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History 4Talking BooksThe titles in this booklist are just a selection of the titles available for loan from the RNIB National Library Talking Book Service.Don’t forget you are allowed to have up to 6 books on loan. When you return a title, you will then receive another one.If you would like to read any of these titles then please contact the Customer Services Team on 0303 123 9999 or email helpline@.uk.If you would like further information, or help in selecting titles to read, then please contact the Reader Services Team on 01733 37 53 33 or email libraryinfo@.ukYou can write to us at RNIB NLS, PO Box 173, Peterborough PE2 6WSPrehistoryHassett, Brenna. Built on bones: 15,000 years of urban life and death. 2017. TB23953.Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 12,000 years ago. You've got a choice to either carry on foraging, or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life is short and riddled with dozens of new diseases; your children will be shorter and sicklier than you are. Using research on skeletal remains from around the world, this book explores why our ancestors chose city life.Read by Laurence Bouvard. 12 hours 33 minutes. TB23953.Roberts, Alice M. The Celts: search for a civilization. 2015. TB23038.We know a lot about the Roman Empire. But there was another ancient people in Europe, feared warriors with chariots, iron swords, exquisite jewellery, swirling tattoos and strange rituals and beliefs. For hundreds of years Europe was theirs, not Rome's. They were the Celts. From Denmark to Italy; Portugal to Turkey, Alice Roberts takes us on a journey across Europe, revealing the remarkable story of the Celts: their real origins, how they lived and thrived, and their enduring modern legacy.Read by Di Langford. 8 hours 54 minutes. TB23038.Thompson, Christina. Sea People: In Search Of The Ancient Navigators Of The Pacific. 2019. TB704060.In Sea People, Thompson explores the fascinating story of these ancient navigators, as well as those of the many sailors, linguists, archaeologists, folklorists, biologists and geographers who have puzzled over this history for three hundred years. A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology and the science of navigation.Read by Susan Lyons. 11 hours 40 minutes. World History Ancient and MedievalBeard, Mary. SPQR: a history of ancient Rome. 2015. TB22744.This book explores not only how Rome grew from an insignificant village in central Italy to a power that controlled territory from Spain to Syria, but also how the Romans thought about themselves and their achievements, and why they are still important to us. Covering 1,000 years of history, and casting fresh light on the basics of Roman culture from slavery to running water, as well as exploring democracy, migration, religious controversy, social mobility and exploitation in the larger context of the empire. Read by Monica Kendall. 20 hours 23 minutes. TB22744.Hall, Edith. The ancient Greeks: ten ways they shaped the Modern World. 2016. TB23152.The ancient Greeks were a geographically disparate people whose civilization lasted over 20 centuries. Renowned classicist Edith Hall offers a revelatory and entirely new way of viewing this scattered people, identifying ten unique personality traits that she shows to be unique and central to the widespread ancient Greeks.Read by Monica Kendall. 13 hours 55 minutes. TB23152.Holland, Tom. Dynasty: the rise and fall of the house of Caesar. 2015. TB22911.The lurid glamour of the dynasty founded by Augustus has never faded. No other family can compare for sheer unsettling fascination with its gallery of leading characters. Tiberius, the great general who ended up a bitter recluse, notorious for his perversions; Caligula, the master of cruelty and humiliation who rode his chariot across the sea; Agrippina, the mother of Nero, manoeuvring to bring to power the son who would end up having her murdered; Nero himself, racing in the Olympics, marrying a eunuch, and building a pleasure palace over the fire-gutted centre of his capital. Read by Mark Meadows. 17 hours 48 minutes. TB22911.Josephus, Flavius. The Jewish war. 1981. TB22665.Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70. His account provides much of what we know about the history of the Jews under Roman rule, with vivid portraits of such key figures as the Emperor Vespasian and Herod the Great. Often self-justifying and divided in its loyalties, The Jewish War remains one of the most immediate accounts of war ever written.Read by John Waite. 19 hours 15 minutes. TB22665.British History Ancient and MedievalJones, Dan. The Templars: The Rise And Fall of God's Holy Warriors. 