Bernard Baker In Cairo To Khartoum - Ian Pauley - Audio Book

Bernard Baker In Cairo To Khartoum - Ian Pauley : Looking for something that is something between Young Winston, Indiana Jones with a splash of Monty Python? Look no further!

Cairo to Khartoum is the first in the Bernard Baker series. Here we meet our heroes, Bernard and his batman Sam on their first foray with the British army in 1898. They are bound for Khartoum to do battle with the Dervish horde but, even before they have left England, Bernard stumbles across a plan being hatched by the evil Jeremy Blasford-Smythe apparantly to kidnap the American jounalist Maximillian Perchinsky. Can Bernard and Sam thwart the plan?

Join Bernard and Sam as they battle against the desert heat, smugglers and army regulations in this captivating story.

In this story he will embark on an army career with Sam Johnston which will take them in every corners of the Empire. They are off up the Nile with Kitchner to the Sudan to beat the Dervish Horde in Khartoum. And they decided to break orders to foil the kidnapp attent. Well this book has everything in it to make it a real pleasure to read and to be captivated.

Krakatoa - The Day the World Exploded - Simon Winchester - Audio Book

Krakatoa - The Day the World Exploded - Simon Winchester : The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a by-word for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000 people.

Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event which has only very recently become properly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Dust swirled round the world for years, causing temperatures to plummet and sunsets to turn vivid with lurid and unsettling displays of light. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogota and Washington went haywire. Bodies were washed up in Zanzibar.

The sound of island's destruction was heard in Australia and India and on islands thousands of miles away. Most significantly of all -- in view of today's new political climate -- the eruption helped to trigger a wave of murderous anti-western militancy by fundamentalist Muslims in Java: one of the first eruptions of Islamic killings anywhere.

This story is based on lots of scientific and historical sources, among them eyewitness accounts of events.There's one chapter which is, I think not, very convincing, i,e that the 1883 disaster started the revolt of the Islamic native population against the Christian Dutsch, whom we know have to leave indonisia in 1949. But this book is worth to read and let us wonder when "Anak Krakatoa" (the Child of Krakatoa) will erupt....again !

The Path Between the Seas - David McCullough - Audio Book

The Path Between the Seas - David McCullough : The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. McCullough expertly weaves the many strands of this momentous event into a captivating tale.

The Path Between the Seas has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. This audiobook is a must-listen for anyone interested in American history, international intrigue, and human drama.

In December 31, 1999, after nearly ruling it for a century, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. In the mid-19th century that nation did not exist. First the Europeans began to explore the possibilities of creating a link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow isthmus; Panama was then just a part of Colombia.M cCullough's book pays homage to an immense undertaking.Its as well the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing a passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Its a very captivating tale.

After Chancellorsville - Judith A. Bailey and Robert I. Cotton - Audio Book

After Chancellorsville - Judith A. Bailey and Robert I. Cotton : "I reckon I sympathize with you deeply Dear Walt and I wish I could be with you, if it would help you any. I would. . .be the best nurse you ever had, I'll bet you. I would laugh and sing and read to you and if we both felt like it I could cry too, and not half try."

So wrote Emma Randolph, a young woman not yet twenty, to her distant cousin, Private Walter G. Dunn of the Eleventh New Jersey Infantry, as he lay in a crowded, filthy hospital ward. They corresponded when Walter went off to war, but their real story only began when he was carried from the smoke and carnage of Chancellorsville to a hospital in Baltimore.

There, barely recovered, bloodied and dazed with ether, he aided overworked surgeons when the Gettysburg wounded poured into the city and regularly took up his pen to relay everyday events that became history.

She replied in kindly. At home, men were torn by guilt, women lost in grief, and a presidential
election loomed. But there were also church picnics, strawberry festivals, ice cream socials, and trips to the ocean. In time they realized their love for one another and planned a life together after the war ended.

