Summer of Blood
England's First Revolution
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Crusaders and a top authority on the historical events that inspired Game of Thrones, a vivid, blood-soaked account of one of the most famous rebellions in history - the first mass uprising by the people of England against their feudal masters.
In the summer of 1381, ravaged by poverty and oppressed by taxes, the people of England rose up and demanded that their voices be heard. A ragtag army, led by the mysterious Wat Tyler and the visionary preacher John Ball, rose up against the 14-year-old Richard II and his most powerful lords and knights, who risked their property and their lives in a desperate battle to save the English crown. Dan Jones brings this incendiary moment to life and captures both the idealism and brutality of that fateful summer, when a brave group of men and women dared to challenge their overlords, demand that they be treated equally, and fight for freedom.
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- De: Helen Carr
- Narrado por: Helen Carr
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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John Gaunt was the son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV, and the sire of all those Tudors. He has had pretty bad press: supposed usurper of Richard II’s crown and the focus of hatred in the Peasants’ Revolt, as they torched his home, the Savoy Palace. Helen Carr paints a complex portrait of a man who held the levers of power on the English and European stage, passionately upheld chivalric values, pressed for the Bible to be translated into English, and patronized the arts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent historical reference
- De Virginia Robertshaw en 06-10-21
De: Helen Carr
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- De: William Dalrymple
- Narrado por: Sid Sagar
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas in one small office, five windows wide, and answerable only to its distant shareholders. In his most ambitious and riveting audiobook to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent book but awkward narration
- De TexasVC en 02-25-20
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Magna Carta
- The Birth of Liberty
- De: Dan Jones
- Narrado por: Dan Jones
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles - even its language - can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was this strange document and how did it gain such legendary status? Dan Jones takes us back to the turbulent year of 1215, when, beset by foreign crises and cornered by a growing domestic rebellion, King John reluctantly agreed to fix his seal to a document that would change the course of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Complicated period of history made accessible
- De NH en 12-09-15
De: Dan Jones
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The Hundred Years War
- The English in France 1337-1453
- De: Desmond Seward
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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From 1337 to 1453 England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. Though it was a small, poor country, England for most of those "100 years" won the battles, sacked the towns and castles, and dominated the war. Desmond Seward's critically acclaimed account of the Hundred Years War brings to life all of the intrigue, beauty, and royal to-the-death-fighting of that legendary century-long conflict.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb narrator and fascintating history
- De Julie Seavello en 05-30-21
De: Desmond Seward
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The Birth of Britain
- A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume I
- De: Sir Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,349
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 971
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The English-speaking peoples comprise perhaps the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today. These people also share a common heritage. For his four-volume work, Sir Winston Churchill took as his subject these great elements in world history. Volume 1 commences in 55BC, when Julius Caesar famously "turned his gaze upon Britain" and concludes with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Birth of Britain
- De Terryl Pettengill en 02-11-07
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Born in Blood
- The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry
- De: John J. Robinson
- Narrado por: Paul Brion
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 266
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Its mysterious symbols and rituals had been used in secret for centuries before Freemasonry revealed itself in London in 1717. Once known, Freemasonry spread throughout the world and attracted kings, emperors, and statesmen to take its sacred oaths. But where had this powerful organization come from? What was it doing in those secret centuries before it rose from underground more than 270 years ago? And why was Freemasonry attacked with such intense hatred by the Roman Catholic church?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but not by a Freemason it seems.
- De What can I say? en 09-08-21
De: John J. Robinson
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Crusaders
- The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
- De: Dan Jones
- Narrado por: Dan Jones
- Duración: 16 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 736
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 649
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For more than 1,000 years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human and avowedly pluralist path through the crusading era.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping but not tidy
- De Tad Davis en 01-06-20
De: Dan Jones
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Brothers York
- A Royal Tragedy
- De: Thomas Penn
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan
- Duración: 23 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 240
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 210
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The Brothers York is the story of three remarkable brothers, two of whom were crowned kings of England and the other an heir presumptive, whose antagonism was fueled by the mistrust and vendettas of the age that brought their family to power. The house of York should have been the dynasty that the Tudors became. Its tragedy was that it devoured itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absorbing detail
- De Tad Davis en 08-06-20
De: Thomas Penn
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The New World
- A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume II
- De: Sir Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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Between 1485 and 1688, England became a Protestant country under Henry VIII. His daughter, Elizabeth I, battled for succession and supremacy at home, and the discovery of 'the round world' enabled a vast continent across the Atlantic to be explored. While this new era was spawning the beginnings of modern America, England was engaged in a bloody civil war and sustained a Republican experiment under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Churchill series
- De Elizabeth Weingarten en 08-27-08
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The Accursed Tower
- The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades
- De: Roger Crowley
- Narrado por: Matt Kugler
