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    THEY SAW IT HAPPEN - Eyewitness Accounts
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  • THE WAVESThey Saw It Happen: Eyewitness Accounts from Ancient Greece to HiroshimaCompiled by Mattew Lewin • Introduced by Tim Pigott-SmithRead by Teresa Gallagher, Tom George, Steve Hodson, and Kerry Shale Here are more than 60 eyewitness accounts of notable historical events beginning with the Spartans at Thermopylae in 480 BC through to and including the Bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Hear of the Black Death of the 1340s, the 1666 Great Fire of London, the Boston Tea Party in 1773 and the 1793 Execution of Louis XVI, the Death of Vice Admiral Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the American Civil War (1861-1865) and San Francisco¡¦s 1906 Earthquake which killed thousands of people and injured hundreds of thousands more. Meet Marie Antoinette, Stanley & Livingstone, Charles Lindbergh, and others. And there are also snapshots of more ordinary life ¡V no less memorable for all that ¡V including working conditions during the Industrial Revolution of that late 1700s and early 1800s, views of slaves and their owners, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903; one of the leading French painters of the post-Impressionist period), who chose a bride on Tahiti, and the 1910 arrest and death of Dr. Crippen. It is a fascinatingly unique and absorbing collection, bringing the past alive as only direct memories like these can do. NA429312 4CDs • ISBN 9-62634-293-5
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    • • CD01
      • 作品编号：39809  They Saw it Happen - Eyewitness Accounts from Ancient Greece to Hiroshima

      • Introduction

      • The Spartans at Thermopylae, 480 BC

      • The Spartans at Thermopylae, 480 BC: Next day the combat was renewed

      • Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, 49 BC

      • The Fire of Rome, 64 AD

      • Nero persecutes the Christians, 64 AD

      • The mass suicide of Zealots at Masada, 74 AD

      • The mass suicide of Zealots at Masada, 74 AD: Now as Eleazar was proceeding...

      • The eruption of Vesuvius, 79 AD

      • The Crusaders liberate Jerusalem, 1099

      • The murder of Thomas Becket, 1170

      • The Black Death, 1348

      • The death of Magellan, 1521

      • The Pilgrim Fathers' first few days, 1620

      • CD02
      • 作品编号：39809  They Saw it Happen - Eyewitness Accounts from Ancient Greece to Hiroshima

      • Execution of Charles I, 1649

      • The Great Fire of London, 1666

      • The Siege of Londonderry, 1689

      • The Salem Witch Trials, 1692

      • Cock fighting, 1710

      • Executions, 1728

      • The Boston Tea Party, 1773

      • Slavery in the West Indies, 1774

      • Declaration of Independence, 1776

      • The first aerial voyage, 1784

      • Marie Antoinette at the opera, 1792

      • Execution of Louis XVI, 1793

      • Fanny Burney glimpses Napoleon, 1802

      • The death of Nelson, 1805

      • Taken by the press gang, 1811

      • A slave owner's view, 1817

      • One of the first railway passengers, 1830

      • CD03
      • 作品编号：39809  They Saw it Happen - Eyewitness Accounts from Ancient Greece to Hiroshima

      • The exploitation of children, 1831

      • The coronation of Queen Victoria, 1838

      • London - prostitutes, 1839

      • A sale of slaves, 1846

      • Dickens criticises public executions, 1849

      • The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854

      • The American Civil War, 1862

      • The meeting of Stanley and Livingstone, 1871

      • The Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876

      • A puff of opium in Tiger Bay, 1883

      • White slavery in London, 1888

      • Saturday 30 June 1888

      • Paul Gaugin chooses a bride, 1892

      • The Battle of Magersfontein, 1899

      • The first flight, 1903

      • The San Francisco earthquake, 1906

      • CD04
      • 作品编号：39809  They Saw it Happen - Eyewitness Accounts from Ancient Greece to Hiroshima

      • The San Francisco earthquake, 1906 (continued)

      • The first flight across the English Channel, 1909

      • The arrest of Dr Crippen, 1910

      • The sinking of the Titanic, 1912

      • Gas attack - World War I, 1916

      • Realism in films, 1920

      • Opening Tutankhamun's tomb, 1922

      • Lindbergh flies the Atlantic, 1927

      • The Battle of Britain, 1940

      • The London Blitz, 1940

      • The testimony of Rudolf Hess, 1946

      • The attack on Pearl Harbour, 1941

      • A Japanese view of the attack on Pearl Harbour, 1941

      • Hiroshima, 1945