Book description
Hear it? McCullough's voice in your ear. Not a lecture. A breath. A heartbeat. 1776. Not dates. Not grand strategy. The mud. The cold. The fear.
Soldiers. Shoemakers. Boys. Schoolteachers. Not heroes yet. Just men. Shivering. Hungry. Waiting for orders they don't understand.
Washington. Young. Terrified. Never led an army.
And Howe. British. Contempt. Redcoats. Disciplined. Thinking rebels were children.
Knox. Bookseller. Twenty-five. Hauled cannons over mountains. In winter. Crazy.
Green. Quaker. General at thirty-three. Peaceful man. War.
McCullough doesn't tell you what happened. He makes you hear it. The crack of muskets. The shouts. The silence after. The weight of a musket on a thin shoulder.
He finds the human core. Not the Declaration's words. The people who risked everything for those words.
The book's a drama. You feel it. The tension. The near-failure. The sheer, desperate almost of it all.
How the whole cause hung on one year. One winter. One battle.
McCullough's voice? Warm. Deep. Like a fireside story. But it's not gentle. It's urgent.
You hear the snow crunching under boots. The cold biting. The hope flickering.
Not history as a monument. History as a gasp. A shared breath in the dark.
He makes you understand. Why they fought. Not just for freedom. For meaning. For the idea that words could matter.
The audiobook? Perfect. You don't just learn. You live the cold. The doubt. The stubborn, impossible hope.
It's not about winning. It's about the people who stood when everything said run.
McCullough doesn't say "This is important." He makes you feel it in your bones.
You hear the echo of those boots. On that frozen ground. In 1776.
And you realize. It wasn't just about America. It was about people. Trying. Falling. Trying again.
That's why you keep listening. Not for the story. For the sound of hope, cracking through the ice.
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience