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Titel: Die Säulen der Erde - Das WDR Hörspiel

Autor:: Ken Follett

Erzähler: Ernst Jacobi, Gisela Trowe

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 8 hrs and 27 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 11-20-13

Herausgeber: Lübbe Audio

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Für die Produktion des Westdeutschen Rundfunks (1999) hat Regisseur Leonhard Koppelmann über 50 herausragende Sprecherinnen und Sprecher verpflichtet, darunter Gisela Trowe, Ernst Jacobi, Christian Redl, Sophie von Kessel, Dietmar Mues, Udo Schenk, Nina Hoger sowie Elisabeth Volkmann und Günther Lamprecht. Abgerundet wird diese monumentale, hollywood-ebenbürtige Produktion mit der Musik von Ernst Albrecht, eingespielt von den symphonischen Orchestern des WDR und unterstützt durch zahlreiche Chöre und Interpreten.

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Titel: Die Tore der Welt - Das WDR Hörspiel

Autor:: Ken Follett

Erzähler: Peter Matic, Rosemarie Fendel

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 8 hrs and 48 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 11-20-13

Herausgeber: Lübbe Audio

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Ehrgeiz und Liebe, Stolz und Rache werden den Weg dieser Menschen bestimmen. Pest und Krieg werden ihnen das Liebste nehmen, was sie besitzen. Glück und Unglück werden sie begleiten. Doch sie werden die Hoffnung niemals aufgeben. Und immer wird der Schwur sie verfolgen, den sie an jenem schicksalhaften Tage leisteten... Ein Hörspiel des WDR

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

Five Stars

Ein fantastisches Buch.

Five Stars

very good

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Title: Everything in its Path

Author: Steve Alcorn

Narrator: Steve Alcorn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-08-13

Publisher: Themeperks Inc.

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Just after midnight on March 13, 1928, the St. Francis Dam gave way, releasing a 160-foot-high wall of water. It was the worst American civil engineering disaster of the twentieth century.

Everything in its Path tells the story of Kate, an archaeologist's daughter, who is helping excavate a Chumash Indian site below the dam when she makes an alarming discovery: the dam is leaking! Intertwined with Kate's story is that of the prehistoric Chumash settlement. Tribe member Singing Bird is tormented by dreams of water, and her village being swept away. But leader Lone Wolf belittles her premonitions, and threatens her if she speaks out. As storm clouds gather, Singing Bird must decide whether to submit to Lone Wolf or try to save the tribe from the awful event she foresees. Across the centuries the two girls' fates are drawn together, culminating in a remarkable discovery as they struggle to save their loved ones from a force that will sweep away Everything in its Path.

Members Reviews:

Great Read

Great read. I thoroughly enjoyed this tale. Thank you Steve Alcorn for an interesting and historical tale.

An absorbing historical page turner

Steve Alcorn's short but fully realized novel is conceived as two parallel stories, one in 1928 and the other in 1540 (just two years before Juan Cabrillo landed in California in 1542, opening California to the modern world). The stories are set in the same physical location, a canyon downstream from where the St. Francis Dam collapsed in 1928. The protagonist of each story is a young girl of about 12 years old. Each girl has interests and intentions which were probably unusual for her culture.

Aside from the thriller-type page-turning dramatic aspect of both stories, I found the historical aspects interesting. For example, it certainly was fun to read about a time when gasoline cost just ten cents per gallon, and people needed to use blocks of ice to keep their food from spoiling. Also, it was a politically innocent time when you could just go out and dig up Native American skeletons and no one would think of you as doing anything but Archeology.

The story line from 1540 was fascinating since it presented a lot of information about the Chumash Indians, which are usually presented so matter of factly. Even though the book is short, by the end you have a very good picture of the details of Chumash daily life, which Alcorn somehow makes interesting, and a fairly rich imagining of Chumash spiritual life as well.

Aside from the anthropology, the best part of the book was the dam disaster and its aftermath. The preamble to the disaster, and the dam collapse itself, are related with an extremely light touch. You might expect that a novel about a civil engineering disaster to be filled with a dull engineering back-story. But then you might also expect to guess the endings of the stories of the two girls. You would be wrong in both cases.

I can honestly say that when Everything In Its Path arrived on my doorstep from Amazon, I started reading it right away, even though I was already reading a novel I had been looking forward to reading for eight years: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I actually found Alcorn's novel about the St.