When I first listen to this audio book it was as if this story did not happened during the War of Secession or «Civil War», but during the French-German war which took place between July 1870 and May 1871, the first World War in 1914-18 (as my grand-father explained it to me),
the Second World War in 1939-1945 (as my father explained it to me) and all the one who came
after. Nothing changed and something remained: civil courage and love which manages to survive in the middle of all these horrors

Guests of the Ayatollah - Mark Bowden - Audio Book

Guests of the Ayatollah - Mark Bowden : On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U. S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans hostage and kept nearly all of them captive 444 days.

The Iran hostage crisis was a watershed moment in American history. It was America's first showdown with Islamic fundamentalism, a confrontation at the forefront of American policy to this day. It was also a powerful dramatic story that captivated the American people, launched yellow-ribbon campaigns, made celebrities of the hostage's families, and crippled the reelection campaign of President Jimmy Carter.

In Guests of the Ayatollah, Bowden demonstrates an unparalleled skill in writing a narrative based on the day to day life of the hostages during those 444 days. He describes as well the hesitations of Jimmy Carter (US president at this time), all the failures which happened during rescue's attempts and all negotiations to try to free the hostages. A very interesting read.

102 Minutes - Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn - Audio Book

102 Minutes - Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn : The dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted.

At 8: 46 AM on September 11, 2001, 14, 000 people were inside the twin towers - reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the World. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages, one witnessed only by the people who lived it - until now.

New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn rely on hundreds of interviews; thousands of pages of oral histories; and phone, e-mail, and emergency radio transcripts. They cross a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos, seeing cataclysm and heroism, one person at a time, to tell the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women - the 12, 000 who escaped and the 2, 749 who perished - who made 102 minutes count as never before.

Its a frightening, heart-stopping and heartbreaking audio book. But there is some hope in it as well. To listen absolutly.

Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack - Charles Osgood - Audio Book

Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack - Charles Osgood : The year is 1942. Charles Osgood is a nine-year-old living in Baltimore. His idols are Franklin Roosevelt and Babe Ruth, a hometown hero. Charlie spends his days delivering newspapers on his daily route, riding the trolley to the local amusement park, going to Orioles' baseball games, and playing with his younger sister, Mary Ann.

With great attention to detail, Osgood captures the texture of life in a very different era, before anyone had heard of penicillin or the atomic bomb. In his neighborhood of Liberty Heights, gas lights glowed on every corner, milkmen delivered bottles of milk, and a loaf of bread cost nine cents.

Although these days were hard, this audio book is a real delight.

Art and Drama Audios - Theatre on the Road

If you're a fan of theatre, actors, writers and culture in general, then you have now a gread alternative to music when you're on the road: Art and Drama audiobooks! Every day more good books are made into great audios that bring culture to life! Imagine listening to Peter Ustinov instead of 'only' reading what he has to days. Or a book on ballet that let's you listen in to the great compositions of Tchaikovski...

The Art and Drama audiobooks blog has great reviews, check them out!

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Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy - Barbara Ehrenreich - Audio Book

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy - Barbara Ehrenreich : From best-selling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture, showing that such mass festivities have been indigenous to the West since the ancient Greeks. Though suppressed by elites who fear the undermining of social hierarchies, outbreaks of group revelry still persist, Ehrenreich shows, pointing to the 1960s rock-and-roll rebellion and the more recent "carnivalization" of sports.

I do not know for you but for us whenever we do have an opportunity to celebrate its ends by Dancing.

102 Minutes - Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn - Audio Book

102 Minutes - Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn : The dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted.

At 8: 46 AM on September 11, 2001, 14, 000 people were inside the twin towers - reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the World. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages, one witnessed only by the people who lived it - until now.

New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn rely on hundreds of interviews; thousands of pages of oral histories; and phone, e-mail, and emergency radio transcripts.
They cross a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos, seeing cataclysm and heroism, one person at a time, to tell the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women - the 12, 000 who escaped and the 2, 749 who perished - who made 102 minutes count as never before.

