Thusnelda in the triumphal procession of Germanicus, by Karl Theodor von Piloty…
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2:49 |
Read by Sonia |
Germany Part I: In pagan times: Historical note
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1:35 |
Read by Sonia |
How the early Germans lived, by Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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7:03 |
Read by Sonia |
An appeal to Caesar (58 B.C.), by T. Rice Holmes
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23:00 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Herman, who freed the Germans from Rome (9 A.D.), by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker
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5:55 |
Read by Sonia |
Boniface and the oak of Thor (about 723), by the Right Rev. W. Pakenham Walsh
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9:20 |
Read by Christina Close |
Germany Part II: Emperors of mediaeval Germany: Historical note
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2:59 |
Read by Kristine Bekere |
How Charlemagne overcame the Saxons, by Dr. William Zimmermann
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13:51 |
Read by Kristine Bekere |
The Margrave Gero and the Vandals, by Theodor von Heyden (German artist, 1827),…
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1:33 |
Read by Sonia |
The election of Frederick Barbarossa (the red-bearded) (1152), by Cyrus Townsen…
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14:43 |
Read by Foon |
Frederick of the Red Beard and the Pope (1177), from the old chronicles
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11:02 |
Read by Joseph Barbaccia |
Frederick Barbarossa at the feet of the Pope, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1…
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2:14 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
Barbarossa, by Friedrich Rückert
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2:10 |
Read by Tomas Peter |
Germany Part III: Stories of the Middle Ages: Historical note
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1:40 |
Read by Sonia |
How Siegfried won a bride for King Gunther, from the Nibelungenlied
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22:20 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Bishop Hatto and his mouse tower (about 968), by Robert Southey
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5:04 |
Read by cathar maiden |
The Lorelei, by Heinrich Heine
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1:38 |
Read by cathar maiden |
The little Faust tower of Munich, by Frantz Trautmann
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23:15 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Germany Part IV: Life in the fifteenth century: Historical note
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2:53 |
Read by Foon |
The great Hanseatic League, by Eva March Tappan
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9:05 |
Read by Colleen McMahon |
The walled cities of Germany, by Sabine Baring-Gould, with the collaboration of…
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8:35 |
Read by Colleen McMahon |
German life in the fifteenth century, by Johannes Janssen
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14:11 |
Read by Colleen McMahon |
The contest of the master-singers, by August Hagen
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23:26 |
Read by Jim Locke |
John Gutenberg, inventor of printing (middle of the sixteenth century), by Eva …
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6:30 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Germany Part V: From the Reformation to the death of Frederick the Great: Histo…
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3:27 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
Martin Luther as a boy (about 1500), by Mrs. Elizabeth R. Charles
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19:34 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The sacking of Magdeburg (1631), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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12:59 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The giant regiment of Frederick William I of Prussia (between 1713 and 1740), b…
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11:39 |
Read by Greg Giordano |
The childhood of Frederick the Great (about 1720), by Thomas Carlyle
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18:13 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Frederick the Great and the First Silesian War (1740-1745), by Thomas Babington…
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25:00 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The round table of Frederick the Great at Sans Souci, by Adolf Friedrich Erdman…
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2:54 |
Read by Foon |
Germany Part VI: German authors and composers: Historical note
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2:19 |
Read by Monika M. C. |
Stories from the eighteenth century, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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12:45 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Morning prayers in the Bach family, by Toby Edward Rosenthal (American painter,…
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2:20 |
Read by Tomas Peter |
Handel, the master of Oratorio (1685-1759), by L. B. Urbino
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11:06 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The unwritten overture of Mozart (1756-1791), by Heribert Rau
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17:36 |
Read by ToddHW |
A visit to Beethoven (1770-1827), by Richard Wagner
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23:45 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Germany Part VII: Two wars with France: Historical note
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2:30 |
Read by April6090 |
The oath at the grave of Frederick the Great (1806), by Louisa Mühlbach (Klara …
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10:38 |
Read by Greg Giordano |
Why the philosopher's letter was not mailed (1806), by Louisa Mühlbach (Klara M…
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9:58 |
Read by April6090 |
The Queen of Prussia's ride (1806), by A. L. A. Smith
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2:38 |
Read by cathar maiden |
William of Prussia proclaimed German Emperor at Versailles, by Anton von Werner…
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2:33 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The troubles of a correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War (1870), from "All th…
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18:33 |
Read by Jim Locke |
German wounded in the Gallery of Mirrors, Versailles, by Victor Bachereau-Rever…
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3:15 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The watch on the Rhine, by Max Schneckenburger
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3:17 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
Germany Part VIII: Modern Germany: Historical note
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1:54 |
Read by cathar maiden |
Bismarck in the Reichstag and at home (about 1880), by George Makepeace Towle
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19:54 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Student life at the German universities (about 1900), by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
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10:40 |
Read by Jim Locke |
A day with the German Emperor (1898), by Maurice Leudet
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12:25 |
Read by ChadH94 |
The German Fatherland, by Ernst Moritz Arndt
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3:38 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The Netherlands Part I: From the Roman conquest to the Reformation: Historical …
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2:39 |
Read by Kristine Bekere |
Besieging a Roman camp (54 B.C.), by T. Rice Holmes
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14:31 |
Read by Kristine Bekere |
The rebellion of Civilis (69 A.D.), by Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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7:53 |
