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.