![Review Random House Audiobooks / The Benn Diaries Vol. 2: 1970-1990 [Audiobook]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SW8H4J1PL._SL160_.jpg)
Creator: Ruth Winstone
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1995-09-21
RRP: £8.99
Price: £29.99
Review The Benn Diaries Vol. 2: 1970-1990 [Audiobook] / Random House Audiobooks:
Authors
- Eileen Balderson
- Douglas Goodlad
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-03
RRP: £20.95
Price: £22.12
Review Backstairs Life in a Country House: Complete & Unabridged (Reminiscence) / ISIS Audio Books:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1989-01-01
Dewey code: 920
Price: £69.33
Review Speaking My Mind: Slt Speech T / Simon & Schuster Audio:
Creator: Avril Clark
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1998-03
RRP: £28.95
Price: £28.95
Review Wood Smoke and Pigeon Pie: Complete & Unabridged (Reminiscence) / ISIS Audio Books:
Publication date: 2003-10-06
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.99
Review Free at Last (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-10-01
RRP: £29.50
Price: £29.50
Review Barefoot in Mullyneeny: A Boy's Journey Towards Belonging / ISIS Publishing:
Creator: Robert Powell
Publication date: 1999-10-04
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.00
Review This Sceptred Isle: The Twentieth Century 1979-1999 Vol 5 (BBC Radio Collection): The Twentieth Century Vol 5 / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 1992-09-28
RRP: £21.74
Price: £0.47
Review Britain Since 1930 (A Sense of History Primary) / Longman:
Publication date: 2002-02-18
Price: £14.99
Review Black Hawk Down / Simon & Schuster Audio:Journalist Mark Bowden delivers a strikingly detailed account of the 1993 nightmare operation in Mogadishu that left 18 American soldiers dead and many more wounded. This early foreign-policy disaster for the Clinton administration led to the resignation of Secretary of Defence Les Aspin and a total troop withdrawal from Somalia. Bowden does not spend much time considering the context; instead he provides a moment-by-moment chronicle of what happened in the air and on the ground. His gritty narrative tells of how Rangers and elite Delta Force troops embarked on a mission to capture a pair of high-ranking deputies to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid only to find themselves surrounded in a hostile African city. Their high-tech MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters had been shot down and a number of other miscues left them trapped through the night. Bowden describes Mogadishu as a place of Mad Max-like anarchy- implying strongly that there was never any peace for the supposed peacekeepers to keep. He makes full use of the defence bureaucracy's extensive paper trail-which includes official reports, investigations and even radio transcripts-to describe the combat with great accuracy, right down to the actual dialogue. He supplements this with hundreds of his own interviews, turning Black Hawk Down into a completely authentic nonfiction novel, a lively page-turner that will make readers feel like they're standing beside the embattled troops. This will quickly be realised as a modern military classic. -John J. [+]Miller, Amazon. com.
![Review Random House Audiobooks / The Benn Diaries Vol. 1: 1940-1970 [Audiobook]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71B3JSBG1KL._SL160_.gif)
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1995-09-21
RRP: £9.99
Price: £19.99
Review The Benn Diaries Vol. 1: 1940-1970 [Audiobook] / Random House Audiobooks:
Publication date: 1997-10-06
Dewey code: 791
RRP: £11.00
Price: £13.98
Review 75 Years of the BBC: A Celebration of BBC Radio (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Authors
- Paul Rusesabagina
- Tom Zoellner
Publication date: 2007-02-01
RRP: £31.95
Price: £31.95
Review An Ordinary Man / ISIS Audio Books:
Edition: TV Tie in Ed
Publication date: 1995-07-13
RRP: £8.99
Price: £8.84
Review The One That Got Away / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Kerry Shale
Publication date: 1999-10-18
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.99
