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Vienna 1814
- How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace
- De: David King
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 151
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 94
The Napoleonic Wars had torn Europe apart, and the peace conference of 1814 was to be held in the continent's grandest city: Vienna. Everyone had an agenda in the postwar world, and spy networks, bitter hatreds, illicit affairs, and tangled alliances ensued.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not bad, but pronunciation not so good!
- De Mary-Jo en 10-06-08
- Vienna 1814
- How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace
- De: David King
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
Amazingly detailed story
Revisado: 12-09-23
The book is extremely entertaining and detailed. The narrator has a good voice but his pronunciation of non-English names (and even the name Castlereagh) is like hearing the wrong key played on a piano.
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An Honorable Defeat
- The Last Days of the Confederate Government
- De: William C. Davis
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 11 h y 32 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 14
In February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. Lee’s defeat at Gettysburg had dashed the hopes of the Confederate army, and Grant’s victory at Vicksburg had cut the South in two. An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender of the South and the assassination of Lincoln by Southern partisans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Riveting Account of the Confederacy's Final Days
- De Syd D en 06-08-24
- An Honorable Defeat
- The Last Days of the Confederate Government
- De: William C. Davis
- Narrado por: John Lescault
Wow
Revisado: 09-09-23
First a warning that the recording is a bit off. Some times it is extremely fast and then suddenly slows. Aside from that the stories of escape and attempts to escape by the Confederate cabinet just become more and more crazy. The details provided by the author are incredible.
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Rebels in the Making
- The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy
- De: William L. Barney
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 16 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 10
Rebels in the Making is a narrative-driven history of how and why secession occurred. In this work, senior Civil War historian William L. Barney narrates the explosion of the sectional conflict into secession and civil war. Carefully examining the events in all 15 slave states and distinguishing the political circumstances in each, he argues that this was not a mass democratic movement but one led from above.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating details
- De adds en 08-25-23
- Rebels in the Making
- The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy
- De: William L. Barney
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
Fascinating details
Revisado: 08-25-23
This was an excellent read. The author really gets into the weeds of what different people in the South were saying and thinking in the lead up to the civil war. The state-by-state analysis must have been painstaking to put together given the differing demographics and legislative activities within each.
SPOILER ALERT: It clearly illustrates the centrality of slavery to the conflict and exposes the Confederacy for its undemocratic and backward birth.
While I tend to be averse to what others might label as revisionist history, I would point out that the "Lost Cause" idea was itself revisionist when it peaked nearly a century ago. That said, what I most valued in this book was the author's tendency to quote what people actually said and wrote at the time. This way I can judge for myself. In providing this service the author has fully won me to his argument and I thank him for taking me on this journey through the South in 1860-61.
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Freedom on Trial
- The First Post-Civil War Battle over Civil Rights and Voter Suppression
- De: Scott Farris
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
Highlighting forgotten Black and White civil rights pioneers and weaving in the story of the author's own great-grandfather's crimes as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Freedom on Trial tells a gripping story of a moment pregnant with promise when race relations in the United States might have taken a dramatically different turn.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The story of my family
- De Daniel S. Brownell en 12-24-22
- Freedom on Trial
- The First Post-Civil War Battle over Civil Rights and Voter Suppression
- De: Scott Farris
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
Fascinating story; very well-read
Revisado: 05-02-21
Wild story. It feels like it should become a movie or HBO series. The author seems to have come across some previously unnoticed historical sources that provide a very "on-the-ground" look at Reconstruction-era South. Will definitely listen to again soon. The reader did an excellent job.
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