Military History Africa

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    • The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 260 ratings
    • It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced....

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    • The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On
    • By: Leigh Neville, Matt Eversmann - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • On October 3, 1993, Task Force Ranger was dispatched to seize two high-profile lieutenants of a Somali warlord. The mission was meant to be over within the hour. They quickly found themselves under heavy fire, and two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down....

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    • Decolonization, Conflict, and Nationhood in Southern Africa (Savage Civil Wars of the 20th Century: Revolutions, Resistance, and the Fight for Power)
    • By: Daniel Wrinn
    • Narrated by: Daniel Wrinn
    • Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
    • Release date: 21-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Rhodesian Bush War (1964–1979) was a brutal and protracted guerrilla conflict that ultimately led to the end of white minority rule in Rhodesia and the birth of Zimbabwe.

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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 76 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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    • Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond
    • By: A.J. Balaam
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 21-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • 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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    • From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution
    • By: Geoffrey Plank
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-21
    • Language: English
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    • In a sweeping account, Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped the experiences of the peoples living in the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Revolution....

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    • The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941
    • By: Jeff Pearce, Richard Pankhurst - foreword
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 24 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • It was the war that changed everything, and yet it's been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels....

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    • By: Keith Chisnall
    • Narrated by: Keith Chisnall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 23-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • One man's untold story of Special Forces, including clandestine operations during the Rhodesian war. It is a story of trial, battle, friendships, and extraordinary life experiences during the bloody Rhodesian war....

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    • By: William Fowler
    • Narrated by: Matt Addis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
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    • In September 2000, 11 British soldiers were captured by a notorious militia gang in Sierra Leone. The so-called 'West Side Boys' had subjected their part of the country to a long reign of terror, murdering, kidnapping and mutilating anyone who stood in their way....

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    • Rome’s Greatest Enemy
    • By: Philip Freeman
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history....

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    • El Alamein and the Turning Point for World War II (Twentieth-Century Battles)
    • By: Glyn Harper
    • Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
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    • In the early years of World War II, Germany shocked the world with a devastating blitzkrieg, rapidly conquered most of Europe, and pushed into North Africa. As the Allies scrambled to counter the Axis armies, the British Eighth Army confronted the experienced Afrika Corps, led by German field marshal Erwin Rommel, in three battles at El Alamein....

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    • By: Mike Hoare
    • Narrated by: Mike Hoare
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 14-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Col. Mike Hoare tells how his force of mercenaries, 5 Commando, put down a Comunist-backed rebel uprising in the Congo....

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    • An Army Ranger in Somalia
    • By: James Lechner
    • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This is the inside story of an Army Ranger, surrounded and outnumbered, fighting a desperate action on the ground during the Black Hawk Down raid in Somalia in 1993....

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    • The History and Legacy of the British Empire’s Conflict with the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history....

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    • The Entebbe Raid - the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History
    • By: Saul David
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • This is the true story of the greatest special forces operation of the 20th century and the first shot in the West's long war against international terrorism....

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    • Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa
    • By: Robert Forczyk
    • Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Robert Forczyk covers the development of armored warfare in North Africa from the earliest Anglo-Italian engagements in 1940 to the British victory over the German Afrikakorps in Operation Crusader in 1941....

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    • Rome and Carthage at War
    • By: Dexter Hoyos
    • Narrated by: Tom McElroy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Mastering the West offers a thoroughly engrossing narrative of this century of battle in the western Mediterranean, while treating a full range of themes....

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    • From Mogadishu to the Fight Against ISIS, a Marine Special Operations Commander at War
    • By: Andrew Milburn
    • Narrated by: Andrew Milburn
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • These are the combat experiences of the first Marine to command a special operations task force, recounted against a backdrop of his journey from raw Second Lieutenant to seasoned Colonel and Task Force Commander...

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