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Tag Archives: France
One hundred years ago, in 1917, a secret coded radio transmission from a German transmitter was intercepted by British Intelligence. Great Britain was already at war with Germany. Despite the loss of American lives on the Lusitania, United States President Woodrow Wilson was struggling to keep America out of World War I. Continue Reading »
March 22, 2017, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: 1917, Admiralty Old Building, Andre Devin, Andre Stojka, Arizona, Arthur Zimmerman, Audible.com, audiobooks, British Intelligence, Cryptographers, decode, England, Erich von Eckardt, France, German, German Ambassador to Mexico. German Torpedo Boats, German secret code, German U-Boat, Great Britain, Handelsschiffsverkehrsbuch, Irving Berlin, James Norman Hall, Lafayette Escadrill, Listen to Read, Listen2Read.com, Lusitania, New Mexico, nineteen seventeen, President Woodrow Wilson, Room 40, submarine, Texas, Theodore Roosevelt, transmitter, United States Ambassador James W. Gerard, Venustiano Carranza, war, Western Front, Whitehall, World War One, “High Adventure”, “Mutiny On The Bounty”, “Over There”
151 years ago this month, a vicious, violent attack on the United Stated government took place: President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. But there was a second assassination attempt that dreadful evening, which fewer people know about. It was aimed at Secretary of State William H. Seward and it was witnessed by his terrified daughter. Continue Reading »
April 6, 2016, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Andre F Stojka, April 14 1865, Assassination, audiobook, Augustus Seward, Belgium, Bowie knife, Charles Augustus Leale, Confederate, Fanny Seward, Ford’s Theatre, France, Frederick Seward, George F. Robinson, John Wilkes Booth, Lewis Powell, Listen2Read, Mary Todd Lincoln, Pakistan, President, Publisher, Reconstruction, Secretary of State, South, Syracuse University Press, Trudy Krisher, United States, Violent attacks, Washington D.C., William H Seward, “Fanny Seward: A Life”, “Lincoln’s Last Hours”, “Our American Cousin”
Whenever I publish a historic adventure audiobook, I include an AFTERWARD, so that the listener can place the events in a historical perspective. For this reason, I was reviewing American history about the Louisiana Purchase for my new audiobook, “A Tour On The Prairies,” by Washington Irving, the first famous American author. “A Continue Reading »
February 3, 2016, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: 1832, Andre Stojka, Andrew Jackson, audiobook, Austria, beignets, Buffalo hunting, Café Du Monde, Canadian Border, Charles, Commissioner, Congress, Connecticut, Count Albert de Pourtales, European wars, Far West, France, French treasury, Gent”, Great Britain, Haiti, Indian Removal Act, J. LaTrobe, James Monroe, Judge Henry L. Ellsworth, Listen to Read, Listen2Read, Louisiana Territory, Mississippi River, Morning Chronicle, Napoleon Bonaparte, Native American hunters, Native Americans, New Orleans, Oklahoma Territory, Prairie Indians, Prairie life, Prairie Squatters, Rocky Mountains, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Washington Irving, White Mountains, “A Tour On the Prairies”, “Great White Father”, “Indian Children” Listen to Read, “Rip Van Winkle”, “Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, “Trail of Tears”
James Norman Hall, co-author of “Mutiny on the Bounty,” experienced his first taste of mutiny at the end of World War One. North of where Hall was held captive in a German Prisoner of War Camp, the Dreadnaught “Prinzregent Luitpold” was tied up at a dock near the Kiel Canal. Continue Reading »
June 3, 2015, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Admiral Franz von Hipper, Allied Powers, Andre Devin, Andre Stojka, audiobook, Baltic, Bavaria, Dreadnaught, England, English Channel, English Royal Navy, France, German, Gustav Krupp, Hall of Mirrors, Hindenburg Line, James Norman Hall, Kiel Canal, Lafayette Espadrille, Landshut, Listen to Read, Listen2Read, Louis XIV, Munich, mutiny, North Sea, Otto Von Bismarck, Paris, Prison Camp, Prussia, Russia, stokers, Sun King, Tahiti, The Western Front, United States, US Aviation Headquarters, Versailles, World War One, “High Adventure”, “Mutiny On The Bounty”, “My Island Home”, “Prinzregent Luitpold”, “Treaty of Versailles”
Edith Carow and Theodore Roosevelt were close childhood friends in New York City. As they grew from children into young adults, they attended both family and social events together. It appeared that the relationship might lead to something permanent, but when Theodore left home to enter Harvard University something changed in him. Soon after, he Continue Reading »
April 1, 2015, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: 1900 Presidential Election, Africa, Alice Hathaway, Alice Roosevelt, Andre Stojka, assassin, audiobook, Bright’s Disease, Charles Morris, Cinque Terre, Cuba, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Edith Carow, England, France, Franz Joseph, Germany, Godello Palace, Governor State of New York, Grand Tour of Europe, Hanover Square, Harvard University, Hungary, Italy, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Kermit Roosevelt, King of Italy, Liguria Coast, Listen to Read, London, Mittie Roosevelt, New York Assembly, River of Doubt, San Juan Hill, Sorbonne, Spezzia, St. George’s Church, The Kaiserine, Theodore Roosevelt, Through The Brazilian Wilderness, typhoid fever, William McKinley, “Battling for the Right”, “Bully Pulpit”, “Citizenship in a Republic”, “The Man in the Arena”
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