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A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain
- By: Michael Paterson
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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The Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period, but these myths and stories also give a very distorted view of the 19th century. The early Victorians were much stranger than we usually imagine, and their world would have felt very different from our own. It was only during the long reign of the Queen that a modern society emerged in unexpected ways.
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Nevertheless.......
- By Jim Barrett on 29-11-15
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A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 21-12-12
- Language: English
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Reformations
- The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
- By: Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 39 hrs and 42 mins
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Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the 200-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day. Eire connects the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in new and profound ways, and he demonstrates convincingly that this crucial turning point in history not only affected people long gone but continues to shape our world and define who we are today.
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Phenomenal work
- By Alex on 21-07-18
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Reformations
- The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 39 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 19-06-18
- Language: English
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Wannsee
- The Road to the Final Solution
- By: Peter Longerich
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
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On January 20, 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of the Wannsee in the far-western outskirts of Berlin. They came at the invitation of Reinhard Heydrich and were almost all high-ranking Nazi Party, government, and SS officials. But the beauty of the situation stood in stark contrast to the purpose of the meeting to which the fifteen had come in January 1942: the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.”
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Convincing.
- By Jack Graham on 18-02-24
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Wannsee
- The Road to the Final Solution
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 25-04-23
- Language: English
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Daughters of the Winter Queen
- Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- By: Nancy Goldstone
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
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In a sweeping narrative encompassing political intrigue, illicit love affairs and even a murder mystery, Nancy Goldstone tells the riveting story of a queen who lost her throne, and of her four defiant daughters. Elizabeth Stuart's (1596-1662) marriage to a German count far below her rank was arranged with the understanding that her father, James I of England, would help his new son-in-law achieve the crown of Bohemia. The terrible betrayal of this promise would ruin 'the Winter Queen', as Elizabeth would forever be known, imperil the lives of those she loved and launch a war that would last thirty years.
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Excellent research and writing, dreadful narration
- By darkbluepoppy on 17-04-18
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Daughters of the Winter Queen
- Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 05-04-18
- Language: English
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Ethel Rosenberg
- The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother
- By: Anne Sebba
- Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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On 19th June 1953, Ethel Rosenberg became the first woman in the US to be executed for a crime other than murder. She was 37 years old and the mother of two small children. Yet even today, at a time when the Cold War seems all too resonant, Ethel's conviction for conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union makes her story still controversial.
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Fascinating and tragic
- By Anna Mathias on 25-10-21
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Ethel Rosenberg
- The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother
- Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 24-06-21
- Language: English
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The Korean War
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 19 hrs and 50 mins
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On 25 June, 1950, the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last century. The seemingly limitless power of the Chinese-backed North was thrown against the ferocious firepower of the UN-backed South in a war that can be seen today as the stark prelude to Vietnam.
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MASH It Isn't
- By S. Morris on 07-03-18
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The Korean War
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 19 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-06-14
- Language: English
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She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen
- British Women in India
- By: Katie Hickman
- Narrated by: Katie Hickman, Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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Women made their way to India for exactly the same reasons men did - to carve out a better life for themselves. In the early days, India was a place where the slates of 'blotted pedigrees' were wiped clean; bankrupts given a chance to make good; a taste for adventure satisfied - for women. They went and worked as milliners, bakers, dress makers, actresses, portrait painters, maids, shopkeepers, governesses, teachers, boardinghouse proprietors, midwives, nurses, missionaries, doctors, geologists, plant collectors, writers, travellers and - most surprising of all - traders.
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Fascinating history
- By Jamie Barron on 25-04-23
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She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen
- British Women in India
- Narrated by: Katie Hickman, Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 27-02-20
- Language: English
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
- By: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai who, for most of the 20th century, were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that ‘one loved money, one loved power and one loved her country’, but there was far more to the Soong sisters than these caricatures. As China battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, each sister played an important, sometimes critical role and left an indelible mark on history.
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Reader should have been coached on pronunciation.
- By andrew james lilley on 05-11-19
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
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The Terror Years
- From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer, Lawrence Wright
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
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With the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. This collection draws on several articles he wrote while researching that book as well as many that he's written since, following where and how al-Qaeda and its core cultlike beliefs have morphed and spread.
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Yawn!
- By Stu F on 14-12-19
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The Terror Years
- From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer, Lawrence Wright
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 23-08-16
- Language: English
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Victory at Sea
- Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
- By: Paul Kennedy, Ian Marshall - illustrator
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
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In this engaging narrative, historian Paul Kennedy grapples with the rise and fall of the Great Powers during World War II. Tracking the movements of the six major navies of the Second World War—the allied navies of Britain, France, and the United States and the Axis navies of Germany, Italy, and Japan—Kennedy tells a story of naval battles, maritime campaigns, convoys, amphibious landings, and strikes from the sea.