2017. TB24218.The Templars were protected by the pope and sworn to strict vows of celibacy. They fought the forces of Islam in hand-to-hand combat on the sun-baked hills where Jesus lived and died, finding their nemesis in Saladin, who vowed to drive all Christians from the lands of Islam. Then in 1307 the order was disbanded at the hands of a vindictive King of France. Read by Mark Elstob. 15 hours 41minutes. Rex, Peter. King & saint: the life of Edward the Confessor. 2008.TB23679.Born when England was besieged by bloodthirsty Vikings, Edward the future king of England was forced into exile in Normandy to escape the Danish invasion. That he grew up to become one of the greatest of English monarchs proves, that he was more than just the holy simpleton of some accounts. He cunningly played off his potential rivals and successors to his advantage using the prize of the throne as leverage. Read by Philip Bretherton. 8 hours 34 minutes. TB23679.British History Tudors and StuartsBuchan, John. Montrose: A History. 1979. TB24541.This is the biography of the military leader, the Marquis of Montrose. A successful commander of the Scottish royalist forces during the war with the Covenanters, contemporaneous with the English Civil War. This book reveals Montrose's military skills in descriptions of his battles, and also discusses his character.Read by David Monteath. 13 hours 29 minutes. Mortimer, Ian. The time traveller's guide to Elizabethan England. 2012. TB23737.We think of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. In this book Ian Mortimer reveals a country in which life expectancy is in the early thirties, people still starve to death and Catholics are persecuted for their faith. Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English language, some of the most magnificent architecture, and sees Elizabeth's subjects settle in America and circumnavigate the globe. Read by Mike Grady. 17 hours 44 minutes. TB23737.Nicholl, Charles. The Reckoning: The Murder Of Christopher Marlowe. 2002. TB24626.In 1593 the playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging-house. The official account was a quarrel over the bill, long regarded as dubious. This is an investigation of the killing, tracing Marlowe's political dealings and the charges of heresy and homosexuality against him. It is a revelation of the underworld of Elizabethan crime and espionage.Read by Jonathan Oliver. 17 hours 56 minutes. Rideal, Rebecca. 1666: plague, war and hellfire. 2016. TB23642.1666 was a watershed year for England. It was the year of the Great Plague; the eruption of the second Dutch War, the clash between two great powers which ultimately ended in one of the English military's most humiliating defeats; and the Great Fire. It is a year in which in many ways, gave shape to the country we know today.Read by Charlotte Strevens. 8 hours 51 minutes. TB23642.Russell, Gareth. Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII. 2017. TB23669.England July 1540: Anne Cleves is out. Thomas Cromwell is to be executed and, in the countryside, an aristocratic teenager named Catherine Howard prepares to become fifth wife to the increasingly unpredictable monarch. In the five centuries since her death, Catherine Howard has been dismissed as `a wanton', `inconsequential' or a victim of her ambitious family, but the story of her rise and fall offers not only a terrifying and compelling story of an attractive, vivacious young woman thrown onto the shores of history thanks to a king's infatuation, but an intense portrait of Tudor monarchy in microcosm.Read by Jenny Funnell. 16 hours. TB23669.Shapiro, James. 1606: William Shakespeare and the year of Lear. 2015. TB23042.1606 is an intimate portrait of one of Shakespeare's most inspired moments: the year of King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. 1606, while a very good year for Shakespeare, was a fraught one for England. Plague returns, there is resistance to the new king's desire to turn England and Scotland into a united Britain. Fear and uncertainty sweep the land and expose deep divisions in the aftermath of a failed terrorist attack that came to be known as the Gunpowder Plot. 1606 profoundly changes and enriches our experience of his plays, works that continue to speak to us with such immediacy.Read by Philip Bretherton. 12 hours 2 minutes. TB23042.Woolley, Benjamin. The King's Assassin: The Fatal Affair Of George Villiers And James I. 2017. TB24182.George Villiers became gentleman of the royal bedchamber in 1615. He enraptured James, Britain's first Stuart king, who declared he wanted the courtier to become his 'wife'. Villiers was at the king's side, at court, on state occasions and in bed, right up to James's death in March 1625. Now, new historical scholarship suggests Villiers, overcome by ambition and frustrated by James’s passive approach to government, poisoned him.Read by Chris Courtenay. 