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Title: Shame and the Captives

Author: Thomas Keneally

Narrator: Paul English, Heather Bolton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-13

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In the spirit of The Daughters of Mars, Tom Keneally's new novel brilliantly explores the intimacies of ordinary lives being played out against momentous world events. In Gawell, New South Wales, a prisoner-of-war camp to house European, Korean and Japanese captives is built close to a farming community.

Alice is a young woman living a dull life with her father-in-law on his farm while her new husband first fights, then is taken prisoner, in Greece. When Giancarlo, an Italian POW and anarchist from Gawell's camp, is assigned to work on their farm, Alice's view of the world and her self-knowledge are dramatically expanded. But what most challenges Alice and the town is the foreignness of the Japanese compound and its culture, entirely perplexing to the inmates' captors.

Driven by a desperate need to validate the funerals already held for them in Japan, the prisoners vote to take part in an outbreak, and the bloodshed and chaos this precipitates shatter the certainties and safeties of all who inhabit the region.

Members Reviews:

Boring narration

I wish I had read rather than listened to this book. The story itself is interesting and probably exciting but the narrators sound like they are just reading because they have to, there is no passion in their storytelling and it absolutely ruined the book for me.

Wartime history well told via fiction

This is Tom Keneally's engrossing version of a famous wartime incident, the Cowra breakout. As always his analysis of people and relationships is superb, and his grasp of military detail very good. Both readers were fine.

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Title: Requiem

Subtitle: Book Three of the Brethren Trilogy

Author: Robyn Young

Narrator: Andrew Wincott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-13

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The concluding volume in Robyn Young's epic, internationally best-selling Brethren trilogy.

After years of fighting in the desert sun - and secretly working for peace with the Brethren - Will Campbell returns to find his Scottish homeland under attack by his enemy, King Edward I.

Betrayed by those he has served since boyhood, torn apart watching his daughter plunge into a dangerous affair, Will must now forge his own path to peace - even if it leads through another battlefield. But a new threat is rising in France, where a warrior king will stop at nothing to achieve his twisted ambitions. The fight for the Holy Land is over, but the Temple's last battle has just begun....

Critic Reviews:

"Young writes with remarkable accuracy, action-packed efficiency and gut-wrenching violence" (The Times)

"Satisfyingly complex" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Compared to Bernard Cornwell's Azincourt, Requiem is 'More rollicking, even more fast moving and breathless...so pacy'" (Heat's Boyd Hilton, speaking on Radio 5 Live Books Panel)

Members Reviews:

By Far the Weakest of the Three Books

I really liked the Brethern and it inspired me to read other authors who wrote about the Templars and the Crusades. I felt compelled to continue to read Ms. Young's second installment about Will Campbell and was disappointed, but I figured it is hard to top a great book like the Brethern and decided to give The Fall of the Templars a try. This was hands down the worse book of the three. First of all the Fall of the Templars is really a secondary story here as the real story is Will and his desire to go after King Edward, this alone would have made a nice story. Instead the book just jumps around and covers alot of time and ground and has one story line after another which just got confusing after a while. The other thing I really did not like is Will is an old man during this story line and he escapes death time after time, after a while the story no longer made sense. I think the fall of this story was the author's desire to try and do way to much, instead of sticking to one story line and perhaps giving us a 4th book we get way more than we bargined for.

A great ending to the series

This, the third volume in this excellent trilogy, follows the main protagonist through the period of King Edward vs William Wallace and through the events leading up to the dissolution of the Templars. King Philippe of France has a plan to fill out his coffers by seizing all of the French Templar properties and treasure; an insidious plan brought forth by his insidious adviser, the chief lawyer, Nogaret. Front and center in all of this action and intrigue is Will Campbell, the Templar Knight and main character in the series. In a lot of the historical fiction that I read, the history of the events portrayed are well known and therefore you know how it ends before you start reading. The way the author crafts the story to meet the historical end is what captures my interest. The author did her job and has crafted a wonderful tale that accomplished that goal. The integration of the fictional Campbell into the fabric of these events had me thinking that, yes, things could have happened in the manner written. The story is full of the duplicitous nature of kings and the ruthlessness they employ to achieve their ends.

