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A Blaze of Glory
- A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh
- By: Jeff Shaara
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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It's the spring of 1862. The Confederate Army in the West teeters on the brink of collapse following the catastrophic loss of Fort Donelson. Commanding general Albert Sidney Johnston is forced to pull up stakes, abandon the critical city of Nashville, and rally his troops in defense of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Hot on Johnston's trail are two of the Union's best generals: the relentless Ulysses Grant, fresh off his career-making victory at Fort Donelson, and Don Carlos Buell.
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I Love Shaara, But Perhaps More in Print
- By Wolfpacker on 12-09-14
- A Blaze of Glory
- A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh
- By: Jeff Shaara
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
wonderful for civil war buffs and regular readers
Reviewed: 07-14-20
a great synopsis of the events of the battle of Shiloh, told in a deep, humanizing and sympathetic way.
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King Leopold's Ghost
- A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
- By: Adam Hochschild
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company's ships as they arrived from and departed for the Congo. Incoming ships were crammed with valuable ivory and rubber. Outbound ships carried little more than soldiers and firearms. Correctly concluding that only slave labor could account for these cargoes, Morel almost singlehandedly made this slave-labor regime the premier human rights story in the world.
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Fascinating
- By Edith on 01-20-11
- King Leopold's Ghost
- A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
- By: Adam Hochschild
- Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
an example of history done right.
Reviewed: 05-30-20
A fantastic and much needed book. A story that needed to be told about a long forgotten crime against humanity and the brave men who took it upon themselves to oppose Leopold's system of terror. However the audio book voice over left something to be desired.
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