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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In The Accursed Tower, Roger Crowley delivers a lively narrative of the lead-up to the siege and a vivid, blow-by-blow account of the climactic battle. Drawing on extant Arabic sources as well as untranslated Latin documents, he argues that Acre is notable for technical advances in military planning and siege warfare, and extraordinary for its individual heroism and savage slaughter. A gripping depiction of the crusader era told through its dramatic last moments, The Accursed Tower offers an essential new view on a crucial turning point in world history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another great book by Roger Crowley
- De tp en 03-13-20
De: Roger Crowley
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The Hundred Years' War: A Captivating Guide to One of the Most Notable Conflicts of the Middle Ages and in European History and the Life of Joan of Arc
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Richard L. Walton, Randy Whitlow
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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The Hundred Years' War: A Captivating Guide to One of the Most Notable Conflicts of the Middle Ages and in European History and the Life of Joan of Arc contains two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook: The Hundred Years’ War: A Captivating Guide to the Conflicts Between the English House of Plantagenet and the French House of Valois That Took Place During the Middle Ages and Joan of Arc: A Captivating Guide to a Heroine of France and Her Role During the Lancastrian Phase of the Hundred Years’ War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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solid guide
- De ram en 09-06-19
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The Conquering Family
- De: Thomas B. Costain
- Narrado por: David Case
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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Thomas B. Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets begins with The Conquering Family and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of John in 1216. The troubled period after the Norman Conquest, when the foundations of government were hammered out between monarch and people, comes to life through Costain's storytelling skill and historical imagination.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An Entrancing History of the Early Plantegenets
- De Peter en 01-20-09
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The French Revolution - In a Nutshell
- De: Neil Wenborn
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan
- Duración: 1 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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The fifth in the new Naxos AudioBooks series "In a Nutshell", The French Revolution is a short and accessible introduction to one of the most important periods in European history. It brings vividly to life the implacable Robespierre, the frightened Marie Antoinette and the iconic image of the guillotine. But it also demonstrates the key role the Revolution played in the development of European politics.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well done!
- De Helen Drew en 03-02-18
De: Neil Wenborn
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A Distant Mirror
- The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
- De: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 28 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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The 14th century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and the exquisitely decorated Books of Hours; and on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.
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5 out of 5 stars
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And you thought the twentieth century was rough...
- De Rob en 03-23-06
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Lancaster and York
- The Wars of the Roses
- De: Alison Weir
- Narrado por: Maggie Mash
- Duración: 22 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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Lancater and York is a riveting account of the Wars of the Roses, from beloved historian Alison Weir. The war between the houses of Lancaster and York was characterised by treachery, deceit, and bloody battles. Alison Weir's lucid and gripping account focuses on the human side of history. At the centre of the book stands Henry VI, the pious king whose mental instability led to political chaos, and his wife Margaret of Anjou, who took up her arms in her husband's cause and battled in a violent man's world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dense, fascinating history...questionable delivery
- De kbreezy en 10-04-17
De: Alison Weir
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Defenders of the Faith
- Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536
- De: James Reston Jr.
- Narrado por: Jim Meskimen
- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 69
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In the best-selling Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston Jr. limned two epochal conflicts between Islam and Christendom. Here he examines the ultimate battle in that centuries-long war, which found Europe at its most vulnerable and Islam on the attack. This drama was propelled by two astonishing young sovereigns: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Turkish sultan Suleyman the Magnificent. Though they represented two colliding worlds, they were remarkably similar.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good account of interesting period of history
- De ItalCali en 03-11-22
De: James Reston Jr.
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The Last Emperor of Mexico
- The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
- De: Edward Shawcross
- Narrado por: Gustavo Rex
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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In the 1860s, Napoleon III, intent on curbing the rise of American imperialism, persuaded a young Austrian archduke and a Belgian princess to leave Europe and become the emperor and empress of Mexico. They and their entourage arrived in a Mexico ruled by terror, where revolutionary fervor was barely suppressed by French troops. When the United States, now clear of its own Civil War, aided the rebels in pushing back Maximilian’s imperial soldiers, the French army withdrew, abandoning the young couple. The regime fell apart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Kyle P. Dalton en 03-24-22
De: Edward Shawcross
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In 1972, the United States Supreme Court made a surprising ruling: The country’s death penalty system violated the Constitution. The backlash was swift, especially in Texas, where executions were considered part of the cultural fabric, and a dark history of lynching was masked by gauzy visions of a tough-on-crime frontier. When executions resumed, Texas quickly became the nationwide leader in carrying out the punishment.
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During the first hundred years of Chinese immigration - from 1848 to 1943 - San Francisco was home to a shockingly extensive underground slave trade in Asian women, who were exploited as prostitutes and indentured servants. In this gripping, necessary book, best-selling author Julia Flynn Siler shines a light on this little-known chapter in our history - and gives us a vivid portrait of the safe house to which enslaved women escaped.
