea ship Dartmouth and two other ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor over the span of three hours in protest of the Tea Act of 1773. Agreement over what exactly happened ends there, but a number of legends have since popped up and become part of the common narrative.
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]]>Title: History for Kids]]>Subtitle: A History of Ancient Athens and Sparta for Children]]>Categories: Ancient, For Children, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Ken Teutsch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-13-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>For 2500 years, the Ancient Greeks have fascinated the West, who look to Greece as the creators of Western culture. Indeed, the Greeks revolutionized warfare, art, architecture, government, philosophy, and more. Of all the Greeks' accomplishments, many can be credited to the two most famous city-states of all: Athens and Sparta. The most unique city-state in Ancient Greece was Sparta, which continues to fascinate contemporaneous society. It is not entirely clear why Sparta placed such a great emphasis on having a militaristic society, but the result was that military fitness was a preoccupation from birth. If a Spartan baby did not appear physically fit at birth, it was left to die. Spartan children underwent military training around the age of 7 years old, and every male had to join the army around the age of 18. The Spartans, whose carefully constructed approach to warfare and - there is no other word for it - Spartan way of life, earned the grudging admiration of all of Greece and succeeded in establishing themselves in the years following the reforms of the semi-legendary ruler Lycurgus as the greatest military force in all of Hellas.
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]]>Title: Everything You Need to Know About 'The Prince']]>Categories: Europe, History, Political Science, Politics]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-12-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Niccolò Machiavelli was born in Florence on May 3, 1469, as Florence was undergoing its transition into the Renaissance, guided by the Medicis. Machiavelli was a public servant during the Republic, losing his office when the Medicis returned to power. Despite that, Machiavelli dedicated The Prince to the ruling Medici of the time, leading some today to still speculate whether the book was a satire. Regardless, The Prince remains one of the most influential political philosophies of history, and Machiavelli himself will forever be associated for the "ends justify the means" philosophy that he wrote about and which even today is called Machiavellian. The Prince was eventually published in 1532, though evidence exists that the manuscript was circulated before this point, which was deemed more polite than physical publication. Twenty-seven years later, in 1559, the text was, unsurprisingly, registered to the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (the Catholic Church's list of banned books) on the grounds of immorality. The text can generally be divided into four parts. Chapters 1-11 outline the different types of principalities, and the benefits and drawbacks of each, to "discuss how such principalities are to be ruled and preserved" (II.1).
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of General Douglas MacArthur]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-12-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Includes MacArthur's most colorful and inspiring quotes, including his Victory Broadcast after Japan's surrender and his Farewell Address to Congress. "There is no substitute for victory." - Douglas MacArthur A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Of all the military men America produced during the 19th and 20th centuries, it's hard to find one as important, successful and controversial as General Douglas MacArthur. The son of a Civil War veteran, MacArthur rose to become the most instrumental commander in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
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]]>Title: Farther Than Any Man]]>Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook]]>Categories: Adventure, Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Martin Dugard]]>Narrator: Jack Chekijian]]>Publisher: Tantor Audio]]>Release date: 09-12-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the annals of seafaring and exploration, there is one name that immediately evokes visions of the open ocean, billowing sails, visiting strange, exotic lands previously uncharted, and civilizations never before encountered - Captain James Cook. This is the true story of a legendary man and explorer. Noted modern-day adventurer Martin Dugard, using James Cook's personal journals, strips away the myths surrounding Cook's life and portrays his tremendous ambition, intellect, and sheer hardheadedness to rise through the ranks of the Royal Navy - and by his courageous exploits become one of the most enduring figures in naval history. Full of realistic action, lush descriptions of places and events, and fascinating historical characters such as King George III and the soon-to-be-notorious Master William Bligh, Dugard's gripping account of the life and death of Captain James Cook is a thrilling story of a discoverer hell-bent on going farther than any man.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: A History of Ancient Athens for Children]]>Categories: Ancient, For Children, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kenneth Ray]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-11-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Profiles some of the most famous Athenians, including Pericles, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, and more. Includes a Table of Contents. "We are children of the Greeks." - Alexander the Great In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Dominated to this day by the sprawling white marble complex of the Acropolis, Athens is a city which is immensely and rightly proud of its past. For a period of roughly three centuries, the polis of Athens stood, if not in a position of unchallenged supremacy among the cities of Hellas, then at the very least among its three most important polities.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Helen Keller]]>Categories: Biography, Coming of Age, Female Protagonist, For Children]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-11-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Perfect for ages 7-9 Includes some of Helen's most inspirational quotes. Includes Helen's writings and explanations about how she overcame her disabilities. "Most people measure their happiness in terms of physical pleasure and material possession. Could they win some visible goal which they have set on the horizon, how happy they could be! Lacking this gift or that circumstance, they would be miserable. If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep. If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life, - if, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing." - Helen Keller In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. To say Helen Keller is one of the most unique figures in American history would be an understatement.
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]]>Title: A History of Ancient Sparta for Children]]>Categories: Ancient, For Children, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kenneth Ray]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-05-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The walls of Sparta were its young men, and its borders the points of their spears." - attributed to King Agesilaus In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive audiobook will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. There have been no shortage of great warrior societies in history, including the Romans, Mongols, Macedonians, and Vikings - the list goes on. Yet one humble city in particular, nestled in a valley near the Eurotas River in the Greek region of the Peloponnese, and once ridiculed as little more than a cluster of villages inhabited by uncouth shepherds, produced the most famous warrior elite the world has ever known. The most unique city-state in Ancient Greece was Sparta, which continues to fascinate contemporaneous society. It is not entirely clear why Sparta placed such a great emphasis on having a militaristic society, but the result was that military fitness was a preoccupation from birth. If a Spartan baby did not appear physically fit at birth, it was left to die.
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]]>Title: The Vatican and the Holy See]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Roman Catholic Church's Governing Body]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-04-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Every year, millions visit a stunning circuit board city starring gorgeous collections of interconnected rectangular buildings and charming houses in shades of beige, sandy-brown, and other earthy tones. Zoom in a little closer, and one can see the Renaissance-style exterior of its buildings and the exquisite detail captured in the statues mounted on the tops of its palaces and cathedrals. Take a gander through the doors inside these historic places, and one enters a whole new world even more mesmerizing than the view of the city bathed in the peach and purple tints of sunset. Nested inside Rome, this spellbinding destination is none other than Vatican City. The Vatican is an enchanting backdrop often found in literature, music, and the shimmering silver screen for good reason. Of course, being the smallest independent sovereignty in the world at just 44 hectares is a selling point that only scratches the surface. As the centuries-old home of the Catholic Church, its engrossing, eventful history, not to mention the rich and varied artwork and architecture contained within, ensures the influence and importance of the Vatican far surpasses its size.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Stephen Douglas]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-01-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explains the central issues of the 1850s, including the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott Decision. "Now, I hold that Illinois had a right to abolish and prohibit slavery as she did, and I hold that Kentucky has the same right to continue and protect slavery that Illinois had to abolish. I hold that New York had as much right to abolish slavery as Virginia has to continue it, and that each and every State of this Union is a sovereign power, with the right to do as it pleases upon this question of slavery, and upon all its domestic institutions.
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]]>Title: Thomas Jefferson: A Life from Beginning to End]]>Subtitle: One Hour History: US Presidents, Book 4]]>Series: #4 in One Hour History US Presidents]]>Categories: 18th Century, America, Biography, Head of State]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Derek Jeck]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-31-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>At a White House dinner in 1962 honoring the Nobel Prize winners of the Western Hemisphere, President John Kennedy greeted them by saying: "I want to tell you how welcome you are to the White House. I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." The laureates might have been a trifle nonplussed to hear themselves collectively compared to one man, but Thomas Jefferson left his imprint on his state of Virginia; his young country, the United States; France, where he served as ambassador; and the world, where his opposition to tyranny and his advocacy of freedom have inspired generations to believe that the pursuit of happiness, as he wrote in his Declaration of Independence, is an unalienable right. You will hear about.... Jefferson himself opted for less opulent praise; the epitaph that he composed for his tombstone accommodated space for the dates of his birth and death, and listed the following accomplishments: author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.
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]]>Title: The Tiananmen Square Massacre]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Chinese Government's Crackdown on the 1989 Protests]]>Categories: 20th Century, Asia, China, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-31-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On June 5, 1989, a petrifying procession of Type 59 tanks with bright red stars emblazoned on the sides rolled down the eerily vacant streets of Chang'an Avenue, headed towards Tiananmen Square. Photographer Jeff Widener, along with the disorderly rabble of the media, public, and protesters, watched with bated breath, some from the sidelines, and some from the windows of buildings and nearby establishments. Suddenly, the buzz of panic turned into a chorus of disbelieving gasps. A man by his lonesome, dressed in a white cotton blouse and a pair of black slacks, casually strolled into the street, two shopping bags swinging in hand. Some were bewildered by the thought of the man foolishly attempting to cross the road at the worst possible time, but when this man deliberately stopped in the path of the tanks, there was a beat of stunned silence. The man, perhaps unaware of the thousands of eyes fixated on him, coolly stared down the tanks as their treads slowly grinded to a halt, one at a time.
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]]>Title: Woodrow Wilson]]>Subtitle: A Life From Beginning to End]]>Series: #9 in Biographies of US Presidents]]>Categories: America, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Derek Jeck]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-31-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Before Woodrow Wilson was president of the United States, he was the president of Princeton University and the only occupant of the White House to hold a PhD. But before he became a university professor, he was a 12-year old boy who didn't know how to read. The reformer who challenged the corrupt party bosses to fight for legislation that gave ordinary Americans a seat at the table was also the president who provided us with one of our greatest Oval Office mysteries: when he had a massive stroke during his second term, and was out of communication with Congress, was the First Lady covertly running the country for him? In this book you will learn about:
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Lives of Julius Caesar & Cleopatra]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, For Children, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-29-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Her beauty, as we are told, was in itself not altogether incomparable, nor such as to strike those who saw her; but converse with her had an irresistible charm, and her presence, combined with the persuasiveness of her discourse and the character which was somehow diffused about her behavior towards others, had something stimulating about it. There was sweetness also in the tones of her voice; and her tongue, like an instrument of many strings, she could readily turn to whatever language she pleased." (Plutarch) Possibly the most important man of antiquity, and even all of history, was Julius Caesar. Alexander Hamilton, the famous American patriot, once remarked that "the greatest man who ever lived was Julius Caesar". Such a tribute, coming from one of the Founding Fathers of the quintessential modern democracy in reference to a man who destroyed the Roman Republic, is testament to the enduring mark that Caesar left upon the world.
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]]>Title: Biafra]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Secessionist Republic of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War]]>Categories: 20th Century, Africa, History, Modern, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-29-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"[A] cardinal principle of British colonial policy [is] that the interests of a large native population shall not be subject to the will...of a small minority of educated and Europeanized natives." - Lord Frederick Lugard Nigeria was the creation of a British businessman by the name of Sir George Taubman Goldie. The gifted son of a substantial Manx military officer and politician, Goldie was educated at the prestigious Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, after which he served briefly in the army before embarking on a journey of adventure to West Africa. The year was 1877, and the West African coast was sub-divided into the spheres of influence of various European trading concerns, and while some exploration of the interior had taken place, the European rush to claim the region had yet to begin in earnest. Nigeria was an unpopular destination for European settlement, thanks to its punishing climate and proliferation of tropical disease, so it saw very little direct European influence. Europeans were posted to Nigeria or sought employment purely to satisfy the needs of administration, and, of course, the various Christian missionary organizations were led largely by whites.
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]]>Title: Latin American Revolutionaries]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of Hugo Chavez]]>Categories: America, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-28-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world." (Hugo Chávez, address to the United Nations, September 20, 2006) The above quote is quintessentially Chávez - controversial, shocking, and designed to cause a stir. He shared his words with the entire United Nations General Assembly at a time when the United States was embroiled in two failing war efforts and its banks were inching ever closer towards the economic crisis of 2008. Yet Chávez shared his beliefs fearlessly, confident enough with his presidency and his role on the world's stage to criticize the US president in a way that had never been done before at the UN. Understandably, Chávez is one of the most divisive and controversial political figures in Latin American history. He has been in power since 1999 and is South America's longest serving head of state. The leader of the movement towards 21st century socialism, Chávez has sought to bring socialist reform to Venezuela through what he calls the Bolivarian Revolution.
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]]>Title: The Illustrated Life of Cleopatra]]>Subtitle: History for Kids]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Coming of Age, Female Protagonist]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-28-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>This audiobook discusses some of the popular myths and legends surrounding Cleopatra's life, including her heritage, how she died, and more. "Her beauty, as we are told, was in itself not altogether incomparable, nor such as to strike those who saw her - but to converse with her had an irresistible charm, and her presence, combined with the persuasiveness of her discourse and the character which was somehow diffused about her behavior towards others, had something stimulating about it. There was sweetness also in the tones of her voice - and her tongue, like an instrument of many strings, she could readily turn to whatever language she pleased..." - Plutarch In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise, but comprehensive audiobook, will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. During one of the most turbulent periods in the history of Rome, men like Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian participated in two civil wars that would spell the end of the Roman Republic, and determine who would become the Roman emperor.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Julius Caesar]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, For Children, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-28-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Possibly the most important man of antiquity, and even all of history, was Julius Caesar. Alexander Hamilton, the famous American patriot, once remarked that "the greatest man who ever lived was Julius Caesar". Such a tribute, coming from one of the Founding Fathers of the quintessential modern democracy in reference to a man who destroyed the Roman Republic, is testament to the enduring mark that Caesar left upon the world. The ultimate conqueror, statesman, dictator, visionary, and opportunist, during his time in power Caesar expanded the borders of Rome to almost twice their previous size, revolutionized the infrastructure of the Roman state, and destroyed the Roman Republic for good, leaving a line of emperors in its place. His legacy is so strong that his name has become, in many languages, synonymous with power: the Emperors of Austria and Germany bore the title Kaiser, and the Czars of Russia also owe the etymology of their title to Caesar.
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]]>Title: The East African Campaign of World War I]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Allied Victory over Germany in East Africa]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-23-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions, but by iron and blood." - German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. World War I, also known in its time as the "Great War" or the "War to End all Wars," was an unprecedented holocaust in terms of its sheer scale. Fought by men who hailed from all corners of the globe, it saw millions of soldiers do battle in brutal assaults of attrition which dragged on for months, with little to no respite. Tens of millions of artillery shells and untold hundreds of millions of rifle and machine gun bullets were fired in a conflict that demonstrated man's capacity to kill each other on a heretofore unprecedented scale, and as always, such a war brought about technological innovation at a rate that made the boom of the Industrial Revolution seem stagnant. World War I was the first truly industrial war, and it created a paradigm which reached its zenith with World War II, and towards which virtually all equipment, innovation, and training were dedicated throughout the Cold War and the remainder of the 20th century.
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]]>Title: Kandahar]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of One of Afghanistan's Oldest Cities]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Middle East, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-23-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The city of Kandahar dates back to the middle of the first millennium BCE, originally as a Persian town on the edge of the great Registan Desert in southeastern Afghanistan, that was reestablished and repopulated by Alexander the Great in the BCE fourth century. The ancient site of Kandahar developed on a rocky ridge some three kilometers to the west of the present-day city of the same name, which was founded in the 18th century. Kandahar was strategically located on the trade routes connecting India and the Middle East, and for this reason it was the target of many conquerors throughout the ages. The city has been in the hands of Persians, Greeks, Arabs (from the seventh century), Turks (10th century), Mongols (12th century), and Indians (16th century). Later, it was conquered by the Safavid-Persians and the Ghilji, a tribe instrumental in the emergence of the modern state of Afghanistan. Nonetheless, as one writer put it, "The Arab Muslim armies that arrived in the seventh century were following the routes used previously by Persian and Greek invaders, but none of these empires, or the nearly 20 empires and dynasties that came late, found Afghanistan easy to conquer and control.
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]]>Title: Indentured Labor]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Use of Indentured Workers in the Modern Era]]>Categories: 19th Century, Europe, History, Modern, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-23-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It has often been said that the greatest invention of all time was the sail, which facilitated the internationalization of the globe and thus ushered in the modern era. Columbus' contact with the New World, alongside European maritime contact with the Far East, transformed human history, and in particular, the history of Africa. It was the sail that linked the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe, and thus it was also the sail that facilitated the greatest involuntary human migrations in history. The internationalization of the general European economy began with European global expansion, and the acquisition and exploitation of external colonies. In the case of Britain, this began with the 13 colonies that became the United States, and the establishment of Prince Rupert Land as the basis of the future Canada. The most lucrative European acquisitions in the New World however, at least in the early centuries of colonization, proved to be the Caribbean islands, and the South American mainland associated with the Caribbean.
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]]>Title: British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Anne Boleyn]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Female Protagonist, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-22-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"To us she appears inconsistent - religious yet aggressive, calculating yet emotional, with the light touch of the courtier, yet the strong grip of the politician - but is this what she was, or merely what we strain to see through the opacity of the evidence? As for her inner life, short of a miraculous cache of new material, we shall never really know. Yet what does come to us across the centuries, is the impression of a person who is strangely appealing to the early 21st century: A woman in her own right - taken on her own terms in a man's world; a woman who mobilized her education, her style, and her presence to outweigh the disadvantages of her sex; of only moderate good looks, but taking a court and a king by storm.
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]]>Title: Legends of The Enlightenment: The Life and Legacy of Frederick the Great]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Germany, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-21-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"A single Voltaire will do more honor to France than a thousand pedants, a thousand false wits, a thousand great men of inferior order." - King Frederick II of Prussia Europe has had no shortage of military heroes, political geniuses, and towering intellects, but no ruler combined all those traits as successfully as King Frederick II of Prussia, whose feats in battle were matched only by his enlightened rule. Growing up with an ear for music and an eye for art, the prince who would have eschewed the art of war, nevertheless became one of the most adept and brilliant military commanders of the 18th century, helping to expand his kingdom's borders, while modernizing the state within. When Frederick ascended to his throne, Prussia was a loosely scattered kingdom of provinces in modern Germany, culturally and technologically inferior to Enlightened France, and Great Britain to the west. In the process of expanding and consolidating his kingdom, Frederick would go about revolutionizing and modernizing the Prussian Army, ultimately making it a critical player during the Napoleonic Era, a generation later. In the process of building and modernizing his kingdom, Frederick epitomized the essence of an enlightened ruler.
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]]>Title: The World's Greatest Generals]]>Subtitle: The Life and Career of Stonewall Jackson]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-21-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Of all the Civil War generals, none have been mythologized like Stonewall Jackson, whose quirks and piety have made him a subject of study among military historians and Christians alike. This audiobook closely examines Jackson’s military career and discusses the legends and mystique that have since surrounded his legacy, but it also humanizes the devoutly religious and tender husband who humored his students at Virginia Military Institute, loved his family, never cursed, and treated strangers with the utmost respect. Along with pictures of Jackson and other important people and events in his life, you will learn about Stonewall like you never have before, in no time at all.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Sitting Bull]]>Categories: America, Biography, For Children, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-18-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Perfect for ages 7-9. Includes oral legends about Sitting Bull and the Sioux. Explains the Battle of the Little Bighorn and George Custer. "When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent 10,000 men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?" - Sitting Bull In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise, but comprehensive audiobook, will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. In 1872, during a fight along the Yellowstone River between U.S. troops protecting railroad workers and Sioux warriors, one of the Sioux did something both unusual and inspiring.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Renaissance: The Lives and Legacies of Ferdinand & Isabella]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Female Protagonist, History, Royalty]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-17-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? When historians are asked to pick a point in history when Western civilization was transformed and guided down the path to modernity, most of them point to the Renaissance. Indeed, the Renaissance revolutionized art, philosophy, religion, sciences and math, with individuals like Galileo, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Dante, and Petrarch bridging the past and modern society. In Charles River Editors' Legends of the Renaissance, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of the most important men and women of the Renaissance in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, given the title the "most Catholic monarchs" by the Pope during their reign over Spain, are often blamed for some of the greatest atrocities in history. Remembered primarily for commissioning Christopher Columbus's historical voyage to the New World in 1492, they have been assigned blame for the results of the Spanish Conquest, particularly the catastrophes that befell the Native Americans of the New World.
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]]>Title: The Yom Kippur War]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and Its Impact on the Middle East Peace Process]]>Categories: History, Levant, Middle East, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-10-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means." - Carl von Clausewitz, On War. In May 2011, President Barack Obama gave speeches about the Middle East that discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, using terms like "final status issues," "1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps," and "demographic realities." Obama's speeches were strongly denounced by both the Palestinians and the Israelis, while political commentators across the world debated what Obama's speeches actually meant. Welcome to the Middle East conflict, a conflict that is technically 63 years old and counting but has its roots in over 2,000 years of history. With so much time and history, the peace process has become laden with unique, politically sensitive concepts, like the right of return, contiguous borders, secure borders, demilitarized zones, and security requirements, with players like the Quartet, Palestinian Authority, Fatah, Hamas, the Arab League, and Israel. Over time, it has become exceedingly difficult for even sophisticated political pundits and followers to keep track of it all. On October 6, 1973, Syria and Egypt caught Israel off guard during the Jewish holy holiday of Yom Kippur, surprise attacking the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Battles of Lexington & Concord]]>Categories: America, For Children, History, Military, North America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-10-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise, but comprehensive audiobook, will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. April 19, 1775, was the most momentous day in American history. Over the course of nearly 18 hours, a morning that began with midnight riders spreading an alarm about a British raid headed for Concord, would lead to the British column fleeing for their lives, back to the vicinity of Boston, as thousands of militiamen headed to cut them off and surround them. By the time the sun went down, 10 years of strife between the 13 colonies and Great Britain finally boiled over into pitched battle, and a revolution. In the wake of the revolution, the importance of April 19, 1775, became clear to everyone, and the legends and mystique surrounding that day have grown ever since. That day made an icon out of Paul Revere, who would have been greatly surprised at the end of his life, if he had known he would become famous for his midnight ride.
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]]>Title: The Shipwreck of the MV Dunedin Star]]>Subtitle: The History of the Famous British Ship During World War II]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-10-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The U-boat can fairly be described as Hitler's last card, and he will play it for all he is worth." - Sir Stafford Cripps On the morning of November 9, 1942, the Dunedin Star, a 13,000-ton refrigerated cargo ship, was tugged off her moorings, and nudged into the mouth of the Mersey River, that iconic entranceway to Liverpool Harbor, and the British gateway to the outside world. On her port side, Fort Perch hung ghostly and silent in the dawn light, and the old Leashow Lighthouse blinked forlornly on the North Wirral headland. As she passed the harbor walls and entered open water, the harbor pilot shook the captain's hand and wished him Godspeed, before clambering down to the pilot boat, chugging softly alongside the ship. Orders were given, and in the engine room, the great wheels began to turn. Under power, the Dunedin Star passed alongside the Liver Building and the low bluffs of Crosby, before gliding out into the shipping lanes.
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]]>Title: Legendary Explorers: The Life and Legacy of Francisco Pizarro]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Exploration, Explorer]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-09-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? The Age of Exploration and the explorers who set out on their history-making expeditions left many legacies and profoundly influenced history around the world. The voyages of men like Columbus and the conquests of men like Cortés had dramatic consequences for the natives, escalated tensions between the European nations, initiated imperialistic empires on a global scale, helped birth the United States, and ensured that the wars in the 20th century were truly world wars. In Charles River Editors' Legendary Explorers series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of the most important explorers of history in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. During the Age of Exploration, some of the most famous and infamous individuals were Spain's best known conquistadors. Naturally, as one of the best known conquistadors, Francisco Pizarro (1471/6-1541) is also one of the most controversial.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Battle of Bunker Hill]]>Categories: Biography, For Children, History, Military, North America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-09-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Includes accounts of the fighting written by witnesses and soldiers. In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. On April 19, 1775, the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired at Lexington, officially starting the Revolutionary War between the colonists and the British Empire. Though Lexington and Concord were the scenes of the first fighting, contingency plans had been made on both sides for war, and immediately after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the colonial militia men who had poured in from across the countryside converged on Boston, which at the time was a peninsula with a small neck attaching it to the rest of Massachusetts. With the Charles River surrounding it on three sides, Boston was an ideal city to lay siege to. Initially, the militias blocked off the land approaches to Boston, but when 4,500 more British soldiers arrived by sea, the American forces fell back to adjacent hills on the Charlestown Peninsula, Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Lives of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse]]>Categories: Biography, Cultural Heritage, For Children, History, North America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-09-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Perfect for ages 7-9. Includes oral legends about Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and the Sioux. Explains the Battle of the Little Bighorn. In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise, but comprehensive audiobook, will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Like Geronimo in the southwest during the same era, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse were warriors and leaders of different groups of Lakota (Sioux), who fought in several skirmishes against settlers and U.S. forces across the Plains, during the 1860s and 1870s.
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]]>Title: The Porcelain Tower of Nanjing]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of One of China's Most Famous Buildings]]>Categories: Asia, China, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-08-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The tremendous temples, captivating churches, magnificent mosques, and palatial places of worship around the world come in all shapes and sizes, and pay tribute to an array of gods and deities, but they all share one thing in common. These glorious structures, the pride and joy of a religion, are sacred spaces for prayer, meditation, and the veneration of one's god or gods. As such, they are designed and adorned with the most divine and irreplaceable hallmarks to honor their holy fathers and mothers. While the world today is a far cry from perfect, laws, for the most part, protect these places from those who hold misguided beliefs, or harbor misplaced resentment towards its communities. The oppression of religious groups is a sin only few nations are not guilty of, at some point in time. It is also an archaic mindset many would like to believe has been left in the past, and has since evolved. While not yet nonexistent, they are arguably much more subtle in most developed countries today.
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]]>Title: Winston Churchill]]>Subtitle: A Captivating Guide to the Life of Winston Churchill]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History, Modern]]>Author: Captivating History]]>Narrator: Sean Daily]]>Publisher: Captivating History]]>Release date: 08-08-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explore how Churchill went from schoolboy failure to wartime hero. As a British politician who was well known for serving twice as prime minister for the United Kingdom, and as an infamous war organizer, leader Winston S. Churchill filled his long life with achievements and recognition, plotted throughout every modern history book. Most famously, he led Great Britain into victory over Nazi Germany during World War II in his first run as prime minister, and played an essential role in negotiating peace once the war reached an unsteady end. Commonly, his name is associated as one of the "Big Three", alongside United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin. In unity, the three men helped lead the world to a resolution from the violence and terror that reigned in World War II. Any general biography of Winston S. Churchill will provide an overview of his greatest achievements, but Churchill had other goals and desires that are often ignored and forgotten. What were they? Churchill had a family - a childhood and children of his own - and a political career that began at a young age.
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]]>Title: The Popol Vuh]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Maya's Creation Myth and Epic Legends]]>Categories: America, Ancient, History, Indigenous]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-08-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Many ancient civilizations have influenced and inspired people in the 21st century. The Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate the West today. But of all the world's civilizations, none have intrigued people more than the Mayans, whose culture, astronomy, language, and mysterious disappearance all continue to captivate people. In 2012 especially, there was a renewed focus on the Mayans, whose advanced calendar led many to speculate the world would end on the same date the Mayan calendar ends. The focus on the "doomsday" scenario, however, overshadowed the Mayans' true contribution to astronomy, language, sports, and art. Unlike most of the world's sacred books - the Quran, the Bible or the I-Ching for example - nobody knows the universal name, if there ever was one, for the Maya's collection of myths. Instead, the title that has been passed down, the "Popol Vuh", appears to be the specific title given to a particular copy of these tales. Its meaning, roughly translated as the Council Book, refers to the special role of this text: it was the shared property of the council of lords that ruled the Quiché kingdom and was apparently regularly consulted by that body for advice to guide their rule.
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]]>Title: Benedict Arnold]]>Subtitle: A Life From Beginning to End]]>Series: #5 in American Revolutionary War]]>Categories: America, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Hourly History]]>Narrator: Derek Jeck]]>Publisher: Hourly History]]>Release date: 08-07-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Benedict Arnold: a name that has become synonymous with betrayal. However, this wasn't always the case. At one time he was General (and future first president) George Washington's trusted advisor in the struggle against the British. What caused this turncoat to turn his revolutionary ambitions inside out to match the crimson of the British? What brought on one of the most famous treacheries in history? Inside you will learn about:
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]]>Title: A Confederate Cannoneer at Gettysburg: The Life and Career of Edward Porter Alexander]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Zarbock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-04-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the narrative of the Civil War, Edward Porter Alexander has loomed larger in death than in life. Just 25 years old when the war broke out, Porter Alexander had already served as an engineer and officer in the US Army, but the native Georgian resigned his commission in May 1861 and joined the Confederacy after his home state seceded. Porter Alexander spent 1861 as an intelligence officer, and he served as part of a signal guard, but he soon became chief of ordnance for Joseph Johnston's army near Richmond. Half a year later, Johnston would be injured during the Peninsula Campaign at the Battle of Seven Pines, after which he was replaced by Robert E. Lee. Over the course of 1862, Porter Alexander took on more roles in the Army of Northern Virginia's artillery branch, particularly under James Longstreet's 1st Corps. Though he participated in several battles, he played his biggest role at the Battle of Gettysburg. On the third day, Lee decided to make a thrust at the center of the Union's line with about 15,000 men spread out over three divisions.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Lives of Archimedes and Leonardo Da Vinci]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, For Children, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-03-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. Over 1500 years before Leonardo Da Vinci became the Renaissance man, antiquity had its own in the form of Archimedes, one of the most famous ancient Greeks. An engineer, mathematician, physicist, scientist, and astronomer all rolled into one, Archimedes has been credited for making groundbreaking discoveries, some of which are undoubtedly fact and others that are almost certainly myth. Regardless, he's considered the first man to determine a way to measure an object's mass, and also the first man to realize that refracting the sun's light could burn something, theorizing the existence of lasers over two millennia before they existed.
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]]>Title: The Partition of British India]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Division of the British Raj into India and Pakistan]]>Categories: Asia, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-02-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Beyond its obvious influence in areas like trade and commerce, the East India Company also served as a point of cultural contact between Western Europeans, South Asians, and East Asians. Quintessentially British practices such as tea drinking were made possible by East India Company trade. The products and cultural practices traveling back and forth on East India Company ships from one continent to another also reconfigured the way societies around the globe viewed sexuality, gender, class, and labor. On a much darker level, the East India Company fueled white supremacy and European concepts of Orientalism. Ultimately, the company's activity across the Indian subcontinent led to further British involvement there, and the British Raj, a period of British dominance and rule over India that formally began in 1857 and lasted until 1947, remains a highly debated topic amongst historians, political scientists, the British people, and the people of modern India. Thanks to its commercial complexion and the power invested in a board of directors, British rule in India was characterized by economic monopolies, aggressive trade practices, punitive taxation, and the impoverishment of vast regions of India.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Archimedes]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, For Children, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-02-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Over 1500 years before Leonardo Da Vinci became the Renaissance Man, antiquity had its own in the form of Archimedes, one of the most famous Ancient Greeks. An engineer, mathematician, physicist, scientist, and astronomer all rolled into one, Archimedes has been credited for making groundbreaking discoveries - some of which are undoubtedly fact and others that are almost certainly myth. Regardless, he's considered the first man to determine a way to measure an object's mass, and also the first man to realize that refracting the Sun's light could burn something, and theorizing the existence of lasers over two millennia before they existed.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Ronald Reagan]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-02-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In the famous movie Back to the Future, Marty McFly travels back to 1955, and, in an attempt to convince his friend Doc Brown that he is from 1985, tells the 1955 version of Doc Brown that Ronald Reagan is president. Doc looks at him incredulously and laughs, chortling, "Ronald Reagan? The actor?" Of course, the joke was on Doc Brown. In a story that could have come straight out of Hollywood, the golden actor went from the silver screen to California politics to become governor and eventually the 40th President.
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]]>Title: The Roman Catacombs: The History and Legacy of Ancient Rome's Most Famous Burial Grounds]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Planet Earth, Rome]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-28-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>An inexplicable draft of wind dances across the dirt floors of the narrow passageway, which seems to stretch on with no end. The flickering flames of the torches mounted onto the rough, sandpaper-like walls of stone create eerie shadows on the dirt floors. One can hear the disembodied whispers intermingling with the chill of the musty air, prompting the hair on many people's arms to raise. Logically speaking, this is nothing more than the trick of the mind, but the whispers unquestionably feel tangible and real, especially considering the visitor is in the company of thousands upon thousands of corpses stacked onto the walls from floor to ceiling. This kind of imagery is often what springs to mind at the mention of the Roman catacombs, but there was so much more to these underground cemeteries. As Roman law forbade its citizens from burying their dead within the city walls, the roads of the Appian Way became dotted with, and later completely flanked by tombs of all sizes. Those from the upper echelons of society constructed extravagant tombs and magnificent mausoleums for their families and future descendants.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Maya, the Inca, and the Aztec]]>Categories: America, Ancient, History, Indigenous, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. Many ancient civilizations have influenced and inspired people in the 21st century. The Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate the West today. But of all the world's civilizations, none have intrigued people more than the Mayans, whose culture, astronomy, language, and mysterious disappearance all continue to captivate people. From the moment Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes first found and confronted them, the Aztecs have fascinated the world, and they continue to hold a unique place both culturally and in pop culture. Nearly 500 years after the Spanish conquered their mighty empire, the Aztecs are often remembered today for their major capital, Tenochtitlan, as well as being fierce conquerors of the Valley of Mexico - who often engaged in human sacrifice rituals. During the Age of Exploration, Native American tribes fell victim to European conquerors seeking legendary cities made of gold and other riches, attempts that were often being made in vain.
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]]>Title: Tiwanaku: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Pre-Colombian Site in the Heart of the Andes]]>Categories: America, Ancient, History, Indigenous]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Tiahuanaco is not a very large village, but it is celebrated for the great edifices near it, which are certainly things worth seeing. Near the buildings, there is a hill made by the hands of men on great foundations of stone. Beyond this hill, there are two stone idols of the human shape and figure, the features very skillfully carved, so that they appear to have been done by the hand of some great master. They are so large that they seem like small giants, and it is clear that they have on a sort of clothing different from those now worn by the natives of these parts." - Cieza de Léon, 1883 Few ancient ruins capture the imagination like the mighty holy site of Tiwanaku, located on the high Andean altiplano plateau outside of La Paz, Bolivia. Unlike some ancient sites, such as Machu Picchu in neighboring Peru or Chichen Itzá in Mexico, Tiwanaku has never been "lost"; on the contrary, it has been marveled over for centuries by Incan nobles, Spanish Conquistadores, modern backpackers, and UFO fanatics alike.
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]]>Title: The World's Greatest Generals: The Life and Career of Napoleon Bonaparte]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, France, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-26-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When historians are asked to list the most influential people of the last 200 years, a handful of names might vary, but there is no question that the list will include Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), the most successful French leader since Charlemagne and widely acknowledged one of the greatest generals ever. Indeed, Napoleon was likely the most influential man of the 19th century, leaving an indelible mark on everything from the strategy and tactics of warfare to the Napoleonic Code that drafted laws across the continent. To defeat Napoleon, the Europeans had to form large coalitions multiple times, which helped bring about the entangling alliances that sparked World War I after Europe was rebuilt following Waterloo and the Congress of Vienna. Napoleon's influence on the United States was also palpable. To finance his endeavors, he struck a deal with President Thomas Jefferson that became the Louisiana Purchase, and it was Napoleonic warfare that was used throughout the Civil War, leading to massive casualties because the weaponry of the 1860s was now more advanced than the tactics of 1815. When Napoleon died at St.
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]]>Title: The Congo Free State]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Colony Established by King Leopold II of Belgium]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-24-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>King Leopold II of Belgium emerges from the pages of history as a curious character. He was a member of a privileged clique of European monarchs, bereft of power but rich, indulgent, and indolent. Leopold certainly availed himself of all the pleasures of court life, but he was also shrewd, astonishingly competent, and avaricious to an almost unimaginable degree. His initial interest in foreign real estate was imperial, insofar as he desired on behalf of Belgium the main accoutrements of a first-rate power, which were, of course, foreign estates and colonies. He was, however, unable to move the Belgian parliament to act in accordance, the conservative belief perhaps being that Belgium could not afford to compete on that level. Belgium was a small European nation, existing between major and, at times, belligerent powers, and as such, it quietly went about its business with a determination not to rock the European boat. Displaying enormous ability and a masterful grasp of diplomatic maneuver, Leopold was able to secure primary rights over the territory of the Congo River catchment, a portion of the globe more than three times the size of France.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Tony Curtis]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-21-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time." - Tony Curtis A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. At the height of Hollywood's golden age; of the 1940s through the early 60s, many of the industry's brightest stars could boast of unique stories describing how they were discovered. Their distinctiveness as on-screen personalities was an important part of that stardom, but one unlikely actor, a mismatch of contrasts, dialects, looks, and personal behavior, was to become an icon of the age, revered and disdained, but in the end, fondly remembered by the movie industry and fan base. Tony Curtis was, in the beginning, considered by most of his colleagues as a hack actor, but in time, one who took it upon himself to develop into a true screen artist.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of Constantine the Great]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-21-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It would be hard if not outright impossible to overstate the impact Roman Emperor Constantine I had on the history of Christianity, ancient Rome, and Europe as a whole. Best known as Constantine the Great, the kind of moniker only earned by rulers who have distinguished themselves in battle and conquest, Constantine remains an influential and controversial figure to this day. He achieved enduring fame by being the first Roman emperor to personally convert to Christianity, and for his notorious Edict of Milan, the imperial decree which legalized the worship of Christ and promoted religious freedom throughout the Empire. More than 1500 years after Constantine’s death, Abdu'l-Bahá, the head of the Bahá'í Faith, wrote, "His blessed name shines out across the dawn of history like the morning star, and his rank and fame among the world's noblest and most highly civilized is still on the tongues of Christians of all denominations."
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Jerry Lewis]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-21-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I've had great success being a total idiot." - Jerry Lewis A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Jerry Lewis has been in show business for over seven decades, a multi-talented entertainer known for comedy, acting, singing, and producing, and directing films to match. In many ways, his versatility is unprecedented even today, an era in which stars routinely alternate between film and musical careers, and Lewis has enjoyed it, as he once happily noted, "I get paid for what most kids get punished for." He has been paid in several ways, including with too many lifetime awards to count, and he remains a household name today. At the same time, however, Lewis remains best known for his work with Dean Martin, and in that sense, he remains overshadowed by his more famous partner.
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]]>Title: The Teutonic Knights]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Catholic Church's Most Famous Military Order]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-21-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>As the dissipating fog gave way to an unnerving sight, the mass of frightening figures clad head to toe in gleaming armor would have been enough to take anyone's breath away. Some of them were mounted on the backs of handsome stallions, while others leaned forward with squared shoulders, ready to attack. In one swift motion, the men unsheathe their swords and raise it over their heads, their weapons winking as the glare of the sunlight bounces off the blade. To the somewhat trained eye, these warriors in Norman-inspired gear would have appeared to be one of the Crusader forces, but it is that bold black cross painted across their chests and shields that give them away. These men were none other than the fabled Teutonic Knights. The knights of the Teutonic Order have since been compared to the surreal creature that appeared to the biblical Ezekiel, one that bore two faces - one of a man's, and one of a lion's. The human side of the creature is said to symbolize the order's charity, whereas the lion was a metaphor for its valor and gallant spirit, which they relied on to vanquish the heathens of the world.
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]]>Title: Antioch]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Syrian City Established by the Seleucid Empire]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On his deathbed, some historians claim that when he was pressed to name a successor, Alexander the Great muttered that his empire should go "to the strongest". Other sources claim that he passed his signet ring to his general Perdiccas, thereby naming him successor, but whatever his choices were or may have been, they were ignored. Alexander's generals, all of them with the loyalty of their own corps at their backs, would tear each other apart in a vicious internal struggle that lasted almost half a century before four factions emerged victorious: Macedonia, the Seleucid Empire in the east, the Kingdom of Pergamon in Asia Minor, and the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. During the course of these wars, Alexander's only heir, the posthumously born Alexander IV, was murdered, extinguishing his bloodline for ever. Despite the infighting among them, one thing Alexander's generals did agree upon was their Hellenistic culture. Most famously, Ptolemy's line firmly established the Hellenistic culture of the Greeks while ruling over Egypt, and by marrying within their family line, the Ptolemaic pharaohs kept their Hellenistic heritage until the very end of Ptolemy's line, which died with Cleopatra in 30 BCE.
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]]>Title: Sharia Law]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Religious Laws That Governed Islamic Societies]]>Categories: Europe, History, Islam, Medieval, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-18-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>With the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its affiliated "lone wolf" attackers garnering much media coverage, there is a concern that attempts by radical Muslims to attack Westerners is one stage in a longer process to spread Islam and Sharia law. The term Sharia is generally used in a vague manner, particularly by media outlets and political pundits. In essence, Sharia law refers to the body of laws and culture surrounding religious prescriptions in Islam. It encompasses the Qur'an, the Hadith, as well as legal opinions developed since Islam's inception in the 7th century CE. While many Muslims claim that legal opinions on particular topics have been settled and the community as a whole accepts certain actions as right or wrong, one can see this may not always be the case when delving deeper. An interesting fact about Islam is that there is no central governing body of the religion, like the Pope and the Vatican in Roman Catholicism. Instead, there are Muslim religious scholars and leaders around the world who utilize particular standards of practice to enact rulings on the issue of the day.
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]]>Title: Great Zimbabwe]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Medieval Kingdom of Zimbabwe's Capital]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, History, Medieval, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-17-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismark, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event - known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 - galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Paul Revere]]>Categories: Biography, For Children, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-17-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere." (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Paul Revere's Ride") In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Paul Revere is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the first that schoolchildren learn about. Although he is known almost entirely for his legendary midnight ride before the Battles of Lexington and Concord today, in colonial Boston he was praised for the quality of the silver he made, and he was known for being one of the patriotic Sons of Liberty and a militiaman. With 16 children, Paul Revere supported his large family by doing everything from dentistry to casting church bells and engraving the most popular image of the Boston Massacre.
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]]>Title: Notre-Dame de Paris: The History and Legacy of France's Most Famous Cathedral]]>Categories: Christianity, Europe, France, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-17-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Notre Dame de Paris, in particular, is a curious specimen of this variety. Every surface, every stone of this venerable pile, is a page of the history not only of the country, but of science and of art. Thus - to mention here only a few of the chief details - whereas the small Porte Rouge almost touches the limits of 15th century Gothic delicacy, the pillars of the nave, by their massiveness and great girth, reach back to the Carlovingian Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. One would imagine that six centuries lay between that door and those pillars." With these words, the famous 19th century novelist Victor Hugo attempted to introduce his readers to the backdrop of his seminal work, later known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame. This, it should be noted, was not the name that Hugo gave to his work; instead, he called it simply Notre Dame, after the building in which he set it. This location was no accident, for, perhaps more than any other city in Europe, Paris has seen every kind of trouble and happiness that can befall a place.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Martin Luther King Jr.]]>Categories: Biography, For Children, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-17-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the most important men children can learn about. The life and legend of Dr. King have been told to every American, many of whom come away equating King with the civil rights movement as a whole, but King's life was about far more than leading movements and having dreams. History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Martin Luther King Jr. humanizes the leader who constantly sought to better himself and desperately wanted to follow in his father's footsteps while also celebrating his incredible accomplishments.
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]]>Title: The East African Slave Trade]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Arab Slave Trade and the Indian Ocean Slave Trade]]>Categories: Africa, Europe, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-13-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"It is certain that large numbers of slaves were exported from eastern Africa; the best evidence for this is the magnitude of the Zanj revolt in Iraq in the 9th century, though not all of the slaves involved were Zanj. There is little evidence of what part of eastern Africa the Zanj came from, for the name is here evidently used in its general sense, rather than to designate the particular stretch of the coast... to which the name was also applied." (Ghada Hashem Talhami, "The Zanj Rebellion Reconsidered", The International Journal of African Historical Studies) It has often been said that the greatest invention of all time was the sail, which facilitated the internationalization of the globe and thus ushered in the modern era. It was the sail that linked the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe, and thus it was also the sail that facilitated the greatest involuntary human migration of all time. The transatlantic slave trade was founded by the Portuguese in the 15th century for the specific purpose of supplying the New World colonies with African slave labor.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Jack Dempsey]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Sport, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-10-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. During a time when America's heroes were recognized for toughness and strength, Jack Dempsey was the prototypical "golden boy" of the Roaring Twenties. Just as Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Bill Tilden, and Bobby Jones were the signature figures for their respective sports, Dempsey personified the sport of boxing. Dempsey's aggressive style in the ring and the punch he packed made him the heavyweight champion by 1913, and as he continued to hold the title into the 1920s, he became one of his era's biggest celebrities. Everyone wanted to see Dempsey box, and his bouts started shattering attendance records and purse records, but he was also a cultural icon and pop culture mainstay.
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]]>Title: Charging into Immortality]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of George Pickett]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-05-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Before July 3, 1863, George Pickett was best known among his comrades for finishing last in his class at West Point, being a jocular but courageous soldier, and his carefully perfumed locks. As part of West Point's most famous Class of 1846, Pickett was classmates with men like Stonewall Jackson and George McClellan, and despite his poor class standing he distinguished himself fresh out of school during the Mexican-American War. Pickett's reputation for bravery extended into the early years of the Civil War, to the extent that former West Point classmate George McClellan wrote, "Perhaps there is no doubt that he was the best infantry soldier developed on either side during the Civil War." A native Virginian, the impeccably styled Pickett represented all of the antebellum South's most cherished traits, and as such he was a "beau-ideal" Confederate soldier. After proving himself a capable brigadier during the Peninsula Campaign, during which he was wounded and forced to recuperate, Pickett was given command of a division in Longstreet's corps of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, putting him in position for a rendez-vous with destiny.
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]]>Title: The Death of Royalty]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Executions of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, France, History, Royalty]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-05-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are among France's most famous royalty, but for reasons they would have much rather avoided. Coming of age in the wake of the reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and his father, Louis XV, Louis XVI initially intended to be one of France's most enlightened Kings. Instead, he was destined to be the only French King ever executed. Indeed, it is his death and his role in fomenting the French Revolution (along with his infamous Queen, Marie Antoinette) that continue to play the central role in Louis XVI's legacy. Throughout history, a countless number of historical figures have had their lives overshadowed by the myths and legends that surround them to the extent that their legacy comes to define them. In French history, this is truer of Marie Antoinette than just about everyone else. Nearly 220 years after she was put to the guillotine, Marie Antoinette is more famous than ever, fairly or unfairly coming to epitomize royalty and everything that was wrong with it.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Gregory Peck]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-03-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important." – Gregory Peck A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. At the end of the 20th century, the American Film Institute ranked Gregory Peck 12th in its list of best actors, and it's not hard to see why. In addition to being one of the most popular actors in Hollywood for three decades, Peck won an Academy Award for Best Actor playing Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, and he was also nominated several other times.
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]]>Title: The Sistine Chapel]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the World's Most Famous Chapel]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, History, Renaissance]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hair]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-29-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 1503, Pope Julius II had succeeded the notorious Alexander VI, and Julius II brought an appreciation for the arts to the papacy. After Michelangelo finished the flurry of works that he had worked on during the previous four years, he was commissioned by Pope Julius II to complete a tomb in the Pope's honor. The project was to be massive in scope, and the tomb was to be placed inside of St. Peter's Basilica, the construction of which was intended to take place while Michelangelo designed the tomb. Michelangelo approached the project with great ambition, delegating a full six months alone to selecting the marble to be used for the tomb. For this task, he traveled to Carrara, a city in the Tuscany region that had been the source for the marble used in many of his earlier works. Michelangelo devoted himself exclusively to the project until 1506, at which point he returned to Rome due to a lack of available money. Consequently, he relocated back to Florence despite having no projects commissioned there, but the temperamental Pope Julius then ordered him back to Rome, threatening to wage war on Florence if he failed to return.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Kirk Douglas]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-29-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In 1996, Kirk Douglas was given an Honorary Academy Award "for 50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community", and a few years later, the American Film Institute ranked him the 17th greatest actor of the 20th century. About 15 years after the AFI compiled that list, Kirk Douglas is the only screen legend on the list who is still alive, the patriarch of an acting family that includes popular actor Michael Douglas as well. Of course, Douglas didn't earn such honorary achievements merely because of the longevity that has seen him appear in movies over the course of seven different decades.
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]]>Title: The Scramble for Africa: The History and Legacy of the Colonization of Africa by European Nations During the New Imperialism Era]]>Categories: 19th Century, Europe, History, Modern, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-29-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The British South-African Company's shares May be at a discount - (Trade-martyrs! - trade-martyrs!) But he, our Colossus, strides on, he declares, Whether with or without chums or charters - or charters. Hooray! We brave Britons are right now to the front - Provided we've someone to boss us - to boss us; And Scuttlers will have their work cut out to shunt This stalwart, far-striding Colossus - Colossus! —Excerpt from an editorial in Punch, December 10, 1892 The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismark, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event - known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 - galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa.
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]]>Title: Everything You Need to Know About the Iliad and the Odyssey]]>Categories: Ancient, Classic, Collection, Epic]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-28-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, / Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise." - The Iliad "Tell me, Muse, of the man of many wiles." - The Odyssey, Book I, Line 1 Perhaps the most famous epic poems ever written, the Iliad and the Odyssey have been read for nearly 3,000 years, making them the oldest written works in the Western world. The poems made characters like Paris, Helen, Odysseus, Achilles, Hector, and Ajax instantly recognizable, and they also influenced other ancient poets like Virgil, whose Aeneid is clearly modeled after them. The epic poems also literally put Troy on the map, motivating Heinrich Schliemann to search for and ultimately find the city of Troy in the 19th century. Believed to be penned around the seventh or eighth century BC, the Iliad and the Odyssey served as both entertainment and a moral guidebook of sorts for ancient Greeks, as well as the foundation for Western literature. Although there is some scholarly debate regarding the epic's authorship, It is generally attributed to a poet named Homer.
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]]>Title: Everything You Need to Know About the Odyssey]]>Categories: Ancient, Epic, Europe, Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Perhaps the most famous epic poems ever written, the Iliad and the Odyssey have been read for nearly 3000 years, making it also one of the oldest written works in the Western world. The poems made characters like Paris, Helen, Odysseus, Achilles, Hector, and Ajax instantly recognizable, and they also influenced other ancient poets like Virgil, whose Aeneid is clearly modeled after them. The epic poems also literally put Troy on the map, motivating Heinrich Schliemann to search for and ultimately find the city of Troy in the 19th century. Believed to be penned around the seventh or eighth century BC, the Iliad and the Odyssey served as both entertainment and a moral guidebook of sorts for ancient Greeks, as well as the foundation for Western literature. Although there is some scholarly debate regarding the epic's authorship. It is generally attributed to a poet named Homer. Given that he lived nearly 2800 years ago, not much is actually known about Homer. His birthplace is debated, but due to the dialect of Greek in which the works attributed to him were written, it is generally believed that he lived in Iona.
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]]>Title: Everything You Need to Know About Hamlet]]>Categories: Drama, Fiction, Theater, Theater Play]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-26-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>William Shakespeare is widely considered the greatest writer in the history of the English language, so renowned and respected that the time period in which he lived is often known as the Age of Shakespeare. Indeed, his genius is questioned only by those who doubt the authenticity of his authorship of timeless classics like Romeo and Juliet. As Ben Jonson once put it, "He was not of an age, but for all time." No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shakespeare has enjoyed around the world, and nobody's had a bigger influence. The "Bard of Avon" has a catalogue full of the best known plays and poetry in history. His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the 16th century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, and in his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies.
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]]>Title: Everything You Need to Know About the Iliad]]>Categories: Ancient, Epic, Fiction, History, Poetry]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-23-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Perhaps the most famous epic poem ever written, the Iliad has been read for nearly 3000 years, making it also one of the oldest written works in the Western world. Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the Trojan War, the poem has made characters like Paris, Helen, Achilles, Hector, and Ajax instantly recognizable. The Iliad and the Odyssey influenced Virgil, whose Aeneid is clearly modeled after them, and every other great poet since. The epic poems also literally put Troy on the map, motivating Heinrich Schliemann to search for and ultimately find the city of Troy in the 19th century. Believed to be penned around the seventh or eighth century BC, the Iliad and the Odyssey served as both entertainment and a moral guidebook of sorts for ancient Greeks, as well as the foundation for Western literature. Although there is some scholarly debate regarding the epic's authorship, it is generally attributed to a poet named Homer. Given that he lived nearly 2800 years ago, not much is actually known about Homer.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Ancient Roman City of Pompeii]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Exploration, For Children, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-23-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. This concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. They come in droves, busloads of tourists shepherded down through modern streets, shops, and stalls, past souvenir stands and hordes of local guides offering insight and spectacle. From all across the world they come to the Italian region of Campania, to walk the cobbles of ancient streets, peer at frescoes, marvel at sculptures, and visit the remnants of historic villas, bath-houses, and even brothels. In 2003, it was estimated these international visitors contributed some $35 million dollars to the Italian economy. A feature of the Grand Tour, an educational rite of passage for wealthy travelers from the mid-1600s to the mid-1800s, Pompeii has long been a popular destination for tourists; in 2008, an estimated 2.5 million tourists visited it. The type of tourists also changed over time. In 79 AD, the year Vesuvius erupted, Pompeii was actually the equivalent of a resort town for wealthy Romans.
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]]>Title: French Legends: The Life and Legacy of Marie Antoinette]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, France, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-16-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Throughout history, a countless number of historical figures have had their lives overshadowed by the myths and legends that surround them to the extent that their legacy comes to define them. In French history, this is truer of Marie Antoinette than just about everyone else. Nearly 220 years after she was put to the guillotine, Marie Antoinette is more famous than ever, fairly or unfairly coming to epitomize royalty and everything that was wrong with it. As the youngest daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor, 14-year-old Marie's marriage to the eventual Louis XVI made her Dauphine, and it initially seemed like a good fit. The charming and beautiful young girl pleased the French, but she had the misfortune of being queen at a time when the French were beginning to sour on their royalty and aristocratic classes. On top of that, France's participation in the American Revolution had left the nation broke, which only angered those who watched the King and Queen spend millions of livres for their own comfort at the expense of the state.
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]]>Title: Reckless Bravery]]>Subtitle: The Life and Career of John Bell Hood]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-08-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The history of war is replete with examples of men who distinguished themselves in battle only to disgrace themselves after being promoted to commands above their capabilities. During the American Civil War, that man was John Bell Hood. Hood was one of the most tenacious generals in the Confederacy, for better and worse. This quality, which made him one of the best brigade and division commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia also made him ineffective when he was promoted to higher commands, forever marring his career at Atlanta and Franklin. The intimidating Texan began to make a name for himself as a brigade commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under new commander Robert E. Lee during the Seven Days Battles in 1862, after which he was promoted to division command. For the next several campaigns, he led a division under General James Longstreet's I Corps., fighting at places like Antietam and Fredericksburg. Hood was in the thick of the action on day two at Gettysburg, suffering a bad wound that left his left arm permanently disabled. When Longstreet's command headed west, Hood suffered another wound at Chickamauga, leading to the amputation of his right leg.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Geronimo]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Indigenous]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-08-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The name "Geronimo" evokes a number of different emotions. Those who believed in 19th century America's "Manifest Destiny" viewed Geronimo and all Native Americans as impediments to God's will for the nation. Descendants of people killed by "hostile" Natives certainly considered warriors like Geronimo to be murderers and thieves whose cultures and societies held no redeeming values. Even today, many Americans associate the name Geronimo with a war cry, and the name Geronimo itself only came about because of a battle he fought against the Mexicans. Over time, however, the historical perception of the relationship between America and Native tribes changed drastically. With that, Geronimo, or Goyahkla, was viewed in a far different light. Those who empathized with the fate of the Native Americans saw Geronimo as one of a number of Native American
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]]>Title: The Victor of Gettysburg]]>Subtitle: The Life and Career of General George Meade]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-05-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Ironically, one of the generals who often escapes the attention of Civil War fans who compile the lists of best generals is the man who won the war's most famous battle, George G. Meade (1815-1872). In fact, Meade has become a perfect example of how the generals who did not self-promote themselves and write memoirs after the war had their reputations suffer in the ensuing decades. When people think of Appomattox Court House, they think of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. Few remember that the commander of the Army of the Potomac at the end of the Civil War was not Grant but Meade. Meade exemplified modesty and competence, serving as a career United States Army officer and civil engineer who fought with distinction in the eastern theater of the Civil War. During the first half of the war, Meade rose from command of a brigade to command of a division and finally command of the entire Army of the Potomac just days before the Battle of Gettysburg. Naturally, he is best known for defeating Robert E.
