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In Freedom's Cause

A Story of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce

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In Freedom's Cause

By: George Alfred Henty
Narrated by: Jim Hodges
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Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings.

Liberty or death - this was the choice the people of 14th-century Scotland faced if they rose up against their English ruler. Most would say it was no choice at all. Many of the Scottish nobles were English supporters. Few could be expected to rise up against the numerically overwhelming English army. The hero of the story, Archibald Forbes, joins the struggle for Scottish freedom led by the valiant Sir William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. The extraordinary valor and personal prowess of these men rival the deeds of the mythical heroes of chivalry. Henty weaves a wonderful story around the actual events of 1314 at Bannockburn.

The Henty Historical Novel Collection, written by George Henty in the 1800s, covers many time periods in history throughout the world. In this collection, you will learn history, geography, and vocabulary while also discovering hero characters for your children to emulate.

Public Domain (P)2004 Jim Hodges Productions Fiction Historical Fiction Science Fiction Scotland Highlander

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I give the narrator 1 point because he managed to at least pronounce Bruce and Wallace. His attempts at place names in particular were abysmal. I almost gave up completely when he mangled the pronunciation of the greatest battle in Scottish history.
As much as I love audiobooks, I really wish this one had stayed on the written page.

Laughable pronunciation

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loved the story but should have been read by a Scottish person.. tha narrator absolutely butchers the names of all the towns mentioned throughout the book.

very enjoyable

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Many place names were mispronounced. However eg Quay- not qway but key is unforgivable!

Narrator's pronunciation

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Terrible choice of narrator. can't pronounce a single name of Scottish town or Scottish name correct. totally destroys the story. keeps calling Scottish...Scotch....

horrible narrator

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First the story, as a tour guide in Scotland, I found the story interesting, perhaps a fair amount of artistic licence is used, but that's inevitable when dealing with history.
The problem is THE NARRATOR, SORRY TO SAY HE IS HORRENDOUS, HIS INABILITY TO PRONOUNCE SCOTS IS OFFENSIVE, WE ARE SCOTTISH NOT SCOTCH AND THATS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE BOOK HE CONTINUALLY AND REPEATEDLY MISSPRONOUNCES, NAMES AND PLACES. WHICH MAKES THE THING OFFENSIVE TO SCOTTISH PEOPLE. SADLY TO ADD TO THAT HE HAS A MONOTONE VOICE WITH NO FLAIR. THERE IS NO FEELING OR EMITION IN HIS NARRATION.
SORRRY TO SAY HAS TO BE THE WORST NARRATOR I HAVE EVER HEARD. EXAMPLE HE PRONOUNCES LINLITHGOW AS IF IT LITHLINGOW.
THE NARRATOR HAS DESTROYED A GOOD STORY

Story good Narrator awful

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Great telling of some of the tales at a critical time in Scotland’s History.

Jim Hodges is magnificent.

His Scottish people and place name pronunciation is awful! Still very enjoyable though!

Scots Wha Hae

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this was a great story, well narrated and providing the usual stories of daring deeds. I enjoyed it a lot.

An excellent tale of Scotland fight for freedom

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As a Scot, the abysmal pronunciation by the American narrator was physically painful. How anyone can pronounce “Scots” as in referring to more than one Scot as “Scotch” is beyond reason to me.
A minimal amount of time to learn how to say place names correctly is an absolute necessity.

Awful pronunciation

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Come on,
I need to hear the Scottish narrator ?
Had to turn off after the news round beeping and the American reading Scottish…
Wasted a credit in this…
1 minute and That was enough for me

No no no

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Gave up after 10 minutes, couldn't stand the mis pronunciation and monotone voice of the American narrator. can't really say much about the story.

sack the narrator

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