Category: Audio Books

Witch Hunt A BBC Radio Scotland history


Free Download Witch Hunt: A BBC Radio Scotland history by Susan Morrison, Louise Yeoman, BBC Audio
English | 2021 | ISBN: B09LVV62Y6 | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 3 hours and 11 minutes | 175 Mb
The history of Scotland’s witch hunts revealed, with Susan Morrison.
About 450 years ago, from 16th to the early 18th centuries, witch hunts took place in Scotland. The country was convulsed by waves of savage panics and purges, leading to the judicial murder of thousands of their own citizens, mainly women. Women who were convicted and executed for crimes they not only didn’t commit, but which were impossible for anyone to commit.

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Twelve Ordinary Men


Free Download Twelve Ordinary Men by Maurice England, John MacArthur, Thomas Nelson
English | 2021 | ISBN: B08668YJCR | 7 hours and 46 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 423 Mb
You don’t have to be perfect to do God’s work. Look no further than the twelve disciples, whose many weaknesses are forever preserved throughout the pages of the New Testament. Join best-selling author John MacArthur inTwelve Ordinary Menas he draws principles from Christ’s careful, hands-on training of the original disciples for today’s modern disciple, you!
Jesus chose ordinary men – fishermen, tax collectors, political zealots – and turned their weakness into strength, producing greatness from people who were otherwise unremarkable. The twelve disciples weren’t the stained-glass saints we imagine. On the contrary, they were truly human, all too prone to mistakes, misstatements, wrong attitudes, lapses of faith, and bitter failure. Simply put, they were flawed people, just like us. But under Jesus’ teaching and touch, they became a force that forever changed the world.

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The Third Reich A History of Nazi Germany


Free Download The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by Thomas Childers, David de Vries, Tantor Audio
English | 2020 | ISBN: B08G2W6F7L | MP3@102 kbps | 26h 10m | 1.39 Gb
In The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, Thomas Childers shows how the young Hitler became passionately political and anti-Semitic as he lived on the margins of society. Fueled by outrage at the punitive terms imposed on Germany by the Versailles Treaty, he found his voice and drew a loyal following.
As his views developed, Hitler attracted like-minded colleagues who formed the nucleus of the nascent Nazi party. Between 1924 and 1929, Hitler and his party languished in obscurity on the radical fringes of German politics, but the onset of the Great Depression gave them the opportunity to move into the mainstream. Hitler blamed Germany’s misery on the victorious allies, the Marxists, the Jews, and big business – and the political parties that represented them. By 1932 the Nazis had become the largest political party in Germany, and within six months they transformed a dysfunctional democracy into a totalitarian state and began the inexorable march to World War II and the Holocaust.

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The Story of Medieval England From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest


Free Download The Story of Medieval England: From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest by Jennifer Paxton, The Great Courses
English | 2013 | ISBN: B00DTO6ADA | Format: M4B / 19 hours and 7 minutes + PDF | 527 Mb
These 36 lectures tell the remarkable story of a tumultuous thousand-year period in the history of England. Dominated by war, conquest, and the struggle to balance the stability brought by royal power with the rights of the governed, it was a period that put into place the foundation of much of the world we know today. As you journey through this largely chronological narrative – occasionally interrupted for lecture-long explorations of specific topics – you’ll see key themes emerge, including the assimilation of successive waves of invaders, the tense relationship between kings and the nobility, and the constant battles over money and taxation. And because so much of history is driven by specific individuals and not just historical circumstance, each lecture is rich in intimate portraits that reveal those individuals at the key moments of their historical destiny, including Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and John Wycliffe.The result is a lecture series that winds up being not only informative but deeply entertaining, with each lecture drawing you in with its own particular fascinations, including a probing look at the scope of the Black Death, a realistic examination of the legends of both King Arthur and Robin Hood, a riveting description of the Battle of Bosworth Field, and a discussion of the surprisingly nuanced penalties of the early Germanic law codes.
These lectures consistently deliver a fresh level of understanding about medieval England, its rulers and subjects, and their significance for the world we live in today. The chain of theme and event that links our world to theirs will never be clearer, rewarding every moment you spend with this series.

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