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The Rush

California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World

de Nathaniel Philbrick ...

Narrado por Scott Brick ...

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13 hora 21 minutos

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026 · A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the FallNational Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California’s Gold Rush forged the modern United States—and lit the long fuse to civil war**In January 1848, a carpenter spotted ... Leer más

$26.99 USD

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026 · A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the FallNational Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California’s Gold Rush forged the modern United States—and lit the long fuse to civil war**In January 1848, a carpenter spotted
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This Land is Your Land

A Road Trip Through U.S. History

de Beverly Gage ...

Narrado por Gabra Zackman ...

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8 hora 43 minutos

A Barack Obama Summer Reading List SelectionPulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past.Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about our ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

A Barack Obama Summer Reading List SelectionPulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past.Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about our
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The World That Made New Orleans

From Spanish Silver to Congo Square

de Ned Sublette ...

Narrado por Sean Crisden ...

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11 hora 52 minutos

Offering a new perspective on the unique cultural influences of New Orleans, this entertaining history captures the soul of the city and reveals its impact on the rest of the nation. Focused on New Orleans' first century of existence, a comprehensive, chronological narrative of the political, cultural, and musical development of Louisiana's early years is presented. This innovative history tracks ... Leer más

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Offering a new perspective on the unique cultural influences of New Orleans, this entertaining history captures the soul of the city and reveals its impact on the rest of the nation. Focused on New Orleans' first century of existence, a comprehensive, chronological narrative of the political, cultural, and musical development of Louisiana's early years is presented. This innovative history tracks
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The Poisoner's Handbook

Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

de Deborah Blum ...

Narrado por Coleen Marlo ...

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9 hora 14 minutos

Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook, Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end ... Leer más

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Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook, Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end
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They Were Her Property

White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

de Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers ...

Narrado por Allyson Johnson ...

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10 hora 26 minutos

A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy.Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who ... Leer más

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A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy.Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who
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A Midwife’s Tale

The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

de Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ...

Narrado por Susan Ericksen ...

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15 hora 42 minutos

Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.Between 1785 and 1812, a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in twenty-seven years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in ... Leer más

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Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.Between 1785 and 1812, a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in twenty-seven years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in
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Soul by Soul

Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

de Walter Johnson ...

Narrado por Tom Perkins ...

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10 hora 22 minutos

Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the ... Leer más

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Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the
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Six Women of Salem

The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials

de Marilynne K. Roach ...

Narrado por Kate Reading ...

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17 hora 8 minutos

Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, two hundred and seven individuals had been accused, seventy four had been "afflicted," thirty two had officially accused their ... Leer más

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Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, two hundred and seven individuals had been accused, seventy four had been "afflicted," thirty two had officially accused their
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White Flight

Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

de Kevin M. Kruse ...

Narrado por Aaron Williamson ...

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13 hora 48 minutos

During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate."In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains ... Leer más

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During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate."In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains
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Glass House

The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town

de Brian Alexander ...

Narrado por Bob Souer ...

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11 hora 7 minutos

The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster's citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon, ... Leer más

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The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster's citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon,
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American Pain

How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic

de John Temple ...

Narrado por Charlie Thurston ...

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10 hora 18 minutos

The king of the Florida pill mills was American Pain, a mega-clinic expressly created to serve addicts posing as patients. From a fortresslike former bank building, American Pain's doctors distributed massive quantities of oxycodone to hundreds of customers a day, mostly traffickers and addicts who came by the vanload. Inked muscleheads ran the clinic's security. Former strippers operated the ... Leer más

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The king of the Florida pill mills was American Pain, a mega-clinic expressly created to serve addicts posing as patients. From a fortresslike former bank building, American Pain's doctors distributed massive quantities of oxycodone to hundreds of customers a day, mostly traffickers and addicts who came by the vanload. Inked muscleheads ran the clinic's security. Former strippers operated the
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The Hemingses of Monticello

An American Family

de Annette Gordon-Reed ...

Narrado por Karen White ...

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30 hora 37 minutos

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. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and ... Leer más

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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. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and
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On the Edge of Survival

A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend

de Spike Walker ...

Narrado por Robertson Dean ...

