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Title: First World War: 1914

Subtitle: Voices from the BBC Archive

Author: Mark Jones

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Original Recording

Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-14

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

A unique collection of historic recordings covering events from the last days of peace to the Christmas truce, 1914.

At midnight on 4 August, Britain had declared war on Germany. The pacifist Bertrand Russell was shocked by the pro-war euphoria on the streets, yet young men enlisted willingly because "it would all be over by Christmas". It was not. Instead the opposing armies had become entrenched. It was the beginning of a long and bitter stalemate.

In this new audio compilation, troops of the British Expeditionary Force vividly recall the exhausting retreat from Mons, the success at the Marne, and the first battle of Ypres, where the Territorials arrived in bright red London buses. For reconnaissance pilots, the battlefield was defined by blazing villages, and fields alive with German troops. Among the items which powerfully capture the mood of the time are an eyewitness account of the Kaisers reaction to the news from Sarajevo on 28 June; Margot Asquith, wife of the Prime Minister, remembering their despair at the inevitability of war; and the poignant reminiscences of civilians and soldiers.

Members Reviews:

The Summer of War

This is the first of the BBC's archive of WW1 interviews: Audible offers the next one (1915) as well, but at the time of this writing offers no other years. 1914's first third is a little slow due to exposition but after a while gains momentum. Many speakers were recorded during the 50th anniversary of the war in the 1960s. You can hear a crowd of chatterers in the background in some of them, as if at a reunion. Interviewees are not shaky-voiced, senile centenarians but 60 or 70 years old. Speakers include "Old Contemptibles" from the Mons retreat, British and Germans who participated in the Christmas fraternization, and veterans from the First Battle of Ypres (there were three battles). Although the next audiobook of 1915 is better, this one is nonetheless worth the money and time to hear voices of persons who were actual participants to history. Just give it a little time to get started.

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Título: La leyenda de El Dorado y otros mitos del Descubrimiento de América

Autor: Christian Kupchik

Narrador: Daniel Angel Montalvo

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 6 hrs and 21 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 08-12-14

Editor: Audible Studios

Categorías: History, World

Resumen del editor:

La conquista de América fue un viaje hacia lo desconocido, en el camino aparecieron numerosas leyendas que arrastraron ahombres valientes y ambiciosos unas veces a la gloria y otras a la muerte. El hombre tiende siempre a inventar utopías y a perseguir quimeras, ya desde la antigüedad territorios como la Atlántida o las Islas Afortunadas, habían sido visitadas por viajeros que traían descripciones de animales increíbles y tesoros infinitos, otro tanto pasaba con regiones como la India de la que se contaban también numerosas leyendas fantásticas que fueron confirmadas, en algunos casos, por hombres que estuvieron allí, las tropas de Alejandro Magno por ejemplo.

La leyenda de El Dorado y otros mitos del descubrimiento de América nos traslada ese impulso humano que inventa territorios y los busca incansablemente, a través de un riguroso análisis histórico de las expediciones que se lanzaron a lo desconocido en busca de la gloria. Christian Kupchik arranca su libro exponiendo brevemente las utopías que han existido en la antigüedad, desde las crónicas grecorromanas hasta las descripciones bíblicas, con el objetivo de cotejar cómo esas leyendas se trasladan a la conquista de América. La fuente de la eterna juventud, las amazonas, las siete ciudades encantadas, los gigantes de la Patagonia, los caribes o El Dorado, tienen sus correspondientes leyendas antiguas o medievales. Desde ahí, nos detallará el autor el origen de la leyenda de El Dorado, basado en un ritual de los indios Chibchas, en Colombia, que consistía en cubrir a su príncipe de oro y arrojarlo a la laguna Guatavita mientras los caciques lanzaban oro y esmeraldas para apaciguar al dragón que vivía en dicha laguna.

Este ritual dio origen a una fiebre del oro de la que participarían los banqueros de la casa Welter, Diego de Orgaz o Diego de Quesada que llegará a la laguna y volverá con 250.000 pesos de oro más pero con 2.500 hombres menos en su expedición. Otros como Lope de Aguirre protagonizarán expediciones en las que los saqueos, los asesinatos y las traiciones serán la nota dominante, Aguirre morirá a manos del ejército español pero antes de eso había asesinado a todos sus compañeros y a su propia hija. Razones para comprar la obra: Además de narrar la historia de la conquista de América, muestra la unión indisoluble entre avances y descubrimientos y ambición y utopía.