13 hours 18 minutes. British History Hanoverian, Georgian and RegencyAdkins, Roy. Eavesdropping On Jane Austen's England: How Our Ancestors Lived Two Centuries Ago. 2014. TB23823.This explores the real England of Jane Austen's lifetime. It was a troubled period. The comfortable, tranquil country of her fiction is a complete contrast to the England in which she actually lived. From forced marriages and the sale of wives in marketplaces to boys and girls working down mines or as chimney sweeps, this social history reveals how our ancestors worked, played and struggled to survive.Read by Charlotte Strevens. 15 hours 34 minutes. TB23823.Curzon, Catherine. Kings Of Georgian Britain. 2017. TB24476.For over a century of turmoil, upheaval and scandal, Britain was a Georgian land. 'Kings of Georgian Britain' offers a fresh perspective on the lives of the four Georges and the events that shaped their characters and reigns.Read by Mira Dovreni. 8 hours 9 minutes. Hofschroer, Peter. Wellington's smallest victory: the Duke, the model maker and the secret of Waterloo. 2005. TB22735.William Siborne, a lieutenant in the British army and expert in topography, was commissioned to make a vast scale model of Waterloo. The extraordinary story of how one man's obsession to build a huge model of Waterloo, the greatest model of the greatest battle of all time, incurred the wrath of the Duke of Wellington.Read by Jon Cartwright. 7 hours 18 minutes. TB22735.Riding, Jacqueline. Jacobites: a new history of the '45 Rebellion. 2016. TB23579.When Charles Stuart, known as the Young Pretender, sailed from France to Scotland in July 1745, with only a handful of supporters to claim the throne for his exiled father, few people within Britain were alarmed. But after he raised the Stuart standard at Glenfinnan destroyed a contingent of the British army at Prestonpans near Edinburgh, and then marched south the rising threatened to destabilise the British state.Read by Frances Jeater. 22 hours 21 minutes. TB23579.British History – Victorian and EdwardianDolan, Brian. Ladies Of The Grand Tour. 2002. TB24571.Hearing of the delights of the Grand Tour from pioneering friends, English ladies set off to sample foreign lands. Many returned apparently ‘the best informed and most perfect creatures’. For others the Grand Tour was a rite of passage. Dolan leads us into the hearts and minds of the ladies through the stories, thoughts and court gossip recorded in their journals, letters and diaries.Read by Christopher Oxford. 12 hours 37 minutes. Hawksley, Lucinda. March, women, march. 2015. TB23084.This explores the women's movement in Britain, from the passing of the Marriage and Divorce Act in 1857 to women attaining the vote in 1928. Published to commemorate the centenary of the death of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who threw herself under King George V's horse during the Derby and consequently sustained fatal injuries. Using diary extracts and letters, the main protagonists of the women's movement are brought back to life as Lucinda Dickens Hawksley explores how they were portrayed in literature and art, as well as the media reports of the day.Read by Harriet Dunlop. 7 hours 39 minutes. TB23084.British History 20th CenturyBagnall, Polly. Ferguson's Gang. 2015. TB23073.The Ferguson Gang was a mysterious and deeply eccentric group of women in the 1930s who combined anarchic stunts, fine dining and saving the English countryside. Disturbed by the growing destruction of our landscape and historic buildings they started to raise money for the National Trust, which a masked member would deliver in bizarre ways. In between stunts they travelled the country finding new places under threat, fuelled by hampers from Fortnums. They maintained their anonymity until death, but this biography unmasks them all for the first time.Read by Joan Walker. 7 hours 31 minutes. TB23073.Banfield, Petrina. Letters From Alice. 2018. TB703360.It is a stormy evening in 1920s London. When newly qualified almoner, Alice, stepped into the home of Charlotte, a terrified teenager who has just given birth out of wedlock, she did not expect to make a pact that would change her life forever. Based on extensive research into the archive material held at the London Metropolitan Archives, and enriched with lively social history and excerpts from newspaper articles.Read by Christine Kavanagh. 7 hours 52 minutes. Barrett, Duncan. GI brides: the wartime girls who crossed the Atlantic for love. 2013. TB22704.G.I. Brides weaves together the real-life stories of four women who crossed the ocean for love. Becoming a G.I. bride provided an escape route from Blitz-ravaged Britain, with an opportunity for a whole new life in America. Once in America, the women would have to adapt to a foreign culture and a new way of life thousands of miles away from family and friends, with a man they hardly knew out of uniform.Read by Tania Rodriguez. 