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Título: Paul Revere

Subtitular: El legendario protagonista de 'Paseo de medianoche' [Paul Revere: The Legendary Protagonist of the 'Midnight Ride']

Autor: Online Studio Productions

Narrador: uncredited

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 31 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 01-22-18

Editor: Online Studio Productions

Categorías: History, American

Resumen del editor:

En realidad esta debería ser la historia de uno de los más bellos poemas épicos de la historia de la independencia norteamericana, basada parcialmente en un hecho real: la cabalgata llevada a cabo la noche del 18 de abril de 1775 por el patriota Paul Revere...aquella su célebre frase: ¡Vienen los Ingleses!...nunca fue pronunciada a voz en cuello, aunque sí en el papel por el poeta romántico Henry W. Longfellow.

Hijo de un inmigrante francés y criado en un modesto hogar americano de mediados del siglo XVIII, desde muy joven comprendió a cabalidad el significado del esfuerzo propio y de tener sólidas convicciones y sentido de la moral, puesto que debió hacerse cargo de su familia y el negocio de su padre, que falleciera dejando sobre sus hombros una gran responsabilidad.

Fue por esos mismo valores que abrazó la causa libertaria de la nación que albergaba a su familia, sus sueños y esperanzas, sirviendo al ejército patriota y colaborando destacablemente en varias ocasiones hasta ver lograda la independencia de los Estados Unidos, no sin dejar tras su muerte un romántico legado que hoy forma parte del imaginario de su su patria.

Please note: This item is in Spanish.

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Title: R. E. Lee: Volume Three

Author: Douglas Southall Freeman

Narrator: Charlton Griffin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-22-18

Publisher: Audio Connoisseur

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Volume three opens in May 1863 as Lee assessed his situation after the great Confederate victory at Chancellorsville and the loss of General Jackson. Lee quickly reorganized his army and headed north, hoping to inflict a war-ending defeat on the Union. But absent Jackson, his army was not the same.

At Gettysburg, after three days of horrific fighting climaxed by Pickett's disastrous charge, almost one-third of Lee's entire army was killed, wounded, or captured. Meade's losses were identical, but he had greater reserves. Retreating to Virginia, Lee spent the next nine months bolstering his army with ever dwindling provisions. As the winter of 1863-64 came to an end, Lee prepared his troops for renewed action. But due to attrition, he had lost the initiative and could fight only a defensive war against an overwhelming, implacable foe: U. S. Grant.

But Grant soon realized the valiant Army of Northern Virginia was like no army he had ever faced. With veteran troops numbering fewer than half those of Grant, Lee grimly managed to grind the Union army to a halt in front of Richmond. But for how long?

Listeners are urged to follow battles using the maps Freeman himself drew, which are included in the accompanying downloadable PDF document.

Critic Reviews:

"Lee complete for all time." (The New York Times)

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

As expected.

Good service and Product

Books in good shape. Were bought as gifts for my son. A good start for his collection. Research is required

Five Stars

great history

Lee

Douglas Southall Freeman's Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Robert E. Lee is THE definitive account of the only man ever offered command of two opposing armies. Written long before political correctness became imperative, it provides a detailed account of his life and a frank assessment of both his successes and failures. In four volumes he covers every facet of the life of a man whose impact is still felt to this day.

Volume I covers Lee's upbringing and the impact of his Father, Revolutionary War hero "Light-Horse" Harry Lee who enjoyed the complete confidence of George Washington. It also describes his education at West Point and his service in the Mexican War that caught the attention of General Winfield Scott and his later service in the Corp of Engineers in the U.S. Army. It concludes with his declination of Scott's offer of Command of the Union Army.

Volume II recounts his early victories that led to the relief of Union General George McClellan who he would later call the most capable Union general he faced. His most overwhelming victory was at Fredericksburg where he said, "It is well war is so terrible, else we would grow too fond of it!" It also discusses the death, by fratricide, of "Stonewall" Jackson at Chancellorsville where he said, "Jackson has lost his left arm. I have lost my right!"

Volume III: Knowing time and resources favored the north, Lee sought a stunning victory on Union soil to bolster the peace movement in the north and elect a U.S. President disposed to ending the war on terms favorable to the south. Gettysburg Pennsylvania was the place! Freeman attributes the loss there largely to Longstreet's half-hearted support. The initiative then passed to the north which they never relinquished.

Volume IV describes the unrelenting pressure applied by Grant and his ally, starvation.

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Title: Liver-Eating Johnson

Subtitle: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Mountain Man

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Dan Gallagher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-19-18

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

To possess and develop western North America became a high priority for the United States government even before its Constitution had been complete. For President Thomas Jefferson, the vast terrain of plains, mountains, and extensive coastlines offered both long-term prosperity and protection from competing international powers.

Railroads were still some decades off, and passable roads were all but nonexistent. From its first interactions with numerous Indian cultures, the government understood that the western portion of the continent was already "owned" by a variety of indigenous tribes, despite their alternate concept of ownership. To gain possession of the coasts and the interior meant there would be new languages to be learned, hundreds of treaties to be struck, and wars to be fought over several regions. No familiar institutions of power were suitable for creating a foothold in the continent's interior, especially in the Rocky Mountain region. The US Army eventually made inroads to the Great Plains and beyond, but the first true explorers of the far wests interior arose from within a relatively small culture embodied by the American mountain man.