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Título: Los últimos días de Pompeya [The Last Days of Pompey]

Autor: Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Narrador: Emilio Villa, Sonolibro

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 4 hrs and 2 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 10-09-13

Editor: Sonolibro

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 6 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Historical

Resumen del editor:

Los Ultimos Dias de Pompeya - DramatizadoPompeya, año 79 d.C. una ciudad alegre y confiada, con sus amores y sus odios, sus pequeñas intrigas, juegos, costumbres y diversiones.Glauco, Diones, Nydia y Arbaces viven los cuatro días previos a la erupción del Vesubio, ajenos al trágico final que su furia les depara. La ciudad del arte y el ocio de la Roma floreciente, la que fuera símbolo del emergente poder del Imperio Romano está a punto de convertirse en leyenda.Intrigas, conspiraciones, amores y traiciones llenan las páginas del trepidante relato de uno de los momentos clave para el futuro de la cultura occidental. Nada podía presagiar el día anterior que como una premonición se celebró la Vulcanalia o festividad del dios romano del fuego, lo que iba a pasar en Pompeya .Ésta es una imprescindible referencia para los fans de la novela histórica y de aventuras especialmente ambientada y dramatizada para una completa experiencia inmersiva.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Buena novela corta, con buena producción

Da gusto que publiquen novelas "clásicas" completas con una excelente producción a varias voces y con efectos especiales.

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Titel: Flammen des Himmels

Autor:: Iny Lorentz

Erzähler: Anne Moll

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 18 hrs and 57 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-02-13

Herausgeber: Lübbe Audio

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Münster im 16. Jahrhundert: Schon dreimal musste die Familie der jungen Frauke Hinrichs fliehen, um nicht als Wiedertäufer entlarvt und umgebracht zu werden. Faukes Vater glaubt seine Familie durch den Schutz des Rates selbst dann noch in Sicherheit, als der Inquisitor Jacobus von Gerwardsborn in der Stadt auftaucht. Doch der Rat braucht ein Opfer...

©2013 Knaur HC (P)2013 Lübbe Audio

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Title: A River That Is Congo

Subtitle: Of Rulers and Ruled

Author: Paul J. Stam

Narrator: Rhett Samuel Price

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-27-13

Publisher: All Things That Matter Press, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Pierre d'Entremont was the pampered youngest son of a successful French banking family. With an older brother to carry on the family tradition, Pierre is enrolled in the E'cole Militaire with the thought of a political career to follow his military service. But when the chief cashier embezzles all the bank's money and escapes to the Americas, Pierre suddenly has to earn a living.

He has heard that a fortune can be made in King Leopold's Congo Free State. Although he has heard stories, mostly told by the British and Americans, of atrocities perpetrated on the natives by King Leopold's agents, stories the King denies, Pierre concludes that, given his military training, his best option is to enter King Leopold's Congo military service.

Pierre arrives in the Congo in 1902. Within the first month, he becomes sick and nearly dies; makes an enemy of Harou, Leopold's most powerful man in the Congo; and, on the way to his posting, must always keep his gun within reach. Of Rulers and Ruled is an historical novel of one man's heroic struggle against the greed, cruelty, and terror of a corrupt government in colonial Africa. Pierre d'Entremont went to Africa to seek his fortune, and stayed to fight an evil regime.

Members Reviews:

Story of a Brutal System

Paul Stam's detailed study of the Belgian Congo under King Leopold's reign provides the realistic background of colonialism under despotic rule. For the Congo area, for nearly a century under white Belgian military rule, the people of the area were forbidden education and training for their eventual independence. Pierre d'Entremont finds his life there as a military officer to be permanently engaged with the land and the people he grew to love and admire. He witnessed the brutality toward the native people and bravely reacted, paying the price for such interventions as he made. The book brings this country into the reader's heart with greater understanding of what was taken from the locals. Stam spent his childhood in the Congo area, and embellishes this story with his research, carrying us as readers into the heart of that country. A strong story that covers d'Entremont's life in intervals to keep the plot moving, keeps the reader's attention throughout. The one weak link to the story is his description of a love story near the beginning, but Stam recovers well from that and proves his skill as a historian and writer. This is an excellent read. Published by All Things That Matter Press.

