The Boys' War
Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War
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Narrated by:
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Ed Sala
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By:
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Jim Murphy
About this listen
Ed Sala's interpretation of this well-documented history brings the Civil War to life in a way that few historians could. These everyday details of the war, told in the straightforward language of the young, provide a moving, unforgettable history lesson.
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Very poor reader with great material
- By L Day on 07-28-16
By: Bruce Catton
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The Great Anglo-Boer War
- By: Byron Farwell
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 23 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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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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There are no winners in war, only victims.
- By LtTora on 07-19-20
By: Byron Farwell
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The State of Jones
- The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy
- By: John Stauffer, Sally Jenkins
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the Civil War, the real South. Not the South that has been mythologized in novels and movies, but an authentic, hardscrabble place where poor men were forced to fight a rich man's war for slavery and cotton. In Jones County, Mississippi, a farmer named Newton Knight led his neighbors, white and black alike, in an insurrection against the Confederacy at the height of the Civil War.
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Confederate Insurrection-Rebellion against Rebels
- By W Perry Hall on 02-02-14
By: John Stauffer, and others
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Shiloh, 1862
- By: Winston Groom
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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SHILOH, 1862 - The Battle of Shiloh, fought in the wilderness of southern Tennessee in April 1862, marked a violent crossroads in the Civil War. What began as a surprise attack by Confederate troops on a Union stronghold to gain control of the Mississippi River Valley became a bloody two-day conflict that would eerily foretell the brutal reality of the next three years.
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Absorbing story of the hell of Shiloh
- By 9S on 02-04-13
By: Winston Groom
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The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
- By: Jakob Walter
- Narrated by: Patrick Tull
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Napoleon’s surrender and retreat from Moscow in 1812 is a pinnacle of military horror. Of the 600,000 men who crossed into Russia in June of 1812, only 25,000 would survive. Jakob Walter, a conscript soldier, was one of those survivors. His observant diary captures the everyday circumstances that soldiers suffered during the campaign.
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An Extraordinary account of Survival during War
- By Neil on 09-03-11
By: Jakob Walter
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Bull Run
- By: Paul Fleischman
- Narrated by: Paul Fleischman
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Bull Run was the site of the first battle of the Civil War. This book creates an intimate tapestry of stories from blacks and whites, adults and children, leaders and families from the North and South. Broken dreams and bloodshed take you back to the front lines of the Battle of Bull Run.
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Great book!
- By LaShanda on 07-04-16
By: Paul Fleischman
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The Training Ground
- Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War 1846-1848
- By: Martin Dugard
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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Nearly all of the Civil War's greatest soldiers - Grant, Lee, Sherman, Davis, and Jackson - were forged in the heat of the Mexican War. This is their story. At this fascinating juncture of American history, a group of young men came together to fight as friends - only, years later, to fight again as enemies.
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Another great Mexican War Book
- By William on 07-14-08
By: Martin Dugard
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Never in Finer Company
- The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion
- By: Edward G. Lengel
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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In the first week of October, 1918, six hundred men attacked into Europe's forbidding Argonne Forest. Against all odds, they surged through enemy lines—alone. They were soon surrounded and besieged. As they ran out of ammunition, water, and food, the doughboys withstood constant bombardment and relentless enemy assaults. Seven days later, only 194 soldiers from the original unit walked out of the forest. The stand of the US Army's "Lost Battalion" remains an unprecedented display of heroism under fire.
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An Amazing story
- By Bradley on 11-28-18
By: Edward G. Lengel