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]]>Title: Major John André]]>Subtitle: The Life and Death of the Famous British Spymaster During the Revolutionary War]]>Categories: America, American Revolution, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-01-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Spying and treachery are as much a part of warfare as weapons and death. This has always been the case since the earliest battles and is not likely to change in the future. And yet, even within this irregular system, there are certain rules, especially in past eras such as the American Revolution. First, while spying on behalf of one's country is perfectly respectable, betraying one's nation is treason. Second, honorable men do not involve those too innocent to understand the consequences of their actions in their schemes. Third, no man wearing his own uniform can be considered a spy, for his garments make it clear who he is and preclude deception. All three of these rules played into the story of the machinations and death of Major John André. No one who knew André personally would ever have dreamed he would one day hang. He was raised by devoutly religious parents and was a loyal Englishman and solid officer in his Majesty's army.
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]]>Título: El Opus Dei [Spanish Edition]]]>Subtitular: Historia y legado de la famosa institución de la Iglesia Católica]]>Categorías: Catholicism, Christianity, History, Planet Earth]]>Autor: Charles River Editors]]>Narrador: Nicholas Villanueva]]>Editor: Charles River Editors]]>Fecha de publicación: 05-31-2017]]>Idioma: Español
]]>Resumen:]]>La privación voluntaria de nuestras mayores necesidades físicas y corporales es un concepto que ha existido desde el principio del tiempo, conocido más comúnmente como "mortificación." La biblia hace una de sus más tempranas referencias a la "mortificación de la carne", tal como aparece en Colosenses 3:5, que dice: "Por tanto, mortificad vuestros miembros terrenos: fornicación, impureza, pasiones, malos deseos y la codicia, que es una idolatría." Con el paso del tiempo, este concepto se ha diversificado de una manera más extrema - la mortificación corporal. Estos son actos voluntarios de atroces privaciones y torturas físicas auto infligidas, actos que han suscitado rechazo de parte de la gente. Gracias a la famosa novela de Dan Brown, convertida en tremendo éxito de taquilla, El código Da Vinci, en el que Silas, el monje infame y auto flagelante fue presentado a la audiencia, la mortificación corporal es ahora un término asociado más frecuentemente con el Opus Dei. Un monje albino, horripilante, trastornado y sanguinario, Silas es más recordado por azotarse brutalmente con un cilicio con púas.
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]]>Title: Lee's Old War Horse]]>Subtitle: The Life and Career of General James Longstreet]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-29-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>One of the most important, and controversial, Confederate generals during the Civil War was Lieutenant General James Longstreet, the man Robert E. Lee called his "old war horse". Longstreet was Lee's principal subordinate for most of the war, ably managing a corps in the Army of Northern Virginia and being instrumental in Confederate victories at Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chickamauga. Longstreet was also effective at Antietam and the Battle of the Wilderness, where he was nearly killed by a shot through the neck. Had Longstreet died on the field in early May 1864, he would almost certainly be considered one of the South's biggest heroes. However, it was his performance at Gettysburg and arguments with other Southern generals after the Civil War that tarnished his image. After the South lost the war and Gettysburg came to be viewed as one of its biggest turning points, former Confederate generals looked to that battle to find scapegoats to blame for losing the war. Longstreet was charged with being slow to attack on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, allowing the Union to man Little Round Top.
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]]>Title: Father Charles Coughlin]]>Subtitle: The Life of the Controversial Catholic Priest Who Revolutionized Radio]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Political Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-26-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The people have spoken and the only American thing to do is abide by the will of the people." (Father Coughlin) Traditionally in American culture, members of the clergy have been among the most trusted people in the nation, while politicians have been the least trusted. So, one might ask, what happens when these two classes collide into the form of one person? The result, it appears from history, is rarely all good, perhaps due to the difficulty of reconciling the moral high ground with political mud. For whatever reasons, clergymen rarely make good politicians, and there is perhaps no better example of this than Father Charles Coughlin, a Depression-era priest-turned-demagogue who was seen as an angel by some and a devil by others. Both viewpoints had plenty of reasons for their perspectives, for the same man who cruelly castigated the Jews also spoke eloquently on the needs and rights of the most downtrodden in society. The same orator who said, "Roosevelt or ruin", later cried, "Roosevelt and ruin." He was a radio priest who came to power after being victimized by the Ku Klux Klan and then used his power to spread racial hatred against others.
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]]>Title: Roswell & Area 51]]>Subtitle: The History and Mystery of the Two Most Famous UFO Conspiracy Sites in America]]>Categories: America, History, Occult, Paranormal]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Zarbock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-25-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The essence of the event commonly known as the Roswell Crash is that someone saw something in the sky during the summer of 1947. Days later someone else found some odd foil, paper, and wood on the grounds of a ranch in the New Mexico desert nearly a hundred miles from Roswell. A day or two after that, the debris was taken to a military airbase in Roswell, New Mexico, where it remained overnight before the military flew it to another airbase in Ohio. The story of the Roswell Crash tends to focus on New Mexico, not on the traveling debris found on the ground. Ironically, the Roswell Crash never happened in Roswell. That's not to say there was no 1947 crash. Something did appear on the ground that appeared to have come from the sky - but it wasn't found anywhere near Roswell. Part of what was found was eventually moved to the airbase in Roswell where it remained overnight, inspiring the name the Roswell Crash.
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]]>Title: Karakorum: The History and Legacy of the Mongol Empire's Capital]]>Categories: Ancient, Asia, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-24-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>About 225 miles west of Ulaanbaatar, the present-day capital city of Mongolia, are the ruins of Karakorum, the ancient capital of the Mongol Empire. Located in the Orkhon River Valley, at the foot of the Khangai Mountain range, the city was founded by Genghis Khan in 1220 CE. Under his son and successor, Ögedei Khan, Karakorum grew into a thriving city, with high walls enclosing an urban landscape of brick-built structures and paved roads, divided into different districts with a palace, craft workshops, and marketplaces. Under Ögedei and his successors, Karakorum became a cosmopolitan hub of crafts and exchange along the great Silk Road trading network. Genghis Khan followed the tradition of his nomadic predecessors when he founded Karakorum in the Orkhon Valley. The landscape had previously been settled by many different nomads and empires, including the Huns, Turks, and Uyghurs. These different cultures - despite existing over vastly different periods of time - found common ground in the Orkhon Valley. There they demarcated sites of significance with structures that have survived to the present day, a rarity in the archaeology of nomadic peoples.
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]]>Title: Nathan Hale]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Revolutionary War's Most Famous Spy]]>Categories: America, American Revolution, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-23-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>For over 230 years, American schoolchildren have been taught about the story of Nathan Hale, or at least a legend of it, and in the process the myth of Hale and his apocryphal final words have immortalized the young man as America's most famous spy, despite his failed mission. After the siege of Boston forced the British to evacuate that city in March 1776, Continental Army commander George Washington suspected that the British would move by sea to New York City, the next logical target in an attempt to end a colonial insurrection. He thus rushed his army south to defend the city. Washington guessed correctly, but it would ultimately be to no avail. Unlike Boston, New York City's terrain featured few defensible positions; the city lacked a high point from which to launch a siege, as the peninsula of Boston was fortunate to have. In the summer of 1776, the British conducted the largest amphibious expedition in North America's history at the time, landing over 20,000 troops on Long Island. Washington's army attempted to fight, but Washington was badly outmaneuvered, and his army was nearly cut off from escape.
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]]>Title: The Western Schism of 1378]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Papal Schism That Split the Catholic Church]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Hare]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-22-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Doubt still shrouds the validity of the three rival lines of pontiffs during the four decades subsequent to the still-disputed papal election of 1378. This makes suspect the credentials of the cardinals created by the Roman, Avignon, and Pisan claimants to the Apostolic See. Unity was finally restored without a definitive solution to the question; for the Council of Constance succeeded in terminating the Western Schism, not by declaring which of the three claimants was the rightful one, but by eliminating all of them by forcing their abdication or deposition, and then setting up a novel arrangement for choosing a new pope acceptable to all sides. To this day the Church has never made any official, authoritative pronouncement about the papal lines of succession for this confusing period; nor has Martin V or any of his successors. Modern scholars are not agreed in their solutions, although they tend to favor the Roman line." (J.F. Broderick) Nowadays, the pope is synonymous with unparalleled piety, compassion, and benevolence. To many, the pope is the embodiment of godly love in its purest form.
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]]>Title: Sir Ernest Shackleton]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary British Explorer and His Expeditions to Antarctica]]>Categories: Adventure, Europe, Exploration, Great Britain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-19-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"For scientific leadership, give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when there seems to be no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton." - Sir Raymond Priestley Exploration of Earth's wilderness areas became an international obsession in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as economically advantaged nations, in particular European powers and the United States were well equipped to mount exhaustive expeditions. From previously inaccessible forests and jungle country to the world's great mountain ranges, adventurers sought out the greatest extremes of climate and terrain in a race to plant the first flag where humanity struggled to survive. An earlier wave of explorers led to the opening of the New World, and early polar expeditions saw ancient ships of various nations sail along the coastlines of Greenland and within reach of the Arctic and Antarctic continents. Many 19th century figures approached the polar region with an eye to traversing it. Most notable among them was British explorer Sir James Clark Ross, who took the Erebus and the HMS Terror to the southernmost coastlines of the planet.
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]]>Title: History's Greatest Artists: The Life and Legacy of Jackson Pollock]]>Categories: America, Art, Biography, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-17-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about." - Jackson Pollock In August of 1949, Life magazine famously began a lengthy article on Jackson Pollock with the headline "Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" By that time, Pollock was already well-established in the American art world, the beneficiary of laudatory critical assessments, commercial success, and the support of the influential Peggy Guggenheim (who had helped launch his career with a major show six years earlier). However, to the relatively uninitiated readership of a middlebrow publication like Life, the article sent shockwaves, as many wondered how Jackson Pollock, whose paintings seemed abstract and sloppy to the point of resonating like the work of a young child, could possibly command any major standing within the horizon of avant-garde and modernist art. These same people no doubt wondered how his artwork could reasonably lay claim to being masterpieces with no apparent subject matter.
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]]>Title: The Mesopotamian Campaign of World War I]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Allied Victory That Led to the Breakup of the Ottoman Empire]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-16-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Most books and documentaries about the First World War focus on the carnage of the Western Front, where Germany faced off against France, the British Empire, and their allies in a grueling slugfest that wasted millions of lives. The shattered landscape of the trenches has become symbolic of the war as a whole, and it is this experience that everyone associates with World War I, but that front was not the only experience. There was the more mobile Eastern Front, as well as mountain warfare in the Alps and scattered fighting in Africa and the Far East. Then there was the Middle Eastern Front, fought across the Levant and Mesopotamia, which captured the imagination of the European public. There, the British and their allies fought the Ottoman Turkish Empire under harsh desert conditions hundreds of miles from home, struggling for possession of places most people only knew from the Bible and the Koran. The war to push the Ottoman Empire out of the Middle East ended up being a total success, and it has had far-reaching ramifications in the past 100 years.
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]]>Title: Russian Legends: The Life and Legacy of Nikita Khrushchev]]>Categories: Biography, Head of State, History, Politician]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-15-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' Russian Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of Russia's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. For 30 years, much of the West looked on with disdain as the Bolsheviks took power in Russia and created and consolidated the Soviet Union. As bad as Vladimir Lenin seemed in the early 20th century, Joseph Stalin was so much worse that Churchill later remarked of Lenin, "Their worst misfortune was his birth ... their next worst his death." Before World War II, Stalin consolidated his position by frequently purging party leaders (most famously Leon Trotsky) and Red Army leaders, executing hundreds of thousands of people at the least.
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]]>Title: The Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the British Empire's Victory over the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-15-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Most books and documentaries about the First World War focus on the carnage of the Western Front, where Germany faced off against France, the British Empire, and their allies in a grueling slugfest that wasted millions of lives. The shattered landscape of the trenches has become symbolic of the war as a whole, and it is this experience that everyone associates with World War I, but that front was not the only experience. There was the more mobile Eastern Front, as well as mountain warfare in the Alps and scattered fighting in Africa and the Far East. There was also the Middle Eastern Front, in both the Levant and Mesopotamia, which captured the imagination of the European public. There, the British and their allies fought the Ottoman Turkish Empire under harsh desert conditions hundreds of miles from home, struggling for possession of places most people only knew from the Bible and the Koran. The campaign to protect British Egypt from Turkish invasion was especially important to the Allied war effort. The Turks sought to cut the Suez Canal, a vital supply route connecting the Mediterranean with British colonies in East Africa and India and Britain's allies in Australia and New Zealand.
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]]>Title: Axum]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Kingdom of Aksum's Capital and One of the Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cities in Africa]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Planet Earth, Rome]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-12-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the year 570 CE, a child by the name of Muhammad is born in the Arabian city of Mecca. Sixty-two years later, he dies, and upon his death, the faith that he founded, Islam ("obedience to the one God"), dominates the western half of the Arabian Peninsula. By the end of the first millennium CE, four centuries after the death of Muhammad, Islam has grown to dominate western Asia, north and east Africa, the Levant, and the Iberian Peninsula. The Holy Lands are lost to Christianity, and Christian Europe is under siege. Folk tales begin to circulate - their origins obscure, but first noted in historic texts around the 12th century CE - of a lost Christian kingdom in the East, the Kingdom of Prester John. There resides the patriarch of Saint Thomas, who proselytized in the Orient. Later, in the 15th century, under the impetus of the Portuguese King Henry the Navigator, Portuguese missionaries and navigators enter the Indian Ocean from the south and, creeping northward up the east coast of Africa, hear ever more substantial tales of a Christian kingdom lost in the belly of Islam.
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]]>Title: The Industrial Revolution]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Rapid Scientific and Technological Advancements that Ushered in the Modern World]]>Categories: 18th Century, 19th Century, Europe, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-12-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Between the 18th and early 19th centuries, Britain experienced massive leaps in technological, scientific, and economical advancement. This powerful period has since been immortalized as the great Industrial Revolution, during which Britain became a formidable force that boasted unmatched economical growth, drastic changes in living conditions, and even the emergence of a neglected social class. Vast portions of rural lands were transformed into interconnected, complex, and multitasking cities. Dozens of innovative inventions and products were churned out in bulk and sold to the masses for the first time ever. Some of the greatest thinkers and creators ventured forth from the shadows. Scientists, engineers, merchants, and manufacturers alike were at the height of their prime, nurtured by a culture that embraced the vision of growth, progress, and industrial unity. The Industrial Revolution saw Britain rise to the top and become the envy of the world's most prestigious nations. At the same time, the pivotal era was far from perfect, featuring a dark underbelly and an army of unsung heroes.
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]]>Title: Alhambra]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Moors' Most Famous Palace in Spain]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Spain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-10-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Tucked away on the crest of the Al-Sabika Hill in Granada of Andalusia, Spain, just left of the babbling stream of the Darro River, sits a majestic structure overlooking the charming city and mystical meadows of La Vega. This palatial fortress and the fabled Alhambra are one and the same. To those who have seen it in its full glory, this was heaven on earth itself. Many were quick to fall under the spell of its breathtaking beauty, with its admirers lovingly dubbing it "a pearl set in emeralds". At one point in time, this place had been decked out with a network of captivating castles, heavenly homes and gorgeous gardens, and a handsome military fortress envied by the city's neighboring kingdoms. This was none other than Alhambra, once so enchanting that a countless number of those who visited the place in its heyday praised it as a true paradise on earth. Today, this historic complex has become the setting and inspiration for a host of books, music, movies, and other works of art and literature, such as Washington Irving's Tales of Alhambra, and Marcel L'Herbier's cinematic masterpiece, El Dorado.
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]]>Title: The World's Greatest Generals: The Life and Career of William Tecumseh Sherman]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-10-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820-February 14, 1891) holds a unique position in American history. Synonymous with barbarity in the South, Sherman is lauded as a war hero in the North, and modern historians consider him the harbinger of total war. As a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-65), Sherman was recognized for his outstanding command of military strategy but criticized for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States, especially in 1864 and 1865. Military historian BH Liddell Hart famously declared that Sherman was "the first modern general". Sherman spent a majority of the war out west, although it is often forgotten that he was a brigade commander at the First Battle of Bull Run, and that the Civil War actually finished with General Joseph E. Johnston surrendering to Sherman weeks after Appomattox. By 1865, Sherman was the second most popular general in the North behind Grant, and history has accorded him a strong Civil War legacy. Nevertheless, Sherman remains controversial across much of the United States today.
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]]>Title: Captain James Cook]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary British Explorer Who Discovered Hawaii]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Explorer, Great Britain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-09-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"To boldly go where no man has gone before" was a phrase made popular by Gene Rodenberry in a science fiction setting, but it was certainly the creed of countless explorers during the Age of Discovery and afterwards. In fact, as recently as the mid-18th century, a young sailor named James Cook determined to go "farther than any man has been before me, but as far as I think it is possible for a man to go." And unlike so many others who tried, he did just that. Cook was a war veteran who participated in the French & Indian War, but he remains best known over 250 years later for sailing thousands of miles across much of the Pacific, mapping regions, naming new places, and making scientific discoveries. Indeed, there are plenty of similarities between Cook's three voyages and the famed "five year mission" of the Enterprise. Like Captain Picard, Cook's missions were supposed to be peaceful and focused primarily on scientific research.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Josephine Baker]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bambi Lynn Augustin]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-08-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad." - Josephine Baker "Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood." - Josephine Baker From a young girl growing up in the slums of Missouri who hired herself out as a maid at 12 to provide for her younger siblings to the lead dancer in the Folies Bergere idolized by Parisians, Josephine Baker danced to the beat of her own drum. Undeniably she possessed an innate charisma, but she also went out of her way to make an audience notice her.
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]]>Title: Emma Goldman: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Feminist Icon]]>Categories: America, Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-08-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"To the daring belongs the future...when we run out of dreams, we die." "The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the Black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul." (Emma Goldman) In the early 20th century, one of the most famous women in America was Emma Goldman, but plenty of people thought it was for all the wrong reasons. Born in Russia in the late 19th century, Goldman had come to the United States as a teen and quickly grew attracted to anarchy and socialism over what she viewed as unfair class structures in her new home, especially in the wake of the Haymarket riots.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]]>Categories: America, Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-08-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In many ways, the Kennedy First Family was the perfect embodiment of a new young decade. The 1960s began with a sense of idealism, personified by the youthful and handsome new president. In 1961, John F. Kennedy made it seem like anything was possible, and Americans were eager to believe him. The next three years would be fondly and famously labeled "Camelot," suggesting an almost mythical quality about the young president and his family. The famous label came from John's fashionable and beautiful wife, Jackie, whose elegance and grace made her the most popular woman in the world.
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]]>Title: The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster: The History and Legacy of NASA's Most Notorious Tragedy]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, Astronomy, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-04-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the decades after the Apollo program, American space shuttles flew over 130 missions and successfully completed over 98 percent of them, but unfortunately, the two most famous missions were the ones that ended tragically aboard the Challenger and Columbia. The Space Shuttle Challenger was the most heavily used space shuttle in the three years it was operational, carrying the first minority astronaut and woman astronaut into space. Challenger was also the first space shuttle to complete a landing at night. On the morning of January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger launched for the 10th time, beginning mission STS-51-L. Space shuttles had already successfully completed 24 missions, and no American spacecraft had ever failed to reach orbit during an official mission. On this mission, the Challenger was carrying a satellite for the Tracking and Data Relay Satellites system, which was to be deployed in orbit. The crew included Ronald McNair, who had already been the second African-American in space, and Ellison Onizuka, who had already been the first Asian-American astronaut in space.
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]]>Title: Mysterious Great Britain]]>Subtitle: Monsters, Mysteries, and Magic Across the British Nation]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Occult]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-01-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Great Britain is an ancient land steeped in history and tradition, filled with prehistoric ruins, majestic castles, and a countryside sculpted from millennia of human habitation. Its rolling countryside is dotted with prehistoric burial mounds and stone circles. Brooding castles hold tales of bloodshed and honor. Medieval churches have elaborate stained glass windows and gruesome carvings, reflecting a mixture of hope and darkness. Every hamlet and village has tales that go back centuries, and folk festivals with roots in pagan times. Not everything in Great Britain is as it appears, however. Some say this is a land haunted by spirits, a place of strange disappearances and unexplained phenomena. For centuries, people have told tales of ghosts stalking its historic buildings, strange creatures lurking in its primeval forests, and unexplained paths linking its ancient sites. There is no shortage when it comes to the strange stories the region has to offer, and the legends and lore have compelled many to dig a little deeper and even explore this wonderful land for themselves.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Montgomery Clift]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-26-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In the World War II and post-war era, the figure of the male hero who was previously presented as an invulnerable, single-minded, and to a larger degree monolithic and unknowable warrior, began to develop into a more multi-faceted and intriguing character in the most important Hollywood films. This was to signal, and in a sense impel the same change in American society that has always mirrored itself after its cinematic models.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Myrna Loy]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bambi Lynn Augustin]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. It is something of a cliché to say that an actor's life was like a movie he or she might have starred in, but in the case of Myrna Loy, the cliché is true. It is easy to picture her as a little girl, riding the range with her rancher father, sitting around the table and participating charmingly in family discussions of current events. It is not hard to imagine the camera panning to her first and then second visits to Hollywood, her backlot tour, and starry-eyed decision to become an actress. There would have to be some drama, which the story of her father's untimely death would provide, along with some sort of deathbed promise made to him to care for the rest of the family.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Rod Serling]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kenneth Ray]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The "Golden Age" of television was in part so named because it was the era in which new technology was pioneered and industry rules were still being written. Here was a fascinating new medium, founded by executives with no previous body of experience, and a myriad of directions in which to proceed. Numerous factions spent the next generation wresting control over content and the content/product relationship. Some envisioned a public service and educational medium, while others sought sophisticated entertainment. With profit as the determining motive, executives and sponsors sought only what would evoke the most lucrative response. The term "Golden Age" also applies to the reality that much of the television programming in the 1950s was offered up as live performance, a dangerous and exciting time for both writers and actors.
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]]>Title: The Great Plague of London]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of England's Last Major Outbreak of the Bubonic Plague]]>Categories: 17th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-17-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the 14th century, a ruthless killer stalked the streets of England, wiping out up to 60 percent of the terror-stricken nation's inhabitants. This invisible and unforgiving terminator continued to harass the population for hundreds of years, but nothing could compare to the savagery it would unleash three centuries later. This conscienceless menace was none other than the notorious bubonic plague, also known as the "Black Death". The High Middle Ages had seen a rise in Western Europe's population in previous centuries, but these gains were almost entirely erased as the plague spread rapidly across all of Europe from 1346-1353. With a medieval understanding of medicine, diagnosis, and illness, nobody understood what caused Black Death or how to truly treat it.
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]]>Title: Tower Bridge]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of London's Most Iconic Bridge]]>Categories: 19th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-14-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In fact, the tall bridge that symbolizes not just the city but the nation is Tower Bridge, and while it is among the oldest major bridges in London, it is hardly the first to have been built on the Thames, or even on that spot. In actuality, the first men to build a bridge on that spot probably spoke Latin as their first language. As time passed, technology changed, and with it, the nature of bridge building. Wood gave way to stone, which in turn gave way to iron and steel. At the same, London grew on both land and water, with more people living in and near the city, and more people plying the river in bigger and bigger ships. The people on land needed to get across the river, and the people on the river needed to be able to move along without too much interference. It was obvious that the city needed a new bridge, but years passed before the right design for one came along.
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]]>Title: John Nash, Jr.]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of One of America's Most Influential Mathematicians]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, STEM, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-12-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 2001, the critically acclaimed film A Beautiful Mind introduced millions to John Nash, Jr., one of America's most important 20th century mathematicians, nearly 50 years after he had won a Nobel Prize for his work. Naturally, most viewers of the movie will remember a prodigy suffering from paranoid schizophrenia while overlooking how the man's innovative studies and works had a major influence on everything from economics to biology, cryptography, artificial intelligence, and political philosophy. The "Nash equilibrium", a theory he developed when he was still a student in his 20s, has also affected games, military doctrine, and computing. Nash was still doing groundbreaking work and was in the prime of his life when he began demonstrating all kinds of odd behavior, initially alarming his wife Alicia and then stunning the academic world with an incoherent lecture in 1959. As it turned out, he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, which made him see things and believe in wild conspiracies like a national communist takeover by men wearing red ties.
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]]>Title: Captain John Franklin's Lost Expedition]]>Subtitle: The History of the British Explorer's Arctic Voyage in Search of the Northwest Passage]]>Categories: Europe, Exploration, Great Britain, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kenneth Ray]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-06-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The sad story takes us back to the June of 1845. The two discovery ships, the Erebus and Terror, are at sea, with the transport containing their supplies in attendance on them. The time is noon; the place on the ocean is near the island of Rona, 70 or 80 miles from Stromness; and the two steamers, Rattler and Blazer, are taking leave - a last, long leave - of the Arctic voyagers." - The Living Age, 1859 Most anyone who has received a basic education in world history knows the story of how "in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Most also know that Christopher Columbus made first contact with the Americas while searching for a water route to Asia. However, far fewer people remember that the search for such a route continued for centuries after Columbus' death. After the discovery of the Americas, several European countries were interested in finding the route, and nations from France to Spain sent out explorers searching for the mysterious route.
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]]>Title: Samarkand]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of One of Asia's Oldest Cities]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-05-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Samarkand is one of the oldest cities of Central Asia, founded nearly 3,000 years ago. The legendary city was the capital of the Sogdians, a trading people who facilitated the spread of commodities, religions, technologies, and ideas across the Silk Road between China and the rest of Eurasia. Samarkand was a key site along the ancient Silk Road, a place where a number of world cultures from the East and the West met and assimilated. As well as being a commercial center, it was a key religious site for the Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Christian, and Islamic faiths. The growth of Samarkand occurred at the same time as other major urban centers based on oases along the Silk Road, such as Khwarezm, Balkh (Bactria), and Bukhara. The city was conquered by Alexander the Great in 329 BCE and served as a base for his campaigns through Transoxiana. From the early Islamic period to the seventh century, the city prospered until it was completely destroyed by Genghis Khan in 1220.
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]]>Title: Legends of Hollywood]]>Subtitle: The Life of Rudolph Valentino]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Doron Alon]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-05-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Everything about Rudolph Valentino, from his body to the characters he played, was exotic. His career may have been abbreviated by his premature death at the age of 31, but Valentino popularized the (somewhat racist) stereotype of the "Latin lover" in Hollywood, and even his name was markedly more out of the ordinary than those of other actors. In an era dominated by hyper-masculine actors like Douglas Fairbanks, or comedians such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, Valentino had a more ethnic and mysterious appeal, and he was lusted after by women to a degree that remains unsurpassed in the industry. The extent to which he captivated America can be seen in the response to his death; after passing away from a perforated ulcer in 1926, Ashton Trice and Samuel Holland note that his funeral "was one of the pop culture events of the century", and devastated women are alleged to have committed suicide out of heartbreak. If Valentino's public persona was exotic, his personal life and background were no less fantastic, to the extent that it rivaled the improbable narratives of his movies.
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]]>Title: 10 Downing Street]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the British Prime Minister's Official Residence]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-03-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government an official note stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o'clock, that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and consequently this country is at war with Germany." (Neville Chamberlain) "Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic." (Douglas Hurd) Throughout the world there are centers of power and law that also serve as homes for families - sometimes just one, sometimes several. In the United States, the White House is both a residence and an office, and the same is true of a number of palaces around the world. In London much of the United Kingdom's official business emanates from 10 Downing Street, often referred to simply as Number 10.
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]]>Title: Opus Dei]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Catholic Church's Famous Institution]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-31-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The intentional deprivation of one's most physical and carnal needs is a concept that has existed since the beginning of time, more commonly known as "mortification". The Bible makes one of the earliest references to "mortification of the flesh", as seen in Colossians 3:5, which reads, "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry." As time progressed, this concept has branched out into a more extreme form - corporal mortification. These are cases of voluntary acts of agonizing self-inflicted deprivation and physical torture, acts that have aroused much contempt from the public. Thanks to Dan Brown's best-selling novel turned blockbuster mega-hit, The Da Vinci Code, in which audiences were introduced to Silas, the villainous, self-whipping monk, corporal mortification is now a term most often associated with Opus Dei. A creepy, deranged, and blood-thirsty albino monk, Silas is most remembered for viciously whipping himself with a nail-embedded cilice.
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]]>Title: Jerusalem and Islam]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Holy City's Importance to Muslims]]>Categories: Ancient, Christianity, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-31-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The most holy spot [al-quds] on earth is Syria; the most holy spot in Syria is Palestine; the most holy spot in Palestine is Jerusalem [Bayt al-maqdis]; the most holy spot in Jerusalem is the Mountain; the most holy spot in Jerusalem is the place of worship [al-masjid], and the most holy spot in the place of worship is the Dome" - Thawr ibn Yazid, circa 770 In the campaign leading up to the election of Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate frequently discussed the importance of moving the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. For many conservative Christian Americans and Israelis, this was tantamount to the United States agreeing to Jewish control over Jerusalem. As it stands now, the US has a consulate in Jerusalem, yet no country houses their embassy in Jerusalem due to the conflicting claims of the Israelis and Palestinians. The political issue is just one more reminder of how important Jerusalem is as both a secular and religious flashpoint. One of the oldest cities in the world, Jerusalem is a holy and special city to the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Dolly Parton]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-31-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Few celebrities are as much a product of their native land as Dolly Parton. While many celebrities have desperately tried to get as far away as possible from their impoverished upbringings, Parton constructed her star persona around the image of Appalachian country music culture. In many ways, Parton was raised in a quintessential Appalachian family, and while she has been resolute in expressing her affection for this background, it is impossible to deny that her upbringing posed obstacles that were difficult to overcome and related to societal and industrial levels.
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]]>Title: The Mexican-American War and Spanish-American War]]>Subtitle: The History of the Major Conflicts That Resulted in America's Expansion Across North America]]>Categories: American Civil War, History, Military, Military Conflict, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-30-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The policy of manifest destiny increased tensions with Mexico in the 1840s. Mexico's northern half formed the western border of the territory bought in the Louisiana Purchase. Naturally, notions of the United States expanding to the Pacific Ocean alarmed Mexico, which held what is today the west coast of the United States. However, Mexico first came to regard American expansion as a serious problem with the immigration of Americans into its northeastern territory. These Americans declared independence from Mexico and created a nation in the Mexican province of Texas. After winning independence in 1836, Texas became an independent republic. Texas formally asked to be annexed by the United States in 1845. This annexation angered the Mexican government, which still considered Texas to be part of its territory. Mexico had previously warned that the annexation of Texas would cause Mexico to declare war on the United States. When a Mexican patrol attacked American cavalry in the disputed area north of the Rio Grande, President Polk went to Congress for a declaration of war. The declaration passed on May 13, 1846. The war against Mexico was unpopular with the opposition Whig party, especially in the North.
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]]>Title: The Fourth Crusade]]>Subtitle: The History of the Crusade That Resulted in the Sack of Constantinople]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Military, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-29-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Fourth Crusade from 1202-1204 is significant in medieval history because it was the first time a crusade was directed against another Christian group. It was also significant since it encompassed two of the four major sieges of Constantinople, and it also sparked a third in 1235 (an unsuccessful attempt to reverse the Latin gains in 1204). Given that legacy, it's ironic that like the Crusades before it, the Fourth Crusade was originally intended as an invasion of Egypt, which had been conquered by Saladin and his uncle nearly four decades earlier. Egypt had been joined with Syria into one Muslim empire under Saladin, but it had fallen apart into two separate realms after his death shortly after the Third Crusade in 1193. Following that crusade, the main objective of the Crusaders in the 13th century was to conquer Egypt and use it as a beachhead against the Muslims in Syria who threatened Christian Palestine, a goal that should have been beneficial to all of Christendom in both the West and East.
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]]>Title: Marshal Josip Broz Tito: The Life and Legacy of Yugoslavia's First President]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-29-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"No country of people's democracy has so many nationalities as this country has. Only in Czechoslovakia do there exist two kindred nationalities, while in some of the other countries there are only minorities. Consequently in these countries of people's democracy there has been no need to settle such serious problems as we have had to settle here. With them the road to socialism is less complicated than is the case here." (Tito) The World War II era produced many leaders of titanic determination, men whose strengths and weaknesses left an extraordinary imprint on historical affairs. Josip Broz Tito, better known to history as Marshal Tito, was undoubtedly one of these figures. Originally a machinist, Tito leveraged his success in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) and a number of extraordinary strokes of luck into dictatorial rule over Yugoslavia for a span of 35 years. World War II proved the watershed that enabled him to secure control of the country, leading an ever more powerful army of communist partisans against both the Germans and other Yugoslav factions. During the war, SS leader Heinrich Himmler himself begrudgingly stated, "He has really earned his title of Marshal.
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]]>Title: Sea Monsters]]>Subtitle: A History of Creatures from the Haunted Deep in Legend and Lore]]>Categories: Biology, Occult, STEM, Science, Unexplained Mystery]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The oceans of the world have always had an air of mystery. About 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by water, and until the 20th century no one had plumbed its depths. Even today the bigger seas and oceans remain a largely unexplored frontier, with new species being discovered every year. Thus it comes as no surprise that countless legends have arisen of strange creatures lurking in the depths. What follows is just a sampling of these stories, including sightings of unusual sea creatures by experienced witnesses in the 19th, 20th, and even 21st centuries. The idea that there might be large species still swimming in the oceans that haven't been classified by marine biologists isn't as far-fetched as it might sound. For example, the megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) was entirely unknown to science until a US naval vessel off the coast of Hawaii accidentally skewered one on its anchor. The megamouth shark is a deep-water shark that can reach up to 18 feet in length, making it quite a large creature to go unnoticed for so long.
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]]>Title: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple]]>Subtitle: The History of the Most Notorious Cult and Mass Murder-Suicide in American History]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Religion, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The United States has never had a shortage of cults based on religious teachings and charismatic leaders, but perhaps none are as infamous as Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, which remain notorious for the mass murder-suicide event in Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978, during which nearly 900 people drank cyanide-laced Flavor Aid, including nearly 300 children. To this day, "drinking the Kool-Aid" is a popular phrase in America to refer to people who blindly follow a person or idea without thought, and the event at Jonestown was the deadliest deliberate act involving Americans in history until the 9/11 attacks. In addition to those deaths, Peoples Temple members also murdered a handful of others on the same day, including journalists, a member trying to leave Jonestown, and Congressman Leo Ryan. Almost from birth, Jones believed he had a higher calling, and after being immersed in various Christian churches and both political and religious doctrine, Jones founded the Peoples Temple in Indianapolis in 1955, when he was still in his mid-20s.
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]]>Title: Legends of Hollywood: The Life of Olivia de Havilland]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-23-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Olivia de Havilland is one of the last few living actresses who worked during the Golden Era of Hollywood, but also one of the most decorated, winning dozens of awards over the course of a 50 year career. Among those, she most notably won the Academy Award for Best Actress for To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949), more than a decade after she got her start as an 18 year old in Hollywood. Ironically, de Havilland was in California in part because the young British girl who had been born in Tokyo stopped in the States for medical treatment. Of course, de Havilland isn't well remembered for any of those accolades or other movies but because she played Melanie Hamilton in Gone with the Wind (1939), perhaps the most famous movie in American history. Although she was a veteran actress at the time, de Havilland's career hadn't progressed much since she started, and rumor has it that she eventually got the role after her own sister, Joan Fontaine, was asked to audition for the part and recommended Olivia instead.
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]]>Title: Florence Nightingale]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Most Famous Nurse in History]]>Categories: 19th Century, Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-23-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Today, nursing is one of the most ubiquitous professions in the world, and images of war immediately call to mind nursing the wounded, but it was not long ago that such ideas were relatively primitive. Indeed, schoolchildren are still taught about the revolutionary exploits of Florence Nightingale, the war nurse who is often credited as the founder of modern nursing. As The Times wrote of Nightingale, "She is a 'ministering angel' without any exaggeration in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired for the night and silence and darkness have settled down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds." Florence Nightingale first came to prominence during the Crimean War in the middle of the 19th century when she helped organize efforts to treat wounded soldiers, and the image of her doing rounds among those she treated at night became extremely popular in Europe, but her efforts extended far beyond the scope of battle.
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]]>Title: Augusto Pinochet]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of Chile's Controversial Dictator]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kenneth Ray]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-23-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>For much of the 20th century, South American governments in large part lived under a system of military junta governments. The mixture of indigenous peoples, foreign settlers and European colonial superpowers produced cultural and social imbalances into which military forces intervened as a stabilizing influence. The proactive personalities of military heads and the rigid structures of such a hierarchy guaranteed the "strong man" commanding officer an abiding presence in the form of executive dictator. Such leaders often bore the more collaborative title of President, but the reality was, in most cases, identical. Likewise, the gap between rich and poor was often vast, and a disappearance of the middle class fed a frequent urge for revolution, reenergizing the military's intent to stop it.
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]]>Title: The Freemasons]]>Subtitle: The History of Freemasonry and the World's Most Famous Secret Society]]>Categories: America, Europe, History, Planet Earth, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-17-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>For decades, parodies featuring ominous, mysterious cults have been a favorite gag in pop culture. These fraternal brothers are often depicted in some type of underground lair, dressed in extravagant ceremonial robes with their faces hidden in their hoods, seated around a long table brimming with Gothic chalices, skulls, and glittering dark treasure. Flicks on the more morbid side might even show choppy, flashing imagery of blood, torture, and sacrifices. Like all art, creativity is sparked by a source of inspiration, and one of the most widely recognized muses of these kinds of scenes is none other than the Freemasons. This ancient society, descended from the ancient culture of stonemasonry, is said to possess the deepest, darkest, and most inexplicable truths of the universe. They are said to possess mystical powers like no other - maybe even magic. But does this stigma against the brotherhood have any merit, or are they simply just severely misunderstood? As many are aware, Freemasons have been around for many centuries. The Renaissance, which came into full bloom between the 14th and 16th centuries, saw a burst in creativity and advancement in an array of art forms throughout Europe.
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]]>Title: They Must Be Made of Iron]]>Subtitle: A Historical Drama of the Iron Brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg]]>Categories: America, Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-17-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Without question, the most famous battle of the American Civil War took place outside of the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, which happened to be a transportation hub, serving as the center of a wheel with several roads leading out to other Pennsylvanian towns. From July 1-3, Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia tried everything in its power to decisively defeat George Meade's Union Army of the Potomac, unleashing ferocious assaults that inflicted nearly 50,000 casualties in all. Day one of the battle would have been one of the 25 biggest battles of the Civil War itself, and it ended with a tactical Confederate victory. To an important degree, Gettysburg played out as it did because of the Union Army's most famous brigade. The title of "Iron Brigade" has been given to a number of different US Army brigades over the last century and a half, but it has become almost entirely synonymous with the Civil War soldiers who fought in the brigade for the Army of the Potomac.
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]]>Title: History's Greatest Artists: The Life and Legacy of Rembrandt]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Visual Artist]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-15-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Of all the famous Dutch masters during the Late Renaissance and Early Baroque periods, none surpass Rembrandt van Rijn in either historical importance or artistic merit. His aesthetic has been much-imitated, a testament to the inspirational grip they exert on their viewer.
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]]>Title: The Massachusetts Bay Colony]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Settlement of Colonial New England]]>Categories: America, Colonialism, Europe, Great Britain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tracey Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-15-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The first successful American colony in North America was settled in 1607 at Jamestown, Virginia. Though the Virginian colonists had difficulty in the beginning, by the late 1620s the Chesapeake area was thriving, having become a haven for those seeking economic opportunity in the new world. Pressures in England were growing as King Charles I was on the throne. Though Charles I himself was an Anglican, many suspected him of Catholic sympathies, a suspicion not alleviated by Charles I marriage to a French Catholic princess. Many Protestants had a growing desire to practice their faith and conduct their lives away from the mother country, and sought refuge in a destination called New England. The land chosen by this group, who "could pay their own way across the Atlantic" in contrast to the poorer settlers of the Chesapeake region was "colder, less abundant, but far healthier" than Virginia.
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]]>Title: Soviet Russia's Space Program During the Space Race]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Competition That Pushed America to the Moon]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-15-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Of all the goals the Bolshevik Revolution aimed to bring about, perhaps nowhere were Russian promises delivered on more than in the success of the Soviet Space program of the 1950s and 1960s. As a result of Russian innovation and technology, but also due to incredible drive to modernize and compete with the United States for world power, Russia was finally and triumphantly modernized in the eyes of her own people and the world. Neil deGrasse Tyson recognized the Soviet legacy in space in his Space Chronicles, citing the Soviets' "important measure[s] of space achievement: first spacewalk, longest spacewalk, first woman in space, first docking in space, first space station, longest time logged in space." In fact, the Soviet Union spent much of the 1950s leaving the United States in its dust (and rocket fuel). President Eisenhower and other Americans who could view Soviet rockets in the sky were justifiably worried that Soviet satellites in orbit could soon be spying on them, or, even worse, dropping nuclear bombs on them.
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]]>Title: The Black Sox Scandal]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of America's Most Notorious Sports Controversy]]>Categories: America, Baseball, Bat-and-Ball Sport, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-14-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The 1919 World Series was one that baseball fans would never forget, but the memories are hardly fond. The Chicago White Sox were favored 5:1 to beat the Cincinnati Reds, and for the first time since 1903, the Series would be a best-of-nine format. However, at a time when players were treated as second class, some sought a payday beyond what they made in the leagues, and the White Sox players were some of the most poorly paid in the league. The owner of the team, Charles A. Comiskey, was one of the cheapest owners in the game, too cheap to pay to have the team's uniforms laundered after games. Around two weeks before the World Series was set to begin, Chicago first baseman Chick Gandil met with a gambler in his Boston hotel room. During that meeting, Gandil told Joseph Sullivan that for $100,000, he and other members of the White Sox were willing to take a dive and make sure that the Reds won the World Series.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Chuck Norris]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kenneth Ray]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-08-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. It is not uncommon for a culture to create intricate mythologies around its combat arts champions, but those celebrity fighters who have produced enough tangible accomplishments to merit such adulation are generally limited to a few in each generation. In the second half of the 20th century, boxer Muhammad Ali commanded such reverence, and in the martial arts, two stars have primarily reestablished the entire combat genre for the international movie-going population.
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]]>Title: The Ancient Bosnian Pyramids]]>Subtitle: The History and Mystery over the Controversial Pyramids in Bosnia and Herzegovina]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-08-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>There are hundreds of pyramid-shaped hills distributed in and around central Bosnia and Herzegovina, yet one in particular has achieved worldwide attention over the last decade. Found in the small town of Visoko, located about 30 kilometres northwest from Sarajevo, the hill is the tallest point in a landscape of tremendous historical importance for the country. The region has been occupied from prehistoric times. Rich in natural resources, the area was extensively quarried for metal ore and stone over many periods. In the medieval period (12th to 15th centuries CE), this area became the center of the Kingdom of Bosnia. It was here that the first king of Bosnia, Tvrtko I, was crowned in 1377 CE. During this time the large hill became known as Visočica, and a fortress was constructed upon its summit. From 1463, the Ottomans controlled them, and under their rule, many towns were founded, including Visoko which experienced a surge of economic development and cultural activity and became one of the richest towns in Bosnia.
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]]>Title: Blitzed]]>Subtitle: Drugs in the Third Reich]]>Categories: Addiction, Drug Addiction, Europe, Germany]]>Author: Norman Ohler]]>Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki]]>Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.]]>Release date: 03-07-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact, troops regularly took rations of a form of crystal meth - the elevated energy and feelings of invincibility associated with the high even help to explain certain German military victories. Drugs seeped all the way up to the Nazi high command and, especially, to Hitler himself. Over the course of the war, Hitler became increasingly dependent on injections of a cocktail of drugs - including a form of heroin - administered by his personal doctor. While drugs alone cannot explain the Nazis' toxic racial theories or the events of World War II, Ohler's investigation makes an overwhelming case that, if drugs are not taken into account, our understanding of the Third Reich is fundamentally incomplete.
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]]>Title: The Quakers]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Religious Society of Friends]]>Categories: America, Christianity, History, Protestantism]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-06-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I was plain, and would have all things done plainly; for I did not seek any outward advantage to myself." - George Fox Since its fruition, Christianity has faced an unremitting string of conflicts, critics, and challenges. As the number of Christian converts grew, the growth in clashes on ideologies and control was only natural. In the same vein, more and more of those who called themselves Christians seemed to be straying further and further away from God's light. Drunkenness, heresy, and immorality were on the rise. The Middle Ages was especially rife with rape, incest, adultery, and other obscene sexual behaviors, which were well-recorded by medieval chroniclers. The English scholar, Alcuin, lamented that civilization had become "absolutely submerged under flood of fornication, adultery, and incest, so that the very semblance of modesty is entirely absent." Towards the 17th century, the Puritan-raised George Fox became increasingly discouraged by the worsening moral conditions of society. George was unable to fill the spiritual void inside of him, until one day, he discovered his inner "Light". Next came the godly visions.
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]]>Title: The Yakuza]]>Subtitle: The History of the Notorious Japanese Crime Organization]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, History, Japan]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-06-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision." - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, 16th century samurai A pack of men in sharp, tailored suits and dark sunglasses strut down the street. Their eyes are shielded, but the icy scowl on their faces is a clear sign to stay out of their paths. A few of their collars hang open, showing off a glimpse of the vibrant and intricate ink work on their chests, and presumably, their entire bodies. Tattoos are the norm these days, but then one suddenly spots a man with a peculiarly pint-sized pinkie. Perhaps it is only a deformity, but upon a closer look, it appears that the entire upper half has been sliced cleanly off, almost as if it were done intentionally. Since the beginning of civilization, crime and injustice has existed. At the same time, gangs in all shapes and sizes have been around, from rebels, dissidents, and rogue soldiers to the average circle of miscreants loitering in alleys and behind convenience stores. In Japan, a gang of a different breed would arise - one underscored by honor, respect, family, and a code of ethics.
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]]>Title: The Olmec and Toltec]]>Subtitle: The History of Early Mesoamerica's Most Influential Cultures]]>Categories: America, Ancient, History, Indigenous]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-03-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Olmec people are widely recognized as the first major civilization of Mexico and are thus generally regarded as the mother civilization of Mesoamerica, making them the people from which all subsequent Mesoamerican cultures derived. In fact, the term Olmec is thought to have originated with the Aztec people, as Olmec in their Nahuatl language means "the rubber people", a reference to the inhabitants of the land from which they accessed rubber. By and large, the Olmec culture is perhaps best identifiable by their so-called colossal heads, mammoth basalt head-statues wearing helmet-like headdresses found throughout Olmec habitation sites. Around 2500 BC, the Olmec settled primarily along Mexico's Gulf Coast in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico (in the modern-day States of Veracruz and Tabasco), and they flourished during North America's Prehistoric Indian Formative period from about 1700-400 BC. Their direct cultural contributions were still evident as late as AD 300. Among Mesoamerican scholars, the Formative period is subdivided into the Preclassic (Olmec period), Classic (Maya period), and Postclassic (Toltec and Aztec periods). The Olmec's agricultural abilities sustained them and ensured their power and influence for over a millennium.
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]]>Title: The Greatest Battles in History]]>Subtitle: The Battle of Moscow During World War II]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-01-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>World War II was fought on a scale unlike anything before or since in human history, and the unfathomable casualty counts are attributable in large measure to the carnage inflicted between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during Hitler's invasion of Russia and Stalin's desperate defense. The invasion came in 1941 following a nonaggression pact signed between the two in 1939, which allowed Hitler to focus his attention on the west without having to worry about an attack from the eastern front. While Germany was focusing on the west, the Soviet Union sent large contingents of troops to the border region between the two countries, and Stalin's plan to take territory in Poland and the Baltic States angered Hitler. By 1940, Hitler viewed Stalin as a major threat and had made the decision to invade Russia: "In the course of this contest, Russia must be disposed of...The quicker we smash Russia the better." While a legend exists today that Hitler's strategic fecklessness destroyed Germany's chances, despite the wise objections of the Wehrmacht general staff (OKW), the actual situation in 1941 resembled the precise reverse of this familiar historical trope.
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]]>Title: The Bonus Army]]>Subtitle: The History of the Controversial Protests by American World War I Veterans in 1932]]>Categories: America, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Throughout its history, the United States, like most other countries, has faced the challenge of how to properly reward those who have risked, and often given, their lives to defend it. Should they be treated as professionals who were just doing a job? What about those who were drafted, many of whom fought against their own will (or at least preference)? Could anyone really pay them for giving up years of their lives for others? If so, how much was enough to pay a man who had left a comfortable home to live in mud and near starvation? As tough as such questions are in the 21st century age of the professional army, they were that much more complex in the past. One of the main questions that fueled the fire of discontent in the 1920s and 1930s was the issue of military bonuses, that is, extra pay for the difference between what a man earned as a soldier while serving his country and what he might have otherwise earned. This issue remained a bone of contention over the decades that followed and turned up again and again every time the United States went to war.
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]]>Title: Versailles]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of France's Most Famous Royal Palace]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Renaissance]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In every nation, in every era of history, there are inevitably one or two places that become the symbol of the times. Mention Valley Forge to an American and it will immediately conjure up visions of a hard won fight for freedom. Likewise, the word Dunkirk said to a Briton will elicit a sense of both pride and horror at the lives lost and saved at that desperate point in World War II. For the French, and those who study their history, Versailles is a symbol of, as Charles Dickens once put it, "the best of times...the worst of times." It was here that the Sun King, Louis XIV, built a palace worthy of a great nation during a time when peace was, at best, short-lived. It was at Versailles that Russian Tsar Peter the Great to study the palace's architecture and gardens so that he could recreate them in his home country.
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]]>Title: The Forbidden City]]>Subtitle: The History of the Chinese Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing]]>Categories: Asia, China, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Located in the center of Beijing, the Forbidden City served as the palace for the emperor of China from 1420 to 1912 CE, a period encompassing the Ming and Qing dynasties. It was home to the celestial leaders of China, men that possessed the Mandate of Heaven. A total of 24 emperors lived and ruled from the vast and magnificent complex for almost 500 years, until the last Chinese dynasty was overthrown in 1912 with the abdication of Emperor Xuantong, more commonly known as Puyi. Known also as the Forbidden Palace, or amongst contemporary Chinese as the "Former Palace", the complex was first given its name in 1576. The Forbidden City was the home of many thousands of governmental staff, female servants and concubines, eunuchs, soldiers, and kitchen staff, and where their entire lives were built. Nonetheless, entrance to it from the outside was forbidden to all but the emperor, his court, and his relations. Without the permission of the emperor, access to or from the heart of the empire was impossible, but what was once inaccessible is now one of the most visited institutions in the world.
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]]>Title: Reaching the Summit of Mount Everest]]>Subtitle: The History of the Famous Expeditions Attempting to Climb the World's Tallest Mountain]]>Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, Adventure, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-24-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>People have been climbing as long as they've existed, and for those who relish the challenge, nothing can top Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on the planet at over 29,000 feet. As Sir Edmund Hillary put it, "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." Elaborating on that, he also asserted, "I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous. I think that the fact that something has a spice of danger about it can often add to its attraction, and to its fascination." Of course, the sheer size of the mountain and its location in Asia all but precluded Westerners from even making such attempts before India became a colonial possession of the British.
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]]>Title: Roman Polanski & Sharon Tate]]>Subtitle: The Controversial Life of the Director and Notorious Death of the Actress]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-22-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Few figures in Hollywood's history have been as acclaimed and controversial as director Roman Polanski, whose legendary films would stand out if not for the fact that they're often eclipsed by the turbulent life he's led. The son of Polish parents, Polanski survived World War II despite having both parents transferred to concentration camps during the Holocaust, but his mother was killed at Auschwitz. Despite the terrible ordeal and the loss of his mother, Polanski would grow up to become one of Europe's best directors, and over the course of a career spanning about 50 years, his films have been nominated for too many awards to count. Given that background, Polanski would represent one of Hollywood's greatest success stories, but far from having a fairytale ending, more hardships would endure. In 1969, things were looking up for one of Hollywood's most marketable actresses. After appearing as a model in fashion magazines and having bit parts on shows during the early part of the decade, Sharon Tate was a star in the making.
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]]>Title: Legends of Hollywood: The Life and Legacy of Roman Polanski]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone, and this is my biggest satisfaction." (Roman Polanski) "Polanski claims in Roman by Polanski, his autobiography, that for him the line between reality and fantasy has always been blurred." [Daniel Bird, Roman Polanski: The Pocket Essential Guide (2009)] Few figures in Hollywood's history have been as acclaimed and controversial as director Roman Polanski, whose legendary films would stand out if not for the fact that they're often eclipsed by the turbulent life he's led. The son of Polish parents, Polanski survived World War II despite having both parents transferred to concentration camps during the Holocaust, but his mother was killed at Auschwitz. Despite the terrible ordeal and the loss of his mother, Polanski would grow up to become one of Europe's best directors, and over the course of a career spanning about 50 years, his films have been nominated for too many awards to count. Given that background, Polanski would represent one of Hollywood's greatest success stories, but far from having a fairy-tale ending, he would endure more hardships.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Sharon Tate]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In 1969, things were looking up for one of Hollywood's most marketable actresses. After appearing as a model in fashion magazines and having bit parts on shows during the early part of the decade, Sharon Tate was a star in the making. That summer, she was pregnant with her first child by director Roman Polanski, who had just recently become her husband, and a few months earlier, she had just finished filming The Thirteen Chairs, co-starring Orson Welles. Tragically, superstardom would never come, and even today, over 45 years later, most details of Sharon's life and career are completely overlooked by people who continue to be morbidly curious about her murder at the hands of the Manson Family on August 9, 1969.
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]]>Title: The Hudson's Bay Company]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Famous English Trading Company in Colonial America]]>Categories: America, Colonialism, Europe, Great Britain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When Queen Elizabeth arrived in Lower Fort Garry, Manitoba in 1970, she was, like many foreign leaders, greeted with a reception and offered tokens by her hosts. What was different about this occasion, however, were the gifts offered: live elk and beaver. In the long-standing tradition of the Hudson's Bay Company, should the King or Queen arrive in the lands governed by the charter King Charles II granted in 1660, he or she would be presented with two elk and two beavers by Company officials. Only Queen Elizabeth and her father had the opportunity to take advantage of this part of the charter's clauses, but the royal houses of Britain had benefitted from the rule of the Hudson's Bay Company for hundreds of years beforehand. Britain had grown rich on the profits brought into the country from across the seas in North America.
