The Boys' War
Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War
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Ed Sala
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Jim Murphy
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's 2019 Book Award (Vermont)
This contemporary classic explores the role of boys who fought in the Civil War. No listener's vision of America’s most brutal and bloody war will be the same after listening to this audiobook.
“This wrenching look at our nation’s bloodiest conflict through the eyes of its youthful participants serves up history both heartbreaking and enlightening.”—Publishers Weekly
Some Union and Confederate soldiers were as young as twelve when they went off to fight in the Civil War. It is thought that as many as ten to twenty percent of all Civil War soldiers may have been under sixteen.
The Boys' War follows these young soldiers through the rigors of camp life and drilling, right into the chaos of the battlefield. Jim Murphy skillfully weaves together firsthand accounts and personal letters of these countless young men with historical context to paint their portrait—young soldiers who, either seeking escape from the drudgery of farm work or embracing fantasies of glory, participated in the Civil War.
Handsomely produced with numerous period photographs and drawings, The Boys' War is a winner of the Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
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This book is considered to be the best account of the Civil War ever written from the Confederate point of view. It is also the one most frequently cited by historians of the Western campaigns. Sam Watkins, a high private in the Army of Tennessee, brings a vividness and detail to his story unmatched in the genre.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nothing can top being there.
- De Glenn en 06-18-04
De: Sam Watkins
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Jack Hinson's One-Man War
- De: Tom C. McKenney
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,009
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,010
A quiet, wealthy plantation owner, Jack Hinson watched the start of the Civil War with disinterest. Opposed to secession and a friend to Union and Confederate commanders alike, he did not want a war. After Union soldiers seized and murdered his sons, placing their decapitated heads on the gateposts of his estate, Hinson could remain indifferent no longer. He commissioned a special rifle for long-range accuracy, he took to the woods, and he set out for revenge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Historically accurate Nonfiction as captivating as Author's prose
- De DZ en 01-17-17
De: Tom C. McKenney
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All for the Union
- The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
- De: Robert Hunt Rhodes
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 71
All for the Union is the astonishing and eloquent diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, the Union soldier featured in Ken Burns' highly acclaimed PBS television documentary The Civil War. Enlisting as a private in the 2nd Rhode Island Infantry, Rhodes fought in every major campaign waged by the Army of the Potomac, from Bull Run to Appomattox. Here, in his own powerfully moving words, Rhodes reveals why he was willing to die to preserve his beloved Union.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating Narrative
- De Nathan en 07-13-17
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A Time to Stand
- The Epic of the Alamo
- De: Walter Lord
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
On the morning of March 6, 1836, in an old abandoned mission called the Alamo, a small Texas garrison, fought to the death rather than yield to an overwhelming army of Mexicans. Through the years, the garrison's heroic stand has become so clothed in folklore and romance that the truth has nearly been lost. In A Time to Stand, Walter Lord rediscovers and recreates the whole fascinating story.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Okay book. Atrocious narration.
- De Jack en 01-22-20
De: Walter Lord
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A More Unbending Battle
- The Harlem Hellfighter's Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home
- De: Peter Nelson
- Narrado por: Jarvis Hooten
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
The night broke open in a storm of explosions and fire. The sound of shells whizzing overhead, screeching through the night like wounded pheasants, was terrifying. When the shells exploded prematurely overhead, a rain of shrapnel fell on the men below better than when the shells exploded in the trenches...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great
- De Bryce Odell en 06-05-17
De: Peter Nelson
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Rough Riders
- Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge up San Juan Hill
- De: Mark Lee Gardner
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 176
The first definitive account of this legendary fighting force and its extraordinary leader, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Lee Gardner's Rough Riders is narrative nonfiction at its most invigorating and compulsively listenable. Its dramatic unfolding of a familiar yet not fully known story will remind listeners of James Swanson's Manhunt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent and entertaining
- De nasfan55 en 07-18-17
De: Mark Lee Gardner
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Andersonville Diary
- A True Account
- De: John L. Ransom
- Narrado por: Adrian Cronauer
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Almost 10 times as many men died in the Civil War prison camps of the North and South as were killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. One such camp was Andersonville, where Union soldiers like Brigade Quartermaster John L. Ransom of the Ninth Michigan Cavalry, were subjected to hunger, disease, cruelty, and despair. Captured in November 1863, Ransom kept his spirits and courage up enough to survive and record this compelling true account of his experiences.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It was an awful time
- De Randolph en 10-11-03
De: John L. Ransom
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Rising in Flames
- De: J. D. Dickey
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 14 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 248
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 226
America in the antebellum years was a deeply troubled country, divided by partisan gridlock and ideological warfare. The Civil War that followed brought America to the brink of self-destruction. But it also created a new country from the ruins of the old one - bolder and stronger than ever. No event in the war was more destructive, or more important, than William Sherman's legendary march through Georgia - crippling the heart of the South's economy, freeing thousands of slaves, and marking the beginning of a new era.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic book and great narrator
- De Matt McMillen en 07-02-18
De: J. D. Dickey
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Mr. Lincoln's Army
- De: Bruce Catton
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 17 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 279
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 249
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 247
A magnificent history of the opening years of the Civil War by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton. The first book in Bruce Catton's Pulitzer Prize-winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln's Army is a riveting history of the early years of the Civil War, when a fledgling Union Army took its stumbling first steps under the command of the controversial general George McClellan.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very poor reader with great material
- De L Day en 07-28-16
De: Bruce Catton
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The Great Anglo-Boer War
- De: Byron Farwell
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 23 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it produced in almost equal measure extraordinary feats of personal heroism, unbelievable examples of folly and stupidity, and many incidents of humor and tragedy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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There are no winners in war, only victims.
