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History in English on Audiofy Bookchips Get your favorite literature and books on Audiofy Bookchips, compact digital memory cards that can hold five, 10, 15 hours of spoken audio or more. Bookchips are compact digital memory cards that can hold five, ten, fifteen hours of spoken audio or more. A single Bookchip - not much larger than a postage stamp - can hold entire audiobooks that would traditionally require a half-dozen to a dozen compact discs or cassettes. Bookchips work on many desktop computers, laptops, other handheld PDA devices and mobile Smartphones with SD memory card slots. Bookchips move seamlessly from device to device, remembering your listening position each time. With Bookchips, it's easy to pick up from where you left off the day before, or skip to any chapter you like. Not only do Bookchips hold hours and hours of high-quality digital audio, they are rugged and reliable. Bookchips are completely electronic, and can be played by devices without any spinning or moving parts - which means Bookchips never skip! Bookchips are much easier to travel or exercise with than cassette or compact discs... and lighter, too. World History |  U.S. History Other Bookchips:   Fiction |  Classics |  Mystery |  Children's

  World History

An Affair with Africa by Alzada Carlisle Kistner Narrated by C.M. Hebert | Duration: 10 hours In June 1960, Alzada Kistner and her husband David, an entomologist, left their eighteen-month-old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four-month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was gripped by a violent revolution, trapping the Kistners in its midst. Despite having to face numerous life-threatening situations, the Kistners were not to be dissuaded. An emergency airlift by the U.S. Air Force brought them to safety in Kenya, where they continued their field work. Thus began three decades of adventures in science. In An Affair with Africa, Alzada Kistner describes her family's African experience during the five expeditions they took, beginning with the trip to the Belgian Congo in 1960 and ending in 1973 with a nine-month excursion across southern Africa. From hunching over columns of ants for hours on end while seven months pregnant to eating dinner next to Idi Amin, Kistner provides a lively and revealing account of the human side of scientific discovery. $54.95

Afghanistan by Stephen Tanner Narrated by Raymond Todd | Duration: 14.5 hours For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads not only for armies but also for clashes between civilizations. An understanding of the military history of that blood-soaked land is essential now as America faces a new enemy on this land, a land that for centuries has become a graveyard of empires past. $72.95

The Case for Democracy by Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer Narrated by Simon Vance | Duration: 8.5 hours In this brilliantly analytical yet personal book, non-democratic societies are put under a microscope to reveal the mechanics of tyranny that sustain them. In exposing the inner workings of a "fear society," the authors explain why democracy is not beyond any nation's reach, why it is essential for our security and why there is much that can be done to promote it around the world. $44.95

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins Narrated by Brian Emerson | Duration: 9.5 hours John Perkins was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries around the globe to accept enormous loans that they could not pay back. His true story exposes international intrigue, corruption, and little-known government and corporate activities. $54.95

Difference in Magnitude: The World's First Nuclear Attacks as Chronicled by 1945 and 1946 Documents by Various Narrated by Ralph Cosham | Duration: 3 hours A well-written thorough examination of the effects of the atomic bomb and the attacks of July 6th and 9th, 1945, complied from government documents and containing original recordings and eye witness accounts. A Difference in Magnitude uses selected government documents, radio and newsreel broadcasts and eyewitness accounts to tell the story of the atomic bomb and the nuclear attacks on Japan. Letters, official memos and diary entries describe the Trinity Test in White Sands, New Mexico, recount President Truman’s thoughts before the attacks, tell of the opposition of scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project and give Japan's response to the devastation. Extensive and well-written reports detail and quantify the destruction and casualties. Included are information on how the atomic bomb works and how it compares to conventional weapons; the reasons for the attacks and how the targets were selected. $37.95

Kabloona by Gontran de Poncins in collaboration with Lewis Galantiere Narrated by Grover Gardner | Duration: 9.5 hours This extraordinary classic has been variously acclaimed as one of the great books of adventure, travel, anthropology, and spiritual awakening. In 1938 and 1939, a French nobleman spent fifteen months living among the Inuit people of the Arctic. He is at first appalled by their way of life: eating rotten raw fish, sleeping with each others' wives, ignoring schedules, and helping themselves to his possessions. But as de Poncins's odyssey continues, he is transformed from Kabloona, The White Man, an uncomprehending outsider, to someone who finds himself living, for a few short months, as Inuk: a man, preeminently. $54.95