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]]>Title: The Al-Nusra Front]]>Subtitle: The History of the Syrian Rebel Group Formerly Affiliated with Al-Qaeda]]>Categories: 21st Century, History, Middle East, Modern, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kenneth Ray]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Since the Arab Spring uprising of 2011, reports of terrorist attacks around the world have flooded international media. Syria, a country about one and half times the size of Texas, has become the central battleground for many terrorist groups; those the world often focuses on and has heard much of - such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also known as ISIS and Da'ash, but from here on referred to as ISIL) - and those the world rarely hears about and is unable to make distinctions between others - such as Jabhat Al-Nusra. Despite the lack of focused attention on its activities, Jabhat Al-Nusra (or the Nusra Front as it is sometimes referred to) has built quite a reputation in Syria and the greater Middle East for its seemingly endless supply of weapons, ability to ally with strategic partners, and its peculiar mix of international, albeit notorious, supporters inside the country. Jabhat Al-Nusra's formal name is "Jabhat Al-Nusra li-Ahl al-Sham", or the "Victorious Support Front for the People of Sham (or Syria)" and the group first emerged on the international scene in early 2012 as a localized Syrian affiliate of Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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]]>Title: Damascus]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Syrian Capital from Antiquity to Today]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Throughout history, Syria has been dominated not by one great city but by two. Aside from Aleppo to the north, the religious and commercial metropolis of Damascus has been a place desired by the powerful. For thousands of years the Phoenicians, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Christians, and Muslims all vied for control of the city. Damascus has many important architectural sites dating from almost all eras of its history, and vestiges of the past have existed and been valued in Damascus throughout its existence. The history of Damascus from the Byzantine period to the 12th century is particularly fascinating, in terms of its role as the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate and the changes that it experienced when the Abbasid Caliphate and Seljuk dynasty came to power. At Damascus, the vibrant capital of modern Syria, one can experience the passion and spirituality of the many faiths that have coexisted in Syria for centuries.
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]]>Title: The Battleship Potemkin]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Famous Mutiny Aboard the Russian Ship]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Military, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-13-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Russia entered the 20th century in possession of nearly all of the prerequisites for an empire of historic proportions. The tsar presided over almost one-sixth of the world's land masses extending from a culturally European West to an Asian East, with vast expanses of forest steppe and tundra reaching from Poland to the Pacific Ocean. Virtually all great empires have built and maintained advanced navies, from ancient times to the modern era of Spain, but Russia lagged behind in the modern armadas typical of world-shaping societies. Despite a membership of nearly 60,000 sailors by the turn of the 20th century, making Russia's seagoing force the fourth largest in the world, the crews were deficient and poorly treated, drawn largely from conscripted factory workers and serfs who earned far less in wages than they would have at home. This made them particularly susceptible to anti-tsarist ideologies, and in particular, "Marxist agitators." Likewise, most among the officer class were political appointees from the land-based aristocracy, who lacked the general skill and sensitivity with which to lead men into battles they themselves had never experienced. Despite Russia's imposing image in the world, less apparent weaknesses within the tsarist government threatened the country's stability.
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]]>Title: The Jesuits]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Catholic Church's Society of Jesus]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-10-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Middle Ages remains one of the most defining eras of human civilization. It is an era characterized by illustrious monarchs, valiant knights in shining armor, and magnificent Gothic architecture. It is also an era characterized by fervent friction, brutish barbarism, frequent famines, pestilent plagues, and of course, death. Some say the mortality rate in medieval times was like no other; with about a third of all children dying before the age of five, it was nearly miraculous for one to live past their 40s. As a result, medieval people spent their entire lives preparing for the inevitability of death and the afterlife, hoping to one day make their way into the kingdom of heaven. The Catholic Church did little to alleviate the fear of hell, a common theme in the sermons delivered by stern priests across Europe.
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]]>Title: Jimmy Hoffa]]>Subtitle: The Controversial Life and Disappearance of the Godfather of the Teamsters]]>Categories: America, Biography, Business, Economic]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Zarbock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-09-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A century ago, if one were to come across a manual laborer from the early 20th century or the Roaring Twenties and relayed to them the possibility of one day sticking it to the man, one would probably be laughed out of the century. However, this was exactly what one man with solid-gold aspirations and audacity set out to achieve. Jimmy Hoffa, once described by Bobby Kennedy as the second most powerful man in America, was a union boss who evoked both respect and fear, and he continues to be a legendary figure who often crops up in conversation and the media over 40 years after his disappearance. While it was an open secret that Hoffa had shady connections, the success of his leadership allowed supporters to overlook them. As Sloane put it, "More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power." Charles Brandt once wrote, "From 1955 until 1965 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as Elvis Presley.
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]]>Title: Seabiscuit and Secretariat]]>Subtitle: The History of America's Most Famous Horses]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Sport, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-08-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Americans have always loved animals, and those living prior to World War II were still close enough to their pioneer roots to feel a special affection for horses. After all, it was these noble animals that had carried soldiers and pulled plows and milk wagons alike. A horse was more than just a pet; it was a partner in the fight for survival. Just as many Americans had known special, unforgettable individuals, so they had known special horses. Seabiscuit was one of these, and even the animal's name spoke to the heart of those struggling. A sea biscuit was a piece of bread baked for so long in such a low oven that it was completely dry and would never mold. It was so tough that it had to be soaked in water, sometimes even rainwater, before it could be eaten. But it was nutritious and would allow a sailor to do his duty for one more hour, helping keep him alive until he reached a safe harbor. Seabiscuit was in many ways like his cracker namesake, for he was cultivated in many small races until he was ready for the big league.
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]]>Title: Seabiscuit]]>Subtitle: The Life of the Most Famous Horse in American History]]>Categories: America, Equestrian, History, Horse Racing]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-07-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Of all the things that a nation, or even an individual, need to survive a crisis, none is perhaps as necessary as hope. That feeling that somehow one can survive, win even, though the odds are stacked against them and the outlook is grim. Throughout its history, the United States has been blessed, often when most needed, with hope from a strange place. In 1778 it came when the French joined the American Revolution, and in 1980, it was brought home with Olympic Gold by the men's hockey team. But in the late 1930s, during the midst of the Great Depression, it came in the form of a horse named Seabiscuit. Americans have always loved animals, and those living prior to World War II were still close enough to their pioneer roots to feel a special affection for horses. After all, it was these noble animals that had carried soldiers and pulled plows and milk wagons alike. A horse was more than just a pet; it was a partner in the fight for survival. Just as many Americans had known special, unforgettable individuals, so they had known special horses.
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]]>Title: Secretariat]]>Subtitle: The Life of the Most Famous Triple Crown Winner in American History]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Sport, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-07-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It is not difficult to drive through Laurel, Maryland, and never know that it was once the site of races where thundering thoroughbreds ran at top speeds in search of victory. In fact, thousands of people do each day, on their way from Baltimore to Washington, DC, or vice versa. But there was a time, not that long ago, when champions ran at the now largely disused Laurel Race Course, when four-footed athletes raced for a prize that would go not to themselves but to their two-footed owners. They ran for the shear love of running and, hopefully, with a certain internal satisfaction at winning. One of the horses that once ran in Laurel, and other similar tracks across the country, was the legendary Secretariat. Unlike other previous heroes like Seabiscuit, Secretariat's fame is based not on the way in which he overcame long odds against him but in the way that he and his trainers made the very most of the advantages he had from birth.
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]]>Title: The Life and Legacy of Salvador Dali]]>Subtitle: History's Greatest Artists]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, History, Modern, Visual Artist]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kenneth Ray]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-03-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali." - Salvador Dali In his review of Salvador Dali's first autobiography, George Orwell declared that "One ought to be able to hold in one's head simultaneously the two facts that Dali is a good draughtsman and a disgusting human being." Whether or not one agrees with the famous author's assessment, Orwell captures the polarizing nature of Salvador Dali, and the extent to which his undeniable technical virtuosity often brushed against his penchant for provoking his audiences (not to mention provoking long-entrenched standards of "proper" taste). Dali, after all, was unafraid to eschew Renaissance perspective, thereby incorporating often graphic subject matter. In other words, if Dali stands as one of the canonical figures of modern art, this involved holding both a seminal role in the canon of cutting-edge art but also a tendency to challenge audiences, challenging the contours of "Art with a Capital A". While Orwell may have separated Dali the master technician from Dali the person, it would be more accurate to acknowledge that the virtues of Dali's art cannot be dissociated from its provocative nature.
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]]>Title: Pope Joan]]>Subtitle: The Indestructible Legend of the Catholic Church's First and Only Female Pontiff]]>Categories: Biography, Catholicism, Christianity, Europe]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-02-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves." - Mary Shelley The Middle Ages in Europe were some of the most precarious centuries in recorded history, bristling with war, excitement, and chaos. The Western Roman Empire had crumbled, territories were rapidly expanding, and heavy ploughs, hourglasses, spectacles, tidal mills, and more pioneering inventions were popping up across the continent. It was also a time of extreme prejudice, when women were treated as second-class citizens. Their only purpose in life was to procreate by the dozen. They were confined to their kitchens and barns at home. They could not vote, and most definitely were not allowed to be involved in anything with the word "office" in its title.
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]]>Title: Carlos the Jackal]]>Subtitle: The Life of the 20th Century's Most Notorious Terrorist]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-01-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Excuse me for taking my time, but I'm a living archive, and most people at my level are dead." - Carlos the Jackal The history of terrorism as a self-appointed profession can be traced back to the dawn of the human community, and each era claims its own class of celebrities. However, it was the 20th century in which individual terrorists first gained access to the type of advanced weaponry that could cause mass killings and destroy major public institutions. In the modern age, entire communities and countries can be held hostage to demands based upon the threat of personal or state violence, and playing upon mankind's greatest fears has risen to a new level of creativity as cultures, religions, and governmental ideologies square off in an ever-shrinking globe. From the early 1970s through the following two decades, the cult star of worldwide terrorism was Ilich Ramirez Sanchez of Venezuela, better known to the world as Carlos the Jackal. Sanchez, the most notorious of terrorists in the late 20th century before Osama bin Laden's destructive 9/11 attacks, was born on October 12, 1949, in the years following the most global example of state terrorism in the form of Nazi Germany.
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]]>Title: The Most Important Meetings of the Allies during World War II]]>Subtitle: The History of the Tehran Conference, Yalta Conference, and Potsdam Conference]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-01-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Separated by vast gulfs of political, cultural, and philosophical divergence, the three chief Allied nations of World War II - the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain - attempted to formulate a joint policy through a series of three conferences during and immediately after the conflict. The first meeting took place in Tehran in late 1943, while the fate of World War II still hung in the balance. The fate of World War II hung in the balance in 1943. On the Eastern Front, the opposed juggernauts of the Wehrmacht, army of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, and the Red Army, the military force of Josef Stalin's Soviet Union, grappled in a nearly apocalyptic battle. Black smoke rose into the steppe air from burning vehicles strewing the landscape, while millions of men maneuvered, fought, and died in a series of brutal encounters. Meanwhile, the Western Allies succeeded in ousting the Germans from North Africa, then took Sicily with Operation Husky and landed in Italy.
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]]>Title: The League of Nations]]>Subtitle: The Controversial History of the Failed Organization That Preceded the United Nations]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-01-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The United Nations is one of the most famous bodies in the world, and its predecessor, the League of Nations, might be equally notorious. In fact, President Woodrow Wilson's pet project was controversial from nearly the minute it was conceived. At the end of World War I, Wilson's pleas at the Paris Peace Conference relied on his 14 Points, which included the establishment of a League of Nations, but while his points were mostly popular amongst Americans and Europeans alike, leaders at the Peace Conference largely discarded them and favored different approaches. British leaders saw their singular aim as the maintenance of British colonial possessions. France, meanwhile, only wanted to ensure that Germany was weakened and unable to wage war again, and it too had colonial interests abroad that it hoped to maintain. Britain and France thus saw eye-to-eye, with both wanting a weaker Germany and both wanting to maintain their colonies. Wilson, however, wanted both countries to rid themselves of their colonies, and he wanted Germany to maintain its self-determination and right to self-defense.
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]]>Title: The Iran Hostage Crisis]]>Subtitle: The History of the Standoff That Ended Diplomatic Contacts Between the United States and Iran]]>Categories: America, History, Iran, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-31-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On February 1, 1979, amid great fanfare, exiled cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini landed in Tehran. The return of the leader of the revolution to his home country was one of the final markers of the Iranian Revolution, a national phenomenon that had global implications. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 has been described as an epochal event, called the peak of 20th century Islamic revivalism and revitalization, and analyzed as the one key incident that continues to impact politics across Iran, the Middle East, and the even the world as a whole. As a phenomenon that led to the creation of the first modern Islamic Republic in the world, the revolution marked the victory of Islam over secular politics, and Iran quickly became the aspiring model for Islamic fundamentalists and revivalists across the globe, regardless of nationality, culture, or religious sect.
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]]>Title: The Tehran Conference of 1943]]>Subtitle: The History of the First Meeting Between the Allies' Big Three Leaders During World War II]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-31-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Separated by vast gulfs of political, cultural, and philosophical divergence, the three chief Allied nations of World War II - the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain - attempted to formulate a joint policy through a series of three conferences during and immediately after the conflict. The first meeting took place in Tehran in late 1943, while the fate of World War II still hung in the balance. On the Eastern Front, the opposed juggernauts of the Wehrmacht, the army of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, and the Red Army, the military force of Josef Stalin's Soviet Union, grappled in a nearly apocalyptic battle. Black smoke rose into the steppe air from burning vehicles strewing the landscape, while millions of men maneuvered, fought, and died in a series of brutal encounters. Meanwhile, the Western Allies succeeded in ousting the Germans from North Africa, then took Sicily with Operation Husky and landed in Italy.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Andrew Carnegie]]>Categories: America, Biography, Business, Economic]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kenneth Ray]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-30-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of the few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race." - Andrew Carnegie A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The Gilded Age and the dawn of the 20th century are often remembered as an era full of monopolies, trusts, and economic giants in heavy industries like oil and steel. Men like John Rockefeller built empires and financiers like J.P. Morgan merged and consolidated them.
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]]>Title: The Cultural Revolution]]>Subtitle: The Controversial History of Mao Zedong's Political Mass Movement After the Great Leap Forward]]>Categories: 20th Century, Asia, China, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It's a sure sign of fame when a man is known simply by his first name, and Mao Zedong, often referred to simply as Mao or Chairman Mao, was one of the most influential men of the 20th century. He was also arguably the most controversial; as the founder of the People's Republic of China, Mao rose from being a communist revolutionary to successfully overthrowing a regime and transforming China into a communist powerhouse in Asia. The ramifications of Mao's life and legacy are still very much felt today, as China continues to transition into a superpower that may soon lay claim to the world's largest economy. Mao's communist revolution is still controversial, but it was his reign over China that has made him notorious, and in the West he is often considered one of history's biggest tyrants. Mao's revolution and his subsequent policies have been accused of causing millions of deaths, possibly more than the likes of Hitler and Stalin.
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]]>Title: Erwin Rommel]]>Subtitle: The Life and Career of the Desert Fox]]>Categories: Biography, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-27-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>One of his biographers called him "a complex man: a born leader, a brilliant soldier, a devoted husband, a proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant." As that description suggests, every account of Erwin Rommel's life must address what appears to be its inherent contradictions. Fittingly, and in the same vein, he remains one of the best remembered generals of World War II and history at large, despite the fact he was on the losing side, and he was defeated at the most famous battle of his career, the decisive Battle of El Alamein. Nonetheless, the Desert Fox has been a legend on both sides of the Atlantic for over 70 years, thanks to the crucial role he played in history's deadliest conflict. Before his legendary encounters against the British and Americans in North Africa, Rommel gained much fame for his role in the invasions of Poland and France before was sent to North Africa in February 1941. In describing Rommel, the Italian officer Alessandro Predieri talked about his "two very rare and precious gifts".
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]]>Title: The Yalta Conference]]>Subtitle: The History of the Allied Meeting That Shaped the Fate of Europe After World War II]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-26-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Separated by vast gulfs of political, cultural, and philosophical divergence, the three chief Allied nations of World War II - the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain - attempted to formulate a joint policy through a series of three conferences during and immediately after the conflict. The second meeting, named the Yalta Conference after its Black Sea venue, occurred in February 1945 and was both the most well-known and most influential of them all. Adolf Hitler's Third Reich had scant time remaining when the "Big Three" met to discuss the future of Germany, Europe, and the postwar world as a whole. No doubt existed regarding the war's outcome; the Americans had shattered the Wehrmacht's desperate last throw in the west, the Ardennes Offensive, during the Battle of the Bulge in the weeks immediately preceding Yalta, and the Soviet front lay just 50 miles east of Berlin, with the Red Army preparing for its final push into the Reich's capital after a successful surprise winter campaign. Among the agreements, the Conference called for Germany's unconditional surrender, the split of Berlin, and German demilitarization and reparations.
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]]>Title: The Potsdam Conference]]>Subtitle: The History of the Negotiations Between the Allies Near the End of World War II]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-25-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Standing in history like a milestone marking the boundary between one era and the next, the Potsdam Conference brought together the leaders of the three major Allied powers - the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom - for the last time at the end of World War II and at the threshold of the Cold War. A follow up to the Yalta Conference just five months earlier, Potsdam attempted to work out the contours of the postwar world. Though it came so shortly after Yalta, the Potsdam Conference also highlighted a turnover of leadership on the world stage. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who gave his nation hope in the darkest days of World War II, had suffered a stunning defeat at the hands of the Labor candidate Clement Attlee, who replaced him towards the end of the Conference. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died prior to the meeting, leading to his replacement by the new president Harry S. Truman, a keen-minded pragmatist whose intense focus on America's advantage contrasted with Roosevelt's internationalism. Only General Secretary Josef Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union, remained unchanged from the earlier summit.
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]]>Title: Monet & Renoir]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Legacies of the Famous Impressionist Artists]]>Categories: 19th Century, Biography, History, Modern, Visual Artist]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-24-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>To get a sense of the kind of prestige that Claude Monet enjoys within the art world, one need only learn that his Le Bassin Aux Nympheás (1919) - from his series of paintings featuring water lilies - sold for the equivalent of more than $70 million. This is a staggering price, especially considering that early in his life, Monet had been so poor and debt-ridden that some of his paintings were taken from him by creditors. How, exactly, did Monet progress from being an impoverished young Impressionist artist working at the vanguard of European art to the legendary master whose works command prices near the very pinnacle of the art world? Naturally, Monet's commercial success soared exponentially in the decades following his death in 1926, at a time in which the prices commanded by the great masters of western art began rising in price at exponential rates. Yet even during his own lifetime, Monet enjoyed a sharp rise to fame and was canonized as one of the greatest painters in France.
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]]>Title: The Life of George Burns]]>Subtitle: American Legends]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-24-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Vaudeville comedy was one of the most important forms of entertainment in the history of the United States, though its hegemony faded during the early 20th century with the advent of radio, cinema, television, and finally social media. Still, in the years leading up to the development of the film industry in the last years of the 19th century, vaudeville was the leading form of mass entertainment, with a public comprised of a more working-class clientele than the traditionally bourgeois institutions of theater or opera. Moreover, the importance of vaudeville makes evident why the life and career of George Burns are significant. Not only was Burns one of the great vaudeville entertainers of the first few decades of the 20th century, he carried its legacy forward through his later work in radio, television, and film. Many Americans remember Burns today as the funny comedian who lived (and worked) for an incredibly long time, but Burns' prolific career, which lasted almost the last 75 years of the 20th century, not only demonstrates the enduring influence of vaudeville on radio, television, and cinema but also evidences important ideological developments, particularly related to ethnicity and gender.
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]]>Title: The Life and Legacy of Renoir]]>Subtitle: History's Greatest Artists]]>Categories: 19th Century, Biography, History, Modern, Visual Artist]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-23-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Pierre-Auguste Renoir stands alongside Claude Monet at the very peak of Impressionist painting, and though neither of them can be credited with founding the movement (that honor likely goes to Edouard Manet or Edgar Degas), Renoir and Monet remain inextricably tied to the key characteristics of Impressionism: loose brushwork; outdoor painting; an emphasis on capturing natural light and shadow; and a focus on remaining in Paris and the surrounding countryside. Yet if Monet and Renoir are each remembered for their affiliation with these descriptors, differences nevertheless distinguish them, especially the fact that Renoir concentrated less on nature than did Monet, attending instead to scenes depicting Parisian leisure activity. This thematic concern for depicting scenes of idyllic Parisian enjoyment, such as rowing in boats or grand luncheons, imbues Renoir with a greater sense of joie-de-vivre than Monet or perhaps any of the other members of the Impressionist cohort. Even though Renoir's art shares much in common with his Impressionist colleagues, both his handling of paint and even his subject matter contain significant differences that render him truly unique as a painter.
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]]>Title: History's Greatest Artists: The Life and Legacy of Claude Monet]]>Categories: 19th Century, Biography, History, Modern, Visual Artist]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love." - Claude Monet To get a sense of the kind of prestige that Claude Monet's reputation has within the art world, one need only learn that his Le Bassin Aux Nympheás (1919) - from his series of paintings featuring water lilies - sold for the equivalent of more than $70 million. This is an incredibly staggering price, especially considering that early in his life, Monet had been so poor and debt-ridden that some of his paintings were taken from him by creditors. How, exactly, did Monet progress from being an impoverished young Impressionist artist working at the vanguard of European art to the legendary Master whose works command prices near the very pinnacle of the art world? Naturally, Monet's commercial success soared exponentially in the decades following his death in 1926, at a time in which the prices commanded by the great Masters of Western art began rising in price at exponential rates. Yet even during his own lifetime, Monet enjoyed a sharp rise to fame and was canonized as one of the greatest painters in France.
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]]>Title: The Iranian Revolutionary Guards]]>Subtitle: The History of Iran's Elite Military Organization]]>Categories: History, Iran, Middle East, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-20-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In early November 2016, Salar Abnoush, a leader in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), stated that the IRGC "will be in the US and Europe very soon." This quote came just before the US presidential election, a time when President Barack Obama was winding down his presidency and American society was busy reflecting on his past actions over the eight years of his presidency. Of those actions that incoming President Donald Trump has decided to focus on, "tearing up" the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (also more commonly known as the Iran Nuclear Deal) was near the top of the list. The crux of the deal focuses on Iran's agreement to roll back uranium stockpiles and enrichment capabilities in exchange for the ending of nuclear-related sanctions against Iran. Due to the IRGC's current involvement in the Iranian economy, they stand to gain from the ending of the sanctions. Possible threats to the deal by the incoming Trump Administration are of concern in Iran, and the threat of the IRGC spreading in western countries is a concern as well.
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]]>Title: The Illuminati]]>Subtitle: The History of One of the World's Most Notorious Secret Societies]]>Categories: Europe, History, Occult, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-18-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The emergence of secret societies has always been one of the most fascinating facets of civilization, a phenomenon that has been around since the birth of mankind. Even centuries after some of these groups were founded, they remain well-known, such as the Knights Templar, a group of armored warriors who hailed from the Holy Land. The Skulls and Bones and the Freemasons are a few more names that immediately ring a bell. But of all of history's secret societies, the legend behind one's name surpasses them all: the Illuminati. Of the countless secret societies that have risen and fallen since the dawn of time, none could come close to touching the notoriety of the Illuminati. Particularly in recent years, the legendary order has starred in thousands upon thousands of books, articles, documentaries, movies, music, Internet memes, and other mediums of entertainment. They are one of the chief targets for conspiracy connoisseurs, and the supposed masters of symbolic subliminal messages hidden in the media. Regardless of the veracity behind any of the conspiracy theories, there can be no denying the profound impact of the group over the past few centuries.
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]]>Title: The Sepoy Rebellion of 1857]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Indian Rebellion Against the British East India Company]]>Categories: Asia, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-16-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The British East India Company served as one of the key players in the formation of the British Empire. From its origins as a trading company struggling to keep up with its superior Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish competitors to its tenure as the ruling authority of the Indian subcontinent to its eventual hubristic downfall, the East India Company serves as a lens through which to explore the much larger economic and social forces that shaped the formation of a global British Empire. As a private company that became a non-state global power in its own right, the East India Company also serves as a cautionary tale all too relevant to the modern world's current political and economic situation. In Bengal, the region where the rebellion that would change British-Indian relations permanently took place, the Company shared power with a local nawab. The Company was given increasing responsibility, including the power to collect taxes, or Diwani, in 1773. Many have criticized this "dual authority" of both local Indian rulers and the rule of Company officials as allowing for greater corruption and creating anger and resentment throughout Bengal.
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]]>Title: Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs]]>Subtitle: The Controversial Trials of the Alleged Soviet Spies at the Height of the Red Scare]]>Categories: America, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-12-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Shortly after World War II, Congress' House Committee on Un-American Activities began investigating Americans across the country for suspected ties to communism. Among the people called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, none are as controversial as Alger Hiss. Hiss had graduated from Harvard Law, after which he worked as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, worked in the Roosevelt administration for the Agricultural Adjustment Association, and was Head of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. That background didn't exactly sound like one held by a Soviet spy, let alone a communist, but Elizabeth Bentley, a former communist, notified the committee about a suspected spy ring and named several names, including Hiss. More notably, Hiss was also accused of being a communist and Soviet spy by an admitted communist, Whittaker Chambers. The Hiss case came at a time when the committee was populated by right-wing zealots, including a young congressman from California named Richard Nixon.
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]]>Title: The Miracle of Dunkirk]]>Subtitle: The History of the World War II Battle and Evacuation That Helped Save Britain from Nazi Germany]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-05-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Blitzkrieg", or "lightning war", describes the Third Reich's invasion strategy during its 1940 conquest of France not only due to the speed of the Wehrmacht advance but also its devastating effect on its ill-prepared adversaries. Mired in the paralyzing muck of plodding staff college military doctrine and demoralized as a nation by their appalling losses during World War I, the French succumbed in a few weeks to German skill and vigor. Moreover, after being lured into Belgium by a large-scale German feint, the British Expeditionary Force and over a million French soldiers found themselves cut off by the main Wehrmacht thrust. Heinz Guderian and Irwin Rommel, among others, led their panzers on an 11-day dash from the Ardennes Forest to the coast, trapping vast numbers of Allied soldiers in Belgium and northeastern France. The surrender of more than 1,200,000 isolated troops followed, yet in the midst of this disaster, the Allies contrived one coup that took even the victorious Wehrmacht aback: the evacuation of over 300,000 soldiers from the port of Dunkirk.
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]]>Title: Nazareth]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Hometown of Jesus Christ]]>Categories: Ancient, Christianity, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-04-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The town of Nazareth, located in Galilee in northern Israel, is a bustling settlement of over 60,000 people today. But more than 2,000 years ago it was an insignificant village of only a few hundred people - mostly farmers and some laborers who would travel to the nearby Roman settlements for employment. Yet it was in this unlikely location that the Holy Family lived. Even more important is that this was where the Annunciation took place, the moment when the angel Gabriel revealed to Mary that she would be the virgin mother of Jesus. Many also maintain that Nazareth was where Jesus spent many of his childhood years learning the trade of his father, growing up attending services at the local synagogue, and developing the foundations of his faith.
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]]>Title: Simcoe's Rangers]]>Subtitle: The History of the British Queen's Rangers During the Revolutionary War]]>Categories: America, Colonialism, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-04-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The American Revolution is replete with seminal moments that every American learns in school, from the "shot heard 'round the world" to the Declaration of Independence, but the events that led up to the fighting at Lexington and Concord were borne out of 10 years of division between the British and their American colonies over everything from colonial representation in governments to taxation, the nature of searches, and the quartering of British regulars in private houses. From 1764-1775, a chain of events that included lightning rods like the Townshend Acts led to bloodshed in the form of the Boston Massacre, while the Boston Tea Party became a symbol of nonviolent protest. The political and military nature of the Revolutionary War was just as full of intrigue. While disorganized militias fought the Battles of Lexington and Concord, George Washington would lead the Continental Army in the field while men like Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia and Benjamin Franklin negotiated overseas in France.
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]]>Title: The Berlin Airlift]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the First Major Crisis of the Cold War]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-04-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the wake of World War II, the European continent was devastated, and the conflict left the Soviet Union and the United States as uncontested superpowers. This ushered in over 45 years of the Cold War, and a political alignment of Western democracies against the Communist Soviet bloc that produced conflicts pitting allies on each sides fighting, even as the American and Soviet militaries never engaged each other. Though it never got "hot" between the two superpowers, the Cold War was a tense era until the dissolution of the USSR, and nothing symbolized the split more than the division of Berlin. Berlin had been a flashpoint even before World War II ended, and the city was occupied by the different Allies even as the close of the war turned them into adversaries. If anyone wondered whether the Cold War would dominate geopolitics, any hopes that it wouldn't were dashed by the Soviets' blockade of West Berlin in April 1948, ostensibly to protest the currency being used in West Berlin but unquestionably aiming to extend their control over Germany's capital.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Kursk]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Biggest Tank Battle of World War II]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Zarbock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 01-04-2017]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The vast expanses of southern Russia and the Ukraine provided the Eastern Front arena where the armies of Third Reich dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin wrestled lethally for supremacy in 1943. Endless rolling plains - ideal "tank country" - vast forests, sprawling cities, and enormous tracts of agricultural land formed the environment over which millions of men and thousands of the era's most formidable military vehicles fought for their respective overlords and ideologies. The winner could expect to reap very high stakes indeed. If Hitler's Wehrmacht smashed the Red Army, he could no longer hope for a lightning conquest, but the Fuhrer could expect the Soviet strongman to sue for peace on terms advantageous to Germany. If, conversely, the Red Army triumphed, Stalin could continue rallying the Soviet Union and move closer to expelling the loathed "Nemets" invaders from Russian soil - and perhaps carve out a Soviet empire in Central Europe.
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]]>Title: The Katyn Forest Massacre]]>Subtitle: The History of the Notorious Slaughter of Polish Prisoners by the Soviets During World War II]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-28-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>During the late 1930s the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin and the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler reached a secret alliance, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. By the terms of this agreement, the two dictators divided up Eastern Europe between them, and for a time Stalin even sought Axis membership. Though the alliance forged between the fascist and communist states could not survive their diametrically opposed views, they cooperated long enough to conquer Poland together in 1939. Of course, as most people now know, the invasion of Poland was merely the preface to the Nazi blitzkrieg of most of Western Europe, which would include Denmark, Belgium, and France by the summer of 1940. The resistance put up by these countries is often portrayed as weak, and the narrative is that the British stood alone in 1940 against the Nazi onslaught, defending the British Isles during the Battle of Britain and preventing a potential German invasion. In particular, the campaign in Poland is remembered as one in which an antiquated Polish army was quickly pummeled by the world's most modern army.
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]]>Title: The SS Baychimo]]>Subtitle: The History and Mystery of the Famous Arctic Ghost Ship]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-28-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the early decades of the 20th century, the fur trade had tapered off some from its heyday in the 19th century, but it still proved profitable enough for hunters to live for months at a time in remote regions of Alaska. Their only contact with the outside world consisted of the company ships that came to buy their furs and bring them supplies. One of these vessels was the steamer Baychimo, a Hudson's Bay Company ship that plied the treacherous waters off Alaska, Arctic Canada, and Siberia for many years, supplying remote outposts of Inuit and Anglo trappers and bringing back their catch of furs. Her sailors were experts at handling Arctic waters, but one year the weather proved too much for them. In October of 1931, the Baychimo was carrying $1 million in furs for the Hudson's Bay Company when it was trapped by early winter pack ice in the Beaufort Sea. Ice is a powerful force of nature that can crush even the strongest of ships, so the captain had no choice but to order his crew of 14 men to unload all equipment essential for their survival and abandon the Baychimo.
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]]>Title: The Mary Celeste and SS Baychimo]]>Subtitle: The Unsolved Mysteries of History's Most Famous Ghost Ships]]>Categories: 19th Century, 20th Century, History, Modern, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-28-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>People love mysteries, which is a good thing since history is so replete with them. This is especially true among seafaring people, and of all the mysteries of the deep, few rise to the level of the Mary Celeste. In many ways, it is a story more suited for an episode of The X-Files than it is for any history book. There is the unlucky ship that began her sailing career under a cloud of bad fortune and accident. Then there is that handsome young captain, a man appearing to be of the highest moral fiber who chose to travel with his wife and young daughter rather than carouse with loose women. His crew was small but faithful, and his First Mate was an old friend. They set sail for Genoa late in 1872 but arrived instead in the history books, lost suddenly to a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. The first indication that anything unusual had happened came on December 5th of that year, when the Mary Celeste was found by another ship, the Dei Gratia, sailing safely and intact but completely devoid of human beings.
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]]>Title: ODESSA]]>Subtitle: The Controversial History of the Mysterious Network that Helped Nazis Escape Germany After World War II]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-21-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Cloak and dagger espionage, assassination, dangerous adventure, and strange deceptions such as the Operation Mincemeat plan wherein the corpse of a Welsh pauper fitted with a uniform and false papers deceived the Nazi hierarchy about the location of the Western Allies' first landing in Europe, all constitute as real a part of World War II's kaleidoscopically varied history as battles and clear-cut policies. With such a complex and dramatic struggle, human nature dictates a crop of conspiracy theories also arise. The ODESSA, or Organisation der Ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen (Organization for Former SS Members), appears quite plausible compared to some World War II legends. Next to tales of Hitler attempting to draw power from the Spear of Longinus or the Holy Grail, or the Japanese burying gold in foreign countries which thousands of treasure seekers cannot locate in the years since, the idea of an organization enabling the escape of SS and other Nazis stands as modest and believable. The escape of hundreds of Nazis to South America and the Middle East represents a factual matter of history, not legend. Some of the Nazi hierarchy's vilest members, such as Dr.
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]]>Title: The Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Ottoman Turks' Decline and the Creation of the Modern Middle East]]>Categories: History, Middle East, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-19-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In January 2011, the Turkish television channel "Show TV" released A Magnificent Century (Muhtesem Yuzyil), which would become one of Turkey's most popular TV shows for the coming years. The show, which takes place during the years of the Ottoman Empire's longest reigning Sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, was popular even outside of Turkey, including in countries such as Bosnia, Macedonia and Greece. At the same time, Muhtesem Yuzyil's success prompted concerns over Turkish attempts to use what some perceived as a form of nostalgia for the Ottoman Empire, and this led to criticism from various local figures (including the Bishop of Thessalonica in Greece as well as a ban on Turkish soap operas in Macedonia) . Nonetheless, the success of A Magnificent Century is a testament to the vivid influence the multi-secular empire still has in the Middle East and the Balkans almost 100 years after its dissolution. The long agony of the "sick man of Europe", an expression used by the Tsar of Russia to depict the falling empire, could almost blind people to its incredible power and history.
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]]>Title: Dr. David Livingstone]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Victorian Era's Most Famous Explorer and Pioneer]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Explorer, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kenneth Ray]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-15-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Modern society tends to portray men of history to be great saints or great sinners. In fact, biographers are often inclined, depending on their personal predilections, to portray their subjects as one of these two extremes, especially when someone is seen by a certain group as an example of religious ideals or values. Writers are often afraid that if any of the person's mistakes come to light, it will somehow disqualify them from being admired. Of course, the problem is that even the most influential men were still human, and therefore subject to the same great achievements and tremendous failures as anyone living during the modern era. Dr. David Livingstone is an excellent example of this fact. Born into a poor family in Scotland, Livingstone worked hard, saved his money, and volunteered for missionary service, obviously the actions of a saint. He studied medicine, trained to care for others, and made his way to Africa to serve the needy people there, and to share with them the Christian faith. Once in Africa, he married the daughter of other missionaries and together they committed their lives to good works.
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]]>Title: Mysterious London]]>Subtitle: A History of Ancient Mysteries, Odd Individuals, and Unusual Legends Across the English Capital]]>Categories: Adventure, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-15-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The Anglo-Saxon charms...are of outstanding importance because they provide more than vague references of exceptional and short texts. They cannot be said to reveal everything, for there are numerous points in which they lamentably fail us, but they are numerous enough and, taken as a body, complete enough to give more than a tantalizing hint of a strange world. The veil of mystification enveloping magic appears to be thin and transparent here." [G. Storms, Anglo-Saxon Magic (1948)] London is one of the great cities of Europe, a center of commerce, art, and science for more almost 2,000 years. Visitors today are treated to world-class museums, pulsing nightlife, and fine dining. But one does not have to search far beyond this prosperous and modern facade to glimpse an older and more unusual London; in fact everywhere one looks, ancient traditions and old patterns emerge. Pagan figures peer down from pub walls, ghosts allegedly haunt major tourist sites, and strange customs continue in places of supposedly Christian worship. London was founded by the Romans shortly after an invasion led during the reign of Emperor Claudius in 43 CE.
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]]>Title: The Tet Offensive and Invasion of Cambodia]]>Subtitle: The History of the Vietnam War's Most Important Campaigns]]>Categories: America, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-13-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren't so deadly and tragic. In 1951, while war was raging in Korea, the United States began signing defense pacts with nations in the Pacific, intending to create alliances that would contain the spread of Communism. As the Korean War was winding down, America joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, pledging to defend several nations in the region from Communist aggression. One of those nations was South Vietnam. Before the Vietnam War, most Americans would have been hard pressed to locate Vietnam on a map. South Vietnamese President Diem's regime was extremely unpopular, and war broke out between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam around the end of the 1950s. Kennedy's administration tried to prop up the South Vietnamese with training and assistance, but the South Vietnamese military was feeble. A month before his death, Kennedy signed a presidential directive withdrawing 1,000 American personnel, and shortly after Kennedy's assassination, new President Lyndon B. Johnson reversed course, instead opting to expand American assistance to South Vietnam.
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]]>Title: Belle Boyd and Mata Hari]]>Subtitle: The Controversial Lives and Legacies of History's Most Famous Women Spies]]>Categories: America, Biography, Europe, Female Protagonist]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-13-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Americans have long been fascinated by the Civil War, marveling at the size of the battles, the leadership of the generals, and the courage of the soldiers. Since the war's start over 150 years ago, the events have been subjected to endless debate among historians and the generals themselves. The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in American history, and had the two sides realized it would take four years and inflict over a million casualties, it might not have been fought. Since it did, however, historians and history buffs alike have been studying and analyzing the people and places that shaped the course of the conflict ever since. Much about the war remains controversial over 150 years later, and that includes the extent and nature of the spying that took place on both sides. Thus, it is only fitting that the war's most famous spy, the Confederate sympathizer Isabella Maria Boyd, is one of those people in American history who is as much myth as reality.
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]]>Title: Canada's Titanic]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the RMS Empress of Ireland]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-13-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>There is something romantic about traveling on a cruise ship, and even today luxury cruises are considered by many to be the ultimate vacation, featuring days of fun activities in exotic locations and nights of dinner and dancing under the stars. Today even the cheapest cabins are quite luxurious, and people save for years to afford to travel by sea. However, it was not always that way, and there was a time when travelling on even the most luxurious liners could prove dangerous or even deadly. The loss of the Titanic in 1912 cast a pall over all future voyages, and in the wake of the most famous sinking in history, a number of crucial changes were made, including the requirement that there be enough lifeboats available for every passenger, a change that was codified by the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea in 1914. That same convention also made a change to the way distress signals were used, and the British subsequently ensured that the bulkheads be raised higher up the boat to truly ensure that the compartments were watertight. Gone were the days that safety would be compromised for the comforts of the first class.
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]]>Title: Cryptozoology]]>Subtitle: The History of Attempts to Discover and Study Legendary and Mythological Creatures]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Modern, Occult]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kenneth Ray]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-13-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Mankind has always been fascinated with the hidden, the mysterious, and the unexplained. Every society has its tall tales and ghost stories, its odd legends and heroes. Also, every society has its stories of strange beasts, dangerous or benign, that live in the twilight world between the everyday and the legendary. Through most of our history we have been closely tied to nature, hunting in forests and having an intimate knowledge of the animals in our region. So-called "primitive" peoples were walking encyclopedias of the natural world, and yet most believed there were more creatures lurking in those woods than the ones they usually encountered. In modern times we have lost our ties to nature, but the belief in strange creatures continues as strong as ever.
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]]>Title: Mysterious New England]]>Subtitle: A History of the Region's Mysteries, Hauntings, and Strange Creatures]]>Categories: America, Colonialism, History, Occult]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-08-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>New England has always had a special place in the national memory. The states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont have a long history as some of the earliest colonies in the New World. Their rich folklore and colorful history is woven into the national identity, and destinations such as Plymouth Rock, the lighthouses of Maine, and Vermont's autumn leaves are quintessential symbols of the United States. But New England has always had a dark side, a strange side. Monsters and ghosts lurk in its woods and old houses, and strange monuments that may be from a forgotten civilization puzzle local investigators. All the while, the early inhabitants themselves were always superstitious, as evidenced by history's most famous witch trials.
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]]>Title: The Japanese Invasion of Manchuria]]>Subtitle: The History of the Occupation of Northeastern China That Presaged World War II]]>Categories: Asia, History, Japan, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-06-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Though scarcely mentioned in the world of early 21st century politics, Manchuria represented a key region of Asia during the first half of the 20th century. Once the heartland of the fierce Manchu empire, this northeastern Chinese region's rich natural resources made it a prize for nations in the process of entering the modern age, and three ambitious nations in the midst of such a transformation lay close enough to Manchuria to attempt to claim it: Japan, Russia, and China. For countries attempting to shake off their feudal past and enter a dynamic era of industrialization, Manchuria's resources presented an irresistible lure. With immense natural resources coupled to economic activity more concentrated than elsewhere in China, this region, abutting Mongolia, Korea, the Yellow Sea, and the Great Wall "accounted for 90 percent of China's oil, 70 percent of its iron, 55 percent of its gold, and 33 percent of its trade. If Shanghai remained China's commercial center, by 1931 Manchuria had become its industrial center." (Paine, 2012, 15). Thus, it's not altogether surprising that Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931 resulted from a long, complex chain of historical events stretching back to the late 19th century.
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]]>Title: The Silk Road]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Trade Routes that Connected Europe and Asia]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-05-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The story of the Silk Road has been a popular topic among tourists, academics, economists, state parties, and daydreaming children for many centuries. In many ways the Silk Road can be seen everywhere, and it has existed for as long as people have traveled across Eurasia. Its impact is widely felt among the diverse peoples that live on the continent, through the unique regional art and architectural styles, as well as in countless films, books, academic studies, and organized tours devoted to the ancient trade routes. At the same time, however, the Silk Road is an entirely abstract invention, first coined by the 19th century German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen. There has never existed a single route - let alone a road - that was used to transfer goods, nor was silk the primary commodity traded across Eurasia. Instead, the Silk Road is more a multi-layered narrative about the rise and fall of nomadic confederations and sedentary societies, the consolidation and dissolution of kingdoms and empires, the exchange of commodities and fine crafts, and the transfer and mixture of ideas, religions, technology, science, art, architecture, myths, and legends.
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]]>Title: The Siege of Bastogne]]>Subtitle: The History of the Turning Point in the Battle of the Bulge]]>Categories: America, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-01-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>After the successful amphibious invasion on D-Day in June 1944, the Allies began racing east toward Germany and liberating France along the way. The Allies had landed along a 50 mile stretch of French coast, and despite suffering 8,000 casualties on D-Day, over 100,000 still began the march across the western portion of the continent. By the end of August 1944, the German Army in France was shattered, with 200,000 killed or wounded and a further 200,000 captured. However, Adolf Hitler reacted to the news of invasion with glee, figuring it would give the Germans a chance to destroy the Allied armies that had water to their backs. As he put it, "The news couldn't be better. We have them where we can destroy them." While that sounds delusional in retrospect, it was Hitler's belief that by splitting the Allied march across Europe in their drive toward Germany, he could cause the collapse of the enemy armies and cut off their supply lines.
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]]>Title: Weird Scotland]]>Subtitle: Monsters, Mysteries, and Magic Across the Scottish Nation]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Occult]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-01-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Scotland evokes strong images in the minds of most people - castles and kilts, heather and the Highlands. It’s a place many are from and many would like to see. It’s an ancient land, filled with history and with a promising future. Not everything in Scotland is as it appears, however. Some Scots say this is a land haunted by spirits, a place of strange disappearances and unexplained phenomena. There is no shortage when it comes to the strange stories Scotland has to offer, and the legends and lore have compelled many to dig a little deeper and even explore this wonderful land for themselves. This book offers a sampling of strange, unexplained, and just plain odd stories from Scotland that have fascinated people in and around the region for centuries.
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]]>Title: Tsar Nicholas II and the End of the Romanov Dynasty]]>Subtitle: The History of the Downfall of Imperial Russia]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Ken Teutsch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-01-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The 17th century was marked by multiple pro-democratic revolutions exploding in both hemispheres. In Europe and its neighbors to the east, border-changing wars were fought incessantly. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the underlying premises of political, governmental and social structures within several European and Asian states were shaken to the core after centuries of royalty and one-family rule. By the onset of World War I, royal families began to experience a long, slow decline, with some quietly fading into the status of national symbols and others experiencing political overthrow. Some were horrified by the suddenness of a changing public, while others barely noticed. In the ensuing chaos brought about by the Great War, the last ruling family in Russia suffered the most brutal form of regime change at the hands of the Bolsheviks following a revolution in 1917, as the public outcry for individual equality mirrored the violence of the French Revolution from a prior century.
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]]>Title: The Dutch East India Company]]>Subtitle: The History of the World's First Multinational Corporation]]>Categories: Europe, Exploration, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 12-01-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>From classic grilled meat to exotic and savory five-star dishes, pepper has long been the ultimate staple spice. While bulk pepper may be readily stocked in supermarkets and convenience stores today, there was once a time when the common spice was considered one of the most valuable commodities in the world. Merchants tripped over one another to get their hands on the tiny black beads, which live in colorful clusters of berry-like shells reminiscent of Christmas lights. They were so precious that an uncountable number of men crossed the turbulent and uncharted seas for them. In fact, the tropical spice was so highly sought after that blood was shed over the edible gold. To many, the mention of maritime merchants evokes an imagery of growling pirates donned in their stereotypical hats and a colorful parrot perched upon their shoulders. These nautical rascals wander the high seas in search of treasure and adventure.
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]]>Title: The British Raj]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Great Britain's Imperialism in India and the Indian Subcontinent]]>Categories: Asia, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-30-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The British East India Company served as one of the key players in the formation of the British Empire. From its origins as a trading company struggling to keep up with its superior Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish competitors to its tenure as the ruling authority of the Indian subcontinent to its eventual hubristic downfall, the East India Company serves as a lens through which to explore the much larger economic and social forces that shaped the formation of a global British Empire. As a private company that became a non-state global power in its own right, the East India Company also serves as a cautionary tale all too relevant to the modern world's current political and economic situation. On its most basic level, the East India Company played an essential part in the development of long-distance trade between Britain and Asia. The trade in textiles, ceramics, tea, and other goods brought a huge influx of capital into the British economy. This not only fueled the Industrial Revolution, but also created a demand for luxury items amongst the middle classes.
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]]>Title: The Spanish Inquisition]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Catholic Church's Notorious Persecution of Heretics]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Europe, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kenneth Ray]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-24-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In many modern societies, laws have been put in place to protect citizens from discrimination based on their gender, beliefs, race, and sexuality. The sheer thought of having these rights impeded upon in any way is something people in the West often consider unthinkable. In this day and age, people will fight tooth and nail to right cases of discrimination and injustice, from seeking legal action to filing criminal charges against the discriminating party. Multiple organizations around the world exist to help combat and protect its citizens from prejudicial inequities. Social media has also become a channel for those around the world to voice these injustices. Those around the world who empathize with the discriminated band together and condemn the accused bigots.
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]]>Title: Blitzed]]>Subtitle: Drugs in Nazi Germany]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Norman Ohler]]>Narrator: Jonathan Keeble]]>Publisher: Penguin Audio]]>Release date: 11-24-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping best seller reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all, methamphetamines, or crystal meth, used by everyone from factory workers to housewives, and crucial to troops; resilience - even partly explaining German victory in 1940. The promiscuous use of drugs at the very highest levels also impaired and confused decision-making, with Hitler and his entourage taking refuge in potentially lethal cocktails of stimulants administered by the physician Dr Morell as the war turned against Germany. While drugs cannot on their own explain the events of the Second World War or its outcome, Ohler shows, they change our understanding of it. Blitzed forms a crucial missing piece of the story.
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]]>Title: World War II Cryptography]]>Subtitle: The History of the Efforts to Crack the Secret Codes Used by the Axis and Allies]]>Categories: America, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-24-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>World War II stood apart in many ways from every earlier war, not least in the way that it reached to every corner of the planet and involved a noticeable segment of humanity's collective resources. Battles erupted not only on land and the sea's surface as they had for centuries, but also in the ocean depths and the windswept heights of the sky. One of the war's most crucial struggles happened in the realm of the unseen, inside the human mind and amid the invisible flow of radio waves. Every war is a battle of wits as intelligence-gathering, tactics, and strategies clash, from the level of individual action up to the grand, overarching schemes of generals and statesmen. Intelligence took on a freshly urgent aspect in World War II, however, as the fate of offensives, armies, and nations came to hang on the struggle to decrypt vital enemy radio traffic and military communications.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Crete]]>Subtitle: The History of Nazi Germany's Airborne Invasion of Greece During World War II]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-23-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 1941, with the dark star of Nazi conquest in the ascendant over Europe, German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler continued seeking fresh ways to expand the Third Reich's domains. Two strategic issues occupied Hitler's immediate attention: dealing with Britain and the Soviet Union. Hitler and Goering disagreed fundamentally on the next steps to be taken, and Hitler's ideas naturally won out over the Reichsmarshal's objections. Goering favored a direct attack on England and conquest of the British Isles as the next step to ensure the security of Europe. After conquering the English, the Germans would deprive the Americans of a European base from which to counterattack when they entered the war. The Third Reich could spend several years building up and creating new weaponry before tackling the Soviet Union. Hitler, on the other hand, wished to leave the British at least quasi-independent, and strike at their peripheral holdings, such as remaining portions of the British Empire, to induce them to sue for peace before the United States joined the conflict.
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]]>Title: The Amish]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of One of America's Oldest and Most Unique Communities]]>Categories: America, Christianity, Colonialism, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-21-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Back in the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation took Europe by storm. The havoc wreaked saw the split of churches and the emergence of the Amish, led by Jakob Ammann. By the 18th century, a group of Amish had crossed the seas to the United States, where they made their home, and today the Amish are now one of the fastest-growing populations in the world. Buggies, straw hats, long and plain dresses in shades of blue and black, charming log cabins reminiscent of Little House on the Prairie - this is often the mental image that comes to mind when one thinks of the Amish. Nowadays, many have become accustomed to being within a 10 foot radius of at least three pieces of technology every hour of the day. World news and current events have never been more readily available, accessible by just a touch of a fingertip. Yet there exists a collection of cultures worldwide that steer clear of contemporary society for a range of reasons. These communities, which also come in various forms around the world, are the descendants of the Swiss Anabaptist movement.
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]]>Title: The Year Without a Summer]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora]]>Categories: 19th Century, America, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-18-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In many ways history is the story of human beings trying to control their destinies by overcoming the effects of their physical surroundings. As too many have learned, the best they could often do was cope with nature, and the various natural disasters produced around the globe. Consider, for example, the year 1816, known as the "Year Without a Summer", which found the working poor in both Europe and America facing starvation caused by factors that few, if any, of them understood. They only knew that the time for planting, the longed for and planned for last days of winter, never came. Farmers who had been growing the same crops for decades began to be curious when, in April of that year, the snow still fell. By the first of May, they were outright concerned. In the weeks that followed, each faced a critical decision: go forward and plant as usual, trusting that the sun would again warm the earth, or continue to wait. In the end, their decisions made little difference, except perhaps that those who waited could survive a little longer by eating the seeds they had been saving.
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]]>Title: Assassinating Adolf Hitler]]>Subtitle: The History of the Failed Conspiracies and Attempts to Kill the Nazi Dictator]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Ken Teutsch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-17-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Like other totalitarian leaders, Adolf Hitler kept an iron grip on power in part by making sure nobody else could attain too much of it, leading to purges of high-ranking officials in the Nazi party. Of these purges, the most notorious was the Night of the Long Knives, a purge in the summer of 1934 that came about when Hitler ordered the surprise executions of several dozen leaders of the SA. Nonetheless, for the most part Hitler enjoyed great popularity among both the members of the Wehrmacht and ordinary Germans during his rule over the Third Reich between 1934 and 1945. To many, he appeared to be the spirit of a revived, powerful Germany, shaking off the hardship and humiliation imprudently inflicted by the victorious western Allies at the end of World War I. His strangely magnetic, ranting speeches struck a chord with millions, creating iron loyalty in many of those who followed the commands of his dictatorship. From the very beginning, however, others held a different view of the newly constituted Third Reich's Fuhrer.
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]]>Title: The East India Company]]>Subtitle: The History of the British Empire's Most Famous Mercantile Company]]>Categories: 19th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: William Crockett]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-14-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The British East India Company served as one of the key players in the formation of the British Empire. From its origins as a trading company struggling to keep up with its superior Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish competitors to its tenure as the ruling authority of the Indian subcontinent to its eventual hubristic downfall, the East India Company serves as a lens through which to explore the much larger economic and social forces that shaped the formation of a global British Empire. As a private company that became a non-state global power in its own right, the East India Company also serves as a cautionary tale all too relevant to the modern world’s current political and economic situation.On its most basic level, the East India Company played an essential part in the development of long-distance trade between Britain and Asia. The trade in textiles, ceramics, tea, and other goods brought a huge influx of capital into the British economy. This not only fueled the Industrial Revolution, but also created a demand for luxury items amongst the middle classes.
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]]>Title: Lawrence of Arabia]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of T.E. Lawrence]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Ken Teutsch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-10-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>He was recognized by many as a curious scholar and archaeologist, brilliant linguist, British soldier, extraordinary adventurer, and avid writer, though he called himself an "ordinary man". He was a gifted translator, a shrewd diplomat, a brilliant tactician, and an instinctive leader. T.E. Lawrence, more popularly known as Lawrence of Arabia, was a seminal figure in the shaping and reshaping of the politics of Arabia in the early 20th century, serving as an expert in Arab affairs in the British military and playing a key role in the Great Arab Revolt of 1916-1918. World War I, also known as the Great War of 1914-1918, was one of the deadliest conflicts in human history, leading to the deaths of millions of soldiers and civilians, and it was a war that produced too many casualties and too few heroes. However, after the war was over, the world was told of the blonde-haired, blue-eyed British officer named Thomas Edward Lawrence, and his experiences in Arabia during the fighting. Pictures of Lawrence in a flowing white robe of Arabia's Bedouin tribes were distributed, and Lawrence's autobiography, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, further catapulted his fame and sensationalized his public image.
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]]>Title: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste]]>Subtitle: The History of the American Merchant Vessel and the Disappearance of Its Crew]]>Categories: 19th Century, America, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-10-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"In the month of December in the year 1873, the British ship Dei Gratia steered into Gibraltar, having in tow the derelict brigantine Marie Celeste, which had been picked up in latitude 38 degrees 40', longitude 17 degrees 15' W. There were several circumstances in connection with the condition and appearance of this abandoned vessel which excited considerable comment at the time, and aroused a curiosity which has never been satisfied." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement") People love mysteries, which is a good thing, since history is so replete with them. This is especially true among seafaring people, and of all the mysteries of the deep, few rise to the level of the Mary Celeste. In many ways it is a story more suited for an episode of The X-Files than it is for any history book. There is the unlucky ship that began her sailing career under a cloud of bad fortune and accident. Then there is the handsome young captain, a man appearing to be of the highest moral fiber, who chose to travel with his wife and young daughter rather than carouse with loose women.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Jesse Owens]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Sport, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-10-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Olympics have long been the center of attention in the sports world, but perhaps no moment in the history of the games was as poignant as Jesse Owens' performance in Berlin in 1936. Owens would finish his career with four gold medals and become known as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history" (as his obituary in The New York Times put it), but nearly 80 years later, it's the context that has made his performance so memorable. Owens was one of the greatest track athletes in the country in the 1930s, and while he was at Ohio State, he set three world records and tied another one within 45 minutes at a Big 10 meet in 1935, but hurdles on the track weren't as hard to clear as ones he had to deal with away from sports.