11 hours 8 minutes. TB22704.Black, Sue. Saving Bletchley Park. 2016. TB23268.Imagine a Britain without Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing and a team of code breakers changed the course of World War II and where thousands of women inspired future generations with their work in the fields of computing and technology. Seventy years after the birth of the modern computer at Bletchley Park, a group of extraordinary people used technology to spark a social media campaign that helped secure its future and transform it into a world-class heritage and education centre. Read by Sue Black and Stevyn Colgan. 9 hours 49 minutes. TB23268.Breen, Colin. A Force Like No Other: The Real Stories Of The RUC Men And Women Who Policed The Troubles. 2017. TB24398.In 1968, the RUC was catapulted into the Troubles in Northern Ireland. As a former police officer, Colin Breen has unparalleled access to former RUC, Special Branch and CID officers who have never spoken out before. Their stories show the bombs, death threats and murder that officers regularly dealt with. They reveal the psychological and personal toll of the job as well as the camaraderie and the whiskey that helped them to cope. Contains swear words.Read by Stephen Armstrong. 6 hours 53 minutes. Cadbury, Deborah. Princes at war: the British Royal Family's private battle in the Second World War. 2015. TB23195.The personal lives of the British Royals were successfully kept out of the public eye by mutual agreement of the press and royal family, but this all changed in 1936 when King Edward VIII abdicated the throne and his responsibility for the sake of Wallis Simpson. This relationship had a darker side and Deborah reveals evidence that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor colluded with Hitler to take back the British throne from Edward's younger brother, King George VI, should Germany prevail in the War.Read by Cameron Stewart. 14 hours 1 minute. TB23195.Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War: Milestones To Disaster. 2007. TB23843.The Second World War; book 1. Churchill's history of the Second WorldWar is the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction. First published in six unabridged volumes and then later in four condensed volumes. The first condensed volume is Milestones to Disaster.Read by Christian Rodska. 10 hours 44 minutes. TB23843.Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War: alone. 2008. TB23844.The Second World War; book 2. Churchill's history of the Second World War is the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction. The second condensed volume is Alone.Read by Christian Rodska. 11 hours 8 minutes. TB23844.Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War: The Grand Alliance. 2008. TB23845.The Second World War; book 3. The third volume is The Grand Alliance.Read by Christian Rodska. 9 hours 54 minutes. TB23845.Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War: triumph and tragedy. 2008. TB23846.The Second World War; book 4. The fourth condensed volume is Triumph and Tragedy.Read by Christian Rodska. 13 hours 50 minutes. TB23846.Connelly, Charlie. Constance Street: the true story of one family and one street in London's East End. 2015. TB22721.Through the story of one street, Constance Street, we hear the true life tales of a tight knit group of working class women in the East End of London set against a backdrop of war, hardship and struggle. Set in a once thriving docking community that at the turn of the 20th century was the industrial heartland of the south of England; the story focuses on the lives of 12 incredible women and their struggle to survive amidst the chaos of the war years.Read by Leighton Pugh. 7 hours 50 minutes. TB22721.De Courcy, Anne. Debs at war: 1939-1945: how wartime changed their lives. 2006. TB22758.Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them, the war changed all that forever. It meant independence and the shock of the new, and daily exposure to customs and attitudes that must have seemed completely alien to them. For many, the almost military regime of an upper class childhood meant they were well suited for the no-nonsense approach needed in wartime.Read by Diana Moran. 14 hours 13 minutes. TB22758.Hampton, Janie. How the Girl Guides won the war. 2010. TB22458.Mention Girl Guides to any woman and the reaction will be strong. They are all too often regarded merely in terms of biscuit sales and sing-songs, hardly anybody is aware of the massive impact that they had on gender equality and the outcome of World War II. This book explores how the Guides' work was crucial to Britain's victory.Read by Meriel Schofield. 10 hours 40 minutes. TB22458.Higgs, John. Stranger than we can imagine: making sense of the twentieth century. 