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Victory at Sea
- Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 12-07-22
- Language: English
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The Real Special Relationship
- The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together
- By: Michael Smith
- Narrated by: Richard Attlee
- Length: 20 hrs and 32 mins
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The Special Relationship between America and Britain is feted by politicians on both sides of the Atlantic when it suits their purpose and just as frequently dismissed as a myth, not least by the media, which announces its supposed death on a regular basis. Yet the simple truth is that the two countries are bound together more closely than either is to any other ally. Michael Smith reveals how it all began, 80 years ago, when a top-secret visit by four American codebreakers to Bletchley Park in February 1941.
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Excellent
- By dr panda on 23-04-23
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The Real Special Relationship
- The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together
- Narrated by: Richard Attlee
- Length: 20 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 04-08-22
- Language: English
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All His Spies
- The Secret World of Robert Cecil
- By: Stephen Alford
- Narrated by: Stephen Alford
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
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Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor and enemies both external and internal threatened to destroy England as a Protestant state, most spectacularly with the Spanish Armada and the Gunpowder Plot. All His Spies is a wonderfully engaging and original work of history. Many listeners are familiar with the great events of this tumultuous time, but All His Spies shows how easily these dramas could have turned out very differently.
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Interesting new viewpoint
- By Christine on 09-07-24
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All His Spies
- The Secret World of Robert Cecil
- Narrated by: Stephen Alford
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 04-07-24
- Language: English
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Red Famine
- Stalin's War on Ukraine
- By: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
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The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the 20th century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet published of these terrible events.
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Chilling
- By John on 12-08-19
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Red Famine
- Stalin's War on Ukraine
- Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 15-11-18
- Language: English
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Slouching Towards Utopia
- An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
- By: J. Bradford DeLong
- Narrated by: Allan Aquino
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
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Before 1870, most people lived in dire poverty, the benefits of the slow crawl of invention continually offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation, and creatively destroying the economy again and again. Slouching Towards Utopia tells the story of the major economic and technological shifts of the 20th century in a bold and ambitious, grand narrative. In vivid and compelling detail, DeLong charts the unprecedented explosion of material wealth after 1870.
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A liberal view point
- By Russ. M on 13-12-22
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Slouching Towards Utopia
- An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: Allan Aquino
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-09-22
- Language: English
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Centuries Will Not Suffice
- A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust
- By: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
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Centuries Will Not Suffice explores how different people responded to the Lithuanian Holocaust and the roles that they played. It considers the past history of the perpetrators and those who took great risks to save Jews, as well as describing the experiences of many who were caught up in the maelstrom.
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Centuries Will Not Suffice
- A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 25-07-23
- Language: English
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
- By: Philip Gourevitch
- Narrated by: Philip Gourevitch
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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In 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Close to a million people were slaughtered in a hundred days, and the rest of the world did nothing to stop it. A year later, Philip Gourevitch went to Rwanda to investigate the most unambiguous genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews.
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Harrowing and painful, yet brilliantly written.
- By Wez on 18-02-22
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
- Narrated by: Philip Gourevitch
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 18-04-19
- Language: English
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The Titanic
- Voices from the BBC Archive
- By: Mark Jones
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
- Original Recording
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The RMS Titanic sailed from Southampton en route for New York on her maiden voyage with 2,228 passengers and crew on board. On 14 April, 1912, at twenty minutes before midnight, sailing at almost full speed, she struck an iceberg and sank in just two and a half hours. Over 1500 lives were lost. This is the story of a great tragedy described by the surviving passengers, officers, and crew who were on board that night. Firsthand accounts help to explain why so few of the passengers took to the lifeboats.
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Very moving
- By penpusher on 06-11-12
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The Titanic
- Voices from the BBC Archive
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 03-03-12
- Language: English
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Case Closed
- Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
- By: Gerald Posner
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark audiobook, reissued with a new afterword for the 40th anniversary of the assassination, Gerald Posner examines all of the available evidence and reaches the only possible conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
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Follow the Evidence
- By Review Tiger on 21-05-15
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Case Closed
- Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 18-03-15
- Language: English
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The Real Lolita
- By: Sarah Weinman
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history and literary investigation, The Real Lolita tells Sally Horner's full story for the very first time. Drawing upon extensive investigations, legal documents, public records and interviews with remaining relatives, Sarah Weinman uncovers how much Nabokov knew of the Sally Horner case and the efforts he took to disguise that knowledge during the process of writing and publishing Lolita.
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Finished in a day
- By Emily T on 22-11-18
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The Real Lolita
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 11-09-18
- Language: English
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The Strength of Hope
- By: Fiona Harris, Abram Goldberg
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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The day Abram and his mother arrived at Auschwitz death camp, they both knew it would be her last. In their final moment together, Abram's mum urged her nineteen-year-old son to 'Do everything humanly possible to survive, and tell people what happened here.' Then she was taken to a gas chamber and murdered. Abram had already endured and survived so much until that moment but with his strength of hope, sometimes reduced to a flicker, he survived.
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Bravery, persistence, love.
- By Lesley Saunders on 01-09-24
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The Strength of Hope
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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