Jean Rodenbough, author

A Gripping Historical Journey

Stam's historical novel provides the reader with information and insights into a distant time and place,

the African Congo, under the rule of Belgium's King Leopold. The author successfully conveys the

larger drama of conflict between the natives and their brutal rulers, along with interractions

and relationships among individual characters. Though the leaps through decade after decade at

times startled this reader, the challenge of managing the broad time frame - pacing the action, developing

characterizations, sustaining interest - was skillfully done overall. The storyline captured me

from start to finish; the conclusion, a shocking confrontation of rulers and ruled, took my breath away.

Stam's book is a good read for lovers of historical fiction.

Epic story

The author is an excellent writer.

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Title: Battle of Solomon's Island

Author: Ken Rossignol

Narrator: Carolyn Graves

Format: Unabridged

Length: 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-27-13

Publisher: Kenneth C. Rossignol

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A little known story of the heroic efforts of the small village of Solomon's Island to waylay the British fleet after they burned the public buildings in Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812. This historical fiction accurately explains the events of the invasion of Washington and the bombardment of Fort McHenry.

Members Reviews:

Battle of Solomon's Island has Authentic Feel as if You Are There, Witnessing War of 1812

IN A NUTSHELL

Several months ago, I reviewed one of this writer's early works of fiction, after reading a few of his nonfiction books. In that review I mentioned that his nonfiction style was superior to his creative writing. Since then, though, he has greatly improved. What I do love about his fiction, is an uncanny ability to always find a unique hook.

In The Battle for Solomon's Island, we have a fictional story that reads almost as if it were a historical narrative. In fact, had the author not warned in the early pages, I might well have been fooled into presuming this was a true story or, at least, was based on a real events in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay region during the War of 1812.

Length: Print, 62 pages.

Target Audience/Genre: This is Historical Fiction set in the early days of the United States.

Q - What was the Amazon Rank on the date this review was published?

A - 882,819.

Q - How was this book obtained?

A - Purchased at Amazon.

Q - Is this a book that I can read without having to read others first?

A â Yes.

Q - Are there a lot of typos/misspellings, grammatical errors or other editing failures?

A â No.

Q - Is this a fast, easy read or is it more of a leisure read?

A â Itâs a fast, easy read.

Q - What sort of language does this writer use to amplify the points made?

A â Plain English, with no profanities.

Q - My biggest pleasure or disappointment?

A - I enjoyed getting a feeling of actually traversing the areas along Maryland's Chesapeake Bay during a time when the area still had a wilderness feel to it.

Iâve included a small excerpt below, so readers can peruse the style of presentation utilized by the author.

EXCERPT

Marylanders Surprise British at

Solomonâs Repel Attack at Baltimore!

Such was the scorching headline of The Washington Daily Star that day as the beleaguered President picked up the paper in his borrowed office.

As long as the State of Maryland was loaning its State Capital in the nation as a temporary national capitol, the Governor of Maryland graciously loaned his office to President Madison.

Having the infamous Dolly Madison and her husband, the President as house guests, tickled the governor and his wife to no end. The excitement in Annapolis over the newly arrived guest from Washington had the sleepy little southern town on the Severn falling all over itself.

Aside from the rounds of partying...

Bottom Line:

Torn between rating it four stars or five. I think what makes a big plus for me is the inclusion of several black and white photographs that give an authentic flavor that too often is not offered in fiction. That unique point has convinced me to rate The Battle of Solomon's Island as a five star work of fiction.

Comments regarding your opinion of this book or of my review, whether favorable or unfavorable, are always welcome. If you buy the book based on my review and become disappointed, especially, I do want to know that and I want to understand how I can improve as a book reviewer.

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Title: Footprints Left After The Wagon Train

Subtitle: An Oregon Trail Christian Story

Author: Vanessa Carvo

Narrator: Nancy Isaacs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-13

Publisher: Quietly Blessed and Loved Press

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Footprints Left After The Wagon Train: An Oregon Trail Christian Story, is a novella about the 1847 journey to the west as told from the POV of a teenaged boy. It's a story about hope, love of God, charity towards others and redemption. The boy learns that only through sacrifice can we understand what God means us to do while we are on earth, and he begins to understand as his own family prevails through the many hardships that an arduous, six month journey gives each of the many families on the wagon train.

There is death, joy, anger, hope and tragedy along the trail as all of the families leave their own footprints in the dusty soil, long after the train has passed on and they have settled into their new lives thousands of miles from their starting point.