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Title: The Last Voyage

Subtitle: Captain Cook's Lost Diary

Author: Hammond Innes

Narrator: Stephen Thorne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-29-05

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

July 12th 1776. Captain James Cook sails from Plymouth in the Resolution in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. It is his third amazing voyage of discovery and this is the story he might have written. Hammond Innes has created a brilliantly imagined diary, showing a great man stretched to his limits. It is a voyage that will sweep Captain Cook and his crew from the icy wasteland of the Arctic, to the tropical waters of Hawaii.

©1978 Hammond Innes;

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Title: Sharpe's Trafalgar

Subtitle: Sharpe, Book 4

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: Paul McGann

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-05-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Sharpe also has friends, notably a captain of the Royal Navy who is hunting the Revenant and who rescues Sharpe when all seems lost. The hunt turns into a stern chase as the French warship races home, carrying a treaty that could ignite India into a new war against the British. Yet when the Revenant encounters the combined French and Spanish fleet of Cadiz, it seems that Sharpe's enemies have found safety, even as his enemies on board seem to have him trapped.

Yet over the horizon is another fleet, led by Nelson, and Sharpe's revenge will come in a savage climax when the two armadas meet on a calm October day off Cape Trafalgar.

Sharpe's Trafalgar introduces Richard Sharpe to the horrors of a battle at sea, and finds him at his most ruthless as he struggles not just for revenge, but for the woman he loves.

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Critic Reviews:

"Cornwell's combination of breakneck action and pig-headed men behaving badly, but with dazzling brio, is just unbeatable." (The Daily Telegraph)

Members Reviews:

Ludicrous story, fine narration

I'm a 62 year old guy, so please bear with me when I say I've always loved naval stories of the Napoleonic Wars. I was brought up on Hornblower. I thought Cornwell would be almost as cool. Big disappointment. The story of a young officer who gained a battlefield commission, saved the life of a Navy captain and seduced an aristocratic lady on board (under the nose of her old husband) is preposterous. Perhaps it appeals to Disneyland sensibilities of the 1950s. The one good part of the story is the battle of Trafalgar. Nonetheless, Paul McGann does a magnificent job of narrating. So, if you're willing to suspend disbelief and listen to a fast moving story, you might like this book. But keep away if your standards are modelled on Hornblower novels.

A great read and everything you expect from a Bernard Cornwell adventure.

Now finished number four in the Sharpe series and number five already loaded ready to go.

Having read or listened to many of Bernard Cornwell's books this is yet another in the same vein.........that's not meant as any criticism but appreciation for his style of writing. Not all fast paced action but still plenty of it, loads of historical details, a great fictional story line blended with factual events.

Richard Sharpe continues his adventures and instead of just jumping from India to England, makes a long sea voyage a thrilling chase ending with the predictable battle.

A very different story in this series of books than those fans of the TV series would know but the original story is so much better. The characters from the TV series were so well cast as they instantly spring to mind as the narrator takes you into Sharpe's world.

A great listen.

Great

It's a great listen a strong bold storyline with plenty of imagery going of in your head it just makes me buy the next one going from land battles on India to sea battles to trafalgar brilliant

Would be better unabridged

Unfortunately Audible now only seem to sell the abridged versions of the book. The unabridged version would have been so much better - as with all of the fantastic set of these popular novels.

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Title: Sharpe's Devil

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: Sean Bean

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 08-05-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Sharpe's Devil is an adventure story in the classic tradition, a tale of loyalty and treachery, secret scheming and daredevil exploits, and bloody battles fought at sea and on land.

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Critic Reviews:

"Cornwell at his inventive best." (Oxford Times)

"Brilliant and breathtaking." (Daily Express)

Members Reviews:

I'll miss Sharpe and Harper now that the series is finished for me - Good book! You should enjoy it too.

