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Title: Korstog

Author: Robyn Young

Narrator: Esben Hansen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-15

Publisher: AV Forlaget

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Acre 1274. Efter mange rs blodig krig er det lykkedes det hemmelige broderskab at opn vbenhvile mellem kristne og muslimer i Det Hellige Land. Men den unge tempelridder Will Campbell frygter, at de er blevet forrdt.

Den engelske konge forbereder et nyt korstog, og i selve Acre lurer en endnu strre fare. En skare vesterlandske handelsmnd, som har tjent gode penge p vben og slaver, udtnker en plan, som skal f hadet blandt stens muslimer til at blusse op p ny. Og i Egypten konspirerer sultan Baybars sn mod sin egen far for at f ham til at angribe de kristne og uddrive dem fra Det Hellige Land en gang for alle.

Tempelridderne er trngt fra alle sider, og Will Campbell - der selv er splittet mellem sin ed til tempelridderne, sin rolle i det hemmelige broderskab og sin pligt over for Elwen, kvinden han elsker, men aldrig vil kunne gifte sig med - sendes ud p en hemmelig mission.

©2011 People's Press / Robyn Young (P)2014 AV Forlaget

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Title: The Spanish Patriot

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Nicky Penttila

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-15

Publisher: Bee Audio

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Some fly to war. Some flee it. No one is safe.

When the British army is sent into Spain to help expel Napoleon's invaders, nothing goes as expected. Not for London newsman Sam Kerr, hunting a story that will win him the editor's chair, who instead nets one that could wreck his career.

Not for the Wakefield family, loyalist refugees from America seeking peace among people of their faith, who find war has followed them even here.

And certainly not for the British troops, whose mission of support turns into a fight for all their lives.

Members Reviews:

Sweeping Multinational War Saga!

Bring your A-game to reading The Spanish Patriot.

Let me explain. I had had a rough go the day I started The Spanish Patriot the first time. So I waited until the next day and started over.

The Spanish Patriot is as richly worded and told as any book I've read about war. And it has the added benefit of being a historical novel, set in 1808. Most of the books I've read with war as a backdrop involve more advanced weaponry.

War in any age brings out the best and the worst in people. And the best and worst was happening all over Spain during this time as well. British soldiers and horses languished on ships in a harbor because the Spanish wanted them there as a backup, but wanted the action and the glory for themselves. Once the soldiers and cavalry came off the ships they marched back and forth across Spain seeing little or no action or supplies. Those supplies were in warehouses in Corunna due to what amounts to criminal mishandling by civilian suppliers (bribes et al). So many people and animals died because of all the snafu's - intentional or not.

Back in 1808, I would not have been able to post a review to my blog nearly instantaneously. I would mail off a story via the post, which would travel by ship back to my newspaper in another country over several days to a week. But blatant misinformation is a problem in every war, I'm sure. Troop numbers and locations were misquoted - it's a wonder anyone got anything done, military or not.

I did enjoy the character of Louisa ('Lou' for short). A woman, fighting for her desire to be a reporter, in an age where the best most women could hope for her future was to marry 'well'. She proposed and carried out actions that could put herself and others in danger, in order to get out the truth about the British mismanagement of cash and goods and how it crippled their army in and around Corunna.

The other major female character, Dona Sofia, was delightful as well. And old-school Spanish mama, she ruled the roost as much as her son Don Vitor Zancudo, Governor of Corunna. Let me tell you, don't nobody mess with Mama Sofia. As the locals were preparing the abandon the town to the advancing French army, she went back and chased off a band of British vandalizing her house.

If you enjoy sweeping stories set on an international stage, with complex and engaging characters, The Spanish Patriot is for you.

(Disclosure: I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.)

Enjoyable historical fiction

The Spanish Patriot is a very enjoyable work of historical fiction.

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Title: Til deres dages ende (Helvig trilogi 3)

Author: Winni stergaard

Narrator: Jette Mechlenburg

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-15

Publisher: AV Forlaget

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Refs hedder landsbyen i Thy, hvor Helvig Pedersdatters liv udspiller sig. Helvig er en historisk person, der levede i rene 1816 til 1898, og i Winni stergaards tre romaner om hende flger lseren ikke blot kvinden, s at sige fra undfangelse til begravelse, men fr samtidig et storslet og realistisk billede af Danmark i det nittende rhundrede. Intet i Winni stergaards romaner er grebet ud af luften. Alt er hentet ud af arkiverne og kirkebgerne. I "Til deres dages ende" udfolder forfatteren, hvad der gemmer sig p indersiden af en helt almindelig landarbejderkvindes liv, fra hun bliver gift i 1852, til hun dr i 1898.

Billedet af Helvig Pedersdatter, af landsbyen, af nden, fattigdommen, krligheden og de uendeligt mange sygdomme og ddsfald viser et liv i udvikling og forandring. En stillestende almuekultur, der vendes p hovedet med jernbanetrafik, strigske besttelsesstyrker og arbejde, der ikke lngere er knyttet til jorden.

Det er underklassens og det folkelige Danmark, Winni stergaard fremkalder i sine tre romaner om almuekvinden Helvig Pedersdatter.

