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Title: Lionheart

Author: Stewart Binns

Narrator: Richard Burnip

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-17

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

King Henry II reigns over a vast empire, but he is aging, and his ambitious sons are restless. Henrys third son, Richard of Aquitaine, is developing a fearsome reputation as a ruthless warrior, and he earns the name Richard Lionheart for his bravery and brutality on the battlefield.

After the deaths of his brothers, Richards impatience to take the throne leads him to form an alliance with France. And so Richard begins his bloody quest to return the Holy Land to Christian rule.

Critic Reviews:

"A fascinating mix of fact, legend and fiction...this is storytelling at its best." (Daily Mail)

Members Reviews:

Exhilarating

Everything historical fiction should. Adventure excitement romance tradgedy and most of all Real history !!!!!

Five Stars

if you want to understand the crusade and why they were important A Must Read

Three Stars

Best of the 4 books

Five Stars

great read

One of the best versions of the LIonheart's life out there!

Stewart Binns has written an engrossing biographical novel of the life of King Richard I, known as the Lionheart, the son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Richard was a fascinating historical character, one of legendary acclaim. At the tender age of 16, Richard successfully led his first army to a victorious win against rebels who thwarted his father. History describes him as a valiant, courageous, competent military leader. Wise, gallant, and shrewd, he was fair, generous, but could also be ruthless and unwavering.

Stewart Binns has done an exemplary job of bringing to life this fascinating man with all his faults, endearing qualities, and struggles. Of all the books written on Richard the Lionheart, this novel was particularly compelling because the author has a talent for writing historical facts without drowning the reader in an over abundance of mundane political and historical detail. Truly, the story was easy to follow, with each character being adequately introduced and easily remembered. Poignant interactions, intense battle scenes, and rich storytelling all worked together to splendidly keep me enthralled to the end. Brilliant descriptions made me feel as if I could reach out and touch Richard the duke, the knight, the warrior. This is truly one of the best books of Richard the Lionheart I have ever read. A men's adventure tale definitely worth reading.

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Title: Midnight in Berlin

Author: James MacManus

Narrator: Peter Noble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-16

Publisher: Lamplight Audio

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Berlin, 1938: Newly appointed military attaché Noel Macrae and his extrovert wife, Primrose, arrive at the British embassy. Prime Minister Chamberlain is intent on placating Nazi Germany, but Macrae is less so.

Gathering vital intelligence, Macrae is drawn to Kitty Schmidt's Salon - a Nazi bordello - and its enigmatic Jewish hostess, Sara Sternschein, who is a treasure trove of knowledge about the Nazi hierarchy in a city of lies, spies and secrets. Does she hold the key to thwarting Hitler?

Members Reviews:

listen of the year

Great story; great narrator not a lot else needs to be said in twenty words...

Sex, Entrapment and Escape

This is a great book like all fiction, there are many elements of historical reality .

The battle at the British Embassy in Berlin between diplomats who could see what was coming in late 1938 and early 1939 and those who like the government they represent chose to ignore the evidence in a desperate effort to avoid war with the German's and a replay of the carnage of the 1914-1918 campaign.

In Midnight in Berlin, the new military attache, Noel McRae comes across a Gestapo run house of pleasure during an outing for intelligence. A couple of days a few days he sees one of the women from the salon, Sara a Jew who is being held hostage as a sex slave to ensure the compliance of her twin brother and mother who are captives at the mercy of the Nazi regime.

Although the book is a work of fiction. Like most good works there are many facts that are true, indeed many of the characters portrayed in the book including the ambassador, Sir Neville Henderson were actually in pod at at the time.

This audiobook is a compelling listen, with great narration it flows easily. I would recommend it

A brilliant fast paced listen

Absolutely loved this book, the narrator was perfect and there was nothing I did not like about it.

A interesting story which will have you gripped from the start, hindsight is a wonderful thing but despite what transpired it is hard to listen to the blinkered and idiotic reactions of the British government and some of their staff.

The main characters are complex, often hugely flawed and fighting to be heard in a world that doesn't want to listen. Highly recommend.

Brink of war masterpiece

This is a truly fantastic book. A gripping story wrapped around the events leading up to the second world war in Nazi Berlin. The characters are very well written. The Berlin of 1939 is so vivid with the writing. Really really worth a listen. Essential for anyone interested in this point in history. As an Englishman, a certain amount of shame also.

