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Memoir of Susie King Taylor
- A Civil War Nurse
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- Length: 31 mins
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Publisher's summary
Susie King Taylor, born a slave in 1848, would learn to read at secret schools and go on to teach countless others to read and write. Follow the course of the Civil War in her own words as she remembers her work as a nurse and teacher with an Army troop of African-American soldiers.
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Style kills the stories
- By KHdeB on 01-12-21
By: Marianne Monson
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Grant and Sherman
- The Friendship That Won the Civil War
- By: Charles Bracelen Flood
- Narrated by: Charles Bracelen Flood
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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"We were as brothers," William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it possible.
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Superb History
- By Brad LaMorgese on 01-24-11
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The New York Times: Disunion
- Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln's Election to the Emancipation Proclamation
- By: Ted Widmer - editor
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck, Mark Boyett, Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 19 hrs and 2 mins
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A major new collection of modern commentary - from scholars, historians, and Civil War buffs - on the significant events of the Civil War, culled from The New York Times' popular Disunion online journal.
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Excellent audiobook! Love this format!
- By BVerité on 03-17-15
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The Great Anglo-Boer War
- By: Byron Farwell
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 23 hrs and 24 mins
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The Great Boer War (1899-1902) - more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War - was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it produced in almost equal measure extraordinary feats of personal heroism, unbelievable examples of folly and stupidity, and many incidents of humor and tragedy.
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More than a war, it was a human tragedy
- By LtTora on 07-19-20
By: Byron Farwell
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The American Civil War: History in an Hour
- By: Kat Smutz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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History for busy people. The American Civil War was fought between the Confederates and the Union from 1861 to 1865. This is a concise history of this tumultuous period.The American Civil War started when eleven southern ‘slave’ states declared their independence from the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln’s Republican government were strongly against slavery and fought to abolish it and keep the country united.
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Left slant.
- By Hamish Barrett on 09-09-18
By: Kat Smutz
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A Slave No More
- Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
- By: David W. Blight
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the 100 or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group.
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A Piece Of History
- By John on 07-10-09
By: David W. Blight
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General Lee's Army
- From Victory to Collapse
- By: Joseph T. Glatthaar
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 25 hrs and 17 mins
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This sweeping history of the Civil War and the Confederacy is told through the lens of its most crucial army: the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Robert E. Lee. General Lee's Army takes listeners across the Rebel landscape, from campfires to battlefields to their homes, as it portrays a world of life, death, healing, and hardship.
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Bad history, worse statistic
- By Lorin Radtke on 08-08-08
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
- A Biography
- By: Jack Hurst
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
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In this detailed and fascinating account of the legend of the "Wizard of the Saddle," we see a man whose strengths and flaws were both of towering proportions, a man possessed of physical valor perhaps unprecedented among his countrymen. And, ironically, Forrest - the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan - was a man whose social attitudes may well have changed farther in the direction of racial enlightenment over the span of his lifetime than those of most American historical figures.
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The complex Forrest
- By jeffery b. howell on 01-17-18
By: Jack Hurst
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Washington's Crossing
- By: David Hackett Fischer
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
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This New York Times best seller is a thrilling account of one of the most pivotal moments in United States history. Six months after the Declaration of Independence, America was nearly defeated. Then on Christmas night, George Washington led his men across the Delaware River to destroy the Hessians at Trenton. A week later Americans held off a counterattack, and in a brilliant tactical move, Washington crept behind the British army to win another victory. The momentum had reversed.
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Particularly Good Military History
- By William on 10-11-04
What listeners say about Memoir of Susie King Taylor
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- PrEciOuS_ArI
- 05-18-22
Exceptional Memoir
Great part of history !!! Takes you through a piece of history you may not have been taught.
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- Patricia e.
- 12-15-22
A Book that all Americans Should Read
This small story or narrative gives one a glimpse into life of the slave during Civil War. My desire that every child and adult in America and beyond should read this informing script.
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- anthony pierre
- 04-08-22
This is a great story to enlist pride oneself.
Something for kids to know as well to know oneself from the past to the present and into the future
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