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]]>Title: Nazi Germany's Rocket Science]]>Subtitle: The History of the Third Reich's Experimental Weapons Technology and Research during World War II]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-09-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>After the last shots of World War II were fired and the process of rebuilding Germany and Europe began, the Western Allies and the Soviet Union each tried to obtain the services of the Third Reich's leading scientists, especially those involved in rocketry, missile technology, and aerospace research. Naturally, this was a delicate affair due to the fact many of the German scientists were not only active Nazis but had helped the Nazi war machine terrorize the world. At the same time, by the late war period, the Anglo-American Allies formed a clear picture of the Soviet state. Though forced to ally with the USSR's dictator, Josef Stalin, the West came to understand Communist Russia represented yet another hungry totalitarian power, and thus a very real threat to an independent Europe. Both the Western Allies and the Soviets knew of Adolf Hitler's V-2 rocket program, the forerunner of ballistic missiles and the space race. Each recognized the immense strategic value of these technologies and wished to secure their benefits for themselves.
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]]>Title: The Great Famine]]>Subtitle: The History of the Irish Potato Famine During the Mid-19th Century]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Ireland]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-07-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Anyone who has ever heard of "the luck of the Irish" knows that it is not something to wish on someone, for few people in the British Isles have ever suffered as the Irish have. As one commissioner looking into the situation in Ireland wrote in February 1845, "It would be impossible adequately to describe the privations which they habitually and silently endure...in many districts their only food is the potato, their only beverage water...their cabins are seldom a protection against the weather...a bed or a blanket is a rare luxury...and nearly in all their pig and a manure heap constitute their only property." Even his fellow commissioners agreed and expressed "our strong sense of the patient endurance which the laboring classes have exhibited under sufferings greater, we believe, than the people of any other country in Europe have to sustain." Still, in their long history of suffering, nothing was ever so terrible as what the Irish endured during the Great Potato Famine that struck the country in the 1840s and produced massive upheaval for several years.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Charles Bronson]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-04-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The leading men of the 1940s and '50s ably represented the visual and cultural expectations of those decades in their iconic films. Some were handsome and glib with quasi-classical dialogue, some could sing, and a few could dance, while others brought imposing athletic presences to thrillers, Westerns, and urban crime dramas. However, with the advent of the early 1960s, popular culture entered a heightened age of verismo, a more frank and severe view of societal reality. Motion picture studios on both sides of the Atlantic, aware of the changing times, were quick to reflect it. The harsher light of violent new genres required a different sort of male protagonist, a character type who could put his humanity and uncertainty aside to act as a more ruthless hero than his predecessors.
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]]>Title: The Warsaw Uprising of 1944]]>Subtitle: The History of the Polish Resistance's Failed Attempt to Liberate Poland's Capital from Nazi Germany]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Hubbard]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-04-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>After a brief revival following World War I, during which it successfully defeated a Soviet attempt to invade in an effort to carry "international revolution" into Germany and Central Europe, Poland once again fell victim to its neighbors in 1939. Adolf Hitler's Third Reich and Josef Stalin's USSR collaborated in the conquest and then split Poland between them. The Germans instituted oppressive rule in their portion of Poland, executing some 7,000 people on political grounds and imprisoning thousands of others. One and a half million Poles became forced laborers in Germany, and though seldom noted, the Soviets applied equally brutal methods in their sector, executing 22,000 Polish officers at the Katyn Forest Massacre. NKVD death squads murdered 40,000 civilians and deported 1.4 million people to Siberia and other remote areas, from which a sizable percentage never returned alive. As the Soviets began to push the Germans back west, the Red Army plunged headlong into Poland in late June 1944, on the heels of German Army Group Center's retreating forces. The British urged the AK to cooperate with the Soviets, but the Russians wanted Poland and treated the Resistance as enemy partisans.
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]]>Title: Petra]]>Subtitle: The History of the Rose City, One of the New Seven Wonders of the World]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Planet Earth, Rome]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-03-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>When the European armies of the Third Crusade were defeated at the Battle of Hattin in 1187 CE, the region of what is today southern Jordan was overrun by Saladin's armies, and over the following five centuries knowledge of Petra's existence was lost to the people of Europe. The ancient city and center of civilization hidden in the desert became a myth, drawn largely upon Biblical accounts of the people and places in the Holy Land. However, during the Enlightenment of the early 18th century, interesting new theories emerged, and there grew a desire to rediscover the rose-red city. It was within this context that the Swiss-born explorer and orientalist Johann Ludwig Burckhardt became the known as the first European to "discover" Petra. Disguised as an Arab, he convinced a local guide to navigate him through the innumerable dangers of the Wadi Araba desert in pursuit of the rumored tomb of Aaron and a timeless city hidden in the hills.
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]]>Title: The Tet Offensive]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Most Famous Military Campaign of the Vietnam War]]>Categories: America, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-03-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Before the Vietnam War, most Americans would have been hard pressed to locate Vietnam on a map. South Vietnamese president Diem's regime was extremely unpopular, and war broke out between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam at the end of the 1950s. Kennedy's administration tried to prop up the South Vietnamese with training and assistance, but the South Vietnamese military was feeble. A month before his death, Kennedy signed a presidential directive withdrawing 1,000 American personnel, and shortly after Kennedy's assassination new president Lyndon B. Johnson reversed course, instead opting to expand American assistance to South Vietnam. Over the next few years, the American military commitment to South Vietnam grew dramatically, and the war effort became both deeper and more complex. The strategy included parallel efforts to strengthen the economic and political foundations of the South Vietnamese regime, to root out the Viet Cong guerrilla insurgency in the south, to combat the more conventional North Vietnamese Army (NVA) near the Demilitarized Zone between north and south, and to bomb military and industrial targets in North Vietnam itself.
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]]>Title: The Cambodian Campaign During the Vietnam War]]>Subtitle: The History of the Controversial Invasion of Cambodia and Laos]]>Categories: America, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 11-02-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren't so deadly and tragic. In 1951, while war was raging in Korea, the United States began signing defense pacts with nations in the Pacific, intending to create alliances that would contain the spread of Communism. As the Korean War was winding down, America joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, pledging to defend several nations in the region from Communist aggression. One of those nations was South Vietnam. By the end of 1967, with nearly half a million troops deployed, more than 19,000 deaths, and a war that cost $2 billion a month and seemed to grow bloodier by the day, the Johnson administration faced an increasingly impatient and skeptical nation. Early in 1968, a massive coordinated Viet Cong operation - the Tet Offensive - briefly paralyzed American and South Vietnamese forces across the country, threatening even the American embassy compound in Saigon. With this, the smiling mask slipped even further, inflaming the burgeoning antiwar movement.
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]]>Title: The Ancient Israelites and Egypt]]>Subtitle: The History of the Egyptian Enslavement of the Jews, the Exodus, and Relations With Israel]]>Categories: Ancient, Christianity, Egypt, History, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Ken Teutsch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-31-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The story of the ancient Israelites in Egypt is one of the most famous stories in the world, and one of the most contentious from a historical standpoint. Today, most people know about the relationship between the ancient Israelites and the Egyptians from the Old Testament book of Exodus, and the numerous feature films that often depict the dealings between the two peoples in contentious ways. The deadly plagues, the crossing of the Red Sea, the arduous 40 years the Israelites spent in the desert, and the Ten Commandments all make the Exodus unforgettable, but they've also left generations of scholars wondering just how accurate the scripture is, with some seeking to prove the historicity of the account and others trying to tie it to the Babylonian exile of the Israelites in the 7th century BCE.
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]]>Title: Zanzibar]]>Subtitle: The History of the International Trade Center off the Coast of Africa]]>Categories: 19th Century, Exploration, History, Modern, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-28-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Situated about 25 miles off the Tanzanian coast, Zanzibar, with its sultans and spices, merchants and mosques, dhows and doorways of richly carved timber, has captured the imagination of travelers and writers for hundreds of years. It has long evoked a romantic mystique, calling up images of an island paradise in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. Its gleaming Muslim Swahili town, built of white coralline limestone, can trace approximately 1,000 years of maritime trading, and it also sustained a plantation economy based principally on slaves and cloves. Stone Town is one of the few historic trading cities from the Swahili civilization that remains a viable urban center to this day. For much of the last millennium, Zanzibar served as the center of maritime interaction and trade between Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and India, and the architectural and urban heritage of the island reflects the complex fusion of these cultural spheres. By tracing the changes seen in the archaeological record, it is possible to identify the transformations that occurred in the landscape, people, and architecture of Zanzibar.
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]]>Title: The Rothschild Family]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the International Banking Dynasty]]>Categories: Europe, History, Judaism]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-26-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Rothschild dynasty of power and wealth would not only become a force to be reckoned with in the banking industry, but they would also become the ceaseless subject of scandal, conspiracy theories, and awe. Descriptions full of hyperbole have been on public display for centuries, such as the family description that appeared in the Niles' Weekly Register in 1836, "The Rothschilds are the wonders of modern banking ...Not a cabinet moves without their advice. They stretch their hand, with equal ease, from Petersburgh to Vienna, from Vienna to Paris, from Paris to London, from London to Washington...They are the brokers and counselors of the kings of Europe and of the republican chiefs of America. What more can they desire?" The Rothschild Family: The History and Legacy of the International Banking Dynasty looks at one of the richest families in history.
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]]>Title: The Disappearance of the USS Scorpion]]>Subtitle: The History of the Mysterious Sinking of the American Nuclear Submarine]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Ken Teutsch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-26-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It takes a special type of person to serve in a nation's navy, especially on long voyages that separate men and women from their loved ones, and no service is both loved and hated as that aboard submarines, for very few people ever serve on them on a whim. For one thing, the psychological impact of being trapped for long periods underwater in tight, cramped quarters is more than many people can stand. Also, submarine service is uncharacteristically hazardous; after all, if a surface vessel is sunk, the crew has a reasonable chance of escaping death in lifeboats or being rescued out of the water by another ship. Conversely, if a submarine is badly damaged while submerged, the crew's chances of survival are at best remote. On the other hand, for those who choose to make the careers as submariners, there is no more beloved service. That is, one hopes, how it was for the 99 men who were serving on the USS Scorpion on May 22, 1968, the fateful day the submarine is believed to have sank.
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]]>Title: Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z]]>Subtitle: The History of the Explorer's Mysterious Disappearance in Search of El Dorado]]>Categories: 20th Century, Exploration, History, Modern, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-24-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The heroes of each generation reflect the conditions, priorities, and goals of the era in which they reside. In the United States and throughout Europe, the wilderness explorer enjoyed widespread public adulation long before leading sports figures, rock stars, and astronauts of later decades. The ingenuity of the Industrial Revolution gave way to early manned flight, and other breakthroughs in communication and travel. The British Empire flourished across the globe, incorporating entirely dissimilar cultures into its stylized world view. Within this social canon, the explorer of the Victorian and post-Victorian eras fit perfectly within a nationalistic urge to unveil the secrets of every continent. Even expeditions to both poles became the rage among home-bound vicarious adventurers. Throughout climes featuring thick ice and palm trees alike, the maps of the day featured enormous blank spots where no modern man or woman had ever set foot. Among the largest was, and continues to be, the rain forest of the Amazon, particularly in the vast Mato Grosso region of Brazil.
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]]>Title: The Formation of Saudi Arabia]]>Subtitle: The History of the Arabian Peninsula's Unification and the Discovery of Oil]]>Categories: 20th Century, History, Middle East, Modern, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Ken Teutsch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-24-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>At the conclusion of World War I, a once promised unified Arab state, which was to include the modern Hejaz, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine/Israel, Jordan and Iraq, did not materialize. Instead, the territories were divided between the French and British, but the British did reward the Hashemites by putting local leaders on the thrones of Iraq and Jordan. In 1924, when the revolutionary government of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk declared Turkey a secular state and abolished the Caliphate, the Sharif (now King) declared himself Caliph, and it appeared that a new Arab-based Caliphate centered on Mecca would emerge. However, this was also not to be, because the Saudis had reformed their power base in central Arabia. While the first Saudi state had been shattered in 1818 by Muhammad Ali Pasha, in 1824 another branch of the Saudi clan had captured Riyadh, making it the capital of their more cautious second Saudi state. Their growth had been slow for some time, but they took advantage of the crumbling Ottoman Empire to consolidate power and in 1925 attacked the Hejaz.
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]]>Title: Crusader Castles]]>Subtitle: The History of the Medieval Castles Built in the Holy Lands During the Crusades]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Middle East, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-24-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A series of mountain chains frame the Levantine coast, growing in height as they approach modern-day Lebanon. These provided a natural defense along the important coast, and the few passes through these mountain ranges were the focal points of movement and communication. For this reason, these locations were where many crusader castles were erected. Bristling with fortifications, these impressive structures were occupied by orders of knights who came to the Holy Land with the Pope's blessing, and who have gained a most romantic status in history. These Crusaders were called al Faranj ("Franks") by the Arabs in the Holy Land, reflecting the French origins of many of the knights, even though the knights, soldiers, and pilgrims came to the Holy Land from all over Europe, and in particular from southern Italy, Germany, and England. For the men who built and manned these castles, they were much more than buildings surrounded by stone walls or wooden palisades. They were also more than a headquarters for knights and their armies during battle, or a storehouse for goods in the remoteness of the Levant.
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]]>Title: Mata Hari]]>Subtitle: The Controversial Life and Legacy of World War I's Most Famous Spy]]>Categories: 20th Century, Biography, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-21-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Margeretha Geertruida Zelle, better known to history by the exotic, glamorous name of Mata Hari, was a woman who profited greatly from the power of illusion during much of her brief life. Born to a hatter named Adam Zelle and his wife Antje van der Meulen, Mata Hari moved from a financially rewarding but miserable marriage to circus performances to exotic dancing and celebrity to the role of ostensible international spy in an arc that ended tragically in front of a French firing squad. To a certain degree, Mata Hari's entire adult life represented a triumph of advertising.
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]]>Title: The HMS Wager]]>Subtitle: The History of the 18th Century's Most Famous Shipwreck and Mutiny]]>Categories: 18th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-21-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Whereas upon a General Consultation, it has been agreed to go from this Place through the Streights of Magellan, for the coast of Brazil, in our way for England: We do, notwithstanding, find the People separating into Parties, which must consequently end in the Destruction of the whole Body; and as also there have been great robberies committed on the Stores and every Thing is now at a Stand; therefore, to prevent all future Frauds and Animosoties, we are unanimously agreed to proceed as above-mentioned." - John Bulkley, gunner on the HMS Wager "I cannot suppose the Captain will refuse the signing of it; but he is so self-willed, the best step we can take, is to put him under arrest for the killing of Mr. Cozens. In this case I will, with your approbation, assume command.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Aleppo]]>Subtitle: The History of the Ongoing Siege at the Center of the Syrian Civil War]]>Categories: 21st Century, History, Middle East, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Ken Teutsch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-17-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I'm not a puppet. I wasn't made by the west to go to the west or any other country. I'm Syrian. I'm made in Syria. I have to live in Syria and die in Syria." - Bashar al-Assad, 2012. In December 2010, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor's self-immolation triggered protests that spread from his hometown in Sidi Bouzid to cities across the country. The next month, on January 14, the country's autocratic president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, fled the country. This would be the start of what became known as the "Arab Spring", which ultimately saw anti-government protests responded to with violence, reform, or both in countries across the Middle East. In Syria, the protests that began as early as January 2011 and increased in intensity the following March devolved into a complex armed conflict that involves multiple armed groups and wages to this day.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Monte Cassino]]>Subtitle: The History of the Battle for Rome During World War II]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Zarbock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 10-11-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Germany's North African defeat opened up the possibility of taking the war in the west to the European continent for the first time since France's lightning conquest by the Wehrmacht in 1940. The British and Americans debated the merits of landing in France directly in 1943, but they ultimately opted against it. The Soviets railed at the Westerners as "bastards of allies" - conveniently forgetting that they aided and abetted Hitler's violent expansionism in Eastern Europe for over a year starting in 1939 - but a 1943 "D-Day" style landing in France might have proven a strategic and logistical impossibility anyway. Thus, in 1943, the theater of Allied operations shifted from North Africa to Europe - Operation Husky, a mixed victory wresting control of Sicily from the Axis. The action also caused Benito Mussolini's downfall, his imprisonment, and subsequent dramatic rescue by the scar-faced Otto Skorzeny - removing significant portions of Italy from the fascist camp, but nevertheless failing to prevent a long Italian campaign. In fact, the lackluster Allied showing on Sicily and the escape of most of the island's garrison encouraged Hitler to alter his plans and defend Italy vigorously.
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]]>Title: Bust Hell Wide Open]]>Subtitle: The Life of Nathan Bedford Forrest]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Samuel W. Mitcham]]>Narrator: Dan John Miller]]>Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.]]>Release date: 10-04-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>An intimate biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest, arguably the most interesting figure to emerge from the Civil War - widely admired as a military genius. At 14 he became the head of his impoverished family, responsible for feeding 11 on the rough American frontier. By 39 he had established himself as a successful plantation owner worth over $1 million. And at 40 years old, Nathan Bedford Forrest enlisted in a Tennessee cavalry regiment - and became a controversial Civil War legend. The legacy of General Nathan Bedford Forrest is deeply divisive. Best known for being accused of war crimes at the Battle of Fort Pillow and for his role as first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan - an organization he later denounced - Forrest has often been studied as a military figure, but never before studied as a fascinating individual who wrestled with the complex issues of his violent times. Bust Hell Wide Open is a comprehensive portrait of Nathan Bedford Forrest as a man: his achievements, failings, reflections, and regrets.
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]]>Title: The Syrian Civil War]]>Subtitle: The History of the 21st Century's Deadliest Conflict]]>Categories: 21st Century, History, Middle East, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Norman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-30-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In December 2010, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor's self-immolation triggered protests that spread from his hometown in Sidi Bouzid to cities across the country. The next month, on January 14, the country's autocratic president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, fled the country. This would be the start of what became known as the "Arab Spring", which ultimately saw anti-government protests responded to with violence, reform, or both in countries across the Middle East. In Syria, the protests that began as early as January 2011 and increased in intensity the following March devolved into a complex armed conflict that involves multiple armed groups and continues to this day. Like the other dictators, Bashar al-Assad faced popular demonstrations against his regime at the height of the Arab Spring, but he steadfastly refused to step down from power, and the protests against him and his government quickly turned violent, which eventually enveloped Syria in a civil war that has already killed over 400,000, created over four million refugees, and shows no signs of ending anytime soon.
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]]>Title: Scotland Yard]]>Subtitle: The History of British Policing and the World's Most Famous Police Force]]>Categories: 19th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-27-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Scotland Yard. The name itself conjures up a mental picture of old-time detectives in trench coats snooping around a crime scene with a giant magnifying glass. Indeed, over the years, the Metropolitan Police Force in London has become an inspirational icon, and the setting of countless literary masterpieces, films, television shows, music, and other works of art. What is it about this particular force that draws so many to the famous Yard? Throughout the evolution of British policing and the rise of Scotland Yard, the people who worked there took on some of the most notorious cases, and in the process they helped shape criminal investigative techniques. Along the way, the headquarters featured some famous people, and it was home to both triumphant feats and scandalous controversies throughout the Yard's action-packed history. Scotland Yard: The History of British Policing and the World's Most Famous Police Force looks at how London's iconic police force became the world's most famous. You will learn about Scotland Yard like never before.
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]]>Title: Nazis and the Occult]]>Categories: America, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Paul Roland]]>Narrator: William Roberts]]>Publisher: Arcturus Digital Limited]]>Release date: 07-08-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Why did the country which produced Goethe, Beethoven, Bach, Schiller, Einstein, Kant, and Hegel allow itself to be led to the precipice of self-destruction by a ragged collective of criminals, misfits, sadists, and petty bureaucrats? The Nazis and the Occult reveals the true nature of the Third Reich's link with arcane influences and of evil itself, as well as explaining how an ill-educated, psychologically unbalanced nonentity succeeded in mesmerizing an entire nation. Forget what you have read, seen, and heard. This is the real secret history of Nazi Germany and its dark Messiah - Adolf Hitler.
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]]>Title: Nazi Women]]>Subtitle: The Attraction of Evil]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, Europe, Fascism]]>Author: Paul Roland]]>Narrator: Gabrielle Glaister]]>Publisher: Arcturus Digital Limited]]>Release date: 04-29-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>After the failure of the Weimar Republic, the Nazis believed their mission was to "masculinize" life in Germany. Hermann Goering told women, "Take a pot, a dustpan and a broom, and marry a man", but many still became active participants in murder and mayhem. From the Reich Bride Schools through the Bund Deutscher Mädel and the bizarre Lebensborn Aryan breeding programme to the brothels of the Sicherheitsdienst, this book covers the lives of women in the Third Reich, concentrating on those who sought personal power and influence amid the chaos and death.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Will Rogers]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-17-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." - Will Rogers A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Biographers of Will Rogers are always faced with a tough task, because the list of things Will Rogers didn't do is a much shorter one than the list of things he did. By the time he died in 1935 in a plane crash in Alaska, he was one of the most famous men in the world and one of the most versatile celebrities. With a career spanning several decades and most of his life, Rogers not only dabbled in vaudeville, film, writing, and politics but reached the pinnacle of most of those professions, even if they were more like hobbies to him.
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]]>Title: Legends of Hollywood: The Life of Claudette Colbert]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-17-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody." - Claudette Colbert The 1930s were the height of the classical Hollywood era, known for lavish studio productions by heavyweights like MGM, RKO, Warner Brothers, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox, which were operating at the height of their powers. Every major studio possessed a long roster of contract players, and films were released at such a rapid pace that it made for an especially competitive environment within the industry. Even while America remained in the throes of the Great Depression, the film industry continued to flourish, and movies easily supplanted the theater as the main attraction for American entertainment.
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]]>Title: Ghosts]]>Subtitle: An Exploration of the Spirit World, from Apparitions to Haunted Places]]>Categories: Occult, Unexplained Mystery]]>Author: Paul Roland]]>Narrator: Russell Bentley]]>Publisher: Arcturus Digital Limited]]>Release date: 02-15-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Ghosts and spirits inhabit the world around us. We can hear and see them if we are only sensitive - or psychic - enough to be aware of them. Re-examining a fascinating assortment of recorded sightings from as far back as Roman times, the author presents a serious look at ghosts, not as chain-rattling spooks, but as actual entities with which we share a greater reality. Nor does he accept that ghosts are merely the spirits of departed people, or energies left behind. Uniquely, Paul Roland provides self-tested evidence on the idea of spirits as the manifestation of people still living, proving that out-of-body experiences are not as rare - or as impossible - as some people might think. The result is a profoundly fascinating, thought-provoking audiobook that will challenge your beliefs as never before.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Paul Roland) Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:18:43 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-b4YfLNj0 Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: History for Kids: A Biography of Elvis Presley for Children]]>Categories: Biography, For Children, History, Music, North America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Alan Ceppos]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-04-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Born in Mississippi, a young kid named Elvis Presley came to Memphis as a teenager and changed music forever. Fusing country and rhythm and blues with rock, Elvis brought traditional African-American sounds to the forefront of music in the 1950s, but he did so as a handsome white man before the height of the Civil Rights Movement. On top of that, his famous stage fright led to the hip gyrations that would make him the envy of young girls and the scorn of their parents. What followed was rock music's perfect storm. Managed by Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis became the biggest music act in the world, producing holiday classics, love ballads, and up-tempo rock songs that all hit the top of the charts in the late '50s. Elvis merged the quintessential rock star looks with success, scoring nearly 20 number-one singles.
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]]>Title: Ivan the Terrible]]>Subtitle: Russia's Most Insane Tsar]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Todd Van Linda]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-04-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Sixteenth-century Russia remains, for most Western audiences, a dark and terrifying space, wrapped in mystery and myth and isolated from states such as England or France, whose heroes are well-known throughout Europe. The traditional dichotomy between East and West is most apparent in the discussion of the remarkable political figures that defined this century. While Western rulers, such as Elizabeth I, Francis I or Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, have been endlessly and almost exhaustively treated in historical works, their Eastern counterparts have rarely attracted the attention of professional historians outside their respective regions. As a result, audiences in search of reliable information on Ivan IV's personality and reign are faced with a rather bleak situation. They can either resort to the extremely biased image conveyed by Russian historiography, or to the often superficial and sensationalist histories written by Western authors, who, perhaps unintentionally, crafted a narrative that fit the stereotypes regarding what the West thought of the East at the time.
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]]>Title: The Life and Legacy of Raphael]]>Subtitle: Legends of the Renaissance]]>Categories: Europe, History, Renaissance]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Todd Van Linda]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 02-04-2016]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Here lies that famous Raphael by whom Nature feared to be conquered while he lived, and when he was dying, feared herself to die." (Inscription on Raphael's sarcophagus) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known across the world simply by the name Raphael, stands as one of the main pillars of the High Renaissance, an iconic example of the balance between spirituality and humanistic inquiry that characterized the time period. Although he lived just 37 years, his career produced an amazingly rich output, and he completed more works than many artists do over careers spanning twice the length. At the same time, Raphael's art combined central tropes associated with the Renaissance while remaining remarkably original. As such, his career is worth exploring not only in its own right but also for the ways in which he typified contemporary artistic techniques, including a return to antiquity and the balance between mathematical accuracy, rational thought, and religious devotion. While Raphael's own themes did not vary greatly throughout his career, he led a relatively nomadic existence, and his life reflects the trends associated with late 15th-century and early 16th-century Italy.
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]]>Title: The Nuremberg Trials]]>Subtitle: The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity]]>Categories: America, History, Law, Military]]>Author: Paul Roland]]>Narrator: Dugald Bruce Lockhart]]>Publisher: Arcturus Digital Limited]]>Release date: 11-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Nuremberg Trials were the most important criminal proceedings ever held. They established the principle that individuals will always be held responsible for their actions under international law, and brought closure to World War II, allowing the reconstruction of Europe to begin.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Marilyn Monroe]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Regina O'Brien]]>Publisher: Beacon Audiobooks]]>Release date: 10-08-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead, they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them." - Marilyn Monroe A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Few actresses lived their lives in the public eye more than Marilyn Monroe, and yet her life remains shrouded in mystery to this day.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of John Brown]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Les Holliday]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 09-25-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Throughout the 1850s, American politicians tried to sort out the nation's intractable issues. In an attempt to organize the center of North America - Kansas and Nebraska - without offsetting the slave-free balance, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Kansas-Nebraska Act eliminated the Missouri Compromise line of 1820, which the Compromise of 1850 had maintained. Settlers could now vote whether they wanted their state to be slave-free. The primary result was that thousands of zealous pro-slavery and anti-slavery advocates moved to Kansas to influence the vote, creating a dangerous and ultimately deadly mix. The most famous and infamous of them all was John Brown, one of the most controversial men in American history.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Lauren Bacall]]>Categories: Actor, America, Art, Biography]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Liz Terry]]>Publisher: Beacon Audiobooks]]>Release date: 08-28-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Imagination is the highest kite that can fly." - Lauren Bacall A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, learning interesting facts long forgotten or unknown. It's exceedingly difficult to think about Lauren Bacall without also thinking of her famous husband, Humphrey Bogart. After all, it is no accident that Bacall was entirely unknown before starring at just 20 years old with her future husband in Howard Hawks' famous film To Have and Have Not in 1944. And of course, Bogart's infatuation with the young actress helped ensure she would continue to be cast in movies with him moving forward. "Bogie and Bacall" are just one of a number of legendary romantic screen duos in film history, and there have been other famous screen couples who made headlines off the set as well, but few compare in terms of success.
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]]>Title: The Last Emperor of the Aztecs: The Life and Legacy of Montezuma]]>Categories: America, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: James Weippert]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-20-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Cortés and all of us captains and soldiers wept for him, and there was no one among us that knew him and had dealings with him who did not mourn him as if he were our father, which was not surprising, since he was so good. It was stated that he had reigned for 17 years, and was the best king they ever had in Mexico, and that he had personally triumphed in three wars against countries he had subjugated. I have spoken of the sorrow we all felt when we saw that Montezuma was dead. We even blamed the Mercederian friar for not having persuaded him to become a Christian." - Bernal Díaz del Castillo Nearly 500 years after his death and the demise of his empire, Montezuma II is the most famous ruler of the most famous civilization in the New World, the Aztec. For centuries the legends surrounding his life and the conquest of the Aztecs by Hernan Cortes have fascinated historians. Montezuma was born around 1466 in the legendary Aztec city of Tenochtitlan and into the ruling family of the Aztec Confederacy.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Lives of Pocahontas and Sacagawea]]>Categories: Biography, Coming of Age, Female Protagonist, For Children]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Todd Van Linda]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-14-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. These concise-but-comprehensive books will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. The life of Pocahontas fulfills a specific role in American culture and history. Her short life holds a bittersweet tragedy that is part of the mythology of Native America, especially the first encounters between English settlers and the local native tribes. The meaning of her name, "little plaything" or "little wanton", suggests that she was destined to be bandied about by the powers in her life. The men of the time simply assumed a young Native American girl did not deserve or even want respect. She had many other names, however, some which would have never been known to people outside her tribe, let alone European colonists. What historians do know is Pocahontas was also known as Matoaka, she was born sometime in 1595, and she was the daughter of the paramount chief (Mamanatowick) Powhatan - leader of an Algonquian-speaking native group.
]]>#ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. parkerculpepper269@jean.esound.space (Charles River Editors) Fri, 14 Aug 2015 17:28:25 GMT https://jean.esound.space/it/audiobooks/episode/269-DL3fd4EZ Voice Vault false Get free audiobook https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/arya/mlp?_encoding=UTF8&purchaseType=STANDARD_MTRIAL&SHOPPING_PORTAL_MODE=AUGMENTED&linkCode=ll2&tag=bookonit-20&linkId=abec7a6e6a371ccbc6e35c8acae488bf&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Listen to full audiobook for free : ]]>https://litupbook.com/free]]>
]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Pocahontas]]>Categories: Biography, Coming of Age, Female Protagonist, For Children]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Todd Van Linda]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-14-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. These comprehensive books will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. The life of Pocahontas fulfills a specific role in American culture and history. Her short life holds a bittersweet tragedy that is part of the mythology of Native America, especially the first encounters between English settlers and the local native tribes. The meaning of her name, "little plaything" or "little wanton", suggests that she was destined to be bandied about by the powers in her life. The men of the time simply assumed a young Native American girl did not deserve or even want respect. She had many other names, however, some which would have never been known to people outside her tribe, let alone European colonists. What historians do know is Pocahontas was also known as Matoaka, she was born sometime in 1595, and she was the daughter of the paramount chief (Mamanatowick) Powhatan - leader of an Algonquian-speaking native group.
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]]>Title: The Mahdi: The History of the Prophesized Figure Muslims Believe Will Redeem Islam and Bring About the End Times]]>Categories: Europe, History, Islam, Medieval, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Doron Alon]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-05-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Violent extremist Sunni and Shiite Muslims are at odds about most things. One of the few points that they can agree upon in the midst of their war of mutual annihilation is that the Apocalypse is coming and that they are the soldiers of its harbinger and redeemer: the Mahdi. Across the Islamic world, the figure of the Mahdi has appeared with increasing prevalence in the last few decades: the "Mahdi Army” patrols Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad, thousands of Mahdi impersonators rot in Iranian prisons, the feared Boko Haram army aims to bring about the arrival of the Mahdi in Nigeria, and the leader of the Islamic State changed his name, allowing him to fulfill the prophecy that the Mahdi would be named "Abdullah” and "ibn Muhammad." The Shi'a have always had a deep emotional connection to the belief in the coming of the Mahdi. In fact most Shi'a believe that he has already come to Earth in the form of their hidden ("occulted”) Twelfth Imam, who has watched over humanity for centuries.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Rosa Parks]]>Categories: America, Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Nicholas S. Johnson]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-05-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>“People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was 42. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” - Rosa Parks Rosa Parks is one of the most famous women in American history, and an instantly recognizable name among Americans of all ages, thanks to the events of December 1, 1955. That afternoon, on her way home from work, Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person in defiance of Montgomery’s segregated bus policies. Within days of her arrest, Montgomery’s civil rights activists had organized a wide-scale boycott of Montgomery’s buses by blacks. To lead the boycott, organizers formed the Montgomery Improvement Association, electing a young, 26-year-old pastor president of the new group. His name was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In many histories, the narrative of Rosa Parks’ life ends there.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of William Holden]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bobby Brill]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 08-03-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer". - William Holden In the 1940s, the movies were filled with rugged, intimidating men who had a rough style adored by female screen characters and moviegoers alike. Unlike their European counterparts, the evolving subgenres of the American leading man began to include individuals with iconic quirks in general appearance, voice and humor, as an alternative to the rugged, understated, and sometimes reluctant "man of the people". It was William Holden who became America’s first choice among films requiring a shy, cynical, and sexually potent "broken hero" on the screen, less thoughtful, perhaps, than Gregory Peck, and less rigid than Gary Cooper. Perhaps Holden's many unwilling heroes filmed over a 40 year career were aided by the reality that Holden was much like them, an actor who was uncomfortable on the set and terrified of screen intimacy, on certain occasions requiring lengthy alcoholic binges to get through some of the steamier love scenes and sexualized dances with co-stars such as Kim Novak, Audrey Hepburn, and Grace Kelly.
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]]>Title: Hollywood's Odd Couple: The Lives of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Allison McKay]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-29-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality.... The Odd Couple was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that." (Walter Matthau) "It's hard enough to write a good drama. It's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is." (Jack Lemmon) Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon are probably best remembered for their films together, but both were clearly established actors in Hollywood by the time they appeared in their first film together. The great film director Billy Wilder once noted of Jack Lemmon that Lemmon "was my everyman", and Lemmon did indeed represent a great everyman to American audiences during the latter half of the 20th century. For rich, poor, and working-class audiences alike, Lemmon was an accessible leading male, someone certainly less stately than Cary Grant or Laurence Olivier and seemingly more approachable even than archetypal leading men such as Jimmy Stewart or Henry Fonda.
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]]>Title: Fighting for the Lost Cause: The Life and Career of General Jubal Early]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mike Cheifetz]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-22-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Jubal Early (1816-1894) fought two big wars during his life. About 150 years ago, Early played an important role as a general for the Confederacy, fighting his way up the ranks until he was eventually given an independent command by top Confederate general Robert E. Lee in late 1864. Early served under Stonewall Jackson and Lee, rising from regiment commander to Corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia, and he played crucial roles in key battles like Gettysburg and in the Shenandoah Valley campaigns. During his raid toward Washington, DC, his forces nearly killed President Lincoln during a battle at Fort Stevens, making Lincoln the only sitting president to come under live fire. However, it was Early's writing that truly changed history. During the 1870s, Early was one of the writers for the Southern Historical Society who helped establish the Lost Cause, a cultural phenomenon that dominated the writing of Civil War history for a century and is still a widely held view today. His autobiography, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early, Confederate States of America, is a perfect example of Lost Cause writing, in which the Confederacy is unable to overcome the North's vast advantage in men and resources.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Jimmy Stewart]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: James Romick]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-15-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"A feller came up to me the other day and said 'I don't know whether this means anything to you but you've given me and my family a lot of enjoyment over the years.' And I said to him, 'Does it mean anything to me? It means everything to me. That's the ballgame. That's it.' And I think that if I have done that to that man, and maybe a couple more...then I'm proud of that." - Jimmy Stewart A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. When the American Film Institute assembled its top 100 actors of all time at the close of the 20th century, Jimmy Stewart ranked third, behind only Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Betsy Ross]]>Categories: Biography, Coming of Age, Female Protagonist, For Children]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Diane Lehman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-14-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Betsy Ross is one of the few women in American history whose name is known to every American, but that is not the only reason she's such a unique figure. Indeed, Betsy Ross is a true rarity in that she has been turned into a mythological heroine. Every country has legends, and tales that grow out of its founding, but given that the United States is a relatively young country, there is ample historical information on the lives and exploits of its Founders. Though there are apocryphal myths attached to men like George Washington, who did not chop down the cherry tree, American legends are usually famous for what they actually did. This is not the case with Betsy Ross, who remains best known for creating the first American flag at Washington's behest. But that story is based entirely on legend and rumor, and as such, her life is interesting more as a symbol than as an individual life.
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]]>Title: Legends of Hollywood: The Life of Joan Fontaine]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Diane Lehman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-14-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things." - Joan Fontaine In 1939, Olivia de Havilland had her most memorable role as Melanie Hamilton in Gone With the Wind (1939), perhaps the most famous movie in American history, but Hollywood legend has it that she only got the role because her own younger sister, Joan Fontaine, was asked to audition for the part and recommended Olivia instead so that she could audition for Scarlett O'Hara. Although Fontaine and de Havilland would make history by becoming the only sisters to both win an Academy Award for Best Actress, that anecdote was just one of the various stories about the siblings that has shed light on their notoriously contentious and complicated relationship.
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]]>Title: The World's Greatest Generals: The Life and Career of Robert E. Lee]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kelly Rhodes]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-13-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it." (Robert E. Lee) With the exception of George Washington, perhaps the most famous general in American history is Robert E. Lee (January 19, 1807-October 12, 1870), despite the fact he led the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia against the Union in the Civil War. As the son of US Revolutionary War hero Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III and a relative of Martha Custis Washington, Lee was imbued with a strong sense of honor and duty from the beginning. And as a top graduate of West Point, Lee had distinguished himself so well before the Civil War that President Lincoln asked him to command the entire Union Army. Lee famously declined, serving his home state of Virginia instead, after it seceded. Lee is remembered today for constantly defeating the Union's Army of the Potomac in the Eastern theater from 1862-1865, considerably frustrating Lincoln and his generals. His leadership of his army led to him being deified after the war by some of his former subordinates, especially Virginians, and he came to personify the lost cause's ideal Southern soldier.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Bing Crosby]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Marvel]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse." - Bing Crosby A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In 1948, American polls rated Bing Crosby "the most admired man alive", and it's no surprise given how popular he was across every major form of entertainment during the decade. With a string of major hits, Crosby was the most popular singer in the country during that era, with classic songs like "White Christmas" helping pave the way for other singers as varied as Bob Hope, Dean Martin, and Frank Sinatra. In fact, young Sinatra modeled his clothing and style after Crosby, who was his idol growing up.
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]]>Title: The Vikings in North America]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Norse Settlements in Greenland and Vinland]]>Categories: America, Europe, Exploration, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Norman Gilligan]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Over the centuries, the West has become fascinated by the Vikings, one of the most mysterious and interesting European civilizations. In addition to being perceived as a remarkably unique culture among its European counterparts, what's known and not known about the Vikings' accomplishments has added an intriguing aura to the historical narrative. Were they fierce and fearsome warriors? Were they the first Europeans to visit North America? It seems some of the legends are true, and some are just that, legend. The ubiquitous picture of the Vikings as horn-helmeted, brutish, hairy giants that mercilessly marauded among the settlements of Northern Europe is based on a smattering of facts combined with an abundance of prejudicial historical writing by those who were on the receiving end of Viking depredations. At the same time, much of the popular picture of the Vikings is a result of the romantic imagination of novelists and artists. However, the Vikings' reputation for ferocious seaborne attacks along the coasts of Northern Europe is no exaggeration. It is true that the Norsemen, who traded extensively throughout Europe, often increased the profits obtained from their nautical ventures through plunder, acquiring precious metals and slaves.
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]]>Title: The Life of Joan Crawford]]>Subtitle: American Legends]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kate Fisher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door." Joan Crawford A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The life of Joan Crawford is one of the most famous Hollywood rags-to-riches tales. While it is common to think of Hollywood as a land offering great opportunity to hardworking actresses, the Horatio Alger myth rarely applies in reality, but it applied almost perfectly to Joan Crawford. Crawford grew up in relative poverty, with both of her childhood father figures abandoning the family before she became a teenager, and she relied on undying ambition in order to progress through the ranks of the show business circuit and then the Hollywood studio system.
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]]>Title: Legendary Philosophers: The Life and Philosophy of Socrates]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Europe, Greece]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gabrielle Byrne]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don't know what justice is, I'll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy." - attributed to Socrates in Plato's The Republic In 427 B.C., the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was flourishing. Approximately 80 years earlier, the Athenians had formed the first self-representative democracy in history, the Peloponnesian War against Sparta had only just started, and Socrates was only beginning to lay the foundation of what would become Western philosophy. None of Socrates' works survived antiquity, so most of what is known about him came from the writings of his followers, most notably Plato. What is known about Socrates is that he seemed to make a career out of philosophy, and Plato was intent on following in his footsteps. Yet for all of the influence of Socrates' life on his followers, it was Socrates' death around 399 B.C. that truly shaped them.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Sidney Poitier]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Rhett Samuel Price]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"In my case, the body of work stands for itself.... I think my work has been representative of me as a man." - Sidney Poitier "To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved." - Sidney Poitier A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Near the end of the 20th century, the American Film Institute ranked the greatest actors and actresses who worked during the Golden Era of Hollywood and the first half of the 1900s, and Sidney Poitier was ranked 22nd among the men.
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]]>Title: Fighting the Third Crusade]]>Subtitle: The Lives and Legacies of Richard the Lionheart and Saladin]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Christopher Hudspeth]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-09-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"It is equally true that [Saladin's] generosity, his piety, devoid of fanaticism, that flower of liberality and courtesy which had been the model of our old chroniclers, won him no less popularity in Frankish Syria than in the lands of Islam." (René Grousset) "We, however, place the love of God and his honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions." (Richard the Lionheart) Saladin is widely considered one of the greatest generals in history and one of the most famous leaders of the Middle Ages, but he remains a paradox, both in personal and in historical terms. A military genius, he first served other generals and was overshadowed, late in life, by his greatest rival, Richard I of England. He was far more admired by his Christian enemies, who extolled his chivalry, than some of his Muslim rivals, who fought him for control of Egypt and Syria in the 12th century. His Christian enemies continued his name long after it was forgotten in the Middle East, only to spark a revival of his reputation in Arab culture in the 20th century. Revered as the flower of Arab culture, he was really a Kurd who nearly destroyed it.
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]]>Title: Cnut the Great]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of Scandinavia's Most Famous King]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Donnie Sipes]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-09-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"King of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes" (Cnut's self-proclaimed title) "Knut was exceptionally tall and strong, and the handsomest of men, all except for his nose, that was thin, high-set, and rather hooked. He had a fair complexion none-the-less, and a fine, thick head of hair. His eyes were better than those of other men, both the handsomer and the keener of their sight." (Knytlinga Saga) In a sense, Cnut the Great was practically destined for greatness, if only because he came from a distinguished Danish royal family. Cnut's father was Sweyn Forkbeard, and his grandfather was Harald Bluetooth, both prominent and legendary kings of Denmark. Meanwhile, his mother was the widow of the Swedish king Erik the Victorious, the daughter of the Polish duke Mieszko, and a sister of the Polish king Boleslav Chrobry. Thanks to his background and his own abilities, Cnut became the most prominent of the Danish kings of England (from 1016), but he was also, at times, king of Denmark (from 1018-1019), Norway (from 1028), and parts of Sweden (after 1026).
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]]>Title: The World's Greatest Cities: The History of Tokyo]]>Categories: Asia, History, Japan, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Richard Glass]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-09-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>After a series of conflicts among feudal lords, the new city of Edo became and remained Japan's beating heart, and in the 17th century Edo gave birth to a vibrant, new urban culture marked by woodblock prints, the kabuki theater, and haiku poetry. By the 18th century, with its ranks swelled thanks to a flood of provincial daimyo, along with their households, clients, and retainers, Edo had become the most populous urban area in the world, a title Tokyo still can lay claim to today. In the latter 19th and 20th centuries, after the Tokugawa bakufu was overthrown by a modernizing and reforming central government under the Meiji emperor, Edo was renamed Tokyo and became Japan's new imperial capital. The Meiji emperor wanted Tokyo to be a vibrant, bustling, cosmopolitan city that could be viewed as a meeting ground between the East and West.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Thurgood Marshall]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Law]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Nicholas S. Johnson]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-08-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi...has the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for." (Thurgood Marshall) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Nobody is a bigger testament to that fact than Thurgood Marshall, the African-American lawyer who successfully argued the Brown v. Board case. Today Marshall is best known for being the first Black Supreme Court justice, but that history setting precedent has come to overshadow the instrumental work he did as chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Marshall argued more cases before the Supreme Court than anyone in history and would win nearly 30 of them, including the seminal Brown v.
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]]>Title: The First Great Confederate General]]>Subtitle: The Life and Career of Albert Sidney Johnston]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Alda]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-08-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The turning point of our fate." - Jefferson Davis on the death of Albert Sidney Johnston Today Albert Sidney Johnston (1803- 1862) is one of the most overlooked generals of the Civil War, but in April 1862 he was widely considered the Confederacy's best general. After graduating from West Point, where he befriended classmates Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, Johnston had a distinguished military career that ensured he would play a principal role in the Civil War. The fact that he was friends with Davis didn't hurt either, and near the beginning of the war Johnston was given command of the Western Department, which basically comprised the entire Western theater at the time. The Confederates were served poorly in that theater by incompetent officers who Johnston and the South had been saddled with, and from the beginning of the Civil War the Confederates struggled to gain traction in the battlegrounds of Kentucky and Missouri.
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]]>Title: Joseph Kony & The Lord's Resistance Army]]>Subtitle: The History of Africa's Most Notorious Guerrillas]]>Categories: 21st Century, Africa, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dennis Logan]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-08-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Lord's Resistance Army appeared on the conflict landscape of Central Africa at the dawn of perhaps one of the bleakest period of post-independence African history: the 1980s and 1990s. This was the era of Afro-pessimism, during which the proliferation of war and crisis in Africa appeared simply overwhelming. It was during this period that the continent began to feel the full weight of the AIDS crisis, which was exacerbated by economic stagnation, continent-wide corruption, poor governance, the highest levels of unemployment since decolonization, and apparently unsolvable conflicts in regions as diverse as Ethiopia, Mozambique, Angola, Western Sahara, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and of course that region of perennial instability, the Great Lakes region of central Africa. Here a complex mix of colonial legacy, ethnic incompatibility, isolation, and lawlessness has combined in the years since independence to create a theatre of ongoing political unrest.
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]]>Title: Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin & Leon Trotsky]]>Subtitle: The Soviet Union's Big Three]]>Categories: Biography, History, Politician, Politics, Russia]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bill Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-08-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Among the leaders of the 20th century, arguably none shaped the course of history as much as Vladimir Lenin (1870-1942), the Communist revolutionary and political theorist who led the Bolshevik Revolution that established the Soviet Union. In addition to shaping the Marxist-Leninist political thought that steered Soviet ideology, he was the first Soviet premier until his death and set the Soviet Union on its way to becoming one of the world's two superpowers for most of the century, in addition to being the West's Cold War adversary. As it turned out, the creation of the Soviet Union came near the end of Lenin's life, as he worked so hard that he had burned himself out by his 50s, dying in 1924 after a series of strokes had completely debilitated him. Near the end of his life, he expressly stated that the regime's power should not be put in the hands of the current General Secretary of the Communist Party, Joseph Stalin. Of course, Stalin managed to do just that, modernizing the Soviet Union at a breakneck pace on the backs of millions of poor laborers and prisoners.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Red Cloud]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Indigenous]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Joe Brookhouse]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-08-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Look at me - I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches, but we want to train our children right. Riches will do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love." (Red Cloud) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Among the Oglala Lakota, one of the most famous bands of the Native American tribe known as the Sioux, the longest and most effective leader was Makhpiyaluta, better known as Red Cloud.
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]]>Title: French Legends]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of King Louis XVI]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, France, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-07-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I die perfectly innocent of the so-called crimes of which I am accused. I pardon those who are the cause of my misfortunes." - Louis XVI A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' French series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of France's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Louis XVI is one of the most famous kings of France, but for reasons he would have much rather avoided. Coming of age in the wake of the reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and his father, Louis XV, Louis XVI initially intended to be one of France's most enlightened kings. Instead, he was destined to be the only French king ever executed.
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]]>Title: The British Royal Family: The Life of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-07-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On July 29, 1981, millions across the world tuned in to watch one of the most televised events of the 20th century - the fairy-tale wedding of Charles, prince of Wales, and Lady Diana, which featured the inimitable splendor the British are famous for and one of the most glamourous women of the 20th century. Thirty years later another royal wedding drew inevitable comparisons to the wedding of Diana and Charles. On April 29, 2011, it was the marriage of their first child, Prince William of Wales, second in line to the throne, that had hundreds of millions of people (and possibly over a billion) tuning in to watch. The royal wedding sparked renewed interest in the prince and Kate Middleton, his beautiful new wife. From his earliest years, Prince William has been a photographer's dream come true in the same way his mother had been. While he is not necessarily known for his mother's media savvy, he is well liked by the media, and he is able, consciously or incidentally, to capitalize on this advantage. At the same time, from polo to charities, William is thoroughly his father Charles' son as a Windsor prince.
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]]>Title: The World's Greatest Generals]]>Subtitle: The Life and Career of Nathan Bedford Forrest]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Trent R. Stephens]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-07-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I got there first with the most men." (Nathan Bedford Forrest) Despite the fact that the Civil War was fought nearly 150 years ago, it remains a polarizing topic for the country to this day. And nowhere is this more evident than in the life and legacy of Confederate Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the war's most controversial soldier. When the war broke out, Forrest enlisted in the army and was instructed to raise a battalion of cavalry. A self-made man with no formal military training, Forrest spent the entire war fighting in the Western theater, becoming the only individual in the war to rise from the rank of private to lieutenant general. By the end of the war, Forrest was known throughout the South as the "Wizard of the Saddle", and anecdotes of his prowess in battle were legendary.
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]]>Title: The Greatest Battles in History]]>Subtitle: The Battle of Stalingrad]]>Categories: History, Military, Military Conflict, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tom McElroy]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Approaching this place, soldiers used to say: 'We are entering hell.' And after spending one or two days here, they say: 'No, this isn't hell, this is ten times worse than hell.'" - Soviet general Vasily Chuikov World War II was fought on a scale unlike anything before or since in human history, and the unfathomable casualty counts are attributable in large measure to the carnage inflicted between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during Hitler's invasion of Russia and Stalin's desperate defense. The invasion came in 1941 following a nonaggression pact signed between the two in 1939, which allowed Hitler to focus his attention on the west without having to worry about an attack from the eastern front. While Germany was focusing on the west, the Soviet Union sent large contingents of troops to the border region between the two countries, and Stalin's plan to take territory in Poland and the Baltic States angered Hitler. By 1940, Hitler viewed Stalin as a major threat and had made the decision to invade Russia: "In the course of this contest, Russia must be disposed of...Spring 1941. The quicker we smash Russia the better." (Hoyt, p.
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]]>Title: Civilizations of Africa: The History and Culture of the Mbuti (Pygmy)]]>Categories: Africa, Ancient, Civilization, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gary D. MacFadden]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-02-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"[T]heir eyes had an untameable wildness about them that struck me as very remarkable." (French-American explorer Paul du Chaillu, 1867) The indigenous Africans known as pygmies have interested outsiders for thousands of years. In the 2200s BC, the Egyptian pharaoh Pepi II referred to one as a "dancing dwarf of the god from the land of spirits", and the Ancient Greeks were also familiar with them. Homer makes mention of pygmies in The Iliad, and Herodotus recounted the experiences of a Persian explorer who encountered "dwarfish people, who used clothing made from the palm tree", on the western coast of Africa. In fact the term pygmy comes from the Greek word for "dwarfish". Not surprisingly, foreigners' interest in pygmies has never waned. When medieval Europeans first traveled to Africa and parts of Asia, many of them were stunned when they encountered people who were considerably smaller than the average height. Perhaps the most famous account comes from the legendary Marco Polo, who was so confused about the people known as pygmies that he refused to believe they were actually human.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Fred Astaire]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: James Romick]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-02-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business." (Mikhail Baryshnikov) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Virtually all famous actors are regaled by the public, but even still, Fred Astaire occupies a privileged position in American pop culture. The specific films in which Astaire acted may not be especially famous in their own right - most people likely cannot recall the title of Top Hat (1935), his most decorated film - but Astaire's dancing prowess invariably creates a lasting impact on viewers. Instead of tying his fame to a single film, Astaire's genius lay in constructing his star persona around a specific set of iconographic imagery that has become embedded within American culture.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Howard Hughes]]>Categories: America, Biography, Business, Economic]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: James Romick]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-01-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"My father told me, never have partners." (Howard Hughes) "I'm not a paranoid, deranged millionaire." (Howard Hughes) Howard Hughes lived a life that was quintessentially American, and his personal history was so varied, improbable, and extraordinary that he practically resembled a living folk hero. Hughes was barely in his 20s during America's Roaring Twenties, but he had already begun to command the nation's headlines as a multitalented millionaire, and the varied pastimes that his talents and wealth afforded him made him nearly impossible to ignore. In the '20s and '30s, the most famous people in the country were generally gangsters, jazz musicians, inventors, baseball players, Hollywood stars, or flying aces, and by the end of the '30s, the 35-year-old Hughes was at least three, and arguably four, of those; perhaps learning to play jazz or hit home runs seemed greedy at that point. After receiving a handsome inheritance in his teens, Howard made himself into one of the world's first billionaires by the time he was in middle age, so he clearly wasted no time. Already a tycoon at the age of 20, Hughes took no pleasure in rest or success, and his accomplishments were just as unique as the man himself.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Renaissance: The Life and Legacy of Michelangelo]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Renaissance, Visual Artist]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Linsenmayer]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-01-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all." (Michelangelo) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? When historians are asked to pick a point in history when Western civilization was transformed and guided down the path to modernity, most of them point to the Renaissance. Indeed the Renaissance revolutionized art, philosophy, religion, sciences, and math, with individuals like Galileo, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Dante, and Petrarch bridging the past and modern society. In Charles River Editors' Legends of the Renaissance, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of the most important men and women of the Renaissance in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. It's possible that Michelangelo is the most famous artist in history, but it's also possible that he's an underrated artist.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Bob Hope]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Marvel]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-01-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it." (Bob Hope) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Of all the show business icons in American history, one of the most beloved was Bob Hope, whose career spanned over six decades across film, television, vaudeville, comedy, and touring and earned him too many accolades to count. On the day of his 100th birthday, more than half of the states in America declared it "Bob Hope Day", a sign of just how monumental and influential he was as an entertainer.
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]]>Title: The Hero of Little Round Top: The Life and Legacy of Joshua Chamberlain]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: James McSorley]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-01-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>For much of the 20th century, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's life and career remained mostly obscure outside of dedicated scholars of the Battle of Gettysburg and alumni and students of Bowdoin College. Colonel Chamberlain had led the 20th Maine regiment at Gettysburg, holding the extreme left of the Union line on Little Round Top, and he continued to rise up the ranks toward the end of the war until he was commanding a brigade and present at the surrender ceremony of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. After the Civil War, Chamberlain served as governor of Maine and president of Bowdoin College. Chamberlain had a respectable Civil War career and life, but he had been largely forgotten in the decades after the Civil War, with the focus on more influential commanding generals and their principal subordinates. Then a remarkable thing happened with the 1974 publication of Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel that focused on the Battle of Gettysburg and its influential generals and leaders.
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]]>Title: Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat]]>Subtitle: The Presidents Who Shaped Modern Egypt]]>Categories: Biography, Egypt, Head of State, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Robin McKay]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 07-01-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Gamal Abdel Nasser has been called many things. The father of modern-day Egypt. The founder of Arab nationalism. The leader of the Egyptian Revolution. The second president of the Egyptian Republic. The creator of his own brand of political and social governance - Nasserism. Anthony Eden, the former British prime minister, called him the "Mussolini of the Nile". Nasser was all of these things and much more. Indeed he led the revolution that overthrew the monarchy of Egypt and subsequently shaped and led the new Egyptian government. He became a prominent regional and world leader, playing a significant role in the Non-Alignment Movement that he cofounded, formed during the midst of the Cold War. He led his country toward modernization and industrialization, implementing social and economic reforms focused on strengthening the nation and improving the lives of the people. Yet Nasser's legacy goes beyond state governance and policies; his name, to this day, evokes great emotion among Egyptians and much of the Arab world.
