Tag: Great

Free Download Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCBRPM9S | 2023 | 5 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 284 MB
Author: Tyler LeBlanc
Narrator: Pierre Simpson
Winner, Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-Fiction and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing. A Hill Times Top 100 selection. A Canada’s History Bestseller. Piecing together his family history through archival documents, Tyler LeBlanc tells the story of his ancestor Joseph LeBlanc and the LeBlanc family during the Great Expulsion. A unique biographical approach to the history of the Expulsion, Acadian Driftwood is a vivid insight into one family’s experience of this traumatic event.

Free Download The Great Revolutions of Modern History [TTC Audio]
English | March 26, 2021 | ASIN: B08ZDVD519 | M4B@96 kbps | 12h 33m | 524 MB
Lecturer: Lynne Ann Hartnett
The great revolutions of the past 300 years have profoundly shaped the social, cultural, political, and military landscape of the 21st century. These epic changes tore down established orders and built new ones in their place. What drives individuals and groups to embrace revolution? At what point does a society decide to revolt? Is there such a thing as a peaceful revolution? Why have some revolutions failed while others changed the world?

Free Download The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CGMKX7P9 | 2023 | 17 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 494 MB
Author: Christian Wolmar
Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line-the first American railroad-in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe’s, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America’s rise to world-power status. E

Free Download The Great Post Office Scandal: The Story of the Fight to Expose a Multimillion Pound IT Disaster Which Put Innocent People in Jail (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B09WVS3YSM | 2022 | 18 hours and 24 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 512 MB
Author: Nick Wallis
Narrator: Nick Wallis
On April 23, 2021, the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of 39 former Sub-Postmasters and ruled their prosecutions were an affront to the public conscience. For some, it was the end of a 20-year battle for justice-and tragically, three of them did not live long enough to see their reputations restored. It is a scandal that has been described as one of the most widespread and significant miscarriages of justice in UK legal history. The 39 were just a few of the 736 people who, between 2000 and 2013, had been prosecuted by the Post Office for theft, false accounting, and fraud.

Free Download Health Secrets from the Great Gurus (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BRYMRTCG | 2023 | 5 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 300 MB
Author: Joseph Murphy, Dale Carnegie, William Walker Atkinson, Wallace D. Wattles
Narrator: Tavish Bhattacharya
Have you ever wondered what our biggest asset is? It is undoubtedly our health. Our mental, physical and emotional well-being defines the quality of our life. When we are healthier, we are happier too! Health Secrets from the Great Gurus brings to you effective ways for building a healthy lifestyle, polishing your mind, nurturing your spirit and cultivating a persona that you are proud of. With insights from well-known best-selling gurus from across the globe, this book will make holistic living easier and achievable!

Free Download Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B00DTNY2UE | 2013 | 17 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 512 MB
Author: Steven L. Goldman, The Great Courses
Narrator: Steven L. Goldman
What is the greatest scientific idea of all? Because science has so dramatically altered how we live and how we think about ourselves, the answer may well be the very idea of science itself, because – just like science’s most important achievements – it, too, needed to be thought about, perfected, and invented. This 36-lecture series explores the ideas that have helped form the foundation of modern life – when society has been willing to pursue them. The lectures interpret the term "scientific idea" broadly, to include the ideas that made science possible at all, as well as the ideas that make it so immensely powerful.

Free Download Blood on the Coal: The True Story of the Great Springhill Mine Disaster (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BT31Z8WP | 2023 | 10 hours and 1 minute | M4B@64 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Ken Cuthbertson
Narrator: Miles Meili
The riveting true story of one of Canada’s worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived it. They said it was the world’s deepest and most dangerous coal mine. Those who made that claim were probably correct. What is certain is that in October 1958, the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation’s No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, was a leading candidate for both those dubious distinctions. The mine was the proverbial "disaster waiting to happen." And it did. Springhill was the quintessential one-industry town, whose existence depended on coal, a commodity with a dying market. And yet something far worse was soon to come.

Free Download The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BP571T29 | 2023 | 8 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 254 MB
Author: Farah Karim-Cooper
Narrator: Farah Karim-Cooper, Adjoa Andoh
As we witness monuments of white Western history fall, many are asking how is Shakespeare still relevant? Professor Farah Karim-Cooper has dedicated her career to the Bard, which is why she wants to take the playwright down from his pedestal to unveil a Shakespeare for the twenty-first century. If we persist in reading Shakespeare as representative of only one group, as the very pinnacle of the white Western canon, then he will truly be in peril. Combining piercing analysis of race, gender and otherness in famous plays from Antony and Cleopatra to The Tempest with a radical reappraisal of Elizabethan London, The Great White Bard asks us neither to idealize nor bury Shakespeare but instead to look him in the eye and reckon with the discomforts of his plays, playhouses and society. In inviting new perspectives and interpretations, we may yet prolong and enrich his extraordinary legacy.

Free Download The Great Train Robber: My Autobiography: The Inside Story of Britain’s Most Notorious Heist (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWNQ6HL9 | 2023 | 11 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 342 MB
Author: Chris Pickard
Narrator: Nick Reynolds
What is it that fascinates so many people about Ronnie Biggs and makes him a household name sixty years on from the crime that made his name? Is it the man or the myth that makes Ron a latter-day Robin Hood, and the odd man out who is best remembered from a gang of sixteen who held up a mail train in August 1963? This book covers Ron’s entire life including the Great Train Robbery, his conviction and subsequent escape from HMP Wandsworth. Ron tells how he managed to outrun and outthink the posse of law enforcement officers and the media that chased him around the world as one of its most wanted men. From his time in Australia, to his discovery and arrest in Brazil in 1974, it is all included here. It covers the two attempts to kidnap him, and his son Mike’s rise to stardom.

Free Download Small Victories in a Great Big War: The Terrifying and Sometimes Hilarious Adventures of a World War Two Paratrooper (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCG9MD1P | 2023 | 4 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 226 MB
Author: John H. Canfield
Narrator: Eric Smies
An incredible journey of traumatic near-death moments, day to day drudgery, amusing situations, and brushes with greatness in World War II. Life for a World War II paratrooper was grave and perilous; John H. Canfield’s experience was no different. However, this young man found himself in so many crazy-sometimes humorous-situations that he almost forgot about how dangerous it was. Filled with pranksters and superiors full of bravado and an unfortunate brush with racial bigotry with a fellow African American soldier, Canfield shares his many stories from basic training and jump school.