East Africa History

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    • The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On
    • By: Leigh Neville, Matt Eversmann - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • On October 3, 1993, Task Force Ranger was dispatched to seize two high-profile lieutenants of a Somali warlord. The mission was meant to be over within the hour. They quickly found themselves under heavy fire, and two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down....

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    • The Full Inside Story of the Spectacular Israeli Counterterrorism Strike and the Daring Rescue of 103 Hostages
    • By: William Stevenson, Uri Dan
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The incredible story of an Israeli mission that rescued 103 hostages from a hijacked jetliner....

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    • The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941
    • By: Jeff Pearce, Richard Pankhurst - foreword
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 24 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-2014
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • It was the war that changed everything, and yet it's been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels....

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    • The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
    • By: Kenneth M. Pollack
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Since the Second World War, Arab armed forces have consistently punched below their weight. They have lost many wars that by all rights they should have won, and in their best performances only ever achieved quite modest accomplishments....

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    • By: Ernest Hemingway
    • Narrated by: Josh Lucas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • His second major venture into nonfiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal....

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    • Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
    • By: Stephen Kinzer
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-2009
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This book recounts the thrilling and uplifting tale of a man who defied the odds to lift himself and his country out of misery toward a more promising future....

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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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    • A Human History of the Mediterranean
    • By: David Abulafia
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • For over 3,000 years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilisation....

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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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    • The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
    • By: Caroline Elkins
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Caroline Elkins conducted years of research to piece together this story, unearthing reams of documents and interviewing several hundred Kikuyu survivors. Britain's Gulag reveals the full savagery of the Mau Mau war and the ruthless determination with which Britain sought to control its empire.

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    • A Journey Downriver through Egypt’s past and Present
    • By: Toby Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-2014
    • Language: English
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    • A hypnotic journey in the company of one of the world's most acclaimed Egyptologists over the fabled river telling how the Nile continually brought life to an ancient civilization....

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    • The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
    • By: Robert G. Hoyland
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In just over a hundred years - from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750 - the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East....

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    • A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs
    • By: Martin Mosebach
    • Narrated by: Creative Orthodox
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Egyptian History, from the Early Dynastic Period Through the Early, Middle, and Late Kingdom to the Death of Cleopatra
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jay Herbert
    • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this audiobook, you will travel back to ancient Egypt, when kings were considered gods, pharaohs built towering pyramids, great battles were fought, and the world as we know it today was formed....

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    • 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
    • By: Michael Scott Moore
    • Narrated by: Corey Snow
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 24-07-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Michael Scott Moore incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates - a riveting, thoughtful exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of survival....

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    • By: Mark Bowden
    • Narrated by: Joe Morton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 16-12-1999
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded...

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    • Madagascar, an Island Story
    • By: John Gimlette
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A journey - both historical and contemporary - among the fantastical landscapes, beguiling creatures and isolated tribes of the world's fourth island: Madagascar....

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    • The Surprising True Story…and Why It Matters Today
    • By: Edouard Kayihura, Kerry Zukus
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis, Rosalind Ashford
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Inside the Hotel Rwanda offers an honest and unflinching first-hand account of the reality of life inside the hotel, exposing the man who exploited refugees....

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