2015. TB23326.The story of the twentieth century told through the ideas produced at the furthest fringes of science, arts and culture. Its cast includes geniuses such as Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, as well as infamous but ne'er-do-wells including Timothy Leary and Keith Richards. Higgs brings us an alternative history of the strangest of centuries and shows us how the elegant, clockwork universe of the Victorians became more uncertain.Read by John Higgs. 11 hours 16 minutes. TB23326.Kynaston, David. Modernity Britain: a shake of the dice, 1959-62. 2014. TB22872.By 1959 consumerism was taking hold, relative economic decline was becoming the staple of political discourse, immigration was turning into an ever-hotter issue, traditional norms of morality were perceived as under serious threat, and traditional working-class culture was changing. The greatest shake of the dice, though, concerned urban redevelopment. Some of this transformation was necessary, but too much would destroy communities and leave a harsh, fateful legacy.Read by Steve Hodson. 20 hours 19 minutes. TB22872.Macintyre, Ben. A foreign field: a true story of love and betrayal during the Great War. 2010. TB22009.Four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines at the height of the fighting on the Western Front in August 1914. Unable to get back to their units, they shelter in the tiny French village of Villeret, where they are fed, clothed and protected by the villagers, including the local matriarch Madame Dessenne, the baker and his wife. The self-styled leader of the band of fugitives, Private Robert Digby, falls in love with the 20-year-old-daughter of one of his protectors, and in November 1915 she gives birth to a baby girl. The child is just six months old when someone betrays the men to the Germans. They are captured, tried as spies and summarily condemned to death. Using the testimonies of the daughter, the villagers, detailed town hall records and, most movingly, the soldiers’ last letters, Ben Macintyre reconstructs a story of love, duplicity and shame.Read by Jon Cartwright. 8 hours 19 minutes. TB22009.Mayo, Jonathan. Hitler's last day: minute by minute: 2015. TB22246.Hitler's Last Day: Minute by Minute is a chronological narrative, as seen through the eyes of those who were with Hitler in those last hours; those fighting in the streets of Germany; and those pacing the corridors of power in Washington, London and Moscow. It was a day of endings and beginnings when ordinary people were placed in extraordinary situations. President Truman, weighing up whether to use the atomic bomb; German officer Claus Sellier, on a last mission across the country to deliver vital documents or Allied aircrews dropping food parcels to feed the Dutch. Read by Richard Burnip. 10 hours 57 minutes. TB22246.Nicholson, Virginia. Perfect wives in ideal homes: the story of women in the 1950s. 2015. TB22054.This is the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm. Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century, and discover a world peopled by women with radiant smiles, clean pinafores and gleaming coiffures; a promised land of batch-baking, maraschino cherries and brightly hued plastic. A world where the darker side of the decade encompasses rampant prostitution, a notorious murder, and the threat of nuclear disaster. Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes reconstructs the real 1950s, through the eyes of the women who lived it. This is their story.Read by Sherry Baines. 17 hours 36 minutes. TB22054.Russell, Lynn. The sweethearts: tales of love, laughter and hardship from the Yorkshire Rowntree's girls. 2013. TB22532.From the 1930s through to the 1980s, as Britain endured war, depression, hardship and strikes, the women at the Rowntree’s factory in York kept the chocolates coming. This is the true story of The Sweethearts, the women who roasted the cocoa beans, piped the icing and packed the boxes that became gifts for lovers, snacks for workers and treats for children across the country. More often than not, their working days provided welcome relief from bad husbands and bad housing, a community where they could find new confidence, friendship and the occasional chocolate.Read by Maggie Mash. 10 hours 27 minutes. TB22532.Stourton, Edward. Auntie's War: The BBC During The Second World War. 2017. TB24499.Stourton investigates archives, diaries, letters and memoirs to examine what the BBC was and what it stood for. Recounting stories and anecdotes he has written much more than a portrait of a beloved institution at a critical time. 'Auntie's War' provides a vivid new perspective on the war; it also offers an incomparable insight into the broadcasting culture we still have today.Read by Philip Bretherton. 