The Book of Famous Sieges: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Book of Famous Sieges, credited to Tudor Jenks, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Book of Famous Sieges by Tudor Jenks. Read in English by Daniel Sagner; Tommy Hersant; Kristine Bekere; Liam Young; Steven Seitel; Dan Ficklin; Elsie Selwyn; Colleen McMahon; AlosLovecraft; jenno; Jon Scott Jones History is dominated by war, battles, and sieges. Our history books are full of these. But history books usually don't explain sieges in such an accessible and at times entertaining way as Tudor Jenks manages in this 1909 volume. The text and explanations are directed at children, but interested adults will profit from them in the same way. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Book of Famous Sieges
• Author credits: Tudor Jenks
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 6:34:23

Catalogue topics

• children
• non-fiction
• war
• battle
• siege
• explanation
• 1909
• 2019

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 00 - Preface — 4:30
2. 01 - The Taking of Cities — 9:53
3. 02 - The First Period — 6:29
4. 03 - A Siege in the Earliest Times — 17:20
5. 04 - The Siege of Troy — 16:31
6. 05 - The Siege of Babylon, 538 BC — 11:50
7. 06 - The Siege of Plataea, 429 BC — 16:18
8. 07 - The Second Period — 7:28
9. 08 - The Siege of Tyre, 327 BC — 15:50
10. 09 - The Siege of Saguntum, 219 BC — 8:54
11. 10 - The Siege of Syracuse, 214 BC — 6:40
12. 11 - Siege of Alesia, 52 BC — 22:58
13. 12 - Jerusalem, 70 AD — 23:22
14. 13 - The Third Period — 6:24
15. 14 - Constantinople, about 717 AD — 18:30
16. 15 - Siege of Paris in 885 — 10:03
17. 16 - Siege of Antioch, 1097 AD — 21:25
18. 17 - The Fourth Period — 4:45
19. 18 - Siege of Orleans in 1428 — 23:27
20. 19 - The Fall of Constantinople, 1453 — 13:08
21. 20 - The Siege of Rhodes, 1522 — 29:31
22. 21 - The Fifth Period — 3:12
23. 22 - The Siege of Gibraltar, 1783 — 15:20
24. 23 - The Siege of Antwerp, 1832 — 13:32

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