Long March to Freedom by Thomas R. Hargrove Narrated by Alan Sklar | Duration: 21 hours Thomas Hargrove's Long March to Freedom is a record of Hargrove's eleven months as a hostage of Colombian guerrillas and was the basis for the recent movie hit Proof of Life that starred Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, and David Morse. While the movie invented a fictitious romantic angle, Long March to Freedom is the actual journal Hargrove kept in captivity, and the listener gets a sense of the intense emotions and the tension caused by bouts of monotony broken by sudden brutality as well as the strength, wit and personality through which Hargrove kept himself alive. $99

Scott's Last Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott Narrated by William Sutherland | Duration: 19 hours In November 1910, a team of explorers left New Zealand led by Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman determined to be the first man to reach the South Pole. This is Scott's detailed memoir of his journey?up until March 29, 1912, when he and the few remaining members of his team died in a brutal blizzard. The daily progress of the expedition is recorded in an immensely vivid and personal narrative. $96

Six Armies in Normandy by John Keegan Narrated by Fred Williams | Duration: 18 hours John Keegan chronicles the 1944 invasion of Normandy, showing each of the title's six armies in a battle sequence testing them to the utmost: 1) the Americans in their night drop on the eve of the landings, 2) the Canadians in action at the Omaha beachhead, 3) the English fighting their way inland, 4) the Germans in their surprisingly strong resistance, 5) the Poles in exile blocking the German escape route, 6) the French liberating at last the City of Light. $79

Transforming Leadership by James MacGregor Burns Narrated by Patrick Cullen | Duration: 10.5 hours Transforming Leadership focuses on the ways that leaders such as Ghandi, Eleanor Roosevelt and Gorbachev emerged from being ordinary "transactional" deal makers to becoming dynamic agents of major social change who empower their followers. $54.95

The Triumph of the West by J.M. Roberts Narrated by Frederick Davidson | Duration: 16 hours The Triumph of the West is noted historian J.M. Roberts's illuminating and authoritative look at the rise of Western civilization, greatly expanded from a thirteen-part BBC television series. It uncovers what gave European culture its confidence and energy for so many centuries, while exposing its flaws and its irreversible impact on the rest of the world. Over the centuries, two important beliefs arose in Europe: a faith that man could order his own destiny and that progress was normal. $75

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard Narrated by Robert Whitfield | Duration: 20.5 hours In 1910, Robert Falcon Scott hoped to be the first Englishman to reach the South Pole. This gripping story of courage and achievement recounts Scott's last fateful expedition, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard. $96

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  United States History

Back in Action: An American Soldier's Story of Courage by Captain David Rozelle Narrated by Patrick Lawlor | Duration: 6.5 hours When an antitank mine tore off Captain David Rozelle's right foot, the warriors of jihad in Iraq thought they had neutralized one of their most determined foes. They were wrong. Refusing to let his injury stop him, he soon returned to Iraq as commander of an armored cavalry troop. In Back in Action, Rozelle speaks with brisk frankness about his postamputation battles and the gritty determination that carried him through it all. It's an astonishing story of courage, determination, heroism, and devotion to duty overcoming all obstacles. $42.95

The Captured by Scott Zesch Narrated by Grover Gardner | Duration: 10.5 hours Based on the life experiences of his great-great-great-uncle and his extensive research, Scott Zesch paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier in The Captured and offers one of the few nonfiction accounts of captivity. $54.95

Captured by Indians: A True Account by Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson Narrated by Carrington MacDuffie | Duration: 2.3 hours In February of 1675 Narragansett Indians lay siege to Mary Rowlandson’s village. Most were killed. 'The bullets flying thick, one went through my side, and the same through the bowels of my dear child in my arms.' This marvelous reading of her account, descriptive and mindful of the will of God, is a very powerful audiobook. "This audio production clearly presents the text of the original work in a most useful format for classroom or individual use. Listeners will enjoy the tone and inflection of the reader's clear, crisp voice. An excellent choice for collections where primary source materials are needed for early American history and women's studies." - School Library Journal $37.95