- De LtTora en 07-19-20
De: Byron Farwell
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The State of Jones
- The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy
- De: John Stauffer, Sally Jenkins
- Narrado por: Don Leslie
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 96
The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the Civil War, the real South. Not the South that has been mythologized in novels and movies, but an authentic, hardscrabble place where poor men were forced to fight a rich man's war for slavery and cotton. In Jones County, Mississippi, a farmer named Newton Knight led his neighbors, white and black alike, in an insurrection against the Confederacy at the height of the Civil War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Confederate Insurrection-Rebellion against Rebels
- De W Perry Hall en 02-02-14
De: John Stauffer, y otros
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Shiloh, 1862
- De: Winston Groom
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 194
SHILOH, 1862 - The Battle of Shiloh, fought in the wilderness of southern Tennessee in April 1862, marked a violent crossroads in the Civil War. What began as a surprise attack by Confederate troops on a Union stronghold to gain control of the Mississippi River Valley became a bloody two-day conflict that would eerily foretell the brutal reality of the next three years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absorbing story of the hell of Shiloh
- De 9S en 02-04-13
De: Winston Groom
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The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
- De: Jakob Walter
- Narrado por: Patrick Tull
- Duración: 4 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Napoleon’s surrender and retreat from Moscow in 1812 is a pinnacle of military horror. Of the 600,000 men who crossed into Russia in June of 1812, only 25,000 would survive. Jakob Walter, a conscript soldier, was one of those survivors. His observant diary captures the everyday circumstances that soldiers suffered during the campaign.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Extraordinary account of Survival during War
- De Neil en 09-03-11
De: Jakob Walter
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Bull Run
- De: Paul Fleischman
- Narrado por: Paul Fleischman
- Duración: 1 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 62
Bull Run was the site of the first battle of the Civil War. This book creates an intimate tapestry of stories from blacks and whites, adults and children, leaders and families from the North and South. Broken dreams and bloodshed take you back to the front lines of the Battle of Bull Run.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De LaShanda en 07-04-16
De: Paul Fleischman
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The Training Ground
- Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War 1846-1848
- De: Martin Dugard
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 276
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 190
Nearly all of the Civil War's greatest soldiers - Grant, Lee, Sherman, Davis, and Jackson - were forged in the heat of the Mexican War. This is their story. At this fascinating juncture of American history, a group of young men came together to fight as friends - only, years later, to fight again as enemies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another great Mexican War Book
- De William en 07-14-08
De: Martin Dugard
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Never in Finer Company
- The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion
- De: Edward G. Lengel
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
In the first week of October, 1918, six hundred men attacked into Europe's forbidding Argonne Forest. Against all odds, they surged through enemy lines—alone. They were soon surrounded and besieged. As they ran out of ammunition, water, and food, the doughboys withstood constant bombardment and relentless enemy assaults. Seven days later, only 194 soldiers from the original unit walked out of the forest. The stand of the US Army's "Lost Battalion" remains an unprecedented display of heroism under fire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Amazing story
- De Bradley en 11-28-18
De: Edward G. Lengel
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The River Between Us
- De: Richard Peck
- Narrado por: Lina Patel, Daniel Passer
- Duración: 3 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
Richard Peck is a master of stories about people in transition, but perhaps never before has he told a tale of such dramatic change as this one, set during the first year of the Civil War. The whole country is changing in 1861, even the folks from a muddy little Illinois settlement on the banks of the Mississippi. Here, 15-year-old Tilly Pruitt frets over the fact that her brother is dreaming of being a soldier and that her sister is prone to supernatural visions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love Peck's way of writing about history!
- De Corbett Harrison -- The Always Write & WritingFix Websites en 09-03-12
De: Richard Peck
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Blood on the River
- James Town, 1607
- De: Elisa Carbone
- Narrado por: Bryan Kennedy
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 201
Twelve-year-old Samuel Collier is a lowly commoner on the streets of London. So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the Susan Constant, bound for the New World, he can’t believe his good fortune. He’s heard that gold washes ashore with every tide. But beginning with the stormy journey and his first contact with the native people, he realizes that the New World is nothing like he imagined. The lush Virginia shore where they establish the colony of James Town is both beautiful and forbidding, and it’s hard to know who’s a friend or foe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen
- De TV lover en 05-02-21
De: Elisa Carbone
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An American Plague
- The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
- De: Jim Murphy
- Narrado por: Pat Bottino
- Duración: 3 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 180
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 135
In An American Plague, Jim Murphy tells the story of the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. Bizarre medical practices of the time are discussed, as well as popular historical figures, such as George Washington and Benjamin Rush, who were involved in finding a cure for this horrific outbreak. Pat Bottino's captivating narration adds appeal to this interesting historical tale.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Don't expect technical depth...
