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Venice
- A New History
- By: Professor Thomas F. Madden
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 625
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 549
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 543
An extraordinary chronicle of Venice, its people, and its grandeur Thomas Madden’s majestic, sprawling history of Venice is the first full portrait of the city in English in almost thirty years. Using long-buried archival material and a wealth of newly translated documents, Madden weaves a spellbinding story of a place and its people, tracing an arc from the city’s humble origins as a lagoon refuge to its apex as a vast maritime empire and Renaissance epicenter to its rebirth as a modern tourist hub.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Omits slave trade
- By Rocky Stonebreaker on 08-21-16
- Venice
- A New History
- By: Professor Thomas F. Madden
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Terrific read
Reviewed: 02-24-18
Riveting history. Very easy to absorb and great pace of narrative. Just enough detail to provide insight without overwhelming the listener. A great achievement to cover everything from the founding of the city to the great flood of 1966. I knew little of the events leading up to the end of the republic and the eventual incorporation into Italy in the 1860s. But the tales of naval battles, Byzantine intrigue and the pilfering of St Mark’s remains are spellbindingly well told. It touches on art, architecture and music, as well as crusades and commerce. All in all, excellent.
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The Fall of the Ottomans
- The Great War in the Middle East
- By: Eugene Rogan
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,527
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,335
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,323
In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book About A Little Known Part of WWI
- By Nostromo on 06-08-15
- The Fall of the Ottomans
- The Great War in the Middle East
- By: Eugene Rogan
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Good but could be better
Reviewed: 03-20-17
Very good. Comprehensive but was heavier on the straight military campaigns than I was hoping. Only the last hour is really devoted to the political collapse of the empire itself and the chaos and subterfuge surrounding the creation of modern turkey and the drawing of boundaries in the Middle East after WW1. But good background and introduction to Balkan wars and the genesis of the alliance with the central powers. A good read.
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