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 429 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 278 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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    • 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 869 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 187 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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    • Travels with an African Soldier
    • By: Alexandra Fuller
    • Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger"....

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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 194 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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    • 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 1,010 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 Second World War and the East Africa Campaign
    • By: Andrew Stewart
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and Commonwealth forces completed a stunning and important victory in East Africa....

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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 323 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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    • 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 241 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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    • Decolonization, Conflict, and Nationhood in Southern Africa (Savage Civil Wars of the 20th Century: Revolutions, Resistance, and the Fight for Power)
    • By: Daniel Wrinn
    • Narrated by: Daniel Wrinn
    • Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Rhodesian Bush War (1964–1979) was a brutal and protracted guerrilla conflict that ultimately led to the end of white minority rule in Rhodesia and the birth of Zimbabwe.

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    • A Traveler’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States, 1853-1861
    • By: Frederick Law Olmsted
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 24 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • In 1853, Frederick Law Olmsted was working for the New York Times when he journeyed to the southern slave states and wrote one of the most important pro-abolition discourses....

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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 295 ratings
    • Tom Burgis exposes the truth about the African development miracle: for the resource states, it's a mirage....

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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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    • The Cartel Publications Presents
    • By: T. Styles
    • Narrated by: T. Styles
    • Series: War, Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • Raised in complete poverty, 14-year-old Banks Wales' world is rocked when his mother is murdered. If not for his best friend Mason, the son of a kingpin, Banks would be alone....

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    • A History
    • By: Eugene Rogan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 27 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 661 ratings
    • In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context....

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    • A Memoir Miraculous Near Death of a Girl, Abducted, Shot During War, and Sung Back to Life by an African Woman
    • By: Robin Aisha Landsong
    • Narrated by: Robin Aisha Landsong
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This beautifully honest account of survival and restoration carries the potency to revitalize each of us. This book holds inspiration for worldwide compassionate action and celebrates what Loving Bravely truly means.

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