Top notch performance from Peter Noble. One of the best books I have downloaded in three years. Five stars.

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Title: The Mothers

Author: Rod Jones

Narrator: Di Adams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-16

Publisher: Wavesound Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In 1917, while the world is at war, Alma falls pregnant, and her daughter, Molly, is born in secret.

In 1952, Anna enters a Salvation Army home for unmarried mothers, determined to keep her baby.

In 1975, Cathy is living with David, determined not to get married, but when she falls pregnant a new chapter is added to this family story.

Interweaving the intimate lives of three generations of Australian women, this is a tale about secrets, motherhood, adoption and the untold stories that shape us.

Critic Reviews:

"Quietly moving.... If you like Colm Toíbín's work, I'm sure you will love this book." (Readings)

"Beautifully written and deeply poignant. One of the most satisfying Australian novels Ive read in years." (Alex Miller, Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author of The Ancestor Game)

Members Reviews:

Simply Brilliant

This novel is simple in the way that all the best things are simple AFTER they have been done or discovered. This author takes one into the minds and motivations of a group of complex and compelling characters.

Four Stars

Thoroughly enjoyable

The Mothers by Rod Jones

I liked the characters and the sense of place and historical events. David let the book down, not believable. Annie

Just Not A Lot Here

Rod Jones' The Mothers is set in Australia over the course of several generations. It begins with Alma, who gets pregnant young and rushes into marriage with a man she barely knows. By the time their second child is a toddler, the couple is estranged, and when her husband brings home his paramour, Alma flees. She has nowhere to go, but is taken in by a young man about her age and his mother, who he still lives with. The two eventually conceive a child of their own, but he doesn't want to marry her and cuts off his support of their daughter, Molly, abruptly during her youth. Broke and desperate, Alma sends Molly to live in an orphanage for a time, but eventually reclaims her...and her father makes a surprise reappearance in her life. Molly grows up and makes a good marriage of her own, but finds herself unable to get pregnant.

Meanwhile, Anna is a teenage mother sent a religious home for unwed mothers, where she is convinced to give up her baby son for adoption despite her desperate desire to keep him. That son is adopted by Molly and named David, and spoiled as Molly tries to work through her own complicated childhood legacy. David, in turn, grows up to get his girlfriend Caroline pregnant, and even though he stays with her, he doesn't exactly do right by her. When David's older and has established his family, he wants to meet his birth mother, and she has complicated feelings about a reunion.

This book is hard to write about because there's not a lot there. The themes he riffs on, of the difficult choices women have to make around motherhood and the way mothers raise their children playing out in how they deal with their own parenthood, aren't new, and he doesn't do anything special with them. It does strike me as strange that this book was written by a man...the emotional costs of motherhood seem like a topic much more germane to a female experience. Not that it's written poorly or with a hamhanded treatment of the subject...it's fine if completely unremarkable, for the most part, but it made me wonder about Jones' own feelings about his mother.

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Title: Nala's Story

Subtitle: Champion Standing, Book 0

Author: Mark Gardner

Narrator: Edoardo Camponeschi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-15-16

Publisher: Article94

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Nala and her sister live their lives as slaves in the Han Dynasty. A chance encounter at a bazaar leads Nala on a mission to keep her sister safe from evil, while learning that not everything is as it appears to be. Can she save her sister and herself before it is too late?

Members Reviews:

Romance and intrigue in the Han dynasty

***MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS***

Nala's Story is a romantic novella set in ancient China. Nala and her sister Hazina are slaves from Nubia who've found themselves traded to the Han dynasty, where they're purchased by the Magistrate aka the infamous Champion Standing, a man rumored in the marketplace to murder his concubines for sport.

Gardner draws on the classic One Thousand and One Arabian Nights -- with a twist. Every night Nala is summoned to Shui's chamber and given a chance to assassinate him. If she fails, she must tell him a story of her people in exchange for another chance to try and kill him and save the lives of herself and her sister.

I was a bit leery of the premise in the beginning since most romances where the female protagonist is a slave, or otherwise in the power of the male love interest, tend to be kind of creepy. I was happy to see Gardner delivered modern sensitivity in his handling of slavery and consent in the relationship between Nala and Shui.