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]]>Title: Martin Luther and John Calvin: Leaders of the Protestant Reformation]]>Categories: Biography, Christianity, Europe, History, Religion]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Zarbock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-30-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Born shortly after the invention of the printing press, Luther became one of Europe's best-selling authors, along with others like Erasmus, and his theology was mass produced across Europe. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment of sin could be purchased with money, known as indulgences, and he confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his 95 Theses in 1517, one of the most important religious writings of all time. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the Pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the emperor. Luther, of course, did not back down. Although the story about him nailing 95 Theses to a church door is almost surely apocryphal, Luther continued that salvation is not earned by good deeds, but received only as a free gift of God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ as redeemer from sin.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Carole Lombard]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Wendy Almeida]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-30-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Carole Lombard's tragic death means that something of gaiety and beauty have been taken from the world at a time they are needed most." (Errol Flynn) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. On January 16, 1942, just a few weeks after Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II, the nation suffered what were considered the first civilian deaths of the war when a plane crashed into the side of a mountain southwest of Las Vegas. Aboard the plane were 15 servicemen, but the plane was also carrying one of Hollywood's biggest stars: actress Carole Lombard. Although Lombard's death and her marriage to Gone with the Wind star Clark Gable have overshadowed her career, her untimely death in 1942 cut short the life of one of Hollywood's most prominent stars at the time.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of Cicero]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Elaine Kellner]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-30-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Genius is fostered by energy." (Cicero) Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) was one of the most famous Romans in his day, and posterity has been even kinder to him. Cicero was a legend in his own time for his oratory abilities, which he used to persuade fellow senators and denounce enemies like Catiline and Mark Antony, but he was also one of Rome's most prodigious writers and political philosophers. Alongside Pericles, Cicero was one of antiquity's greatest politicians, and he has remained one of the most influential statesmen in history, relied upon by the Romans of his day, political philosophers like John Locke, Enlightenment thinkers like Rousseau, and America's founding fathers. Thomas Jefferson credited Cicero as an inspiration for the Declaration of Independence, and John Adams asserted, "As all the ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher united than Cicero, his authority should have great weight." While De re publica (The Republic) is his most well-known work, Cicero's letters were also preserved. Cicero's letters include informal correspondences to friends, as well as long-winding thoughts about political topics that could pass as their own treatises.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of Caesar Augustus]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Christopher Hudspeth]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-30-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Young men, pay heed to an old man, whom old men harkened when he was still young" - Augustus A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' Legends of the Ancient World series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of antiquity's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The importance of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (or as he was known from birth, Gaius Octavius "Octavian" Thurinus) to the course of Western history is hard to overstate. His life, his rise to power, his political, social and military achievements, all laid the foundations for the creation of an Empire which would endure for almost five centuries, and whose traditions, laws, architecture and art continue to influence much of Europe and the world today. Octavian was the first true Roman Emperor, and the first man since the Etruscan Tarquins, five centuries earlier, to establish a successful hereditary ruling dynasty in what had been a proud Republic for over half a millennium.
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]]>Title: The Maginot Line]]>Subtitle: The History of the Fortifications that Failed to Protect France from Nazi Germany During World War II]]>Categories: Europe, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-30-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"We could hardly dream of building a kind of Great Wall of France, which would in any case be far too costly. Instead we have foreseen powerful but flexible means of organizing defense, based on the dual principle of taking full advantage of the terrain and establishing a continuous line of fire everywhere." - Andre Maginot As the power of Nazi Germany grew alarmingly during the 1930s, the French sought means to defend their territory against the rising menace of the Thousand-Year Reich. As architects of the most punitive measures in the Treaty of Versailles following World War I, the French government made natural targets for Teutonic retribution, so the Maginot Line, a series of interconnected strongpoints and fortifications running along much of France's eastern border, helped allay French fears of invasion. The popular legend of the Maginot Line portrays the frontier defenses as a useless "white elephant" project that was prompted by a gross misapprehension of warfare's new realities in the mid-20th century and quickly overwhelmed by the forceful advance of the German blitzkrieg. English idiom today invokes this vision of the Maginot Line as a metaphor for any defensive measure strongly believed in but actually useless.
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]]>Title: Laurel & Hardy and Abbott & Costello: America's Most Popular Comedy Duos]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Peter D Stover, Keith Peters]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-25-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>By the 1920s English comic Stan Laurel had been in dozens of films, and American Oliver Hardy had appeared in hundreds, but it was not until they formed a duo together in 1926 that they began to truly be noticed. Once they did, however, Laurel and Hardy became one of the most famous comedy teams in American history, with a career that spanned four decades and included over 100 combined shorts and feature films. Even today, nearly 60 years after their last performances together, Laurel and Hardy are still popular, alongside legends like The Three Stooges and Abbott and Costello, and their routines are still watched across the globe. Perhaps most importantly, Laurel and Hardy were forerunners of slapstick comedy and thus influenced those that followed. Their complementary style of slapstick humor, with the thin, childish Laurel acting as a foil for the overweight and overly pompous Hardy, offered a template for others to follow, and the duo established several famous gags that other acts like the Stooges subsequently mimicked.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of Julius Caesar]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-25-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I would rather be the first man in a humble village, than the second man in Rome" - Caesar A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' Legends of the Ancient World series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of antiquity's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Possibly the most important man of antiquity, and even all of history, was Julius Caesar. Alexander Hamilton, the famous American patriot, once remarked that "the greatest man who ever lived was Julius Caesar." Such a tribute, coming from one of the Founding Fathers of the quintessential modern democracy in reference to a man who destroyed the Roman Republic, is testament to the enduring mark that Caesar left upon the world.
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]]>Title: The Greatest Battles in History: The Battle of Waterloo]]>Categories: Europe, France, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: James McSorley]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-25-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won." - Duke of Wellington, at Waterloo It is late in the evening of 18th June, 1815. The scene is a coaching inn on the road between Charleroi and Brussels in what is now Belgium. For 100 yards either side of the road men are strewn, dead or dying. These are Napoleon's elite Imperial Guard, three battalions of which had retreated towards the inn at the end of the battle. With the rest of the Armee du Nord streaming past him, Napoleon had taken personal command. Yet before long even these grizzled veterans had joined the rout. Now he too has left the field, fated to head for Paris, captivity, exile and an early death. Night has fallen on one of the continent's most cataclysmic battles. At the inn, the two exhausted but victorious allied commanders meet for the first time that day. Their close co-operation has ensured the final defeat of Napoleonic France and will put an end to 23 years of almost constant warfare across the continent.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Lewis and Clark Expedition]]>Categories: Biography, Exploration, For Children, History, North America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Stacy Hinkle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-25-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Ocian in view! O! The Joy!" (William Clark, journal entry dated November 7, 1805) In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise, but comprehensive, book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. It is the most fabled and storied journey in American history. From 1804-1806, the first expedition across the North American continent was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson, who had recently bought a vast swath of territory from France. Though he knew he had bought a huge amount of land, Jefferson wasn't entirely sure of what he had bought, so he asked a team, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, to traverse the continent until they reached the Pacific, studying everything from ecology to geography along the way, to get an understanding of the country's new region. Lewis and Clark would find far more than they bargained for.
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]]>Title: The Eiffel Tower: The History of Paris' Most Famous Landmark]]>Categories: 19th Century, Europe, France, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Maria Chester]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-25-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it is one of the most striking of our modern national genius." - Gustave Eiffel It's the home of kings, emperors, and aristocrats, and the home of the Champs-Élysées, the Bastille, the Louvre and the salons that fueled the Enlightenment. For foreigners like Benjamin Franklin, it was the most beautiful city in the world, and millions of people still visit those same sites every year. Known as the "City of Light," Paris seamlessly blends its rich past with all the trappings of a modern city, and the city's features and qualities are taken for granted today, but Paris was not always that way. In fact, it took nearly half a century of redesigning the city during the 19th century to transform it into the city it is today. Though it may be hard to believe today, the Eiffel Tower was initially met with derision by many Frenchmen, some of whom compared it to the Tower of Babel and complained that the "useless and monstrous" structure would obscure treasures such as Notre Dame.
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]]>Title: John Calvin]]>Subtitle: The Life of the Man and the Legacy of the Reformer]]>Categories: Biography, Christianity, Europe, History, Religion]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Zarbock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-25-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"God, by a sudden conversion, subdued and brought my mind to a teachable frame, which was more hardened in such matters than might have been expected from one at my early period of life. Having thus received some taste and knowledge of true godliness, I was immediately inflamed with so intense a desire to make progress therein that although I did not altogether leave off other studies, yet I pursued them with less ardour." (John Calvin, Commentary on the Book of Psalms) John Calvin (1509-1564) was one of the most important religious figures of the last millennium and is an instantly recognizable name across the globe. An influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation, the period when he was most active (namely during the 1530s and 1540s) was marked by increased complexity and the diffusion of the Reformation into several branches.
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]]>Title: England's Greatest Queens: The Lives and Legacies of Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-25-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Video et taceo." ("I see, and say nothing") - Queen Elizabeth I "Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have." - Queen Victoria, 1837 England has had no shortage of influential monarchs, but only Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria had their nation's age literally named after them. Both the Elizabethan era and Victorian era have come to symbolize a golden age of peace and progress in every aspect of British life, with the long reigns of both queens also providing stability. When Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1952, many commentators heralded the beginning of her reign as the second Elizabethan age. The first one, of course, concerned the reign of Henry VIII's second surviving daughter and middle surviving child, Queen Elizabeth I, one of England's most famous and influential rulers. It was an age when the arts, commerce and trade flourished.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Gene Kelly]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Todd Van Linda]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-25-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat." - Gene Kelly When people think of musicals, two of the first names that immediately spring to mind are Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, two giants of one of Hollywood's most distinctive genres. Without question, both men played an instrumental role in popularizing and sustaining the musical from the 1930s through the 1950s, the final decades of Hollywood's Golden Age. Although they did collaborate on two occasions, in many ways Gene Kelly's rise to popularity in the 1940s amounted to a changing of the guard. For film historians and fans of the musical, however, even if they weren't contemporaries, Astaire and Kelly will forever be viewed as rivals, with each having left an indelible stamp on the genre that defined their careers. While it is true that a comparison between Astaire and Kelly is indispensable to any study of Kelly's life, much can also be gained simply by focusing mostly on his life and career.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Jane Fonda]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Carroll Snead]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-25-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Being Henry Fonda's daughter got me started. But it didn't keep me working." (Jane Fonda) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Growing up in the shadow of one of America's most famous actors would be intimidating for anyone, but few have emerged out of that shadow like Jane Fonda, the oldest daughter of screen legend Henry Fonda. In fact, when Jane costarred with her father in the last film he made, On Golden Pond, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for it.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Kitty Carlisle]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Lavina Jadhwani]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-24-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent at the same time." - Kitty Carlisle A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Kitty Carlisle surely stands as one of the most recognizable figures of the 20th century, but unlike major actors, actresses, and other artistic luminaries, however, Carlisle was not decorated so much for any specific performances. Instead, she came to embody the very face of art in the United States. To be sure, Carlisle maintained a successful singing and acting career, appearing in movies, television programs, quiz shows, and concerts (she continued to perform until the year before her death), but more than anything, Carlisle was a public intellectual, socialite, and supporter of the arts.
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]]>Title: The Grand Canyon]]>Subtitle: The History of America's Most Famous Natural Wonder]]>Categories: America, Ancient, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: John Gagnepain]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-23-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.... You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths." (John Wesley Powell Even) For those who have never seen it, the Grand Canyon is perhaps the most appreciated and remarkable feature of the American landscape. Indeed, the Grand Canyon has been amazing Americans since explorers first started venturing into the area in the mid-19th century. On one expedition, May Humphreys Stacey wrote in his journal of, "[A] wonderful canyon 4,000 feet deep.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of Mark Antony]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-23-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"And when my own Mark Antony Against young Caesar strove, And Rome's whole world was set in arms, The cause was, all for love." - Robert Southey, All for Love Mark Antony (83-50 B.C.) is one of the most unique and best known figures of antiquity, a man whose relationships with some of history's giants ensured his own legacy. A protégé of Julius Caesar's, a lover of Cleopatra's, a sworn enemy of Cicero's, and a foil for Octavian, Antony has long been remembered for the role he played in others' lives more than for his own accomplishments. Fittingly and ironically, Antony might be best remembered today for the words Shakespeare put in his mouth for Caesar's eulogy. While Antony's relationships with Rome's most famous leaders and history's most famous woman were central components in his lives, the fact that his legacy has been intertwined with them belies the fact that he was a powerful man in his own right.
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]]>Title: American Legends: Laurel & Hardy]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Peter D. Stover]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-22-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Mr. Hardy was beginning to forget things, but Mr. Laurel had no fear of losing his memory - as a matter of fact, Mr. Laurel never had a memory to lose." (Title card in Hog Wild) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. By the 1920s English comic Stan Laurel had been in dozens of films, and American Oliver Hardy had appeared in hundreds, but it was not until they formed a duo together in 1926 that they began to be noticed. Once they did, however, Laurel & Hardy became one of the most famous comedy teams in American history, with a career that spanned four decades and included over 100 combined shorts and feature films.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Billy Graham]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Religion, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-22-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith." (Billy Graham) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In the 21st century, Americans are intimately familiar with televangelists and preachers with national reputations, and their shows are ubiquitous, but in the middle of the 20th century, the phenomenon was popularized by the most famous evangelist in American history: Billy Graham. As biographer Grant Wacker put it, "By the middle 1960s, he had become the 'Great Legitimator'.... His presence conferred sanctity on events, authority on presidents, acceptability on wars, desirability on decency, [and] shame on indecency....
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Mary Pickford]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Lavina Jadhwani]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-22-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that." (Mary Pickford) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. At the end of the 20th century, the American Film Institute compiled a list of the 25 greatest actors and actresses in Hollywood over the past 100 years, but only a select few worked all the way back in the silent era of films, before "talkies" revolutionized the industry at the end of the 1920s.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Mickey Rooney]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Robert Diepenbrock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-22-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I was a 13 year old boy for 30 years." (Mickey Rooney) In 1939, the year of Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, Time magazine noted, "Hollywood's No. 1 box office bait in 1939 was not Clark Gable, Errol Flynn or Tyrone Power, but a rope-haired, kazoo-voiced kid with a comic-strip face, who until this week had never appeared in a picture without mugging or overacting it. His name (assumed) was Mickey Rooney, and to a large part of the more articulate U. S. cinema audience, his name was becoming a frequently used synonym for brat." At the same time, the fact that the peak of his success came when he was so young has helped obscure the fact that he has acted in 10 different decades. Rooney is one of the only actors who worked in the silent film era, yet he recently appeared in 2012's Last Will and Embezzlement. In the process Rooney has been awarded a Juvenile Academy Award, an Honorary Academy Award, two Golden Globes, and an Emmy Award.
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]]>Title: Kaiser Wilhelm II: The Life and Legacy of Germany's Emperor During World War I]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Germany, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: T. David Rutherford]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-22-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"You will be home before the leaves fall from the trees." (Kaiser Wilhelm II to German troops leaving for the front at the start of World War I) Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm II, who occupied the throne of the German Empire for more than 30 years from June 1888 to November 1918, remains as much an enigma in death as he was in life. Over 70 years after his death in 1941, the mention of his name still sparks unsettled debates among historians. Was he the duty-bound, hands-on leader and passionate pro-British reformer who ruled in challenging times, seemingly mild in comparison to Hitler? Or was he an inept, mentally imbalanced, and reckless seeker of attention? Was he even possibly a tragic hero who could only fail at his task given the complexities of his age? At the core of such diverse opinions are the contradictory assumptions found within the vast amount of scholarship that exists on the emperor and his era.
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]]>Title: Mary, Queen of Scots: The History and Legacy of Mary Stuart of Scotland]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Maria Chester]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-22-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Did I not tell you this would happen? I knew they would never allow me to live, I was too great an obstacle to their religion." - Mary, Queen of Scots The position in history of Mary Queen of Scots is a paradoxical one. Her fame as a monarch lies less in her personality or achievements than in her position within the dynastic maneuvers and political-religious upheavals taking place in northwest Europe in the 16th century. Most monarchs spend their early years learning in preparation to rule and then spend the latter part of their lives wielding power and status. Mary was thrust upon the throne when she was only a week old, and she ceased to be queen nearly 20 years before her death. Mary's was an unusual reign in a tumultuous period, and her tragedy was intertwined with her country's transformation. In Mary's case, she was a second cousin once removed of England's Queen Elizabeth I, which made her a rival for the throne.
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]]>Title: Legends of Hollywood: The Life of Richard Burton]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-22-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice." (Richard Burton) In the 1960s, the most popular actor in the world was Richard Burton, a hard-drinking Welshman who was nevertheless so professional that he was one of the preeminent stage performers of his day. In fact, he performed Shakespeare so magnificently that he was compared to British legend Laurence Olivier, and that success ultimately led to a film career that earned him seven Academy Award nominations, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for Best Actor. Given his accomplishments on the stage and in Hollywood, Burton became one of the world's most recognizable leading men, so it seemed fitting that he engaged in one of Hollywood's most legendary romances with Elizabeth Taylor while on the set of Cleopatra, one of the era's most notorious movies. In fact, his tumultuous relationship with Taylor, which included two marriages, dominated tabloids and remains the one thing most people associate with Burton today, despite the rest of his accomplishments. Burton's high-profile marriages to Taylor helped bring him attention, but they also led to more self-destructive behavior, and in a sense they represented the peak of Burton's career.
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]]>Title: The Temple of Solomon: The History of Jerusalem's First Jewish Temple]]>Categories: Ancient, Christianity, History, Judaism, Religious Study]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Winston Strobridge]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-22-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"In the 480th year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the Lord." (1 Kings 6:1) "In the year that king Uzziah died. I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, and his train filled the hekhal (sanctuary)." (Isaiah 6:1) There was not any one entity more central to the Yahwistic Judean religion during the monarchy than the temple of Solomon. It symbolized the presence of YHWH in the nation, as well as his enduring protection of the nation and the Davidic royal throne. Judean worshippers directed their prayers toward the Solomonic temple, and eventually, the Judean prophets and theologians declared that this was the only legitimate location where priests could perform sacrifices and other religious rites for YHWH.
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]]>Title: The Lighthouse of Alexandria]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of an Ancient Wonder of the World]]>Categories: Ancient, Egypt, History, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Maria Chester]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-22-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"At the harbor of Alexandria stands the tower called Pharos, the first wonder. It is held together by glass and lead and is 600 yards high." (Epiphanius the Monk) "The Pharos today is composed of four stages. The first, of a rectangular design, is remarkably built in rectangular cut stones, of which the joints are so well concealed that the whole seems to be formed of a single block of stone, remaining insensible to the ravages of time." (Al Bakri, a medieval traveler and writer) Over 2,000 years ago, two ancient writers named Antipater of Sidon and Philo of Byzantium authored antiquity's most well-known tour guides. After the two Greeks had traveled around the Mediterranean, they wrote of what they considered to be the classical world's greatest construction projects.
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]]>Title: The Rock of Chickamauga: The Life and Career of General George H. Thomas]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Philip Andrew Hodges]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-22-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"[Ulysses S. Grant and George H. Thomas deserve] monuments like those of Nelson and Wellington in London, well worthy to stand side by side with the one which now graces our capitol city of 'George Washington.'" - William Tecumseh Sherman One of the most unique and effective generals of the Civil War also happens to be one of the most overlooked. While there is a never ending stream of acclaim going to generals like Grant, Lee, and Sherman, General George H. Thomas has managed to fly under the radar, despite having an unusual background as a Southerner fighting for the Union and scoring almost inconceivable successes at Missionary Ridge, Franklin, and Nashville. Thomas also skillfully fought at Perryville, Stones River, and in Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. Despite all of those successes, however, Thomas is best remembered as "The Rock of Chickamauga". Thomas had one of the most stellar records of any officer in the war, was instrumental in the Union's ultimate victory in the Western theater, and scored the kinds of decisive victories that eluded more celebrated generals like Lee.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Stanley Kubrick]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-22-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"When I made my first film, I think the thing that probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination." - Stanley Kubrick There may be no director in American film history who was better able to combine commercial appeal with art-house style than Stanley Kubrick. As his career progressed, his films grew increasingly challenging, with slow, methodical plots that made for running times that spanned upwards of three hours. No matter how much Kubrick may have broken away from the standard 90-minute Hollywood fare and threatened to alienate his audience, there is no denying the special place his films hold in pop culture. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), and The Shining (1980) remain among the more widely loved films of the latter half of the 20th century among both critics and casual moviegoers alike.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Paul Newman]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Business]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Robin McKay]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-19-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play - characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am." (Paul Newman) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Over the course of his long film career, Paul Newman was one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood during his peak, and that was decades before he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Color of Money (1986), one of the eight times he was nominated for an Oscar.
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]]>Title: American Legends: Abbott and Costello]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Keith Peters]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-19-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you? But for 20 years as a professional team, Lou and I were closer than man and wife." - Bud Abbott "A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed." - Lou Costello Ironically, one of America's most famous comedy duos, and the performers of the country's most famous skit, came together in part because Lou Costello had already failed to cut it in the film industry. In fact, Costello had appeared in a Laurel and Hardy film in 1927 before meeting his partner, Bud Abbott, on the burlesque circuit in New York City. In fact, the two first performed together in 1935 only because Abbott filled in for Costello's usual partner, who happened to be ill one fateful day. The legendary comedy duo performed together for decades, and like similar acts, their popularity began to wane over time, but Abbott and Costello are still household names today.
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]]>Title: Ernest Hemingway & F. Scott Fitzgerald: America's Greatest 20th Century Novelists]]>Categories: America, Author, Biography, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gary Miller-Youst]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-19-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The 1920s in the United States were known as the "Roaring '20s" and the Jazz Age, a time in the nation that glorified hard and fast living. Nobody personified the age or wrote so descriptively about it better than F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), whose name became synonymous with the times after penning the epic The Great Gatsby. Along with his dazzling wife, Zelda, Fitzgerald was all too keen to play the role. When his writing made them celebrities, they were celebrated by the national press for being "young, seemingly wealthy, beautiful, and energetic." While Scott used their relationship as material in his novels, Zelda wrote herself, and she also strove to become a ballerina. However, the Fitzgeralds barely outlasted the '20s. Their hard living left Fitzgerald, a notorious alcoholic, in poor health by the '30s. Financially broke, he would die of a massive heart attack in 1940, by which time Zelda had already suffered various mental illnesses.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Orson Welles]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Diana Brown]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-19-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I have always been more interested in experiment than in accomplishment." (Orson Welles) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. When it comes to Hollywood and the entertainment industry, perhaps nobody catapulted to fame as quickly or as strangely as Orson Welles, but it would also be safe to say that few produced such critically acclaimed work either. Though he had worked on stage productions from an early age and seamlessly transitioned into radio, few were familiar with his work until a legendary 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, during which some people who heard Welles narrating the work truly believed that an alien invasion was underway.
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]]>Title: Queen Elizabeth II: The Life and Legacy of Britain's Second Longest Reigning Monarch]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Lavina Jadhwani]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-18-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"When I was 21 I pledged my life to the service of our people, and I asked for God's help to make good that vow. Although that vow was made in my salad days, when I was green in judgement, I do not regret nor retract one word of it." (Elizabeth II) Until the implementation of new legislation on March 26, 2015, men were given preference to women in the British royal line. This system of male primogeniture meant that women seldom inherited the throne, and even when they did, they were often dominated by male councilors. Those women who married British kings gained the title of queen, but they were queen consorts, holding the title with no power. This makes Elizabeth II one of a select few queens regnant - queens ruling in their own right - and one of even fewer to set her own course in the history of her family and its throne. Nonetheless, Queen Elizabeth II has become so much a part of British society and culture that her presence is taken almost for granted, setting the standard people now expect of a British monarch.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of P.T. Barnum]]>Categories: America, Biography, Business, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Johanna Oosterwyk]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-18-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I was a farmhand, a merchant, a clerk, a boss, a theater director, and a bank director; I lived in prisons and palaces, I knew poverty and abundance, I've traveled extensively on two continents, I've met all kinds of people and seen the human character in all its guises, and time and again I have been in the greatest danger. Amidst such a diversity of events, I had to undergo difficult times, but I'm definitely not complaining, and I believe that my life was a happy one, because I always saw the positive side of things." (P.T. Barnum) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Americans have loved traveling circuses for generations, and none represents the country's love of entertainment quite like the most famous of them all, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated History of the Vikings]]>Categories: Biography, Exploration, For Children, History, Medieval]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Beth Kesler]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-18-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Over the centuries the West has become fascinated by the Vikings, one of the most mysterious and interesting European civilizations. In addition to being perceived as a remarkably unique culture among its European counterparts, what's known and not known about the Vikings' accomplishments has added an intriguing aura to the historical narrative. Were they fierce and fearsome warriors? Were they the first Europeans to visit North America? It seems some of the legends are true, and some are just that - legends. The commonly used term, Viking, for the trading and raiding peoples of Scandinavia, may have originated from Viken (the large bay leading to Oslo), or it may have come from the Old Scandinavian words vikingr (sea warrior) or viking (expedition over the sea).
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]]>Title: Gamal Abdel Nasser: The Life and Legacy of Egypt's Second President]]>Categories: Biography, Egypt, Head of State, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Robin McKay]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-18-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood.... In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established." (Nasser) Gamal Abdel Nasser has been called many things. The father of modern-day Egypt. The founder of Arab nationalism. The leader of the Egyptian Revolution. The second president of the Egyptian Republic. The creator of his own brand of political and social governance - Nasserism. Anthony Eden, the former British prime minister, called him the "Mussolini of the Nile." Nasser was all of these things and much more. Indeed he led the revolution that overthrew the monarchy of Egypt and subsequently shaped and led the new Egyptian government. He became a prominent regional and world leader, playing a significant role in the Non-Alignment Movement that he cofounded, formed during the midst of the Cold War. He led his country toward modernization and industrialization, implementing social and economic reforms focused on strengthening the nation and improving the lives of the people.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Johnny Carson]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Stacy Hinkle]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-18-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself." (Johnny Carson) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Among America's comedians, few - if any - have had the kind of influence on pop culture and society like Johnny Carson, the iconic host of The Tonight Show from 1962-1992.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Natalie Wood]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Nicholas S. Johnson]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-17-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Stardom is only a byproduct of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing." (Natalie Wood) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Few actresses have ever gotten the kind of career start that Natalie Wood did during the 1950s. After appearing in film and on TV as a child, Wood broke out by appearing in the classic Rebel Without a Cause alongside James Dean in 1955, despite the fact she was still just 15 years old. She earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for that role, one of three Academy Award nominations she would rack up before the age of 25. That included starring in Splendor in the Grass (1961), West Side Story (1961), and Gypsy (1962).
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Indigenous]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Russell Stamets]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-17-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Our fathers gave us many laws, which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good. They told us to treat all people as they treated us; that we should never be the first to break a bargain; that it was a disgrace to tell a lie; that we should speak only the truth; that it was a shame for one man to take another's wife, or his property, without paying for it." (Chief Joseph) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. When he died in 1904, most Americans who knew his people's story considered Chief Joseph, whose Nez Percé name is Himahtooyahlatkekt ("Thunder Rolling Down from the Mountains"), a military genius and an "Indian Napoleon".
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Burt Lancaster]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Charles McKibben]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-17-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the 1940s, there were few actors who personified the all-American look like Burt Lancaster, who set Hollywood ablaze quickly with performances in movies like The Killers, The Flame and the Arrow, and The Crimson Pirate. Indeed, his status as a heartthrob was cemented by 1953's From Here to Eternity, when he and Deborah Kerr shot a romantic scene on a Hawaiian beach that ensured the film's inclusion in the American Film Institute's Top 100 Romantic Films of the 20th century. As it turned out, however, that was just the first phase in a critically acclaimed career that would span over 40 years. As Lancaster grew older, he wisely veered away from the early kinds of roles he had as a leading man and branched out into more distinguished roles that were also more challenging, earning him brand new levels of acclaim. In time, he would go on to be nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Actor, including a win for Elmer Gantry (1960) when he was in his late 40s. By the time he was finished, the American Film Institute named him 19th on its list of the 50 best actors of the 20th century.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Bible: The Life and Legacy of the Prophet Jeremiah]]>Categories: Biography, Christianity, History, Religion, Spirituality]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kelly Rhodes]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-17-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"And when your people say, 'Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?' you shall say to them, 'As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.'" (Jeremiah 5:19) The belief in prophets is as old as religion itself, and the tradition of prophets is especially prevalent in Judaism and Christianity, with prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah being among the most famous historical figures in the Bible. God had prophets like Jeremiah perform symbolic acts that foretold future events, particularly hardships that the Israelites suffered at the hands of the Babylonians and Egyptians. The abilities of the prophets to predict future events have become the primary ways in which contemporary society remembers them, which has ensured that the term prophet (which meant "spokesman" in Hebrew) is now part of the lexicon and means something far different from the ancient definitions.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of King Nebuchadnezzar II]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Doron Alon]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-17-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Alongside Hammurabi, Nebuchadnezzar II is remembered as one of Ancient Babylon's most influential kings. Nearly 1,000 years after his famous predecessor, Nebuchadnezzar oversaw the expansion of the Neo-Babylonian Empire during the seventh and sixth centuries BC, which placed him in conflict with Egypt and the ancient kingdom of Judah. His ruthless conquest of Judah resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and the entire kingdom, and it ultimately earned him notoriety in the Old Testament, where he is mentioned in the books of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. In addition to being depicted in the Bible, Nebuchadnezzar was well known among ancient historians and contemporary writers because of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the ancient wonders of the world. According to ancient accounts, Nebuchadnezzar constructed the Hanging Gardens for his homesick wife by creating terraced and cultivated orchards that were built over a series of buildings made of glazed ceramic. An estimated several thousands of gallons of water was drawn from a reservoir through a network of reeds and bricks, held together by asphalt and cement, with lead used as a sealant. The Gardens were built on a citadel 80 feet high, with walls 22 feet thick.
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]]>Title: Vladimir Putin: The Controversial Life of Russia's President]]>Categories: Biography, Head of State, History, Politician]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Daniel F Purcell]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-17-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"There is no such thing as a former KGB man." (Vladimir Putin) Despite serving as the president of Russia from 2000 to 2008 following Boris Yeltsin's regime, and again since the spring of 2012, remarkably little is known of enigmatic former KGB spy Vladimir Putin,other than the most mainstream life statistics and some minimally revealing fragments of memoirs and anecdotal observations. Putin has served as Russia's Prime Minister as well, in a calculated political tango with Dmitri Medvedev for the purpose of overcoming term limits for the Russian presidency, thereby allowing him to remain a dominant politician well into the 21st century. Putin rose to power in 1999, when Boris Yeltsin dismissed his entire cabinet and fourth prime minister in 17 months, Sergy Stapashin. Fearing that he might be prosecuted once out of office, the exhausted outgoing president drew upon the most loyal resource he had by bringing Lieutenant-Colonel Putin, a former Soviet intelligence agent, out of the remnants of the KGB and into the new intelligence network, the Federal Security Service, before offering him leadership of the Kremlin.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln]]>Categories: Biography, For Children, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Heather Masters]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-16-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the country's most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the "Westerner" who educated himself and became a self-made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before becoming the 16th president of the United States. Lincoln successfully navigated the Union through the Civil War but didn't live to witness his crowning achievement, becoming the first president assassinated when he was shot at Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. It's possible that the world would have remembered Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882) only because she was the wife of one of America's greatest presidents and present for his shocking assassination, but Mary was one of the most unique women to ever be first lady, and she was in the White House during the country's most trying time.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Katharine Hepburn]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Cira Larkin]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-16-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Early in her career, there was no actress more controversial than Katharine Hepburn. By the end of her career, there was no actress more beloved than Katharine Hepburn. Famously labeled "box office poison" in 1938, it is clear that Hollywood was not prepared for the young Hepburn. Yet, even after being scorned by the general public, Hepburn still retained a magnetism that would endear her to the public for decades to come, and after a tumultuous first decade as an actress, Hepburn became arguably the biggest box office sensation in the industry. Moreover, in an era when most actresses were unable to secure starring roles after reaching middle age, Hepburn remained a leading lady even after turning 60. Hepburn acted in some capacity from the start of the 1930s through the early-1990s, and it is important to view how the nature of Hepburn's roles changed from her youth to old age.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Louisa May Alcott]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Female Protagonist]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Diane Lehman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-15-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us." - Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) was one of the best authors of her day, but even though she's remembered primarily for being a late 19th century novelist, she was also a progressive Transcendentalist. Though Alcott is not as well-known as writers like Thoreau and Emerson, and she lacked the advocacy work of women like Susan B. Anthony, she used her pen to help push for change on the foremost social issues of the day, including gender equality and abolition. Alcott managed to make semi-autobiographical works popular among audiences of all ages. Her most critically acclaimed work is Little Women with the protagonists modeled after Alcott and her sisters. The book was both breezy but serious, offering a glimpse at the various aspects of life for 19th century women coming of age. One contemporary reviewer called Little Women "the very best of books to reach the hearts of the young of any age from six to 60."
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]]>Title: The Start of the Civil War]]>Subtitle: The Secession of the South, Fort Sumter, and First Bull Run (First Manassas)]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Orders]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-15-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The secession of the South was one of the seminal events in American history, but it also remains one of the most controversial. The election of Abraham Lincoln was the impetus for secession, but that was merely one of many events that led up to the formation of the Confederacy and the start of the Civil War. On December 20, a little more than a month after Republican Abraham Lincoln had been elected the 16th president, a convention met in Charleston and passed the first ordinance of secession by one of the states, declaring, "We, the people of the State of South Carolina in convention assembled, do declare and ordain.... That the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of 'the United States of America', is hereby dissolved." In January 1861, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Kansas followed South Carolina's lead, and the Confederate States of America was formed on February 4 in Montgomery, Alabama, with former Secretary of War Jefferson Davis inaugurated as its president. A few weeks later, Texas joined. The Confederacy's hope of being let go in peace ended at 4:30 a.m.
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]]>Title: British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Laurence Olivier]]>Categories: Biography, Celebrity, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-12-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness." (Laurence Olivier) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' British Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of Britain's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Of all the great actors of the 20th century, none personifies acting royalty more than Laurence Olivier. Some of this is simply due to the fact that he was actually knighted in 1947, along with a lengthy list of other honors that include being named a life peer in 1970 and admission to the Order of Merit in 1984.
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]]>Title: Legendary Philosophers: The Life and Philosophy of Plato]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Europe, Greece]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: W.B. Ward]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-12-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day." - Plato, The Republic A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? Among all the knowledge and pursuits handed down by our ancestors, few were as important as philosophy, which literally taught people how to think and became directly responsible for ideas like reason and empiricism. Men like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle formed the backbone of Western philosophy, and subsequent philosophers like Marcus Aurelius and Thomas Aquinas expounded on previous philosophy.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Farrah Fawcett]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tom McElroy]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-12-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"TV had much more impact back in the '70s than it does today. Charlie's Angels got huge numbers every week - nothing really dominates the television landscape like that today. Now there are so many channels and so many more shows it's hard for anything to get the audience, or amount of attention, that Charlie's Angels got. Farrah was a major TV star when the medium was clearly dominant." - Larry King The sensation that Farrah Fawcett caused in the 1970s can be confirmed by the fact that TIME magazine designated her as the "epitome of '70s glamour". Indeed, there was no actress or supermodel that so comprehensively captured the attention of the American public during that decade. Her career accomplishments are remarkable, considering Fawcett did not emerge into the cultural spotlight until halfway through the decade. Whereas most famous celebrities earn a reputation for themselves by their mid-20s, Fawcett did not become a household name until 1977, when she was already 30 years of age.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Jack Nicholson]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: James Yi]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-12-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor." - Jack Nicholson In 1994, the American Film Institute gave a Lifetime Achievement Award to Jack Nicholson, who became one of the youngest actors to ever receive the award. It was a fitting choice, given that Nicholson was already one of the most decorated and critically acclaimed actors in the history of Hollywood. Such tributes typically come as a capstone to a star's career, not when the actor is still in his 50s. In fact, Nicholson would go on to win the Oscar for Best Actor just a few years after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award as a result of As Good As It Gets (1997), and he would earn another Academy Award nomination for About Schmidt (2002).
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]]>Title: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial]]>Subtitle: The History of Washington D.C.'s Vietnam War Monument]]>Categories: Adventure, America, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Robert Diepenbrock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-12-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Before the Vietnam War, most Americans would have been hard pressed to locate Vietnam on a map. War broke out between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam around the end of the '50s. Kennedy's administration tried to prop up the South Vietnamese with training and assistance, but the South Vietnamese military was feeble. Johnson sent fewer than 5,000 Marines to Vietnam in early 1965, but he quickly upped it to 200,000 by the end of the year. There was no going back. By the end of the decade, Vietnam had left tens of thousands of Americans dead, spawned a counterculture with millions of protesters, and destroyed a presidency. And more was still yet to come. The Vietnam War remains one of the most controversial events in American history, and it bitterly divided the nation. It is somewhat ironic that the most famous monument commemorating the war is also on one of the most serene spots in the nation's capital. The Vietnam Wall is a place of almost eerie silence where even children cease their chatter.
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]]>Title: Apollo 11: The History and Legacy of the First Moon Landing]]>Categories: America, History, Science, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bob Barton]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-12-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"10, 9, ignition sequence start, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, zero. All engines running. Liftoff! We have a liftoff! Thirty-two minutes past the hour. Liftoff on Apollo 11!" Jack King, NASA Chief of Public Information At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, time stood still throughout the world as thousands converged on the Kennedy Space Center and millions tuned in on live television. At that instant, the first rumbles began to shake the ground, as a small spacecraft attached to the giant Saturn V rocket several hundred feet tall started lifting off. Apollo 11 was on its way to a historic first landing on the Moon. Apollo 11's trip to the Moon may have started on that day in 1969, but the journey had begun over a decade earlier as part of the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union. While landing on the Moon was a noble goal proposed as early as 1961 by President Kennedy, NASA and the nation as a whole moved with urgency simply to best the Soviet Union. Over the decade, NASA would spend tens of billions on the Apollo missions, the most expensive peacetime program in American history to that point.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of Nero]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Doron Alon]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-12-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"What an artist dies with me!" (Attributed to Nero just before his suicide) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' Legends of the Ancient World series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of antiquity's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Throughout the annals of history, there have been few figures as reviled as Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, better known as Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, or more simply, Nero. Even today, he remains one of the Roman Empire's most famous - or notorious - figures, a villain whose impact on popular culture is so vast that his name crops up consistently, to this day, in literature, film, TV, and mediums as unlikely as video games and anime. Nero ranks among the very worst of the caesars, alongside the likes of mad Caligula, slothful Commodus, and paranoid Domitian.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt]]>Categories: America, Biography, Business, Economic]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-12-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead." (Cornelius Vanderbilt) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The Gilded Age and the dawn of the 20th century is often remembered as an era full of monopolies, trusts, and economic giants in heavy industries like oil and steel. Men like Andrew Carnegie built empires like Carnegie Steel and financiers like JP Morgan merged and consolidated them. The era also made names like Astor, Cooke, and Vanderbilt instantly recognizable across the globe.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Mel Brooks]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: MJ McGalliard]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-12-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively." (Mel Brooks) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. One of the more well-known Mel Brooks quips is his statement, in reference to his birth, that "we were so poor, my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me." While obviously fabricated, the story is worthy of note, as it illustrates Brooks' self-deprecatory Jewish humor and his way of transforming a childhood of deep adversity into fodder for comedy. This is, of course, one among many famous Mel Brooks remarks, and over his decades-long career Brooks has built a veritable treasure chest of them.
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]]>Title: Legendary Philosophers: The Life and Philosophy of Aristotle]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Europe, Greece]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: W. B. Ward]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-12-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"All men, by nature, desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer sight to almost everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings to light many differences between things." (Aristotle, Metaphysics) Among all the knowledge and pursuits handed down by our ancestors, few were as important as philosophy, which literally taught people how to think and became directly responsible for ideas like reason and empiricism. Men like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle formed the backbone of Western philosophy, and subsequent philosophers like Marcus Aurelius and Thomas Aquinas expounded on previous philosophy.
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]]>Title: The Hammer of the Scots]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Edward Longshanks' Conquest of Scotland]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gabrielle Byrne]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-12-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"By God, Sir Earl, either go or hang." - Edward Longshanks From their very beginnings, England and Scotland fought each other. Emerging as unified nations from the early medieval period, their shared border and related aristocracy created endless causes of conflict. Every century from the 11th to the 16th was colored by such violence, and there were periods when not a decade went by without some act of violence marring the peace. Out of all of this, the most bitterly remembered conflict is Edward I's invasion during the late 13th century. Eventually beaten back after Edward's death at the famous Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, this was the period of some of Scotland's greatest national heroes, including William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. It still resonates in the Scottish national memory, all the more so following its memorable but wildly inaccurate depiction in the 1995 film Braveheart, which had Scottish audiences cheering in cinemas. Though the fondly remembered heroes of this war are Scottish, the man who defined it was an English monarch, a man whose ruthless efficiency and brutality would earn him the title Hammer of the Scots. This was, for better or for worse, Edward I's war.
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]]>Title: French Legends: The Life and Legacy of Jean-Paul Marat]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, France, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-11-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"People, give thanks to the gods! Your most redoubtable enemy has fallen beneath the scythe of Fate." (Jean-Paul Marat) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' French series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of France's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. King Louis XVI gave the French Revolution a scapegoat. Robespierre gave the French Revolution a leader. And Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793) gave the French Revolution a voice. One of the most memorable and notorious revolutionaries, Marat became one of the Revolution's best-known figures through his speeches, writings, and scathing attacks on everyone he perceived as, "[E]nemies of the revolution". It's possible that the Jacobins might not have come to power in 1793 without Marat's fiery work championing the lower classes and branding his political foes with the harshest demagoguery.
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]]>Title: French Legends: The Life and Legacy of Maximilien Robespierre]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, France, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-11-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Citizens, did you want a revolution without a revolution?" (Maximilien Robespierre) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' French series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of France's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In many ways it is fitting that Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) is one of the best known figures of the French Revolution, if not its most famous. The early years of the Revolution were fueled by Enlightenment ideals, seeking the social overthrow of the caste system that gave the royalty and aristocracy decisive advantages over the lower classes.
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]]>Title: The Transatlantic Slave Trade: The History and Legacy of the System that Brought Slaves to the New World]]>Categories: America, Colonialism, Europe, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Otey]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-11-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The deck, that is the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughter-house. It is not in the power of the human imagination to picture a situation more dreadful or disgusting. Numbers of the slaves having fainted, they were carried upon deck where several of them died and the rest with great difficulty were restored. It had nearly proved fatal to me also." - Dr. Alexander Falconbridge, an 18th century British surgeon The sail linked the continents of Africa and America, and thus it was also the sail that facilitated the greatest involuntary human migration of all time. There can be no doubt that even though large numbers of indigenous Africans were liable, it was European ingenuity and greed that fundamentally drove the industrialization of the Transatlantic slave trade in response to massive new market demands created by their equally ruthless exploitation of the Americas. In time, the Atlantic slave trade provided for the labor requirements of the emerging plantation economies of the New World. It was a specific, dedicated and industrial enterprise wherein huge profits were at stake.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Steve McQueen]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Todd Van Linda]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-11-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I live for myself and I answer to nobody." - Steve McQueen A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In the 1960s and 1970s, no actor personified cool, calm and collected like Steve McQueen, whose suave anti-hero protagonists made men jealous and women swoon. As actor Donald Logue puts it in The Tao of Steve, "Steve is the prototypical cool American male. He's the guy on his horse, the guy alone. He has his own code of honor, his own code of ethics, his own rules of living. He never, ever tries to impress the women, but he always gets the girl." And indeed, that was the case not only in movies like The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, The Getaway, and Papillon, but also in real life.
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]]>Title: Anwar Sadat: The Life and Legacy of the Egyptian President]]>Categories: Biography, Egypt, History, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Robin McKay]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On a beautiful sunny day in March 1979, as thousands of Egyptians awaited in anticipation, a plane landed in Cairo. Moments later, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat stepped out, welcomed by thunderous cheers from an overjoyed crowd. He had just returned to his country from Washington D.C., where five days earlier he had signed a historic treaty with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and U.S. President Jimmy Carter, bringing an end to three decades of war and hostilities between Israelis and Egyptians. Egypt had good reason to celebrate the treaty. Since 1948, the country joined other Arab states and went to war with Israel on four occasions: the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the 1956 War, the 1967 Six-Day War, and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. All were ultimately unsuccessful in fully defeating Israel, and Egypt, of all the Arab states, experienced the heaviest losses, both in human casualties and financially. It was Sadat's deep-seated resolve and the will of the Egyptian people that forged the path to the unprecedented normalization of relations between Israel and an Arab country. Together with Begin, Sadat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 for their efforts in negotiating the peace treaty.
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]]>Title: The Greatest Battles in History: The Battle of Actium]]>Categories: Ancient, Egypt, History, Middle East, Rome]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Doron Alon]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The names of history's most famous battles still ring in our ears today, their influence immediately understood by all. Marathon lent its name to the world's most famous race, but it also preserved Western civilization during the First Persian War. Saratoga, won by one of the colonists' most renowned war heroes before he became his nation's most vile traitor. Hastings ensured the Normans' success in England and changed the course of British history. Waterloo, which marked the reshaping of the European continent and Napoleon's doom, has now become part of the English lexicon. In Charles River Editors' Greatest Battles in History series, listeners can get caught up to speed on history's greatest battles in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Every era has watershed moments that shape the arc of history, and for Ancient Rome, few were as decisive or monumental as the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. The battle's importance is understandable given the stakes and people involved; Actium pitted the joint navies of Cleopatra and Mark Antony against the battle fleet of Octavian.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of Pericles]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Europe, Greece]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D. Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true." - Pericles In conjunction with the founding of democracy, Athens ushered in the "Golden Age" of the Ancient Greeks. This saw the invention or mastery of everything from mathematics and engineering to philosophy and art. Among the Athenians, none were as influential as Pericles, the West's first great statesman. Leading Athens for upwards of 40 years between the Second Persian War and the Peloponnesian War, Pericles has become an idealized figure over the last millennia, but he was a polarizing figure among his contemporaries. According to some, he was an honest and upstanding politician, while for others he was the lowest kind of demagogue. They thought he was a political opportunist whose ability to wriggle free of criticism was best summed up by the typically pithy comment of his rival Thucydides (not to be confused by the famous historian of the same name, one of the main sources for Pericles's life).
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]]>Title: Legends of the Renaissance: The Life and Legacy of Niccolo Machiavelli]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Politician]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kelly Rhodes]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The assumptions of the entire Western political tradition from Plato onward were called into question by a generation of radical thinkers, of whom the greatest and most radical was Niccolò Machiavelli." (James Hankins) "No epitaph can match so great a name," reads the inscription on Niccolò Machiavelli's tomb in the church of Santa Croce in Florence. Such praise of the notorious author of The Prince, the "teacher of evil" according to Leo Strauss, may seem misplaced to those with only a passing knowledge of one of history's most famous political philosophers and theorists. Ever since Machiavelli penned his 1513 treatise on princely rule and the politics of reality, a work that infamously advises rulers to abandon virtue and morality when necessary, his name has been synonymous with deceit, duplicity, and amoral pragmatism. In 1559 the text was unsurprisingly registered in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Catholic Church's list of banned books, on the grounds of immorality.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Sitting Bull]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Indigenous]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent 10,000 men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?" (Sitting Bull) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In 1872, during a fight along the Yellowstone River between US troops protecting railroad workers and Sioux warriors, one of the Sioux did something both unusual and inspiring.
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]]>Title: Teotihuacan]]>Subtitle: The History of Ancient Mesoamerica's Largest City]]>Categories: America, Ancient, Civilization, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On January 31, AD 378, a massive army arrived at the gates of the city of Tikal, one of the ancient Maya's most important settlements on the Yucatan Peninsula. The events that transpired became known by the Spanish name Entrada (Entry), referring to "the entry of Teotihuacan". While there is no clear record of the events due to the sheer scale of destruction that took place, it's clear that neither Tikal nor the Maya as a whole had ever seen anything like it. These foreign soldiers not only conquered, but also subsequently ruled Tikal, despite the fact they had come from Teotihuacan, located about 630 miles (1,013 kilometers) away. In the process, the Teotihuacanos not only changed Tikal, but the direction of the Mayan civilization for centuries to come. At the time, Teotihuacan was the biggest city in South America and was located in the Valley of Mexico, near today's Mexico City. Thriving between AD 100-750, it was one of the largest cities in the ancient world, with a population estimated at upwards of 150,000-250,000, over three times the size of contemporary Mayan capitals.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Dred Scott and the Dred Scott Decision]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Stahr]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The question is simply this: Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this country, and sold as slaves, become a member of the political community formed and brought into existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as such become entitled to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guarantied by that instrument to the citizen? " (Dred Scott v. Sanford) Dred Scott was an unlikely candidate to become the impetus and rallying cry of a brand-new political party in the mid-19th century. Born into slavery in Virginia as Sam Scott, the young slave took the name of his older brother, Dred, after Dred's death. He moved throughout Southern slave states as property of the Blow family until he was sold to US Army doctor John Emerson in St. Louis, Missouri. Emerson's commission in the army eventually brought him to the Wisconsin Territory in 1836, which was north of the line established by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and was thus free territory where slavery was illegal.
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]]>Title: President Kennedy Fights the Cold War]]>Subtitle: The Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Cynthia O'Brien]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Within just a month of becoming president, the issue of Communist Cuba became central to John F. Kennedy and his administration. On February 3, 1961, President Kennedy called for a plan to support Cuban refugees in the US. A month later, he created the Peace Corps, a program that trained young American volunteers to help with economic and community development in poor countries. Both programs were integral pieces of the Cold War. They were attempts to align disadvantaged groups abroad with the United State and the West against the Soviet Union and its communist satellites. Meanwhile, covert operations were laying the groundwork for overthrowing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and he knew it. Castro railed against CIA involvement among Cubans who were trying to overthrow him and his still-young revolution. Matters came to a head that April, when the Kennedy Administration moved beyond soft measures to direct action. From April 17-20, 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles landed on the beaches of Western Cuba in an attempt to overthrow Castro. This plan, known as the "Bay of Pigs", had originally been drafted by the Eisenhower Administration.
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]]>Title: Plato and Aristotle: The Lives and Legacies of the Master and Pupil]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Europe, Greece]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: W. B. Ward]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day." (Plato, The Republic) "All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer sight to almost everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings to light many differences between things." (Aristotle, Metaphysics) Over 2,300 years after their deaths, Plato and Aristotle remain the most influential ancient Greek philosophers and arguably the greatest icons of ancient thought.
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]]>Title: The Great Barrier Reef]]>Subtitle: The History of the World's Largest Coral Reef]]>Categories: Australasia, Biology, Environment, Exploration]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jamie Ecklund]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand[s] of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors." (Antony Garrett List) People have always loved to build things, whether it's a feat of engineering in an underground subway or the construction of the world's tallest skyscraper. Thus, it's somewhat ironic that the largest structure ever built was not made by humans, but by incredibly tiny organisms known as coral polyps. Over the course of tens of thousands of years, these small organisms have put together a collection of nearly 3,000 reefs that form a collective stretching across 130,000 square miles. It is often mistakenly claimed that the Great Wall of China can be seen in space, but it's absolutely true that the enormous Great Barrier Reef is visible. The sheer size of the Great Barrier Reef is mind boggling, but its importance extends far past its physical extent. Put simply, the Great Barrier Reef is one of the most beautiful spots on the planet, offering kaleidoscopic colors thanks to the coral and the species that call it home.
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]]>Title: Mahatma Gandhi: The Life and Legacy of the Father of India]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott R. Pollak]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"In judging myself I shall try to be as harsh as truth, as I want others also to be." (Gandhi) "I am not pleading for India to practice nonviolence because it is weak. I want her to practice nonviolence being conscious of her strength and power." (Gandhi) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, or Mahatma Gandhi as he is more popularly known, was called "Mahatma", or "great soul", not only because of his extraordinary achievements as leader of the Indian independence movement, but also because of his beliefs, practices, and principles, which demonstrated to the world the depths that one's soul could have. Widely considered the father of India, the preeminent leader of the Indian struggle against British imperialism, and one of the most influential minds of the 20th century, Gandhi emerged to become one of the greatest advocates of peace and nonviolent resistance that the world has known.
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]]>Title: The Greatest Battles in History: The Battle of Trafalgar]]>Categories: Europe, France, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: James McSorley]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Over the course of its history, England has engaged in an uncountable number of battles, but only a select few have been celebrated like the Battle of Trafalgar, one of the most important naval battles in history. Before the battle Napoleon still harbored dreams of sailing an invasive force across the English Channel and subduing England, but they were dashed on October 21, 1805, by a British fleet that was outnumbered and outgunned. That morning Admiral Horatio Nelson's fleet, 27 strong, bore down on the Franco-Spanish fleet, approaching at right angles in two columns. French Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve's disposition was conventional: a single line of battle, ill formed due to the very light winds and the poor seamanship of many of the crews. Traditional naval warfare strategies called for approaching an enemy fleet in one line and then creating a parallel line that allowed as many guns to fire as possible. At the same time, that kind of line allowed admirals to signal during battle and made retreating in an orderly fashion easier.
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]]>Title: The Borgias: The Lives and Legacies of Rodrigo, Cesare, and Lucrezia Borgia]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Joseph Chialastri]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-09-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Alexander never did what he said. Cesare never said what he did." (Italian proverb) The stories and legends attributed to the Borgias have made them one of the most notorious families in history. Five hundred years after their deaths, they have come to be associated more with incest, political intrigue, murder, and state-sponsored violence. While 21st-century TV series have cast the Borgias as the first organized crime family, the rumors spread by the family's political opponents in the late 15th century have taken hold among a fascinated public. Did Cesare really have an incestuous relationship with sister Lucrezia? Did the pope really throw lavish orgies? While Rodrigo may not have been as colorful or criminal as the enduring legends, there is no question he was manipulative, ruthless and ultimately effective. From an administrative standpoint, Rodrigo was a success as Pope Alexander VI, with a big assist from son Cesare. In one of the most famous political treatises in history, Niccolo Machiavelli famously advised those who hold power that it is better to be feared than loved. The world has always had a fascination with femme fatales, and few historical women have ever been portrayed as one quite like Lucrezia Borgia.
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]]>Title: The Cuban Missile Crisis: 13 Days That Brought the Cold War to the Brink]]>Categories: America, History, Russia, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Cynthia O'Brien]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-09-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." (President John F. Kennedy, June 1963) When young president Kennedy came to power in 1961, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was eager to test his mettle from the start. Khrushchev's belief that he could push the inexperienced American leader around grew in the wake of the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the inconclusive Vienna summit in June 1961 that left Kennedy complaining to his brother, Bobby, that Khrushchev was "like dealing with Dad. All give and no take." After the events of the previous year, 1962 saw Khrushchev making his most bellicose decision. Still questioning Kennedy's resolve and attempting to placate the concerns of Cuban leader Fidel Castro following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Khrushchev attempted to place medium-range nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles off the coast of the United States. Though Castro warned him that it would seem like an act of aggression to the Americans, Khrushchev insisted, moving the missiles in quietly under the cover of darkness.
