Great Speeches in History
Published by Naxos Audiobooks
Narrated by Samuel West, Elizabeth Bell, Peter Marinker and Norman Rodway
4/5
()
About this audiobook
From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln – here are some of history’s most significant figures with their most important speeches. Fighting for justice, for freedom of speech, and sometimes even for their own lives, these orators demonstrate the finest resources of language in the service of the most dramatic issues of their day.
Related to Great Speeches in History
Related audiobooks
The Trial and Death of Socrates Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Final Days of Socrates Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Selections from the Writings of Cicero Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Consolation of Philosophy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Spirit of the Laws Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation the Inequality Among Mankind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Plato’s Apology Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Meditations/Discourse on the Method Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5History's Greatest Speeches - Vol. II Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great Speeches & Soliloquies of Shakespeare Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Poetics/Rhetoric Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Best Quotes by William Shakespeare Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Enlightenment: Reason, Tolerance, and Humanity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Aeneid Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Greek Lives Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad & The Odyssey Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Republic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Odyssey of the West V: A Classic Education through the Great Books: Enlightenment, Revolution, and Renewal Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ancient Greek Philosophy – An Introduction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Roman Lives Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Way With Words: Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5History's Greatest Speeches - Vol. VI Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Julius Caesar Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5300 Quotes of Renaissance Philosophy: Montaigne, Bacon & Machiavelli Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
History For You
Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Demon Copperhead: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Overstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leave the World Behind: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Razorblade Tears: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/577 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Secret History of the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Small Mercies: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Five Rings Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Story of Art Without Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An American Marriage: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Endurance Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Great Speeches in History
18 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I guess I'm not into speeches or I'm not familiar with the events, none of them is recent, all hundreds or thousands years old. It somehow failed to captivate me.
1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5First few chapterd are from known figures but later the focus is aľost exclusively on Britain ˇ.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I read the audio version of this, which was definitely the way to go. The collection includes great speeches by a variety of historical figures. Each one is read beautifully, giving full weight to the significance of the moment with a brief explanation of who gave the speech and what the context was. I wish a few more speeches had been included. The collection is a small one and there are so many more that could have given the book even more weight.