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This is a new edition of Lowell Thomas' classic work on T. E. Lawrence's amazing exploits in the Arab revolt during World War One. It is this work, based in large part on Thomas' earlier visual lectures in 1919 and beyond, which grabbed the attention of readers worldwide about the "Lawrence of Arabia's" incredible exploits. Includes a new introduction by Professor David Christopher Lane.
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,119
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Although T. E. Lawrence, commonly known as "Lawrence of Arabia’, died in 1935, the story of his life has captured the imagination of succeeding generations. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a monumental work in which he chronicles his role in leading the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War. A reluctant leader, and wracked by guilt at the duplicity of the British, Lawrence nevertheless threw himself into his role, suffering the blistering desert conditions and masterminding military campaigns which culminated in the triumphant march of the Arabs into Damascus.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the greatest stories ever told.
- De Stevie en 01-11-13
De: T. E. Lawrence
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A Woman in Arabia
- The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
- De: Gertrude Bell, Georgina Howell - introduction, Georgina Howell - editor
- Narrado por: Sian Thomas, Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the great woman adventurers of the 20th century, she turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world and became the chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she dedicated her life to championing the Arab cause and was instrumental in drawing the borders that define today's Middle East.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Raw historiography of a spectacular heroine
- De Josef en 01-07-16
De: Gertrude Bell, y otros
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Blood and Thunder
- An Epic of the American West
- De: Hampton Sides
- Narrado por: Don Leslie
- Duración: 20 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,012
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,435
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In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of a huge swath of mountainous desert wilderness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Publisher's summary does not do it justice
- De Eric en 02-07-11
De: Hampton Sides
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Alexander of Macedon
- De: Harold Lamb
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 14 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 312
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The enigma of Alexander the Great has remained with us for 2,300 years. In spite of the best efforts of historians, Alexander is no less a mystery to us now than he probably was during his own lifetime. There was no one like him before or since. In the pages of Harold Lamb's intriguing Alexander of Macedon, we find some of the answers to the great riddle of his character.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read Arrian first
- De cbrann en 10-16-05
De: Harold Lamb
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Lords of the Horizons
- A History of the Ottoman Empire
- De: Jason Goodwin
- Narrado por: Grahame Edwards
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on Western minds and hearts. For over 600 years the empire swelled and declined, rising from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of Anatolia to a power which ruled over the Danube and the Euphrates with the richest court in Europe. But its decline was prodigious, protracted and total.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good introduction to the Ottomans, bad narration
- De Skeptical en 06-06-18
De: Jason Goodwin
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The King's Shadow
- Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria
- De: Edmund Richardson
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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For centuries, the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833, it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist, spy, one of the most respected scholars in Asia, and the greatest of nineteenth-century travelers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exquisite! A Transporting Tale
- De Meg en 05-02-22
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Suleiman the Magnificent: Sultan of the East
- De: Harold Lamb
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Suleiman the Magnificent is the story of the Ottoman Turks' greatest leader. He came to power at the early age of 25 in 1520. Before his death in 1566, he had altered the power structure and geography of Eastern Europe, and Turkey had become the dominant naval power in the Mediterranean. Suleiman's reign would mark the high tide of Turkish power in Asia Minor and Europe.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Great look into Suleiman The Magnificent & the Ottoman Empire
- De L Young en 08-14-19
De: Harold Lamb
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The Great Anglo-Boer War
- De: Byron Farwell
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 23 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 149
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 of personal heroism, unbelievable examples of folly and stupidity, and many incidents of humor and tragedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More than a war, it was a human tragedy
- De LtTora en 07-19-20
De: Byron Farwell
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Gertrude Bell
- Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
- De: Georgina Howell
- Narrado por: Corrie James
- Duración: 18 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born in 1868 into a world of privilege, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, and legendary mountaineer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shattering The Glass Ceiling in Britain
- De Nostromo en 08-05-18
De: Georgina Howell
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Ibn Saud
- The Desert Warrior Who Created the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- De: Michael Darlow, Barbara Bray
- Narrado por: Brian Bascle
- Duración: 21 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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Ibn Saud grew to manhood living the harsh traditional life of the desert nomad, a life that had changed little since the days of Abraham. Equipped with immense physical courage, he fought and won, often with weapons and tactics not unlike those employed by the ancient Assyrians, a series of astonishing military victories over a succession of enemies much more powerful than himself. Over the same period, he transformed himself from a minor sheikh into a revered king and elder statesman, courted by world leaders such as Churchill and Roosevelt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Short-est Way to Learn about the Modern Day Saudia
- De Shah Alam en 02-18-14
De: Michael Darlow, y otros
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Hero of the Empire
- The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
- De: Candice Millard
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,511
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,249
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,228
At age 24 Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal, he had to do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British army officer in colonial wars in India and Sudan and as a journalist covering a Cuban uprising against the Spanish, glory and fame had eluded him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Far More Than Simply, Hero of the Empire!
- De Matthew en 09-21-16
De: Candice Millard
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Alexander the Great
- De: Philip Freeman
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,118
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,875
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,871
Alexander was born into the royal family of Macedonia, the kingdom that would soon rule over Greece. Tutored as a boy by Aristotle, Alexander had an inquisitive mind that would serve him well when he faced formidable obstacles during his military campaigns. Shortly after taking command of the army, he launched an invasion of the Persian Empire, and continued his conquests as far south as the deserts of Egypt and as far east as the mountains of present-day Pakistan and the plains of India.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De BadGuidance en 06-18-17
De: Philip Freeman
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The Last Days of the Incas
- De: Kim MacQuarrie
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 21 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 913
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 614
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In 1532, the 54-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother, Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa and a huge force of Inca warriors at the Battle of Cajamarca.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but problematic
- De Matthew en 11-05-07
De: Kim MacQuarrie
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African Samurai
- The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
- De: Thomas Lockley, Geoffrey Girard
- Narrado por: Gary Furlong
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 831
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The remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not worth finishing
- De William Shehan en 06-12-19
De: Thomas Lockley, y otros
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Desert Queen
- The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
- De: Janet Wallach
- Narrado por: Jean Gilpin
- Duración: 20 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 233
Turning her back on her privileged life in Victorian England, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), fired by her innate curiosity, journeyed the world and became fascinated with all things Arab. Traveling the length and breadth of the Arab region, armed with a love for its language and its people, she not only produced several enormously popular books based on her experiences but became instrumental to the British foreign office. When World War I erupted, and the British needed the loyalty of the Arab leaders, it was Gertrude Bell's work and connections that helped provided the brain for T. E. Lawrence's military brawn.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great beginning, then gets boring
- De Msz en 03-31-16
De: Janet Wallach
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América
- The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898
- De: Robert Goodwin
- Narrado por: Thom Rivera
- Duración: 20 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus' great voyage of discovery, in 1492, he claimed Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for Spain. For the next 300 years, thousands of proud Spanish conquistadors and their largely forgotten Mexican allies went in search of glory and riches from Florida to California. Many died; few triumphed. Some were cruel; some were curious; some were kind. Missionaries and priests yearned to harvest Indian souls for God through baptism and Christian teaching.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Narration That is Difficult to Follow
- De Amazon Customer en 05-24-19
De: Robert Goodwin