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John L. Ransom was taken prisoner in 1863 when his regiment was split into two smaller forces in East Tennessee. He was placed into Andersonville Prison, formerly known as Camp Sumter. Ransom wrote a journal, published in 1881, on his experiences in the camp. Andersonville was the worst of Confederate prison camps, where hundreds of prisoners died daily. His diary reveals the agony of his day-to-day struggle in the camp: the lack of tents and wood, prisoner exchanges, the food, and the sick and dying prisoners. Ransom’s diary is important as it provides information on the notorious Andersonville prison camp that may not have been known otherwise.
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The Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier
- By: Joseph Plumb Martin
- Narrated by: Brandon Wright
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Joseph Plumb Martin (1760-1850) was a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Martin participated in the Battles of Brooklyn, the White Plains and Monmouth, and the siege of Fort Mifflin, and the Battle of Monmouth. The Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier relates the adventures of a young private serving his country under terrible conditions. There are engaging accounts of army life, adventures, dangers, and suffering during the years 1776-1783.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Gospel of the Revolution
- By Eric on 07-19-21
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My Hitch in Hell, New Edition
- The Bataan Death March
- By: Lester I. Tenney, Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale USN - Ret.
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 667
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 604
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Story5 out of 5 stars 599
Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester I. Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three and a half years in Japanese prison camps. With an understanding of human nature, a sense of humor, sharp thinking, and fierce determination, Tenney endured the rest of the war as a slave laborer in Japanese prison camps. My Hitch in Hell is an inspiring survivor's epic about the triumph of human will despite unimaginable suffering. This edition features a new introduction and epilogue by the author.e by the author.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Story I have ever listened to
- By Amazon Customer on 09-03-20
By: Lester I. Tenney, and others
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Stealing the General
- The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor
- By: Russell S. Bonds
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 556
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 465
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Story4 out of 5 stars 477
On April 12, 1862—one year to the day after Confederate guns opened on Fort Sumter and started the Civil War—a tall, mysterious smuggler and self-appointed Union spy named James J. Andrews and 19 infantry volunteers infiltrated Georgia and stole a steam engine called the General. Racing northward at speeds near 60 miles an hour, cutting telegraph lines, and destroying track along the way, Andrews planned to open East Tennessee to the Union army, cutting off men and materiel from the Confederate forces in Virginia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stealing The General
- By Jean on 10-15-11
By: Russell S. Bonds
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A Slave No More
- Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
- By: David W. Blight
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the 100 or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Piece Of History
- By John on 07-10-09
By: David W. Blight
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Three Months in the Southern States
- April-June, 1863
- By: Arthur James Lyon Fremantle
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
The author of this book, Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, has, perhaps, achieved more renown in recent years than at any time since the publication of his literary efforts. Those familiar with the film Gettysburg will recall the unusual figure of a British Guards officer attired (inaccurately) in his full dress Guardsman's scarlet uniform among the ranks of the Virginians at the famous and pivotal battle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great subject matter and excellent narration
- By J. Keith Jones on 04-13-17
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The Auschwitz Volunteer
- Beyond Bravery
- By: Witold Pilecki, Jarek Garlinski - translator
- Narrated by: Marek Probosz, Jarek Garlinski, Ken Kliban, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Story5 out of 5 stars 138
In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and report from inside the camp. His intelligence reports, smuggled out in 1941, were among the first eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz atrocities: the extermination of Soviet POWs, its function as a camp for Polish political prisoners, and the "final solution" for Jews. Pilecki received brutal treatment until he escaped in April 1943; soon after, he wrote a brief report....