Review Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea / HarperCollins Audio:The facts speak for themselves. In 1857, the Central America, a sidewheel steamer ferrying passengers fresh from the gold rush of California to New York and laden with 21 tons of California gold, encountered a severe storm off the Carolina coast and sank, carrying more than 400 passengers and all her cargo with her. She then sat for 132 years, 200 miles offshore and almost two miles below the ocean's surface-a depth at which she was assumed to be unrecoverable-until 1989, when a deep-water research vessel sailed into the harbour at Norfolk, Virginia, fat with salvaged gold coins and bullion estimated to be worth $1 billion. Author Gary Kinder wisely lets the story of the Columbus-America Dicovery Group, led by maverick scientist and entrepreneur Tommy Thompson, unfold without hyperbole. Kinder interweaves the tale of the Central America and her passengers and crew with Thompson's own story of growing up landlocked in Ohio. An irrepressible tinkerer and explorer even in his childhood days, his progress to adulthood as a young man who always had "7 to 14" projects on the table or spinning in his head adds fascinating texture and depth to the story. One of those projects would become the unlikely recovery of the stricken steamer, and the resourcefulness and drive with which the project proceeds is contrasted poignantly in the narrative with the Central America's doomed battle to stay afloat in 1857. Thompson, who spent nearly a decade planning and organizing his recovery effort, emerges as one of the great unsung adventurers of these times (the technical innovations alone required for such a task produced a windfall for the scientific community and defined a new state of the art for deep-sea explorers and treasure hunters), and the story of the steamer's sinking is compelling enough to make any reader wonder why the Central America sinking hasn't achieved greater notoriety in this Titanic-dominated area.
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2003-07-02
Dewey code: 327.73
RRP: £20.54
Price: £15.44
Review War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, & the Generals / Simon & Schuster:A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of 17 books, including War in a Time of Peace, David Halberstam has a gift for bringing current events alive and putting them into historical perspective in an engaging way. In many respects, War in a Time of Peace serves as a sequel to his classic The Best and the Brightest in its examination of how the lessons of Vietnam have influenced American foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. Beginning with the Persian Gulf War, Halberstam discusses the political shift in emphasis from foreign to domestic issues that ushered in the first Clinton administration. Despite the fact that Clinton, along with much of the country, preferred to focus on the home front, the US nonetheless found itself drawn into conflicts in Haiti, Somalia and the Balkans-events that reflected American discomfort with the use of its military forces abroad while at the same time acknowledging that much of the world is dependent upon the US for both guidance and support. The book also highlights the many nonpolitical factors that have influenced these political changes, including a generational shift in national leadership, the modern media's emphasis on entertainment over foreign news, a leap in military technology and American economic prosperity that has rendered foreign policy largely irrelevant to many citizens. Halberstam is a master at presenting well-rounded portraits and telling anecdotes of the personalities that have created US policy, casting new light on well-known figures such as Clinton, Colin Powell and George W Bush, as well as supporting players such as Anthony Lake, Richard Holbrooke, James Baker, Madeleine Albright, General Wesley Clark, Al Gore and many other influential American leaders of the past decade. Having covered many aspects of American history and foreign policy since the early 1960s, Halberstam is uniquely qualified to report on an era in which the US, and the world, has changed so dramatically. -Shawn Carkonen.
Creator: Diana Quick
Publication date: 1992-10-22
RRP: £10.99
Price: £63.52
Review Twopence to Cross the Mersey: Unabridged / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: David Threlfall
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1997-09-15
Dewey code: 910
Price: £10.99
Review Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows / HarperCollins Audio:
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The Benn Diaries Vol. 2: 1970-1990 [Audiobook], Backstairs Life in a Country House: Complete & Unabridged (Reminiscence), Speaking My Mind: Slt Speech T, Wood Smoke and Pigeon Pie: Complete & Unabridged (Reminiscence), Free at Last (Radio Collection), Barefoot in Mullyneeny: A Boy's Journey Towards Belonging, This Sceptred Isle: The Twentieth Century 1979-1999 Vol 5 (BBC Radio Collection): The Twentieth Century Vol 5, Britain Since 1930 (A Sense of History Primary), Black Hawk Down, The Benn Diaries Vol. 1: 1940-1970 [Audiobook], 75 Years of the BBC: A Celebration of BBC Radio (Radio Collection), An Ordinary Man, The One That Got Away, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, & the Generals, Twopence to Cross the Mersey: Unabridged, Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows |
