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    The Wounded Knee Massacre and the Sand Creek Massacre: The History and Legacy of the Two Most Notorious Indian Massacres , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 198min
    On the morning of November 29, 1864, Colonel John Chivington led 700 militiamen in a surprise attack against Cheyenne leader Black Kettle's camp at Sand Creek. Chivington was a fire and brimstone Methodist minister who had publicly advocated indiscriminately killing Native American children because "nits makes lice." Warning his men ahead of battle, Chivington stated, "Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! I have come to kill Indians and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians!" According to Cheyenne oral tradition and several surviving soldiers' accounts, as soon as Black Kettle saw Chivington's men coming, he raised an American flag on a pole and waved it back and forth calling out that his Wutapai band was not resisting. Ignoring his cries for mercy, the soldiers commenced firing, cutting down an estimated 70-200 Cheyenne, about two-thirds of whom were women and children. The Cheyenne claimed that soldiers shot babies in the head at point-blank range, raped Cheyenne women, and scalped dead warriors. The following morning, Army Lieutenant James Connor, who had refused to follow Chivington's orders, visited the scene of the massacre and reported, "In going over the battleground the next day I did not see a body of man, woman, or child but was scalped, and in many instances their bodies were mutilated in the most horrible manner - men, women, and children's privates cut out... I heard one man say he cut out a woman's private parts and had them for exhibition on a stick... I also heard of numerous instances in which men had cut out the private parts of females and stretched them over saddle-bows and wore them over their hats while riding in the ranks." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Larson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033043/bk_acx0_033043_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Wild Yankees: The Struggle for Independence Along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 534min
    Northeast Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley was truly a dark and bloody ground, the site of murders, massacres, and pitched battles. The valley's turbulent history was the product of a bitter contest over property and power known as the Wyoming controversy. This dispute, which raged between the mid-18th and early 19th centuries, intersected with conflicts between whites and native peoples over land, a jurisdictional contest between Pennsylvania and Connecticut, violent contention over property among settlers and land speculators, and the social tumult of the American Revolution. In Wild Yankees, Paul B. Moyer argues that a struggle for personal independence waged by thousands of ordinary settlers lay at the root of conflict in northeast Pennsylvania and across the revolutionary-era frontier. The concept and pursuit of independence was not limited to actual war or high politics; it also resonated with ordinary people, such as the Wild Yankees. It drew settlers into contention with native peoples, wealthy speculators, governments, and each other over land, the shape of America's postindependence social order, and the meaning of the Revolution. The book is published by Cornell University Press. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Chappell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/089108/bk_acx0_089108_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Her Tempting Protector: Navy SEAL Team (Night Storm, Book 2) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 424min
    Could she get it done?In the wilds of Africa, all hell was breaking loose. There were riots and massacres, and in the middle of it all was one lone doctor determined to make a difference. Dr. Carys Adams was intent on saving a young mother's life, even if it meant operating in the worst possible conditions. It was going to take a miracle to save the newborn baby and keep the young mother alive. How was she going to get this little family transported to the hospital three days away? Can he get them to safety in time? Navy SEAL Cullen Lyons knew the moment he saw this stubborn, selfless woman treating her patients in a war zone, getting them to safety was going to take everything he had. When he convinced her the only way to safety was a dangerous journey through the hazards of Africa, he found out she was specifically targeted by the brutal rebels, which added a cherry on top. Will he be able to get Carys' patients to help before time runs out? Will he be able to keep Carys out of the hands of the rebels?" ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ryan West, Kirsten Leigh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/186161/bk_acx0_186161_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A God in Every Stone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 583min
    A kaleidoscopic masterpiece of empire and rebellion by Kamila Shamsie, the Orange Prize shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British Novelist In the summer of 1914 a young Englishwoman, Vivian Rose Spencer, finds herself fulfilling a dream by joining an archeological dig in Turkey. Working alongside Germans and Turks, she falls in love with archaeologist, Tahsin Bey, and joins him in his quest to find an ancient silver circlet. The outbreak of war in Europe brings her idyllic summer to a sudden end, and her friends become her nation’s enemies. The following spring, in the battlefields of Europe, Qayyum Gul, a Lance Corporal from Peshawar fighting for the British, loses an eye, and is sent to recover in a Royal Pavilion in England, where he slowly begins to doubt his loyalties to the King. Returning home, Qayyum shares a train carriage with Vivian Rose whose search for the circlet has led her to Peshawar in the heart of the British Raj. Fifteen years later, they will meet again, and their loyalties will be tested once more amidst massacres, cover-ups, and the disappearance of a young man they both love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joan Walker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018143/bk_adbl_018143_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Last Kingdom: The Saxon Chronicles, Book 1, Hörbuch, Digital, 330min
