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An African History of Africa
- From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
- Auteur(s): Zeinab Badawi
- Narrateur(s): Zeinab Badawi
- Durée: 15 h et 32 min
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Au global9
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Performance7
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Histoire7
Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi’s sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent’s extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African perspective. “Equal parts gripping and galvanizing. . . . Researched across more than 30...
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Great
- Écrit par Med le 2025-07-21
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
- Stories from Rwanda
- Auteur(s): Philip Gourevitch
- Narrateur(s): Philip Gourevitch
- Durée: 10 h et 23 min
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Au global13
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Performance13
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Histoire13
An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity....
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what a world
- Écrit par aero_costas le 2025-06-09
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- Auteur(s): Siddharth Kara
- Narrateur(s): Peter Ganim
- Durée: 11 h et 18 min
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Au global69
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Performance63
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Histoire63
An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.
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So important.
- Écrit par Kaitlin M le 2023-03-13
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Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- Auteur(s): Nelson Mandela, Sharon Gelman
- Narrateur(s): Michael Boatman
- Durée: 27 h et 39 min
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Au global531
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Performance459
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Histoire460
The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting . . . both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the power of the spirit to transcend it" (Washington Post). Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an...
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An intriguing, captivating life of Mandela
- Écrit par Lorenzo RS le 2019-08-04
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- Auteur(s): Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Mirron Willis
- Durée: 13 h et 21 min
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Au global36
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Performance31
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Histoire31
Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....
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This book got removed from my library
- Écrit par Osayi Okuns le 2025-10-01
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King Leopold's Ghost
- A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
- Auteur(s): Adam Hochschild
- Narrateur(s): Geoffrey Howard
- Durée: 12 h et 34 min
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Au global66
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Performance52
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Histoire52
In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company’s ships as they arrived from and departed for the Congo, Leopold II’s vast new African colony. Incoming ships were crammed with valuable ivory and rubber...
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I'm only critiquing the audio and not the story
- Écrit par Natalie le 2021-03-28
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An African History of Africa
- From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
- Auteur(s): Zeinab Badawi
- Narrateur(s): Zeinab Badawi
- Durée: 15 h et 32 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global9
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Performance7
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Histoire7
Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi’s sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent’s extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African perspective. “Equal parts gripping and galvanizing. . . . Researched across more than 30...
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Great
- Écrit par Med le 2025-07-21
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
- Stories from Rwanda
- Auteur(s): Philip Gourevitch
- Narrateur(s): Philip Gourevitch
- Durée: 10 h et 23 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global13
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Performance13
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Histoire13
An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity....
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what a world
- Écrit par aero_costas le 2025-06-09
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- Auteur(s): Siddharth Kara
- Narrateur(s): Peter Ganim
- Durée: 11 h et 18 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global69
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Performance63
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Histoire63
An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.
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So important.
- Écrit par Kaitlin M le 2023-03-13
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Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- Auteur(s): Nelson Mandela, Sharon Gelman
- Narrateur(s): Michael Boatman
- Durée: 27 h et 39 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global531
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Performance459
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Histoire460
The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting . . . both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the power of the spirit to transcend it" (Washington Post). Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an...
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An intriguing, captivating life of Mandela
- Écrit par Lorenzo RS le 2019-08-04
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- Auteur(s): Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Mirron Willis
- Durée: 13 h et 21 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global36
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Performance31
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Histoire31
Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....
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This book got removed from my library
- Écrit par Osayi Okuns le 2025-10-01
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King Leopold's Ghost
- A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
- Auteur(s): Adam Hochschild
- Narrateur(s): Geoffrey Howard
- Durée: 12 h et 34 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global66
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Performance52
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Histoire52
In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company’s ships as they arrived from and departed for the Congo, Leopold II’s vast new African colony. Incoming ships were crammed with valuable ivory and rubber...
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I'm only critiquing the audio and not the story
- Écrit par Natalie le 2021-03-28
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Black Hawk Down
- Auteur(s): Mark Bowden
- Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
- Durée: 15 h et 14 min
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Au global76
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Performance64
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Histoire64
Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen....
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Amazingly well researched and written!
- Écrit par Randy Walton le 2025-01-07
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela: Booktrack Edition
- Auteur(s): Nelson Mandela, Sharon Gelman
- Narrateur(s): Michael Boatman
- Durée: 27 h et 10 min
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Au global16
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Performance14
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Histoire14
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting . . . both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a...
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music annoying
- Écrit par Komal le 2018-11-26
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Carthage Must Be Destroyed
- The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
- Auteur(s): Richard Miles
- Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
- Durée: 14 h et 9 min
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An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.....
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The Ghosts of Cannae
- Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
- Auteur(s): Robert L. O'Connell
- Narrateur(s): Alan Sklar
- Durée: 13 h et 14 min
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For fans of Victor Davis Hanson, Donald Kagan, and Barry Strauss comes a rich, sweeping account of the most imitated---and vicious---battle in history....
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Born in Blackness
- Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
- Auteur(s): Howard W. French
- Narrateur(s): James Fouhey
- Durée: 16 h et 49 min
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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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Excellent Overview
- Écrit par Pearce le 2022-05-22
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Africa: African History from Ancient Egypt to Modern South Africa
- Stories, People, and Events That Shaped the History of Africa
- Auteur(s): Raymond C. Nelson
- Narrateur(s): Sam Bubis
- Durée: 2 h et 13 min
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To understand how Africa developed, thrived, suffered, and emerged into the rich tapestry of peoples that it is today, take a trip back to the ancient River Nile and the East African coast....
