Read by Adjoa Andoh. — Penguin, 2015. — 64 kbps. — Duration: 09:28:00. A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and the upcoming major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner Herzog....
Read by Ganser. — Audible, 2009. — 64 kbps. — Duration 13:16:00. When it first appeared, A Rumor of War brought home to American readers, with terrifying vividness and honesty, the devastating effects of the Vietnam War on the soldiers who fought there. And while it is a memoir of one young man's experiences and therefore deeply personal, it is also a book that speaks powerfully...
Read by Pete Larkin — Highbridge, 2013. — 64 kbps. — Duration 11:50:00. September 1996 found Philip Caputo on Barter Island, a wind-scoured rock in the Beaufort Sea populated by two hundred Inupiat and a handful of whites. As he gazed upon an American flag above the only school for a 150 miles, he marveled that the children in that school pledged allegiance to the same flag as the...
Read by Stefan Rudnicki. — Blackstone, 2021. — 64 kbps. — Duration 06:33:00. First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad’s two autobiographical memoirs. Discussing it, he called the book “a very intimate revelation...I have attempted here to lay bare with the unreserve of a last hour’s confession the terms of my relation with the sea, which...
Read by Stefan Rudnicki. — Blackstone, 2021. — 64 kbps. — Duration 06:33:00. First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad’s two autobiographical memoirs. Discussing it, he called the book “a very intimate revelation...I have attempted here to lay bare with the unreserve of a last hour’s confession the terms of my relation with the sea, which...
Narrated by Samuel Charters. — Folkways Records, 1962. — 138 kbps. — Duration 00:43:03. This recitation of Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s October 1891 Atlantic Monthly article on his correspondence and friendship with Emily Dickinson documents the only example of the reclusive Massachusetts poet turning “to the literary world beyond her circle of friends in Amherst,” as Samuel...
Read by Ray Porter. — Blackstone audio, 2009. — 64 kbps. — Duration 08:28:00. Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal...
Read by Diana Bishop. — Hachette, 2006. — 64 kbps. — Duration 09:38:00. Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding, the author records her experiences, observations, and meditations in this stark and vivid...
Read by John Lee. — RHA, 2018. — 64 kbps. — Duration 04:03:00. From the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribute to the most endearing and enduring aspects of his life in France - the charming and indelible parade of village...
Read by Bridget Wareham. — ECW Press, 2018. — 64 kbps. — Duration 13:27:00. — ASIN B07GL5X3T5. A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world's most enigmatic continent - Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece...
Read by Bridget Wareham. — ECW Press, 2018. — 64 kbps. — Duration 13:27:00. — ASIN B07GL5X3T5. A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world's most enigmatic continent - Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece...
Read by Grover Gardner. — Blackstone, 2019. — Duration 21:22:00 In this last book of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer recounts his return to Berlin after the Third Reich’s defeat. Having fled Berlin and imminent arrest by the Gestapo in 1940, Shirer returned to Europe in October 1945 to verify the facts of the Fuhrer’s death, thus bringing to a close - or so he thought...
Read by Grover Gardner. — Blackstone, 2019. — Duration 21:22:00 In this last book of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer recounts his return to Berlin after the Third Reich’s defeat. Having fled Berlin and imminent arrest by the Gestapo in 1940, Shirer returned to Europe in October 1945 to verify the facts of the Fuhrer’s death, thus bringing to a close - or so he thought...
Read by Tom Weiner. — Blackstone, 2011. — Duration 15:59:00 By the acclaimed journalist and New York Times best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, this day-by-day eyewitness account of the momentous events leading up to World War II in Europe is the private, personal, utterly revealing journal of a great foreign correspondent. CBS radio broadcaster William...
Read by Grover Gardner. — Blackstone, 2019. — Duration 26:56:00 The famous journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich documents his front row seat at the pivotal events leading up to World War II. In the second of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer tells the story of his own eventful life, detailing the most notable moments of his career as a journalist...
Read by Grover Gardner. — Blackstone, 2019. — Duration 26:56:00 The famous journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich documents his front row seat at the pivotal events leading up to World War II. In the second of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer tells the story of his own eventful life, detailing the most notable moments of his career as a journalist...
Read by Grover Gardner. — Blackstone, 2019. — Duration 22:09:00 William L. Shirer was a CBS foreign correspondent and renowned author of New York Times best-selling nonfiction about World War II, and this is the first part of his three-part autobiography. A renowned journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer chronicles his own life story in...
Read by Grover Gardner. — Blackstone, 2019. — Duration 22:09:00 William L. Shirer was a CBS foreign correspondent and renowned author of New York Times best-selling nonfiction about World War II, and this is the first part of his three-part autobiography. A renowned journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer chronicles his own life story in...
Read by David Horovitch. — Ukemi, 2017. — 64 kbps. — Duration 17:50:00. Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars. Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the brink of extinction. It...
Read by David Horovitch. — Ukemi, 2017. — 64 kbps. — Duration 17:50:00. Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars. Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the brink of extinction. It...
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