True Disasters

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    • By: Terry Deary
    • Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
    • Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • What would you do if disaster struck? Would you be a hero...or a coward....

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    • True Tales of Air Disasters and the People Who Survived Them
    • By: Robin Suerig Holleran, Lindy Philip
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In this collection of true-life survivor tales, people from all walks of life recount their traumatic narrow escapes as engines stalled, fuel ran out, and landings did not go according to plan....

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    • A True Story of Men Against the Sea
    • By: Sebastian Junger
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 29-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Man’s struggle against the sea is a theme that has created some of the world’s most exciting stories....

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    • By: Dan Walsh
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • For John and Laura Foster, what began as a fairy-tale honeymoon in 1857 aboard the steamship SS Vandervere quickly turns into a nightmare. A terrible hurricane strikes, and the grand ship begins to sink....

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    • A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
    • By: Adam Higginbotham
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • From the New York Times-bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger space shuttle disaster based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research – riveting history that unfolds like a thriller....

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    • A Harrowing True Story of Disaster at Sea
    • By: Thomas Thompson
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In July 1973, Bob Tininenko, his wife Linda, and his brother in-law Jim Fisher set sail from Tacoma, Washington, on a 31-foot trimaran, down the West Coast to Costa Rica. The journey was expected to take a matter of weeks, but for 72 days, the trio was lost at sea....

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    • What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living
    • By: Robert A. Jensen
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr, Robert A. Jensen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • The owner of the world’s leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the yellow tape, and explores what it means to be human after a lifetime of caring for the dead....

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    • A True Story from a Hotter World
    • By: John Vaillant
    • Narrated by: Alan Carlson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • John Vaillant explores the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind in this stunning account of this century's most intense urban fire....

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    • By: Hazel Gaynor
    • Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Liverpool 1940. Alice King stands on the deck of SS Carlisle, waiting to escort a group of children to Canada as overseas evacuees. She is finally doing her bit for the war....

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    • True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death
    • By: Laurence Gonzales
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 28-07-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • This audiobook will change the way we understand ourselves and the great outdoors....

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    • The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
    • By: Andrew Leatherbarrow
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl's fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation....

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    • The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship"
    • By: Deborah Heiligman
    • Narrated by: Marisa Calin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII....

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    • The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
    • By: Harold Schechter
    • Narrated by: Braden Wright
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell’s Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of the first - and worst - mass murders in American history....

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    • True Travel Tales of Fear, Failure, and Faith
    • By: Angie Orth
    • Narrated by: Angie Orth
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-24
    • Language: English
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    • Angie Orth should have had at least 2.5 kids by now—everyone else back home did. Despite a successful PR career in New York, Angie was failing at the roles she was born to play—those of submissive wife and grandchild incubator....

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    • A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic, 1910-13
    • By: Richard Farr
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Rife with captivating details of survival in an icy wilderness, this reimagining of the famous 1910 expedition to the South Pole, told in Cherry's voice, is an unforgettable tale of courage and camaraderie....

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    • The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
    • By: Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Kate Winkler Dawson's debut, Death in the Air, is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing....

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    • Arson, Murder and the Agony of Engine 57
    • By: John N. Maclean
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Esperanza Fire started October 26, 2006, in the San Jacinto Mountains above the Banning Pass near Cabazon, California....

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    • A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War and Liberation
    • By: Scott Carney, Jason Miklian
    • Narrated by: Scott Carney
    • Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 29-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of Bengal....

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    • Terrifying True Stories (Fighting to Survive)
    • By: Michael Burgan
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-24
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Discover the true tales of daring people who survived through bitter cold, deadly storms, and other dangers with little food or other resources in this book from the Fighting to Survive series.

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