En el libro priman los datos rigurosos con fuentes como la Biblia, las crónicas, tanto las antiguas como las de los propios colonos, además de tratados de antropología, botánica, etc. Además de la parte dedicada al estudio histórico, tiene otra parte más narrativa y que puede calificarse de ficción especulativa. Completa la información del libro una cronología final desde 1492 hasta el S.

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Título: Enigmas Y Misterios De La Segunda Guerra Mundial

Autor: Jesús Hernández

Narrador: Chema Agulló

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 8 hrs and 54 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 08-05-14

Editor: Audible Studios

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 3 votos

Categorías: History, World

Resumen del editor:

Un recorrido por los hechos aún sin explicación que ocurrieron en medio del caos que fue la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

A estas alturas nadie puede poner en duda que la Segunda Guerra Mundial es una fuente inagotable de historias. Las complicadas operaciones militares, el elevado número de soldados y aparatos de guerra implicados, los estudios científicos destinados a revolucionar las infraestructuras bélicas o las herméticas teorías nazis, nos han dejado no pocos acontecimientos que aún hoy están sin responder. Desde este punto de partida Jesús Hernández nos presenta en este audio libro, huyendo del sensacionalismo de las confabulaciones místicas y de la búsqueda nazi de elementos mágicos, algunos de los hechos inexplicados de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Enigmas y Misterios de la Segunda Guerra Mundial pretende encontrar una explicación plausible a los misterios que nos han llegado del conflicto y, destapar aquellas historias fantásticas que han alcanzado fama y difusión. Dividido en seis capítulos, nos irá presentando Jesús Hernández en primer lugar los sucesos que continúan todavía sin explicación como el misterioso ataque a Los Ángeles por extraños artefactos voladores, nos detalla la vida de los espías más enigmáticos implicados en la guerra y nos relata las extrañas desapariciones de personajes tan célebres como el piloto Antoine de Sant-Exupéry, autor de El principito. También, tienen cabida en el libro las historias sobre máquinas de guerra malditas como el submarino USS Tang que se hundió por un torpedo defectuoso que él mismo lanzó y, por supuesto, una investigación esclarecedora sobre las muertes enigmáticas de Martin Bormann o Herman Goering. En un último capítulo presenta también los mitos e historias fantásticas asociadas al conflicto, como el experimento Filadelfia, en el cual, según algunos testigos, se consiguió teletransportar un buque de la marina americana.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Excelente análisis histórico del los enigmas

Guauuu! que interesante y ameno análisis histórico del algunos de los enigmas y misterios de la segunda guerra mundial.

Varios de los capítulos del libro podrían ser llevados a la pantalla cinematográfica, tal como el rumor sobre el supuesto hijo de Magda Guebbels (esposa de Joseph Guebbels) y Hitler, mismo que la tenebrosa Sra. Guebbels envenenó junto a sus otros hijos un día después del suicidio de Hitler.

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Title: A Brief History of How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World

Subtitle: Brief Histories

Author: Thomas Crump

Narrator: Philip Bird

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-31-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

From the beginning of the eighteenth century to the high water mark of the Victorian era, the world was transformed by a technological revolution the like of which had never been seen before. Inventors, businessmen, scientists, explorers all had their part to play in the story of the Industrial Revolution and in this Brief History Thomas Crump brings their story to life, and shows why it is a chapter in English history that can not be ignored.

Members Reviews:

Great book

Book was like new and excellent if you are interested in the industrial revolution. It covers primarily Europe but there is some on USA.

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Titre: La France du XIXe siècle : De 1814 à 1914 (Histoire de France 6)

Auteur: Emmanuel Fureix

Narrateur: Emmanuel Fureix

Format: Original Recording

Durée: 4 hrs and 56 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 11-07-13

Éditeur: Frémeaux & Associés

Evaluation: 2 sur 5 sur 2 votes

Genres: History, World

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Pour la première fois, l'éditeur des savoirs, les Presses Universitaires de France, et la maison de disques culturels de référence Frémeaux & Associés, s'associent pour proposer des cours particuliers sur l'histoire de France, racontée, expliquée et analysée par les plus grands universitaires.

En près de cinq heures, cet audio retrace l'histoire de France au XIXe siècle, incarnée par Emmanuel Fureix, spécialiste d'histoire contemporaine.