I don't know enough about the practice of slavery in the Han dynasty to say how accurate the details regarding the slave trade in ancient China are, but Gardner does not romanticize slavery or excuse the institution in a historical context. Slavery is horrible for Nala -- so horrible that, were it not for her need to protect her sister, she would rather be dead.

He also avoids a physical relationship (attempted assassinations aside) between Nala and Shui while Nala is a slave. Yes, it's probably unrealistic in a historical setting, but if people can have stories with immortal elves and talking space squids, I think we can have a historical romance where the hero waits until the heroine is in a position to freely, enthusiastically consent before he gets his groove on. Good on Gardner.

Overall, the parallel with One Thousand and One Nights is a mixed success. For starters, Shui is clearly no madman, murdering women for entertainment or out of a deep-seated hatred. It's never well established in the story why Shui and his guards allow the women to grow more and more terrified, believing they're going to be assaulted and killed. Even if they were oblivious to the women's fear in the beginning, at the point where the women become hysterical and fight the guards who come to take them to Shui, it should be obvious something's up. It bothers me that the situation isn't addressed in some way because it seems like a sadism out of character for Shui.

Also, I was kind of disappointed the tales Nala tells to Shui on the nights she fails to kill him weren't more fully included, with only a line or two scattered in the dialogue.

Gardner's strength lies in the depth of his characters and their relationships. They're relatable and sympathetic people. Some of his best writing is in their dialogue, and their inner thoughts. Nala is scarred by years of slavery and abuse; she's conflicted over her instinct to trust Shui when all logic, evidence, and experience tell her he's a danger not just to her, but her sister. Her reflections on her relationship with her sister are complicated.

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Titel: Im Schatten des Adlers (Die Saga der Germanen 6)

Autor:: Jörg Kastner

Erzähler: Josef Vossenkuhl

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 5 hrs and 29 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-17-15

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Ist ein Sieg gegen die Römer in Germanien endlich in Sicht? Der Römer Germanicus zieht mit seinen Legionen gegen die Germanen und hält blutige Ernte unter den arglosen Marsern, die ihr heiliges Tamfana-Fest feiern. Der Cheruskerfürst Thorag muss Herzog Arminius aus den Händen ihrer Feinde befreien, erst dann können die beiden Blutsbrüder ihre Krieger zum Kampf gegen die Römer sammeln. Doch wechselndes Schlachtenglück rückt einen Sieg gegen die Römer in weite Ferne. Germanicus hat nicht nur eine hochgerüstete Armee unter seinem Befehl, ihm sind auch wertvolle Gefangene in die Hände gefallen: Thusnelda und Auja, die Frauen von Arminius und Thorag sowie Thorags kleiner Sohn Ragnar... Werden die Römer in Germanien immer siegen?

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©2013 Jörg Kastner (P)2015 Audible GmbH

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Titel: Ein Elefant für Karl den Großen

Autor:: Dirk Husemann

Erzähler: Peter Weiß

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 15 hrs and 49 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-10-15

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Wir schreiben das Jahr 802. Franken und Sarazenen kämpfen unerbittlich um die politische und religiöse Vormachtstellung. In dieser angespannten Lage schickt der Kalif von Bagdad seinem Widersacher Karl dem Großen ein gewaltiges Geschenk als Zeichen des Friedens: Einen Elefanten.

Der Jude Isaak und sein sächsischer Sklave Thankmar sollen das Tier unversehrt nach Aachen bringen. Eine heikle Mission, denn die Menschen, denen sie auf ihrem langen Weg durch das Frankenreich begegnen, halten den Elefanten für eine Ausgeburt der Hölle. Sein Tod aber würde die Großreiche der Franken und der Sarazenen in einen schrecklichen Krieg stürzen...