As far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be any further expectations for Sharpe novels in the future with the last edition having been published in 2007 and the series spanning over two and a half decades of Cornwell's and Sharpe's lives. This was such a good series that I can honestly say I'm going to miss Sharpe and Harper, well, until I read the series again some day. Cornwell captures the essence of the time, the martial life in the army or otherwise, the burden of command, friendship, love, honor, attitudes and every other aspect of 19th century England, France, Ireland and Chile in this case. The great thing about any book is that it takes you somewhere. If it does it well you feel satisfied and entertained. Cornwell succeeds in taking you somewhere you've never been and making you feel at home in this story. I'd recommend this and every other book in the series even if you're not particularly interested in historical or war fiction because first and foremost it's a great story about people. This last novel wraps up loose ends and leaves us with a picture of a successful and satisfied set of heroes. I liked the story although there was some predictability in it. I think it did a good job of showing what kind of men Sharpe and Harper will be for the remainder of their lives and it also showed that despite their worries that theyâd never know what to do with themselves without war they found fulfillment in life without war. I enjoyed it and I think you will too, especially since you made it this far. I recommend it.

Great adventure; different from Sharpe's routine

It was an adventure worthy of Sharpe and Harper, but here they come out of retirement. That was the first difference. In addition, the main setting is away from Europe: Chile. That's the second. I found Cornwell's writing and storytelling to be stellar, as ever. In addition to reading the text, I also listened to Frederick Davidson read. I don't find his rendition of the characters appealing. He seems to miss a lot, especially in the battle scenes. He's not bad, but I would prefer less nasal and more enthusiasm. Davidson reads most of the Sharpe series, so at least he knows the character.

One other difference is the naval setting. A lot of new naval terms in this installment.

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Title: Heretic

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-10-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Once in the south country Thomas becomes a raider, leading his archers in savage forays that will draw his enemy to his arrows. But then his fortunes change. Thomas becomes the hunted as his campaign is destroyed by the church. With only one companion, a girl condemned to burn as a heretic, Thomas goes to the valley of Astarac where he believes the grail was once hidden and might still be concealed, and there he plays a deadly game of hide and seek with an overwhelming enemy.

Then, just as Thomas succeeds in meeting his enemy face to face, fate intervenes as the deadliest plague in the history of mankind erupts into Europe. What had been a landscape of castles, monasteries, vineyards, and villages, becomes death's kingdom, and the need for the grail, as a sign of God's favour, is more urgent than ever.

Members Reviews:

Excellent conclusion

The combination of Bernard Cornwell and Tim Piggott-Smith is irresistable. Although this final instalment is a little slow to get going, once it hits mid-way it rattles along at an excellent pace. The ending is a little sudden but none the worse for that.

Heretic

Good easy listen without having to concentrate too much...

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Titel: Das Buch in dem die Welt verschwand

Autor:: Wolfram Fleischhauer

Erzähler: Detlef Bierstedt

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 14 hrs and 13 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 03-31-11

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Bewertung: 4.5 von 5 von 3 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

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Ein geheimnisvoller Roman, manchmal melancholisch, mit einem überzeugenden, intelligenten Schluss, der einen emotional tief berührt zurücklässt.

-- WDR

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Title: Who Shall Live, Who Shall Die

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Daniel Stern

Narrator: Lincoln Hoppe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 10-23-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the International Prix du Souvenir Award: A theater director and Holocaust survivor is confronted by a figure from his past

Behind the lights and glamour of Broadway, two men reckon with a shared past - one that hides a terrible secret. Jud Kramer is mounting his most painful and personal play while trying to enjoy life with his beautiful actress wife and baby daughter. Into his life comes Carl Walkowitz, a brooding, charismatic drifter who bears the scars of his concentration camp past.

One man lives in the past, and the other is holding tight to the present. Carl methodically pursues Jud until they find themselves on an empty stage, face to face in a struggle that only one of them can survive.

Members Reviews:

A Doomsday Machine

This novel unfolds like ananke. Everything that happens must happen, by a logic that sane men like us can feel but not enunciate.

The most refreshing thing about the novel, so many years after the unspeakable atrocities of Nazi Germany, is the approach to the history lesson. After being inundated with images of the nasty camps, this novel picks up years later, in New York City, with survivors and their families. Instead of the flat numbers of those who survived at the end of 'Schindler's List', we have the story of a man -- a number -- who survived, and continues to survive. And, we have the story of another man who has never left those camps -- a man who forbids his own escape so many years after freedom.

