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Lion Rampant
- The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer from D-Day to the Rhineland
- By: Robert Woollcombe
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Vividly evoking the confusion, horror and comradeship of war - from the killing fields of Normandy bocage, through house-to-house fighting in shattered Flemish towns, to the final Rhine crossing - Lion Rampant is a powerful, authentic and moving story, telling with extraordinary clarity how the author, his fellow officers and the men of his company lived through one of the most bitter campaigns in history.
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Fantastic narration, writer has great wit.
- By sean greene on 26-07-24
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Lion Rampant
- The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer from D-Day to the Rhineland
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 21-10-22
- Language: English
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The Secret Lives of Numbers
- A Global History of Mathematics & Its Unsung Trailblazers
- By: Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. From building rockets to the handheld technology that governs our day-to-day lives, we are all in debt to the mathematical geniuses of the past. But the history of mathematics is warped; it looks like a sixteenth-century map that enlarges Europe at the expense of Africa, Asia and the Americas. The Secret Lives of Numbers introduces listeners to a new group of mathematical boundary-smashers, those who have been erased by history because of their race, gender or nationality.
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Fascinating review of the history and geography and social politics of mathematics
- By Dr Alison Agnew on 07-12-23
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The Secret Lives of Numbers
- A Global History of Mathematics & Its Unsung Trailblazers
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 17-08-23
- Language: English
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Mad Enchantment
- Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
- By: Ross King
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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We have all seen, whether live, in photographs or on postcards, some of Claude Monet's legendary water lily paintings. They are in museums all over the world and are among the most beloved works of art of the past century. Yet, ironically, these soothing images were created amid terrible personal turmoil and sadness.
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How did the editors/ producers possibly choose thi
- By Nicholas G Phillips on 29-01-19
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Mad Enchantment
- Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 08-09-16
- Language: English
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Hitler: History in an Hour
- By: Rupert Colley
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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History for busy people. Hitler in an Hour is the concise biography of Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler.Covering Hitler’s early life, military service in World War I and eventual rise to power, first as the leader of the Nazi party and then to head of state, Hitler in an Hour covers all the key events the life of the 20th century’s most infamous dictator.
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quick and informative
- By Bianca Lashley on 02-01-17
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Hitler: History in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 02-02-12
- Language: English
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There's Someone in Reception
- Adventures in Local Journalism
- By: Alex Morrison
- Narrated by: Richard Godden
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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Welcome to the life of a local journalist, and the curious tradition of the “walk-in” – when a member of the public turns up with a tale to tell. The newsworthiness of these stories is... well... mixed, to say the least. But every journalist remembers their weirdest and most wonderful walk-ins.
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Thought provoking, sweet and funny
- By Anonymous User on 08-06-24
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There's Someone in Reception
- Adventures in Local Journalism
- Narrated by: Richard Godden
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 24-05-24
- Language: English
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My Name Is Bridget
- The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home
- By: Alison O'Reilly
- Narrated by: Amy Molloy
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of more than a century’s worth of lost souls. Shunned by society for her sins and offered no comfort for her pain, Bridget gave birth to a boy, John, who died at the home in a horrendous state of neglect less than two years later. Her second child was once again delivered into the care of the nuns and was taken from her, never to be seen or heard from again.
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so sad
- By gayle gardener on 15-04-24
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My Name Is Bridget
- The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home
- Narrated by: Amy Molloy
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 01-02-21
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
- By: Solomon Northup
- Narrated by: Tommie Earl Jenkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Twelve Years a Slave is the true story of Solomon Northup: born a free black man in New York State, and sold into slavery after being tricked in 1841. Unable to convince anyone he is not a slave, Solomon spent 12 years in bondage, before finally being set free. Northup’s memoir, recounting details of the slave markets and the harsh life on plantations, was used in the struggle to abolish slavery in the United States.
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VeryDisappoiting
- By John on 26-09-14
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Twelve Years a Slave
- Narrated by: Tommie Earl Jenkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 08-11-13
- Language: English
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Good-Bye to All That
- An Autobiography
- By: Robert Graves
- Narrated by: Joel Schrank
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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"Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography" by Robert Graves is a seminal work that vividly captures the harrowing experiences of a young British officer during World War I.
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Good-Bye to All That
- An Autobiography
- Narrated by: Joel Schrank
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 19-07-24
- Language: English
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The Spy Who Loved
- By: Clare Mulley
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
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In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessive colleague in a hotel in South Kensington. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising, but that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable. She was one of Britain’s most daring and highly decorated secret agents, and the intelligence she gathered was a significant contribution to the Allied war effort.
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Marred by the narration
- By iris on 27-04-14
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The Spy Who Loved
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 07-11-13
- Language: English
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Harriet Tubman
- The Road to Freedom
- By: Catherine Clinton
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Celebrated for her courageous exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of 19th-century America's most enduring and important figures. But just who was this remarkable woman?