The Civil War -Vol. 1 by Shelby Foote Narrated by Grover Gardner All the great battles are here, of course, from Bull Run through Shiloh, the Seven Days, Second Manassas to Antietam and Perryville in the fall of 1862, but so are the smaller and often equally important engagements on both land and sea. Perhaps never before have these conflicts been so clearly, so dramatically, and so excitingly presented. The word "narrative" is the key; not only to this extraordinary book's incandescence, but also to its truth. The story is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved in it. Listeners not only learn what was happening in the North and South on the political, military, diplomatic and home fronts, but live through the events as if they were there. This is the way it was, in its entirety, as far as Shelby Foote could discover it during years of exhaustive research. The Civil War -Vol. 1 - Part 1 - Duration: 19 hours $96   The Civil War -Vol. 1 - Part 2 - Duration: 20.5 hours $96

The Civil War - Vol. 2 by Shelby Foote Narrated by Grover Gardner The Army of the Potomac attempts to take Richmond, resulting in the bloodbath at Fredericksburg. Joe Hooker makes yet another attempt, but Stonewall Jackson turns his flank at Chancellorsville. In the West, Grant's relentless efforts against Vicksburg show Lincoln that he has at last found the man who can "face the arithmetic." With Vicksburg under siege, Lee invades the North again at Gettysburg. The Civil War - Vol. 2 - Part 1 - Duration: 23.5 hours $105   The Civil War - Vol. 2 - Part 2 - Duration: 23.5 hours $105

The Civil War - Vol. 3 by Shelby Foote Narrated by Grover Gardner | Duration: 20.5 hours Here, told in vivid narrative and as seen from both sides, are those climactic struggles, great and small, on and off the battlefield, which finally decided the fate of this nation. The Civil War - Vol. 3 - Part 1 $96   The Civil War - Vol. 3 - Part 2 $72   The Civil War - Vol. 3 - Part 3 $75

Common Sense by Thomas Paine Narrated by George Vafiadis | Duration: 3 hours The work that George Washington said helped spark the Revolutionary War. "Well orated by reader George Vafiadis. The language and sentiment are not as outmoded as some listeners might expect and it definitely feels patriotic to hear again the fundamentals of America's beginnings." - KLIATT Magazine $37.95

The First Heroes by Craig Nelson Narrated by Raymond Todd | Duration: 19 hours Immediately after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, daredevil flyer Jimmy Doolittle led a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo itself. This is the true account of how ordinary people, when faced with extraordinary circumstances, can rise to the challenge of history. $96

Florence Nightingale by Laura E. Richards Narrated by Anna Fields | Duration: 4.5 hours The name of Florence Nightingale is a household word, but the exact nature and scope of her work, and the difficulties and discouragement under which it was accomplished, are unknown to many. This story of that wonderful woman's life, written primarily for children, will appeal to older listeners as well because of its rare sympathy and beauty of style. $37.95

An Honest President by H. Paul Jeffers Narrated by Raymond Todd | Duration: 10 hours Today Grover Cleveland is mainly remembered as the only president to be elected to two non-consecutive terms. But in his day, Cleveland was a renowned reformer, an enemy of political machines who joined forces with Theodore Roosevelt to fight powerful party bosses, a vigorous defender of the Monroe Doctrine who resisted American imperialism, and a president who stood his ground against Wall Street robber barons in an era of big business. $54.95

Jefferson's War by Joseph Wheelan Narrated by Patrick Cullen | Duration: 12.5 hours Two centuries ago, without congressional or public debate, a president who is thought of today as peaceable, Thomas Jefferson, launched America's first war on foreign soil, a war against terror. The enemy was Muslim, and the war was waged unconventionally. $56.95

John Ransom's Diary by John Ransom Narrated by David Thorn The Civil War's most infamous Confederate prison was Andersonville, where many thousands of wretched Union prisoners died in deplorable conditions. John Ransom survived to tell the dreadful tale, through his extraordinary day-to-day documentary. $31.95

Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart Narrated by Kate Fleming | Duration: 5.33 hours Elinore Pruitt washed clothes in Denver to provide for herself and her daughter after the death of her husband. In 1909 she took a job with a rancher near Burnt Fork, Wyoming. This was the beginning of the eloquent letters narrated in this remarkable audiobook. The letters are packed with delightful stories and fascinating personal observations providing an astounding account of the life of homesteaders shortly after the turn of the century. EARPHONE AWARD - AudioFile Magazine "Publisher InAudio seems to go from strength to strength in the America's Past series. Narrator Kate Fleming perfectly projects Stewart's humor, warmth, and wisdom. Commendably, Fleming quotes each character in the exact manner in which he or she would have addressed Stewart. This title offers pure pleasure." - AudioFile "Fleming's narration is emotionally charged and believable. Inspiring, educational, and highly recommended for all ages." - KLIATT, March 2004 $42.95

