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Eureka Rebellion, The: The History and Legacy of the Gold Miners’ Uprising against the British in Au
Although Australia was actually colonized by the forced dispossession of the indigenous Aboriginals, the Commonwealth of Australia came about by the free federation of six self-governing British colonies in 1901, which makes it one of just a handful of nations that can proudly claim this.[1] Thus, Australia is often imagined as a nation untouched by the pains that have accompanied the births of most other nations. While it is certainly true that the founding fathers of the Australian federation discussed the future of their nation without the fear of war, it is equally true that Australia’s history was shaped by violence. Along with the forced dispossession of indigenous populations across the continent, there were occasional uprisings among the transported convict population in early colonial times, notably the Castle Hill Convict Rebellion of 1804. In that conflict, 233 Irish convicts faced 97 British soldiers, resulting in the deaths of 15 prisoners. Then there was the so-called Rum Rebellion in 1808, when the New South Wales Corps led by Major George Johnston and the pastoralist John Macarthur deposed the Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh. This event was notable in being the only successful seizure of political power by force of arms in the history of colonial Australia.[2] To the list of politically violent deeds, many historians and commentators add the acts of some bushrangers, notably Ned Kelly (1854–1880), who is often regarded as a political revolutionary.[3] In the relatively short history of colonial Australia, one event stands apart, both for its revolutionary spirit and its impact: the Eureka Rebellion of December 3, 1854. This was the only time in Australian history when a government was resisted by free subjects of the Crown in a violent conflict. It only took place in one colony, Victoria, but it was an important event in the evolution of the democratic government in Australia as a whole.
Charles River Editors (Author), Gregory T. Luzitano (Narrator)
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Geschichten aus einer schadhaften Zeit
Geschichten aus einer schadhaften Zeit von Werner Schlierf Als mir Werner Schlierf sagte, daß er ein Lausbubenbuch geschrieben hat, erinnerte ich ihn an Ludwig Thoma's Lausbubengeschichten, die wohl schwerlich übertroffen werden konnten. Doch der Autor, mit dem mich viele Jahre Freundschaft verbinden, bat mich, einige Geschichten zu lesen. Ich las sie alle! Und war tief beeindruckt von dieser Schilderung einer 'schadhaften Zeit', wie sie Werner Schlierf selbst betitelte. Der Autor schilderte seine Erlebnisse in der Kriegs- und Nachkriegszeit, wie er sie als Giesinger Gassenbub erlebt hatte. Und das ist nicht mehr so amüsant und beschaulich, wie zu Ludwig Thoma's Zeiten, sondern bisweilen von erdrückender Realität. Die Vergangenheit steht wieder greifbar vor uns. Lebensmittelkarten, der 'schwarze Markt', die Währungsreform und das 'Off limit' der amerikanischen Besatzungszeit drängen sich in unsere Gedanken zurück. Wir durchleben gleichsam mit dem Autor noch einmal das Bombardement während des Krieges und die Hungerzeit danach. Von Freundschaft wird erzählt, die noch eine andere Bedeutung hatte, als sie ihr in der heutigen Zeit zukommt. Das Leben der einstigen 'Kiesgruben-Krattler', wie man die hungernden Menschen nach dem Kriege nannte, taucht vor unserem geistigen Auge auf. 'Halbstark' war diese schadhafte Zeit und 'Halbstarke' nannte man auch damals die Vierzehn- bis Achtzehnjährigen. Dieses Büchlein ist für diejenigen gedacht, die sich noch gelegentlich an diese Zeit zurückerinnern und für alle, die diese Zeit kennenlernen möchten. Ludwig Schmid-Wildy ..zum besten freilich, was dieser Autor veröffentlicht hat, zählen zweifellos seine stark autobiographisch angehauchten Erzählungen 'Geschichten aus einer schadhaften Zeit': Den ganzen Kosmos seiner kleinen-großen Lausbuben- und Halbstarkenwelt zu Ende der Vierziger und zu Beginn der Fünfziger Jahre hat Schlierf hier wie mit einem Brennglas eingefangen. Doch keine gemütvoll-beschaulichen Lausbubenstreiche im Stile Ludwig Thoma's sind entstanden, dafür waren die Nachkriegsjahre viel zu hart, sondern Lebens-und vor allem Überlebensstories aus der Münchner Vorstadt Giesing. Ob Schlierf von der Furcht, der Angst, dem teuflischen Inferno der Bombennächte in den letzten Kriegstagen berichtet oder vom Hamstern und der Tauschwährung der Nachkriegszeit, ob er mit spürbarem Erfolg von den nicht immer ganz unblutig verlaufenden Raufereien seiner Halbstarkenjahre kraftvoll erzählt oder augenzwinkernd von seinen ersten Liebeserlebnissen schwärmt, alle diese 27 'Geschichten aus einer schadhaften Zeit' sind mit viel Liebe und äußerst genauer, ja geradezu bester warmherzig-lebensnaher Charakterisierung von Menschen und Milieu geschrieben. Und wer in späterer Zeit einmal erfahren und vor allem begreifen möchte, wie der vielzitierte, aber leider viel zu wenig beachtete 'Kleine Mann auf der Straße' die Jahre zwischen 1945 und 1955 erlebt und durchlitten hat, was er in den letzten Kriegswochen, in der Nachkriegszeit und den ersten Jahren des 'Wirtschaftswunders' dachte, fühlte und tat, der braucht nur ein paar dieser teils melancholischen, teils amüsanten, stets aber fesselnden und realistisch-poesievollen Geschichten von Werner Schlierf zu hören und er wird dabei über die Zeit und die leidgeprüften und doch ungemein hoffnungsvollen Menschen mehr und Authentischeres erfahren als aus jedem dickleibigen Geschichtsband. Hannes S. Macher
Schlierf Werner (Author), Schlierf Werner (Narrator)
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History: The Dark Ages, the Renaissance, and the Golden Age in Europe
This book contains audiobooks about the following topics: The Batavians The Dutch Empire The Eighty Years' War The Golden Age Early Dutch History The Dutch East Indian Trading Company Gilded Age Middle Ages Black Death Crusaders Inquisition Viking History Anglo-Saxons All of these topics have been well-researched and put together in a way that they are understandable and fascinating to learn more about. If this is your cup of tea, then get the book! What are you waiting for?!
