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Title: First World War: 1918

Subtitle: Voices from the BBC Archive

Author: Sarah Kilgarriff

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Original Recording

Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-25-18

Publisher: BBC Digital Audio

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

A unique collection of historic recordings in which the last brutal encounters of the war and the mixed emotions of the armistice are remembered by troops from both sides.

By the end of March 1918, Germany's Spring Offensive had thrown British forces back over the old Somme battlefields. But this last push failed, and with the stalemate of trench warfare broken, the Allies swept from near defeat to victory. However, their joy was tempered by sorrow. Too many would not come home. For the Germans, the mood was despairing as their 'endless columns rolled eastward', the November fog and rain adding to their melancholy.

Memorable reminiscences include an evocative portrait of poet Wilfred Owen, killed shortly before the armistice; American troops on their initiation into the horrors of battle; and reflections on the 'punitive' demands of the Paris Peace Conference. As the Treaty of Versailles was being drafted, the German navy decided its own fate in one final act of defiance, witnessed by a group of schoolchildren on an outing in Scapa Flow.

These enduring recollections from the men who fought and the women who waited are a poignant and powerful reminder of the shocking realities of the war.

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Titre: Les Vikings portaient-ils (vraiment) des casques à cornes ! (Choses à savoir)

Auteur: Louis Guillaume

Narrateur: Louis Guillaume

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 2 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 12-15-17

Éditeur: Choses à Savoir CULTURE GENERALE

Genres: History, World

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Des podcasts quotidiens pour apprendre des choses et développer sa culture générale.

©2017 Louis Guillaume (P)2017 Louis Guillaume

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Titel: Prometheus: Griechische Sagen

Autor:: Franz Fühmann

Erzähler: Rosemarie Fendel, Werner Wölbern, Christian Berkel

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 5 hrs and 59 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-11-17

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Kategorien: History, World

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Die Lebens- und Sinnesfreude der griechischen Götterwelt in einem exzellenten Hörspiel

Wie war das noch mal mit dem Sturz der Titanen? Wie gelang es Zeus, zum Herrscher über die Welt und seine Geschwister Hera, Poseidon, Demeter und Hades zu werden? Und warum erschufen der Titanensohn Prometheus und die verstoßene Erdmutter Gaia ihre Schützlinge, die Menschen? Von List und Betrug, von Intrige und offenem Kampf, aber auch von Liebe, Treue und Sinnesfreuden erzählen uns die griechischen Sagen, die mit ihren so irdischen Göttern bis heute lebendig auf uns wirken. Und wir erkennen, wie viel Menschenkenntnis und Erfahrung, aber auch Heiterkeit und Übermut in diesen alten Mythen steckt...

Das exzellente Hörspiel des Regisseurs H. G. Krogmann mit den Stimmen von Werner Wölbern, Christian Berkel und Tatja Seibt lässt die Lebens- und Sinnesfreude der griechischen Götterwelt neu aufleben und schließt nebenbei noch einige Bildungslücken.

©2001 MDR (P)2001 MDR

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Title: The Korean Demilitarized Zone

Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Border Between North Korea and South Korea

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Dan Gallagher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-07-17

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

The Korean War was a watershed event for a number of reasons. Not only was it considered the first military action of the Cold War, as well as one of the first to utilize jet planes kitted out with bombs and missiles, the United Nations immersed itself in the precarious politics of warfare for the very first time. A total of 41 countries gifted shiploads of provisions and equipment to South Korea. Another 16 countries provided their own soldiers to serve as backup for the South Koreans. Their mission, put simply, was to extinguish Communism on the Korean peninsula once and for all.

After a series of heated but unproductive negotiations that lasted two brutal years and 17 miserable days, North Korea and South Korea found themselves locked in a stalemate. Finally, on July 27, 1953, representatives from both parties gathered at the village of Panmunjom, located on a semi-neutral zone by the border. Here, they devised a document entitled the Korean Armistice Agreement and scrawled their names across the bottom of the parchment, calling for a ceasefire, effective immediately. In essence, this agreement was no more than a truce, for there were no victors. The agreement merely ensured "a suspension of open hostilities," a "transfer of POWs," and lastly, the formal establishment of the demilitarization zone, better known as the DMZ. To this day, no peace treaty has ever been signed.

Despite the fact the border between North Korea and South Korea remains tense, and former President Bill Clinton once branded it the "scariest place on Earth," more than 7.5 million tourists have visited the notorious demilitarized zone for one reason or another. There, they gazed upon a treacherous but evidently intriguing strip of land, guarded by estranged brothers with a chilling array of weapons directed at one another at all times.

The Korean Demilitarized Zone: The History and Legacy of the Border Between North Korea and South Korea examines one of the most dangerous locations on the planet.

Members Reviews:

Very informative book

I have always wanted to know what this dividing line was really like. Now I know! Thank you for this well-written, fast-paced book. Good history.

