African Wars

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    • The SAS in Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 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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    • By: Byron Farwell
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 17-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 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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    • Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
    • By: Howard W. French
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 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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    • Power and Politics in the Civil War South
    • By: Stephanie McCurry
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 28-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • The Civil War in American Memory
    • By: David W. Blight
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 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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    • From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
    • By: Zeinab Badawi
    • Narrated by: Zeinab Badawi
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • For too long, Africa's history has been neglected. Dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, its past has been fragmented, overlooked and denied its rightful place in our global story. Now, Zeinab Badawi guides us through Africa's spectacular history....

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    • By: Tracy K. Smith
    • Narrated by: Tracy K. Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting....

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    • The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot
    • By: Thomas E. Simmons
    • Narrated by: DeMario Clarke
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The forgotten true story of American war hero John Charles Robinson, a.k.a. The Brown Condor of Ethiopia....

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    • A Memoir Miraculous Near Death of a Girl, Abducted, Shot During War, and Sung Back to Life by an African Woman
    • By: Robin Aisha Landsong
    • Narrated by: Robin Aisha Landsong
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • This beautifully honest account of survival and restoration carries the potency to revitalize each of us. This book holds inspiration for worldwide compassionate action and celebrates what Loving Bravely truly means.

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    • Stories and Poems from the Front Line
    • By: Lindsey Hilsum
    • Narrated by: Lindsey Hilsum, Mikhail Sen, Nadia Albina
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In nearly four decades as a journalist covering conflict from Rwanda to Kosovo to Palestine, Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum has always carried a book of poetry. In Ukraine, she tweeted a poem a day, and people began to read, to share, to ask for more.

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    • Travels with an African Soldier
    • By: Alexandra Fuller
    • Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 20-05-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 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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    • Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa
    • By: Evert Kleynhans
    • Narrated by: Adrian Galley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The story of the intelligence war in South Africa during the Second World War is one of suspense, drama and dogged persistence....

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    • The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
    • By: Michela Wrong
    • Narrated by: Michela Wrong
    • Length: 18 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 30-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • A new book from the award-winning author of In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, Do Not Disturb explores the controversial career of Paul Kagame and the legacy of the Rwandan genocide....

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    • The Story of the Last Slave
    • By: Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston
    • Narrated by: Deborah G. Plant, Robin Miles
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis, who was abducted from Africa on the last 'Black Cargo' ship to arrive in the United States....

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    • How the Left Is Selling a Fake Race War
    • By: Wilfred Reilly
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 26-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • In Hate Crime Hoax, Wilfred Reilly examines over 100 widely publicized incidents of so-called hate crimes that never actually happened. Reilly debunks these fabricated incidents and explores why so many Americans are driven to fake hate crimes....

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    • By: Mildred D. Taylor
    • Narrated by: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
    • Series: Logan Family Saga, Book 9
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-03
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Ever since running away at the age of fourteen, Paul-Edward, the son of a white landowner and a black slave, has had one dream...

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    • The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood
    • By: Fatima Shaik
    • Narrated by: Fatima Shaik
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • It is impossible to imagine New Orleans, and by extension American history, without the vibrant and singular Creole culture. In the face of an oppressive white society, members of the Société d’Economie et d’Assistance Mutuelle built a community....

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