Read by Kristine Bekere |
How Count William of Holland was made a knight (1247), from the old chronicles
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5:54 |
Read by Jim Locke |
How Philip van Artevelde was made Governor of Ghent (1386), by Sir John Froissa…
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8:44 |
Read by Kirstin De Falco |
The childhood of Charles V: a reading by Erasmus, by Eduard Jean Conrad Hamman …
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3:03 |
Read by Foon |
The Netherlands Part II: How Holland won her freedom: Historical note
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3:22 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The ''beggars'' of Holland (1566), by John Lothrop Motley
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19:28 |
Read by April6090 |
The siege of Leyden (1574), by John Lothrop Motley
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22:15 |
Read by Philip Watson |
The assassination of William the Silent (1584), by John Lothrop Motley
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19:46 |
Read by Kirstin De Falco |
Sir Philip Sidney and the glass of water (1586), by John Lothrop Motley
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5:06 |
Read by Tomas Peter |
How a turf-boat captured the city of Breda (1590), by G. T. Hoare
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9:24 |
Read by Foon |
The Netherlands Part III: The period of commercial greatness: Historical note
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2:48 |
Read by Foon |
How a mud-hole became a garden, by William Elliot Griffis
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17:11 |
Read by Jim Locke |
When the pilgrim fathers went to Holland (1608), by William Bradford
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16:18 |
Read by Ruth P. |
The surrender of Breda, by Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velasquez (Spanish painter,…
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2:29 |
Read by Alan Mapstone |
The escape of Hugo de Groot (1621), by Frederick Spencer Bird
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18:08 |
Read by Foon |
The return of Spinoza (about 1653), by Israel Zangwill
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10:26 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The rival tulip-growers (1672), by Alexandre Dumas
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18:21 |
Read by ToddHW |
When William III of England came home to his fatherland (1691), by Thomas Babin…
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15:29 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The Netherlands Part IV: Little stories of Netherland artists: Historical note
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2:03 |
Read by Foon |
King Philip presenting Rubens to Velasquez, by Leon y Escosura (Spanish artist,…
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2:03 |
Read by Tomas Peter |
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), by Theodore Child
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5:51 |
Read by Nella |
Anton Vandyck (1599-1641), by Clara Erskine Clement
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8:58 |
Read by Foon |
Rembrandt's ''The Night Watch'', by Théophile Gautier
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8:57 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The Night Watch, by Rembrandt van Ryn (born at Leyden, 1607. Died in 1669), pai…
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2:24 |
Read by Foon |
Rembrandt in his studio, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French artist, 1824-1904), painti…
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2:18 |
Read by cathar maiden |
The Netherlands Part V: The Netherlands in recent years: Historical note
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2:45 |
Read by Foon |
The American Revolution in Holland, by Hendrik Willem van Loon
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20:12 |
Read by Philip Watson |
Contrary land, by Mary Mapes Dodge
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15:12 |
Read by Foon |
The festival of Saint Nicholas, by Mary Mapes Dodge
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19:06 |
Read by Foon |
In and out of a cab in Amsterdam, by F. Hopkinson Smith
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13:10 |
Read by April6090 |
The beloved Queen Wilhelmina (born in 1880), by William Elliot Griffis
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12:31 |
Read by Foon |
Switzerland Part I: In earliest times: Historical note
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1:47 |
Read by Scotty Smith |
The siege of the Lake-Dwellers, by Sir Arthur Helps
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6:48 |
Read by Scotty Smith |
The flight of the Helvetians (58 B.C.), by Eva March Tappan
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7:52 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The Devil's Bridge over the Reuss, by H. A. Guerber
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7:09 |
Read by Tomas Peter |
Switzerland Part II: How the Swiss gained their freedom: Historical note
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2:22 |
Read by April6090 |
The meeting at the Rütli (1307), by Heinrich Zschokke
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6:19 |
Read by Rob Marland |
The shot of William Tell (1307), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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22:32 |
Read by LibriVox Volunteers |
Tell's escape (1307), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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4:28 |
Read by LibriVox Volunteers |
Song of the Battle of Morgarten (1315), by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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5:01 |
Read by cathar maiden |
The death of Winkelried (1386), by Walter Thornbury
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5:43 |
Read by rumpledpoetry |
Switzerland Part III: Stories from Swiss history: Historical note
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2:37 |
Read by April6090 |
The Baron of Raron and the ''Mazze'' (fifteenth century), by J. Wilson
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3:30 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Peace or war ? (1474), by Sir Walter Scott
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24:27 |
Read by Jim Locke |
How the Swiss met Charles the Bold of Burgundy (1476) by Heinrich Zschokke
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9:01 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The milk porridge incident: a story of the Reformation, by Clarence Rook
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4:54 |
Read by Jim Locke |
The prison of Chillon, by Jacob Abbott
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12:03 |
Read by Scotty Smith |
The lion at Luzern, by Boyd Winchester
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4:19 |
Read by Sonia |
Switzerland Part IV: Stories of Alpine adventure: Historical note
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2:56 |
Read by April6090 |
Swept down by an avalanche, by Heinrich Zschokke
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9:44 |
Read by Devorah Allen |
The slide of Alpnach, by L. A. Gilbert
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8:35 |
Read by Availle |
The first ascent of the Matterhorn, by Edward Whymper
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12:05 |
Read by April6090 |
Tobogganing on a glacier, by John Addington Symonds
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10:17 |
Read by Jim Locke |
Switzerland Part V: Life in the mountains: Historical note
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1:57 |
Read by Monika M. C. |
Our borrowed scientists, by W. D. McCrackan
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6:05 |
Read by Sonia |
The tiny farms of Switzerland, by Boyd Winchester
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6:17 |
Read by Devorah Allen |
How Switzerland defends herself, by Clarence Rook
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13:51 |
Read by Availle |
How the Swiss built the greatest tunnel in the world, by Francis Fox
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8:38 |
Read by Sonia |