Fascinating, and brutal.

Daniel Stern is an unfortunately unknown writer among young readers like me, despite his extremely high quality and strong heart. I have yet to find him in my local (bookstore). That saddens me.

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Title: Tom Swift and the City of Gold

Author: Victor Appleton

Narrator: Patrick Treadway

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-12

Publisher: Books In Motion

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

High-spirited young Tom Swift is off on another of his many exciting adventures. This time he's in search of gold in an underground lost city. Tom finds the lost city in a remote area of Mexico, and he finds the gold. Getting into the city was difficult for the adventurers, but when they try to get out, then their real adventure begins. Tom and his companions find themselves trapped in an underground city which contains as many traps and mazes as an Egyptian pyramid.

Members Reviews:

Tom Swift discovers Atlantis

Sorry, National Enquirer. This is a work of fiction. I read this book at the same time as Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope. The title was changed for the paperback edition which is what I have. The hardcover's Tom Swift and His Spectromarine Selector. For those who've never read it, and are wondering what it's about, what's written above sums it up. Tom Swift and his friends have a naval commander on board their plane, the Sky Queen, when a Swift cargo jet carrying Tom's latest invention, the Spectromarine Selector, mysteriously crashes. The commander, Tom finds out through a phone call from his chief of security, Harlan Ames, is an imposter. The real commander had never left Washington. Tom and Bud go to Fearing Island, his spaceport and research facility. They take one of his jet- marines and discover a sunken submarine. They think it's an enemy sub when they discover tools stamped with a "V" for Varada Steelworks. A company taken over by the new government of Brungaria. Tom's father calls his friends in Washington and the truth comes out that it was an American submarine that had gone down and the captain had used Varada tools and they were a souvenir from the time he'd first entered the Navy. Tom's driven off the road by someone in a black car because he's in a race with the Brungarians to see who'll control Atlantis. Another expedition is mounted. Longneck Ebber, the accomplice of the first saboteur, stows away and tries to him but he fails. Tom Swift wins another battle in the Cold War and claims Atlantis for the United States

Tom Swift goes to Atlantis

I have this book. I got it at the same time I got Tom Swift In

The Jungle of the Mayas. It begins with two Swift Enterprises

cargo planes are over the Atlantic when one of them mysteriously crashes into the Atlantic. Tom Swift, Jr.'s security chief radios him telling him that there's a saboteur

aboard. The crew of the downed plane is rescued. However,

the plane carrying Tom's latest invention, the Spectromarine

Selector, is lost. Back home, Tom discovers the real identity

of the fake Navy commander who sabotaged the plane carrying his lost invention, rebuilds it, and is about to mount

another mission when he's forced off the road by people in

a black sedan. He then mounts another expedition to Atlantis and discovers a missing submarine with tools marked with the letter "V." Thinking that the Brungarians have made it to Atlantis ahead of them, they finally realize at

the end of the expedition that the sub and its crew were American and that the tools were a keepsake of the captain.

To find out what happens between the beginning and what I wrote here, read the book.

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Title: Tinker's Pride

Author: Nigel Tranter

Narrator: James Bryce

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-15-08

Publisher: Tele-A-Vision Television

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Tinker's Pride is a story of the power of wealth and privilege, set against one man's pride in his native land. Told with an unrivalled understanding of the Scottish Highlands and their people, Nigel Tranter's evocative tale of West Highland life before the Second World War is both compelling and deeply moving.

©1945 Nigel Tranter; (P)1997 Novelsound

Members Reviews:

Tinker's Pride" by Nigel Tranter.

A tale of romance and a clash between social classes set in the Western Highlands of Scotland before World War II. Written and introduced by Nigel Tranter. An historical novel of the power of wealth and privilege set against the pride of one man in his native land, and set in the Scottish Highlands. Tinker's Pride is a story of the power of wealth and privilege, set against one man's pride in his native land. Told with an unrivalled understanding of the Scottish Highlands and their people, Nigel Tranter's evocative tale of West Highland life before the Second World War are both compelling and deeply moving. Tinker?s pride is a skillfully written novel. It succeeds in demonstrating that our daily, microcosmic lives contain vastness and fantasy. This book offers its reader a meditation on the private geography of the mind and, through Harding's characters, a glimpse of our own efforts to piece together the broken and mismatched elements of human relationships and existence. I find parts of it remarkably well written, the audio book strikes me as a collection of ideas, I think these better books to spend my time lessen I enjoyed the book very much. This audio book is very good quality sound and language used by narrator is very simple and understandable.