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Titre: Qu'est-ce que la "maladie de Calais" ? (Choses à savoir)

Auteur: Louis Guillaume

Narrateur: Louis Guillaume

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 1 min

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 12-06-17

Éditeur: Choses à Savoir CULTURE GENERALE

Genres: History, World

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Des podcasts quotidiens pour apprendre des choses et développer sa culture générale.

©2017 Louis Guillaume (P)2017 Louis Guillaume

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Titre: Pourquoi sert-on parfois le thé de très haut ? (Choses à savoir)

Auteur: Louis Guillaume

Narrateur: Louis Guillaume

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 1 min

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 12-01-17

Éditeur: Choses à Savoir CULTURE GENERALE

Genres: History, World

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Des podcasts quotidiens pour apprendre des choses et développer sa culture générale.

©2017 Louis Guillaume (P)2017 Louis Guillaume

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Titre: Pourquoi y-a-t-il un divan chez les psys ? (Choses à savoir)

Auteur: Louis Guillaume

Narrateur: Louis Guillaume

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 1 min

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 11-30-17

Éditeur: Choses à Savoir CULTURE GENERALE

Genres: History, World

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Des podcasts quotidiens pour apprendre des choses et développer sa culture générale.

©2017 Louis Guillaume (P)2017 Louis Guillaume

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Titre: Histoire populaire de la Révolution française

Auteur: Charles Leconte de Lisle

Narrateur: Yannick Lopez

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 1 hr and 16 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 11-30-17

Éditeur: FV Éditions

Genres: History, World

Résumé de l'éditeur:

"La Révolution française a été la revendication des droits de l'humanité outragée ; elle a été le combat terrible et légitime de la justice contre l'iniquité. Nous entreprenons de retracer ici rapidement, mais sans rien omettre d'essentiel, les faits qui se sont produits depuis l'avènement de Louis XVI jusqu'au coup d'État du 18 brumaire."

Se lisant comme un roman, cet ouvrage, aussi bref que fascinant, permet de mieux saisir la chronologie de ces évènements qui ont marqué l'histoire de la France et de l'Occident tout entier.

© domaine public (P)2017 FV Éditions

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Title: Stalin: The Murderous Career of the Red Tsar

Author: Nigel Cawthorne

Narrator: Richard Trinder

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-17

Publisher: Arcturus Digital Limited

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

"Death is the solution to all problems. No man no problem." (Joseph Stalin)

Worshipped by the Russians as a great leader, Stalin was one of modern history's greatest tyrants, rivalling Hitler, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot. But he probably had more blood on his hands than any of them.

Born Josef Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia in 1879, Stalin studied to be a priest while secretly reading the works of Karl Marx. Politics soon became his religion and, under his ruthless rule, up to 60 million people perished. Peasants who resisted Stalin's policy of collectivisation were denounced as Kulaks, arrested and shot, exiled or worked to death in his ever-expanding network of concentration camps, the Gulag. Nobody was safe, not even his friends, his family or his political allies. This is the story of a man who never let up for a second in his pursuit of absolute power.

Members Reviews:

Well written biography of one of the twentieth century's worst monsters.

This biography of Joseph Stalin, is short and well written. It shows that he was a horrible blood thirsty tyrant who would do anything to get and hold power.

So badly written Stalin's Daughter and son are servants in a photo.

Nothing really new here when it comes to information about the despot. The name almost copies Stalin:Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore which is a much better book.

It is organized in a slpadash manor. Like getting a bunch of interns to write diffent sections with no effort to create cohesion.

Little bits of information about certain participants is strewn between chapters. Sometimes these are rexplained in a later chapter which I find strange and annoying. Some of the pictures are severely mislabeled like the one where the quote is "The dacha's servants share a joke behind Lazar Kaganovich....". The one servant is immediately recognizable as Vasily Stalin which is not a servant and the female is his daughter Svetlana. Talk about lazy slap together from known sources work.

Avoid this book there are so many well written/researched books out there that are better and more interesting. If I could give it less than one star I would.

Try these booksfor some real insight:

Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

Fantastic read

Categories Stalin is a very good biography that is a fast narrative past. I gave it 4 stars due to the disjointed biographical summary of various principal characters.

Great read

Well written and informative.

A glimpse into the mind of a beast and the formation of an evil empire, currently being refashioned by a modern day dictator

Worth Reading

This is my first read on Stalin, but it was well worth it. Revealing of how Stalin made Hitler look like a total amateur in the world of dictators. Scary part is that the totalitarian state exists now and probably always will with the help of the "useless majority."

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Titre: Pourquoi le jaune est la couleur de l'infidélité ? (Choses à savoir)

Auteur: Louis Guillaume

Narrateur: Louis Guillaume

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 1 min

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 11-27-17

Éditeur: Choses à Savoir CULTURE GENERALE

Genres: History, World

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Des podcasts quotidiens pour apprendre des choses et développer sa culture générale.

©2017 Louis Guillaume (P)2017 Louis Guillaume