Rogerio de Oliveira Souza

Another remarkable audiobook

Revisado: 04-20-19

Christmas 1914 is a masterpiece. You are listening a real play as if you were in a theater or best in the real battlefield of the Great War. The actor´s voices are superb. The story is touching and very emotive. The music that follow the entire play is absolutely perfect. Highly recommended.

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A Classic Book that worths to be listen

Revisado: 05-09-18

Edward Gibbon is a classic writer and an Historian classic. He has the ability to build historical texts using beautiful images and should be a poet. Audible Amazon Co. certainly hits a point of excellence offering us this masterpiece of History read by David Timson, who is a fantastic reader. His accent, his voice, his own interpretation of the text take us to the Ancient Rome, following the armies, watching the battles, listening the great roman orators, admring the archicteture of the big cities. The listening of these volumes let us learn the History of Rome through his decline and, finally, the fall of Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. The ascension of the Germanic Kingdoms is explained also in an historic romantic way, showing the palacian coups and intrigues. You probably will stop only when David annouces: the end.

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The War to End All Wars: Really?

Revisado: 03-21-18

The First World War received many labels since its start in July, 28th, 1914: war against the "huns", war against barbarism, the "War to End All Wars", the war for Democracy in all the world. During about one hour, we can look through the main events of the war, since the shot against Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo, the immediate cause of the war, to the great battles of Verdun, The Somme, the 3 Ypres. The stalamete of the famous "western front" is sketched along the audible. The huge resources devoted to make war and transform it in the frist total war in History, involving the families at home, the workers in the industries, the professors in the classrooms and even the priests in the churches. All society was completely absorbed by the war. It was a war that even the riches fought along side the poor, creating a characteristc sprit du corps between the files, the ranks and the officials. After more than five years of fight and dead and mud, the Armistice was accepted by Germany in the 11th Hour of the 11th Month in 1918. But it was not the end of all wars, but only a truce. Hourly History is a excellent introduction for all those who desire to know more about this cataclysmic event of human history.

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"Power is the end".

Revisado: 02-18-18

“Power is the end”

I just finished hearing the audiobook “Hitler, a Life from Beginning to End” from the series “Hourly History”, narrated by Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr. You might say that it is impossible to know the life of Hitler just in one hour, especially after the massive biographies of Bullock and Feist. That is not the proposal of the series, of course, but you will be able to know the very facts of the life of a man that was named “the personification of evil” and made the power an end itself. The first chapters discuss about the origins of Hitler, his family and his own name’s modification. The relations of Hitler with her mother and nephew, including her tragic death. The years of Hitler during the First World War and her disillusions after the defeat in November, 1918. The political indictment of the political class by the defeat in the battlefield (the famous “stab in the back” legend) and the attribution to the “Jews of the world” as the “enemy behind”, are referenced in the audiobook. The ascension of Hitler, from spy to the leadership of the tiny Nazi party (by the transformation of the old workers party of the initial Weimar days) and, finally, the conquest of the power in the national elections, using the image and the powerful figure Hindenburg as President of Germany. After the death of the Marshal in January of 1933, Hitler managed to assume the prime-chancellorship and immediately open the doors to his own party controls the political and administrative machine of the state. The establishment of absolute state, controlling the minor aspects of the life of the citizen and conducting the German society to believe that the only way out of its economic situation was through the revenge of the “diktat” of Versailles, liberating the nation from the military and economic limitations upon her. There is no detail of the battles and campaigns of the Second World War, of course and it is not necessary to understand the life of Adolf Hitler in just one hour. You will know about the first shot against Poland and the last Russian shots against Germany inside Berlin. The historical records of Hitler’s life put alive in one hour will foment our interests to look for more and possibly, you’ll be encouraged to face the books of Feist or Bullock indeed. Take one hour, hear the main events in the life of one of the most enigmatic historical figure of the XX Century, liking him or not.

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