14 hours 49 minutes. British history general and socialGreen, M. R. London: A Travel Guide Through Time. 2016. TB24518.Let time traveller Dr Matthew Green be your guide to six periods in London's history - the ages of Shakespeare, medieval city life, plague, coffee houses, the reign of Victoria and the Blitz. You'll meet pornographers and traitors, actors and apothecaries, the mad, bad and dangerous to know, who will show you the thrilling history of London. Contains swear words.Read by Luke de Belder. 16 hours 45 minutes. Johnson, Boris. Johnson's life of London: the people who made the city that made the world. 2012. TB22464.London, a city which has over the centuries, survived attack, fire and devastation, is a place where people feel enabled to create and empowered to invent. It is and always has been home to a great variety of remarkable men and women – whose lives have enriched the rest of the world. Boris Johnson’s book is a celebration of the people who, from the Romans to the present day, give the city its vibrant and exuberant character. From Boudicca to Chaucer, Shakespeare to Florence Nightingale and Winston Churchill to Keith Richards. Read by Boris Johnson and Jot Davies. 11 hours 45 minutes. TB22464.Livingstone, Natalie. The mistresses of Cliveden. 2015. TB22189.In the three hundred years before the Profumo scandal, Cliveden was occupied by a dynasty of remarkable women: Elizabeth Villiers, an intellectual who brokered the rise and fall of governments; Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, a minor German royal who almost became queen of England; Harriet Duchess of Sutherland, the glittering society hostess turned political campaigner; and Nancy Astor, the consummate controversialist who became the first woman to take a seat in parliament. Under the direction of these women, Cliveden provided a stage for political plots and artistic premieres , hosted grieving monarchs and republican radicals, was idealised as a family home, and maligned as a threat to national security. Read by Charlotte Strevens. 16 hours 21 minutes. TB22189.Murray, Jenni. A history of Britain in 21 women. 2016. TB23910.Jenni Murray draws together the lives twenty-one women to shed light upon a variety of social, political, religious and cultural aspects of British history. From famous queens to forgotten visionaries and from great artists to our most influential political actors, Murray reinvigorates the stories behind the names we all know and reveals the fascinating tales behind those less familiar.Read by Jenni Murray. 8 hours 31 minutes. TB23910.Sackville-West, Robert. Inheritance: the story of Knole and the Sackvilles. 2010. TB22742.Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by 13 generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles. Here, drawing on a wealth of resources, the current incumbent of the seat paints a vivid portrait of the history of the magnificent house.Read by David Fellowes. 11 hours 4 minutes. TB22742.World HistoryBarr, Niall. Yanks and limeys: alliance warfare in the Second WorldWar. 2015. TB23422.The relationship between America and Britain had a chequered past. Then the shared crisis of World War Two brought them closer than ever before, and saw an unprecedented level of military cooperation. To uncover how this relationship recovered Niall goes back to the origins of their shared military history in the American War of Independence and shows how these early days had ramifications for the later crucial alliance.Read by Philip Franks. 17 hours 18 minutes. TB23422.Berton, Pierre. The Great Lakes. 2006. TB23071.Berton relates the history of the Great Lakes and the humans who have lived around them. From their birth during the Ice Age to the fight to save them from pollution, Berton tells the many stories which their shores have witnessed. He discusses the various people who sought to tame the Lakes: missionaries, voyageurs, fur trappers, loggers, miners. And there are vivid accounts of shipwrecks and storms on the Lakes.Read by Geoffrey Pierpoint. 6 hours 9 minutes. TB23071.Bryson, Bill. One summer: America 1927. 2013. TB23306.In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day, a semi-crazed sculptor with a plan to carve four giant heads into a mountain called Rushmore, a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and a youthful aviator named Charles Lindbergh who started the summer wholly unknown, and finished it as the most famous man on Earth.Read by Bill Bryson. 17 hours 7 minutes. TB23306.Chaplin, Joyce E. Round about the earth: circumnavigation from Magellan to orbit. 2013. TB23549.For almost five hundred years, humans have been finding ways to circle the Earth - by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. The story begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation, when few survived the attempt. Finally humans took to the skies to circle the globe in airplanes. Later, Sputnik, Gagarin, and Glenn pioneered a new kind of circumnavigation - in orbit. Read by Amy Finegan. 20 hours 57 minutes. TB23549.Emmerson, Charles. 