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]]>Title: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope: The Golden Era of Hollywood's Most Popular Show Business Stars]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Marvel]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-09-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it." (Bob Hope) "I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the 20th century that have made giant strides in reverse." (Bing Crosby) In 1948 American polls rated Bing Crosby "the most admired man alive", and it's no surprise given how popular he was across every major form of entertainment during the decade. With a string of major hits, Crosby was the most popular singer in the country during that era. And as good as he was at singing, Crosby's work with radio technology helped pave the way for multitracking songs and making it possible to broadcast the same radio programs across the country without cutting another live version. All told, Crosby sold an estimated 500 million records in the 20th century. In addition to being one of America's most beloved singers and an accomplished radio presence, Crosby not only made popular movies but acted well enough to be critically acclaimed. His Road To...
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]]>Title: Legendary Explorers: The Life and Legacy of Christopher Columbus]]>Categories: America, Biography, Exploration, Explorer]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-09-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"At two o'clock in the morning the land was discovered.... As I saw that they were very friendly to us, and perceived that they could be much more easily converted to our holy faith by gentle means than by force, I presented them with some red caps and strings of beads to wear upon the neck and many other trifles of small value, wherewith they were much delighted and became wonderfully attached to us." (Christopher Columbus' diary, October 11-12, 1492) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? The Age of Exploration and the explorers who set out on their history-making expeditions left many legacies and profoundly influenced history around the world. The voyages of men like Columbus and the conquests of men like Cortes escalated tensions between the European nations, initiated imperialistic empires on a global scale, helped birth the United States, and ensured that the wars in the 20th century were truly world wars.
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]]>Title: The Greatest Civil War Battles: The Siege of Petersburg]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Keith Peters]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-09-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible." - President Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant, August 1864 After the last major pitched battle of the Overland Campaign was fought at Cold Harbor in early June, Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac had suffered more casualties during the campaign than Robert E. Lee had in his entire Army of Northern Virginia at the start of May. Understandably, the American public was shocked by the carnage, and to this day Grant has been accused of being a butcher, but attrition had become a vital war aim for the North, and Grant remained undeterred. Refusing to attack Lee in frontal assaults, and aware that Lee dared not venture out to counterattack, Grant nearly captured Richmond in mid-June by stealing a march on Lee's army and crossing the James River. The fog of war, poor luck, and a skillful impromptu defense by P.G.T.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Shirley MacLaine]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Karin Allers]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-09-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Over the course of a career that spanned several decades and ranged from the stage to movies and television, Shirley MacLaine has been one of the most critically acclaimed actresses in America. After first being nominated for an Oscar in Some Came Running (1958), when she was still just in her mid-20s, she was nominated for two more for The Apartment (1960) and Irma la Douce (1963), all before she turned 30. Ironically, she won her first Academy Award for producing a documentary about her 1973 trip to China, and she finally won the Academy Award for Best Actress by playing a mother seeking to reconnect with her daughter in Terms of Endearment (1983), a full 25 years after earning her first nomination.
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]]>Title: Legendary Explorers: The Life and Legacy of Captain John Smith]]>Categories: Adventure, America, Biography, Colonialism]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Christopher Hudspeth]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-09-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land.... If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich." (Captain John Smith) John Smith is one of the most common names in the English language and akin to the use of John Doe, but every Briton and American is familiar with the explorer and mercenary Captain John Smith, who helped found the first permanent British colony in the New World, at Jamestown, in 1607. From there, he went on to become the first Englishman to explore New England, and it was Smith who named the Chesapeake Bay. He wrote several accounts of his exploration and his time spent in the New World, becoming one of the first and most invaluable primary sources on European settlement in North America. In America, John Smith is better known for his association with Pocahontas, a Native American princess. She was the daughter of the paramount chief (mamanatowick) Powhatan, leader of an Algonquian-speaking native group in eastern Virginia. It was this group that Smith and the other English settlers came into contact with, and Smith credited her with saving him from being killed by the Native Americans.
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]]>Title: Martin Luther: The Life of the Man and the Legacy of the Reformer]]>Categories: Biography, Christianity, Protestantism, Religion]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Zarbock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-09-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired." (Martin Luther) As one of the most influential and recognizable religious figures in history, Martin Luther (1483-1546) continues to impact the world over 550 years after his death. Luther was a German priest and theologian whose writings and teachings sparked the Protestant Reformation in the early 16th century, creating one of the greatest schisms in the history of the Catholic Church and touching off religious turmoil and bloodshed that would engulf Europe for the next two centuries. Born shortly after the invention of the printing press, Luther became one of Europe's best-selling authors along with others like Erasmus, and his theology was dispersed across Europe. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment of sin could be purchased with money, a practice known as indulgences, and he confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517, one of the most important religious writings of all time.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Middle Ages: The Life and Legacy of Richard the Lionheart]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jack Chekijian]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-09-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"We, however, place the love of God and His honor above our own and above the acquisition of many regions." - Richard the Lionheart The enduring figure of the Middle Ages is the chivalrous knight, who played the role of hero across much of Europe and was equal parts courage and valor. Nobody played a more defining role in casting the popular image of medieval knights than Richard the Lionheart, one of the most famous English kings and crusaders. In many respects, it was ironic that Richard became one of the central characters of the Middle Ages, and his very popular legacy today belies centuries of controversy. Richard I Plantagenet (1157-1199), nicknamed "Coeur de Lion" (Lionheart), eventually became King of England, Grand Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Poitou, and Duke of Anjou, but as the third son in a large family, he did not expect to or even want to rule England. Nevertheless, it was he who eventually came to the throne upon his father's death. Richard lived in an age when knights were first asserting themselves as capable of being moral forces for good rather than agents of chaos. This attitude resolved itself into the mystique of chivalry.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Bob Dylan]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Christian Carvajal]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-09-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed." (Bob Dylan) In the space of just a few years, Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, rose from the obscurity of a small Minnesota town to a position of royalty atop the folk music landscape.
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]]>Title: French Legends: The Life and Legacy of Joan of Arc]]>Categories: Biography, Christianity, Europe, France]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-08-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"King of England, if you do not do these things, I am the commander of the military; and in whatever place I shall find your men in France, I will make them flee the country, whether they wish to or not." (Joan of Arc) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' French series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of France's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Joan of Arc is one of the most famous women in history: a French folk legend, a Catholic saint, and a military heroine. Yet almost nothing is truly known about the Maid of Orleans besides her ultimate fate - being burned at the stake when she was still a teenager. The Hundred Years' War between France and England was one of the great wars of the feudal ages, a conflict literally spanning a century, in which an untold number of men on each side died.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of King Tutankhamun]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Egypt, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-08-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>These are the names and titles of a king who died at a young age, and who is today remembered as one of ancient Egypt's most famous rulers. The mere mention of his name, Tutankhamun, brings to mind visions of gold and splendor and thoughts of a majestic kingdom. The reality of this king is something quite different. His fame has less to do with his position in history and nearly everything to do with the discovery of his tomb by Howard Carter in 1922. There are many questions and mysteries still surrounding this famous king of Egypt. Who was Tutankhamun? Where did he come from? What was his kingdom like? How did he live and die? And why is his name so closely associated with images and thoughts of ancient Egypt to the modern mind? These are just a few of the questions that have been asked by scholars and the general public alike concerning the young ruler. Some do have answers while others may only be theorized.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of Caligula]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Doron Alon]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-08-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"He seldom had anyone put to death except by numerous slight wounds, his constant order, which soon became well-known, being: 'Strike so that he may feel that he is dying.' When a different man than he had intended had been killed, through a mistake in the names, he said that the victim too had deserved the same fate. He often uttered the familiar line of the tragic poet: 'Let them hate me, so they but fear me.'" (Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars) Throughout the history of the Roman Empire, many rulers held the reins of ultimate power. Some of them, like Octavian, Trajan, Hadrian, Constantine, and Marcus Aurelius, are still celebrated and considered among antiquity's great statesmen, generals, and thinkers. But the Roman Empire also had its fair share of notorious villains, from the sadistic Nero to the debauched Commodus.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: Odysseus]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, Fairy Tale, Fantasy]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Sallie Downing]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-05-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Odysseus is, without question, one of the most fascinating figures in classical mythology. Indeed, despite being an ancillary character in The Iliad, he was so beloved by ancient audiences that he warranted his own spin-off, The Odyssey. He was endemic throughout Greek thought and art, appearing in statues, theatrical pieces, poems, and orations, and he was equally prevalent in later Roman culture. Unlike other notable figures of classical antiquity who were forgotten during the Middle Ages (including a fair few who, unlike Odysseus himself, actually existed outside the realm of legend), Odysseus' fame endured, and he made regular appearances in Medieval and Renaissance literature, including a memorable turn in Dante's Inferno. To this day Odysseus remains a highly popular character, having appeared on both the big and small screens, having been featured in a slew of novels, and even making appearances in Japanese anime and Japanese videogames. Characters inspired by Odysseus and his adventures are a staple of modern fiction, and locations said to match those from the Odyssey are scattered throughout the Mediterranean, particularly in Greece and Italy. The true root of Odysseus' mass appeal is that he is a figure of startling complexity.
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]]>Title: Rousseau and Voltaire]]>Subtitle: The Lives of the Two Most Famous Intellectuals of the Enlightenment]]>Categories: 18th Century, Biography, Europe, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Linsenmayer]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-05-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"To hold a pen is to be at war." (Voltaire) "Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself." (Rousseau) The grand narrative of the Enlightenment, usually recounted and understood in terms of progress and modernity, generally appears as a simplified evolution from the trappings of superstition, feudalism, and everything "irrational" to a world more similar to today's world. Alongside the Renaissance, the Enlightenment is credited with the transition to an adherence to reason, secularism, and promotion of values such as the value of the individual, collective freedom, and liberty. At the heart of the movement in France was François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire, whose voluminous writings advocated for greater liberalism, including freedom of religion and separation of church and state. In addition to the classic Candide, Voltaire was a biting polemic whose satirical attacks on the Catholic Church were among the fiercest of his day.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Gene Autry]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kelly Rhodes]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-05-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Music has been the better part of my career. Movies are wonderful fun, and they give you a famous face. But how the words and melody are joined, how they come together out of air and enter the mind, this is art. Songs are forever." (Gene Autry) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In the early 20th century, Westerns were one of the most popular genres in Hollywood. One of the young stars at the forefront was Gene Autry, a Texan whose life story made him a natural to be the country's most famous "singing cowboy".
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of J. P. Morgan]]>Categories: America, Biography, Business, Economic]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Austin Downey]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-05-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Dozens of men were called "robber barons", but few were as notorious or rich as John Pierpont Morgan, a financier and banker who bankrolled the consolidation of behemoth corporations across various industries. Morgan was behind the merging of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Company, which subsequently became General Electric, still known simply as GE across the world today. Similarly, he financed Federal Steel Company and consolidated various other steel businesses to help form the United States Steel Corporation. While critics complained about the outsized influence that these gigantic businesses had, Morgan's massive wealth also gave him unprecedented power in the financial sector and the ability to deal with politicians. In fact, Morgan played an important part in the Panic of 1907 and the subsequent decision to create the Federal Reserve as a monetary oversight. The industrial might wielded by men like Morgan directly led to a public backlash and made President Teddy Roosevelt the "trust buster", and there has since been countless regulations to attempt to avoid the types of monopolies found over 100 years ago.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of George Custer]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kirk Winkler]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-04-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Since the Battle of Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) has possessed one of the most unique places in American history. Although he was a capable cavalry officer who served honorably during the Civil War, he remains one of the most instantly identifiable and famous military men in American history due to the fact he was killed during one of the country's most ignominious defeats, the Battle of Little Bighorn. Yet this one relatively insignificant battle during America's Indian Wars has become one of the country's most mythologized events and continues to fascinate Americans nearly 140 years later. Though he's now best remembered for "Custer's Last Stand", George Armstrong Custer began June 25, 1876 as one of America's better regarded cavalry officers and a man whose ambitions might one day take him to higher office. In fact, decades before radio and television existed, Custer mastered the art of public relations. He dressed impeccably and had newspaper correspondents accompany him on campaign, all in an effort to help cultivate and enhance his legacy.
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]]>Title: The Greatest Revolutionary War Battles: The Battle of Bunker Hill]]>Categories: America, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Keith Peters]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-04-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"We have...learned one melancholy truth, which is that the Americans, if they were equally well commanded, are full as good soldiers as ours." (A British officer after the Battle of Bunker Hill) On April 19, 1775, the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired at Lexington, officially starting the Revolutionary War between the colonists and the British Empire. Though Lexington and Concord were the scenes of the first fighting, contingency plans for war had been made on both sides. Immediately after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the colonial militia men who had poured in from across the countryside converged on Boston, which at the time was a peninsula with a small neck attaching it to the rest of Massachusetts. With the Charles River surrounding it on three sides, Boston was an ideal city to lay siege to. Initially, the militias blocked off the land approaches to Boston, but when 4,500 more British soldiers arrived by sea, the American forces fell back to adjacent hills on the Charlestown Peninsula, Breed's Hill, and Bunker Hill.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Barbara Stanwyck]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Charles McKibben]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-04-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing." - Barbara Stanwyck In the 1940s, film noir was at its peak, and Hollywood was churning out dark, mysterious, exotic and erotic classics like The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not, which helped turn some of the industry's sultry actresses into superstars. In 1944, the premiere femme fatale was Barbara Stanwyck, who was the highest paid woman in America that year, thanks to roles in films like Double Indemnity (1944), in which she uses her persuasive powers to convince a man to commit murder. That film would earn Stanwyck the first of her four Academy Award nominations. After a nearly 60-year career in acting, the American Film Institute would recognize her as the 11th greatest female screen legend of the 20th century. If anything, Stanwyck's reputation for being a femme fatale obscured the fact that she played strong women that made her seem modern instead of traditional, and not just in noir films.
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]]>Title: Gene Autry and Roy Rogers]]>Subtitle: America's Two Favorite Singing Cowboys]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kelly Rhodes]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-04-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Music has been the better part of my career. Movies are wonderful fun and they give you a famous face. But how the words and melody are joined, how they come together out of air and enter the mind, this is art. Songs are forever." (Gene Autry) "I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances." (Roy Rogers) In the early 20th century, Westerns were one of the most popular genres in Hollywood. One of the young stars at the forefront was Gene Autry, a Texan whose life story made him a natural to be the country's most famous "singing cowboy". Autry would become a symbol of masculinity and morality on screen during the 1930s, but it was effortless for someone who had already grown up riding horses to school. Autry came of age at a time when the "singing cowboy" was at the apex of his popularity, and like his most famous successor, Roy Rogers, Autry actually got his start in show business as a singer.
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]]>Title: Syria and the Assad Family: The History Behind Bashar al-Assad's Rise to Power and the Civil War]]>Categories: Biography, Head of State, History, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Phillip J Mather]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-04-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I'm not a puppet. I wasn't made by the west to go to the west or any other country. I'm Syrian. I'm made in Syria. I have to live in Syria and die in Syria." - Bashar al-Assad, 2012 In early 2011, a political movement swept across the Arabic-speaking world that toppled despotic regimes and dictatorships. The political movement, which became known as the "Arab Spring", was popular in nature and made use of the Internet, particularly social networking websites, to remove dictators such as Muammar Qadaffi of Libya. Those dictators, who ruled their countries for decades, were unable to stem the tide of popular indignation against them, even though they tried using force and propaganda in ways reminiscent of the Cold War era. The events of the Arab Spring have come to be overshadowed by the civil war in the Arabic-speaking nation of Syria, which has been ruled throughout the 21st century by Bashar al-Assad. Though he had not planned on ruling Syria, several events conspired to make Bashar the successor of his father, Hafez.
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]]>Title: Chernobyl and Three Mile Island: The History and Legacy of the World's Most Notorious Nuclear Accidents]]>Categories: America, History, Planet Earth, Russia, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dennis E. Morris]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-04-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Uranium is best known for the destructive power of the atom bombs, which ushered in the nuclear era at the end of World War II, but given the effectiveness of nuclear power, plants like those at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania were constructed to generate energy for Americans during the second half of the 20th century. While nuclear power plants were previously not an option and thus opened the door to new, more efficient, and more affordable forms of energy for domestic consumption, the use of nuclear energy understandably unnerved people living during the Cold War and amidst ongoing nuclear detonations. After all, the damage wrought on Hiroshima and Nagasaki made clear to everyone what nuclear energy was capable of inflicting, and the health problems encountered by people exposed to the radiation also demonstrated the horrific side effects that could come with the use of nuclear weapons or the inability to harness the technology properly. Thus, it seemed that everyone's worst fears were realized on March 28, 1979 when the nuclear plant at Three Mile Island suffered a partial meltdown.
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]]>Title: Legendary Explorers: The Life and Legacy of Ferdinand Magellan]]>Categories: Biography, Exploration, Explorer, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-03-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Most versed in nautical charts, he knew better than any other the true art of navigation, of which it is certain proof that he by his genius, and his intrepidity, without anyone having given him the example, how to attempt the circuit of the globe which he had almost completed.... The glory of Magellan will survive him." (Antonio Pigafetta) Ferdinand Magellan was unquestionably one of the more remarkable figures of the Age of Exploration, and given his fateful expedition, he has the era's most unique legacy. Today he is remembered as the first man to circumnavigate the globe, despite the fact he died thousands of miles away from Spain in the Philippines. It is also commonly overlooked that among the famous and historic expeditions in the early 16th century, Magellan's was by far the most dangerous, unique, and adventurous. Nearly 240 men would set sail from Spain in August 1519 aboard five ships, and 18 would return to Spain in September 1522 aboard one ship. Given his legacy and the fact that he died half a world away from Spain, the nature of his achievements has sometimes been misunderstood.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Jean Harlow]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Diane Lehman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-03-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I wasn't born an actress. Events just made me one." (Jean Harlow) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. When the American Film Institute ranked its top 50 screen legends of the 20th century, many of the people named had careers spanning several decades, but one of them managed the feat despite living less than three decades. Ranked as the 22nd greatest actress of the 20th century, Jean Harlow was on the screen for less than 10 years, but in that time the "blonde bombshell" became the most popular actress of the 1930s, eclipsing superstars like Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer along the way.
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]]>Title: British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-03-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won." (Duke of Wellington, at Waterloo) In September 1852 a steam train carried the body of Arthur Wellesley, first duke of Wellington, from Kent to London, where he was to be interred at St. Paul's Cathedral. A million would flock to pay their final respects at his huge funeral, and young Queen Victoria wept openly. By the time of his death, Wellington had been prime minister twice, a shrewd personal advisor to four British monarchs, and one of the nation's most prominent politicians for three decades. Despite his nearly four decades of peacetime service in and out of politics, Wellington has remained one of the titans of the 19th century because of one June day in 1815. Then, as now, the duke of Wellington is best remembered for defeating Napoleon in the famous battle of Waterloo. The fact Wellington is remembered for Waterloo belies his extraordinary military career, which saw him come up through fighting in the Netherlands and India before opposing Napoleon's forces on the Iberian Peninsula.
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]]>Title: The Rise of Nazi Germany: The History of the Events that Brought Adolf Hitler to Power]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-02-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Profiles the seminal events that helped Hitler rise to power and consolidate his position, including the end of World War I, the Beer Hall Putsch, the Burning of the Reichstag, and the Night of the Long Knives. "I cannot remember in my entire life such a change in the attitude of a crowd in a few minutes, almost a few seconds ... Hitler had turned them inside out, as one turns a glove inside out, with a few sentences. It had almost something of hocus-pocus, or magic about it." (Dr. Karl Alexander von Mueller) It is often claimed that Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany through democratic means, and while that is a stretch, it is true that he managed to become an absolute dictator, as Chancellor of Germany in the 1930s, through a mixture of politics and intimidation.
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]]>Title: Bloody Mary: The Life and Legacy of England's Most Notorious Queen]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Patte Shaughnessy]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-02-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"When I am dead and opened, you shall find 'Calais' lying in my heart." (Mary I) Queen Mary I ruled England and its conquered territories in Wales and Ireland for only five years, from 1553 to 1558, yet she has been remembered for nearly 500 years as Bloody Mary, the Catholic oppressor of a Protestant country. The truth, as usual, is more complicated than the myth. The oldest surviving child of King Henry VIII, she grew up in an era of religious and political turmoil, both in England and abroad, and though united in its Christianity, the continent was divided in how it approached that faith. A growing wave of protest and dissent had been met with brutal suppression in the 15th century, only to emerge like a phoenix from the flames in the form of Protestantism. With religious faith and political practice deeply intertwined, countries were being torn apart in a growing conflict between Catholics and Protestants. Mary's life was shaped by her experience of this, and by the twisted family politics of her father, Henry VIII. Henry VIII's lone mail heir, his young son Edward, was a strong Protestant, but a sickly teen.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Middle Ages: The History and Legacy of the Knights Templar]]>Categories: Ancient, Catholicism, Christianity, Europe]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-02-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' Legends of the Middle Ages series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of the most important medieval men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The Order of the Temple of Solomon, also known as the Templars or the Knights Templar, is one of the best-known and least-understood groups in history. They appear prominently in everything from novels (The Da Vinci Code) to films (as the Knights of the Cruciform Sword in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) to videogames (Assassin's Creed). In these stories, they are a sinister cult that manipulated historical events since the Middle Ages, via intimidation and assassination. They are usually connected to the Freemasons and, sometimes, to other historical cults like the Hindu Thuggees. The real Templars were both more mundane and more fascinating than the myths and legends. They were the first military religious order - monks who were also knights.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Ed Sullivan]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Nicholas S. Johnson]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-02-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Includes in-depth accounts of Elvis Presley and the Beatles' historic performances on The Ed Sullivan Show. "Open big, have a good comedy act, put in something for children, and keep the show clean. I believe in getting the best acts I can, introducing them quickly, and getting off." (Ed Sullivan's explanation for the success of The Ed Sullivan Show) "Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent." (Fred Allen) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. From the day television existed as an entertainment medium, giant companies have battled each other for viewers. In the history of television programming, no show was as consistently excellent in the ratings as The Ed Sullivan Show, a variety show that brought on all kinds of acts, from dancers to artists and singers.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Gloria Swanson]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Maria Chester]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-01-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy." - Gloria Swanson. It goes without saying that the most enduring image of Gloria Swanson is the famous shot of her in Sunset Boulevard (1950), head tilted backward, stating, "Alright, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close up." Indeed, for many, the very mention of "Gloria Swanson" conjures the name of "Norma Desmond," her character in Sunset Boulevard, directed by Billy Wilder. That the shot of Desmond requesting her close-up remains indelibly imprinted in the minds of so many speaks in large part to the power of Sunset Boulevard, one of the most revered films of its times and the most famous film of Gloria Swanson's career. By dint of her performance in the film, Swanson has become almost synonymous with Hollywood's silent era. In many respects, Swanson's status as the female face of the silent era is entirely apropos. Working in the 1920s for Cecil B.
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]]>Title: Reaching the North Pole]]>Subtitle: The History of the Expeditions Attempting to Explore Earth's Northernmost Point]]>Categories: History, Polar Region]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Nathan Yoder]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-01-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It is the dreamland of most children in Europe and the Americas, and the mysterious home of the mythical Santa Claus, his devoted wife Mrs. Claus, the reindeer, and the many elves who make Christmas toys each year. In many ways, the North Pole is the first geographical location many kids learn, if only because children over the age of three can manage to tell any interested adult that Santa Claus lives there. In reality, of course, the North Pole proved to be as elusive for many brave explorers as jolly old Santa has been for children who wait up at night by the chimney. The biggest problem, of course, is the North Pole's unforgiving location, far from sunshine or any sort of natural warmth. Another problem, one that would only became obvious in the 20th Century, was that it is located not on any piece of stable land but in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, usually covered by ever shifting ice floes.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of Alexander the Great]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Europe, Greece]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jack Chekijian]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 06-01-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"There is nothing impossible to him that will but try" (Alexander) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' Legends of the Ancient World series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of antiquity's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Over the last 2,000 years, ambitious men have dreamed of forging vast empires and attaining eternal glory in battle, but of all the conquerors who took steps toward such dreams, none were ever as successful as antiquity's first great conqueror. Leaders of the 20th century hoped to rival Napoleon's accomplishments, Napoleon aimed to emulate the accomplishments of Julius Caesar, but Caesar found inspiration in Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.), the Macedonian King who managed to stretch an empire from Greece to Asia's Himalayas at just 30 years old.
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]]>Title: The 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami]]>Subtitle: The Story of the Deadliest Natural Disaster of the 21st Century]]>Categories: 21st Century, Asia, Environment, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kevin Zerbe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-29-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else." (Anne M. Mulcahy) In the Christian world, December 25 is a time of great rejoicing and celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. It is by far the most festive time of year, marked by parties, church services, and giving gifts. It is also a popular vacation time, as families use the breaks given by offices and schools to travel, often to exotic destinations. That is why so many of those who witnessed the great tsunami of 2004 were not native to the areas struck, but had traveled to enjoy the sun during the dead of winter. Most of them slept soundly on Christmas night and woke up the following morning with plans to enjoy a fun day of playing along white beaches or exploring dense jungles. For many, it was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime, but for everyone in the region, it would instead become a fight for survival. Around 8:00 a.m. on December 26, a massive earthquake registering 9.1-9.3 on the Richter Scale struck off of Sumatra, Indonesia, making it the third strongest earthquake ever recorded by seismographs.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of Queen Nefertiti]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Egypt, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gordon Anthony Palagi]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-29-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the early 20th century, over 3,000 years after her death, Nefertiti became a household name and one of the most famous women of the ancient world. Egyptologists were aware that she was a queen of the New Kingdom Egypt during the later portion of the 18th dynasty, but she was little-known until the presentation of a reconstructed bust depicting her at the Berlin Museum in 1924. Nefertiti means "the beautiful one has come", and if the presented bust is anything to judge by she, was indeed a beautiful woman. The bust of Nefertiti caused an enormous sensation following the glamorous discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922 by Howard Carter. The bust was the work of the ancient royal sculptor Thutmose and was first discovered by German archaeologists in a fragmented state in the remains of Thutmose's workshop at the ancient city of Akhetaten, known today as Tell el-Amarna. With the discovery and display of the bust, the once little known queen Nefertiti became eponymous with Ancient Egypt, alongside that of the Great Pyramids at Giza and the Golden Funerary Mask of the young Tutankhamen.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Marx Brothers]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Christian Carvajal]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-29-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl." - Irving Berlin "I sent the club a wire stating, 'PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.'" - Groucho Marx A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. When the American Film Institute ranked its top 50 screen legends of the 20th century, only one team of performers earned a collective spot: the Marx Brothers. Famous throughout the country for nearly half a century, several of the Marx Brothers performed together for over 40 years, and their nicknames - Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Gummo and Zeppo - are all well known today, especially Groucho.
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]]>Title: The Apollo 1 Disaster]]>Subtitle: The Controversial History and Legacy of the Fire that Caused One of NASA's Greatest Tragedies]]>Categories: America, Astronomy, History, Science]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bob Barton]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-29-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course; this can happen on any flight; it can happen on the last one as well as the first one. So, you just plan as best you can to take care of all these eventualities, and you get a well-trained crew and you go fly." (Gus Grissom, December 1966) The Apollo space program is the most famous and celebrated in American history, but the first successful landing of men on the moon, during Apollo 11, had complicated roots dating back over a decade; it also involved one of NASA's most infamous tragedies. Landing on the moon presented an ideal goal all on its own, but the government's urgency in designing the Apollo program was actually brought about by the Soviet Union, which spent much of the 1950s leaving the United States in its dust (and rocket fuel). In 1957, at a time when people were concerned about communism and nuclear war, many Americans were dismayed by news that the Soviet Union was successfully launching satellites into orbit. Among those concerned was President Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose space program was clearly lagging a few years behind the Soviets' space program.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Henry Ford]]>Categories: America, Biography, Business, Economic]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-29-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." - Henry Ford A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Few Americans have a reputation and legacy anything like Henry Ford's, the man whose name is still associated with one of the world's most famous car companies. Ford is unquestionably one of his country's most famous industrialists, and his use of an assembly line to mass produce automobiles was not only innovative but also made it possible for Americans to own cars en masse. To this day, Ford Motor Company's Model T is a household name more than a century after they were manufactured, not only because they were famous cars but because they represented affordable purchases that revolutionized the way people traveled across the country.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Betty Grable]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kelly Rhodes]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-29-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them." - Betty Grable A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. No history of American pop culture in the 1940s would be complete without mention of Betty Grable, the most popular pin-up girl of the World War II era. Grable possessed the outstanding fortune of not only having an ideal body but arriving at the most fortuitous time imaginable; the famous pin-up photo of her, taken by Frank Powolny, made her the highest-earning actress in Hollywood from 1943 to 1951. Indeed, it was not hyperbole that earned Grable the nickname of "the girl with the million dollar legs" - not only were her legs famously adored by American soldiers fighting overseas, they were actually insured to the tune of one million dollars (Suddath).
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]]>Title: The Greatest Battles in History: The Battle of El Alamein]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-29-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The desert was quivering with heat. The gun detachments and the platoons squatted in their pits and trenches, the sweat running in rivers down their dust-caked faces. There was a terrible stench. The flies swarmed in black clouds upon the dead bodies and excreta and tormented the wounded. The place was strewn with burning tanks and carriers, wrecked guns and vehicles, and over all drifted the smoke and the dust from bursting high explosives and from the blasts of guns." - Cecil Ernest Lucas-Phillips "It may almost be said, 'Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.'" - Winston Churchill The United States began 1942 determined to avenge Pearl Harbor, but the Allies, now including the Soviet Union by necessity, did not agree on war strategy. In 1941, both the Germans and British had moved armies into North Africa, where Italy had already tried and failed to reach the Suez Canal. The British sought American help in North Africa, where British General Bernard Montgomery was fighting the legendary "Desert Fox", General Erwin Rommel.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Barbra Streisand]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Robin McKay]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-28-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven." (Barbra Streisand) "I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me." (Barbra Streisand) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. It should come as no surprise that Barbra Streisand allegedly once declared that she never had any idols as a child, because given how unusual her career has been, it's hard to determine who might have served as her inspiration. And as the star once put it, "I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody.
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]]>Title: The Patriot Traitor: The Life and Legacy of Benedict Arnold]]>Categories: America, American Revolution, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Sabrina Z]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-28-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>On October 7, 1777, Benedict Arnold rode out against orders and led an American assault against British forces led by General John Burgoyne in one of the climactic battles of the Revolution at Saratoga, the ultimate turning point of the war. Near the end of the most important American victory of the Revolution, Arnold's leg was shattered by a volley that also hit his horse, which fell on the leg as well. Arnold would later remark that he wish the shot had hit him in the chest. If it had, Benedict Arnold would be remembered as one of America's greatest war heroes, and probably second only to George Washington among the generals of the Revolution. In fact, when Arnold was injured at the height of his success in October 1777, he had been the most successful leader of American forces during the war. Arnold had been instrumental in the seizure of Fort Ticonderoga in 1775, he constructed the first makeshift American navy to defend Lake Champlain and delay British campaigning in 1776, and he was the principal leader at Saratoga in 1777.
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]]>Title: Little Powell: The Life and Career of A.P. Hill]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Civil War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Maxwell Zener]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-27-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Of all the eccentric and enigmatic men who led during the Civil War, perhaps none had as mixed a record as Confederate Lieutenant General Ambrose Powell Hill, better known as A.P. Hill. Hill was a well known and highly respected general on both sides, particularly for his command of "Hill's Light Division" under Stonewall Jackson, which arrived just in time to save Lee's army during the Battle of Antietam. He continued to be Jackson's most capable subordinate until Jackson's death, when Lee gave him command of the III Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia just before the Pennsylvania campaign that climaxed at Gettysburg. Known affectionately to his soldiers as Little Powell, Hill was considered courageous and courteous, a fitting representative of his native Virginia. But after the defeat at Gettysburg and in the wake of his death during the final week of the war, Hill's reputation was somewhat tarnished.
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]]>Title: Investigating the Sinking of the Titanic: The Investigations Made in the Wake of the Titanic Disaster]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: John Gagnepain]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-27-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic, the largest ship in the world, hit an iceberg, setting in motion a chain of events that would ultimately make it history's most famous, and notorious, ship. The Titanic was neither the first nor last big ship to sink, so it's clear that much of its appeal stems from the nature of ship itself. Indeed, the Titanic stands out not just for its end but for its beginning, specifically the fact that it was the most luxurious passenger ship ever built at the time. In addition to the time it took to come up with the design, the giant ship took a full three years to build, and no effort or cost was spared to outfit the Titanic in the most lavish ways. Given that the Titanic was over 100 feet tall, nearly 900 feet long, and over 90 feet wide, it's obvious that those who built her and provided all of its famous amenities had plenty of work to do.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Abner Doubleday]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, War]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colleen Patrick]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-27-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Gen. Doubleday was not a man of 'personal magnetism' nor what is called a dashing officer.' He was an earnest and conscientious man and a safe and steady soldier-precise, methodical, and to be depended on in any emergency." - General Don Carlos Buell A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Abner Doubleday (1819 - 1893) had one of the lengthiest Civil War resumes and an influence that made him worthy of national recognition. Doubleday is credited with firing the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter, the opening fight of the war, and he played a pivotal role on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, taking command of the I Corps early on the morning of July 1, 1863 after General John Reynolds was killed.
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]]>Title: British Legends: The Life and Legacy of King Henry VIII]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-26-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"We are, by the sufferance of God, King of England; and the Kings of England in times past never had any superior but God." - King Henry VIII A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' British Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of Great Britain's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Over 450 years after his reign, Henry VIII is still the most famous and recognizable king of England, but it's for all the wrong reasons. Though well regarded by contemporaries as a learned king and "[O]ne of the most charismatic rulers to sit on the English throne", he is best remembered today for his gluttony and multiple marriages, particularly for the gruesome way he was widowed on more than one occasion.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Middle Ages: The Life and Legacy of Saladin]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Christopher Hudspeth]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-26-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"It is equally true that his generosity, his piety, devoid of fanaticism, that flower of liberality and courtesy which had been the model of our old chroniclers, won him no less popularity in Frankish Syria than in the lands of Islam." (René Grousset) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' Legends of the Middle Ages series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of important medieval men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. During a trip to Damascus, Syria, in 1958, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser visited the tomb of Saladin. It was a symbolic visit for the pan-Arab leader, who sought to unite the Arab world and restore it to its past glory.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Charlton Heston]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Al Kessel]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-26-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"[Fame] has complicated my life a little, but not enormously. I had to learn to be a public person, but fame has given me a good deal of control over my career, which I otherwise would not have had. Also, chances to work with some extraordinary men and women." (Charlton Heston) "Charlton Heston was seen by the world as larger than life. He was known for his chiseled jaw, broad shoulders and resonating voice, and, of course, for the roles he played. No one could ask for a fuller life than his.
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]]>Title: British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Queen Elizabeth I]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-26-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Video et taceo." ("I see, and say nothing") (Queen Elizabeth I) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' British Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of Great Britain's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. When Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1952, many commentators heralded the beginning of her reign as the second Elizabethan age. The first one, of course, concerned the reign of Henry VIII's second surviving daughter, and middle surviving child, Queen Elizabeth I, one of England's most famous and influential rulers. It was an age when the arts, commerce, and trade flourished. It was the epoch of gallantry and great, enduring literature. It was also an age of wars and military conflicts in which men were the primary drivers and women often were pawns. Elizabeth I changed the rules of the game and indeed, she herself was changed by the game.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Rock Hudson]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Al Kessel]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-26-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself." (Rock Hudson) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In the middle of the 20th century, there was perhaps no leading man as famous and popular as Rock Hudson, who would star in both comedies and dramas on the way to being named one of the Top 10 Stars of the Year for eight years straight (1957-1964). Whether he was starring in a comedy with Doris Day or in a drama opposite Elizabeth Taylor, the tall, impeccably dressed actor couldn't help but make girls in the audience swoon, and he was recognized as one of Hollywood's biggest heartthrobs. The successes of his peak years ensured that Hudson would remain a star over the course of four decades.
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]]>Title: Decisive Moments in History: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy]]>Categories: America, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Zarbock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-26-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"We never had any hope of saving his life." (A doctor in the emergency room) In the 19th century, the Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle famously wrote, "The history of the world is but the biography of great men," popularizing the "Great Man" theory that the course of history is shaped by a select few heroic individuals. While historians and others continue to debate the accuracy of the Great Man theory of history, there is no question that the course of history is permanently altered by decisive moments in time, where a different result would have produced drastically different outcomes. Charles River Editors' Decisive Moments in History examines the events that changed history forever and set the world down the path it finds itself on today. In the annals of American history, only a few moments have been so thoroughly seared into the nation's conscience that Americans can remember exactly where and when they heard about an earth-shattering event. In the 20th century, there was Pearl Harbor and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. November 22, 1963, started as a typical Friday, and many Americans were unaware that President Kennedy was even heading to Dallas, Texas.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Middle Ages: The Life and Legacy of Genghis Khan]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Christopher Hudspeth]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-26-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Conquering the world from horseback is easy. It is dismounting and governing that is hard." (Genghis Khan) In a world fascinated by men like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan is one of history's greatest and most famous conquerors. No man, before or since, has ever started with so little and gone on to achieve so much. From a noble family, but raised in poverty that drove him to the brink of starvation, Genghis Khan rose to control the second-largest empire the world has ever known (the largest being, arguably, the British Empire of the 18th and 19th centuries), and easily the largest empire conquered by a single man. And while many empires disintegrate upon the death of an emperor, like Alexander the Great's, Genghis Khan's empire endured and was actually enlarged by his successors, who went on to establish dynasties that, in some cases, lasted for centuries. Though history is usually written by the victors, the lack of a particularly strong writing tradition among the Mongols ensured that history was largely written by those whom Genghis Khan vanquished.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Rita Hayworth]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kelly Rhodes]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-26-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life - and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't?" (Rita Hayworth) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Rita Hayworth's life and career remain fascinating to both the general public and avid movie fans alike. Even people with just a casual interest in movies appreciate her performances in films such as Gilda (1946), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), and Salome (1953), and few actresses could rival Hayworth's popularity during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Indeed, many of her most famous films are still enjoyed by viewers from around the world even today, and with her acting career spanning nearly 50 years, few viewers are not familiar with at least some of Hayworth's films, particularly since she appeared in films of a wide variety of genres.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Gene Tierney]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Stephanie Quinn]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-26-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?" (Gene Tierney) "I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself." (Gene Tierney) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. If people were asked to list the pros and cons of being a star in Hollywood, there's a good chance that Gene Tierney lived all of the highs and lows they could come up with. In many ways, Tierney had the prototypical career of an actress who experienced the best that Hollywood had to offer, and she got caught up with some of its most notorious pitfalls. With beauty queen looks, once she was discovered, Tierney was almost immediately marked for success as an actress.
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]]>Title: The Galveston Hurricane of 1900]]>Subtitle: The Deadliest Natural Disaster in American History]]>Categories: America, Environment, History, Science, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Rausch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-26-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"First news from Galveston just received by train which could get no closer to the bay shore than six miles where the prairie was strewn with debris and dead bodies. About 200 corpses counted from the train. Large steamship stranded two miles inland. Nothing could be seen of Galveston. Loss of life and property undoubtedly most appalling. Weather clear and bright here with gentle southeast wind." (G. L. Vaughan, manager of Western Union in Houston, in a telegram to the chief of the US Weather Bureau on the day after the hurricane.) In 2005 the world watched in horror as Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans, and the calamity seemed all the worse because many felt that technology had advanced far enough to prevent such tragedies, whether through advanced warnings or engineering. At the same time, that response tends to overlook all of the dangers posed by hurricanes and other natural disasters. After all, storms and hurricanes have been wiping out coastal communities ever since the first humans built them. As bad as Hurricane Katrina was, the hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900, killed several times more people, with an estimated death toll between 6,000 and 12,000 people.
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]]>Title: The Luftwaffe: The History of Nazi Germany's Air Force during World War II]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-21-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Third Reich's Luftwaffe began World War II with significant advantages over other European air forces, playing a critical role in the German war machine's swift, powerful advance. By war's end, however, the Luftwaffe had been decimated by combat losses and crippled by poor decisions at the highest levels of military decision-making, and it proved unable to challenge Allied air superiority despite a last-minute upsurge in German aircraft production. Given its unique strengths and distinctive weaknesses by the personal quirks of the men who developed it, the Luftwaffe initially overwhelmed the more conservative, outdated military aviation of other countries. Its leaders embraced such concepts as the dive-bomber, which proved both utterly devastating and extremely useful for supporting the sweeping, powerful movements of Blitzkrieg, while other martial establishments rejected dive-bombers as impractical or even impossible. Though the superb fighting qualities of highly trained and motivated German soldiers, and the Third Reich's technological superiority in tank and weapon design, also had crucial roles to play, the Luftwaffe represented the key element making the successes of all other branches possible. While the Luftwaffe enjoyed air superiority, the combat fortunes of the Third Reich continued to ride high.
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]]>Title: Russian Legends: The Life and Legacy of Catherine the Great]]>Categories: Biography, History, Politician, Politics]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Diane Lehman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-21-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' Russian Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of Russia's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. As one of the most famous women rulers in history, Russian Empress Catherine the Great has long been remembered not only as one of the most powerful women of her time, but she was also one of the most powerful and capable rulers in all of Europe. And her path to the throne was just as remarkable as her reign. In a story that sounds like it could have been a precursor to Cinderella, Catherine the Great was born into a family of minor nobility, but she managed to forge her own destiny through her own cunning use of diplomacy and intrigue, gradually gaining allies and power.
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]]>Title: Decisive Moments in History: The Reign of Terror]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Insurrection]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tim Welch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-21-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>As one of the seminal social revolutions in human history, the French Revolution holds a unique legacy, especially in the West. The early years of the Revolution were fueled by Enlightenment ideals, seeking the social overthrow of the caste system that gave the royalty and aristocracy decisive advantages over the lower classes. But history remembers the French Revolution in a starkly different way, as the same leaders who sought a more democratic system while out of power devolved into establishing an incredibly repressive tyranny of their own once they acquired it. The height of Republican France's tyranny came during a 10-month period forever known as the Reign of Terror, the most notorious and arguably most memorable part of the French Revolution. One of the first victims of the Reign of Terror was its most famous: former French Queen Marie Antoinette. But Antoinette was followed by thousands more, including everyone from aristocrats to clergy to prostitutes and even instrumental revolutionaries like Danton, Desmoulins, and, most notably, Robespierre. It was Robespierre whose position on the Committee of Public Safety made him the Reign of Terror's instrumental figure until he himself became a victim of it in July 1794.
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]]>Title: Tibet and Shangri-La: The Search for a Hidden Paradise]]>Categories: Asia, Buddhism, China, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Phillip J Mather]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-20-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"For the valley was nothing less than an enclosed paradise of amazing fertility, in which the vertical difference of a few thousand feet spanned the whole gulf between temperate and tropical" - James Hilton, Lost Horizon (1933) In 1933, British author James Hilton introduced the world to a new destination for journeys of the imagination: the hidden valley of Shangri-La. In doing so, Hilton built upon pre-existing fantasies, stereotypes and archetypes, many of which were centuries old, but Hilton also created something new in the form of a vision which captured the imagination of his contemporaries and has remained ever since. In Hilton's novel, Lost Horizon, Shangri-La is a valley high in the north of the Himalayas where a monastery (more accurately, a "lamasery," as the inhabitants were lamas not monks) dedicated to peace and study exists.
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]]>Title: The Moscow Kremlin: The History of Russia's Most Famous Landmark]]>Categories: History, Planet Earth, Russia]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Nathan Yoder]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-20-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Here are luxury and penury, abundance and the most extreme deprivation, piety, and atheism...and an unbelievable frivolity - warring elements which, out of their constant conflicts, create this marvelous, outrageous, gigantic whole which we know by its collective name: Moscow." (Konstantin Batyushkov) Among all the world's capitals, few contain governmental seats of power as imposing or impressive as the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. While the name itself is often used as a shorthand to refer to the Russian government, and many people associate it with Red Square, the Kremlin is actually a fortress inside the heart of Moscow, replete with everything from ramparts and towers to decadent churches. The history of Russia is vast and winding, so it should come as no surprise that the same can be said for the Kremlin. Construction on the site was taking place by the 12th century, and by the 14th century it was imposing enough to withstand sieges. Ivan the Great added artistic flourishes to the Kremlin during the Renaissance, Catherine the Great had a residence built inside it during the 18th century, and Napoleon severely damaged the Kremlin in the course of ordering its destruction during the invasion of Russia in 1812.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Humphrey Bogart]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: James Romick]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-20-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"All you owe the public is a good performance." - Humphrey Bogart A lot of time has been spent covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Americans have always loved movie stars, and there have been no shortage of Hollywood icons, but one man has long been considered the greatest male star. From the time he first became a leading man, Humphrey Bogart's screen image has resonated with viewers more than perhaps any other actor. At the end of the 20th century, when the American Film Institute assembled its list of the 50 greatest American screen legends, Bogart was at the top of the list.
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]]>Title: Russian Legends: The Life and Legacy of Peter the Great]]>Categories: Biography, History, Politician, Politics]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Diane Lehman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-20-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I have conquered an empire, but have not been able to conquer myself." - Peter the Great A lot of time has been spent covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' Russian Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of Russia's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. For anyone trying to understand the origins of modern Russia, the search should begin with Tsar Peter I (1672-1725), who titled himself Peter the Great during his lifetime. The moniker is fitting, considering the manner in which Peter brought Russia out of the Middle Ages and into the 18th century. Through a series of campaigns, Peter turned Russia into a formidable empire that would subsequently become a major force on the European continent, while also emulating Western Europe and turning Russia into an international state that interacted with the other continental powers.
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]]>Title: Fidel Castro and Che Guevara: The Legends of the Cuban Revolution]]>Categories: America, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-20-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Fidel Castro is one of the most influential and controversial men of the last 50 years, equally revered and reviled by people across the globe. To the West, Castro has long been one of the prominent faces of Communism, and the main reason Cuba has been ostracized by many liberal democracies, particularly the United States. On the other hand, Castro has been admired by those who despised capitalism, and despite the fact the political platform Castro advocated has been almost universally repudiated and only maintains a weak hold even in Cuba, Castro's Marxist-leaning writings and speeches have influenced other leaders across the globe, from Hugo Chavez to Nelson Mandela. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, known to the world as Che, has led two lives. In the first of these lives, the Argentine-born revolutionary was a remarkable and flawed doctor-turned-guerilla who left behind a highly controversial political legacy. In the second, he was - and is - first and foremost an image. Specifically, he is one particular image in which he appears as a wavy-haired, bearded young man with a beret and an intense gaze.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Jack Palance]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: John McBride]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-20-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete.... Awaken your creative sensitivities!" - Jack Palance A lot of time has been spent covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. It is quite possible that Jack Palance is best-remembered not for any single performance but rather for his display of physical fitness while receiving an Oscar for his performance in City Slickers (1989). In an effort to demonstrate that old age had not blunted his athleticism, Palance performed one-armed pushups while grasping his Oscar trophy with his free hand. His fitness was hardly a false representation either, as it demonstrated just how much he had been gifted with a strong physique.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Dick Van Dyke]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Nick Hart]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-20-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If television was still coming into its own during the 1950s, it truly became a national phenomenon across America in the 1960s, and in an era where most Americans finally owned a television, one of the most popular shows on the air was The Dick Van Dyke Show. The show starred Van Dyke as a middle class writer who worked on a television show, and it also helped catapult Mary Tyler Moore (who played his wife) to superstardom and her own hit show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. To this day, it is widely considered one of the greatest television shows in history, and Dick Van Dyke remains best known for it, but the show was merely the peak of a career that had already proven quite versatile. Van Dyke had long aspired to be in show business and even a television show host long before television was popular, and he got his start as a radio DJ when he was still in his early 20s. Always a fan of comedy, Van Dyke parlayed that into a comedy gig, and he then rode the success of his comedic performances to starring roles on Broadway.
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]]>Title: Evita: The Life of Eva Peron]]>Categories: America, Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-20-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>María Eva Duarte de Perón, known to the world as Evita, stands with Jesus Christ as a highly influential historical figure who lived only 33 years. The similarities do not end there: as Argentine novelist Tomás Eloy Martínez has observed, Evita came to "symbolize certain naïve, but effective, beliefs: the hope for a better world; a life sacrificed on the altar of the disinherited, the humiliated, the poor of the earth...myths which somehow reproduce the image of Christ." During her life she was elevated to the status of "spiritual leader" of her country, Argentina, and after death she was regarded there as a martyr and a saint by her many followers. Eva Perón prided herself on having antagonized and earned the hatred of precisely these social classes. Over 50 years after her death, Perónism, the political philosophy devised by her and her husband Juan Domingo Perón, remains a potent force in Argentine politics (the current president identifies herself closely with the Peróns and their legacy), but it also continues to inspire deep enmity.
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]]>Title: St. Augustine of Hippo: Father of the Christian Church]]>Categories: Biography, Christianity, History, Politician]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Todd Van Linda]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-19-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Christian Church has no shortage of revered figures and saints, but it is difficult to find one that had a more decisive impact on the course of the Church's history than Augustine of Hippo. Augustine was a bishop of Hippo Regius in Africa, but his works, sermons and writings helped hold the Church together even as the Western Roman Empire was in its death throes, to the extent that every major branch of Christianity recognizes him today. The Catholic Church has venerated him as a saint and a Doctor of the Church, Orthodox Christians also consider him a saint, and Protestants and Calvinists cite him as one of the fathers and inspirations of the Protestant Reformation. In many respects, Augustine has provided the theological bedrock for Christians for nearly 1600 years, and as theologian John Leith noted in 1990, "Augustine, the North African of Berber descent, is today the spiritual father of multitudes who are remote indeed from him racially, politically, and culturally." Augustine's voluminous writings also had the effect of making him one of antiquity's most influential philosophers.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of John Belushi]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kevin D. Brandt]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-19-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Years before comedians like Chris Farley made their reputations with a particularly physical form of humor, there was John Belushi, the legendary comedian known for iconic performances in Animal House, The Blues Brothers, and as one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live. Not surprisingly, posters of Belushi as Bluto Blutarsky wearing a shirt that simply says "College" still adorn the walls of countless dorm rooms over 35 years after Animal House came out, and The Blues Brothers is still a cult classic. Belushi made people keel over in laughter in different roles, but there was always a question of how much of the performance was an act, because Belushi's behavior both on and off the set amazed friends and strangers alike, whether it was through hilarious routines or bizarre antics. Indeed, Belushi's escapades in real life actually provided material for Saturday Night Live skits, including an extended spoof called "The Thing That Wouldn't Leave." At the same time, however, his abuse of drugs and alcohol made him unreliable to work with, and he quickly forged a reputation for causing headaches on the set.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of General George Patton]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Marvel]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-19-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Rommel, Guderian, Liddell-Hart, and JFC Fuller were all early exponents and practitioners of armored warfare, tactics that were to break the stalemate that had characterized World War I. Advocates of the tank and above all speed, it was their ideas which decimated Saddam Hussein's forces in the 1990 Gulf War. But among the proponents and practitioners of armored warfare, the brash, bold, arrogant, and eccentric George S. Patton remains the world's greatest armored commander by the one yardstick that really counts: the battlefield. In 1944-45, Patton's Third Army raced across northern Europe, covering more ground and destroying more enemy resources than any other equivalent force in history. Patton is one of America's most celebrated, but his story has its origins in the form of a shy, dyslexic boy who could cry uncontrollably and who viewed his own emotional intelligence as unmanly.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of Attila the Hun]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-19-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Attila, Emperor of the Hunnic Empire and thus most commonly known as Attila the Hun, is an idiosyncratic figure who has become more myth than man, not least because much of his life is shrouded in mystery. Perhaps the most famous "barbarian" in history, Attila was the lord of a vast empire spanning two continents, but he is best remembered for what he did not conquer. Though he seemingly had Rome at his mercy in 452, he ultimately decided not to sack the Eternal City, and a year later he had suffered a mysterious death. What is known about Attila came mostly from Priscus, a guest of his court who wrote several books about Attila's life in Greek. Unfortunately, much of that work was lost to history, but not before the ancient writer Jordanes relied on it to write his own overexaggerated account of Attila's life.
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]]>Title: Al-Qaeda: The History of the World's Most Notorious Terrorist Organization]]>Categories: America, History, Middle East, Planet Earth, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Maxwell Zener]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-18-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, the world has struggled to define al-Qaeda, an amorphous, growing, and seemingly inexhaustible organization. Once a relatively organized group based in one country with a defined hierarchy and clear leadership, al-Qaeda has transformed into a transnational phenomenon over the last few decades, with branches and affiliates operating in dozens of countries across the world. Many call al-Qaeda an enemy, while some define it as an ideology, and others analyze it as a network. Of course, a small minority takes it up as their cause and an extension of their religion. The difficulty of defining al-Qaeda is reflected by the various ways the Arabic word qaeda can be translated. The most common translation is "base" or "foundation", but the word can also be used more ambiguously to mean "method", "principle", or "formula". Some maintain that the early founders of al-Qaeda were envisioning the name in the latter sense, while others believe that the name was applied to the group by outside powers.
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]]>Title: Ebola: The History of the Virus and Its Outbreaks]]>Categories: 21st Century, America, Biology, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Rausch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-18-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It has long been a maxim that it is easy to forget when one is at war who the enemy really is, and that can certainly be said for the Ebola virus, which recently catapulted into headlines and instantly became the most feared disease in the world. In the case of the fight against Ebola, the enemy is not the person who has contracted the disease, nor is it the region where the virus has flourished. The enemy is a microscopic virus that, when seen under sufficient magnification, looks like a piece of loosely knotted rope. While a picture of Ebola under a microscope might look innocuous, it is a living organism that can be killed, but if it is not, it will multiply and evolve much like any other organism, including the human beings it so often kills. Despite the fact Ebola has been notorious for nearly 40 years, its ability to hide and change with the times has made its origins murky and left scientists without a vaccine.
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]]>Title: The Statue of Liberty: The History and Legacy of America's Most Famous Statue]]>Categories: America, Europe, France, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Ian H. Shattuck]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-18-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"[A] masterpiece of the human spirit [that] endures as a highly potent symbol - inspiring contemplation, debate and protest - of ideals such as liberty, peace, human rights, abolition of slavery, democracy, and opportunity." (The UNESCO Statement of Significance, describing the Statue of Liberty) Among America's countless monuments and landmarks, none embodies the principles of the nation quite like Lady Liberty, the colossal statue that stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. A gift from the French that was built and transported in the late 19th century, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of the United States' guarantee of individual freedom. Its location took on added meaning as it welcomed millions of immigrants sailing across the Atlantic to nearby Ellis Island. People around the world are instantly familiar with the statue today, whether from seeing pictures or depictions of it or actually visiting it and going inside. But the story of its construction is just as fascinating. Conceived as a monument that would commemorate the crucial alliance between America and France, the statue was a massive undertaking, from fundraising to the construction of the sculpture and a pedestal.