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©2015 Bastei Lübbe AG (P)2015 Audible GmbH

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Titel: Der Palast der Meere

Autor:: Rebecca Gablé

Erzähler: Detlef Bierstedt

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 15 hrs and 10 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-10-15

Herausgeber: Lübbe Audio

Bewertung: 5 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

London 1560: Als Spionin der Krone fällt Eleanor of Waringham im Konflikt zwischen der protestantischen Königin Elizabeth I. und der katholischen Schottin Mary Stewart eine gefährliche Aufgabe zu. Ihr 15-jähriger Bruder Isaac soll unterdessen das Erbe der Waringhams antreten. Aber Isaac flieht und schleicht sich als blinder Passagier auf ein Schiff. Sein Weg führt ihn auf die Insel Teneriffa, wo er von Kapitän und Freibeuter John Hawkins als Sklave an spanische Pflanzer verkauft wird. Erst nach zwei Jahren kommt Isaac wieder frei. Doch sein Weg führt noch lange nicht zurück nach England...

©2015 Bastei Lübbe (P)2015 Lübbe Audio

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

unglaublich

ein weiteres Meisterwerk von Rebecca gable hat mit die Arbeit zum leichten gemacht

ich kann dieses nur weiter empfehlen und werde direkt mit dem nächsten weitermachen

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Titel: Die Schwerter des Germanicus (Die Saga der Germanen 5)

Autor:: Jörg Kastner

Erzähler: Josef Vossenkuhl

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 8 hrs and 13 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-03-15

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Kategorien: Fiction, Historical

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Die Geschichte der Römer und Germanen geht weiter. Oberbefehlshaber Germanicus ist der Verzweiflung nahe: Intrigen und Meuterei untergraben den Zusammenhalt seiner Legionen. Doch auch auf der Gegenseite ist das Heer uneins: Zusammen mit seinem Cheruskerfreund Arminius versucht der germanische Gaufürst Thorag die zerrütteten Stämme im Widerstand gegen die Römer zu vereinen.

Der Höhepunkt der Intrigen ist erreicht als Thorag auf der Hochzeit von Arminius und Thusnelda des Verrats bezichtigt wird. Um seinem Blutsbruder seine Unschuld zu beweisen, stellt Thorag sich dem Gottesurteil, der Wodansprobe. Der blutigste Zweikampf seines Lebens beginnt.

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©2013 Jörg Kastner (P)2015 Audible GmbH

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Title: Kongens kvinder (Kong Christian 2)

Author: Erling Pedersen

Narrator: Bent Otto Hansen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-15

Publisher: AV Forlaget

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Op af havet stiger en forrsdag i 1615 Aona Nordfra og datteren Erla. Tt ved Gilleleje. De to kvinder, der er undvegne fanger fra Akershus, brer begge kongens mrke. Deres ml er Christian IVs smukkeste slot, Frederiksborg, men de har tid. Det er hvn, der driver dem, men endnu mere er det nysgerrighed. Fr de nr ind bag slottets mure, m de g mange og lange omveje. Aona slr sig op i den lille storby, Kbenhavn, og Erla tager p en eventyrlig frd rundt om Kap det gode Hb til Ceylon.

Imens de to kvinder arbejder sig vej til kongen og magten, er Christian IV travlt optaget af at bekmpe rigets tre hovedfjender: svenskerne, troldfolkene og katolikkerne. Engagementet i trediverskrigen bliver skbnesvangert, og samtidig kommer forholdet til kvinderne til at spille en strre og strre rolle: Der er bde moren og Kirsten Munk, som han har tvunget ind i gteskab, men der er ogs de to derude, Aona Nordfra og datteren Erla, som bde er til stede og ikke til stede.

©2009 Hovedland / Erling Pedersen (P)2013 AV Forlaget

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Title: The Tarrant Rose

Author: Veronica Heley

Narrator: Karen Cass

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-15

Publisher: Soundings

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Raven-haired Sophia knew him as Philip Rich, a poor relative of the Earl of Rame. And she knew that he awakened in her a craving that her betrothed, Sir John Bladen, could not satisfy. But she was pledged to wealthy Sir John in order to save her beloved Tarrant Hall. So she scorned Philips love only to discover, to her horror, that he was, in reality, the famous Earl himself. And now the Earl has vowed to humble Sophia and to avenge his honour.

His vengeance involves Sophia; her aunt Nan; and her rash brother, Jasper, in the dangerous plots of the Royal Pretender and in the intrigue at the luxurious court of George II.

Members Reviews:

Good easy reading

Historical fiction is my most favorite genre.

This was a very easy read. I liked it and am looking forward to another by this author.