From the Author:
History’s tourguide extraordinaire Diana Waring rushes you pell-mell through the cacophony of Modern History in five riveting hours. From Napoleon Bonaparte to the Cold War and everything in-between, Diana gives listeners—from ten-year-olds to Ph.D.’s—a broad, unforgettable immersion into the lives and events that shaped our cultures.
Track Titles:
DISC 1:
INTRODUCTION
1. Welcome to Modern History
NAPOLEON & EARLY MISSIONS
2. Young Napoleon
3. Napoleon’s Rise to Power
4. Emperor Napoleon
5. Napoleon’s Downfall
INDUSTRIALIZATION, NATIONALISM & THE CRIMEAN WAR
6. Reactionaries
7. Liberals
8. The Industrial Revolution
9. Response & the Age of Revolutions
BRITISH EMPIRE, INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTION &
AFRICA (continued disc 2)
10. The Victorian Era
DISC 2:
BRITISH EMPIRE, INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTION & AFRICA (continued from disc 1)
1. Charles Darwin
2. Karl Marx
3. David Livingstone & Africa
FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR, SALVATION ARMY & CHINA
4. The Rise of Prussia
5. The Franco-Prussian War
6. China and Hudson Taylor
7. Japan, Salvation Army & Spanish-American War
TURN OF THE CENTURY & THE BALKANS (continued disc 3)
8. The Turn of the Century & Russia
9. The Balkan Wars
DISC 3:
TURN OF THE CENTURY & THE BALKANS (continued from disc 2)
1. Russia’s Repressive Autocracy
2. Revival & Balkan Conflict
WWI & BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION
3. Prologue to War
4. The Spark
5. Trenches & Blockades
6. Fall of the Central Powers
FASCISM, NAZISM & STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE (continued disc 4)
7. Economic Chaos & Great Depression
8. Fascist Italy & Militant Japan
9. Hitler’s Germany & Revivals
DISC 4:
FASCISM, NAZISM & STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE
(continued from disc 3)
1. Jewish Palestine & German Conquest
WWII & MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCES
2. Miracle at Dunkirk
3. Battle of Britain
4. Pearl Harbor, Midway, El Alamein
5. D-Day & the Atom Bomb
COLD WAR, KOREAN WAR, ISRAEL & THE GOSPEL
6. Cold War & the Iron Curtain
7. Brother Andrew & the Berlin Airlift
8. Chinese Socialism & Korean War
9. Decolonization & Israel
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