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Christopher Columbus had a dream-to reach the fabled lands of the East, rich with spices, jewels, silver, and especially gold. Having studied the travels of other explorers, Columbus was convinced he could reach his destination by traveling west across the seas. After convincing Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand to fund his expedition, he set sail in August of 1492. In this account, the voyage Columbus undertook is told in his own voice through his journal entries of that year. He tells of excitement, drama, and terror on the high seas, as well as the doubts he faces from his own crew, as together, they weather the path to victory.

Peter Roop (Author), Pat Grimes (Narrator)

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I Confess: The Power Of Confession

The Essay is a BBC Radio series exploring cultural topics. In these five episodes, I Confess: The Power of the Confession looks at the history of confessions, which links the legal world of Cicero to our own. In Episode one, Dr Kathryn Tempest of Roehampton University excavates the roots of one of the most powerful legal concepts of all time. Episode Two sees Professor John Arnold of Birkbeck College, University of London, taking us into the mental world of the inquisitions. In Episode Three, witchcraft scholar Dr Emma Wilby of Exeter University investigates the confessions of 17th-century peasant woman, Isobel Gowdie, who was accused of witchcraft - and meets Isobel herself, through her own words read by actress Gerda Stevenson. Episode Four finds Dr Iain Lauchlan of Edinburgh University exploring the Moscow show trials of 1938, and in the last episode, journalist and writer Andrew Brown considers the modern public role of confession.

Kathryn Tempest (Author), John Arnold (Narrator)

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I Shall Live: Surviving the Holocaust Against All Odds

I Shall Live tells the gripping true story of a Jewish family in Germany and Russia as the Nazi party gains power in Germany. When Henry Orenstein and his siblings end up in a series of concentrations camps, Orenstein's bravery and quick thinking help him to save himself and his brothers from execution by playing a role in the greatest hoax ever pulled on the upper echelons of Nazi command. Orenstein's lucid prose recreates this horrific time in history and his constant struggle for survival as the Nazis move him and his brothers through five concentration camps. His description of their roles in the fake Chemical Commando sheds new light on an incredible and generally unknown event in the history of the Holocaust. This edition of I Shall Live contains new evidence about this false Commando, including letters signed to and from Himmler himself. Orenstein, aside from being a Holocaust survivor, has made a name for himself as a toymaker who called for the production of Transformers, as well as a poker player.

Henry Orenstein (Author), Henry Orenstein (Narrator)

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I, Marie Antoinette: Autobiographical one woman play about iconic queen of France Marie-Antoinette

David Serero (Author), Lisa Monde (Narrator)

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I, Napoleon (Autobiographical One-Man-Play of Napoleon Bonaparte)

'I, NAPOLEON' is a One Man Theater Play, written by David Serero, about Napoleon Bonaparte's life. Under the form of an autobiography, one of the greatest historical figures of all time, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) tells his story from his birth to his death, to the audience of 2020. Starring French actor David Serero as Napoleon Bonaparte. Performed in English language.

David Serero (Author), David Serero (Narrator)

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Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography

The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the Muqaddima Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as he should be, and his ideas are widely misunderstood. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides an engaging and authoritative account of Ibn Khaldun's extraordinary life, times, writings, and ideas. Irwin tells how Ibn Khaldun, who lived in a world decimated by the Black Death, held a long series of posts in the tumultuous Islamic courts of North Africa and Muslim Spain, becoming a major political player as well as a teacher and writer. Closely examining the Muqaddima, a startlingly original analysis of the laws of history, and drawing on many other contemporary sources, Irwin shows how Ibn Khaldun's life and thought fit into historical and intellectual context, including medieval Islamic theology, philosophy, politics, literature, economics, law, and tribal life. Because Ibn Khaldun's ideas often seem to anticipate by centuries developments in many fields, he has often been depicted as more of a modern man than a medieval one, and Irwin's account of such misreadings provides new insights about the history of Orientalism. In contrast, Irwin presents an Ibn Khaldun who was a creature of his time-a devout Sufi mystic who was obsessed with the occult and futurology and who lived in an often-strange world quite different from our own.

Robert Irwin (Author), John Telfer (Narrator)

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Icons of the Iron Age: The Celts in History and Archaeology

were the Celts, who lived in Europe during the Iron Age, from about 600 BCE into the early centuries CE. They fascinated ancient Classical writers of Greece and Rome, who wrote about them often. They left behind an intriguing record of physical remains that have been recovered by archaeologists, and they have continued to hold our attention as modern populations claim a Celtic identity. Using historical, archaeological, linguistic, and anthropological evidence, Professor Johnston provides an intriguing look at the ancient Celtic peoples of Europe, Britain, and Ireland. ** Please contact Customer Service for additional content**

Professor Susan Johnston, Susan Johnston (Author), Professor Susan Johnstone, Susan Johnstone (Narrator)

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If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home

Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two "dirty centuries?" Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries, did rich people fear fruit? In her brilliantly and creatively researched book, Lucy Worsley takes us through the bedroom, bathroom, living room, and kitchen. She covers the history of each room and explores what people actually did in bed, in the bath, at the table, and at the stove-from sauce stirring to breastfeeding, teeth cleaning to masturbation, getting dressed to getting married-providing a compelling account of how the four rooms of the home have evolved from medieval times to today.