1913: the world before the Great War. 2013. TB23313.Most retrospective accounts of the world in 1913 reduce it to either its most frivolous features, or to its most destructive ones: the rivalries of great European powers, rumbling social unrest in Russia and the angst of Viennese coffee houses. Proposing a different and more expansive portrait of 1913, Charles Emmerson reveals a year in which a truly global society was emerging for the first time in human history.Read by Kevin Stillwell. 19 hours 56 minutes. TB23313.Evans, Richard J. The pursuit of power: Europe 1815-1914. 2016. TB24014.In the period bounded by the Battle of Waterloo and the outbreak of World War I, Europe dominated the rest of the world as never before or since: this book shows how the continent shaped, and was shaped by, its interactions with other parts of the globe. Evans explores the revolutions, empire-building and wars that marked the nineteenth century, but the book is about more, whether it is illness, serfdom, religion or philosophy.Read by Napoleon Ryan. 41 hours 41 minutes. TB24014.Frankel, Glenn. High noon: the Hollywood blacklist and the makingof an American classic. 2017. TB23949.The story behind the classic movie High Noon and the toxic political climate in which it was created. It's one of the most revered movies of Hollywood's golden era. Yet what has been often overlooked is that High Noon was made during the height of the Hollywood blacklist. In the middle of the film shoot, screenwriter Carl Foreman was forced to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Read by Allan Robertson. 14 hours 30 minutes. TB23949.Frankopan, Peter. The silk roads: a new history of the world. 2015. TB23858.For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west, in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of riches and adventure. Sweeping right across Central Asia and deep into China and India, a region that once took centre stage is again rising to dominate global politics, commerce and culture. The Silk Roads is an exploration of the forces that have driven the rise and fall of empires.Read by Laurence Kennedy. 24 hours 17 minutes. TB23858.Hastings, Max. Catastrophe: Europe goes to war 1914. 2013. TB22221.In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century’s first terrible act of self-immolation - what was then called The Great War. Max Hastings seeks to explain both how the conflict came about and what befell millions of men and women during the first months of strife. He finds the evidence overwhelming, that Austria and Germany must accept principal blame for the outbreak. While what followed was a vast tragedy, he argues passionately against the ‘poets’ view’, that the war was not worth winning. It was vital to the freedom of Europe, he says, that the Kaiser’s Germany should be defeated. Read by Nigel Carrington. 29 hours 1 minute. TB22221.Hunt, David. Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia. 2015. TB23374.Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia. David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past. It introduces forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the crime of "felony of sock", and recounts the misfortunes of the escaped Irish convicts who set out to walk from Sydney to China, guided only by a hand-drawn paper compass, and explains the role of the coconut in Australia's only military coup.Read by David Hunt. 6 hours 47 minutes. TB23374.Jenner, Greg. A million years in a day: a curious history of everyday life: from the Stone Age to the phone age. 2015. TB23261.Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us in the morning until our head hits our pillow at night, we all take part in rituals that are millennia old. 'A Million Years in a Day' reveals the astonishing origins and development of the daily practices we take for granted. Jenner explores the gradual and often unexpected evolution of our daily routines.Read by Greg Jenner. 10 hours 49 minutes. TB23261.Jenness, Diamond. The Indians of Canada. 2001. TB21986.First published in 1932, this remains an important work on the history and culture of Native Canadians. Part one covers social, religious, economic, and political culture. Part two describes the tribes in geographic groups.Read by Mary Laurence. 19 hours 56 minutes. TB21986.Keay, John. Midnight's Descendants: South Asia from Partition To The Present Day. 2015. TB24044.This is an epic narrative history that compares and contrasts the fortunes of all the countries that make up South Asia (the preferred term for the partitioned subcontinent of modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, plus Nepal and Sri Lanka). It also incorporates the rich story of South Asia’s diaspora and looks at the rise of India as a global force.Read by Christopher Oxford. 18 hours 11 minutes. Kurlansky, Mark. Havana: a subtropical delirium. 2017. TB23951.Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant and tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes throughout, Havana celebrates the city's exceptional music, literature, baseball and food; its five centuries of outstanding, neglected architecture; and its extraordinary blend of cultures.Read by Fleet Cooper. 6 hours 3 minutes. TB23951.Lalvani, Kartar. The making of India: the untold story of British enterprise. 2016. TB23278.This begins in the seventeenth century, when a small sea-faring island, sent sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. This book examines Britain's remarkable contribution in providing India with its lasting institutional and physical infrastructure, which continues to underpin the world's largest democracy in the twenty-first century.Read by Chetan Pathak. 19 hours 30 minutes. TB23278.Lamb, Christina. Farewell Kabul: from Afghanistan to a more dangerous world. 2016. TB23550.‘Farewell Kabul’ tells how the West turned success into defeat in the longest war fought by the United States and by Britain since the Hundred Years War. It is the story of well-intentioned men and women going into a place they did not understand at all. And how, what had once been the right thing to do had become a conflict that everyone wanted to exit. It has left Afghanistan still one of the poorest and most dangerous nations on earth.Read by Sherry Baines. 26 hours 57 minutes. TB23550.Lieven, D. C. B. Towards the flame: empire, war and the end of Tsarist Russia. 2015. TB23376.The Russian decision to mobilize in July 1914 may have been the single most catastrophic choice of the modern era. Russia's rulers thought they were acting to secure their future, but, after millions of deaths and two revolutions, they were consigning their class to death or exile and their country to a generations-long experiment under a very different regime.Read by Sean Barrett. 16 hours 3 minutes. TB23376.Lokhova, Svetlana. The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets. 2018. TB703081.Shumovsky was an aviation spy, his espionage was so successful that the USSR acquired every US aviation secret from his network of agents in factories and at top secret military research institutes. Svetlana takes the reader through Stalin's most audacious intelligence operation, exposing how even Shirley Temple and Franklin D. Roosevelt unwittingly advanced his schemes.Read by Richard Trinder. 12 hours 55 minutes. Norwich, John Julius. Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent And The Obsessions That Forged Modern Europe. 2017. TB24195.Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent were four great princes born within a single decade. Against the rich background of the Renaissance and destruction of the Reformation, their wary obsession with one another laid the foundations for modern Europe. Read by Christopher Scott. 9 hours 29 minutes. Sebestyen, Victor. 1946: the making of the modern world. 2015. TB23439.With the end of the Second World War, a new world was born. Foreign correspondent and historian Victor Sebestyen draws on contemporary documents, including Stalin's briefing notes for the Potsdam and Paris conferences, to examine what lay behind the political decision-making.Read by Cameron Stewart. 13 hours 46 minutes. TB23439.Strathern, Paul. The Artist, The Philosopher And The Warrior: Leonardo, Machiavelli And Borgia: A Fateful Collusion. 2010. TB24051.In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli - set out on one of the most treacherous military campaigns of the period. Cesare Borgia was a ferocious military leader. Niccolò Machiavelli was a witty and subversive intellectual. And Leonardo da Vinci was a visionary master and the most talented military engineer in Italy. Read by Chris Courtenay. 17 hours 33 minutes. Von Tunzelmann, Alex. Blood and sand: Suez, Hungary and the crisis that shook the world. 2017. TB23882.Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, the twin crises of Suez and Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict and what many at the time were calling World War III. Blood and Sand is a history of these dramatic events. It is a tale of conspiracy and revolutions, spies and terrorists, kidnappings and assassination plots, the fall of the British Empire and the rise of American hegemony.Read by Lisa Coleman. 15 hours 15 minutes. TB23882.Whitehead, Ruth Holmes. The old man told us: excerpts from Micmac history, 1500-1950. 2003. Canadian Library Nonfiction TB21975.A collection of oral and written accounts about the Micmac people since the 16th century. Arranged chronologically by century, the accounts include narratives from Micmac tradition, as well as European perceptions of native peoples as recorded in letters and journals.Read by Barbara Byam. 18 hours 11minutes. TB21975. ................
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