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A Hero to never be forgotten
- By Anonymous User on 15-05-24
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Harriet Tubman
- The Road to Freedom
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 24-01-17
- Language: English
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Hershey
- Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams
- By: Michael D'Antonio
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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In this compelling biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael D'Antonio gives us the real-life rags-to-riches story of Milton S. Hershey, a largely uneducated businessman whose idealistic sense of purpose created an immense financial empire, a town, and a legacy that lasts to this day.
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Milton
- By Linda T on 26-09-23
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Hershey
- Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 17-01-19
- Language: English
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Siegfried Sassoon
- By: John Stuart Roberts
- Narrated by: Bob Sinfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Although it is said that he owed his poetic vision to his Sephardic Jewish roots, Siegfried Sassoon was, in many ways, a conventionally Edwardian squire. A gifted poet, who refused to become part of any literary movement, his poetry shattered the ideals of wartime heroism, and his friendships ranged from Thomas Hardy and Robert Graves to the Sitwells, Rupert Brooke and T.E. Lawrence. In this acclaimed biography, John Stuart Roberts skillfully chronicles Sassoon's life and work, including his homosexuality, his marriage and his quest for a personal religious faith.
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The life of Poet Siegfried Sassoon.
- By gareth on 08-03-24
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Siegfried Sassoon
- Narrated by: Bob Sinfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 08-03-22
- Language: English
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Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
- By: Rosemary Sullivan
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
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A painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators - her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy - the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father.
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Extraordinary tumultuous sums it up
- By Purplelotus on 18-10-16
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Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 04-06-15
- Language: English
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Dead Mountain
- The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
- By: Donnie Eichar
- Narrated by: Donnie Eichar
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over what really happened.
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Intriguing story ruined by author's conclusions...
- By Yevgeny on 08-07-14
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Dead Mountain
- The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
- Narrated by: Donnie Eichar
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 18-03-14
- Language: English
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Josephine
- A Life of the Empress
- By: Carolly Erickson
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
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Popular biographer Carolly Erickson creates intimate and richly detailed portraits of her historical subjects. In this book she offers a provocative new perspective on Josephine and her fabled marriage to Napoleon.
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Josephine
- A Life of the Empress
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 14-04-11
- Language: English
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
- Penguin Classics
- By: Mary Seacole
- Narrated by: Yasmin Mwanza
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole's offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war met with racism and refusal. Undaunted, Seacole set out independently to the Crimea where she acted as doctor and 'mother' to wounded soldiers while running her business, the 'British Hotel'. A witness to key battles, she gives vivid accounts of how she coped with disease, bombardment and other hardships at the Crimean battlefront.
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Fascinating historical insight
- By Arlene Finnigan on 28-03-22
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Yasmin Mwanza
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 12-05-20
- Language: English
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Batavia
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 17 hrs
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The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland. The magnificent ship is already boiling over with a mutinous plot that is just about to break into the open when, just off the coast of Western Australia, it strikes an unseen reef in the middle of the night. While Commandeur Francisco Pelsaert decides to take the longboat across 2,000 miles of open sea for help, his second-in-command Jeronimus Cornelisz takes over....
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Pronunciation is below poor
- By Daan Lagas on 17-07-20
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Batavia
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 17 hrs
- Release date: 13-12-12
- Language: English
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Prof
- Alan Turing Decoded
- By: Dermot Turing
- Narrated by: Chris Courtenay
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. He is widely regarded as a war hero grossly mistreated by his unappreciative country, and it has become hard to disentangle the real man from the story. It is easy to cast him as a misfit, the stereotypical professor.
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Accessible Turing biography.
- By Mary Carnegie on 08-09-16
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- Alan Turing Decoded
- Narrated by: Chris Courtenay
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 08-03-16
- Language: English
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Tesla
- Man Out of Time
- By: Margaret Cheney
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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From Tesla's childhood in Yugoslavia to his death in New York in the 1940s, Cheney paints a compelling human portrait and chronicles a lifetime of discoveries that radically altered - and continue to alter - the world in which we live. Tesla: Man Out of Time is an in-depth look at the seminal accomplishments of a scientific wizard and a thoughtful examination of the obsessions and eccentricities of the man behind the science.
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Enjoyable and entertaining.
- By Szarlej on 12-10-18
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Tesla
- Man Out of Time
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 18-11-14
- Language: English
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Churchill and Empire
- By: Lawrence James
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
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One of our finest narrative historians, and journalist for the Sunday Times and Literary Review, Lawrence James, has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, set within a fully detailed historical context, but solely focusing on his relationship with the British Empire. As a young army officer in the late 19th century, Churchill's first experience of the Empire was serving in conflicts in India, South Africa and the Sudan.
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Omdurman
- By Jonathan Charles Cracknell on 04-10-19
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Churchill and Empire
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 08-05-14
- Language: English
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