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Title: Regeneration

Subtitle: The Regeneration Trilogy, Book 1

Author: Pat Barker

Narrator: Paul McGann

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-16-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Craiglockhart, a hospital for officers ravaged by their experiences in trench warfare, is the setting for Pat Barker's Regeneration. Here the poet Siegfried Sassoon, author of an article condemning the war, came under the care of psychiatrist W.H.R Rivers whose duty, as he saw it, was to return Sassoon to all the horrors of the Front, because Sassoon was sane, was healthy, and he had made a commitment. But while the encounter of Sassoon and Rivers is central to Regeneration, it is the exploration of the character of Rivers himself, the agony of the other patients, and the insights into their minds, that makes this a tour-de-force. A superb novel related with chilling clarity and vivid compassion.

©1991 Pat Barker; (P)1996 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Members Reviews:

When I think about war, I never thought of this.

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Initial Thoughts:

I read this book as a requirement for my Literature and War class.

Before I started this book I wasn't sure what to expect but I assumed there would be lots of war scenes and gore, typical of a war movie. To my surprise, that's not exactly what I got. I would also like to note that Pat Barker is a women, which was something many of the students in my Literature and War class were unaware of and they said that this knowledge changed the way they viewed the book and some of the characters.

Spoilers!

There are a lot of characters in this book. Pat Barker begins conversations between the characters naturally, as if we the audience already know what's going on. At times it was a bit disorienting and I felt like I needed a play sheet to keep track of all the patients. Once the book got rolling it was easier to keep track of who was who based on their back stories.

Like I mentioned, this book wasn't simply about war and gore, although a few scenes do come to mind. This novel focused primarily on the effects of war on all the people around it. It looks at the soldiers, the doctors, the women left at home, and the families. This book is written from a few different point of views, but the primary voice is that of Dr. Rivers, a psychiatrist who deals with the worst cases of mental war wounds.

This is the first book in a series, and many of the characters story lines are left open. A few of the more notable characters are Billy Prior, Sassoon, Owens, Dr. Rivers, and Anderson. It is my understanding that the characters in the book were based on real people from WWI. It was really eye opening for me to see how deep the effects of war go and how severely it changes people.

Conclusion:

It's hard for me to give a good review of this book without giving too much away in the spoilers section. I did enjoy this book and I'm happy that I read it. It wasn't gory, for those of you who have light stomachs, although there are two or three scenes that stand out pretty vividly. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in different aspects of war, especially the after math of war on mental stability. It was an interesting read and I am considering reading the rest of the series to find out what happened to the characters.

Rating:3.5/5 stars

Moving and Involving

The first book of the Regeneration trilogy is a good introduction to the wonderful prose of Pat Barker, as she tells the story of soldiers in a rehabilitation hospital during World War I. I am most impressed with Ms.

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Title: Pompeii

Author: Robert Harris

Narrator: Alex Jennings

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-23-09

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

All along the coast, the Roman Empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii.

Only one man is worried. The engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct which brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay. Springs are failing for the first time in generations. His predecessor has disappeared. And now there is a crisis on the Augusta's 60-mile main line - somewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.

Attilius - decent, practical, incorruptible - promises Pliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. But as he heads out towards Vesuvius, he is about to discover there are forces which even the world's only superpower can't control.

Pompeii recreates in spellbinding detail one of the most famous natural disasters of all time. And by focusing on the characters of an engineer and a scientist, it offers an entirely original perspective on the Roman world.

Critic Reviews:

"Harris's volcanology is well researched, and the plot, while decidedly secondary to the expertly rendered historic spectacle, keeps this impressive novel moving along toward its exciting finale." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Excellent

Robert Harris is an excellent story teller and Alex Jennings brings the story to life so well. Recommended