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Title: England, Arise

Subtitle: The People, the King, and the Great Revolt of 1381

Author: Juliet Barker

Narrator: Carole Boyd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-02-14

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

The dramatic and shocking events of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 are to be the backdrop to Juliet Barker's latest book: a snapshot of what everyday life was like for ordinary people living in the middle ages. The same highly successful techniques she deployed in Agincourt and Conquest will this time be brought to bear on civilian society, from the humblest serf forced to provide slave-labour for his master in the fields, to the prosperous country goodwife brewing, cooking, and spinning her distaff and the ambitious burgess expanding his business and his mental horizons in the town.

The book will explore how and why such a diverse and unlikely group of ordinary men and women from every corner of England united in armed rebellion against church and state to demand a radical political agenda which, had it been implemented, would have fundamentally transformed English society and anticipated the French Revolution by 400 years. The book will not only provide an important reassessment of the revolt itself but will also be an illuminating and original study of English medieval life at the time.

Members Reviews:

Now I know I knew nothing before.

What did you like most about England, Arise?

Peasants Revolt was about many things and it was fought by many people but it was not fought by or for peasants. Amazing how myths are created and how they have their own lives. Jack Cade, John Bull, Watt Tyler - names we all know and yet we actually know nothing about their actions. Or lack of it as it turns out.

What did you like best about this story?

Debunking myths, sieving through ghost stories and taking people out of the picture they were firmly stuck in.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes. And I did. Save for a loo, food and sleep. Scratch that, I listened in the bathroom and while eating.

Any additional comments?

It's amazing that this book can be a scholarly work and a really entertaining political thriller at the same time. You can make notes or just enjoy listening. Rare feat indeed.

Much more than a history of the Peasant's Revolt

Juliet Barker paints a beautifully detailed portrait of life in medieval England as the aftermath of the Black Death lead to what we now call the Peasant's Revolt. With a radically reduced population, the great landowners amongst the nobles and religious orders found that everyone from peasants to prosperous local gentry wanted higher payment for their work, more freedom to own land and work it and a greater say in the running of the country.

Meanwhile, the King wanted to raise taxes for this failing war in France. The solution they reached for was a disasterous combination of massively increasing taxes while screwing down wages the "Statute of Labourers" which limited what could be paid to every sort of working person. Barker has done a Herculean amount of research to bring this lot to life and she does it brilliantly. One example is her story of the futility of the statute of labourers as illustrated by the Burgesses of Gloucester who wanted to erect some stocks in the town square to punish anyone who flouted the wage limits in the statute. The problem they faced was that no carpenter would do the job for the legal rate. So in the end they broke the statute, paid him his asking price and got their stocks.

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Title: The Story of Kaspar Hauser

Author: Andrew Lang

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

On 28 May, 1828, a boy of around 16 appeared in the Bavarian city of Nuremburg holding a letter in his hand. The lad was unable to speak, apart from three odd phrases which he repeated parrot-like, one of which was: "Want to be a soldier, as father was." The letter, addressed to the captain of the local infantry regiment, told a bizarre story. It appeared that the boy had been kept shut up in isolation in the dark for his entire life, had never learned to speak and knew nothing of the world. Although the boy initially seemed to have a mental age of around two or three, he turned out to be a quick learner with a good memory, and within a few months of living with a family in Nuremburg, he was able to communicate, read, and write. The story he was able to tell of his early life was extraordinary. But if his arrival caused a stir...it was the bizarre manner of his death and the mystery which surrounded it which shocked the whole of Germany.

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Title: Marooned

Author: J. G. Lockhart

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

The extraordinary story of Robert Jeffrey who was press-ganged into the Royal Navy in 1808 at the age of 18. On his first voyage on board the Recruit under the strict Captain Lake, Jeffrey gave in to temptation and stole a sip of rum. For this he was clapped in irons for two days and then given two dozen lashes. A few days later however, he drank two quarts of spruce beer belonging to the midshipmen. For this repeat misdemeanor, Captain Lake ordered him to be put ashore on a barren rock on the outskirts of the Leeward Islands. The story of Jeffrey's experience and subsequent escape from the island is one of the most fascinating true adventure stories of the 19th century.