Lucy Worsley (Author), Anne Flosnik (Narrator)

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Il Regno Unito E La Sua Storia

Uno sguardo breve, divertente e conciso sulla storia del Regno Unito.Che tu voglia fare una revisione per un esame di storia o se desideri semplicemente un'introduzione vertiginosa sul Regno Unito, questo è il libro che fa per te. Ti portiamo in un breve tour della storia dalla Gran Bretagna preistorica, fino alle guerre dei giorni nostri con una velocità ed efficienza che ti lasceranno informato su tutti i dettagli che devi sapere sulla storia del Regno Unito. Prendi la tua copia oggi e scopri i re, le regine, i governanti moderni e tutto il resto, comprese le ribellioni irlandesi e scozzesi. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME

History Nerds (Author), Andrealoco (Narrator)

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Il sogno di una cosa: Contadini e operai friulani e monfalconesi nella Jugoslavia di Tito

Nell'audio documentario Il sogno di una cosa abbiamo cercato di ricostruire, attraverso diverse testimonianze inedite, una storia poco conosciuta accaduta nell'immediato dopoguerra.Tra il 1946 e il 1947, qualche migliaio di persone emigra dal Friuli Venezia Giulia verso l'appena costituita Repubblica federativa socialista jugoslava. Alcuni partono alla ricerca di un lavoro, ma la maggior parte è spinta da motivazioni politiche e ideali: vogliono andare a costruire la nuova società socialista.Tuttavia, dopo pochissimo tempo dal loro arrivo in Jugoslavia, come un fulmine a ciel sereno, arriva la scomunica di Tito da parte del Cominform, l'organismo internazionale voluto da Stalin. A quel punto, i friulani e i monfalconesi si schierano quasi tutti dalla parte di Stalin e Togliatti contro il Maresciallo Tito.E' la fine di un sogno.La gran parte di loro rientrerà quasi subito in Italia. Alcuni, accusati di attività contro lo stato jugoslavo, saranno processati e condannati a lunghe pene detentive da scontare nelle terribili carceri jugoslave per la rieducazione dei cominformisti.Ne Il sogno di una cosa, Nidia, Noemi, Renata, Ermanno, Gigi, Mario e Spartaco ricordano, a quasi 60 anni di distanza, la loro esperienza in Jugoslavia. © 2021 tracce.studio

Andrea Giuseppini (Author), Con Le Voci Di Nidia (Narrator)

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Illiberal Europe: Eastern Europe from the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the War in Ukraine

Eighteen years have passed since ten countries from Central & Eastern Europe joined the European Union and more than three decades since the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 - but ignorance about what is popularly still called Eastern Europe is as widespread as ever. Slovenia still gets mixed up with Slovakia, the Slavs remain a mystery in a Europe apparently dominated by Romanic and Germanic nations and a country like the Czech Republic is labelled as Eastern European, although one needs to travel west to get from Vienna to Prague. First published in 2009 under the title What's so eastern about Eastern Europe?, this book is much more than a revised and updated version of the first edition. Its presentation of the political and cultural history of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, written in an accessible language is now complemented with recent developments in the region. The new edition digs into the reasons behind the illiberal turn in Poland, Hungary and elsewhere, putting the alleged democratic backslide into the wider context of European populism. Leon Marc offers a new and fresh perspective in explaining the roots of populism and social conservativism in the region, which the book sees in a mixture of historical factors, economic conditions, the heavy burden of Communist legacy, as well as a reaction to contemporary social developments in the West. Drawing on a wide range of literature, the book calls for more sensibility to these underlying causes, critical examination of the true European values, and for a coalition of defenders of Humanism and Judeo-Christian tradition as key pillars of its identity, in order to save Europe and its liberal democracy. This updated and expanded edition contains a brand new chapter bringing this book up to date with recent events, including Covid-19 and the Ukrainian conflict. 'Comprehensively and concisely, Leon Marc's book presents readers with vital insights into the different dimensions of our common European history and culture' - Professor Dr Jaap W. de Zwaan, Director of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations

Leon Marc (Author), Mark Elstob (Narrator)

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Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918

An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the critical pillars of the German Empire-and a chief architect of the military and political realities of late nineteenth-century Europe. Written by two of the world's leading authorities on the subject, Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918 examines the most essential components of the imperial German military system, with an emphasis on such foundational areas as theory, doctrine, institutional structures, training, and the officer corps. In the period between 1871 and 1918, rapid technological development demanded considerable adaptation and change in military doctrine and planning. Consequently, the authors focus on theory and practice leading up to World War I and upon the variety of adaptations that became necessary as the war progressed-with unique insights into military theorists from Clausewitz to Moltke the Elder, Moltke the Younger, Schlichting, and Schlieffen. Ranging over the entire history of the German Empire, Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918 presents a picture of unprecedented scope and depth of one of the most widely studied, criticized, and imitated organizations in the modern world.

Daniel J. Hughes, Richard L. Dinardo (Author), Nigel Patterson (Narrator)

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