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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 256 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: 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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    • 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 71 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: 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 298 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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    • 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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    • 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 78 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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    • 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 69 ratings
    • An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.....

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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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    • By: Martin Bossenbroek
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In The Boer War, the author brings a completely new perspective to this chapter of South African history, critically examining the involvement of the Netherlands in the war....

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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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    • 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 11 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 Very Short Introduction
    • By: John Parker, Richard Rathbone
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This VSI, the first concise work of its kind, will prove essential for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history....

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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 Murder of Lord Erroll
    • By: James Fox
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The riveting true story of decadence, deception, and murder among British aristocrats in colonial Kenya....

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    • A Writer's Awakening
    • By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
    • Narrated by: Benjamin A. Onyango
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 29-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • From one of the world’s greatest writers, the story of how the author found his voice as a novelist at Makerere University in Uganda....

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    • By: Keith Chisnall
    • Narrated by: Keith Chisnall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 23-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • One man's untold story of Special Forces, including clandestine operations during the Rhodesian war. It is a story of trial, battle, friendships, and extraordinary life experiences during the bloody Rhodesian war....

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    • The History and Legacy of British Imperialism in Modern South Africa and Zimbabwe
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In 1795, the British, emerging after the Napoleonic Wars as the globe’s naval superpower, assumed control of the Cape as part of the spoils of war. In doing so, they recognized the enormous strategic value of the Cape as global shipping routes were developing and expanding....

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    • A Captivating Guide to One of the Largest States of Medieval West Africa
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 17-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • As the world progressed through medieval times, great empires rose and fell across Europe and Africa. However, in the 15th century, trans-oceanic voyages were allowing imperialism to reach distant shores....

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