©2012 Hovedland / Winni stergaard (P)2014 AV Forlaget

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Title: Krigerne (Sagaen om familien Hauteville 2)

Author: Jack Ludlow

Narrator: Kjeld Hegh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-15

Publisher: AV Forlaget

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Sagaen om de ambitise Hautville-brdre og deres rolle i det komplekse politiske spil i 7700-tallets Europa fortstte... Krigerne er anden lydbog i serien.

Italien, det 11. rhundrede. Det byzantinske rige kontrollerer det meste af Europa med hrd hnd, men den indfdte befolkning er ved at blive urolige. Arduin af Fassano har lombarderne og normannerne under sin kommando - de er lejesoldater for den unge og driftige byzantinske general, Michael Doukeianos. Arduin mener det er p tide at gre oprr mod det stlige kejserrige, og sammen med sine lombardiske brdre tage det frodige Apulien tilbage. En vigtig by i dette oprr er fstningen Melfi. General Doukeianos udpeger Arduin til at beskytte byen, uvidende om hans forestende forrderi. Til at bevogte denne bastion hyrer Arduin de mest frygtede af alle de vestlige soldater: Normannerne.

Under ledelse af Rainulf Drengot og hans hjre hnd William de Hauteville, den ldste af de kampdygtige Hauteville brdre, er disse mnd Arduins bedste hb om at besejre det mgtige byzantinske rig.

©2013 Forlaget Punktum / Jack Ludlow (P)2014 AV Forlaget

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Title: Ud og hjem

Subtitle: Helvigs rejser (Helvig trilogi 2)

Author: Winni stergaard

Narrator: Jette Mechlenburg

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-15

Publisher: AV Forlaget

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

1840'erne var de store forandringers tid. En frigrelsens tid. At en tjenestepige "kom galt af sted" var mere reglen end undtagelsen. Ogs i Thy. Som moderen og bedstemoderen gentager Helvig mnstret. Efter en lidenskabelig sommer fder Helvig et barn, uden at der flger en gtemand med.Den anden bog om Helvig Pedersdatter foregr i tidsrummet 1838 til 1852. Gennem tolv r har den unge tjenestepige pladser p to godser og en prstegrd. Desuden flger hun i det frste af krigsrene 1848-50 sit herskab til apoteket i Thisted og videre til en stor grd i omegnen.

Bogen lukker op for en broget skare af personer. Og ligesom i den frste roman om Helvig har forfatteren researchet bogens personer frem af arkiverne. Og gjort dem spillevende: dem fra Helvigs fdeegn, en flimrende flok af husjomfruer og tjenestepiger, grdmandsfolk, vrighed, prster og skolelrere. Som i dag styredes det lille land med de forunderlige regionale forskelle med hrd hnd fra Kbenhavn. Det frte til krig i hertugdmmerne 1848-50. Det kunne mrkes, ogs i Thy, hvor omtrent hver grd mtte stille med en sn "indkaldt til krigstjeneste". Samtidig faldt enevlden, og demokratiet blev indfrt. Ogs i Thy.

Winni stergaards roman om Helvigs rejser er en dokumentarisk roman. Men foruden at skildre mennesker og deres sociale "netvrk" formidler den med gribende beherskelse deres flelser og drmme.

©2008 Hovedland / Winni stergaard (P)2014 AV Forlaget

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Title: Forr p Vinaes

Author: Morten Korch

Narrator: Gerda Andersen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-12-16

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Den gamle viking Torkel, lever i sin hvdingegrd Vinaes med sin kone, Gunvor, den stolte datter af Vile Jarl, og deres to dtre, blide Randolin og skjoldmen se. Hos sig har han ogs den foraeldrelse Rolf, som drmmer om at komme p vikingefaerd til England med Danmarks konge, Svend Tveskaeg. Hvad, de ikke ved, er, at Uffe Jarl, der blev landsforvist af Svend, har planer om at haevne sig p kong Sven ved at draebe Torkel og bortfre hans dtre. Rolf, hvis fader i virkeligheden er Bue Jarl, en svensk vikingehvding, m flygte med de to unge kvinder, men vejen til kongens borg er lang og farefuld, og deres fjender er talrige.

Morten Korch (f. 1876 - d. 1954), Danmarks mest folkekaere forfatter, begyndte sit virke i 1898 med novellesamlingen "Humoresker - Fyensk Humr", der indeholdt en raekke skitser og fortaellinger, alle p klingende fynsk. Det var startskuddet til et forfatterskab, der strakte sig over et halvt rhundrede, og som har vaeret elsket af generationer af laesere. Med romaner som "Flintesnnerne", "Der braender en ild" og "De rde heste" blev Morten Korch folkeeje, og filmatiseringerne af hans mest populaere romaner med skuespillere som Poul Reichhardt, Tove Maës, Ebbe Langberg og Ib Mossin er i dag en del af den danske filmskat.

©2016 Lindhardt og Ringhof (P)2016 Lindhardt og Ringhof

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Title: Fever at Dawn

Author: Peter Gardos

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-16

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The number-one European best seller.

In an overcrowded hospital ward in the sweltering summer of July 1945, Miklos is propped up against a pillow. He is writing a letter of hope.