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4 out of 5 stars
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The bar of manhood
- By Rhea on 09-22-13
By: Witold Pilecki, and others
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Three Years with Quantrill
- A True Story Told by His Scout
- By: John McCorkle, O. S. Barton
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 373
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 330
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 331
John McCorkle was a young Missouri farmer of Southern sympathies. After serving briefly in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard, he became a prominent member of William Clarke Quantrill's infamous guerrillas, who took advantage of the turmoil in the Missouri-Kansas borderland to prey on pro-Union people. McCorkle displayed an unflinchingly violent nature while he participated in raids and engagements including the massacres at Lawrence and Baxter Springs, Kansas; and Centralia, Missouri.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Friend or Two I love at Hand
- By Austin Jayhawk on 08-26-17
By: John McCorkle, and others
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A Year in the South: 1865
- The True Story of Four Ordinary People Who Lived Through the Most Tumultuous Twelve Months in History
- By: Stephen V. Ash
- Narrated by: Neal Ghant, Nicholas Techosky, Jeremy Arthur, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
A slave determined to gain freedom, a widow battling poverty and despair, a man of God grappling with spiritual and worldly troubles, and a former Confederate soldier seeking a new life. They lived in the South during 1865 - a year that saw war, disunion, and slavery give way to peace, reconstruction, and emancipation. Between January and December 1865, these four people witnessed, from very different vantage points, the death of the Old South and the birth of the New South. Civil War historian Stephen V. Ash reconstructs their daily lives, their fears and hopes, and their frustrations and triumphs in vivid detail.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent audio book
- By Rodney on 10-29-13
By: Stephen V. Ash
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Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter
- By: Tom Horn
- Narrated by: Michael Jerod Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Thomas Horn Jr. was an infamous figure in the 19th-century American Old West. Cowboy, soldier, government scout, translator, and gunman, Horn’s storied life has become an important part of western folklore. In 1902, he was convicted for murdering a 14-year-old boy after a run-in during a feud with a cattle rancher. The Life of Tom Horn is his life story in his own words, written from prison before he met his fate at the gallows the following year.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tom Horn
- By Dr. Joe de Beauchamp on 07-10-20
By: Tom Horn
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Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War
- By: Tim Rowland
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story4 out of 5 stars 75
Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War is an entertaining look at the Civil War stories that don’t get told, and the misadventures you haven’t read about in history books. Share in all the humorous and strange events that took place behind the scenes of some of the most famous Civil War moments.
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4 out of 5 stars
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INTERESTING & FUNNY
- By The Louligan on 08-01-14
By: Tim Rowland
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First into Nagasaki
- By: George Weller
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
On September 6, 1945, less than a month after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, George Weller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, became the first free Westerner to enter the devastated city. Going into the hospitals and consulting the doctors of the bomb's victims, Weller was the first to document its unprecedented long-range medical effects. He also became the first to enter the nearby Allied POW camps, which rivaled those of the Nazis for cruelty and bested them for death count.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First Into Nagasaki
- By Harold on 02-15-07
By: George Weller
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Tears in the Darkness
- The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
- By: Michael Norman, Elizabeth Norman
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,369
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 909
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 902
For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the surrender of 76,000 Filipinos and Americans, the single largest defeat in American military history. The defeat, though, was only the beginning, as Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman make dramatically clear in this powerfully original book.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful, anguishing story
- By Book and Movie Lover on 07-22-09
By: Michael Norman, and others
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The State of Jones
- The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy
- By: John Stauffer, Sally Jenkins
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 95
The State of Jones is a true story about the South during the Civil War, the real South. Not the South that has been mythologized in novels and movies, but an authentic, hardscrabble place where poor men were forced to fight a rich man's war for slavery and cotton. In Jones County, Mississippi, a farmer named Newton Knight led his neighbors, white and black alike, in an insurrection against the Confederacy at the height of the Civil War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Confederate Insurrection-Rebellion against Rebels
- By W Perry Hall on 02-02-14
By: John Stauffer, and others
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A Time to Stand
- The Epic of the Alamo
- By: Walter Lord
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
On the morning of March 6, 1836, in an old abandoned mission called the Alamo, a small Texas garrison, fought to the death rather than yield to an overwhelming army of Mexicans. Through the years, the garrison's heroic stand has become so clothed in folklore and romance that the truth has nearly been lost. In A Time to Stand, Walter Lord rediscovers and recreates the whole fascinating story.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Okay book. Atrocious narration.
- By Jack on 01-22-20
By: Walter Lord