Its a terrific book full of fear but necessary to try to understand.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin - Audio Book

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin : The story of a remarkable scientist, statesman and diplomat and one of the founding fathers of America.

Benjamin Franklin was one of the best-known Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, politician, printer, scientist, philosopher, publisher, inventor, civic activist, and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As a political writer and activist he, more than anyone, invented the idea of an American nation, and as a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured
the French alliance that helped to make independence possible.

Here is a story which help us to understand the long way America needed to become
what it is now.

An Unfinished Life - Robert Dallek - Audio Book

An Unfinished Life - Robert Dallek : the complexity of Jack's early years, and the mixture of adulation and resentment that tangled his relationships with his mother, Rose, and his father, Joseph. Forced into the shadow of his older brother, Joe, Jack struggled to find a place for himself until World War II, when he became a national hero and launched his career. Dallek reveals for the first time the full story of Jack Kennedy's wartime actions and the true details of how Joe was killed, opening the door to Jack's ascendancy.

Afeter all the books which have been written about Kennedy, do we have at last the "real" biography". It does not matter : listening to this audio book brings a lot of new facts about his life.

The Pale Horseman - Bernard Cornwell - Audio Book

The Pale Horseman - Bernard Cornwell : Wessex, in the late 9th Century, was the last English kingdom. All the rest had fallen to the Danish Vikings, Now the Vikings want to finish England, and they assemble the Great Army which has only one ambition—-to conquer Wessex. Uhtred lives in Wessex, though he has small love for it and none for King Alfred. Yet fate, as Uhtred learns, has its own imperatives, and when the Vikings attack, Uhtred finds himself on Alfred's side.

The Pale Horseman, rooted in the real history of Anglo-Saxon England, tells the astonishing and true story of how Alfred fights back against his overwhelming enemies. Alfred and Uhtred make unlikely allies, yet the two forge an uneasy alliance that will lead them to where the last remaining Saxon army will fight for the very existence of England.

What else to say apart just listen to it! Great !

109 East Palace - Jennet Conant - Audio Book

109 East Palace - Jennet Conant: They were told as little as possible. Their orders were to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and report for work at a classified Manhattan Project site, a location so covert it was known to them only by the mysterious address: 109 East Palace.

They were greeted by Dorothy McKibbin, an attractive widow who was the least likely person imaginable to run a front for a clandestine defense laboratory. They stepped through her threshold into a parallel universe the desert hideaway where Robert Oppenheimer and a team of world-famous scientists raced to build the first atomic bomb before Germany and bring World War II to an end.

Another face of Robert Oppenheimer and what he "left" to the world.

The Alamo - John Myers Myers - Audio Book

The Alamo - John Myers Myers : The majority of the stories of the Alamo fight have been partly legendary, partly hearsay and at best fragmentary. It has been left to John Myers Myers to present an exhaustively researched book which reveals the chronicle of the siege of the Alamo in an entirely different light. Myers' story will stand as the best that has yet been written on the Alamo. It's a classic.

I only had in mind the picture "Fort Alamo" with John Wayne. Now, tnanks John Myers Myers I learned more about this side of the American History and shall I say... the myth. Rewarding.

A Crack in the Edge of the World - Simon Winchester - Audio Book

A Crack in the Edge of the World - Simon Winchester : Simon Winchester vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of Americas relentless western expansion.

In the early morning hours of April 18, 1906, San Francisco and a string of other towns were overcome by an earthquake registering 8.25 on the Richter scale, resulting from a rupture in the San Andreas fault. Lasting little more than a minute, the earthquake wrecked 490 blocks, toppled a total of 25, 000 buildings, broke open gas mains, cut off electric power lines, and effectively destroyed the gold rush capital that had stood there for a half century.

As a trained geologist, Simon Winchester knows very well about what he is talking and his way to explain this earthquake in this audio book is clear and precise. Remarkable.