The Life of Robert E. Lee by Mary L. Williamson Narrated by Lloyd James | Duration: 3 hours "In preparing the Life of Lee for Children, for use in the Public Schools, I beg leave to place before teachers good reasons for employing it as a supplementary reader. First, I urge the need of interesting our children in history at an early age. From observation I find that the minds of children who study history early expand more rapidly than those who are restricted to the limits of stories in readers. While teaching pupils to read, why not fix in their minds the names and deeds of our great men, thereby laying the foundation of historical knowledge and instilling true patriotism into their youthful souls? Secondly, in looking over the lives of our American heroes we find not one which presents such a picture of moral grandeur as that of Lee. Place this picture before the little ones and you cannot fail to make them look upward to noble ideals." - Mary L. Williamson, 1898 $38.95

Lincoln's Letters: The Private Man and the Warrior by Abraham Lincoln Narrated by George Vafiadis | Duration: 3 hours Lincoln comes alive through the reading of his letters. "AUDIO BEST OF THE YEAR" - Publishers Weekly. "10 BEST" - Library Journal "The letters format, with its natural brevity and personal emotion, proves itself a natural for audio adaptation. Perhaps other literary-minded publishers should follow suit. Original production." - Publishers Weekly "George Vail's resonant voice captures the nuances of the letters with smooth expression, but he doesn't overdo it. He reflects Lincoln's warmth, humor and steel with assurance." - AudioFile $37.95

Lincoln's Prose: Major Works by a Great American Writer by Abraham Lincoln Narrated by George Vafiadis | Duration: 3 hours Speeches, Essays and other writings including "The Gettysburg Address" and "The Second Inaugural Address." "This superbly narrated production has an immediacy that cannot be found in biographies or history books." - The Veterans View $37.95

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave by Frederick Douglass Narrated by Pete Papageorge | Duration: 5 hours The powerful story of a slave who became one of the most effective African-American leaders. This classic text in both American literature and American history is read by Pete Papageorge with deliberation and simplicity, allowing the author's words to bridge more than 160 years to today's listeners. --School Library Journal $42.95

The Story of Liberty by Charles C. Coffin Narrated by Edward Lewis | Duration: 10 hours Charles Coffin's The Story of Liberty, originally published in 1879, is not America's story alone. It belongs to all those who are enjoying freedom and liberty in any part of the world. As we look at that which preceded our nation's history and led to its founding, we will begin to have an idea of what liberty cost those who love the truth and how much is still at stake. $89

A Story of the Red Cross by Clara Barton Narrated by S. Patricia Bailey | Duration: 4 hours Clara Barton was one of those women of the nineteenth century who was determined to make the world a better place. She was determined to help the unfortunate victims of wars and disasters. In 1881, she founded the American Red Cross, which today stands as a living memorial to the lifelong efforts of this valiant lady. $37.95

A Struggle of Ideas by US Government Narrated by Dick Hill | Duration: 3 hours This report analyzes America’s low standing with Muslims and makes important recommendations. It is well-written and accessible, making for fascinating listening. government document that analyzes America’s standing in the Middle East. It is well-written, accessible and provides important information. With many startling observations, it makes for fascinating listening. The official title is Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication. It was written by a Federal Advisory Committee established to provide independent advice to the Secretary of Defense. $37.95

The Twentieth Maine by John J. Pullen Narrated by Barrett Whitener | Duration: 11.5 hours From rockbound coast, from farm and logging camp came the men of the Twentieth Maine, a volunteer regiment in the Civil War. It was at Little Round Top that the Twentieth Maine, with Joshua Chamberlain in command, performed one of the miracles of the Civil War and saved the left flank of the Union battle line. Outnumbered two to one, their front doubled back to the shape of a horseshoe. And with ammunition gone, the men fixed bayonets, charged, and not only broke up the Confederate attack but also took four hundred prisoners. At Appomattox, the Twentieth Maine was one of the regiments chosen to receive the surrender of General Lee's infantry, and Joshua Chamberlain, the Bowdoin professor who had become a general, was appointed to command the Union troops at the ceremony. $61.95

Vicksburg by James Reasoner Narrated by Lloyd James | Duration: 11.5 hours Vicksburg is the fifth in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family. Cory Brannon must abandon the supply train to undertake a vital mission for the Confederate commander in charge of Vicksburg?s defenses. $61.95

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