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Title: Jetruski. Tajnye stranicy evropejskoj istorii [The Etruscans. Secret Pages of European History]

Author: Sergej Nechaev

Narrator: Kirill Radzig, Vladimir Stukalov

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-07-14

Publisher: Cdcom Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Civilizacija jetruskov do sih por ostaetsja dlja istorikov naborom belyh pjaten: zagadochny i protivorechivy versii proishozhdenija jetogo naroda (ili narodov?), politicheskogo i social'nogo ustrojstva. A tainstvennyj jazyk i nerasshifrovannye pis'mena jetruskov - prosto rekordsmeny po kolichestvu nesostojavshihsja nauchnyh sensacij. Odnako cel' jetoj knigi - ne dobavit' k nim eshhe odnu, a posledovatel'no i sistemno izlozhit' uzhe izvestnye, v toj ili inoj stepeni priznannye fakty i svedenija. Francuzskij issledovatel' Serzh Nonte skrupulezno vosstanavlivaet vyrvannye stranicy mirovoj istorii, opirajas' i na trudy drevnih avtorov, i na raboty sovremennyh istorikov.

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Title: Istorii moskovskih ulic. Vypusk 3

Author: Petr Sytin

Narrator: Vadim Maksimov, Andrey Simanov, Vladimir Stukalov, Aleksandr Khorlin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-14

Publisher: Cdcom Publishing

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Istorii moskovskih ulic. Vypusk 3Jeta kniga davno stala bibliograficheskoj redkost'ju, nesmotrja na neskol'ko pereizdanij. Ee unikal'nost' ne tol'ko v tom, chto zdes' rasskazyvaetsja, kak voznikali moskovskie ulicy, kak menjalsja ih oblik, kak otmirali ili unichtozhalis' nekotorye iz nih i pojavljalis' novye, kak voznikali i menjalis' ih nazvanija, no i v lichnosti avtora. Izvestnyj kraeved, istorik i znatok Moskvy Petr Vasil'evich Sytin, sumel sobrat' i sistematizirovat' informaciju ob istorii bukval'no kazhdogo pereulka jetogo ogromnogo goroda.V 3-m vypuske rasskazyvaetsja o novyh rajonah Moskvy, postroennyh v sovetskoe vremja vokrug Sadovogo kol'ca.

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Title: Spain and Peace

Author: Howard Fast

Narrator: Christopher Kipiniak

Format: Unabridged

Length: 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Here is Fasts powerful denunciation of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, and a remarkable historical document of Spains fight for freedom from governmental oppression.

Howard Fast was a longtime proponent of the antifascist movement in Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, Fast supported a hospital for Popular Front forces, and in 1950 he was sentenced to three months in jail for refusing to give the names of other supporters of that hospital to the House Un-American Activities Committee. In this pamphlet, published in 1951, Fast gives an overview of Spain under the rule of General Francisco Franco, including the mass strikes that were organized to weaken him. Fasts fervent appeals to listeners to reject American military agreements with Spain demonstrate his passionate opposition to fascism. As Fast writes, Spain fights on, and in those three words there is a miracle. . . . There is no Spanish worker, professional, intellectual or peasant who strikes a blow for freedom without our being intimately concerned.

Editorial Reviews:

Narrator Christopher Kipiniak's stirring performance does justice to Howard Fast's indictment of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. In this powerful piece, Fast, who was later jailed by the House of Un-American Activities Committee for his support of the antifascist movement in Spain, describes the struggles of the Spanish people under Franco, focusing on the great general strike movement. Kipiniak's impassioned tone captures the urgency of Fast's attempt to persuade Americans to support the Spanish fight for freedom against oppression. Fast's moving declaration that a policy of non-intervention is against all principles of democracy will ring true for listeners even today.

Members Reviews:

Entertaining

Contains interesting facts about conditions under the Franco regime. 75% of children had malaria, thousands living in caves, and the list goes on.

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Title: The Dreyfus Trials

Author: Guy Chapman

Narrator: Maxwell Caufield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-10-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Legal systems like to think of themselves as impartial and fair, dispensing the objective morality of Justice. But, from time to time, a court of law can be as political, prejudiced, and biased as any other arm of the State.

The classic instance is the story of the trials of Alfred Dreyfus. In December 1894 a French military tribunal found Alfred Dreyfus guilty of high treason. Dreyfus was a Jew; the War Office was determined that at all costs the honour and good name of the Army must be upheld; and both left and right in the French Parliament used the convulsions of the case for what they believed to be their own advantage. The original verdict affected the Army, the Church, the Judiciary, and the State over the following 12 years. Even now the case provokes arguments of fierce intensity.

Guy Chapman's classic exposition of the long drawn-out trials has been out of print for many years and this present thorough revision incorporates the findings of recent scholarship; it is compellingly readable and unapproachably authoritative. The questions still remain - how far were the Dreyfus Trials the product of a conscious conspiracy, how far an unconscious conspiracy of silence, and how far did 'justice' prevail?