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Title: Peace Be with You!

Subtitle: Constantine the Great

Author: Julian Chitta

Narrator: Justin Harmer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-14

Publisher: Julian Chitta

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

This is the story of Rome during the fourth century in the time of its 57th emperor, the first Christian ruler, Flavius Valerius Constantinus, who later was called Augustus - the man known to posterity as a saint and as Constantine the Great. His life and work was the object of study for countless historians, yet most of them missed to discover the man under the purple imperial robes. This audiobook tries to fill in some of the missing aspects necessary to reconstruct his true portrait. He was not a perfect man - by any standards - just the right man, at the right place, at the right time. This is the story of a Christian Liberator. If there strong similarities between the ancient Rome and the contemporary Washington, DC, they are only coincidental, since the author did not make any efforts to describe them, abstaining from pointing them to you as flukes of history, even though, sometimes the history may repeat itself!

Members Reviews:

Very Good Book

If you could sum up Peace Be with You! in three words, what would they be?

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Title: A First Visit to the Trenches

Author: Wilfrid Ewart

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

English novelist and journalist Wilfrid Ewart (1892-1922) survived the battlefields of the First World War only to die a few years later in Mexico City where near midnight, he stepped out onto his hotel balcony to observe the New Year's festivities and was killed by a stray bullet fired by a reveler below.

This is Ewart's firsthand account of his first visit to the trenches in February 1915.

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Title: The Last Stalinist: The Life of Santiago Carrillo

Author: Paul Preston

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-14

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

The life of the complex, ruthless adversary of General Franco, whose life spanned much of Spain's turbulent 20th century.

From 1939 to 1975, the Spanish Communist Party, effectively lead for two decades by Santiago Carrillo, was the most determined opponent of General Franco's Nationalist regime. Admired by many on the left as a revolutionary and a pillar of the anti-Franco struggle, and hated by others as a Stalinist gravedigger of the revolution, Santiago Carrillo was arguably the dictator's most consistent left-wing enemy.

For many on the right, Carrillo was a monster to be vilified as a mass murderer for his activities during the Civil War. But his survival owed to certain qualities that he had in abundance - a capacity for hard work, stamina and endurance, writing and oratorical skills, intelligence and cunning - though honesty and loyalty were not among them.

One by one he turned on those who helped him in his desire for advancement, revealing the ruthless streak that he shared with Franco, and a zeal for rewriting his past.

Drawing on the numerous, continuously revised accounts Carillo created of his life, and contrasting them with those produced by his friends and enemies, Spain's greatest modern historian Paul Preston unravels the legend of a devastating and controversial figure at the heart of 20th-century Spanish politics.

Critic Reviews:

Praise for The Spanish Holocaust':A book of extraordinary moral and emotional power, a classic of historical scholarship and a deeply affecting record of man's inhumanity to man.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'A harrowing and moving account of the immense terror and enormous atrocities, especially perpetrated by General Franco's followers, during and after the Spanish Civil War, meticulously researched and superbly written by an outstanding historian.' Ian KershawEssential reading for anyone wishing to understand Spain and its recent history. Preston's excellent, spine-chilling narrative explains just how deep Franco's early investment in terror was.this is an invaluable book that does not shrink from even the harshest of truths' GuardianPreston's staggeringly detailed powerful and affecting chronicle of the savagery unleashed during the Spanish civil war.is a history of rare moral and emotional power, which alters forever our view of one of the most symbolic conflicts of the last century' Sunday Times, History Book of the Year

Members Reviews:

Terrible Spanish pronunciation

Terrible pronunciation of Spanish words and names. Difficult to understand who or what the narrator is referring to. Keeble is in need of coaching to pronounce properly if he is going to narrate a book that has Spanish vocabulary and names. Really awful.

