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The History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue
By: Herbert Addison Burns
Narrated by: Herbert Addison Burns
Length: 35 minutes
Abridged: No
This audio book is based on the famous and successful slave rescue mission," Titled the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue. " A true historical account of how a fugitive slave named John was rescued from slave catchers from Kentucky in Wellington Ohio in the mid-nineteenth century. Thirty -seven men were indicted and put on trial for rescuing John in... Read more
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The Wrath to Come
By: Sarah Churchwell
Narrated by: Sarah Churchwell
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The history America never wanted you to read.
'The narrative took my breath away' Philippe Sands
'An extraordinarily and shockingly powerful read' Peter Frankopan
'One of the must-reads of the year' Suzannah Lipscomb
'Brilliant and provocative' Gavin Esler
Sarah Churchwell examines one of the most enduringly popular stories of all time, Gone with the... Read more
Der Vertrag von Versailles: Ein fesselnder Überblick über den Friedensvertrag, der den Ersten Weltkrieg beendete, seine Auswirkungen auf Deutschland und den Aufstieg von Adolf Hitler
By: Captivating History
Narrated by: Alexander Ballinger
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Wenn Sie die fesselnde Geschichte des Vertrags von Versailles entdecken wollen, dann lesen Sie weiter...Der Vertrag zur Beendigung des Ersten Weltkriegs, auch bekannt als der „Krieg, der alle Kriege beendete“, wurde im Schloss von Versailles unterzeichnet, das bis 1789 Sitz der französischen Könige war und bis heute eines der schönsten Bauwerke... Read more
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Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika
By: Scott Ritter
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 18 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika is the definitive history of the implementation of the INF Treaty signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in all its complexities, and the lengths both sides went to “trust, but verify” this successful and unique historic disarmament process. It demonstrates how two nations fundamentally at odds with... Read more
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Decameron
By: Giovanni Boccaccio
Narrated by: Terry Jones, John Finnemore, Samuel Barnett, Co...
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Terry Jones introduces ten dramatisations of choice Florentine Fancies, adapted from Giovanni Boccaccio's classic human comedy by the BBC
Monty Python star and medieval historian Terry Jones presents ten BBC Radio dramatisations of tales from Giovanni Boccaccio's humane and comic masterpiece.
Composed in the early 1350s, in the wake of the Black... Read more
Helen of Troy
By: Bettany Hughes
Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
Length: 15 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Helen of Troy is one of the most evocative names in ancient history. For nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that it can wield. Held responsible for both the Trojan War and enduring the enmity between East and West, for millennia she has been viewed as an... Read more
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Flying to Extremes
By: Dominique Prinet
Narrated by: Adam Henderson
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Recalling some of the most memorable escapades ever conducted in the Canadian Arctic with bush planes, Flying to Extremes takes place in the late ’60s and early ’70s from a base at Yellowknife, in the heart of the Northwest Territories.
Beyond recounting so many near-mishaps, this book is also about colourful people: the trappers, prospectors,... Read more
Wizards
By: Brian Fairbanks
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A corrupt old Democrat.
A surging Republican populist.
The Democrat, hounded by corruption allegations; the Republican, dogged by business failures and ties to white supremacists.
The Republican turned out thousands of screaming supporters for speeches blaming illegal immigrants and crime on the Democrats, and the Democrat plummeted in the... Read more
Mindless War
By: Paul E. Vallely, US Arm General, Retired & John...
Narrated by: Victoria Taft
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook is an update to Reality Prism: A Raven Thriller, released by Flamingo Audiobooks. The focus of our book is to describe and explain the myriad of attacks on our Western Culture in general and the United States as the key target and last bastion of freedom.