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- De: Vince Houghton, Eric Driggs
- Narrado por: Eric Driggs, Vince Houghton
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military operations, and its lax business laws, Miami was an ideal environment for espionage. Covert City tells the history of how the entire city of Miami was constructed in the image of the US-Cuba rivalry.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ruined the ending with unnecessary anti Trump comments
- De Amazon Customer en 05-10-24
De: Vince Houghton, y otros
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Islands of Abandonment
- Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
- De: Cal Flyn
- Narrado por: Cal Flyn
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Some of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen in many lifetimes has rebounded on the irradiated grounds of Chernobyl. A lush forest supports thousands of species that are extinct or endangered everywhere else on earth in the Korean peninsula's narrow DMZ.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunningly necessary
- De Mattia en 09-02-21
De: Cal Flyn
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I Like to Watch
- Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
- De: Emily Nussbaum
- Narrado por: Emily Nussbaum
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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From her creation of the “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has argued for a new way of looking at TV. In this collection, including two never-before-published essays, Nussbaum writes about her passion for television, beginning with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show that set her on a fresh intellectual path. She explores the rise of the female screw-up, how fans warp the shows they love, the messy power of sexual violence on TV, and the year that jokes helped elect a reality-television president.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yes, this is worth a credit! 💯
- De Amazon Customer en 07-05-19
De: Emily Nussbaum
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This Land
- How Cowboys, Capitalism and Corruption are Ruining the American West
- De: Christopher Ketcham
- Narrado por: Christopher Ketcham
- Duración: 15 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the listener on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing our great commons.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You need to read this book
- De David Phinney en 08-12-19
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Spying on the South
- An Odyssey Across the American Divide
- De: Tony Horwitz
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins, Tony Horwitz
- Duración: 17 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 402
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In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times. For the Connecticut Yankee, pen name "Yeoman", the South was alien, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months, by horseback, steamboat, and stagecoach, seeking dialogue and common ground. Tony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great final story from a talented author
- De Ericka en 06-29-19
De: Tony Horwitz
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Operation Chastise
- The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Max Hastings, Peter Noble
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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The attack on Nazi Germany’s dams on May 17, 1943, was one of the most remarkable feats in military history. The absurdly young men of the Royal Air Force’s 617 Squadron set forth in cold blood and darkness, without benefit of electronic aids, to fly lumbering heavy bombers straight and level towards a target at a height above the water less than the length of a bowling alley. Yet this story has never been told in full. Max Hastings takes us back to the May 1943 raid to reveal how the truth of that night is considerably different from the popularized account most people know.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wish He Had Stuck to the Core Story
- De John en 06-22-20
De: Max Hastings
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Facing the Mountain
- A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
- De: Daniel James Brown
- Narrado por: Louis Ozawa
- Duración: 17 h y 40 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,394
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,238
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,229
In the days and months after Pearl Harbor, the lives of Japanese Americans across the continent and Hawaii were changed forever. In this unforgettable chronicle of war-time America and the battlefields of Europe, Daniel James Brown portrays the journey of Rudy Tokiwa, Fred Shiosaki, and Kats Miho, who volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and were deployed to France, Germany, and Italy, where they were asked to do the near impossible. Brown also tells the story of these soldiers' parents, immigrants who were forced to submit to life in concentration camps on U.S. soil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- De Tbone McCoy en 06-13-21
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Summer of Blood
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- R Adkins
- 11-12-22
Why is the narrator breathless?
I think the point is to listen to the audiobook? Maybe, I could be wrong.
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- Paul Weston
- 06-24-23
An historic event revealed in depth and detail in excellent prose.
Having previously read with pleasure the account of the Wars of the Roses by Jones, I’m now looking forward to his book on the entire period of Plantagenet reign, rounding out an insightful picture of an important part of British history.
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- Robert Moore
- 12-23-22
One of his best
I’ve read most of Dan Jones books. I think this is one of the best!
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- Old man
- 10-18-21
Another great story from history
I enjoyed listening to this story. The author made the events seem to come to life. I could see in my minds eye the events as they unfolded. He made each part real to me and gave me a better understand what happened during the Summer of Blood!
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- CC
- 09-16-23
Really enjoyed
This is a history, not historical fiction, but written in such a way that it is also a great story. The intro is dry, but once you get into the actual book, it moves quite quickly. Looking forward to his reading his other books.
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- IrishCJH
- 12-24-24
Outstanding
History that reads like fiction. A reader that brings the words to life. Excellent on every count.
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- arrow
- 06-27-23
A disapointing history
This is an interesting but disapointing history. I certainly learned about the peasants' revolt, but the author is remarkably unskeptical of his sources, especially when they seem most suspect. For example, royal accounts of rebel leaders as deranged and lurid probably make for a more exciting story, but I would have more confidence in the history if Dan Jones was at least a little skeptical. These issues became more pronounced as the book progressed.
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- MelissaO
- 08-14-23
good
I liked the easy language, it was hard to stay focused but it was a good book
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- Thomas Goldsmith
- 11-05-21
Cheated out of SUMMER OF BLOOD
I prepurchased this book in anticipation. I thoroughly enjoy Dan Brown’s genius for turning the most dusty stories into fascinating prose. However, the reader selected here is an unmitigated disaster. He is under the impression that he is reading bedtime stories to 5 year olds. 100% inappropriate choice. I cannot finish the book. And I feel ripped off. I had heard from two podcast sources that he would again be narrating his own work. Maybe there is another version. Just not the one automatically downloaded to my library.
This is appalling.
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