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6 hora 2 minutos

A Malaysian cargo ship on its way from Seattle, Washington, to China ran aground off the coast of western Alaska's Aleutian Islands on December 8, 2004, during a brutal storm, leading to one of the most incredible Coast Guard rescue missions of all time.Two Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopters lifted off immediately from Air Station Kodiak during the driving storm in an effort to rescue the ship's ... Leer más

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A Malaysian cargo ship on its way from Seattle, Washington, to China ran aground off the coast of western Alaska's Aleutian Islands on December 8, 2004, during a brutal storm, leading to one of the most incredible Coast Guard rescue missions of all time.Two Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopters lifted off immediately from Air Station Kodiak during the driving storm in an effort to rescue the ship's
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Savage Kingdom

The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America

de Benjamin Woolley ...

Narrado por David Drummond ...

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13 hora 59 minutos

Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the first American colony, Savage Kingdom presents a bold, even reckless, political adventure driven by a sense of imperial destiny and dogged by official hostility.Four centuries ago, and fourteen years before the Mayflower, a group of men—led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat, a reprobate cleric, and a government spy—left London ... Leer más

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Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the first American colony, Savage Kingdom presents a bold, even reckless, political adventure driven by a sense of imperial destiny and dogged by official hostility.Four centuries ago, and fourteen years before the Mayflower, a group of men—led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat, a reprobate cleric, and a government spy—left London
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Franklin Roosevelt

A Captivating Guide to the Life of FDR

de Captivating History ...

Narrado por Duke Holm ...

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1 horas 41 minutos

Explore how FDR went from almost dying at birth to leading the United States through the Great Depression and World War IIAs the 32nd president of the United States of America, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a common household name in both his home country and the world. Known as the man who led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, Roosevelt was a leader and a statesman, ... Leer más

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Explore how FDR went from almost dying at birth to leading the United States through the Great Depression and World War IIAs the 32nd president of the United States of America, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a common household name in both his home country and the world. Known as the man who led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, Roosevelt was a leader and a statesman,
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Salem Possessed

The Social Origins of Witchcraft

de Stephen Nissenbaum, Paul S. Boyer ...

Narrado por Norman Dietz ...

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9 hora 58 minutos

Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which climaxed in the Salem witch trials.From rich and varied sources—many neglected and unknown—Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the people and events more intricate and ... Leer más

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Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which climaxed in the Salem witch trials.From rich and varied sources—many neglected and unknown—Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the people and events more intricate and
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Brief History of the United States, A

From Revolution to Superpower - How America Took Over the World

de Dominic Haynes ...

Narrado por Digital Voice Archie G ...

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3 hora 41 minutos

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.From thirteen struggling colonies to the most powerful nation on Earth—this is the gripping story of how America rose, ruled, and reshaped the world. Do you feel lost in U.S. history, with too many events and no clear thread? Ever wonder how America became the global superpower it is today?This fast-paced guide connects the dots. With clear ... Leer más

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.From thirteen struggling colonies to the most powerful nation on Earth—this is the gripping story of how America rose, ruled, and reshaped the world. Do you feel lost in U.S. history, with too many events and no clear thread? Ever wonder how America became the global superpower it is today?This fast-paced guide connects the dots. With clear
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New Orleans: The Crescent City History From Swamp Port to Cultural Powerhouse

de Derek Beaumont ...

Narrado por Derek Beaumont ...

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1 horas 52 minutos

Experience the epic American history of a precarious swamp settlement that forged a legacy of cultural resilience. Perfect for your daily commute, this atmospheric journey transports you to the muddy banks of the Mississippi River. Witness a fierce collision of geography, power, and race that birthed a global cultural powerhouse.Whether you are preparing for travel or seeking immersive historical ... Leer más

$9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Experience the epic American history of a precarious swamp settlement that forged a legacy of cultural resilience. Perfect for your daily commute, this atmospheric journey transports you to the muddy banks of the Mississippi River. Witness a fierce collision of geography, power, and race that birthed a global cultural powerhouse.Whether you are preparing for travel or seeking immersive historical
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Witches of Pennsylvania

Occult History & Lore

de Thomas White ...

Narrado por Patryce Williams ...