By the golden age of the mountain man in the mid-19th-century, there were perhaps only 3,000 living in the West. Their origins were disparate, although they included many Anglo-Americans. A good number hailed from wilderness regions of Kentucky and Virginia and throughout the newly purchased Louisiana Territory, which occupied the entire central section of the continent. French Canadians traveled from the north to work in the fur trade, while Creole-Europeans represented approximately 15% of the men known to be living the isolated mountain life.

Although the most enduring accomplishments belonged to the mountain men who had discovered, charted, and helped build the great passes through the Rockies to the west, others have retained public fascination for simply being colorful and elusive historical personalities. Such was the case of a legend who came to be known by the singularly unappetizing moniker of Liver-Eating Johnson. One of the mountain men who was present from the peak of mountain culture to its twilight, his literal accomplishments are few and of limited scope in the sense of exploration; however, he is intimately associated with a dangerous life of intrigue, revenge, and physical horrors unspeakable in polite society. While his colleagues took steps to tame the American wilderness, he became a symbol of its savagery. Johnsons protracted war of vengeance speaks of a constant interaction with the Crow culture of the northwest and the territories of Wyoming and Montana in particular.

Liver-Eating Johnson: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Mountain Man looks at the life and legends of one of the Wests most famous men.

Members Reviews:

LEARNING ABOUT A LEGEND

You probably know Liver Eating Johnson better by the name of his movie, Jeremiah Johnson.

This is the story, maybe factual, maybe not, of a mountain man. When he can home to a dead wife and.child, he took revenge in his own hands and stomach.

If the legend can be believed.

X. Beidler

Would have been 5 stars except that Henry Plummer was in Virginia City,Montana. Two miles from Nevada City,Montana not Nevada.

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Title: King Philip's War

Author: IntroBooks

Narrator: Andrea Giordani

Format: Unabridged

Length: 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-08-18

Publisher: IntroBooks

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

One of the most significant wars in the history of the British American colonies is King Philip's War, which is also known as the Great Narragansett War. Others may also call it Metacomets War, First Indian War, Metacoms War, or the Metacoms Rebellion.

The 14-month long war brought much destruction and loss of lives. The natives furiously attacked the English settlements in this period and destroyed several of them. King Philips War saw the highest loss of lives in terms of war in the history of America. As many as 40% of natives lost their lives or fled the nation in fear of death. The natives who survived the war were taken prisoners and sold as slaves. There were many native villages also that were destroyed, and New Englands native population was now reduced to a few handful natives scattered throughout the region.

The war was won by the Puritan English who then saw this victory as a sign to expand their settlements. Whatever independence the natives had was lost because of the war. The political system of the natives was now controlled by the colonies, and the natives were now slaves in the region. The war left a deep and stretched impact on the natives who had to suffer for long.

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Title: The Civil Rights Movement

Subtitle: Historic Moments in Speech

Author: The Speech Resource Company - editor

Narrator: Robert Wikstrom

Format: Original Recording

Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-05-18

Publisher: The Speech Resource Company, Inc.

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Following the Supreme Court ruling in 1954 striking down the "separate but equal" doctrine, a decade and a half of civil turbulence existed. Civil rights activists used nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to bring about change. This product tells a part of that historic time with speeches from many of those attempting to achieve racial equality.

Produced by the Speech Resource Company and fully narrated by Robert Wikstrom

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Titolo: La nascita degli Stati Uniti (Storia d'Italia e d'Europa 53)

Autore: Maurizio Falghera

Narratore: Eugenio Farn

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 1 hr and 10 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 10-11-17

Editore: Il Narratore s.r.l.

Categoria: History, American

Riepilogo Editore:

Nel 1776 il Secondo Congresso Continentale delle 13 colonie inglesi del Nord America emana la Dichiarazione d'Indipendenza, che spiega e giustifica davanti al mondo intero la condotta ribelle degli Americani contro la madrepatria inglese. Inizia così la storia degli Stati Uniti d'America, l'avventura cioè di quella che sarà la prima potenza mondiale fino ai giorni nostri.

L'audiolibro spiega le vicende delle colonie nel Settecento, la loro struttura sociale ed economica, le loro diversità e culturali e politiche, i rapporti con le forme di schiavitù, con gli indiani sottomessi, e le ragioni del distacco dalla madrepatria, non senza riferimenti ai giudizi e alle opinioni degli intellettuali più importanti del periodo, come Benjamin Franklin e Thomas Jefferson.

Questo volume è realizzato a cura di Maurizio Falghera, con riferimento alle opere degli storici Rosanna Legatti, Indro Montanelli, Mario Cervi, Arnaldo Testi.

©2017 il Narratore S.r.l. (P)2017 il Narratore S.r.l.