Mind War is the use of sophisticated deception to deceive an enemy, and to... Read more
The Truht Is in Love
By: Sergiy Zhuravlov
Narrated by: Andriy Zhuravlov
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The narrative is based on real events during the unification of Spain. Spain, led by Ferdinand the Second and Isabella of Castile, soared to the height of its power. The policy of the cunning king bore rich fruit. The whole country was taken away from the king of Portugal. By deceit the southern fiefdoms were cut off from France. The master of... Read more
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The Oracle of Dodona: The History of Ancient Greece’s Oldest Oracle
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: KC Wayman
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
Abridged: No
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 in the beginning... Read more
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1916-1923 Irish Revolution
By: Legends of War
Narrated by: Daniel Griffin
Length: 2 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The Irish Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth century spawned the creation of the modern Irish state. This is a comprehensive framework of that revolution in its totality, taking into account the broad range of social, economic and political developments as well as the IRA's campaign of guerrilla warfare and the British response to... Read more
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1919 Irish War of Independence
By: Legends of War
Narrated by: Daniel Griffin
Length: 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In the years after the Easter Rising of 1916 in Ireland, a new independence movement had emerged, and in 1918-19 the political party Sinn Féin and its paramilitary partner, the Irish Republican Army, began a political struggle and an armed uprising against British rule. By 1922 the United Kingdom had lost a very substantial portion of its... Read more
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Vida de Julio Agrícola
By: Cayo Cornelio Tácito
Narrated by: ®bseal voice
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Audiolibro narrado en castellano. La Vida de Agrícola es un texto breve con el que Cayo Cornelio Tácito (98 D.C) rinde tributo y homenaje a su suegro escribiendo su biografía . Relata la vida de Cneo Julio Agrícola, un importante senador y militar de la época. El historiador escribe acerca de la libertad de los nativos britones y realiza una... Read more
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Gold, Oil and Avocados
By: Andy Robinson
Narrated by: Andre Bellido
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The twenty-first century began optimistically in Latin America. Left-leaning leaders armed with programs to reduce poverty and reclaim national wealth were seeing results—but as the aughts gave way to the teens, they began to fall like dominos. Where did the dreams of this "pink tide" go? Look no further than the original culprits of Latin... Read more
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Looking Back at Changing Times
By: John Rayburn
Narrated by: John Rayburn
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a kind of history, or at least remembrances. It’s primarily personal but overall takes a look at the way things were many, many decades ago. Details may get a little out of whack from a chronological order now and then, but the gist of the way things in some desperate personal and national times will be fairly well put in place. It... Read more
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Morgenthau
By: Andrew Meier
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 38 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
An “epic and intimate” (David M. Kennedy) portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize—and previously unmapped—influence extending from daily life in New York City to the shaping of the American Century
“Magisterial . . . a vivid retelling of critical domestic and world... Read more
The Anglo-Saxons at War
By: Paul Hill
Narrated by: Michael Page
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In this compelling new study, Paull Hill reveals what documentary records and the growing body of archaeological evidence can tell us about war and combat in the age of the great Anglo-Saxon kings. The violent centuries before the Norman Conquest come to life in this detailed account of how and why the Anglo-Saxons fought, how their warriors... Read more
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We Now Know
By: John Lewis Gaddis
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 18 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Did the Soviet Union want world revolution? Why did the USSR send missiles to Cuba? What made the Cold War last as long as it did? The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective. Based on the latest findings of Cold War historians and extensive research in... Read more
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Wizards
By: Brian Fairbanks
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The '91 Louisiana Governor's race was supposed to be forgettable. But when former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke shocked the nation by ousting incumbent Republican Governor Buddy Roemer in the primary, the world took notice. Democrat Edwin Edwards, a former three-term governor and two-time corruption defendant, was left alone to face Duke in the... Read more
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Atomic Bill
By: Vincent Kiernan
Narrated by: Jim Frangione
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
William L. Laurence was fascinated with atomic science and its militarization. When the Manhattan Project drew near to perfecting the atomic bomb, he was recruited to write much of the government's press materials that were distributed on the day that Hiroshima was obliterated. That instantly crowned Laurence as one of the leading journalistic... Read more
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The Hidden History of Texas, Volume 1 - 1530 to 1820
By: Hank Wilson
Narrated by: Hank Wilson
Length: 2 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The Hidden History of Texas, Volume 1 - 1530 to 1820
This is the often-untold story of the history of Texas from when the Spanish first set foot into Texas until they relinquished control to Mexico. This is the story of the original inhabitants of the land and their interactions with both the Europeans they encountered and other indigenous people... Read more
The Mud Flood Hypothesis: The History of the Conspiracy Theory about the Global Empire of Tartaria
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: David Van Der Molen
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
From time to time, a new theory about world history still makes an appearance, particularly interesting when based on a geological reality. A popular notion at present is the existence of a great empire covering the bulk of Asia and Russia until only one hundred years ago that was destroyed and covered up to enable the rise of present nations.... Read more
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1922 Irish Civil War
By: Legends of War
Narrated by: Daniel Griffin
Length: 46 minutes
Abridged: No
In late June 1922, growing animosity between Pro and Anti-Treaty factions erupted into armed conflict in the center of Dublin. For the next ten months, the Irish Free State was wracked by a bitter, bloody, and brutal civil war between those who sought to protect the new government and those who wished to destroy it. This is the story of the... Read more
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