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3 hora 26 minutos

A folklorist chronicles the history and lore of witchcraft in the Keystone State from William Penn's seventeenth century witch trial to twentieth century occultism.As English and German settlers migrated to Pennsylvania, they brought their beliefs in magic with them from the Old World—sometimes with dangerous consequences. In 1802, for example, an Allegheny County judge helped an accused witch ... Leer más

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A folklorist chronicles the history and lore of witchcraft in the Keystone State from William Penn's seventeenth century witch trial to twentieth century occultism.As English and German settlers migrated to Pennsylvania, they brought their beliefs in magic with them from the Old World—sometimes with dangerous consequences. In 1802, for example, an Allegheny County judge helped an accused witch
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The Poetry of Strangers

What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewriter

de Brian Sonia-Wallace ...

Narrado por Graham Halstead ...

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7 hora 28 minutos

It might surprise you who’s a fan of poetry — when it meets them where they are.Before he became an award-winning writer and poet, Brian Sonia-Wallace set up a typewriter on the street with a sign that said “Poetry Store” and discovered something surprising: all over America, people want poems. An amateur busker at first, Brian asked countless strangers, “What do you need a poem about?” To his ... Leer más

$23.99 USD

It might surprise you who’s a fan of poetry — when it meets them where they are.Before he became an award-winning writer and poet, Brian Sonia-Wallace set up a typewriter on the street with a sign that said “Poetry Store” and discovered something surprising: all over America, people want poems. An amateur busker at first, Brian asked countless strangers, “What do you need a poem about?” To his
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In the Hands of the Great Spirit

The 20,000- Year History of American Indians

de Jake Page ...

Narrado por Jason Grasl ...

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15 hora 15 minutos

Today, some two million American Indians inhabit the United States, less than one percent of the nation's population. Their origins have always been viewed from a 500-year-old perspective—from the point of view of the Europeans who "discovered" the New World. Yet the true story of the American Indians begins some seventeen thousand years ago—and it is past due for a telling that shows Indians as ... Leer más

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Today, some two million American Indians inhabit the United States, less than one percent of the nation's population. Their origins have always been viewed from a 500-year-old perspective—from the point of view of the Europeans who "discovered" the New World. Yet the true story of the American Indians begins some seventeen thousand years ago—and it is past due for a telling that shows Indians as
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Brief History of Rhode Island, A

de KJ Smith ...

Narrado por Digital Voice Madison G ...

Series Audiolibro 39 - A Brief History of - US States Edition
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58 minutos

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A Brief History of Rhode IslandRhode Island, the smallest state with one of the biggest histories, has always punched above its weight in shaping the United States. A Brief History of Rhode Island offers a concise yet captivating look at the people, places, and events that have defined this unique state.From its founding as a refuge for religious ... Leer más

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A Brief History of Rhode IslandRhode Island, the smallest state with one of the biggest histories, has always punched above its weight in shaping the United States. A Brief History of Rhode Island offers a concise yet captivating look at the people, places, and events that have defined this unique state.From its founding as a refuge for religious
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The Day Wall Street Exploded

A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror

de Beverly Gage ...

Narrado por Pam Ward ...

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15 hora 39 minutos

In The Day Wall Street Exploded, Beverly Gage tells the story of a once infamous but now largely forgotten terrorist attack. Based on thousands of pages of Bureau of Investigation reports, this historical detective saga traces the four-year hunt for the perpetrators, a worldwide effort that spread as far as Italy and the new Soviet nation. It also takes listeners back into the decades-long but ... Leer más

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In The Day Wall Street Exploded, Beverly Gage tells the story of a once infamous but now largely forgotten terrorist attack. Based on thousands of pages of Bureau of Investigation reports, this historical detective saga traces the four-year hunt for the perpetrators, a worldwide effort that spread as far as Italy and the new Soviet nation. It also takes listeners back into the decades-long but
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On to Petersburg

Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864

de Gordon C. Rhea ...

Narrado por Jonathan Davis ...

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16 hora 21 minutos

With On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeastern Virginia in the spring of 1864.On to Petersburg follows the Union army's movement to the James River, the military response from the Confederates, and the initial assault on Petersburg, which Rhea ... Leer más

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With On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeastern Virginia in the spring of 1864.On to Petersburg follows the Union army's movement to the James River, the military response from the Confederates, and the initial assault on Petersburg, which Rhea
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