Kelly Mass (Author), Chris Newman (Narrator)
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Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
'Nancy Greenspan dives into the mysteries of the Klaus Fuchs espionage case and emerges with a classic Cold War biography of intrigue and torn loyalties. Atomic Spy is a mesmerizing morality tale, told with fresh sources and empathy.' --Kai Bird, author of The Good Spy and coauthor of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer The gripping biography of a notorious Cold War villain--the German-born British scientist who handed the Soviets top-secret American plans for the plutonium bomb--showing a man torn between conventional loyalties and a sense of obligation to a greater good. German by birth, British by naturalization, Communist by conviction, Klaus Fuchs was a fearless Nazi resister, a brilliant scientist, and an infamous spy. He was convicted of espionage by Britain in 1950 for handing over the designs of the plutonium bomb to the Russians, and has gone down in history as one of the most dangerous agents in American and British history. He put an end to America's nuclear hegemony and single-handedly heated up the Cold War. But, was Klaus Fuchs really evil? Using archives long hidden in Germany as well as intimate family correspondence, Nancy Thorndike Greenspan brings into sharp focus the moral and political ambiguity of the times in which Fuchs lived and the ideals with which he struggled. As a university student in Germany, he stood up to Nazi terror without flinching, and joined the Communists largely because they were the only ones resisting the Nazis. After escaping to Britain in 1933, he was arrested as a German émigré--an 'enemy alien'--in 1940 and sent to an internment camp in Canada. His mentor at university, renowned physicist Max Born, worked to facilitate his release. After years of struggle and ideological conflict, when Fuchs joined the atomic bomb project, his loyalties were firmly split. He started handing over top secret research to the Soviets in 1941, and continued for years from deep within the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. Greenspan's insights into his motivations make us realize how he was driven not just by his Communist convictions but seemingly by a dedication to peace, seeking to level the playing field of the world powers. With thrilling detail from never-before-seen sources, Atomic Spy travels across the Germany of an ascendant Nazi party; the British university classroom of Max Born; a British internment camp in Canada; the secret laboratories of Los Alamos; and Eastern Germany at the height of the Cold War. Atomic Spy shows the real Klaus Fuchs--who he was, what he did, why he did it, and how he was caught. His extraordinary life is a cautionary tale about the ambiguity of morality and loyalty, as pertinent today as in the 1940s.
Nancy Thorndike Greenspan (Author), Tavia Gilbert (Narrator)
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Goering: The Rise and Fall of the Notorious Nazi Leader
A penetrating biography of one of the most infamous members of the Nazi high command. In Goering, Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel use firsthand testimonies and a variety of historical documents to tell the story of a monster lurking in Hitler's shadows. After rising through the ranks of the German army, Hermann Goering became Hitler's right hand man and was hand-picked to head the Luftwaffe, one of history's most feared fighting forces. As he rose in power, though, Goering became disillusioned and was eventually shunned from Hitler's inner circle. Alone at the end, he faced justice at the Nuremberg trials and was convicted of war crimes and crime against humanity. He committed suicide in prison before he could be hanged. In this book, Manvell and Fraenkel bring to life one of history's most complicated and hated characters.
Heinrich Fraenkel, Roger Manvell (Author), Joe Barrett (Narrator)
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Panzer General: Heinz Guderian and the Blitzkrieg Victories of WWII
Kenneth Macksey's highly regarded biography of Generaloberst Heinz Guderian gives clear insight into the mind and motives of the father of modern tank warfare. Panzer General shows Guderian as a man of ideas equipped with the ability to turn inspiration into reality. A master of strategy and tactics, he was the officer most responsible for creating blitzkrieg in World War II.BR> Guderian built the Panzerwaffe in the face of opposition from the German General Staff and personally led the lightning campaigns by tanks and aircraft that put a large part of Europe under domination by the Third Reich. Kenneth Macksey, a tank man himself for more than twenty years, reveals the man as a brilliant rebel in search of ideals and a general whose personality, genius, and achievements far transcended those of Rommel.BR> As well as throwing light on the crucial campaigns in Poland, France, and Russia, this biography illuminates the struggles within the German hierarchy, both in the military and in the Nazi Party, for control of the Panzer forces. Based on information from the extensive family archives, Panzer General demonstrates why Guderian was so admired by some while denigrated by others.