©2013 Frémeaux & Associés / PUF (P)2013 Frémeaux & Associés

Avis des membres:

Boring

I regret spending 20$ for this one. 1713-1813 narrated by Olivier cocard have most of the information present here. I wish I read this audio book instead of lessening to it. Narration was not as good as Olivier cocard. There are to much date in one sentence or referring to event or people without telling who that wss. But information are good quality.

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Title: Mr. Selden's Map of China

Subtitle: Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer

Author: Timothy Brook

Narrator: George Backman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-13

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

From the author of the award-winning Vermeers Hat, a historical detective story decoding a long-forgotten link between 17th-century Europe and China.

Timothy Brooks award-winning Vermeers Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeers paintings to show how objects like beaver hats and porcelain bowls began to circulate around the world. Now he plumbs the mystery of a single artifact that offers new insights into global connections centuries old. In 2009, an extraordinary map of China was discovered in Oxfords Bodleian Library - where it had first been deposited 350 years before, then stowed and forgotten for nearly a century. Neither historians of China nor cartography experts had ever seen anything like it. It was so odd that experts would have declared it a fake - yet records confirmed it had been delivered to Oxford in 1659.

The "Selden Map", as it is known, was a puzzle that needing solving. Brook, a historian of China, set out to explore the riddle. His investigation will lead listeners around this elegant, enigmatic work of art, and from the heart of China, via the Southern Ocean, to the court of King James II. In the story of Seldens map, he reveals for us the surprising links between an English scholar and merchants half a world away, and offers novel insights into the power and meaning that a single map can hold. Brook delivers the same anecdote-rich narrative, intriguing characters, and unexpected historical connections that made Vermeers Hat an instant classic.

Members Reviews:

Fine writing marred by low-res image of the Selden map in Kindle edition

Maybe a book isn't the best format for this information, but if you're going to do that, use a map with decent resolution, one where the details described are clearly visible.

fascinating historical oddity

This book takes us on a far ranging historical and territorial journey. Unravelling the mystery of the map is sometimes technical and at other times acquaints us with obscure documents. All in all a very good read.

Fascinating

I admit that I am only halfway through, and as yet I don't know what the book is pointing at, I do agree that the book is fascinating on many levels. Brook excels in his storytelling, weaving together many different lives, professions, the Dutch East Indies Company, the English trying to establish themselves in the East Indies, Japan, and especially China. Wow. It is hard to put down.

Three Stars

Just about what I expected in a story with very little other references to verify.

Five Stars

Beautifully written

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Titel: Die ganze Welt des Wissens 1

Autor:: Reinhard Schlüter, Michael Reitz, Christian Feldmann, Florian Hildebrand, Geseko von Lüpke

Erzähler: Rahel Comtesse, Andreas Neumann, Detlef Kügow-Klenz

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 24 hrs and 12 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-30-13

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Bewertung: 4.5 von 5 von 3 Stimmen

Kategorien: History, World

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-- momag Mostviertel Magazin

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-- ZEIT Wissen

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Titre: La France des Lumières et des Révolutions (Histoire de France 5)

Auteur: Olivier Coquard

Narrateur: Olivier Coquard

Format: Original Recording

Durée: 5 hrs and 19 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 08-12-13

Éditeur: Frémeaux & Associés

Evaluation: 4.5 sur 5 sur 6 votes

Genres: History, World

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Pour la première fois, l'éditeur des savoirs, les Presses Universitaires de France, et la maison de disques culturels de référence Frémeaux & Associés, s'associent pour proposer des cours particuliers sur l'histoire de France, racontée, expliquée et analysée par les plus grands universitaires.

En près de cinq heures, cet audio retrace l'histoire de France de 1715 à 1815, incarnée par Olivier Coquard, spécialiste d'histoire moderne.

L'intervenant

, ancien élève de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses, agrégé et docteur en Histoire, enseigne depuis 1993 en Première Supérieure au Lycée Henri IV à Paris. Ses travaux ont porté principalement sur la fin des Lumières et la Révolution Française. Il collabore régulièrement à la revue Historia.

©2013 Frémeaux & Associés / PUF (P)2013 Groupe Frémeaux Colombini

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Title: Terrorism for Self-Glorification

Subtitle: The Herostratos Syndrome

Author: Albert Borowitz

Narrator: John Alexander Brancy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-13

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Terrorism for Self Glorification: Herostratos Syndrome examines the motives of terrorists, from ancient Greece to the present day. In this timely study of the roots of terrorism, author Albert Borowitz deftly assesses the phenomenon of violent crime motivated by a craving for notoriety or self-glorification. He traces this particular brand of terrorism back to 356 BCE and the destruction of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus by arsonist Herostratos and then examines similar crimes through history to the present time, detailing many examples of what the author calls the "Herostratos Syndrome," such as the attempted explosion of the Greenwich Observatory in 1894, the Taliban's destruction of the giant Buddhas in Afghanistan, the assassination of John Lennon, the Unabomber strikes, and the attacks on the World Trade Center buildings.

