African Wars

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    • Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond
    • By: A.J. Balaam
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 425 ratings
    • Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother, or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. This is the story of Andrew Balaam, a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and the Selous Scouts for 12 years....

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    • The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
    • By: Jason Stearns
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 277 ratings
    • At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war....

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    • By: Byron Farwell
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • 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....

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    • General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918
    • By: Robert Gaudi
    • Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,009 ratings
    • African Kaiser is the almost-forgotten true account of Wiemar Germany's military escapades on the dark continent. A story of 1,000-mile marches through the harshest landscapes....

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    • The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 863 ratings
    • It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced....

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    • The History, Rise, and Fall of the Tribe That Washed Its Spears
    • By: Xolani Mkhize, Adrian Greaves
    • Narrated by: Kevin Free
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 186 ratings
    • By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the establishment of Zululand, The Zulus at War is an important and readable addition....

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    • Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
    • By: Howard W. French
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • Born in Blackness reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, anchoring of democracy in the West, and fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent....

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    • By: James D. Anderson
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern Black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing Black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into Black commitment to education....

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    • The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
    • By: Martin Meredith
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 240 ratings
    • Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world....

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    • By: Beverly Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 385 ratings
    • Josephine "Jojo" Best has it all figured out. Just 17, she's been to college, has her own hairdressing shop, and nothing will distract her from her goals. That is, until handsome George Brooks begins to pursue her. Then the return of her childhood nemesis complicates her life even further....

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    • The SAS in Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 319 ratings
    • In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....

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    • A Novel
    • By: William Stevenson
    • Narrated by: Malk Williams
    • Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In German-occupied East Africa during World War I, British forces have arrived. In defiance of his orders, German military commander Paul von Lettow enlists soldiers....

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    • American Heritage
    • By: Stephen W. Sears
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The struggle for North Africa was unlike any other campaign of World War II. The desert proved a real test of generalship, pitting Germany's Erwin Rommel against....

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    • Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments
    • By: Herbert C. Covey
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • African American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African American slaves' medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War....

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    • A Heartwarming and Gripping Post Civil War Era Southern Plantation Family Saga Set in the Deep South of Mobile, Alabama (Faith-based)
    • By: Tammy Lockamy
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Ya'll, let me tell you my story!Glad you could find your way here, and I welcome you to the Sellers Plantation here in the deep south of Mobile, ...

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    • Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
    • By: Tom Burgis
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 294 ratings
    • Tom Burgis exposes the truth about the African development miracle: for the resource states, it's a mirage....

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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 838 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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    • From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
    • By: Zeinab Badawi
    • Narrated by: Zeinab Badawi
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • For too long, Africa's history has been neglected. Dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, its past has been fragmented, overlooked and denied its rightful place in our global story. Now, Zeinab Badawi guides us through Africa's spectacular history....

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