Kenneth Macksey (Author), Jonathan Cowley (Narrator)
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In recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People, many of whom have already embarked upon that great adventure of genealogical research, and who have encountered their ancestors in the archives and uncovered family secrets, are now turning to the secrets contained within the four walls of their homes and in doing so finding a direct link to earlier generations. And it is ordinary homes, not grand public buildings or the mansions of the rich that have all the best stories. As with the television series, A House Through Time offers readers not only the tools to explore the histories of their own homes, but also a vividly readable history of the British city, the forces of industry, disease, mass transportation, crime and class. The rises and falls, the shifts in the fortunes of neighbourhoods and whole cities are here, tracing the often surprising journey one single house can take from elegant dwelling in a fashionable district to a tenement for society’s rejects. Packed with remarkable human stories, it is a phenomenal insight into living history, a history we can see every day on the streets where we live. And it reminds us that it is at home that we are truly ourselves. It is there that the honest face of life can be seen. At home, behind closed doors and drawn curtains, we live out our inner lives and family lives.
David Olusoga, Melanie Backe-Hansen (Author), Ben Onwukwe (Narrator)
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The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power
Brought to you by Penguin. In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take in a large part of Europe stretching from Hungary to Spain, and from the Far East to the New World. The family continued to dominate Central Europe until the catastrophe of the First World War. With its seemingly disorganized mass of large and small territories, its tangle of laws and privileges and its medley of languages, the Habsburg Empire has always appeared haphazard and incomplete. But here Martyn Rady shows the reasons for the family's incredible endurance, driven by the belief that they were destined to rule the world as defenders of the Roman Catholic Church, guarantors of peace and patrons of learning. The Habsburg emperors were themselves absurdly varied in their characters - from warlords to contemplatives, from clever to stupid, from idle to frenzied - but all driven by the same sense of family mission. Scattered around the world, countless buildings, institutions and works of art continue to bear witness to their overwhelming impact. The Habsburgs is the definitive history of a remarkable dynasty that, for better or worse, shaped Europe and the world. © Martyn Rady 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Martyn Rady (Author), Simon Bowie (Narrator)
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Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943
Brought to you by Penguin. While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making territorial gains in southern France and Africa. This decision proved a horrifying miscalculation, dooming Italy to its own prolonged and unwinnable war, immense casualties and an Allied invasion in 1943 which ushered in a terrible new era for the country. John Gooch's new book is the definitive account of Italy's war experience. Beginning with the invasion of Abyssinia and ending with Mussolini's arrest, Gooch brilliantly portrays the nightmare of a country with too small an industrial sector, too incompetent a leadership and too many fronts on which to fight. Everywhere - whether in the USSR, the Western Desert or the Balkans - Italian troops found themselves against either better-equipped or more motivated enemies. The result was a war entirely at odds with the dreams of pre-war Italian planners - a series of desperate improvizations against Allies who could draw on global resources and against whom Italy proved helpless. This remarkable book rightly shows the centrality of Italy to the war, outlining the brief rise and disastrous fall of the Italian military campaign. © John Gooch 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
John Gooch (Author), Mark Elstob (Narrator)
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Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail
A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and warfare. British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, 'illiterate' seamen. Now Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including court-martials and petitions, to present these men in their own words. In this exhilarating account, ordinary seamen are far from the hapless sufferers of the press gangs. Proud and spirited, learned in their own fashion, with robust opinions and the courage to challenge overweening authority, they stand out from their less adventurous compatriots. Taylor demonstrates how the sailor was the engine of British prosperity and expansion up to the Industrial Revolution. From exploring the South Seas with Cook to establishing the East India Company as a global corporation, from the sea battles that made Britain a superpower to the crisis of the 1797 mutinies, these 'sons of the waves' held the nation's destiny in their calloused hands.
Stephen Taylor (Author), Matthew Waterson (Narrator)
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-Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. ¿Qué siete puntos son aceptados por el nuevo Papa nada más ser nombrado y qué poderes tiene? ¿Cuándo fue elegido sumo Pontífice el cardenal Ratzinger? ¿Cuáles fueron los primeros pasos de Benedicto XVI? ¿Qué facción dirigió Ratzinger en el cónclave de abril de 2005? ¿Qué opinión tiene el Papa Benedicto XVI sobre la adaptación de la Iglesia al mundo? Una guía práctica y exhaustiva, con más de quinientas preguntas y respuestas que le descubrirán el secreto mundo de los papas y el Vaticano.
Eric Frattini (Author), Arturo Lopez, Arturo López (Narrator)
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