Tag: Shook

Free Download John Tully, "Silvertown: The Lost Story of a Strike that Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labor Movement"
English | 2014 | pages: 268 | ISBN: 1583674349 | PDF | 4,4 mb
In 1889, Samuel Winkworth Silver’s rubber and electrical factory

Free Download Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CR1YHKCJ | 2024 | 10 hours and 59 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Colin Elliott
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
A dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle. In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory that stretched from Britain to Egypt. The Roman-made peace, or Pax Romana, seemed to be permanent. Then, apparently out of nowhere, a sudden sickness struck the legions and laid waste to cities, including Rome itself. This fast-spreading disease, known now as the Antonine plague, may have been history’s first pandemic. Soon after its arrival, the Empire began its downward trajectory toward decline and fall. In Pox Romana, historian Colin Elliott offers a comprehensive, wide-ranging account of this pivotal moment in Roman history.

Free Download The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BSP69BJ3 | 2024 | 14 hours and 27 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 397 MB
Author: Simon Shuster
Narrator: Daniel Gamburg
Acclaimed journalist Simon Shuster gives us the first inside account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team, who granted him unprecedented access. Time correspondent Simon Shuster chronicles the life and wartime leadership of Volodymyr Zelensky from the dressing rooms of his variety show in Ukraine to the muddy trenches of his war with Russia. Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels with President Zelensky to the front; and dozens of interviews with him, his wife, his friends and enemies, his advisers, ministers and military commanders, The Showman tells an intimate and eye-opening story of the President’s evolution from a slapstick actor to a symbol of resilience, revealing how he managed to rally the world’s democracies behind his cause. The book’s early chapters offer the first detailed account of Zelensky’s life in a nuclear bunker in the opening weeks of the invasion and the circumstances of his wife’s escape to safety with their children.

Free Download Unroyal: Three Women Who Shook the Monarchy (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHHC613R | 2023 | 4 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 254 MB
Author: Sarah Lyall
Narrator: Sarah Lyall
Wallis, Diana and Meghan: Three Wives, One Narrative. One was a married American socialite who embarked on a scandalous affair with the future king of England. Another was an aristocratic ingenue whose winsome charm captured the world’s imagination. And the third was a thirty-something actress whose outspokenness put her on a collision course with the British public. The marriages of Wallis Simpson, Diana Spencer, and Meghan Markle into the British royal family sparked a series of crises that at times seemed to threaten the future of the monarchy itself. In Unroyal, veteran New York Times reporter and former London correspondent Sarah Lyall revisits how each royal wife threatened the stability of-and was ultimately rejected by-this most ancient and opaque of institutions.

Free Download Kakori: The Train Robbery That Shook the British Raj (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CH1LNTGP | 2023 | 4 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 219 MB
Author: Prachi Garg
Narrator: Swetanshu Bora
In the 1920s, a group of young revolutionaries under the leadership of Ram Prasad Bismil took matters into their own hands to achieve freedom from the tyrannical rule of the British. Bismil and his team set the stage for a defining moment in the Indian freedom struggle by executing the audacious Kakori robbery. This was a direct attack on the British government after a long time, and it rattled them. Revisit the robbery from the eyes of Bismil as he narrates the tale of bravery, patriotism and brotherhood. Kakori is an intensely researched, comprehensive account of this historical episode, filled with hard-hitting facts and startling insights.