History Audio Books

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

2007-05-24T06:23:00.000-07:00

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

2007-05-18T05:54:00.000-07:00

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

2007-05-12T09:59:00.000-07:00

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

2007-04-30T08:17:00.000-07:00

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

2007-04-26T07:59:00.000-07:00

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

2007-04-18T06:41:00.000-07:00

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

2007-03-26T02:01:00.000-07:00

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

2007-03-24T08:50:00.000-07:00

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

2007-03-24T02:41:00.000-07:00

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

2007-03-20T03:13:00.000-07:00

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

2007-03-17T03:16:00.000-07:00

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

2007-03-13T06:15:00.000-07:00

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

2007-03-11T01:04:00.000-08:00

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

2007-03-08T10:15:00.000-08:00

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

2007-03-01T04:15:00.000-08:00

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

2007-02-28T05:02:00.000-08:00

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.

Ambassador in Paris: The Reagan Years - Evan Galbraith - Audio Book

2007-02-27T00:49:00.000-08:00

Ambassador in Paris: The Reagan Years - Evan Galbraith : Evan Galbraith represented America in Paris for four years during Reagan's administration. He paints a vivid picture of the life of an American ambassador in the grand and glamorous city of Paris.

Notwithstanding his popularity as a host (he opened up the U.S. embassy to more than 75,000
guests at over 500 events during his stay), Galbraith was often controversial. On one occasion,
he refused to board France's ultramodern train with Transportation Minister Charles Fiterman
because he was a Communist Party member.

The way Evan Galbraith explains its own story is funny and colorful.It is interesting to discover
throughout this audio book the "hidden" face of a "public" man.

The Great Bridge - David McCullough - Audio Book

2007-02-24T07:03:00.000-08:00

The Great Bridge - David McCullough : first published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time—the building of the Brooklyn Bridge.

In the years around 1870, the concept of building a great bridge to span the East River between the cities of Manhattan and Brooklyn required a vision and determination comparable to that which went into the building of the pyramids. Throughout the fourteen years of the bridge's construction, the odds against its successful completion seemed staggering. Bodies were crushed and broken, lives were lost, political empires fell, and surges of public emotion constantly threatened the project. But this is not merely the saga of an engineering miracle: it is a sweeping narrative of the heroes and rascals who had a hand in either constructing or obstructing this great enterprise.

This audio book is considered as "a monument" in the litterature. And...it is !

Long Walk To Freedom - Nelson Mandela - Audio Book

2007-02-23T05:34:00.000-08:00

Long Walk To Freedom - Nelson Mandela : Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.

Like Nelson Mandela himself this book will remain in our memories and in modern history as unforgettable and as a huge lesson of hope.

Citizen Soldiers - Stephen E. Ambrose - Audio Book

2007-02-22T04:04:00.000-08:00

Citizen Soldiers - Stephen E. Ambrose : Citizen Soldiers opens on June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends on May 7, 1945. From the high command on down to the enlisted men, Stephen E. Ambrose draws on hundreds of interviews and oral histories from men on both sides who were there. He recreates the experiences of the individuals who fought the battles, the women who served, and the Germans who fought against us.

Ambrose reveals the learning process of a great army -- how to cross rivers, how to fight in snow or hedgerows, how to fight in cities, how to coordinate air and ground campaigns, how to fight in winter and on the defensive, how citizens become soldiers in the best army in the world.

A masterpiece. What else to say apart : listen to this audio book.

Truman - David McCullough - Audio Book

2007-02-19T01:53:00.000-08:00

Truman - David McCullough : The life and times of the thirty-third President of the United States, Truman provides a deeply moving look at an extraordinary, singular American.

From Truman's small-town, turn-of-the-century boyhood and his transforming experience in the face of war in 1918, to his political beginnings in the powerful Pendergast machine and his rapid rise to prominence in the U.S. Senate, McCullough shows a man of uncommon vitality and strength of character. Here too is a telling account of Truman's momentous decision to use the atomic bomb and the weighty responsibilities that he was forced to confront on the dawning of a new age.

In this audio book the adaptation of Truman life is one of the greatest ever written about him.

Bound for Canaan - Fergus M. Bordewich - Audio Book

2007-02-16T08:34:00.000-08:00

Bound for Canaan - Fergus M. Bordewich : An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change.The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest.
Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion arose a clash of values that evolved into a fierce fight for nothing less than the country's soul. Beginning six decades before the Civil War, freedom-seeking blacks and courageous whites worked together to save tens of thousands of lives, often at the risk of great physical danger to themselves. Not since the American Revolution had the country engaged in an act of such vast and profound civil disobedience that not only
challenged prevailing mores but also subverted federal law.

By listening to this audio book, you will realise that Bound for Canaan shows why it was the Underground Railroad and not the civil rights movement that gave birth to this country's first movement for social change.

Dr Crippen: The ultimate crime of passion - Full Cast Production - Audio Book

2007-02-14T00:29:00.000-08:00

Dr Crippen: The ultimate crime of passion - Full Cast Production : The tale of Dr. Crippen bears all the trademarks of the classic English whodunit. It is a thrilling tale of death, love, sin and virtue. While stereotypical in nature, it is set apart from the ordinary by the motive of its crime, Freudian in nature and, in fact, reminiscent of the Jekyll and Hyde syndrome that fascinated period writers.