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Titolo: Breve storia della Prima Guerra Mondiale vol. 3: La battaglia della Marna

Sottotitolo: [A Short History of World War I, Volume 3: The Battle of the Marne]

Autore: Piero Di Domenico

Narratore: Lorenzo Visi

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 1 hr and 30 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 07-23-14

Editore: Area51 Publishing

Categoria: History, European

Riepilogo Editore:

La battaglia della Marna segnò più che una sconfitta tedesca una sconfitta della strategia della Germania, che si ritrovò invischiata in un conflitto che ormai ave-va preso una piega ben diversa da quella immaginata inizialmente a Berlino. Il filosofo francese Henri Bergson intravide nella battaglia della Marna i segni di un miracolo già avvenuto: La battaglia della Marna è stata vinta da Giovanna dArco. Lo sentiva anche il nemico, che si era trovato dimprovviso di fronte ad un muro di pietra sorto dalla sera alla mattina. La battaglia della Marna fu una delle battaglie decisive nella storia del mondo non perché essa decise che la Germania avrebbe finito col perdere la guerra e gli alleati per vincerla, ma perché decise che la guerra sarebbe continuata. Nella parte conclusiva del volume sono contenute le Appendici alla storia della Prima Guerra Mondiale: documenti ufficiali dellepoca, come quelli del Patto di Londra e la dichiarazione di guerra dellItalia allImpero austro-ungarico.

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Titolo: Gli Arabi (Storia d'Italia 14)

Autore: div.

Narratore: Eugenio Farn

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 1 hr and 18 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 05-28-14

Editore: Il Narratore s.r.l.

Valutazioni: 4 su 5 su 1 voti

Categoria: History, European

Riepilogo Editore:

La civiltà araba è stata fondamentale per ciò che è riuscita a produrre nel corso dei secoli, e per l'importanza che ha avuto anche sul pensiero e sulla storia occidentale, Italia compresa. Il dominio arabo-islamico in Sicilia è durato oltre due secoli dell'alto medioevo. La storia della Sicilia araba è straordinariamente interessante perchè evidenzia come, nel periodo dei cosiddetti secoli bui', sia stato l'incontro tra queste due civiltà (quella cristiana e quella islamica) ad aver generato un fermento culturale che non ha eguali in quegli anni lontani. Nel corso del medioevo, il connubio tra popolazione araba, quella ebraica e quella cristiana ha prodotto momenti di sommo valore per la storia della filosofia e della cultura in generale.

La Sicilia e l'Italia meridionale hanno acquisito nell'epoca mussulmana conoscenze d'ogni tipo: agricole, mediche, filosofiche, astrologiche, scientifiche e architettoniche. Sicilia e Spagna, infatti, hanno rappresentato le teste di ponte' più importanti attraverso le quali sono penetrati in Occidente quegli influssi orientali che contribuiranno a determinare quella che sarà la grande opera di sintesi del Rinascimento italiano.

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Title: Joan of Arc

Subtitle: The 100 Year War

Author: Robert K. Boscarato

Narrator: Danielle Ezra

Format: Unabridged

Length: 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-13-14

Publisher: Robert Boscarato

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Joan of Arc rejected the cautious strategy that characterized French leadership during previous campaigns. Entrance of Joan of Arc into Reims in 1429. Pope Benedict XV canonized Joan in 1920. Joan of Arc has been a political symbol in France since the time of Napoleon. Golden statue of Joan of Arc at Place des Pyramides, Paris by Emmanuel Frémiet, 1874.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

My daughter said "5 stars. No! It is 4 stars....Ok. Maybe it's 5 stars." So let's say 4.5

This one is great Joan of Arc

Elli Seal-Mayr told Robert just go home and write a bestseller so he did it been a longtime getting here

Robert wishes to Thank Danielle for her fine work in English and French

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Title: Newcomers' Lives

Subtitle: The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times

Author: Peter Unwin (editor)

Narrator: Ralph Lister

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-20-14

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

To mention the names Ernst Gombrich, Nikolaus Pevsner, Joseph Conrad, Nancy Astor, C.L.R. James and Lucian Freud is to give but a brief glimpse of the impact immigrants to this country have made on our national culture and character. Indeed, these people have been crucial to the development of recent British history and have been indispensable for the way we live now. By reproducing The Times obituaries of over one hundred of the most important of these, the reader is given a unique view of their contribution and it is clear how their contribution has been a determinant factor in British history. The book covers politics, business, art, architecture, music and sport as well as philosophy and religion. The breadth and depth of the influence of immigrants is thus reinforced. The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, contributes a fascinating introduction surveying our historial and cultural landscape.