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]]>Title: Judgment Day: The Historical and Religious Evolution of the Concept of Last Judgment]]>Categories: Christianity, History, Spirituality]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colleen Patrick]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-18-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The concept of a future day when the whole of humanity will stand before God in order to be judged for their actions upon Earth is pervasive in Western literature, mostly owing to its roots in the Judeo-Christian worldview, but such a religious concept is not limited to the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. In fact, it seems to be much more deeply seated in the human psyche because it appears in many disparate religious traditions. That said, the reasons for the pervasive nature of such a concept are not difficult to unravel. Human cultures across the world have a sense of fair play, and while they might have slightly different takes on what constitutes fair play, there is certainly a universal underlying conception of it. In addition to this, there is a distinct impression of a cosmic imbalance in terms of right and wrong; the sense of injustice inherent in human life is one of the most basic observations that poets and philosophers have made throughout human history, and such themes are interwoven throughout world literature, both ancient and modern.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Mae West]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mae Sally-Rouge Pax]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-18-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Mae West will always be remembered as one of Hollywood's biggest icons, and the American Film Institute named her the 15th greatest actress of the 20th century in its Top 100 list, but she also transcended the entertainment industry and became a critical part of Americana itself. Over the course of seven decades, Mae redefined the boundaries of sexuality in ways that made more conservative Americans of the early 20th century uncomfortable, and for good measure she did so boldly and in people's faces. Full of witty rejoinders and one-liners that both flaunted and celebrated her sexuality, she eventually managed to help usher in a more open era, even as the standards of the time found her so controversial that she was often subjected to censorship (which she once quipped "made a fortune" for her). Mae and some of her movies have been widely credited with spurring the implementation of the notorious Hays Code, which censored lewd and obscene material in Hollywood movies for several years, but she remained defiant.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Harriet Tubman]]>Categories: America, Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Arthur P. Daniels]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-18-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Harriet Tubman is one of the most famous women in American history, and from an early age every American learns of her contributions to abolition and the Underground Railroad. The woman who became known as the Moses of her people personally led more than 13 expeditions to free slaves in the South, and she was so integral in helping escaped slaves achieve freedom that her name is practically synonymous with the Underground Railroad today. If anything, the central role she played in the Underground Railroad has become so ingrained among subsequent generations that Tubman's life has been shrouded in legend, and other important aspects have been overlooked. In order to fully appreciate and understand both Harriet Tubman's life and the important role she played in the abolitionist movement, it is necessary to examine the circumstances in which she was raised and what events drove her to the path she chose.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Renaissance: The Life and Legacy of Leonardo da Vinci]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Linsenmayer]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-15-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Renaissance spawned the use of the label "Renaissance man" to describe a person who is extremely talented in multiple fields, and no discussion of the Renaissance is complete without the original Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci. Indeed, if 100 people are asked to describe Leonardo in one word, they might give 100 answers. As the world's most famous polymath and genius, Leonardo found time to be a painter, a sculptor, an architect, a musician, a scientist, a mathematician, an engineer, an inventor, an anatomist, a geologist, a cartographer, a botanist, and a writer. It would be hard to determine which field Leonardo had the greatest influence in. His Mona Lisa and The Last Supper are among the most famous paintings of all time, standing up against even Michelangelo's work. But even if he was not the age's greatest artist, Leonardo may have conducted his most influential work in other fields. His emphasis on the importance of nature would influence enlightened philosophers centuries later, and he sketched speculative designs for gadgets like helicopters that would take another four centuries to create. Leonardo's vision and philosophy were made possible by his astounding work as a mathematician, an engineer, and a scientist.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Cary Grant]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: John Eastman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-15-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Movie stars are revered for their ability to captivate audiences, and perhaps no actor has done it as well as Cary Grant, the epitome of the suave, debonair actor who may have been rivaled only by dancer extraordinaire Fred Astaire. Grant offered a version of the male actor that stood in stark contrast with the gangster heroes and hard-boiled film noir detectives that populated the screen throughout his career. Impeccably groomed and always clad in dapper attire, Grant possessed a magnetism that was undeniably attractive, all while managing to come across as well-heeled and socially respectable. As a result, there was an archetypal quality to Cary Grant that endeared him to both male and female viewers. After all, he was able to star in major movies well into his 60s, and even after he retired, Grant never lost his charm and continued to maintain a universal appeal that has almost never been rivaled. The progression from Grant's youth to his glamorous adult life was a complex transformation of its own, and it is a Hollywood rags-to-riches story of its own.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Bible: The Life and Legacy of King Solomon]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Christianity, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bobby Brill]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-15-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>King Solomon is one of the most famous men in the Bible but also one of the most elusive historical figures. He is credited with supervising the construction of the first Temple in Jerusalem, and excavations and archaeologists continue to dig in an effort to find it in places that are now religiously sensitive for Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Information about King Solomon comes almost exclusively from the book of Kings, occasionally supplemented by additional material found in the book of Chronicles. This is problematic for several reasons. First, the book of Kings does not simply record the actions of the king and the details of his reign for posterity; the author weaves a narrative that is often more concerned about making theological points than recording historical details. Moreover, the first edition of this book was written in the 6th century BC at the earliest, about four centuries after King Solomon would have lived, by an editor given the title of Deuteronomistic historian. It is likely that this editor relied upon some type of royal "court history" as a source document. The temptation with a figure like Solomon can be to go to one of two extremes.
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]]>Title: The Muslim Brotherhood: The History of the Middle East's Most Influential Islamist Group]]>Categories: Egypt, History, Middle East, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Peter L. Delloro]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-15-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 2011, Egypt quickly became one of the most active countries during the Arab Spring, with Tahrir Square in Cairo becoming the focal point of both violent protests and peaceful political demonstrations. Inspired by the protesters in Tunisia, beginning in January 2011, Egyptians rallied to the square and in the streets by the thousands, marching, protesting, and calling for the fall of then-President Hosni Mubarak. Throughout the next several months until the overthrow of Mubarak in February 2011, millions of protesters from a wide range of socio-economic, ethnic, and religious backgrounds demanded a regime change across Egypt. As significant as it was for the Egyptian people, the Egyptian Arab Spring was a key turning point for the Muslim Brotherhood - Egypt's largest and long-oppressed opposition group. The Brotherhood played a key role in organizing demonstrations, pitting the Egyptian and world media against the Mubarak regime, and orchestrating violent riots and clashes between civilian protesters and the Egyptian security forces, further portraying the regime in a negative light.
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]]>Title: Kristallnacht]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Nazi Germany's Most Notorious Pogrom]]>Categories: Europe, Germany, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-15-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"It did not take long before the first heavy gray stones came tumbling down, and the children of the village amused themselves as they flung stones into the many-colored windows. When the first rays of a cold and pale November sun penetrated the heavy, dark clouds, the little synagogue was but a heap of stone, broken glass, and smashed-up woodwork." (Eric Lucas' description of the destruction of a synagogue during Kristallnacht) On the 40th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Germany's night of broken glass, then-chancellor of Germany, Helmut Schmidt, spoke of its legacy: "The German night, whose observance after the passage of 40 years has brought us together today, remains a cause of bitterness and shame. In those places where the houses of God stood in flames, where a signal from those in power set off a train of destruction and robbery - of humiliation, abduction, and incarceration - there was an end to peace, to justice, to humanity.
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]]>Title: The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Zulu]]>Categories: Africa, Civilization, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Wayne Paige]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-15-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Zulu are one of the most famous ethnic groups in Africa and possibly one of the most misunderstood. Of course that is due almost entirely to the fact that European colonial powers encountered the powerful group in the 19th century and found that they were more than willing to resist and fight them.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Frederick Douglass]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Edoardo Camponeschi]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-15-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. With the possible exception of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., no African American has been more instrumental in the fight for minorities' civil rights in the United States than Frederick Douglass (1818 - 1895), an American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. His list of accomplishments would be impressive enough even without taking into account the fact that he was born into slavery. It's believed his father was a white man, even perhaps his master Aaron Anthony. When Douglass was about 12, his slaveowner's wife, Sophia Auld, began teaching him the alphabet in defiance of the South's laws against teaching slaves how to read.
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]]>Title: Fighting for Women's Suffrage: The Lives and Legacies of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton]]>Categories: America, Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Lu Anne Martucci]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-15-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Together, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the most important partnership in the history of women's rights in America. The women worked seamlessly, with Stanton providing the forceful ideology and Anthony providing the tireless advocacy. Stanton would later characterize their relationship, "It is often said, by those who know Miss Anthony best, that she has been my good angel, always pushing and goading me to work, and that but for her pertinacity I should never have accomplished the little I have. On the other hand it has been said that I forged the thunderbolts and she fired them. Perhaps all this is, in a measure, true." Despite their partnership, the two women are often remembered quite differently. Stanton is something of an unsung hero in the history of the feminist movement. Though she is still primarily known as an advocate of women's suffrage and is closely linked to the better known Susan B. Anthony, Stanton was shunned by many of her fellow suffragists because her ideas seem too radical and because many were disturbed by her barely Deist view of religion.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Betsy Ross]]>Categories: America, Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Zarbock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-15-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Betsy Ross is one of the few women in American history whose name is known to every American, but that is not the only reason she's such a unique figure. Indeed, Betsy Ross is a true rarity in that she has been turned into a mythological heroine. Every country has legends, and tales that grow out of its founding, but given that the United States is a relatively young country, there is ample historical information on the lives and exploits of its Founders. Though there are apocryphal myths attached to men like George Washington, who did not chop down the cherry tree, American legends are usually famous for what they actually did. This is not the case with Betsy Ross, who remains best known for creating the first American flag at Washington's behest. But that story is based entirely on legend and rumor, and as such, her life is interesting more as a symbol than as an individual life. Historian Marla Miller, author of the definitive biography of Ross, explains this dilemma: "From start to finish, Betsy Ross remained elusive to me as an individual.
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]]>Title: Chairman Mao: The Life and Legacy of Mao Zedong]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, China, Head of State]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Cliff Truesdell]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-15-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It's a sure sign of fame when a man is known simply by his first name, and Mao Zedong, often referred to simply as Mao or Chairman Mao, was one of the most influential men of the 20th century. He was also arguably the most controversial; as the founder of the People's Republic of China, Mao rose from being a communist revolutionary to successfully overthrowing a regime and transforming China into a communist powerhouse in Asia. The ramifications of Mao's life and legacy are still very much felt today, as China continues to transition into a superpower that may soon lay claim to the world's largest economy. Mao's communist revolution is still controversial, but it was his reign over China that has made him notorious, and in the West he is often considered one of history's biggest tyrants. Mao's revolution and his subsequent policies have been accused of causing millions of deaths, possibly more than the likes of Hitler and Stalin.
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]]>Title: Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla: The Pioneers of Electricity]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, STEM, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Barbara H. Scott]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-14-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Thomas Edison holds a unique legacy in the United States, but there's no denying that his inventions have benefited the world as a whole. Known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park", every American knows that their nation's most prolific inventor harnessed the power of electricity to create the first light bulb. But that was just one of over 1,000 patents Edison would establish during his life, as he not only dreamed up new devices but also revolutionized the way materials were mass produced. His life's work heavily influenced everything from electric power, batteries and lighting to cement, telegraphy and mining. While Edison's inventions are important, what he represented was also critical to the nation as a whole. Edison represented the American Dream, specifically the notion that hard work can accomplish anything, and he always understood that himself, once exhorting the nation, "Be courageous! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation." As one Edison biographer put it, "Thomas Edison was more responsible than any one else for creating the modern world...No one did more to shape the physical/cultural makeup of present day civilization..."
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]]>Title: The Mother of Theosophy: The Life and Legacy of H. P. Blavatsky]]>Categories: Biography, Religion, Spirituality, Theosophy]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Doron Alon]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-14-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Among the New Age Movement and modern spiritualists, one name stands above the rest: Helena Petrovna (H.P.) Blavatsky. Blavatsky is best known today for co-founding the Theosophical School, a religious school of thought that she labeled "the archaic Wisdom-Religion, the esoteric doctrine once known in every ancient country having claims to civilization", and nobody was more qualified than Blavatsky to forge such a creation. During her second marriage, Blavatsky traveled to various parts of the world, including Egypt, France, Germany, Mexico, South America, Canada, and India, absorbing all the diverse cultures, customs, religions, and philosophies she came across. Once she had extensively studied all of the different movements she had experienced, Blavatsky went about synthesizing Theosophy and creating a worldview that offered explanations for the origin, workings and ultimate fate of every aspect of mankind's existence, in order to "form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color." Blavatsky did so by becoming an incredibly prolific writer, and some of her works have become cult classics, particularly The Secret Doctrine and Isis Unveiled.
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]]>Title: The Battle of Leipzig: The History and Legacy of the Biggest Battle of the Napoleonic Wars]]>Categories: 19th Century, Europe, History, Military, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Phillip J. Mather]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-14-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Though Napoleon Bonaparte's unquenchable thirst for military adventurism eventually cost him both his throne and his freedom during the Napoleonic Wars of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the French emperor was not easily defeated, even when most of Europe's nations united against him. Two military setbacks, on a scale unprecedented in history, were required before the high tide of Napoleon's success began to ebb towards the final denouement of the Hundred Days and the famous Battle of Waterloo. The incredible losses inflicted on Napoleon's Grand Armee by the ill-fated invasion of Russia in 1812 constituted the first setback that switched the Corsican's life journey from the road of success to that of defeat and exile. A huge, veteran, highly experienced force, the French Army of Napoleon perished on the rain-soaked tracks and sun-seared plains of Russia. Napoleon eventually committed over 400,000 men to his Russian project, but at the end of a relatively brief campaign, only about 40,000 men returned to Germany alive, and the Russians took some 100,000 prisoner and largely absorbed them into the Russian military or population.
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]]>Title: Tiananmen Square: The Site of China's Most Infamous Protests]]>Categories: 20th Century, Asia, China, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-14-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Tiananmen Square, a large city square in the center of Beijing, can be said to represent the essence of Chinese culture, being the site of several important events in the country's history. It is characterized as being a vast open ground centered on and defined by a series of monuments constructed over a period of 500 years. Named after the Tiananmen gate, one that means the "Gate of Heavenly Peace", the square is located towards the north of the gate, separating it from the Forbidden City. Considered the fourth largest city square in the world, its dimensions are 440,000 square meters. Outside China, the square has come to be best known as the pivotal point of the protests of 1989 which were part of a pro-democracy movement which ended on June 4, 1989, with the declaration of martial law in Beijing by the government, and a casualty rate of thousands of civilians. The events that took place at this Square include the annual mass military displays on each anniversary of the 1949 proclamation, and the 1984 military parade for the 35th anniversary of the People's Republic of China which coincided with the ascendancy of Deng Xiaoping.
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]]>Title: The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Inca]]>Categories: America, History, Indigenous, Planet Earth, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Neal Arango]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-14-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>During the Age of Exploration, Native American tribes fell victim to European conquerors seeking legendary cities made of gold and other riches, attempts that were often being made in vain. And yet, of all the empires that were conquered across the continent, the one that continues to be most intimately associated with legends of gold and hidden riches is the Inca Empire. The Inca Empire, which flourished in modern day Peru and along the west coast of South America, was the largest Native American empire in pre-Columbian America until Pizarro and the Spanish conquistadors conquered them in the 16th century. What ultimately sealed their doom was the rumor that huge amounts of gold were available in regions south of the Andes Mountains. The culture and legacy of the Inca Empire has continued to endure throughout the centuries in both Europe and South America, due in no small part to the fact they were one of the most advanced and sophisticated cultures on the continent. Their religion, organization, and laws were effectively centralized and tied to the rulers of the empire, and their military mobilization would have made the ancient Spartans proud.
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]]>Title: Sigmund Freud: The Life and Legacy of History's Most Famous Psychiatrist]]>Categories: Biography, Health, History, Mental Health]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Edoardo Camponeschi]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-13-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Only for the most select and most balanced minds does it seem possible to guard the perceived picture of external reality against the distortion to which it is otherwise subjected in its transit through the psychic individuality of the one perceiving it." - Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known around the world as the "Father of Psychoanalysis", and for good reason. If anything, Freud's first patient was himself. A sufferer of psychosomatic symptoms, Freud diagnosed himself as having a repressed antagonism against his father. From there, Freud began to build on his now famous concepts of the unconscious, infantile sexuality and repression. And of course, there's his famous theory on the structure of the mind, which has made Id and Ego a commonly used part of the English lexicon. In addition to all but creating a new field of science, Freud also contributed to entire industries. One of the first to try to analyze dreams, Freud's work has led patients in search of psychological explanations for various physical and mental symptoms and phenomena. The Interpretation of Dreams is Sigmund Freud's best known work, focusing on his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation.
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]]>Title: The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Aztec]]>Categories: America, History, Indigenous, Planet Earth, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-13-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>From the moment Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes first found and confronted them, the Aztecs have fascinated the world, and they continue to hold a unique place both culturally and in pop culture. Nearly 500 years after the Spanish conquered their mighty empire, the Aztecs are often remembered for their major capital, Tenochtitlan, as well as for being fierce conquerors of the Valley of Mexico who often engaged in human sacrifice rituals. Ironically, and unlike the Mayans, the Aztecs are not widely viewed or remembered with nuance, in part because their own leader burned extant Aztec writings and rewrote a mythologized history explaining his empire's dominance less than a century before the Spanish arrived. Naturally, Cortes and other Spaniards depicted the Aztecs as savages greatly in need of conversion to Catholicism.
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]]>Title: The Nazi Invasion of Poland: The History of the Campaign That Started World War II]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dan Gallagher]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-13-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The object of the war is...to physically destroy the enemy. That is why I have prepared, for the moment only in the East, my 'Death's Head' formations with orders to kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of Polish descent or language. Only in this way can we obtain the living space we need." (Hitler, August 1939) Throughout 1938 and 1939, conflict broke out across Europe after the social and economic disorder brought about by World War I helped the Nazis rise to power in Germany. In 1937, Adolf Hitler declared the Treaty of Versailles void and began aggressively annexing parts of the European continent. Europe's attempts to appease him, most notably at Munich in 1938, failed as Nazi Germany swallowed up Austria and Czechoslovakia by 1939. Italy was on the march as well, invading Albania in April of 1939. The straw that broke the camel's back, however, was Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1 of that year.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Jayne Mansfield]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Roy Wells]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-12-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I don't know why you people like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what's her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of course, helped me a lot to get where I am. I don't know how they got there." - Jayne Mansfield A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Although she came of age in an era when Hollywood studios were looking for blonde bombshells like Marilyn Monroe, and she followed that path to instant stardom, Jayne Mansfield had one of the most unique Hollywood careers in the 1950s and 1960s.
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]]>Title: Ancient Artifacts: The Dead Sea Scrolls]]>Categories: Ancient, Christianity, History, Islam]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Glenn Jerald Koster Jr.]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-12-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the mid-20th century, one of the most important religious discoveries of all time was made in a series of caves near the Dead Sea, which had hidden remnants of nearly 1,000 texts, some of which were included in the Hebrew Bible and others which were extra-biblical. In addition to being the oldest surviving copies of such documents, the mixture of languages and different kinds of papers helped shed light on the people in the region at the time, making the Dead Sea Scrolls vitally important to the world's major religions. The impact that these scrolls have had on the fields of biblical studies and the history of Second Temple Judaism can hardly be overstated. As The Oxford Companion to Archaeology put it, "The biblical manuscripts from Qumran, which include at least fragments from every book of the Old Testament, except perhaps for the Book of Esther, provide a far older cross section of scriptural tradition than that available to scholars before.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Spencer Tracy]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: James Romick]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-12-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture." (Spencer Tracy) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Of all the screen legends whose names remain synonymous with Hollywood, few took as long to become a star as Spencer Tracy, who is today recognized as one of the greatest actors ever, but whose career did not truly take off until he was already in his mid-30s.
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]]>Title: The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]]>Categories: Ancient, Egypt, Europe, Greece]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Paul Bloede]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-12-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I have gazed on the walls of impregnable Babylon along which chariots may race, and on the Zeus by the banks of the Alpheus, I have seen the hanging gardens, and the Colossus of the Helios, the great man-made mountains of the lofty pyramids, and the gigantic tomb of Mausolus; but when I saw the sacred house of Artemis that towers to the clouds, the others were placed in the shade, for the sun himself has never looked upon its equal outside Olympus." - Antipater of Sidon Nearly 2,000 years ago, two ancient writers named Antipater of Sidon and Philo of Byzantium authored antiquity's most well-known tour guides. After the two Greeks had traveled around the Mediterranean, they wrote of what they considered to be the classical world's greatest construction projects. While there is still some question as to who actually authored the text attributed to Philo and Antipater at the time of its creation, their lists ended up comprising the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, igniting interest in the ones they chosen and inspiring subsequent generations to identify their era's own Seven Wonders. Naturally, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World may be considered something of a misnomer.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Buster Keaton]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-12-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"It's said that Chaplin wanted you to like him, but Keaton didn't care. I think he cared, but was too proud to ask. His films avoid the pathos and sentiment of the Chaplin pictures, and usually feature a jaunty young man who sees an objective and goes for it in the face of the most daunting obstacles. Buster survives tornados, waterfalls, avalanches of boulders, and falls from great heights, and never pauses to take a bow: He has his eye on his goal. And his movies, seen as a group, are like a sustained act of optimism in the face of adversity; surprising, how without asking, he earns our admiration and tenderness." - Roger Ebert A lot of time has been spent covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In the 1920s, the burgeoning movie industry was starting to come into its own.
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]]>Title: The Munich Agreement of 1938: The History of the Peace Pact that Failed to Prevent World War II]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: John Skinner]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-12-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"My good friends," the mustached, bony man with thick eyebrows and large, strong teeth somewhat reminiscent of those of a horse, shouted to the crowds from the second-floor window of his house at 10 Downing Street, "[T]his is the second time in our history, that there has come back to Downing Street from Germany peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time." The man addressing the crowd, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, had just returned from the heart of Nazi Germany following negotiations with Adolf Hitler, and the crowd gathered outside the English leader's house on September 30, 1938 greeted these ringing words with grateful cheers. The piece of paper Chamberlain flourished exultantly seemed to offer permanent amity and goodwill between democratic Britain and totalitarian Germany.
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]]>Title: Legends of Hollywood: The Life of William Shatner]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Nick Hart]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-11-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Includes Shatner's own quotes about his life and career. "I'm not a Starfleet commander, or T. J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-1701...or own a phaser. I don't know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock. And no, I've never had green alien sex, but I'm sure it'd be quite an evening. I speak English and French, not Klingon! I drink Labatt's, not Romulan Ale! And when someone says to me 'live long and prosper', I seriously mean it when I say, 'get a life'. My doctor's name is not McCoy, it's Ginsberg. And tribbles were puppets, not real animals. PUPPETS! And when I speak, I never, ever talk like Every. Word. Is. Its. Own. Sentence. I live in California, but I was raised in Montreal. And I believe in Priceline.com, where you never have to pay full price for airline tickets, hotels, and car rentals! I've appeared on stage at Stratford, at Carnegie Hall, Albert Hall, and the Monkland Theatre in NDG.
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]]>Title: The Earp Brothers: Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp]]>Categories: America, Biography, Crime, Crime Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Alex Hyde-White - Punch Audio]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-11-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Of all the colorful characters that inhabited the West during the 19th century, the most famous of them all is Wyatt Earp (1848-1929), who has long been regarded as the embodiment of the Wild West. Considered the "toughest and deadliest gunman of his day", Earp symbolized the swagger, the heroism, and even the lawlessness of the West. He was notorious for being a law enforcer, gambler, saloon keeper, and vigilante. The Western icon is best known for being a sheriff in Tombstone, but before that he had been arrested and jailed several times himself, in one case escaping from prison. And he was not above gambling and spending time in "houses of ill-fame". Though they have long been overshadowed by their more famous brother Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp played decisive roles in some of the most famous events in the history of the Old West. Most notably, the two brothers were at Wyatt's side for America's most famous gunfight: the gunfight at the O. K. Corral. Though the gunfight lasted less than a minute, it is still widely remembered as the climactic event of the period, representing lawlessness and justice, vendettas, and a uniquely Western moral code.
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]]>Title: French Legends: The Life and Legacy of King Louis XIV]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, France, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Edoardo Camponeschi]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-11-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate." (Louis XIV) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' French Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of France's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. France's most famous king, and Europe's longest serving, Louis XIV (1638-1715) is often viewed today as a symbol of royal extravagance and splendor. Reigning for over 72 years, the legacy of the "Sun King" is remembered for the magnificent Palace of Versailles, the patronizing of arts and theater, and the apocryphal quote "l'Etat c'est moi" (I am the State). Although it is more than fair to associate the Sun King with vanity and unfathomable spending on luxury, the laser-sharp focus on the superficial aspects of the man and his reign have come to overshadow just how effective he was as a ruler.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Renaissance: The Life and Legacy of Lorenzo de' Medici]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Christopher Hudspeth]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-11-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Discusses Lorenzo's relationships with other famous Renaissance legends, including Leonardo and Michelangelo. Includes a bibliography for further reading. "How beautiful is youth that is always slipping away." (Lorenzo de' Medici) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? When historians are asked to pick a point in history when Western civilization was transformed and guided down the path to modernity, most of them point to the Renaissance. Indeed the Renaissance revolutionized art, philosophy, religion, sciences, and math, with individuals like Galileo, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Dante, and Petrarch bridging the past and modern society. In Charles River Editors' Legends of the Renaissance, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of the most important men and women of the Renaissance in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Most historians credit the city-state of Florence as the place that started and developed the Italian Renaissance, a process carried out through the patronage and commission of artists during the late 12th century.
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]]>Title: Betty Grable & Rita Hayworth: The Most Famous Pin-Up Models of World War II]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Kelly Rhodes]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-11-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them." (Betty Grable) "I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life - and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't?" (Rita Hayworth) No history of American pop culture in the 1940s would be complete without mention of Betty Grable, the most popular pinup girl of the World War II era. Grable possessed the outstanding fortune of not only having an ideal body, but of arriving at the most fortuitous time imaginable. The famous pin-up photo of her, taken by Frank Powolny, made her the highest-earning actress in Hollywood from 1943 to 1951. Indeed, it was not hyperbole that earned Grable the nickname of "the girl with the million dollar legs" - not only were her legs famously adored by American soldiers fighting overseas, they were actually insured to the tune of one million dollars.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Jack Lemmon]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Allison McKay]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-11-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is." (Jack Lemmon) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The great film director Billy Wilder once noted of Jack Lemmon that Lemmon "was my everyman", and Lemmon did indeed represent a great everyman to American audiences during the latter half of the 20th century. For rich, poor, and working class audiences alike, Lemmon was an accessible leading male, someone certainly less stately than Cary Grant or Laurence Olivier and seemingly more approachable even than archetypal leading men such as Jimmy Stewart or Henry Fonda.
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]]>Title: Latin American Revolutionaries: The Life and Legacy of Fidel Castro]]>Categories: America, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-11-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Includes some of Fidel's quotes about Cuba, the revolution, and America. Includes a bibliography of books about Castro and written by him. "Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour." (Fidel Castro, 1959) Fidel Castro is one of the most influential and controversial men of the last 50 years, equally revered and reviled by people across the globe. To the West Castro has long been one of the prominent faces of Communism and the main reason Cuba has been ostracized by many liberal democracies, particularly the United States. On the other hand, Castro has been admired by those who despised capitalism, and despite the fact the political platform Castro advocated has been almost universally repudiated and maintains only a weak hold even in Cuba, Castro's Marxist-leaning writings and speeches have influenced other leaders across the globe, from Hugo Chavez to Nelson Mandela. Although his health has been poor for several years, and rumors relentlessly abound about his imminent demise, Castro continues to be the face of Cuba for better and worse.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Jim Henson]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: John Gagnepain]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-11-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Includes Henson's own quotes about his life and career. Includes a bibliography for further reading. Includes a table of contents. "When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there." (Jim Henson) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. When people discuss the great television characters of all time, names such as Lucille Ball, Andy Griffith, and Jerry Seinfeld are frequently mentioned, but so are fictional characters like Kermit the Frog. What makes Kermit an interesting choice is the fact that he's a Muppet and just one of Jim Henson's many iconic Muppets at that.
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]]>Title: British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Audrey Hepburn]]>Categories: Biography, Entertainment, Female Protagonist]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Deborah Fennelly]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-11-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"One might guess this is Miss Hepburn's picture, since she has the title role and has come to it trailing her triumphs from last year's Roman Holiday. And, indeed, she is wonderful in it - a young lady of extraordinary range of sensitive and moving expressions within such a frail and slender frame. She is even more luminous as the daughter and pet of the servants' hall than she was as a princess last year, and no more than that can be said." (Bosley Crowther, movie critic for The New York Times, 1954) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' British Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of Britain's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. For someone whose career ended over 30 years ago, Audrey Hepburn continues to retain her popularity and exert a strong influence over how people view beauty and sophistication.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Bible: The Ark of the Covenant]]>Categories: Ancient, Christianity, History, Judaism, Religious Study]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Hartley G. Lesser]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-11-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' Legends of the Bible series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of the Bible's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The ark of the covenant is perhaps the most legendary and mysterious relic mentioned in the Bible, fascinating Jews and Christians for thousands of years and even spurring some to search for it.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Walter Matthau]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Allison McKay]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-11-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Includes Matthau's own quotes about his life and career. "Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality.... The Odd Couple was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that." (Walter Matthau) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Walter Matthau is probably best-remembered for his films with Jack Lemmon, but he was clearly an established actor in Hollywood by the time they appeared in their first film together. Before his movies with Lemmon, Matthau most often played shady criminals in dramatic films, and his character in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957) offers one of the best examples.
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]]>Title: The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic: The History and Legacy of the World's Deadliest Influenza Outbreak]]>Categories: America, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Marvel]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-08-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"One of the startling features of the pandemic was its sudden flaring up and its equally sudden decline, reminding one of a flame consuming highly combustible material, which died down as soon as the supply of the material was exhausted. There is every reason to believe that, within a few weeks of its onset, the infection was universally present in the nose and throat of the people, disseminated by mouth spray given off on talking by innumerable carriers and, in addition, by the coughing and sneezing of the sick. Susceptibility was very general, though it varied greatly in degree. Among those who escaped well marked sickness there are few who could not recall having had an occluded or running nose, or a raw feeling in the throat, or a cough, or aches and pains, at some time during the period of the prevalence of the disease, these probably representing the price such persons paid for their immunization." - Dr. Bernard Fantus In many ways, it is hard for modern people living in first-world countries to conceive of a pandemic sweeping around the world and killing millions of people.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Robert Mitchum]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Geremy "Wolf" DuBois]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-08-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I never take any notice of reviews - unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now." - Robert Mitchum A lot of time has been spent covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. If one assembled a list of the most iconic actors of the film noir genre, Robert Mitchum would surely rank at the top of the list. With his deadpan façade and slow, monotone verbal delivery, Mitchum encapsulated the disillusioned hero of the postwar crime genre. In many of his most famous movies from the postwar era, including Out of the Past (1947) and Angel Face (1952), Mitchum plays anti-heroes who are victims of circumstance.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Solomon Northup]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colleen Patrick]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-08-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Having been born a freeman, and for more than 30 years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State - and having at the end of that time been kidnapped and sold into Slavery, where I remained, until happily rescued in the month of January, 1853, after a bondage of 12 years - it has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public." (Solomon Northup) A lot of time has been spent covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In 2013 the release of the critically acclaimed 12 Years a Slave once again shined the spotlight on slave narratives. The movie's depiction of Solomon Northup's slave narrative pushed him front and center in the public consciousness.
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]]>Title: Legendary Scientists: The Life and Legacy of Alexander Graham Bell]]>Categories: America, Biography, History, STEM, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Christian Carvajal]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-08-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things." (Alexander Graham Bell) Today Alexander Graham Bell is remembered almost solely for one of the few things he didn't have in his laboratory: the telephone. Long hailed as the inventor of the telephone, that accomplishment has nevertheless overshadowed a long and legendary scientific career that saw Bell contribute to a vast number of fields, ranging from geology to aeronautics. Bell also had the misfortune of being outshined by his contemporary, Thomas Edison, who invented the incandescent lightbulb and has gone down in history as America's greatest inventor. Like many great scientists and inventors, Bell had an unusually gifted intellect that was nurtured from an early age. Even as a child he had access to a workshop that allowed his curious mind to experiment and work. He was also multitalented, flourishing in music, art, and even a unique form of sign language as his mother grew deaf, an event that would play an influential role in his development of various fields of communication.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder]]>Categories: Biography, Coming of Age, Female Protagonist, For Children]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Zarbock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-07-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell." (Laura Ingalls Wilder) In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise-but-comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end. "A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin." So begins the first of a series of primarily autobiographical books for children that would give 20th century America a look at what it was like when the country was still young and the West was a largely empty, untamed wilderness. They were written by a woman who had experienced a hardscrabble frontier life: Laura Ingalls Wilder. The books were first published in the 1930s, when the United States desperately needed a reminder that "tough times don't last but tough people do".
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]]>Title: British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Admiral Horatio Nelson]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Phillip J. Mather]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-07-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Includes detailed descriptions of Nelson's greatest victories, including the Battle of Trafalgar. Includes Nelson's most famous quotes. "England expects that every man will do his duty." (Nelson before the Battle of Trafalgar) Over the course of its history, England has engaged in an uncountable number of battles, but none of her military heroes has had a greater military legacy than Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté. Whether traveling to Trafalgar Square or one of the hundreds of pubs named after him, seemingly it becomes easy to believe that no Briton has cast as long a shadow. Nelson is well known across the world for his decisive victory at Trafalgar, made all the more legendary by the fact that he was mortally wounded at the height of his greatest feat. And it is understandable that any man who could thwart Napoleon's ambitions as well as Nelson did would earn a place in the history books. But Nelson embodied every virtue of his homeland; a dashing, courageous military officer who was impeccably cultured, and, of course, the best at what he did.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of James Cagney]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: James Romick]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-07-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them.... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can. " (James Cagney) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. When the American Film Institute assembled a list of its top 100 actors of all time at the close of the 20th century, one of the top 10 was James Cagney, an actor whose acting and dancing talents spawned a stage and film career that spanned over five decades and once compelled Orson Welles to call him "maybe the greatest actor to ever appear in front of a camera." Indeed his portrayal of "The Man Who Owns Broadway", George M. Cohan, earned him an Academy Award in the musical Yankee Doodle Dandy.
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]]>Title: Black Hawk Down: The History of the Battle of Mogadishu]]>Categories: 20th Century, America, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Richard Wayne Stageman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-07-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Includes an explanation of the action, what went wrong, and an analysis of who was to blame. Includes online resources, footnotes, and a bibliography for further reading. Includes a table of contents. "The Somalis were a curious bunch. For every armed person, there were 50 unarmed just standing around, often right next to the guy firing at us." (Michael Goffena, a Black Hawk pilot) If it was the dawn of a new world order in the 1990s, it was one of American unilateralism. Throughout the decade America's unrivaled power and the globalization of the world through technology like the Internet offered Americans a sense of security and a belief that the United States could accomplish anything. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States was the world's only remaining superpower, and communism around the world began to decline.
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]]>Title: First Ladies: The Life and Legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt]]>Categories: America, Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Katherine Thompson]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-07-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>American presidents have shaped the course of global affairs for generations. But as the saying goes, behind every great man there's a great woman. While the first ladies often remain overshadowed by their husbands, some have carved unique niches in their time and left their own lasting legacy. Dolley Madison helped establish the role of the first lady in the early 1800s. Eleanor Roosevelt gave voice to policy issues in a way that made her a forerunner of first ladies like Hillary Clinton. And Jackie Kennedy created glamorous trends that made her more popular than her husband. In Charles River Editors' First Ladies series, listeners can get caught up on the lives and legacies of America's most famous first ladies in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. If Dolley Madison was instrumental in molding the role of first lady in the 19th century, credit can be given to Eleanor Roosevelt for revolutionizing the political nature of the role in the 20th and 21st centuries and making it possible for presidents like Bill Clinton to enlist their wives to handle political duties.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Wright Brothers]]>Categories: America, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Rich Germaine]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-07-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity, and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life. I have been trying to arrange my affairs in such a way that I can devote my entire time for a few months to experiment in this field." (Wilbur Wright, 1900) A lot of time has been spent covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright are quintessential American stories. Growing up in America's heartland, the boys lived very ordinary lives with five other siblings and worked printing and repair jobs that involved tinkering with tools and bicycles.
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]]>Title: Notorious Assassins: The Life and Legacy of Marcus Brutus]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-07-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Includes historical accounts of Caesar's assassination. Includes a bibliography for further reading. "Sic semper tyrannis!" ("Thus, always, to tyrants!") (Attributed to Brutus) Throughout the annals of history, there have been few men as reviled as Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger. To this day he is associated with murder, betrayal, violence, and infamy, so much so that in modern English his name provides the root for the words "brute" and "brutal", as it does in several other Romance languages. Indeed Brutus' reputation was so infamous that when Dante composed his timeless Divine Comedy, he relegated Brutus to the very nethermost depths of hell. In the Inferno, Dante reaches the pit of the ninth circle of hell, where he finds the fallen angel Lucifer himself. Lucifer is described as a giant, three-faced demon whose three mouths are perpetually gnashing upon three sinners, widely regarded as being the three most despicable individuals in history. According to Dante, the deepest circle of hell is reserved for traitors, including traitors against kin, traitors against homeland, traitors against guests, and traitors against benefactors.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Daniel Boone]]>Categories: America, Biography, Explorer, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Rosie Wolf Williams]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-07-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Analyzes some of the legends about Daniel Boone's life in an effort to separate fact from fiction. Explains how Daniel Boone's legacy was shaped and how he became a national icon. Includes a bibliography for further reading. "Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man." (Daniel Boone) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The Wild West and the frontier have long held a special place in the narrative of American history, and all of the legends and folk heroes who lived in the 19th century owe their reputations to the original American frontier folk hero, Daniel Boone.
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]]>Title: The Post-War Division of Germany and the Construction of the Berlin Wall]]>Subtitle: The History of the Cold War Split Between East and West]]>Categories: America, Europe, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dave Wright]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an 'Iron Curtain' has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow." - Winston Churchill, 1946 "Here in Berlin, one cannot help being aware that you are the hub around which turns the wheel of history.... If ever there were a people who should be constantly sensitive to their destiny, the people of Berlin, East and West, should be they." - Martin Luther King, Jr. The European continent was devastated in the wake of World War II, and the conflict left the Soviet Union and the United States as uncontested superpowers.
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]]>Title: Napoleon's Invasion of Russia: The History and Legacy of the French Emperor's Greatest Military Blunder]]>Categories: Europe, France, History, Military, Russia]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dave Wright]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The thunderstorms of the 24th turned into other downpours, turning the tracks - some diarists claim there were no roads in Lithuania - into bottomless mires. Wagons sank up to their hubs; horses dropped from exhaustion; men lost their boots. Stalled wagons became obstacles that forced men around them and stopped supply wagons and artillery columns. Then came the sun, which would bake the deep ruts into canyons of concrete, where horses would break their legs and wagons their wheels." (Richard K. Riehn) French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was not a man made for peacetime. By 1812 he had succeeded in subduing most of his enemies - though in Spain the British continued to be a perpetual thorn in his flank that drained the empire of money and troops - but his relationship with Russia, never more than one of mutual suspicion at best, had now grown downright hostile. At the heart of it, aside from the obvious mistrust that two huge superpowers intent on dividing up Europe felt for one another, was Napoleon's Continental blockade. Russia had initially agreed to uphold the blockade in the Treaty of Tilsit, but they had since taken to ignoring it altogether.
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]]>Title: The Greatest Battles in History: The Battle of Britain]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Philip Andrew Hodges]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The gratitude of every home in our island, in our empire, and indeed throughout the world except in the abodes of the guilty goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unweakened by their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of world war by their prowess and their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." (Winston Churchill, August 20, 1940) At the end of August 2012, the BBC ran a report about the commemoration of a young man who had been killed over 70 years earlier. "A Battle of Britain pilot who was killed when his Spitfire crashed following a dogfight in the skies above Kent has been honored. Flying Officer Oswald St John 'Ossie' Pigg lost his life in the crash at Elvey Farm on September 1, 1940. The 22-year-old had been involved in an aerial fight with a Messerschmitt.
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]]>Title: History for Kids: Apollo 11 and the First Moon Landing]]>Categories: Astronomy, Biography, For Children, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: David Zarbock]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"10, 9, ignition sequence start, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, zero. All engines running. Liftoff! We have a liftoff! Thirty-two minutes past the hour. Liftoff on Apollo 11!" (Jack King, NASA Chief of Public Information) At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, time stands still throughout the world, as thousands converge on the Kennedy Space Center and millions tune in on live television. At that instant, the first rumbles began to shake the ground as a small spacecraft attached to a giant Saturn V rocket several hundred feet tall starts to lift off. Quickly being propelled several thousand miles per hour, it takes just a few minutes to reach a speed of 15,000 miles per hour, and just a few more minutes to enter orbit at 18,000 miles per hour. Apollo 11 is on its way to a historic first landing on the Moon. Apollo 11's trip to the Moon may have started on that day in 1969, but the journey began over a decade earlier as part of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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]]>Title: Notorious Assassins: The Life of John Wilkes Booth]]>Categories: American Civil War, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Chris Abell]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Right or wrong. God judge me, not man. For be my motive good or bad, of one thing I am sure, the lasting condemnation of the North." (John Wilkes Booth) Before the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth was one of the most famous actors of his time; President Abraham Lincoln had even watched him perform. But his most significant performance at a theater did not take place on the stage. That night Booth became one of history's most infamous assassins when he shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC. Booth was a member of the prominent 19th-century Booth theatrical family from Maryland, and he was a well-known actor throughout much of the country by the 1860s. But Booth was also a Confederate sympathizer who dabbled in espionage, and he was increasingly outraged at the Lincoln administration. Although Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox a few days earlier, an action often cited as the end of the Civil War, Booth believed the war was not yet over because Confederate soldiers under General Joseph E. Johnston were still fighting.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Middle Ages]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of William the Conqueror]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jack Chekijian]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Stranger and conqueror, his deeds won him a right to a place on the roll of English statesmen, and no man that came after him has won a right to a higher place." (E. A. Freeman) A lot of time has been spent covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' Legends of the Middle Ages series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of the most important medieval men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. "We, conquered by William, have liberated the conqueror's land." So reads the memorial to the British war dead at Bayeaux, Normandy. Commemorating those who gave their lives to free France in 1944, it also serves to remind us of an earlier conflict. For the English, the Norman conquest remains deeply embedded in the national psyche. As the last contested military invasion to have succeeded in conquering this proud island nation, the date of 1066 is the one every citizen can remember.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Jackie Gleason]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: James Shelton]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>If Lon Chaney will forever be recognized as 'The Man with 1,000 Faces', Jackie Gleason holds a legitimate claim to being 'The Man with 1,000 Personas.' Indeed, during his time hosting The Jackie Gleason Show on television, he developed numerous alter egos, including tough guy Rudy the Repairman, the energetic Joe the Bartender, and the alcoholic Rum Dum. Physically, there was no mistaking Jackie Gleason (the way one certainly could with Lon Chaney), but Gleason also possessed an uncanny ability to alternate between personas. In the years before the Rat Pack made the nightclub lifestyle chic and glamorous on a national scale, Jackie Gleason presided as perhaps the foremost nightclub figure in America, and nobody excelled at situation comedy as well as he. Paradoxically, the iconic element of Jackie Gleason's persona was that he was able to maintain so many personas simultaneously. In a sense, each of these characters bears traces of the "real" Jackie Gleason. But the fact remains that the many personas of Jackie Gleason make it difficult to figure out exactly who Jackie Gleason actually was beneath his show business facades.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Dean Martin]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Allison McKay]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"If people want to think I get drunk and stay out all night, let 'em. That's how I got here, you know." (Dean Martin) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin is an American legend for his longevity and success across a garden variety of different platforms. Martin began as a nightclub singer, performed in a comedy act, starred in films, recorded hit albums, and capped his career by serving as a television host. In fact, there may be no star who was better able to transcend the different avenues of entertainment. Martin's success was made all the more amazing by the fact that he never had to change his personality or persona to find success in his different endeavors. From the beginning, Martin's public persona remained largely unchanged.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Walt Disney]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Business]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Rausch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and that maybe our pictures can help recall." - Walt Disney A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. When it comes to the entertainment world and movie business, few names are as recognizable as Walt Disney, a versatile writer, producer, director, artist, and voice actor who literally turned his name into a billion-dollar business.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Gary Cooper]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy." (Gary Cooper) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Hollywood has never had a shortage of actors who thrived in one genre, whether it was John Wayne in Westerns or James Cagney in gangster films, but few had success across the entire spectrum like Gary Cooper, who managed to earn five Academy Award nominations despite an untimely death that cut short his career. Those nominations came for comedies, Westerns, and dramas, with wins for High Noon and the World War I film Sergeant York.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Dwight D. Eisenhower]]>Categories: America, Biography, Head of State, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Paul Bloede]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of time has been spent covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. During the middle of the 20th century, the United States completed its transformation into one of the world's superpowers. Few were as instrumental in this development as Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), renowned for being the nation's principal commanding general during World War II and the president who served during the early, tumultuous Cold War years. A career military man, Ike was too young to serve in combat during World War I. But he began a long and productive career collaborating with future military legends George Patton and Douglas MacArthur while serving some of the nation's other famous generals, including George Marshall and John J. Pershing.
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]]>Title: First Ladies: The Life and Legacy of Abigail Adams]]>Categories: America, Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Katherine Thompson]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands." - Abigail Adams American presidents have shaped the course of global affairs for generations. But as the saying goes, behind every great man there's a great woman. While the first ladies often remain overshadowed by their husbands, some have carved unique niches in their time and left their own lasting legacy. Dolley Madison helped establish the role of the first lady in the early 1800s, Eleanor Roosevelt gave voice to policy issues in a way that made her a forerunner of first ladies like Hillary Clinton, and Jackie Kennedy created glamorous trends that made her more popular than her husband. In Charles River Editors' First Ladies series, listeners can get caught up on the lives and legacies of America's most famous first ladies in the time it takes to finish a commute.
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]]>Title: First Ladies: The Life and Legacy of Dolley Madison]]>Categories: America, Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Katherine Thompson]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>American presidents have shaped the course of global affairs for generations. But as the saying goes, behind every great man there's a great woman. While the first ladies often remain overshadowed by their husbands, some have carved unique niches in their time and left their own lasting legacy. Dolley Madison helped establish the role of the first lady in the early 1800s, Eleanor Roosevelt gave voice to policy issues in a way that made her a forerunner of first ladies like Hillary Clinton, and Jackie Kennedy created glamorous trends that made her more popular than her husband. In Charles River Editors' First Ladies series, listeners can get caught up on the lives and legacies of America's most famous first ladies in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. After the Constitution was ratified, George Washington went about setting all the precedents for the role of the presidency, establishing traditions like the Cabinet. But the role of being the first lady of the United States was defined by the wife of the 4th president.
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]]>Title: The Mythology and Religion of the Inca]]>Categories: America, History, Indigenous, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: K.C. Kelly]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>During the Age of Exploration, Native American tribes fell victim to European conquerors seeking legendary cities made of gold and other riches, attempts that were often made in vain. And yet of all the empires that were conquered across the continent, the one that continues to be most intimately associated with legends of gold and hidden riches is the Inca Empire. The Inca Empire, which flourished in modern-day Peru and along the west coast of South America, was the largest Native American empire in pre-Columbian America until Pizarro and the Spanish conquistadors conquered them in the 16th century. What ultimately sealed their doom was the rumor that huge amounts of gold were available in regions south of the Andes Mountains. Though the Spanish physically conquered them in quick fashion, the culture and legacy of the Inca Empire has continued to endure throughout the centuries in both Europe and South America, due in no small part to the fact they were one of the most advanced and sophisticated cultures on the continent.
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]]>Title: Latin American Revolutionaries: The Life and Legacy of Che Guevara]]>Categories: Biography, Historical Fiction, History, Insurrection]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-05-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, known to the world as Che, has led two lives. In the first of these lives, the Argentine-born revolutionary was a remarkable and flawed doctor-turned-guerilla who left behind a highly controversial political legacy. In the second, he was - and is - first and foremost an image. Specifically, he is one particular image in which he appears as a wavy-haired, bearded young man with a beret and an intense gaze. The photograph, entitled Guerrillero Heroico and taken on March 5, 1960, by Cuban photographer Alberto Korda, is said to be the most reproduced image in the history of photography. Although Che's face, as captured by Korda, first achieved its global iconic status during the student revolts of the 1960s, it has subsequently reappeared again and again as a branding device for a wide array of products. Korda himself brought a copyright lawsuit against Smirnoff Vodka for using Guerillero Heroico in an advertising campaign, and since Korda's 2001 death his daughter has gone to court with several other companies.
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]]>Title: Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin: Show Business Icons]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Allison McKay]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-05-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>America has always celebrated its star entertainers, but Frank Sinatra remains a unique American legend. A pop culture fixture for over half a century, Sinatra's music is still cherished, and his persona remains its own archetype of the quintessential American star. Sinatra transcended genres to the extent that his music stands alone as its own kind of American music, with songs like "New York, New York," "Chicago," and "Come Fly With Me" instantly recognizable among all Americans. Of course there was also the life that went with the music. The cultural identity of the Rat Pack, epitomized in the 1960 film Ocean's Eleven, further contributed to his fame, and everyone knows and appreciates the image of easy living, smooth voice, and exuberant star power that Sinatra represents. If anything Sinatra's ability to make so many people feel happy and good about themselves was one of the main ingredients of his success.
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]]>Title: British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Winston Churchill]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, Head of State]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Phillip J. Mather]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-05-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Winston Churchill led the life that many men would love to live. He survived 50 gunfights and drank 20,000 bottles of champagne...and, of course, by resisting Hitler he saved Europe and perhaps the world." (Mark Riebling in Churchill's Finest Hour) Was he "the greatest human being ever to occupy 10 Downing Street"? Or a man whose "brilliant but unsound judgement resulted in detrimental consequences for Britain and for the world"? Nearly 50 years after his death, debate still rages over Sir Winston Churchill's contribution to history. Indeed, now that wartime nostalgia has mostly washed away, in Britain in particular the views on Churchill are more divergent than ever. On one point, though, the biographers and historians remain unanimous: Churchill led an astonishing life as a soldier, world statesman, historian, and Noble Prize Laureate. When he died at 90 in 1965, one of the most important figures in modern history had left the stage. From providing some of the 20th century's greatest soundbytes to successfully navigating Great Britain to victory in World War II against great odds, Churchill was at the forefront of global events for decades, becoming one of the most influential Britons in history.
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]]>Title: British Legends: The Life and Legacy of William Shakespeare]]>Categories: Author, Biography, Fiction, Theater, Writer]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Katherine Littrell]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-05-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. And recks not his own rede." - Ophelia in Hamlet Actor. Dramatist. Poet. Husband. Father. Producer. Businessman. Servant of the Crown. All of the above can be applied to William Shakespeare. Certainly England's greatest playwright, he is still considered to be the most influential writer in the English language. Leaving behind a nearly unprecedented body of work to his credit, he addressed the full spectrum of the human condition and achieved what few other writers have in becoming a part of a global consciousness. Shakespeare is so renowned and respected that the time period in which he lived is often known as the Age of Shakespeare. Indeed, his genius is questioned only by those who doubt the authenticity of his authorship of timeless classics like Romeo and Juliet. As Ben Jonson once put it, "He was not of an age, but for all time." No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shakespeare has enjoyed around the world.
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]]>Title: Legends of Hollywood: The Life of Errol Flynn]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-05-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Hollywood has never lacked leading men who could captivate viewers with dramatic performances that depict them as suave romantics or dashing heroes, especially during the Golden Age of Hollywood when stars like Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, and Cary Grant graced screens. But in 1940, the fourth most popular star in the US was a foreign actor from Australia, and unlike other movie stars, he was more notorious for his pursuits off the screen than on it. In an era long before social media and TMZ, Errol Flynn represented the epitome of a swashbuckling playboy, with enough mystery and intrigue surrounding him and his background to fascinate even those who didn't see his movies. An article in Time magazine got to the heart of the matter in 1938 when it noted, "Of all the heroes of Hollywood, Errol Flynn has by long odds the greatest amount of non-phony glamor. His life has been as adventurous as any of the swashbuckling characters he has portrayed. At 18, he was a member of the English Olympic boxing team. At 19, he was master of an island trading schooner in the South Seas.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of Ramesses the Great (Ramesses II)]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Egypt, Historical Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-05-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In a temple in Abydos, Egypt, there stands a wall relief, a carving completed during the reign of Pharaoh Seti I. The image shows the pharaoh looking back across the long list of his many predecessors, pharaohs who had ruled Egypt before him, with their names elegantly enclosed in cartouches upon the temple wall. Seti's own reign had commenced in 1306 BC, and in the image he looks back all the way to Pharaoh Menes, founder of the First Dynasty in 2920 BC. In the image, by Seti's side, also looking across the years at the history that had gone before, is the pharaoh's son, then a young prince who would one day be pharaoh himself. This prince's name was Riʻmīsisu, but he would come to be known in the annals of history by other names. He was called Ozymandias in the Greek tradition and Great Ancestor by the Egyptians, and his name has been transcribed sometimes as Rameses or Ramses.
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]]>Title: The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Toltec]]>Categories: America, Civilization, History, Indigenous]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Michael Gilboe]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-05-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Toltec are one of the most famous Mesoamerican groups in South America, but they are also the most controversial and mysterious. The Toltec have been identified as the group that established a strong state centered in Tula (in present-day Mexico), and the Aztec claimed the Toltec as their cultural predecessors, so much so that the word Toltec comes from the Aztec's word Tōltēcatl, translated as artisan. The Aztec also kept track of the Toltec's history, including keeping a list of important rulers and events, that suggest the peak of the Toltec occurred from about AD 900-1100. From the moment Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes first found and confronted them, the Aztecs have fascinated the world, and they continue to hold a unique place both culturally and in pop culture. Nearly 500 years after the Spanish conquered their mighty empire, the Aztecs are often remembered today for their major capital, Tenochtitlan, as well as being fierce conquerors of the Valley of Mexico who often engaged in human sacrifice rituals.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Jean Arthur]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Diane Lehman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-05-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>At the peak of the Golden Era of Hollywood, one of the film industry's most popular genres was the screwball comedy, making stars out of young actresses like Jean Harlow and helping pave the way for future ones like Marilyn Monroe. But at the height of the era of the screwball comedy, the actress most associated with them was Jean Arthur, whose ability to portray everyday women made her incredibly popular in the 1930s and 1940s. As one critic put it, "No one was more closely identified with the screwball comedy than Jean Arthur. So much was she part of it, so much was her star personality defined by it, that the screwball style itself seems almost unimaginable without her." Her seemingly effortless abilities helped get her cast in some of legendary director Frank Capra's most famous films, including Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Bible: The Life and Legacy of Pontius Pilate]]>Categories: Biography, Christianity, Historical Fiction, History, Religion]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gregg Rizzo]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-05-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The name Pontius Pilate is instantly familiar to anyone who has read the Bible or has heard of the passion of Christ, but the man himself has mostly eluded biblical scholars and historians. As the Roman prefect in Judaea during Christ's life and death, Pilate played a central role in the ultimate crucifixion of Jesus, but he is best remembered for literally washing his hands as a symbol that he did not consider the blood to be on his hands. Aside from being in the middle of one of the Bible's most important dramas, mystery surrounds Pilate, and as a result he has been portrayed in a number of different and contradictory ways. Pilate has been viewed as an ineffective and weak ruler by some, an iron-fisted ruler by others, and a completely oblivious one by still others.
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]]>Title: Legendary Scientists: The Life and Legacy of Galileo Galilei]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, History, Renaissance, STEM]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Peter Jacobson]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-05-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Of course part of what made Galileo such a monumental figure was the fact that he was ahead of his time and that he mostly refused to conform to the accepted dogmas of contemporary society. As he once put it, "Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes - I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written. This book is written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it." Galileo has been one of history's most famous and influential scientists ever since his life and death over 350 years ago, but it's somewhat ironic that he might be best known for being subjected to the Inquisition and for making a comment that he almost certainly never said. His insistence in defending Copernicus' heliocentric solar system led to charges of heresy, even though he attempted to square his heliocentric system with scripture and offered up St.