"There are two sides of the story - the physical, which is sordid, dreadful and revolting, and the spiritual, which is good and heroic," writes Filson Young, editor for the "Notable British Trial Series," which published the Trial of Hawley Harvey Crippen a decade after the sensational murder and subsequent trial occurred. "Such a story can only be understood by the aid of the imagination; and it should remind us, in the judgments we pass on our fellow men, never to forget the dual nature of the human character and the mystery in virtue of which acts of great moral obliquity may march with conduct above the ordinary standards."

In the past century and at the beginning of this one there have been and there are such frightful crimes and in this audio book Filson Young describesd this particular crime very tactfully and avoids all the traps aiming at a melodramatisation.

Victorian London - Liza Picard - Audio Book

2007-02-12T00:51:00.000-08:00

Victorian London - Liza Picard : The years 1840 to 1870 were years of dramatic change and achievement in London. As suburbs expanded and roads multiplied, the city was ripped apart to build railway lines and stations. Many practical innovations, such as flushing lavatories,
underground railways, umbrellas and letter-boxes, were introduced.

But there was also appalling poverty and exploitation and, for the labouring classes, pay was
pitifully low, the hours long and job security non-existent.

When we listen to this audio book it reminds us of what Charles Dickens already wrote about England and London. Its a real introspection about the splendour and misery of that extraordinary period. Just go for it.

The Island Race - Sir Winston Churchill - Audio Book

2007-02-11T03:03:00.000-08:00

The Island Race - Sir Winston Churchill : Here is a history of Britain by one of its finest statesmen, a man who had himself crucially shaped events during perhaps the greatest crisis of modern times. Churchill's resonant prose brings to vivid and compelling life the political, constitutional and military landmarks of our history: his purpose, to show that a sense of how man may live decently and democratically grew from the heritage of these islands.

Churchill's literary career began with campaign reports and after his retirement from office, Churchill wrote a History of the English-speaking Peoples.

Queen Elizabeth II conferred on Churchill the dignity of Knighthood and invested him with the insignia of the Order of the Garter in 1953.

What else to say ? Just listen to this audio book.

The Boys of Pointe du Hoc - Douglas Brinkley - Audio Book

2007-02-05T10:32:00.000-08:00

The boy of Pointe du Hoc - Douglas Brinkley: "These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war. " --- Ronald Reagan, June 6, 1984, Normandy, France.

Based upon recently released documents, The Boys of Pointe du Hoc is the first in-depth, anecdotal remembrance of these fearless Army Rangers. With brilliant deftness, Brinkley moves between two events four decades apart to tell the dual story of the making of Reagan's two uplifting 1984 speeches, considered by many to be among the best orations the Great Communicator ever gave.

Acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author of Tour of Duty Douglas Brinkley brings the riveting account of the brave U. S. Army Rangers who stormed the coast of Normandy on D-Day and the President, forty years later, who paid them homage.

Even if one think he knows a lot about this particular moment of World War II will be surprised of the amount of new material contains in this audio book.

Founding Mothers - Cokie Roberts - Audio Book

2007-02-05T05:25:00.000-08:00

Founding Mothers - Cokie Roberts:
Cokie Roberts's #1 New York Times bestseller "We Are Our Mothers Daughters" examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values."

Her second bestseller, "From This Day Forward", written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history. Now Cokie returns with Founding Mothers, an intimate look at the passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families and country proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it.

Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Eliza Pinckney, Mary Bartlett and Martha Washington -- proving that without our exemplary women, the new country might have never survived.

The role of all mothers, of all women who fought to enable us to be what we are today was never so well described as in this audio book and I learn as well a lot about America's "pionneers".

England's Queen Elizabeth I - An Audio Book That Reveals A Lot

2007-02-04T05:40:00.000-08:00

England's Queen Elizabeth I - this book is full of surprises. The narrator of this audio book makes the middle ages come to life like I've never heard before:

An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man’s world, passionately sexual yet – she said – a virgin, Elizabeth I was to be famed as England’s most successful ruler. This absorbing new book, by concentrating on the early years from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558, shows how her experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs.

An audio document that is a must for anbody interested in the history of the english kingdom.

The Civil War - Fredericksburg to Meridian

2007-02-04T05:36:00.000-08:00

The Civil War - Fredericksburg to Meridian is an audio book that tells the story about the almost continual confrontation of great armies. For the fourth time, the Army of the Potomac (now under the control of Burnside) attempts to take Richmond, resulting in the blood-bath at Fredericksburg. Then Joe Hooker tries again, only to be repulsed at Chancellorsville as Stonewall Jackson turns his flanka bitter victory for the South, paid for by the death of Lees foremost lieutenant.

In the West, during the six-month standoff that followed the shock of Murfreesboro in the central theater, one of the most complex and determined sieges of the war has begun. Here Grants seven relentless efforts against Vicksburg show Lincoln that he has at last found his killer-general, the man who can face the arithmetic. With Vicksburg finally under siege, Lee again invades the North. The three-day conflict at Gettysburg receives book-length attention in a masterly treatment of a key great battle, not as legend has it but as it really was, before it became distorted by controversy and overblown by remembered glory.

History Audio Books - A Great Way To Listen To History

2007-02-04T05:27:00.000-08:00

I've just discovered a much better way to "read" history books: I am listening to them !

Having a narrator make texts come alive : it's like cinema for the head. I you haven't tried it you really should.

My first audio book found me : surfing and looking for new books to buy. I found the Audio Books Corner Store, a book shop that only sells downloadlable audio books.