African War History

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    • The SAS in Rhodesia
    • Written by: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....

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    • Written by: Byron Farwell
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 2019-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The Great Boer War (1899-1902) - more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War - was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence....

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    • An American Family
    • Written by: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2008-11-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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    • Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
    • Written by: Eric Foner
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2010-10-05
    • Language: English
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    • In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in America.....

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    • Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom
    • Written by: David Williams, Howard Zinn - editor
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people - foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others....

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    • Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
    • Written by: Penny M. Von Eschen
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2018-07-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the US State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth....

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    • The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
    • Written by: Thomas Lockley, Geoffrey Girard
    • Narrated by: Gary Furlong
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2019-04-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • The remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society....

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    • Power and Politics in the Civil War South
    • Written by: Stephanie McCurry
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2018-12-28
    • Language: English
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    • The story of the Confederate States of America has been told many times in heroic narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a different tale. Confederate Reckoning is the story of this political battle in which women and slaves helped to decide the fate of the Confederacy....

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    • A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance
    • Written by: Alexis Clark
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A true and deeply moving narrative of forbidden love during World War II and a shocking, hidden history of race on the home front....

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    • The Civil War in American Memory
    • Written by: David W. Blight
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2019-01-30
    • Language: English
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    • Race and Reunion is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War. David Blight's sweeping narrative of triumph and tragedy, romance and realism, is a compelling tale....

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    • Travels with an African Soldier
    • Written by: Alexandra Fuller
    • Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2004-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger"....

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    • A Concise History
    • Written by: Allen C. Guelzo
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2018-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. Reconstruction suffered from poor leadership and uncertainty of direction, but it also laid the groundwork for renewed struggles for racial equality during the civil rights movement....

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    • An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
    • Written by: Adam Makos
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2015-10-27
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviation duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country....

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    • Written by: James D. Anderson
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 2021-03-09
    • Language: English
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    • James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern Black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing Black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into Black commitment to education....

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    • General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918
    • Written by: Robert Gaudi
    • Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2017-01-31
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • African Kaiser is the almost-forgotten true account of Wiemar Germany's military escapades on the dark continent. A story of 1,000-mile marches through the harshest landscapes....

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    • An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
    • Written by: Ilyon Woo
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Leon Nixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2023-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history.

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    • Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
    • Written by: Howard W. French
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2022-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Born in Blackness reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, anchoring of democracy in the West, and fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent....

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    • A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
    • Written by: W. Caleb McDaniel
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 2020-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage....

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    • William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave
    • Written by: Brian McGinty
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2016-08-16
    • Language: English
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    • On July 4, 1861, the schooner S. J. Waring set sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later it limped back into New York's harbor....

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    • The Forgotten Story of Black American Soldiers Brutally Massacred in World War II
    • Written by: Denise George, Robert Child
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2017-01-31
    • Language: English
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    • Their story was almost forgotten by history. Now known as the Wereth Eleven, these brave African-American soldiers left their homes to join the Allied effort on the front lines of WWII....

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