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River of the Gods
- Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
- Auteur(s): Candice Millard
- Narrateur(s): Paul Michael
- Durée: 10 h et 2 min
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Performance6
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy—from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST GOODREADS "A lean...
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Disappointing.
- Écrit par Graham Henderson le 2023-02-27
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In Praise of Blood
- The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
- Auteur(s): Judi Rever
- Narrateur(s): Justine Eyre
- Durée: 9 h et 36 min
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A FINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE: A stunning work of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist who has risked her own life to bring us a deeply disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that takes the true measure of Rwandan head of state Paul Kagame. Through...
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Fantastic Read
- Écrit par Sarah le 2021-04-24
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
- A Soldier's War in Northern Ireland, Rhodesia, Mozambique and Iraq
- Auteur(s): Gregory Michael Budd, Jake Harper-Ronald
- Narrateur(s): Pat Devon
- Durée: 23 h et 54 min
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Men in the furnace of adversity… Step into the extraordinary life of Jake Harper-Ronald, a man whose childhood dream of becoming a soldier led him on an unparalleled journey.
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Horrible narration
- Écrit par Robert H. le 2025-06-02
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Spies in the Congo
- America's Atomic Mission in World War II
- Auteur(s): Susan Williams
- Narrateur(s): Justine Eyre
- Durée: 9 h et 1 min
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The Shinkolobwe Mine in the Belgian Congo was described by a 1943 Manhattan Project intelligence report as the "most important deposit of uranium yet discovered in the world"....
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White Malice
- The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
- Auteur(s): Susan Williams
- Narrateur(s): Chanté McCormick
- Durée: 21 h et 14 min
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Filled with “fascinating information, original research, and bold ideas” (NPR), a revelatory account of how African Independence was systematically undermined by the US In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a...
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Narration is terrible
- Écrit par Tammy le 2025-11-12
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The Slave Ship
- A Human History
- Auteur(s): Marcus Rediker
- Narrateur(s): Cornell Womack
- Durée: 15 h et 30 min
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In a chilling exploration of a nearly forgotten chapter of history, Marcus Rediker delves into the dark depths of slave ships in the 18th century. In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the...
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African Origin of Civilization - The Myth or Reality
- Auteur(s): Cheikh Anta Diop
- Narrateur(s): Frank Block
- Durée: 9 h et 55 min
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This classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization....
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wealth of information, But.
- Écrit par jim le 2023-01-23
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Bush War Operator
- Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond
- Auteur(s): A.J. Balaam
- Narrateur(s): Dennis Kleinman
- Durée: 10 h et 1 min
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Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother, or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. This is the story of Andrew Balaam, a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and the Selous Scouts for 12 years....
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A Soldier's Point of View
- Écrit par Will le 2025-03-30
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Augustine the African
- Auteur(s): Catherine Conybeare
- Narrateur(s): Catherine Conybeare
- Durée: 10 h et 18 min
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An extraordinary work of revisionist history that centers Africa in the life of one of our greatest philosophers.
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The Forgotten Era
- Nigeria Before British Rule
- Auteur(s): Max Siollun
- Narrateur(s): Ben Onwukwe
- Durée: 13 h et 56 min
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This story of a dynamic and artistic people is a vital listen for those who want to discover a forgotten era of West Africa.
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Must reas for anyone interested in Nigerian history
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2025-12-01
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Carthage
- A New History
- Auteur(s): Eve MacDonald
- Narrateur(s): Eve MacDonald
- Durée: 10 h et 43 min
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For six hundred years, the city of Carthage dominated the western Mediterranean. Founded in the ninth century BCE as a small colonial outpost, by the third, it had grown into the area's largest, richest empire.
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Into Africa
- The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
- Auteur(s): Martin Dugard
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 11 h et 46 min
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With the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has...
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Read it many times before but the narrator...
- Écrit par GrandTour le 2018-11-25
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The Fear
- Auteur(s): Peter Godwin
- Narrateur(s): Peter Godwin
- Durée: 12 h et 15 min
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Born in what’s now called Zimbabwe, journalist Peter Godwin returns to his homeland in 2008 after three decades of Robert Mugabe’s brutal economic and human destruction....
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A difficult listen but factual.
- Écrit par Paul Boddy le 2023-01-19
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
- The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
- Auteur(s): Jason K. Stearns
- Narrateur(s): Robert Fass
- Durée: 15 h et 38 min
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A “meticulously researched and comprehensive” (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa’s Congo At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of western Europe. It borders nine other nations, and since 1996 it has been racked by a brutal war in which...
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We Dared to Win
- The SAS in Rhodesia
- Auteur(s): Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
- Narrateur(s): Roger Clark
- Durée: 10 h et 48 min
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Performance15
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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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Outstanding Story
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2021-01-12
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- Auteur(s): Alexandra Fuller
- Narrateur(s): Lisette Lecat
- Durée: 10 h et 11 min
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Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....
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A Savage War of Peace
- Algeria 1954-1962
- Auteur(s): Alistair Horne
- Narrateur(s): James Adams
- Durée: 29 h et 56 min
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The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. From the perspective of half a century, it looks less like the last colonial war than the first postmodern one....
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The Jew a Negro
- Being a Study of the Jewish Ancestry from an Impartial Standpoint (1910)
- Auteur(s): Arthur Talmage Abernethy
- Narrateur(s): Will Stauff
- Durée: 2 h et 34 min
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Abernethy’s 1910 book The Jew a Negro has been analyzed by numerous modern authors studying race relations in earlier times in America....