Civil War Women

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    • Clara Barton and the Civil War
    • By: Stephen B. Oates
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 19 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-20
    • Language: English
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    • When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a 39-year-old woman who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she became a veritable soldier, a nurse, and a one-woman relief agency....

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    • Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War
    • By: Stephanie McCurry
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 15-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • When the war broke out, Union soldiers assumed Confederate women would be innocent noncombatants. Experience soon challenged this simplistic belief. Stephanie McCurry reveals the vital and sometimes confounding roles women played on and off the battlefield....

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    • By: Septima M. Collis
    • Narrated by: Julie Ann Marra
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • A Woman's War Record by Septima M. Collis, narrated by Julie Ann Mara, offers a rare and compelling first-person account of life during the American Civil War from a woman’s perspective.

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    • By: Mary Chesnut, C. Vann Woodward
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 42 hrs
    • Release date: 04-03-25
    • Language: English
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    • The incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut wrote that she had the luck “always to stumble in on the real show.” Married to a high-ranking member of the Confederate government, she was ideally placed to watch and to record the South’s headlong plunge to ruin....

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    • True Civil War Stories from the Men and Women of the Old South
    • By: Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
    • Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • They say history is written by the victors. In the case of the Civil War, that's largely true. But historian Samuel Mitcham brings the Southern point of view to life in Voices from the Confederacy....

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    • The stunning and unforgettable historical novel of family, politics and the price of love in the Civil War
    • By: Miranda Malins
    • Narrated by: Karen Cass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • 1657. The youngest daughter of Oliver Cromwell, 18-year-old Frances is finding her place at England's new centre of power....

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    • By: Darina Al-Joundi
    • Narrated by: Lameece Issaq
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 13-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Raised on Charles Baudelaire, A Clockwork Orange, and fine Bordeaux in 1970s Lebanon, Darina Al-Joundi was encouraged by her unconventional father to defy all taboos....

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    • By: Frances Quinn
    • Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • Meet Endurance Proudfoot, the bonesetter’s daughter: clumsy as a carthorse, with a tactless tongue and a face she’s sure only a mother could love. Durie only wants one thing in life—to follow her father and grandfather into the family business of bonesetting....

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    • By: Louisa May Alcott
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Burns
    • Series: Little Women, Book 1
    • Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-06
    • Language: English
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    • Little Women is the story of a wife and her four daughters living in genteel poverty in the environs of Boston while the father is away as a chaplain in the Union Army during the Civil War....

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    • Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War
    • By: Sarah Watling
    • Narrated by: Sarah Watling
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In the 1930s, women and men from across Britain, Europe and America made their way to Spain to be part of what they identified as a historic fight for freedom from fascism....

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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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    • A nation torn apart by war. One woman steps into the crossfire.
    • By: Maggie Brookes
    • Narrated by: Avita Jay
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 21-year-old Lucy feels content with her life in Hertfordshire—not least because she lives next door to Tom and Jamie, two very different brothers for whom she has equally great affection. But her comfortable life is turned upside down....

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    • The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture
    • By: Karen L. Cox
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Karen L. Cox's history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause, shows why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure....

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    • Among the Women of ISIS
    • By: Azadeh Moaveni
    • Narrated by: Sarah Agha
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • A gripping account of 13 women who joined, endured, and, in some cases, escaped life in the Islamic State - based on years of immersive reporting by a Pulitzer Prize finalist....

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    • The Explosion in Lebanon, the Collapse of a Nation and the Women who Survive - Between Civil War, Israel and Hezbollah
    • By: Dalal Mawad
    • Narrated by: Dalal Mawad, Wooster Studio Ltd
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Journalist Dalal Mawad investigates modern Lebanon from the port explosion and civil war to the role of Hezbollah and Israel - and weaves an extraordinary story of survival, corruption and impunity, told through the stories of the women who survive.

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    • Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
    • By: Leanda de Lisle
    • Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Leanda de Lisle presents a myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspective....

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    • By: Paulette Jiles
    • Narrated by: Reba Buhr
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The Colley family is made of modest farmers in the Missouri Ozarks. Although Southerners, the Colleys try to remain neutral, a fact ignored by the Union militia who confiscate their livestock, burn their farm, and arrest their daughter, Adair, on charges of “enemy collaboration”....

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    • The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
    • By: Cokie Roberts
    • Narrated by: Cokie Roberts
    • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 14-04-15
    • Language: English
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    • With the outbreak of the Civil War, Washington, DC, found itself caught between warring sides in a four-year battle that would determine the future of the United States....

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    • An Army Nurse’s True Account of Her Experiences During the Civil War
    • By: Louisa May Alcott
    • Narrated by: Anne Hancock
    • Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • In the novel Little Women, Mr. March goes off to war. But in real life, it was Jo March (Louisa May Alcott herself, an avowed abolitionist) who traveled to Washington to nurse Northern soldiers. This is Alcott’s memoir but she chose to use the pseudonym “Tribulation Periwinkle” to tell her story.

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    • By: Meredith I. Anderson
    • Narrated by: John McBride
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-15
    • Language: English
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    • A collection of exciting stories about 13 young women, 11 to 24 years of age, based on actual events reported in letters and newspapers during our nation's greatest conflict....

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