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]]>Title: The Historical and Theological Evolution of Satan, the Devil, and Hell]]>Categories: Christianity, History, Judaism, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Peter D. Stover]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-01-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Catholic Church has defined Hell as "a state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed", but the images most have of the Devil and Hell are far more vivid. Even non-Christians are fully familiar with the idea of Hell being a fiery realm of eternal damnation, and the Devil has been depicted so frequently in literature, movies, and television that the figure is instantly recognizable. While most people know the fairly consistent description of Hell that exists today, the description of Hell has evolved countless times over the centuries, including within the Christian faith. During medieval times, many Christian writers described parts or all of Hell as cold and desolate places, going as far back as the 4th century work Apocalypse of Paul.
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]]>Title: The 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake: The History and Legacy of the Earthquake That Destroyed Tokyo]]>Categories: 20th Century, Asia, History, Japan]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: William Turbett]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 05-01-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Of the numerous disasters, both natural and man-made, to strike Japan during the 20th century, the Great Kantō Earthquake was among the worst, and the most significant. The massive earthquake struck the Japanese capital region, including the cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, shortly before noon on Saturday, September 1, 1923, causing immense physical destruction. Buildings collapsed, crushing their occupants, and a tsunami assaulted miles of coastline, depositing boats well inland and dragging people, structures, and debris out to sea. In both Tokyo and Yokohama, the tremors set off firestorms that raged for days across the dense, wooden cityscapes. In all, the earthquake left perhaps 140,000 dead and more than 2 million homeless, transforming East Asia's most prosperous and modern urban area into a scorched, burned-out wasteland. On the day of the earthquake, according to the Buddhist figure Takashima Beihō, "Nature raged all at once, collapsing the pillars of the sky and snapping the axis of the earth.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Johnny Depp]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Morley Shulman]]>Publisher: Beacon Audiobooks]]>Release date: 05-01-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Throughout the history of Hollywood, perhaps no actor has a reputation as unique as Johnny Depp. Depp began his career in a very traditional manner by being a teen heartthrob on shows like 21 Jump Street, but as he once admitted, "As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too." However, that ambition clearly resurfaced over the last 25 years, because Depp has since taken on some of the most unique and eccentric roles in the industry, explaining, "I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face." In addition to being renowned for portrayals of people like John Dillinger and Hunter S. Thompson, Depp has played some of the most memorable fictional characters of the last 30 years, including Edward Scissorhands, Captain Jack Sparrow, and Willy Wonka, making his larger-than-life roles pop culture fixtures and helping the movies bank billions of dollars.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Johanna Oosterwyk]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-30-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Over 1500 years before Leonardo Da Vinci became the Renaissance Man, antiquity had its own in the form of Archimedes, one of the most famous Ancient Greeks. An engineer, mathematician, physicist, scientist and astronomer all rolled into one, Archimedes has been credited for making groundbreaking discoveries, some of which are undoubtedly fact and others that are almost certainly myth. Regardless, he's considered the first man to determine a way to measure an object's mass, and also the first man to realize that refracting the Sun's light could burn something, theorizing the existence of lasers over two millennia before they existed. People still use the design of the Archimedes screw in water pumps today, and modern scholars have tried to link him to the recently discovered Antikythera mechanism, an ancient "computer" of sorts that used mechanics to accurately chart astronomical data depending on the date it was set to. Archimedes was a legend even among the Romans, who were expanding their empire during the great scientist's own lifetime.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Bruce Lee]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Cliff Truesdell]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-30-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>It would be nearly impossible for someone to pack more action into 32 years than Bruce Lee, whose name remains practically synonymous with martial arts excellence and kung-fu movies. He was undoubtedly the forerunner to martial arts stars who came in his wake, including Chuck Norris and Jackie Chan, a feat made all the more impressive by the fact that he grew up as a sickly child. His upbringing was simultaneously one of great privilege and hardship, which had a huge impact on his career down the road; even when he began to fill out his skinny frame, trouble on the streets created a whirlwind set of circumstances that all but required Lee to move to America before he was 20. Despite being the most famous star of the genre and the man who almost singlehandedly popularized martial arts in the West, the films that helped make Lee a global icon were not even made in the United States but were instead shot and produced in Hong Kong, after which they received large-scale international distribution.
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]]>Title: The Magna Carta: The Great Charter of Liberty]]>Categories: America, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-30-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The West is home to the world's oldest and democracies, and though these democratic governments take many different forms, from America's republican system to Britain's parliamentary system, every democracy and the principles behind it have their origins in the Magna Carta. A singularly consequential document in Western civilization, the Magna Carta (Latin for "Great Charter") was a document consisting of 37 articles signed in June 1215 in Runnymede near Windsor Castle between the barons of the English aristocracy and King John, the absolute monarch. The document embodies a series of written promises between the king and his subjects that he, the king, would govern England and deal with its people according to the customs of feudal law. For the first time, the notion of a king's absolute power had been successfully challenged without force of arms. Today, the Magna Carta is acknowledged as the founding legal instrument of English common law and thus much of the legal principles of the West, an ironic legacy given that parts of the Magna Carta were distinctly intended to preserve the power of the aristocracy against the interests of the ordinary people.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Red Skelton]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Nick Hart]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-30-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I don't want to be called 'the greatest' or 'one of the greatest'; let other guys claim to be the best. I just want to be known as a clown because to me that's the height of my profession. It means you can do everything - sing, dance, and above all, make people laugh." (Red Skelton) "All I want to do is to make people laugh, to take the word 'heartache' out of their vocabulary." (Red Skelton) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Among radio personalities and television entertainers, almost nobody had a career as long or storied as Red Skelton, one of America's foremost comedians during the 20th century.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Henry Fonda]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: James Romick]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-30-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Among all of Hollywood's iconic leading men, arguably none proved as versatile at acting as Henry Fonda, whose career spanned six decades and earned him Academy Awards for roles in various genres. After breaking into Hollywood in 1935, Fonda quickly rose the ranks, earning an Academy Award nomination in the classic Twelve Angry Men (1940), but Fonda had the kind of staying power that most actors could only dream of. In fact, Fonda had already received an honorary lifetime achievement award from the Academy (in 1980) before winning the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in On Golden Pond (1981), an award he earned when he was already well into his 70s and only about a year away from his death. Fonda would also earn Emmy nominations for his work on two different shows and even a Grammy for a spoken word album in 1977.
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]]>Title: Trafalgar and Waterloo: The Two Most Important Battles of the Napoleonic Wars]]>Categories: Europe, France, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: James McSorley]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-29-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Over the course of its history, England has engaged in an uncountable number of battles, but a select few have been celebrated like the Battle of Trafalgar, one of the most important naval battles in history. Before the battle, Napoleon still harbored dreams of sailing an invasion force across the English Channel and subduing England, but that would be dashed on October 21, 1805 by a British fleet that was outnumbered and outgunned. That morning, Admiral Horatio Nelson's fleet, 27 strong, bore down on the Franco-Spanish fleet, approaching at right angles in two columns. By the time the Battle of Trafalgar was finished, Nelson had scored arguably the most decisive victory in the history of naval warfare. The British took 22 vessels of the Franco-Spanish fleet and lost none, but as fate would have it, the man most responsible for the victory in one of history's most famous naval battles did not get to enjoy his crowning experience. The impact of Trafalgar cannot be overstated, as it literally set the stage for the rest of the Napoleonic Era.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Andy Kaufman]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Linsenmayer]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-29-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Andy Kaufman never liked to call himself a comedian, so it's a testament to his skills and routines that he is nonetheless considered one of the late 20th century's most famous comedians. In fact, Kaufman's eccentric style and theatrics made him one of the most unique performers of his era, whether it was doing a song and dance routine or staying in character to the extent that nobody could tell whether he was being himself or not.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Ancient World: The Life and Legacy of Cleopatra]]>Categories: Ancient, Biography, Female Protagonist, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-29-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>During one of the most turbulent periods in the history of Rome, men like Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian participated in two civil wars that would spell the end of the Roman Republic and determine who would become the Roman emperor. In the middle of it all was history's most famous woman, the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.), who famously seduced both Caesar and Antony and thereby positioned herself as one of the most influential people in a world of powerful men. Cleopatra was a captivating figure even to contemporary Romans and the ancient world, as Plutarch's quote suggests, and she was a controversial figure who was equally reviled and praised through the years, depicted as a benevolent ruler and an evil seductress, sometimes at the same time. Over 2,000 years after her death, everything about Cleopatra continues to fascinate people around the world, from her lineage as a Ptolemaic pharaoh, her physical features, the manner in which she seduced Caesar, her departure during the Battle of Actium, and her famous suicide.
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]]>Title: The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria]]>Subtitle: The History of ISIS/ISIL]]>Categories: America, History, Middle East, Social Science, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Roy Wells]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-29-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Also known as ISIS, Da'esh, al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), and a host of other names, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has increasingly gained attention over the years for its brutal tactics and seemingly blatant disregard for human rights, but it has recently dominated the global media spotlight and made headlines when it attacked and seized control of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, and drove out an Iraqi army force that was more than five times its size in June 2014. It has since laid claim to various territories throughout Iraq and the Levant, and it has established operational control and maintained administrative structures on both sides of the Iraqi-Syrian border. Most recently, it declared the restoration of a caliphate and renamed itself the Islamic State. The ever-deteriorating crises in Iraq and Syria have continued to highlight the prolific activities of ISIS, but as a unified organization, ISIS is believed to consist of only a few thousand militants led by a shadowy and secretive leader named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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]]>Title: British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Margaret Thatcher]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, Head of State]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Colin Fluxman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-29-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' British Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of Great Britain's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Sir Winston Churchill is often cited as Britain's greatest prime minister for leading the United Kingdom against Hitler's Nazi war machine during World War II, and indeed he was the idol of the one person who many think might have surpassed him: Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher not only became Britain's first female prime minister; she also became its longest serving prime minister. The political precedents Thatcher set as a woman would be enough of a legacy in their own right, but Thatcher effectively wielded her power in a way that made a lasting contribution to both geopolitics and the perception of female politicians in general.
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]]>Title: The Fall of Constantinople]]>Subtitle: The Rise of the Ottoman Empire and the End of the Byzantine Empire]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jim D Johnston]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-28-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the fourth century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity's greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late fifth century. Naturally, the Ottoman Empire would also use Constantinople as the capital of its empire after their conquest effectively ended the Byzantine Empire, and thanks to its strategic location, it has been a trading center for years and remains one today under the Turkish name of Istanbul. The end of the Byzantine Empire had a profound effect not only on the Middle East but Europe as well. Constantinople had played a crucial part in the Crusades, and the fall of the Byzantines meant that the Ottomans now shared a border with Europe.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Jerry Garcia]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Violet Meadow]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-28-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves." - Jerry Garcia Despite the enormous esteem he has garnered from virtually every corner of the music world, Jerry Garcia has continued to elude both fans and music historians as they attempt to determine his origins and categorize his art and influence on American music. Part of their difficulty lies in the fact that his work as the frontman for the Grateful Dead, "one of the most prolific and iconic guitarists of the twentieth century", tended toward a blending of the traditional with the experimental. He was willing to use almost any and every available ethnic musical resource. Garcia's passionate interest in virtually every nook and cranny of American music, particularly rural music, made the task of following his concepts from moment to moment an unpredictable and inexact science. In his explorations and elaborations on old musical treasures, whether familiar or obscure, he fully indulged in almost all of them at one time or another.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Andy Warhol]]>Categories: America, Art, Biography, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Robin McKay]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-27-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches." - Andy Warhol "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." - Andy Warhol A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Few artists of the 20th century were as enigmatic as Andy Warhol, who once remarked, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, there I am. There's nothing behind it." This statement is hardly out of character for the famous artist, who remains famous for his cagey answers to interviews and his refusal to speak from the heart. It is no accident that Warhol wore a wig; paradoxically enough, he required the company of others but refused to allow himself to become emotionally intimate with anyone.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Lana Turner]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Diane Lehman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-27-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Includes Turner's quotes about her own life and career. Includes a bibliography for further reading. Includes a table of contents. "My life has been a series of emergencies." (Lana Turner) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. During the golden era of Hollywood, few actresses proved as versatile as Lana Turner, who got her start playing the wholesome, innocent young beauty as a teenager before shifting to femme fatale roles and starring in horror classics like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Lana was discovered as a result of her beauty; Louis B. Mayer immediately saw her as a potential replacement for Jean Harlow, and Turner's earliest roles played off her sexiness, with an influence that reached all the way to Argentina, where Eva Peron sought to emulate her style.
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]]>Title: History's Greatest Mysteries: The Shroud of Turin]]>Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, History, Occult]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Paul Bloede]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-27-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>For centuries professional historians have labored through the painstaking task of documenting history as accurately as possible, but even with modern technology, archaeology, and records, some questions have eluded attempts to answer them. From the origins of Atlantis to the lost colony of Roanoke, the mysteries behind some of history's most famous people and events have fascinated countless generations. In Charles River Editors' History's Greatest Mysteries series, listeners can discover the known, the unknown, and the possible answers to history's most enduring questions in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Critics call it one of the greatest pieces of fraud in religious history. Believers call it one of the most important artifacts in Christianity. Everyone agrees that it's mysterious, interesting, and controversial. The Shroud of Turin has been a controversial relic from the time it was first publicly displayed in Northern France in the 14th century until the much-awaited carbon 14 tests were performed on the cloth in 1988.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of John D. Rockefeller]]>Categories: America, Biography, Business, Economic]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Diane Lehman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-24-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Gilded Age and the dawn of the 20th century are often remembered as an era full of monopolies, trusts, and economic giants in heavy industries like oil and steel. Men like Andrew Carnegie built empires like Carnegie Steel, and financiers like J.P. Morgan merged and consolidated them. The era also made names like Astor, Cooke, and Vanderbilt instantly recognizable across the globe. Over time, the unfathomable wealth generated by the businesses made the individuals on top incredibly rich, and that in turn led to immense criticism and an infamous epithet used to rail against them: robber barons. Dozens of men were called "robber barons", but none were as notorious or rich as John D. Rockefeller, who co-founded Standard Oil and turned it into the first real trust in the United States. Rockefeller had been groomed ambitiously by a huckster father nicknamed "Devil Bill", who was just as willing to cheat his son as an unsuspecting public, and John certainly chased his dreams of living long and large.
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]]>Title: Legends of Hollywood: The Life of Woody Allen]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Robin McKay]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-24-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Few celebrities have been as transparent over the course of their careers as Woody Allen, as even those who have seen just a fraction of his films can feel as though they know him. Woody has never made an attempt to hide the core aspects of his persona: a Jewish resident of New York City; a lover of jazz, baseball, and the New York Knicks; and, more controversially, someone who has been married on several occasions, most recently to the adopted daughter of his former partner. What's more, there seems to be very little separating the real-life Woody Allen from the characters he plays in his films, as he frequently appears to be playing himself. It is this quality that offers familiarity for those watching a Woody Allen movie, and viewers know to expect sharp dialogue, jazz music, a New York setting, and a strong dose of psychoanalysis, all of which add up to the prolific oeuvre of one of America's most gifted screenwriters of the past half century. Since Woody Allen has been prolific in his output and transparent in his presentation to the public, it is easy to lose sight of the remarkable breadth of his career.
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]]>Title: Boko Haram]]>Subtitle: The History of Africa's Most Notorious Terrorist Group]]>Categories: 21st Century, Africa, History, Modern, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Wanda J. Dixon McKnight]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-23-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Profiles leaders of the group and explains its history of attacks Includes footnotes for further reading Includes a table of contents "Boko Haram are better armed and are better motivated than our own troops. Given the present state of affairs, it is absolutely impossible for us to defeat Boko Haram." - Kashim Shettima, governor of Borno On the morning of April 15, 2004, the world woke up to the extraordinary news of the kidnap in a little known hamlet of Nigeria of some 276, primarily Christian schoolgirls, by the radical militant Nigerian insurgent group Boko Haram. Almost overnight, the group, which had resided somewhat on the fringes of global consciousness up until that point, found itself at the forefront as international public outrage, culminating in a social media campaign headed by First Lady Michelle Obama, demanded the immediate return of the kidnapped girls. Those demands, while laudable, simply served to project a hitherto local and regional jihadist movement, operating in the gray hinterland of the African Sahel region, into an organization with an international profile and a place in the pantheon of globally recognized terror organizations.
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]]>Title: The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Maya]]>Categories: America, Ancient, History, Indigenous, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jack Nolan]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-23-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Many ancient civilizations have influenced and inspired people in the 21st century. The Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate the West today. But of all the world's civilizations, none has intrigued people more than the Mayans, whose culture, astronomy, language, and mysterious disappearance all continue to captivate people. In 2012 especially there was a renewed focus on the Mayans, whose advanced calendar led many to speculate the world would end on the same date the Mayan calendar ends. The focus on the doomsday scenario, however, overshadowed the Mayans' true contributions to astronomy, language, sports, and art. The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Maya discusses the Mayan calendar within the larger context of their astronomical advances while also providing a comprehensive analysis of their history, empire, and culture. Along with a description of Mayan life, the mystique of the Maya is traced from the height of their empire to the present day in an attempt to understand a civilization often best described as an enigma.
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]]>Title: First Ladies: The Life and Legacy of Mary Todd Lincoln]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Female Protagonist]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Diane Lehman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-23-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>American presidents have shaped the course of global affairs for generations. But as the saying goes, behind every great man there's a great woman. While the first ladies often remain overshadowed by their husbands, some have carved unique niches in their time and left their own lasting legacy. Dolley Madison helped establish the role of the first lady in the early 1800s. Eleanor Roosevelt gave voice to policy issues in a way that made her a forerunner of first ladies like Hillary Clinton. And Jackie Kennedy created glamorous trends that made her more popular than her husband. In Charles River Editors' First Ladies series, listeners can get caught up on the lives and legacies of America's most famous First Ladies in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. It's possible that the world would have remembered Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882) if only because she was the wife of one of America's greatest presidents, and was present for his shocking assassination.
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]]>Title: The Postwar Occupation of Japan]]>Subtitle: The History of the Transition from World War II to Modern Japan]]>Categories: Asia, History, Japan, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tim Welch]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-23-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Explains the formation of a new constitution, as well as the democratization and demilitarization processes Includes a bibliography for further reading Includes a table of contents The American occupation of Japan holds a singular and problematic place in the histories both of Japan and of American foreign policy. For the Japanese, the occupation marked the transition from war to peace, from authoritarianism to democracy, and from privation to plenty, making it a passage from one of the darkest chapters in Japanese history to one of the brightest. Nevertheless, the significance of that passage was fraught with ambiguities; after all, Japan did not win its new democracy through revolution from below in the form of a popular indigenous movement pressing for increased rights and a more open, inclusive politics.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Renaissance: The Life and Legacy of Nostradamus]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Linsenmayer]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-23-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I had determined to go as far as declaring in abstruse and puzzling utterances the future causes of the 'common advent', even those truly cogent ones that I have foreseen. Yet lest whatever human changes may be to come should scandalise delicate ears, the whole thing is written in nebulous form, rather than as a clear prophecy of any kind." (Nostradamus) A lot of time has been spent covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? When historians are asked to pick a point in history when Western civilization was transformed and guided down the path to modernity, most of them point to the Renaissance. Indeed the Renaissance revolutionized art, philosophy, religion, the sciences, and math. Individuals like Galileo, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Dante, and Petrarch bridged the past and modern society. In Charles River Editors' Legends of the Renaissance, listeners can get caught up on the lives of the most important men and women of the Renaissance in the time it takes to finish a commute.
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]]>Title: William Wallace: The Life and Legacy of the Scottish Freedom Fighter]]>Categories: Actor, Biography, Celebrity, Europe]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Roger Wood]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-22-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"A false usurper sinks in every foe and liberty returns with every blow." (Blind Harry) William Wallace is one of the most famous freedom fighters in history. Over 700 years after his death he is still remembered as Scotland's beloved hero. But while the movie Braveheart helped make him a household name, and he is commemorated across Scotland as a natural leader and a loyal son of his homeland, he is also "the most mysterious of the leaders of the Scottish resistance to Edward I". This is because, paradoxically, the very famous soldier is also one of the least well known. In fact, the mystery surrounding Wallace is figuring out precisely, or even vaguely, who he was. Where did this champion of Scottish independence come from? Who were his family members? What did he do before emerging from obscurity with the brutal murder of William Heselrig, the English sheriff of Lanark, in May 1297? So little evidence on Wallace's life exists that answering even the most basic questions about him can be a challenge. That said, as one scholar perceptively notes, "the facts are not the reason why he is remembered as a meaningful historical actor".
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Mike Tyson]]>Categories: Biography, Boxing, Celebrity, Martial Art, Sport]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Don Hoeksema]]>Publisher: Beacon Audiobooks]]>Release date: 04-22-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter." (Mike Tyson) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. "Iron" Mike Tyson was one of the most feared opponents to ever step into a boxing ring. With unbelievable power that floored or stopped all but two of his first 28 professional opponents, Tyson began an unprecedented ascent to the top of the boxing world, becoming the youngest champion in history with a second-round TKO over Trevor Berbick, the last man to box and defeat Muhammad Ali.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Michael Jackson]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Robin McKay]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-22-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In the majority of cases, a pop or rock fan who is asked about a particular celebrity will answer in unambiguous terms. Artists such as Elvis Presley engage the public in their entirety, their personae fully revealed as onstage and offstage personalities. Most artists are judged by what they say of themselves and their art, and fans can express in distinct terms why they like or do not like them or their music. Michael Jackson, on the other hand, projected a different sort of fascination to the global public, based upon his many contradictions and hidden characteristics. The unorthodox artist was described by one author as "paradoxical and incomplete", and while audiences attended a Presley event to revel in a known quantity, Jackson's charisma depended in part on the audience's need "to understand, or fill in the knowledge that was missing".
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]]>Title: The My Lai Massacre: The History of the Vietnam War's Most Notorious Atrocity]]>Categories: America, History, Military, Military Conflict]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Richard Wayne Stageman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-22-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I walked up and saw these guys doing strange things.... Setting fire to the hootches and huts and waiting for people to come out and then shooting them.... Going into the hootches and shooting them up.... Gathering people in groups and shooting them.... As I walked in you could see piles of people all through the village...all over. They were gathered up into large groups. I saw them shoot an M79 [grenade launcher] into a group of people who were still alive. But it was mostly done with a machine gun. They were shooting women and children just like anybody else. We met no resistance and I only saw three captured weapons. We had no casualties. It was just like any other Vietnamese village - old papa-sans, women, and kids. As a matter of fact, I don't remember seeing one military-age male in the entire place, dead or alive." (PFC Michael Bernhardt) The Vietnam War could have been called a comedy of errors if the consequences weren't so deadly and tragic.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Judy Garland]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, Female Protagonist]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Patricia Hoeksema]]>Publisher: Beacon Audiobooks]]>Release date: 04-14-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I was born at the age of 12 on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot." - Judy Garland A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In many ways, Judy Garland's rise to fame seems almost predestined. Not only was she a national sensation at a young age, but her parents and sisters were all vaudeville entertainers. On top of that, Garland's parents owned and operated a movie theater, making it all the easier to draw the conclusion that singing and acting were simply professions which she was born into by virtue of her pedigree.
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]]>Title: The Sinking of the Lusitania: The Most Controversial Submarine Attack of World War I]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Joseph Chialastri]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-14-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>In 1906 the RMS Lusitania was at the forefront of transatlantic shipping. Briefly the largest ship in the world, the designers and engineers who built the Lusitania aimed for her to represent the height of luxury for passengers while also being the harbinger of a new technological age, replete with revolutionary engines that would allow the gigantic ship to move at speeds that would have been considered impossible just years earlier. Indeed the highly competitive industry would spur the development of bigger and better ocean liners in the coming years, the most famous being the Titanic. The Lusitania and the Titanic would become the two most famous ships of the early 20th century for tragic reasons, but the circumstances could not have been more different. While the Titanic is still notorious for being the world's best ocean liner at the time of its collision with an iceberg in 1912, the Lusitania's role as a popular ocean liner has been almost completely obscured by the nature of its sinking by a German U-boat in 1915. The Germans aimed to disrupt trade by the Allied forces, but they did not have the naval forces capable of seizing merchant ships and detaining them.
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]]>Title: The Wreck of the HMS Birkenhead: The History of the British Royal Navy's Most Notorious 19th Century Shipwreck]]>Categories: 19th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Phillip J. Mather]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-13-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"In memory of Lieut.-Colonel Alexander Seton, Ensign Alex. C. Russell, and forty-eight N.C.O.s and men of the 74th Highlanders who were drowned at the wreck of HMS Birkenhead on the 26th February 1852, off Point Danger, Cape of Good Hope, after all the women and children on board had been safely landed in the ship's boats." (The inscription on a memorial in St.
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]]>Title: The Mythology and Religion of the Ancient Egyptians]]>Categories: Ancient, Egypt, History, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Brandon Woodall]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-13-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Africa may have given rise to the first humans, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe nearly 5,000 years later. From the Library and Lighthouse of Alexandria to the Great Pyramid at Giza, the Ancient Egyptians produced several wonders of the world, revolutionized architecture and construction, created some of the world's first systems of mathematics and medicine, and established language and art that spread across the known world. With world-famous leaders like King Tut and Cleopatra, it's no wonder that today's world has so many Egyptologists. Some of the most recognizable images of ancient Egypt, from the mummies to the pyramids, make clear how important religion was to the Egyptians. Unlike modern Western countries, Ancient Egypt was not a secular society but one where religion played a role in even the most mundane daily occurrences, and religion and myth were used to explain how and why the Nile River flooded. It also justified the absolute power of the king, who was considered not only divinely chosen for the role but divine himself.
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]]>Title: The Pony Express: The History and Legacy of America's Most Famous Mail Service]]>Categories: America, History, Language Study, Learning]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: James McSorley]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-13-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I, [name], do hereby swear, before the Great and Living God, that during my engagement, and while I am an employee of Russell, Majors, and Waddell, I will, under no circumstances, use profane language, that I will drink no intoxicating liquors, that I will not quarrel or fight with any other employee of the firm, and that in every respect I will conduct myself honestly, be faithful to my duties, and so direct all my acts as to win the confidence of my employers, so help me God." (The oath taken by Pony Express riders) Although it was only in operation for about 18 months, the Pony Express remains the most famous and romanticized mailing system in American history. It still instantly brings to mind all of the old themes of the untamed frontier and the Wild West. Starting shortly before the Civil War erupted across the United States, the Pony Express connected the east and west by having riders deliver mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California - a route set up by previous explorations and a system of relay stations and waypoints.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Robert Redford]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Robin McKay]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Includes Redford's own quotes about his life and career. Includes a bibliography for further reading. Includes a table of contents. "The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. " (Robert Redford) "People say I've gone against Hollywood, but I've tried to be independent within Hollywood, tried to be my own person." (Robert Redford) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. When Robert Redford first entered the national spotlight in the early 1960s, he was hardly viewed as a serious actor, and with his red hair, blond complexion, and athletic build, he was seen more as a handsome man than a skilled one.
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]]>Title: The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Vikings]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Scandinavia]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jack Nolan]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-10-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Analyzes the legends and mischaracterizations of the Vikings, separating fact from fiction. Discusses the everyday life, settlements, history, religion, and culture of the Vikings. Includes a table of contents. Over the centuries the West has become fascinated by the Vikings, one of the most mysterious and interesting European civilizations. In addition to being perceived as a remarkably unique culture among its European counterparts, what's known and not known about the Vikings' accomplishments has added an intriguing aura to the historical narrative. Were they fierce and fearsome warriors? Were they the first Europeans to visit North America? It seems some of the legends are true, and some are just that: legends. The commonly used term, Viking, for the trading and raiding peoples of Scandinavia may have originated from Viken (the large bay leading to Oslo), or it may have come from the Old Scandinavian words vikingr (sea warrior) or viking (expedition over the sea). The people from the north were known in Western Europe at the time as Northmen or Danes, in England as Danes or pagans, and in Ireland as Finngall for those of Norwegian origin and Dubgall for those from Denmark.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Mary Tyler Moore]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Tara Burnham]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-08-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"My grandfather once said, having watched me one entire afternoon, prancing and leaping and cavorting, 'this child will either end up on stage or in jail.' Fortunately, I took the easy route." - Mary Tyler Moore "I'm Mary Tyler Moore and I am... an actress, an animal lover, the chairman of the Juvenile diabetes Research Foundation, the wife of Dr. Robert Levine... Suffice it to say there are a lot of ways to end that sentence, and I don't think I've come close to living through all the possibilities, thank heavens.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Doris Day]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Deborah Fennelly]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-08-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I've been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls - you know, those dolls you could push down and they'd come back up? I've always been like that. I've always said, 'No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I'm going to come right back up.'" - Doris Day A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. It goes without saying that few people have a career spanning eight decades, yet that claim to fame is occupied by the legendary Doris Day, who got her start in show business as a singer in a big band in 1939 and has not let up since.
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]]>Title: Confucius: The Life and Legacy of China's Greatest Philosopher]]>Categories: Asia, Biography, China, History, Philosopher]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Violet Meadow]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-08-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"At 15 my heart was set on learning; at 30 I stood firm; at 40 I had no more doubts; at 50 I knew the will of heaven; at 60 my ear was obedient; at 70 I could follow my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of what was right." (Confucius) "Confucius has no interest in falsehood; he did not pretend to be prophet; he claimed no inspiration; he taught no new religion; he used no delusions; flattered not the emperor under whom he lived..." (Voltaire) Many people argue that Confucius is the most influential person of all time, and if having a significant effect on the greatest number of people is the criterion, he may very well be. China is one of the largest and oldest civilizations on earth, and Confucius has been influential there from almost the beginning: the first Chinese dynasty was founded around 1600 BCE, and Confucius lived from 551-479 BCE. Although he is still one of history's most famous philosophers, Confucius was in many respects an unremarkable man, and even his physical features were said to be unattractive.
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]]>Title: Yosemite National Park]]>Subtitle: The History of California's Most Famous Park]]>Categories: Adventure, America, History, Tourism]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Diane Lehman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-07-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space." (Ansel Adams) "Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses." (Paul Bloom) "If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even speed.
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]]>Title: Legendary Philosophers: The Life and Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche]]>Categories: Biography, Modern, Philosopher, Philosophy]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Mark Linsenmayer]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-07-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"There are no facts, only interpretations." (Nietzsche) A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? Among all the knowledge and pursuits handed down by our ancestors, few were as important as philosophy, which literally taught people how to think and became directly responsible for ideas like reason and empiricism. Men like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle formed the backbone of Western philosophy, and subsequent philosophers like Marcus Aurelius and Thomas Aquinas expounded on previous philosophy. In Charles River Editors' Legendary Philosophers series, listeners can get up to speed on the lives of the most important philosophers in history in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. It might be fair to say that everyone's thinking has been influenced at one point or another by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, or at least someone who was influenced in turn by Nietzsche. Nietzsche (1844-1900) was one of the most influential men of the 19th century, a German philosopher, poet, and composer who wrote at length about everything from religion to science.
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]]>Title: The Sinking of the RMS Titanic]]>Subtitle: The Tragic Loss of the World's Most Famous Ship]]>Categories: 20th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Robin McKay]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-07-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Just before midnight on April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic, the largest ship in the world, hit an iceberg, starting a chain of events that would ultimately make it history's most famous, and notorious, ship. In the over 100 years since it sank on its maiden voyage, the Titanic has been the subject of endless fascination, as evidenced by the efforts to find its final resting spot, the museums full of its objects, and the countless books, documentaries, and movies made about the doomed ocean liner. The Titanic was neither the first nor last big ship to sink, so it's clear that much of its appeal stems from the nature of ship itself. Indeed, the Titanic stands out not just for its end but for its beginning, specifically the fact that it was the most luxurious passenger ship ever built at the time.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Marlon Brando]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: James Weippert]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"He is the marker. There's 'before Brando' and 'after Brando'." - Martin Scorsese A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Marlon Brando. Few names in the acting profession evoke such a strong, almost visceral reaction. Over the course of his long, prolific career, he was considered perhaps the greatest actor of the 20th century, as well as one of the most complicated and misunderstood. Uniquely able to be both emotionally charged and technically constrained in the same performance, he single-handedly changed the direction of not only the American style of acting, influencing successors such as Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and even Johnny Depp, but the acting profession on a global scale.
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]]>Title: History's Greatest Mysteries: Easter Island]]>Categories: Civilization, Exploration, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Carlson]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Far out in the south-eastern part of the Pacific Ocean lies one of the world's most remote islands. Located over 2,000 miles away from Chile and South America, the nearest continent, and over 1,300 miles away from its nearest inhabited neighbor, Pitcairn Island, Easter Island is a solitary mass of land alone at the southeastern-most point of the Polynesian Triangle. And yet this small patch of land, a mere dot within the vast Pacific Ocean, is one of the most famous islands in the world. Today, Easter Island is almost synonymous for the unique artifacts that grace its coastline and interior, particularly the nearly 900 monumental statues that are unlike anything found elsewhere across the globe. Known as "Moai" by the island inhabitants, these statues have amazed everyone who has seen them in person or in photos, and they have befuddled researchers attempting to answer important questions about them. The Moai also vary considerably, with the tallest having a height of over 70 feet and the shortest being less than 4 feet.
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]]>Title: The Hagia Sophia]]>Subtitle: The History of the Famous Church and Mosque]]>Categories: Europe, History, Medieval, Middle East, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Joseph Chialastri]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Hagia Sophia, built from 532-537, is inarguably the masterpiece of Byzantine architecture and one of the greatest buildings ever constructed. Upon its completion, the Hagia Sophia remained the largest enclosed space in the world for nearly a thousand years, a reign that only ended after the rebuilding of St. Peter's in Rome. Fittingly, the rebuilding of St. Peter's was partly inspired by the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque in 1453. The building of Hagia Sophia itself was shocking and transformational. Beginning with Procopius of Caesarea, Justinian's court historian, visitor after visitor noted that the giant dome seems to hover on air, and it's unquestionably true that the arches, vaults, semidomes, and domes add up for an otherworldly, ethereal effect. The surfaces are enriched by colored marble and elaborate mosaics, and when viewing from the aisles and galleries, looking into the nave is dramatic thanks to all the interconnecting layered spaces and repeating, complex curved forms. Interestingly, however, the brick exterior of the building was left unadorned, representing a shell that houses a magnificent interior. The Hagia Sophia examines the history of one of the world's most famous religious sites and analyzes the religion and politics that shaped its fate.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of Andy Griffith]]>Categories: Actor, America, Biography, Celebrity]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Allison McKay]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"What I like is to play a character like me. I don't care for it too much when I have to get away from myself." - Andy Griffith "I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape." - Andy Griffith A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In 1957, little-known comedian and actor Andy Griffith won acclaim for his portrayal as a country drifter who uses his powers of persuasion to become a television host in A Face in the Crowd, so it was only fitting that the role helped propel him to become the face of one of America's most beloved sitcoms.
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]]>Title: History's Greatest Mysteries: The Nazca Lines]]>Categories: Ancient, Exploration, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Steve Carlson]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-06-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The geometric ones could indicate the flow of water or be connected to rituals to summon water. The spiders, birds, and plants could be fertility symbols. Other possible explanations include: irrigation schemes or giant astronomical calendars." - Cynthia Stokes Brown In 1927, Today, millions of people fly, and everyone who does views the ground thousands of feet below. But in 1927, air traffic was a relatively new phenomenon, especially in the wilds of southern Peru, and when the first planes passed over the sprawling expanse of the Nazca Desert, passengers looking out their windows saw an incredible sight that they could hardly believe. On the baked desert floor, someone had carved broad, perfectly straight lines that ran for miles. Even more amazingly, some of the lines twisted together to form the shapes of animals, birds, and insects. But when the lines were investigated further, it was discovered that they were mostly undetectable from ground level.
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]]>Title: The Ten Lost Tribes]]>Subtitle: The History and Mystery of the Lost Tribes of Israel]]>Categories: Ancient, History, Levant, Middle East]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Gordon Greenhill]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-03-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I counted as spoil 27,280 people, together with their chariots, and gods, in whom they trusted. I formed a unit with 200 of [their] chariots for my royal force. I settled the rest of them in the midst of Assyria. I repopulated Samaria more than before. I brought into it people from countries conquered by my hands. I appointed my commissioner as governor over them, and I counted them as Assyrians." - Sargon II, Assyrian king In the eighth century BCE, one of the most important provinces within the Assyrian Empire was Samaria. Also known as Israel, Samaria repeatedly rebelled against their Assyrian overlords, but in 722, the Assyrians overran Samaria once and for all, killing countless numbers and sending most of the rest of its inhabitants into forced exile. The events of Samaria's fall were chronicled in the Assyrian annals from the reign of Sargon II and the Old Testament, and although the two sources present the event from different perspectives, they corroborate each other for the most part and together present a reliable account of the situation.
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]]>Title: The 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa]]>Subtitle: The History of the World's Most Notorious Volcanic Explosions]]>Categories: 19th Century, Asia, History, Modern, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dale Smelko]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-03-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"In 1883, Krakatoa suddenly sprang into notoriety. Insignificantly though it had hitherto seemed the little island was soon to compel by its tones of thunder the whole world to pay it instant attention. It was to become the scene of a volcanic outbreak so appalling that it is destined to be remembered throughout the ages." - Sir Robert Ball Volcanic eruptions have amazed people for millennia, and notorious ones like the eruption of Mount St. Helens can still be immediately recalled even by some who weren't alive at the time. But perhaps the most famous and most destructive eruption in modern history was the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. Even without the instantaneous forms of communication that are now available, the world watched in wonder for new updates about a tiny South Pacific island. And though few of them would ever go there, Krakatoa remained a source of fascination for the much of the world for the next 50 years. Krakatoa had already been the scene of volcanic activity for hundreds of years, and some of the eruptions had been documented by early European explorers in the 17th century.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Salem Witch Trials]]>Categories: America, Christianity, Colonialism, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Bob Neufeld]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-03-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"More than once it has been said, too, that the Salem witchcraft was the rock on which the theocracy shattered." - George Lincoln Burr A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute. And they can do so while learning interesting facts long forgotten, or never known. The sleepy town of Salem, Massachusetts was not unlike every other small village that dotted the countryside around Boston until 1692, when religious authorities held a series of hearings accusing dozens of people of witchcraft. These accusations occurred across a handful of towns outside of Boston, including Ipswich and Andover. However, since the most notorious trials were held in Salem, they have been known ever since as the Salem Witch Trials. Today, the Salem Witch Trials are often remembered as being a relic of a superstitious past. Salem has transformed itself into a tourist haven and Halloween destination by capitalizing off the Salem Witch trials.
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]]>Title: The Charge of the Light Brigade]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Europe's Most Famous Cavalry Charge]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military, Russia]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: John Skinner]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-02-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>The Charge of the Light Brigade is the most famous British cavalry charge in history, possibly also eclipsing the renown of any other mounted attack conducted by the armed forces of other nations in the general imagination. This cavalry action is certainly remembered far more vividly than the 1854 Battle of Balaclava during which it occurred, and even the wider Crimean War that led to the battle. Of course, the prominence of the Charge in popular and historical memory is due primarily to Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem describing the events of that distant late October afternoon. The bearded Poet Laureate crafted a powerful, gripping poetic narrative that fixed the encounter firmly in both the popular imagination and in the English literary oeuvre. Millions of people who know nothing else of the Crimean War between Great Britain and the Russian Empire are familiar with Tennyson's memorable verses. At the same time, however, his words also created a narrative about the combat which has obscured much contrary evidence, replacing fact with legend and completely obscuring the true significance of the Charge of the Light Brigade.
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]]>Title: The Irish Potato Famine]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Mass Starvation in Ireland During the 19th Century]]>Categories: Europe, Great Britain, History, Ireland]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Dave Wright]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-02-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I have called it an artificial famine: that is to say, it was a famine which desolated a rich and fertile island that produced every year abundance and superabundance to sustain all her people and many more. The English, indeed, call the famine a 'dispensation of Providence' and ascribe it entirely to the blight on potatoes. But potatoes failed in like manner all over Europe; yet there was no famine save in Ireland." (John Mitchel, Young Ireland Movement) Anyone who has ever heard of "the luck of the Irish" knows it is not something to wish on someone, for few people in the British Isles have ever suffered as the Irish have. As one commissioner looking into the situation in Ireland wrote in February 1845, "It would be impossible adequately to describe the privations which they habitually and silently endure.... In many districts their only food is the potato, their only beverage water.... [T]heir cabins are seldom a protection against the weather....
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]]>Title: Fire in the Sky]]>Subtitle: The History of the Hindenburg Disaster]]>Categories: America, Europe, Germany, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jairus Amar]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-02-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"It's burst into flames! Get this, Charlie; get this, Charlie! It's fire... and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible! Oh, my! Get out of the way, please! It's burning and bursting into flames and the... and it's falling on the mooring mast. And all the folks agree that this is terrible; this is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world...its flames... Crashing, oh! Four or five-hundred feet into the sky and it...it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It's smoke, and it's in flames now; and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity!" (Herb Morrison's broadcast of the Hindenburg disaster) Societies across the globe are incredibly thankful for all the modern devices and opportunities that have been developed over time, including the cars and planes that have allowed people to travel long distances in short times, but it is often easy to forget that all these advances came with a price. Car accidents and plane crashes leave the headlines almost as quickly as they enter them, in part because they're recognized as the kind of things that occur with technological advances. That was not the case, however, with the Hindenburg disaster.
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]]>Title: The History and Folklore of Vampires]]>Subtitle: The Stories and Legends Behind the Mythical Beings]]>Categories: Europe, Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jack Chekijian]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 04-01-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>People have always been afraid of the dead. Since the dawn of humanity, people have both cared for those who are deceased yet also tried to keep them away. There are a myriad of legends and beliefs about the dead coming back, and one of the more persistent ones is of the vampire. Everyone has heard of vampires, but few people are truly familiar with the history and folklore that have made the mythical beings so popular. Indeed, there are so many legends from so many cultures that it is difficult to come up with a hard definition. And folklore is by its very nature unscientific, but most people in the Western world think of vampires as those who come back from the grave to suck the blood or life essence from the living. This common understanding of vampires actually obscures many European and most non-European traditions of bloodsucking monsters. For example, in China, Japan, and the Middle East, there are spirits that will drain the life force of an unwary person, but these magical beings were never mortal humans.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Life of John Wayne]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: R. Keith Miles]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-31-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West - the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it." - John Wayne A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Hollywood has produced no shortage of famous movie stars, but none have been as culturally significant as John Wayne. Marion Morrison was born in a quintessentially quaint Midwestern town, but he eventually grew up to become John Wayne, the legend of the silver screen who embodied the Western frontier.
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]]>Title: The Terracotta Army]]>Subtitle: The History of Ancient China's Famous Terracotta Warriors and Horses]]>Categories: Ancient, Asia, China, History, Planet Earth]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Curt Simmons]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-31-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"The terracotta army was a one-off creation, original in both concept and execution, unmentioned in any source, no sooner buried than destroyed and forgotten. ...Why so realistic? Why this many? Why full-size? Why clay? ...The initial inspiration was the need to duplicate a new force, of which the main element was infantry, conscripted from the emperor's newly acquired masses of peasants, and protected not with custom-made armor but with scales of leather and simple, standardized weapons. It was the combination of archers, infantry and charioteers, this particular balance between officers and men, that had enabled the First Emperor to unify the nation." - John Man, The Terracotta Army: China's First Emperor and the Birth of a Nation China has always fascinated outsiders, much in the same way that distant light fascinates someone looking down a dark road. It is both familiar and mysterious, ancient and new, and fully understanding it seems to always remain just out of reach.
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]]>Title: The Trent Affair]]>Subtitle: The Diplomatic Incident That Nearly Brought Great Britain into the American Civil War]]>Categories: America, American Civil War, Europe, Great Britain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: William Dupuy]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-30-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Mr. Seward... is exerting himself to provoke a quarrel with all Europe, in that spirit of senseless egotism which induces the Americans, with their dwarf fleet and shapeless mass of incoherent squads which they call an army, to fancy themselves the equal of France by land and Great Britain by sea." - The London Chronicle In November 1861, the American Civil War was still a relatively young conflict, and both sides were still jockeying for the upper hand. The Confederates had won the First Battle of Bull Run in July, and there had not been any major battles in the West, but the Union had also pushed the Confederates out of West Virginia and George McClellan was about to organize the Army of the Potomac for an offensive against Richmond. Months before then, Confederate President Jefferson Davis had sent out diplomatic agents to Europe in attempts to win recognition among major European powers, and to place even further pressure on the status quo, Southern merchants actually refused to export cotton, hoping the sheer weight of economics would compel them to help.
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]]>Title: The Master of Suspense]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of Alfred Hitchcock]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Cira Larkin]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-30-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach." - Alfred Hitchcock, 1956 In the opening pages of his seminal book-length study of Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock's Films (1965), Robin Wood famously asked, "Why Should We Take Hitchcock Seriously?" Wood then proceeded to offer a detailed examination of Hitchcock's career to that point, arguing that the Master of Suspense belonged among the ranks of the preeminent directors in Hollywood, and that his films were among the most important in American culture. When Wood was asking that question, he wasn't asking it rhetorically and was arguing for Hitchcock's relevance, which seems strange today because Hitchcock is now a Hollywood icon. No one would even think of asking that same question today, as just about every American is familiar with Hitchcock's work in some way or another. Hitchcock is regarded as perhaps the most famous and influential director in history, so Wood's question back in 1965 at least demonstrates the evolution of Hitchcock's reputation and the critical reception of his career.
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]]>Title: The Great Fire of London]]>Subtitle: The History of the 1666 Fire that Destroyed England's Greatest City]]>Categories: 17th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Pam Tierney]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-27-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"[A] wooden, northern, and inartificial congestion of Houses." - John Evelyn's description of London before the fire "So I was called for, and did tell the King and Duke of York what I saw, and that unless His Majesty did command houses to be pulled down nothing could stop the fire. They seemed much troubled, and the King commanded me to go to my Lord Mayor from him, and command him to spare no houses, but to pull down before the fire every way." - Samuel Pepys In the 17th century, the people of London could boast that they had developed some of the most advanced firefighting technology and methods in the world, including the use of primitive fire engines. There were even vendors of such machines who advertised in papers of their machines' abilities to quench great fires. Of course, even with trained firefighters and new devices, the most skillful efforts could still prove limited in the face of a giant fire, as Rome had learned over 1500 years earlier and as Chicago would learn nearly 200 years later. In fact, one of the primary reasons London developed ways to fight fires was the fact that the city was particularly vulnerable.
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]]>Title: Legends of the Middle Ages]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of Vlad the Impaler]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Peter L. Delloro]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-26-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>Includes historical accounts that describe Vlad the Impaler and his notorious rule. Discusses the authenticity of the accounts accusing Vlad of impaling tens of thousands and his other infamous misdeeds. Analyzes Vlad's legacy and his association with Bram Stoker's Dracula. "And then he put many people on spinning wheels and killed them. And he also did many such other inhuman cruelties that were talked about in many countries." - A German legend about Vlad Dracula A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' Legends of the Middle Ages series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of important medieval men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Many medieval figures are shrouded in mystery due to the scarcity of available sources and to the difficulties posed by the interpretation of historical narratives dating from this period.
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]]>Title: Robin Hood: The History and Folklore of the English Legend]]>Categories: Europe, Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Fiction]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jack Chekijian]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-25-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>This audiobook profiles the historic figures who scholars speculate may be the person Robin Hood was based on, and explains the origins and evolution of Robin Hood. "Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen Robin Hood, Robin Hood, with his band of men Feared by the bad, loved by the good Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood." - Theme Song from The Adventures of Robin Hood There are few characters in the English language more iconic than Robin Hood. Emerging out of the ballads of the High Middle Ages and surviving through numerous permutations to the present day, the green-clad archer has become an icon. Today he represents a playful, irreverent, and cunning resistance to corruption and injustice, associated primarily with stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Robin Hood's selfless acts of helping the masses at the expense of himself (by not keeping his treasure) have led to contemporary figures like Bill Gates being called "Modern Day Robin Hoods".
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]]>Title: Hadrian's Wall]]>Subtitle: The History and Construction of Ancient Rome's Most Famous Defensive Fortification]]>Categories: Ancient, Europe, Great Britain, History, Rome]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Phillip J. Mather]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-24-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"[The Romans], thinking that it might be some help to the allies [Britons], whom they were forced to abandon, constructed a strong stone wall from sea to sea, in a straight line between the towns that had been there built for fear of the enemy, where Severus also had formerly built a rampart." (Bede's description of Hadrian's Wall in the Middle Ages) The Romans were master builders, and much of what they built has stood the test of time. Throughout their vast empire, they have left grand structures, from the Forum and Pantheon in Rome to the theatres and hippodromes of North Africa and the triumphal gates in Anatolia and France. Wherever they went, the Romans built imposing structures to show their power and ability, and one of their most impressive constructions was built on the northernmost fringe of the empire. In 55 BCE Julius Caesar was still dealing with Gaul, but that year he also led the first Romans into Britain, accusing tribes there of aiding the Gauls against him. With winter fast approaching, Caesar's forces did not make their way far into the mainland that year.
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]]>Title: Oliver Cromwell]]>Subtitle: The Notorious Life and Legacy of the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, Head of State]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Saethon Williams]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-24-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imagined necessities...are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by." - Oliver Cromwell "Put your trust in God, my boys, but keep your powder dry." - attributed to Oliver Cromwell For over 1,000 years England has had a monarchy, and though the line of succession did not always pass smoothly, it has almost always been continuous. England has more often been faced with the claims of competing kings and queens than with a period of no monarch at all. The major exception to that rule came in the 11 years between 1649 and 1660, when England was a republic. Following the disastrous reign of Charles I, and the civil wars that led to his execution, Parliament and the army ruled England. England's republican experiment started out as a work of collaboration and compromise; lords, army officers, and members of Parliament (MPs) worked together to find a political settlement that did not include the despised royal House of Stuart. Nonetheless, religious and political division made collective rule unworkable, and ultimately one man emerged from the chaos to rule the country.
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]]>Title: Russian Legends]]>Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of Rasputin]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Historical Fiction, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Jared Wekenman]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-24-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' Russian Legends series, listeners can get caught up on the lives of Russia's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. The world has never had its shortage of legends surrounding the lives of supposed mystics, visionaries, and prophets. But few have ever grabbed a hold on pop culture quite like Grigori Rasputin, one of the most shadowy and mysterious figures in Russian history. Naturally, what makes Rasputin one of the 20th century's most colorful and memorable figures is what we do not know. It is unclear how much basis in fact accounts of Rasputin's life truly hold, since the sources mostly consist of memoirs, hearsay, and embellished legend. Some contemporaries considered him a saintly mystic, psychic, healer, and prophet, while others considered him a debauched heretic.
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]]>Title: The Mutiny on the Bounty]]>Subtitle: The History and Legacy of Great Britain's Most Notorious Mutiny]]>Categories: 18th Century, Europe, Great Britain, History, Modern]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Scott Clem]]>Publisher: Charles River Editors]]>Release date: 03-18-2015]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"On the 28th of April at daybreak the Captain and me were surprised by Mr. Christian, Stewart Young Haywood and the Master at Arms, with 21 people. Christian and the Master at Arms went into Mr. Bligh's Cabin and tied his hands behind him. Two men came into my Cabin, with muskets and Bayonets, told me if I spoke, that I was a dead man and that Mr. Christian had taken the Ship and that they was to put us onshore upon one of the Friendly Isles." - John Fryer, Master on the Bounty The Mutiny on the Bounty is one of those great stories in history that most people have heard of but few people know much about. In fact, those who think they know what happened are likely to have formed their opinions from what they saw on a movie screen than what they read in a book. Fortunately, the true story itself is every bit as exciting as anything Hollywood could dream up. In April 1789, the HMS Bounty was conducting operations in the Pacific when about half of the crew put in action a plot to take control of the ship from its captain, William Bligh.
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]]>Title: British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Diana, Princess of Wales]]>Categories: Biography, Celebrity, Europe, Great Britain]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Chris Marsden]]>Publisher: Beacon Audiobooks]]>Release date: 12-08-2014]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can." —Diana A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' British Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of Great Britain's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Born in 1961, the woman who would become Princess of Wales and one of the most famous people in the world was literally nameless for a week. Expecting a boy, the parents finally came to grips with the fact that she was a girl and eventually named her Diana. Fittingly, even though Diana had been born into one of Britain's most historic and prominent families, the world came to know her better for her first name than her last name, Spencer. Diana's first brush with Prince Charles came when the prince was dating her older sister, but the world met Lady Diana after Charles began courting her from 1980-81.
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]]>Title: The British Royal Family: The Life of Charles, Prince of Wales]]>Categories: Biography, Europe, Great Britain, History]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Chris Marsden]]>Publisher: Beacon Audiobooks]]>Release date: 12-08-2014]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>"I think it's something that dawns on you with the most ghastly, inexorable sense. I didn't suddenly wake up in my pram one day and say 'Yippee, I -', you know. But I think it just dawns on you, you know, slowly, that people are interested in one, and slowly you get the idea that you have a certain duty and responsibility." - Prince Charles about being heir to the throne The British Royal Family is held in awe across Britain, and they have captured the interest of people around the globe. Queen Elizabeth II is respected for her stately demeanor, Prince William and his new wife, Kate Middleton, are deemed trendsetters and attract attention from media starved for gossip, and nobody has held as unique a place in pop culture as the late Diana, Princess of Wales. In the middle of it all is Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne.
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]]>Title: American Legends: The Three Stooges]]>Categories: America, Biography, Celebrity, History, United States of America]]>Author: Charles River Editors]]>Narrator: Morley Shulman]]>Publisher: Beacon Audiobooks]]>Release date: 11-18-2014]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America’s most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. There has been no shortage of comedy acts in American history, but the most famous and popular of them all is The Three Stooges, an act that has become synonymous with slapstick. Bring up their name to any American or even ask about slapstick comedy, and invariably, certain images will come to mind, most of which came from the comedy shorts featuring three bumbling but likeable fools getting into all sorts of trouble due to their inability to think or behave properly. The Three Stooges had several lineups over the decades, but two of them are most closely associated with the act. Two of the Howard brothers, Moe and Shemp, had their origins in 1920s vaudeville along with Larry Fine, but after Shemp quit, he was replaced by his younger brother Curly.
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]]>Title: The Last Voyage of Colombus]]>Subtitle: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition]]>Categories: America, Biography, Europe, Exploration]]>Author: Martin Dugard]]>Narrator: John McDonough]]>Publisher: Recorded Books]]>Release date: 07-21-2014]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>New York Times best-selling author Martin Dugard writes the first account of Columbus’s little-known last voyage. Columbus’ famed 1492 expedition wasn’t his last. After tough times, he was given one more chance. But this voyage didn’t have the fortuitous accidents of 1492. Instead it brought a shipwreck and more violence and mutiny than ever before - pushing an aging explorer to his limit.
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]]>Title: To Be a Runner]]>Subtitle: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)]]>Categories: Athletics, Cardio, Personal Development, Personal Success]]>Author: Martin Dugard]]>Narrator: Bernard Setaro Clark]]>Publisher: Audible Studios]]>Release date: 04-08-2014]]>Language: English
]]>Summary:]]>With an exuberant mix of passion, insight, instruction, and humor, best-selling author - and lifelong runner - Martin Dugard takes a journey through the world of running to illustrate how the sport helps us fulfill that universal desire to be the best possible version of ourselves each and every time we lace up our shoes. To Be a Runner represents a new way to write about running by bridging the chasm between the two categories of running books: how-to and personal narrative. Spinning colorful yarns of his running and racing adventures on six continents - from competing in the infamous Raid Gauloises to coaching his son’s high school cross-country team - Dugard considers what it means to truly integrate the activity into one’s life. For example, how the simple act of buying a new pair of running shoes can be a source of meaning and hope. As entertaining as it is provocative, To Be a Runner is about far more than running: It is about life, and how we should live it.
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