Author: Michael Burgan
Series: Captured World History
Narrator: Various Narrators
Unabridged: 1 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway
Published: 08/10/2017
Genre: Children & Young Adults Nonfiction - History - Europe
When it went down in flames, the Hindenburg went down in history. The era of airship travel ended with a disastrous explosion May 6, 1937. Sam Shere’s photo of the Hindenburg in flames has been called the most famous news photograph ever taken. The entire episode—from first flash to destruction—took less than a minute. It happened so fast that Shere, who could feel the heat of the burning airship, had no time to raise his camera to his eye. His famous photo, which was the first ever to show a major air disaster as it happened, was shot from the hip.
Henrietta Marshall's entertaining biography of this larger than life personality. She takes us through Napoleon's colorful life, from military campaigns to his solitary end on Elba. This story brings Napoleon to life, not just a caricature with hand...
This audio-book describes what life was like for the Vikings, with an in-depth account of all aspects of the people at the time and how they lived their daily lives. Narrator Jason Zenobia talks us through plenty of amazing facts about Viking voyag...
On 25th March 1918 Vlad the flea and his friend, Crisp VC the carrier pigeon, are on a mission to deliver a secret message from behind enemy lines.They must dodge the dog-fights, survive the trenches and seek help from the staff of the hospital tent...
Between the eighth and eleventh centuries Vikings stormed out of their Scandinavian homelands to raid and loot along the coasts of Europe. In old Norse to ‘go a’viking’ meant to take to sea in a long ship for an adventure. Sometime...
The second volume in a five-part series telling the story of Great Britain's history, from its earliest beginnings to World War IMuch loved by generations of children, this is a classic children's history of Britain from the Romans to the death of Q...
The final volume in a five-part series telling the story of Great Britain's history, from its earliest beginnings to World War IMuch loved by generations of children, this is a classic children's history of Britain from the Romans to the death of Qu...
Find out why we wear poppies on Remembrance Day. Who are we remembering and why? This book brings the story of the poppy to life, showing how it was first used as a symbol of remembrance and how soldiers are remembered all over the world.
The first volume in a five-part series telling the story of Great Britain's history, from its earliest beginnings to World War IMuch loved by generations of children, this is a classic children's history of Britain from the Romans to the death of Qu...
It is 1666 and Vlad the flea and his friend Boxton the rat, love eating and biting their way around London. But one night in Pudding Lane they are caught up in a fire that threatens to destroy them, along with most of the City of London.The Vlad fle...