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Title: Analysis of David Hackett Fischer's Washington's Crossing

Subtitle: By Milkyway

Author: Milkyway Media

Narrator: Dwight Equitz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-17

Publisher: Milkyway Media

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Note: This is an analysis of Washington's Crossing and not the original book.

Washington's Crossing (2004) by David Hackett Fischer is a narrative history of the events that led to George Washington's crossing of the Delaware on Christmas night in 1776. This bold move, leading to a victory for the Continental Army, was a pivotal moment in the American Revolution....

Purchase this in-depth analysis to learn more.

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Title: Pocahontas

Author: Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye, Shauna Zurbrugg

Narrator: Melissa Manchester

Format: Abridged

Length: 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-17

Publisher: Phoenix Books

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The story of Pocahontas, the young daughter of Chief Powhatan, is one that has captured the imagination of children and adults for over 400 years. Responsible for saving the life of the adventurous Captain John Smith, Pocahontas also saved Jamestown colonists from starvation and saved them from being massacred by her father's warriors. To this day, no one really knows what motivated the unselfish deeds of Pocahontas. What we do know is that without her, American history would not be same.

Features narration by Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter, and actress, Melissa Manchester.

Members Reviews:

Melissa Manchester -- this Pocahantas is great!

Real history, drama, music...No wonder my kids love to play this tape again and again.

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Title: Mordecai Lincoln - Book 2 - Santa Anna's Leg

Author: Richard F Dee

Narrator: Wayne Hughes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-17

Publisher: Richard F Dee

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

1840s, action-packed adventure, with a goodly dollop of humor and romance. Fact: In the spring of 1840, a hodge-podge "army" of not very scrupulous mountain men, Mexican bandidos, and 200 Ute Indian warriors, swept down on Mexico's, Alta California. In the vicinity of El Pueblo de Los Angeles, these "brigands" gathered up and drove away, some 3 to 5,000 prime-quality horses and mules! Little more is recorded of this event, and all sources vary wildly concerning the specifics. The following is the frolicsome fleshed-out fable of that raid, and of the unforeseen repercussions it precipitated for the destinies of three nations - Mexico, the USA, and Great Britain. The real-life players include: crusty, eccentric, Old Bill Williams, and fellow conspirator, Tom (Peg-leg) Smith, the mountain men who conceived and organized the raid, Ute Chief Walkara, who's braves did most of the dirty-work, plus "that stellar scoundrel" Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, President of Mexico, who had come north to quash the fires of California rebellion, using his usual methods of blunt force, summary trial, and instant execution. Our three "heroes" - Parson Mordecai Lincoln, mountain man Ben Hammond, and the ex-slave, Euripides - are sucked into these momentous events by merest chance. Along the way they encounter various intriguing characters in one too-close-to-call "mishap" after another. Vengeful Navajos and Comancheros, mission padres with an ax to grind, a seditious Don and his fiery daughter, American, British, and Mexican warships on hair trigger, and Mordecai's life-long nemeses - those notorious Maddox brothers - reborn! All contrive to keep "things" really popping.

Members Reviews:

Historically detailed.

My heart is just pounding. It just gets more awesome. Would be a great movie.

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Title: Alaskan People

Subtitle: Stories of Yesteryear and Today

Author: Edward M. May

Narrator: Todd Eflin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-17

Publisher: Insight Passage Productions

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Alaska officially became the 49th state in 1959; before that, it was a territory, a wild place, the Last Frontier, and the men and women who lived there prior to statehood are the main characters of Alaskan People. Their unique stories and adventures are a window into a world of everyday experiences seldom told until now. If you are curious about life in the Last Frontier, this is the book for you. These stories are transcribed from interviews with 27 men and woman from all walks of life, native and non-native, that were published in the state's largest newspaper, the Anchorage Daily News. Alaskan People is the kind of book you have always been looking for. It's like sitting at the kitchen table, having a cup of coffee or tea, with the men and women of Alaska personally telling you their stories. It's about genuine lives, true stories, and actual people, sharing with you how life was and is in the 49th state.

Members Reviews:

Fantasic True Stories by Genuine Alaskans

This is a great book! Once I started reading I could hardly put it down. Stories about real Alaskans with true insight into living and working in the Last Frontier. I highly recommend this book to all ages. Educational as well as intriguing. This book is a great read and it also makes wonderful gifts for your friends. I enjoyed it so much I ordered several copies for friends.

The real history of real people

Alaskan People is a really fun read. Alaska has often been referred to as the last frontier in America. This book gives you a peek into the lives of the hardy people that were able to tame (as much as Alaska CAN be tamed!) this great state.

It's a great book for my kids, too. I like them hearing stories of strength and courage, of individualism and a never-give-up attitude. For people who want to experience life through the stories of those who lived it, this is a great book.

Brilliant, Globally Entertaining and Educational.

Well done! Well written! Beautiful photos and enjoyable for both my 5 and 8-year-old children as well as myself. If you are looking for a book the family can read without any fear of inappropriateness that is both educational and entertaining - look no further. We all, mom, dad, and kids thoroughly enjoyed the book and the photos tell a story all on their own.