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    • By: Adrian Greaves
    • Narrated by: Paul Herzberg
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling more than 1,200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned their attention on a small outpost at Rorke's Drift....

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    • How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
    • By: Siddharth Kara
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.

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    • The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 260 ratings
    • It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced....

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    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

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    • The SAS in Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....

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    • By: Winston Churchill
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Churchill tells the story of how he escaped and made a daring overland crossing, travelling only at night to avoid detection....

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    • The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
    • By: Richard Miles
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.....

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    • The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
    • By: Stuart A. Reid
    • Narrated by: Michael Boatman
    • Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • It was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. The Congo was at last being set free from Belgium—one of seventeen countries to gain independence in 1960 from ruling European powers....

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    • A White Boy in Africa
    • By: Peter Godwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Godwin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Rhodesia, 1964: a small boy witnesses the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerrillas - it is the beginning of the end of White rule in Africa. In Mukiwa, Peter Godwin, the witness to that murder, has written a vivid, moving account of growing up in a colony rapidly collapsing....

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    • By: Mike Hoare
    • Narrated by: Mike Hoare
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 14-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Col. Mike Hoare tells how his force of mercenaries, 5 Commando, put down a Comunist-backed rebel uprising in the Congo....

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    • The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On
    • By: Leigh Neville, Matt Eversmann - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • On October 3, 1993, Task Force Ranger was dispatched to seize two high-profile lieutenants of a Somali warlord. The mission was meant to be over within the hour. They quickly found themselves under heavy fire, and two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down....

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    • Thomas Jefferson, The First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
    • By: Richard Zacks
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • After Tripoli declared war on the United States in 1801, Barbary pirates captured 300 U.S. sailors and marines....

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    • A Soldier's War in Northern Ireland, Rhodesia, Mozambique and Iraq
    • By: Gregory Michael Budd, Jake Harper-Ronald
    • Narrated by: Pat Devon
    • Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-24
    • Language: English
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    • Men in the furnace of adversity… Step into the extraordinary life of Jake Harper-Ronald, a man whose childhood dream of becoming a soldier led him on an unparalleled journey.

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    • Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond
    • By: A.J. Balaam
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 21-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother, or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. This is the story of Andrew Balaam, a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and the Selous Scouts for 12 years....

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    • Algeria 1954-1962
    • By: Alistair Horne
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 29 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. From the perspective of half a century, it looks less like the last colonial war than the first postmodern one....

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    • The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
    • By: Susan Williams
    • Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
    • Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 13-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US....

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    • A Cold Case Investigation
    • By: Sarah Adams, Dave Benton
    • Narrated by: Brian Sears
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 28-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Starting on September 11th, 2012, al-Qa'ida carried out a series of terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate and CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens....

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    • Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid
    • By: Thomas Grant
    • Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Through the great set-pieces of the legal struggle against apartheid—cases which made the headlines not just in South Africa but across the world—this biography is a portrait of enduring moral stature....

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    • A Memoir of Africa
    • By: Peter Godwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Godwin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love....

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    • Captivating Stories of the Gods, Goddesses, Monsters and Mortals
    • By: Matt Clayton
    • Narrated by: JD Kelly
    • Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
    • Release date: 13-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This book on Egyptian mythology is part of the best-selling series, Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology - Greek Mythology....

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