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The Pirate Coast
- Thomas Jefferson, The First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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Astoundingly, Eaton persevered, gathering a ragtag army, including eight U.S. Marines, and leading them on a brutal march across 500 miles of desert. After surviving sandstorms, treachery, and near death from thirst, Eaton achieved a remarkable victory on "the shores of Tripoli", as commemorated in the Marine Corps Hymn. His triumph gained freedom for the American hostages and newfound respect for the young United States, but for Eaton, the aftermath wasn't sweet. When he dared to reveal that the president had abandoned him, Jefferson set out to crush him.
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He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades and brought it to its knees. This is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a 20-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean became legendary. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish empire on land and at sea determined the fates of kings and queens, and his victories helped shape the destiny of the New World.
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Morbid Terrorists?
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Rebels at Sea
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- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
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The heroic story of the founding of the US Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America's first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels that truly revealed the new nation's character. In Rebels at Sea, Eric Jay Dolin corrects that significant omission, and contends that privateers, as they were called, were in fact critical to the American victory. Privateers were privately owned vessels that were granted permission by the new government to seize British merchantmen and men of war.
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If you can get over the narrator...
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Washington's Spies
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- By: Alexander Rose
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
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Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors—including the spymaster at the heart of it all.
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Kinda boring
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Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom
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In Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom, Christopher S. Wren overturns the myth of Ethan Allen as a legendary hero of the American Revolution and a patriotic son of Vermont and offers a different portrait of Allen and his Green Mountain Boys. Based on original archival research, this is a groundbreaking account of an important and little-known front of the Revolutionary War, of George Washington (and his good sense), and of a major American myth.
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Ethan Allen's story is pretty complicated
- By DWD on 03-28-19
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A Great Book About A Fascinating Battle
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Swashbuckler or Saviour
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History at its finest!
- By Anonymous User on 04-04-24
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The Black Count
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The story behind the greatest novelist of all time
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The Pirate Hunter
- By: Richard Zacks
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
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Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer. However, Captain William Kidd was no career cut-throat; he was a tough, successful New York sea captain who was hired to chase pirates. Across the oceans of the world, the pirate hunter, Kidd, pursued the pirate, Culliford. One man would hang in the harbor; the other would walk away with the treasure. The Pirate Hunter is both a masterpiece of historical detective work and a page-turner.
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Aaaargh Matey, Listen to this tale!
- By Karen on 04-20-04
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Give Me a Fast Ship
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America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution - or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up American harbors and prey on American shipping. Colonists had no force to defend their coastline and waterways until John Adams of Massachusetts proposed a bold solution: The Continental Congress should raise a navy. Meticulously researched and masterfully told, Give Me a Fast Ship is the definitive history of the American Navy during the Revolutionary War.
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I learned so much
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Acclaimed author James Tertius de Kay recounts the lifeof Commodore Stephen Decatur in the first new biography of the great naval hero in almost 70 years. De Kay draws on material unavailable to previous biographers to explore Decatur’s extraordinary life. From his burning of the Philadelphia to his capture of the HMS Macedonian, Decatur demonstrated his legendary bravery at every turn.
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Excellent writing and exciting story
- By mikey on 08-02-19
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The Republic of Pirates
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Audible is better
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- Peter
- 02-02-07
I never knew
This book is an interesting historical account of William Eaton, a man I never knew about but who tackled amazing tasks under unbelievable circumstances. I am surprised that he doesn't hold a more well known place in history. The book does a good job of keeping my interest and giving an historical account of William Eaton's story.
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- C. DAWSON
- 04-30-16
Superb!!!
Great history superbly narrated
Highly recommend this book for history of Barbary pirates and individuals involvrd
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- Allan L. Folsom
- 01-26-24
Excellent listen!
A gripping tale of heroes and historical facts rarely mentioned in the standard narrative of early America. Well researched and well written. A must listen for every American
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- Stewart Kennedy
- 08-12-05
EXCELLENT
I am a huge fan of the Patrick O'Brian novels and have been looking for authors that write about that time period fiction or non fiction. This book hit the mark. It is well researched and well written. The authors meticulous research and writing style will lend itself well to educating future generations. He brings the story alive! The narrator is not the best (he is actually hard to listen to) but after you get into the story you do not notice or care.
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- Jeremy
- 09-11-05
So good I didn?t mind the weak narration
The only negative part of this title I think listeners need to be aware of is the weak narration. The reader uses little inflection, then suddenly breaks into weird accents many of which are inappropriate to the nationality of the character he is portraying. That having been said I was so taken by the story and the history that I honestly didn't mind.
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- Craig B. Kurtz
- 08-20-05
Good but long winded.
Outstanding historical account. They didn't teach us about this war in school. Every American should know this stuff, especially now! The book is too long winded. Look for an abridged version (if it exists).
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- T. B.
- 01-10-22
Detailed history I enjoyed this book. However...
I don't know if this book's file was Compressed, and it made the narrative sound faster or if the narrator just read it super fast!
Even the breaks at the end of a chapter to the start of a new chapter was so fast, that It made the chapter number sound almost like a conjunction in a sentence. There also seem to be very little by way of pausing or the rise or lowering of tone to indicate a new chapter was coming up, or a new paragraph was starting on a new subject.
The whole reading ran so fast, it could put Usain Bolt to shame. This is unfortunate because the narrator actually has a nice voice, and the author kept the historical information interesting. Sometimes history can be dry reading, but I think this author just proves that a big part of that, does depend upon the writer.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-12-22
Exciting, Nail-Biting, Only To End Sadly
As history often ends, this does not end in a happily ever after. This starts as a story of prisoners and hostages to a war story between an iron fisted ruler and American-Tripolian liberators only to end anticlimactic with bureaucratic tension between a general (William Eaton) who saw that the true and loved ruler of Tripoli be restored to the throne and politician (Tobias Lear) who'd rather pay to keep peace with a dictator and get American hostages back. Although this may make the reader depressed in the end, I still couldn't stop listening to it as it is an amazing true story of valiant soldiers and moronic politicians.
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- C. McKeon
- 03-25-23
Poor narrative of a good book
Unfortunately, the audio narrative was a poor production of an otherwise good book. I read the book a number of years ago, and I enjoyed it, but I recommend against the audio version
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- Mark Mears
- 03-17-24
Learned a lot.
The Pirate Coast
Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines and the Secret Mission of 1805
Richard Zacks
I cannot say the narrative was riveting, but I did learn a lot of new information regarding America vs the Barbary Pirates.
This book also demonstrates very well that American presidents leaving allies hanging out to dry is nothing new. Also that nations from that part of the world kidnapping Americans and holding them for ransom because they know we’ll fold like a cheap lawn chair is a longstanding tradition.
If you have an interest in these events, Mr. Zacks provides a great deal of detail.
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