The study of terrorism requires interdisciplinary inquiry. Proving that terrorism cannot be the exclusive focus of a single field of scholarship, Borowitz presents this complex subject using sources based in religion, philosophy, history, Greek mythology, and world literature, including works of Chaucer, Cervantes, Mark Twain, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Terrorism for Self-Glorification, written in clear and direct prose, is original, thorough, and thought provoking. Scholars, specialists, and general readers will find their understanding of terrorism greatly enhanced by this book.

Critic Reviews:

"A unique work of...history, made all the more interesting by its relevance to the time in which we live." (James R. Elkins, editor of

Legal Studies Forum)

Members Reviews:

Presenting a New View of Terrorists

In 356 B.C. Herostratos destroyed one of the seven wonders of the Ancient World, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus by arson. While we know little else about him, his name has come down as a word defining those who would destroy something just to get their own name remembered.

There have certainly been enough examples of people like this from Mark Chapman (John Lennon), Lee Harvey Oswald (John Kennedy) , Arthur Bremer (who first was bent on the assassination of President Nixon with no animosity towards him, but as he was too well protected, shot George Wallace instead). The real interest of the moment, however, are the militant fundamental Muslims of the middle east who become suicide bombers or fly planes into the world trade center.

This book is an important contribution to the study of terrorism as it presents a way for us to better understand the risks that we are facing. It is commonly believed that the Muslim are convinced purely by promises of the afterlife. Mr. Borowitz points out that the names of the suicide bombers are known to everyone in the Middle East. The factor of fame here on earth may be more important than we realized.

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Title: The Undivided Past

Subtitle: Humanity Beyond Our Differences

Author: David Cannadine

Narrator: Gildart Jackson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

From one of our most acclaimed historians comes an account of human solidarity throughout the ages, provocatively arguing against the received wisdom that history is best understood as a chronicle of groups in conflict.

Investigating the six most pervasive categories of human difference - religion, nation, class, gender, race, and civilization - Cannadine asks how determinative each of them has really been over the course of history. Without denying their power to motivate populations dramatically at particular moments, he reveals that in the long term none has proven remotely as divisive as the occasional absolutist cries of "us versus them" would suggest, whether Christian versus Muslim during the Crusades (and now), landed gentry versus peasantry during the Bolshevik Revolution, or Jews versus "Aryan race" in Nazi Germany. For most of recorded time, these same "unbridgeable" differences were experienced as just one identity among others; whatever most chroniclers, self-serving mythmakers, and demagogues would have us believe, history needs to be reimagined to include the countless fruitful interactions across these lines, which are usually left out of the picture.

Critic Reviews:

"Cannadine systematically examines the six most pervasive areas of identities across historical periods. Drawing on history, philosophy, economics, sociology, and religion, Cannadine offers a broad and sweeping look at the myriad ways weve been at each others throats throughout history. Still, he ends with the hopeful prospect that more historians will reexamine the chronicles of group conflicts and offer balanced perspectives." (Booklist)

"Historian and editor Cannadine constructs a stirring critique of history that questions conventional approaches to narrating the human chronicle. That we exaggerate animosities and fail to recognize how cooperation, at least as much as conflict, has marked humanitys experience, may seem a belaboring of the obvious. Yet Cannadine, an accomplished writer, details it in fresh and provocative terms." (Kirkus Reviews)

"A complex, thoughtful examination of the fundamental ways in which humanity divides itself." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Societies shaking hands under the table

I liked this historical commentary well enough to read every word. Cannadine, a professor at my old alma mater, examines societal conflict and harmony through six different lenses: nation, religion, class, gender, race, and civilization. Hovering well above the personal details of exemplars of the times, and focusing mostly on recent centuries, the author argues again and again that despite differences, most cultures or regimes accommodate others. Indeed, that interactions of cultures is necessary for any regime to maintain a good level of material being. Cannadine is at his best in characterizing the full range of arguments of each important writer---past and near-present---within every one of these lenses.