    From Bernard Cornwell, the New York Times best-selling author whom the Washington Post calls "perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today", comes a saga of blood, rage, fidelity, and betrayal. In the ninth and 10th centuries, King Alfred and his heirs fought to secure the survival of the last outpost of Anglo-Saxon culture by battling the ferocious Vikings, whose invading warriors had already captured and occupied three of England's four kingdoms. In AD 866, Uhtred, a boy of 10 and the son of a nobleman, is captured in the same battle that leaves his father dead. His captor is the Earl Ragnar, a Danish chieftain, who raises the boy as his own, teaching him the Viking ways of war. As a young man expected to partake in raids and bloody massacres of the English, he grapples with divided loyalties, torn between Ragnar, the warrior he loves like a father, and Alfred, whose piety and introspection leave him cold. It takes a terrible slaughter and the unexpected joys of marriage for Uhtred to discover his true allegiance, and to rise to his greatest challenge. Language: English. Narrator: Jamie Glover. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/000944/bk_harp_000944_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blood on the Ohio: Frontier Tales of Terror , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 311min
    Accounts of murders, torture, and massacres of colonists and Native Americans were reported in early historical journals. Heinous stories, that will bring a renewed understanding of the terrible costs of western expansion; a cost paid in full by the Natives and those that thought it just to take their lands. At the beginning of the year 1754, a few colonists' cabins began to appear on the western side of the Allegheny mountains. The British western expansion gave rise to the French and Indian War. The conflict was begun over French and British claims over the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers called the Forks of the Ohio. From 1775 to 1783, during the American Revolution, resources and manpower were unavailable to the beleaguered settlers. Another 10 years would pass before the Native Americans relinquished their lands. Native Americans and colonists were engaged in a war of extermination that included women and children. Numerous atrocities were being committed by both parties. Somber tales that few have heard, but reveal the heavy price in blood that both parties paid for those lands of the Ohio River. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Webb. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/082612/bk_acx0_082612_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 509min
    One of the American West’s bloodiest - and least-known - massacres is searingly re-created in this generation-spanning history of native-white intermarriage. National Book Award - winning histories such as The Hemingses of Monticello and Slaves in the Family have raised our awareness about America’s intimately mixed black and white past. Award-winning western historian Andrew R. Graybill now sheds light on the overlooked interracial Native-white relationships critical in the development of the trans-Mississippi West in this multigenerational saga. Beginning in 1844 with the marriage of Montana fur trader Malcolm Clarke and his Piegan Blackfeet bride, Coth-co-co-na, Graybill traces the family from the mid-nineteenth century, when such mixed marriages proliferated, to the first half of the twentieth, when Clarke ’s children and grandchildren often encountered virulent prejudice. At the center of Graybill’s history is the virtually unexamined 1870 Marias Massacre, on a par with the more infamous slaughters at Sand Creek and Wounded Knee, an episode set in motion by the murder of Malcolm Clarke and in which Clarke ’s two sons rode with the Second U.S. Cavalry to kill their own blood relatives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Stechschulte. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015001/bk_adbl_015001_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Lebanon In Turmoil Syria And The Powers In 1860
    The Lebanon In Turmoil Syria And The Powers In 1860 ab 25.49 € als Taschenbuch: Book Of The Marvels Of The Time Concerning The Massacres In The Arab Country (1920). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    The Pessimist's Guide to History
    The Pessimist's Guide to History ab 19.99 € als Taschenbuch: An Irresistible Compendium of Catastrophes Barbarities Massacres and Mayhem--From 14 Billion Years Ago to 2007. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    The Umbrella Academy Volume 2: Dallas
    Check out the New York Times best selling comics series before the new season of Umbrella Academy debuts July 31st 2020 on Netflix!The team is despondent following the near apocalypse created by one of their own and the death of their beloved mentor Pogo. So it's a great time for another catastrophic event to rouse the team into action. Trouble is each member of the team is distracted by some very real problems of their own. The White Violin is bedridden due to an unfortunate blow to the head. Rumor has lost her voice the source of her power. Spaceboy has eaten himself into a near-catatonic state, while Number Five dives into some shady dealings at the dog track and the Kraken starts looking at his littlest brother as the key to unraveling a mysterious series of massacres all leading to a blood-drenched face-off with maniacal assassins, and a plot to kill JFK!Chosen as BookExpo America's 2009 Hot Graphic Novel for Libraries and Teens!The first volume of The Umbrella Academy has sold over 45,000 copies!"It's the X-Men for cool people." Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman)2009 Eisner Award nominations (The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite): Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá: Best Graphic Album Gabriel Bá: Best Cover Artist, Best Penciller/Inker James Jean: Best Cover Artist Dave Stewart: Best ColoringA New York Times bestseller!
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