Guy Chapman (1889-1972) was born in London and educated at Oxford where he trained to be a lawyer. When war was declared he joined the Royal Fusiliers and served on the Western Front, surviving a mustard gas attack. Chapman also served in World War II. Following the First World War, he worked as an editor for several publishing houses where he met his wife, writer Storm Jameson before becoming Professor of Modern History, University of Leeds, 1945-53, and later a visiting Professor, University of Pittsburgh, 1948-9. Having trained as a lawyer, Chapman's chief literary works from the 1930s onwards analyzed French political system and modern French history, and his time in war.

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Title: Fanfare for Elizabeth

Author: Edith Sitwell

Narrator: Emerald O'Hanrahan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-13-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Sitwell's Fanfare for Elizabeth is a striking account of love, betrayal, and religion as it unfolds in the court of King Henry VIII. Sitwell navigates elegantly through the capricious nature both of Henry's court, and his love life. The youthful hardships of little Elizabeth are played out against the backdrop of the great drama of Henry's struggles with the Pope, and his six wives. Charming in style, Fanfare for Elizabeth ends on a vignette of Elizabeth in her early teens, still oblivious to the grandeur she will ultimately inherit.

Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was born into an aristocratic family and, along with her brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, had a significant impact on the artistic life of the 20s. She encountered the work of the French symbolists, Rimbaud in particular, early in her writing life and became a champion of the modernist movement, editing six editions of the controversial magazine Wheels. She remained a crusading force against philistinism and conservatism throughout her life and her legacy lies as much in her unstinting support of other artists as it does in her own poetry.

Members Reviews:

Fanfare BEFORE Elizabeth

In Fanfare for Elizabeth, Ms. Sitwell gives us a striking account of love, betrayal, and religion as it unfolds in the court of King Henry VIII. She deftly navigates through Henry's court and his notorioulsy fickle love life. We hear something of Elizabeth and her youthful hardships (exiled to a summer estate, a toothache at the age of three, a dearth of nice dresses) only as asides in this grand drama of Henry and his struggles with wives and Popes.

Ms. Sitwell is an extremely talented writer, and there is no doubt that the book was well researched. Why then, was I so disappointed with it? Because the book is not about Elizabeth I, Queen of England. It's about her father.

Fanfare for Elizabeth is a lovely, lightweight account of Henry's adult life. The book is charming in it's style and comes across as rather quaint (Katherine Howard's teenage indiscretions are never directly addressed, nor are Henry's adult ones). The book ends with a vignette of Elizabeth in her early teens, still oblivious of the grandeur that awaits her. Fanfare for Elizabeth is not a bad book - it's just not what you think it should be.

Captivating style but completely unreliable

Edith Sitwell was a brilliant stylist, but an egregiously poor scholar. This book is thick with misconceptions, misinterpretations, and outright factual inaccuracies. Worse, many of the myths Sitwell dredged up (or, I suspect, invented) have been repeated by other authors overly impressed with Sitwell's research. No, Anne Boleyn did not have even a micro-sliver of a sixth finger. No, Catherine of Aragon was not murdered. Utter hogwash, both of them, and a thousand more.

Read this book for the prose, but don't believe a word she says.

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Title: The Queens and the Hive

Author: Edith Sitwell

Narrator: Helen Lloyd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-13-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

No hive can tolerate two Queens. In the fatal clash between the Protestant Queen of England and the Catholic Queen of Scots, many were determined that 'The death of Mary is the life of Elizabeth'. In this moving chronicle a modern poet magnificently recaptures the splendid colour and sordid intrigue of the most spectacular period of history in Britain.

Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was born into an aristocratic family and, along with her brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, had a significant impact on the artistic life of the 20s. She encountered the work of the French symbolists, Rimbaud in particular, early in her writing life and became a champion of the modernist movement, editing six editions of the controversial magazine Wheels. She remained a crusading force against philistinism and conservatism throughout her life and her legacy lies as much in her unstinting support of other artists as it does in her own poetry.

Members Reviews:

GOOD BOOK ON ELIZABETH I

INTERESTING VIEW OF ELIZABETH WITH A LOT OF SOURCE MATERIAL QUOTED. THE WRITER HOWEVER DOES A CATHOLIC VIEW OF HISTORY THAT SHOWS THROUGH.

Hilariously Awful

I didn't really expect to learn much about Tudor history. My expectation was that Sitwell would write an amusing book best taken with a shake of salt.

Her book is so exaggerated and extreme that it might make a soap opera screenwriter blush with shame. I found myself laughing but not with real pleasure.

For Sitwell enthusiasts but doesn't really serve as history.

Elizabeth the first, in all her horror and glory. Fantastic

Forget the romantic image of Elizabeth I that we see in the Cinema. This is a meticulously researched account of her life and times, warts and all. It was a time of incredible cruelty, of obsessive plotting and counter plotting, of murder, of religious intolerance and persecution and of immense ambition and even of personal sacrifice.

The little girl, whose mother was murdered by her father, grew up surrounded by intrigue and fear. Her accession to the throne of England was not a foregone conclusion, she had to fight and plot her way to the throne quite ruthlessly and once she was there, she was still under threat from the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots ... another romanticised figure today, but in reality, equally ruthless, equally ambitious and equally cruel.

But ... as in a colony of bees ... there can only be one queen in the hive.

The most vivid and beautifully written book ... long ... but well worth the effort!

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Title: Victoria of England

Author: Edith Sitwell

Narrator: Bean Downes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-13-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

The Victorian era has been one of the most influential in shaping modern British society, and Victoria herself is a powerful symbol of the age. This is a fascinating portrait of the queen, both before and during her reign, by one of the 20th century's most influential women writers. Making extensive use of Victoria's Letters and journal, Edith Sitwell brings alive the queen's relationships with her family and those surrounding the court. She also provides a vivid record of social conditions in Victoria's England.

Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was born into an aristocratic family and, along with her brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, had a significant impact on the artistic life of the 20s. She encountered the work of the French symbolists, Rimbaud in particular, early in her writing life and became a champion of the modernist movement, editing six editions of the controversial magazine Wheels. She remained a crusading force against philistinism and conservatism throughout her life and her legacy lies as much in her unstinting support of other artists as it does in her own poetry.

Members Reviews:

buy it

This is a charming account of Queen Victoria's reign, with fascinating descriptions of life at the time which are very vivid and remain in the memory - not as dramatic as the account by Evelyn Anthony [highly recommended] but very well worth a read.

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Title: Edward the Rake

Author: John Pearson

Narrator: Matthew Brenher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

These chapters in the life of Edward the Rake are dealt with frankly and light-heartedly. It is the story of a man who enjoyed himself and his indelicate advantages to the full, a penetrating and yet not unsympathetic portrait of the monarch and of the discreetly swinging social world that he created around him.

John Pearson was born in 1930, and educated at King's College School, Wimbledon and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read history. He has worked on various newspapers, including the Economist, The Times, and The Sunday Times where for a time he wrote the Atticus column. After the success of his Life of Ian Fleming, he decamped with wife and family to Rome, where he lived for some years. Mr Pearson returned to England to research and write the life and times of the Kray brothers, and is now at work on a full-scale biography of the Sitwells.

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Title: The Devonshires

Author: Roy Hattersley

Narrator: Michael Jayston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-13

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

The story of the Cavendish family and the first eight Dukes of Devonshire is the story of England.

From 1381 - when Sir John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England, was killed during the Peasants Revolt - to 1906, when the Duke of Devonshires resignation brought down the Tory government: the familys fortunes (and misfortunes) mirrored the life of the nation. The Devonshires is also the story of the huge support networks of servants and labour needed to sustain the supremacy of a family whose accumulated wealth, from the dissolution of the monasteries to the coming of the railways, saw them found ship ports, holiday resorts, scientific laboratories, stud farms and some of the most significant buildings in the land.

For this new history, Hattersley has been given unique access to the archives, based at Chatsworth, the family seat. The Devonshires is as rich and ravishing a read as Hattersleys best-selling The Edwardians. Whereas previous books on the Devonshires have dealt with one or two key figures, Hattersley gathers the dynasty in one place: an astonishing accumulation of scientists, soldiers, patrons, politicians, house builders, racehorse breeders, philanderers, and powerful women.

The huge personalities in the Devonshire story, and the vibrant details that Hatterley uncovers, make for a lively and illuminating path in to the political, social, and cultural changes that England has endured and enjoyed. Brilliantly researched, this is delicious popular history at its very best.

Members Reviews:

did not sustain my interest

My interest in this book waned until, some time in the 19th century, I stopped listening. It features a broad range of characters besides the Devonshires, and plenty of background, for example the civil war, so the characters are expertly placed in the setting of their times. But I would have liked more on the Devonshires themselves and less on the high politics and wars in which they were involved. Apart from Bess of Hardwick and the notorious Georgiana, it was the men in each generation who dominated the story - perhaps more on the women would have made the book more enjoyable for me. I think a reader would have to have a high level of interest in English political goings-on to find this book really enjoyable. It is well written and must have taken a huge amount of research so high praise for Roy Hattersey. It is competently read by Michael Jayston but with very little alteration in tone or mood it gets to sound rather boring before very long.

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Titolo: La Campagna di Russia 1941-1942 [War in Russia 1941-1942]

Sottotitolo: La marcia di sangue e ghiaccio [The March of Blood and Ice]

Autore: Francesco Ficarra

Narratore: Piero Di Domenico

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 1 hr and 34 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 05-01-13

Editore: Area51 Publishing

Categoria: History, European

Riepilogo Editore:

La storia della campagna militare contro l'Unione Sovietica voluta da Benito Mussolini che si trasformò nella più tragica sconfitta dell'esercito italiano durante la Seconda guerra mondiale.

The history of the military campaign against the Soviet Union built by Benito Mussolini, that was transformed into the most tragic defeat of the Italian Army during the Second World War.