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    • The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 224 ratings
    • It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced....

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    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Cameron Goodall
    • Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero....

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    • From Mogadishu to the Fight Against ISIS, a Marine Special Operations Commander at War
    • By: Andrew Milburn
    • Narrated by: Andrew Milburn
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • These are the combat experiences of the first Marine to command a special operations task force, recounted against a backdrop of his journey from raw Second Lieutenant to seasoned Colonel and Task Force Commander...

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    • By: J. H. Patterson
    • Narrated by: Christopher Romance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In 1898, the British were building a railway line between Mombasa in Kenya and Uganda. At the Tsavo River in Kenya where a bridge needed to be built, the project was suddenly interrupted by two man-eating lions that targeted the camps of the workers....

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    • An African Childhood
    • By: Alexandra Fuller
    • Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 25-12-2003
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....

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    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

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    • How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
    • By: Siddharth Kara
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.

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    • By: Adrian Greaves
    • Narrated by: Paul Herzberg
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling more than 1,200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned their attention on a small outpost at Rorke's Drift....

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    • By: Deneys Reitz
    • Narrated by: John Maytham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-2024
    • Language: English
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    • In 1899, Deneys Reitz, then aged seventeen, enlisted in the Boer army to fight the British. He had learnt to ride, shoot and swim almost as soon as he could walk. When he fought as a member several Boer commandos, he made full use of these skills and the endurance he acquired during the war.

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    • By: Byron Farwell
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 17-01-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
    • By: Richard Miles
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Emperor of the Islamic Mali Empire in West Africa and How He Developed Timbuktu into a Major Center for Trade
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 24-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In the grand scheme of things, very little is known of Mansa Musa’s life. We know that he was one of the greatest emperors of the Mali Empire. And we know that he was actually one of the richest men of all time due to the enormous gold deposits in West Africa under his dominion....

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    • The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity
    • By: Alberto Angela
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • One of Italy’s most revered cultural figures reconstructs the extraordinary life of the legendary Cleopatra at the height of her power in this epic story of passion, intrigue, betrayal, and war....

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    • The SAS in Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....

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    • The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 1
    • By: James Mace
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
    • Series: The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 1
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • It is December 1878, and war looms on the horizon in South Africa. British high commissioner Sir Henry Bartle-Frere seeks to dismantle the powerful neighboring kingdom of the Zulus....

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    • Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond
    • By: A.J. Balaam
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 21-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother, or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. This is the story of Andrew Balaam, a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and the Selous Scouts for 12 years....

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    • Algeria 1954-1962
    • By: Alistair Horne
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 29 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-2008
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. From the perspective of half a century, it looks less like the last colonial war than the first postmodern one....

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    • By: Thomas Keneally
    • Narrated by: Peter Byrne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-2011
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This is the story of three terrible famines....

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