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“byron farwell”

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  • The Great Boer War

    by Byron Farwell ...
    The story of the battle for independence from the British Empire in South Africa by " a vivid chronicler of military forces, generals, and wars" ( Kirkus Reviews).The Great Boer War (1899-1902), more properly known as the Great Anglo-Boer War, was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British ... Read more

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    The Great Anglo-Boer War

    by Byron Farwell ...
    Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 24 min

    The Great Boer War (1899–1902)—more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War—was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it produced in almost equal measure extraordinary feats ... Read more

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    Burton

    A Biography of Sir Richard Frances Burton

    by Byron Farwell ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 38 min

    Explorer and inventor, soldier and poet, archaeologist and diplomat, Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) was the most versatile and remarkable man of his age. But he was foremost an adventurer: “an adventurer in the intellectual and the spiritual as well as the physical world.” The pioneering traveler in Central Africa who discovered Lake Tanganyika was also the translator of The Arabian Nights and ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

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  • Slaughter at Sea

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    This World War II memoir by a Nazi soldier details his unimaginable experience as a German prisoner-of-war in the Soviet Union.Lothar Hermann grew up in Bavaria, going through the RAD (Nazi Labor Service) before being conscripted into a Wehrmacht Mountain Division (the Gebirgsdivision) in 1940. He participated in Germany's advance through southern Ukraine in 1941 and, in 1944, was arrested in ... Read more

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  • The Real Dirt on America's Frontier Legends

    by Jim Motavalli ...
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    by Gareth C. Sampson ...
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  • Serving the Reich

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    by Philip Ball ...
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  • The Spanish Flu Epidemic and Its Influence on History

    by Jaime Breitnauer ...
    A look at the 1918 influenza pandemic from its outbreak to its effects on the global population and its legacy.On the second Monday of March, 1918, the world changed forever. What seemed like a harmless cold morphed into a global pandemic that would wipe out as many as a hundred-million people—ten times as many as the Great War. German troops faltered, lending the allies the winning advantage, and ... Read more

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