- De Ebird en 01-27-06
De: Jim Murphy
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Rifles for Watie
- De: Harold Keith
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 556
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 476
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 478
With fighting erupting around his Kansas farm, 16-year-old Jefferson Davis Bussey can hardly wait to join the Union forces. He wants to defend his family from the dreaded Colonel Watie and his Cherokee Indian rebels. After enlisting, Jeff discovers the life of a soldier brings little glory and honor. During battle, his friends die around him. And when he infiltrates Watie’s camp as a spy, he discovers the enemy is much like himself—only fighting for a different cause.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great coming of age story
- De Chris en 01-27-15
De: Harold Keith
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Liberty for All?
- A History of US, Book 5
- De: Joy Hakim
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Early nineteenth-century America could just about be summed up by Henry David Thoreau's words when he said, "Eastward I go only by force, but westward I go free." It was an exuberant time for the diverse citizens of the United States, who included a range of folk, from mountain men and railroad builders to whalers and farmers, as they pushed forward into the open frontier. And all their hopes and fears are captured in Liberty for All?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great survey of pre-Civil War US history
- De EmilyK en 01-05-15
De: Joy Hakim
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The Phantom Tollbooth
- De: Norton Juster
- Narrado por: Rainn Wilson, Norton Juster
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,894
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,418
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,416
For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason. Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth the author intro alone!
- De Dukes Cooper en 03-20-19
De: Norton Juster
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The River Between Us
- De: Richard Peck
- Narrado por: Lina Patel, Daniel Passer
- Duración: 3 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
Richard Peck is a master of stories about people in transition, but perhaps never before has he told a tale of such dramatic change as this one, set during the first year of the Civil War. The whole country is changing in 1861, even the folks from a muddy little Illinois settlement on the banks of the Mississippi. Here, 15-year-old Tilly Pruitt frets over the fact that her brother is dreaming of being a soldier and that her sister is prone to supernatural visions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love Peck's way of writing about history!
- De Corbett Harrison -- The Always Write & WritingFix Websites en 09-03-12
De: Richard Peck
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Blood on the River
- James Town, 1607
- De: Elisa Carbone
- Narrado por: Bryan Kennedy
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 201
Twelve-year-old Samuel Collier is a lowly commoner on the streets of London. So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the Susan Constant, bound for the New World, he can’t believe his good fortune. He’s heard that gold washes ashore with every tide. But beginning with the stormy journey and his first contact with the native people, he realizes that the New World is nothing like he imagined. The lush Virginia shore where they establish the colony of James Town is both beautiful and forbidding, and it’s hard to know who’s a friend or foe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen
- De TV lover en 05-02-21
De: Elisa Carbone
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An American Plague
- The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
- De: Jim Murphy
- Narrado por: Pat Bottino
- Duración: 3 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 180
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 135
In An American Plague, Jim Murphy tells the story of the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. Bizarre medical practices of the time are discussed, as well as popular historical figures, such as George Washington and Benjamin Rush, who were involved in finding a cure for this horrific outbreak. Pat Bottino's captivating narration adds appeal to this interesting historical tale.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Don't expect technical depth...
- De Ebird en 01-27-06
De: Jim Murphy
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Rifles for Watie
- De: Harold Keith
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 556
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 476
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 478
With fighting erupting around his Kansas farm, 16-year-old Jefferson Davis Bussey can hardly wait to join the Union forces. He wants to defend his family from the dreaded Colonel Watie and his Cherokee Indian rebels. After enlisting, Jeff discovers the life of a soldier brings little glory and honor. During battle, his friends die around him. And when he infiltrates Watie’s camp as a spy, he discovers the enemy is much like himself—only fighting for a different cause.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great coming of age story
- De Chris en 01-27-15
De: Harold Keith
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Liberty for All?
- A History of US, Book 5
- De: Joy Hakim
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Early nineteenth-century America could just about be summed up by Henry David Thoreau's words when he said, "Eastward I go only by force, but westward I go free." It was an exuberant time for the diverse citizens of the United States, who included a range of folk, from mountain men and railroad builders to whalers and farmers, as they pushed forward into the open frontier. And all their hopes and fears are captured in Liberty for All?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great survey of pre-Civil War US history
- De EmilyK en 01-05-15
De: Joy Hakim
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The Phantom Tollbooth
- De: Norton Juster
- Narrado por: Rainn Wilson, Norton Juster
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,894
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,418
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,416
For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason. Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth the author intro alone!
- De Dukes Cooper en 03-20-19
De: Norton Juster