It doesn't matter that Miklos is bruised and battered, that his skin shares the same colour as a greying pile of ash or that the doctor told him, 'You have six months to live'. Because now, for the first time since the war, he feels truly alive. Miklos is thinking of things far more important than his health. He is thinking that he would like to find a wife....

Critic Reviews:

"Dramatic, compassionate and deeply moving." (Jennifer Clement, author of award-winning novel Prayers for the Stolen)

"A magnificent novel, tonally flawless, its humour defiant in the face of vast tragedy." (Joan London, author of Gilgamesh, The Good Parents, and The Golden Age)

Members Reviews:

A Great Story, beautifully told

Peter Gardos' book about his father's experience after having survived the concentration after WWII has totally charmed and held me in interest from beginning to end of the book. His communication of his father's most charming way of falling in love with his future wife (the writer's mother) held my interest throughout the book. I believe Peter Gardos is in the process of finishing the film he has made of this enchanting story. I wish him and the film the success it deserves.

I couldn't put this book down

This touching book is very well written and is full of human interest. It shows how love can grow and flourish even amidst horrific circumstances. I could not put this book down.

A marvelous book

Loved the intimacy, the building of the relationship, the courage - the book truly is an inspiration and a nurture for the soul

Lovely and suspenseful

A good story and then it is true, written from the author's parents letters after wwII....

Great condition.

Arrived as promised. Great condition.

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Titel: Das Blut der Rebellin (Geraldine 2)

Autor:: Sabrina Qunaj

Erzähler: Tanja Geke

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 23 hrs and 29 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-21-15

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Sie ist einem Normannen versprochen, doch ihr Herz gehört der walisischen Rebellion...

Wales im 12. Jahrhundert: Während in England ein Bürgerkrieg tobt, rebellieren die Waliser unermüdlich gegen die neuen Machthaber. Um die Position der Normannen zu stärken, soll die junge Isabel, Tochter des mächtigen Geraldine-Geschlechts, den grausamen Sheriff von Pembroke heiraten. Doch am Vorabend der Hochzeit greifen die Rebellen an. Isabel kann fliehen und wird bald selbst zur Freiheitskämpferin. Der Sheriff hat seine Braut allerdings nicht vergessen und beauftragt den walisischen Prinzen Ralph le Walleys, sie zurückzuholen. Als die beiden sich ineinander verlieben, stehen sie plötzlich im Zentrum eines Krieges, in dem sie sich für eine Seite entscheiden müssen.

©2015 / 2015 Sabrina Qunaj / Goldmann Verlag, München (P)2015 der Hörverlag

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Title: Skrdderen: En historie om 1800-tallet

Author: Lisbeth Smedegaard Andersen

Narrator: Malene Clante

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-07-15

Publisher: AV Forlaget

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

I 1823 kommer en dreng til verden i en skrdderfamilie i Haderslev. Ulrik Ipsen har derfor taget det meste af et rhundrede med, da han sent i livet skriver en lille erindringsbog. Denne erindringsbog bliver mere end 100 r senere afst for hans oldebarns bog "Skrdderen - en historie om 1800-tallet".

Som barn af sin tid oplres Ulrik Ipsen i faderens hndvrk og etablerer sig som skrdder. Lretiden udsts i hjembyen, hvor de slesvigske krige er under opsejling. Siden mder han et Europa under forvandling, da han drager p valsen. Og endelig bner verden sig for ham, da han slr sig ned som skrddermester i Kbenhavn og bliver en del af borgerskabet. Her forenes hndvrk og kunst, teologiske slagsml og intellektuelle fejder, hverdagsliv og dramatiske jeblikke.

"Skrdderen" giver med afst i Ulrik Ipsens liv og skbne et billede af et rhundrede, hvor det Danmark, vi kender i dag, tog sin begyndelse.

©2011 Kristeligt Dagblads Forlag / Lisbeth Smedegaard Andersen (P)2014 AV Forlaget

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Title: Skygge og lys (Nicolai Hoffner 2)

Author: Jonathan Rabb

Narrator: Torben Sekov

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-25-15

Publisher: AV Forlaget

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Vicekriminalinspektr Nicolai Hoffner krer mod de bermte Ufa-filmstudier. En filmproducer er fundet dd i et badekar, og det ligner umiddelbart selvmord. Men hvorfor skulle han tage sit eget liv? Nederlaget fra 1. Verdenskrig svier stadig som en lussing p kinden, men i filmindustrien spirer optimismen. Fritz Lang producerer sine fnomenale film, Peter Lorre manifesterer sit skuespiltalent. Og noget helt nyt er p vej. Noget, der vil give genlyd i hele verden.

Med hjlp fra bde Fritz Lang og lederen af Berlins strste forbrydersyndikat finder Hoffner hurtig ud af, at der ikke kun er tale om selvmord. Og sagen rkker langt dybere end filmindustrien. Hoffner bevger sig ind i en verden af sex- og narkohandel, hvor ogs Hitlers brunskjorter bliver en voksende trussel...

©2010 Cicero / Jonathan Rabb (P)2014 AV Forlaget

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