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The Vikings in Greenland: The History of the Norse Expeditions and Settlements Across Greenland
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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Over the centuries, the West has become fascinated by the Vikings, one of the most mysterious and interesting European civilizations. In addition to being perceived as a remarkably unique culture among its European counterparts, what’s known and not known about the Vikings’ accomplishments has added an intriguing aura to the historical narrative. Were they fierce and fearsome warriors? Were they the first Europeans to visit North America? It seems some of the legends are true, and some are just that, legend.
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The Vikings in Greenland: The History of the Norse Expeditions and Settlements Across Greenland
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Release date: 26-09-18
- Language: English
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The Carolingian Empire
- The History and Legacy of the Frankish Rulers Who Unified Most of Europe and Established the Holy Roman Empire in the Middle Ages
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
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The Carolingian Dynasty, which carved out a major empire in Europe from 750-887, ushered in an important period in the Early Middle Ages. The Carolingians were in their time seen as the successors of Ancient Rome in the West, and while they sought to reestablish the glory of antiquity, they’re remembered today for effectively founding the states that would become France and Germany.
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The Carolingian Empire
- The History and Legacy of the Frankish Rulers Who Unified Most of Europe and Established the Holy Roman Empire in the Middle Ages
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 21-01-19
- Language: English
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The Yakuza and the Triads
- The History of Asia’s Most Notorious Transnational Criminal Organizations
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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A pack of men in sharp, tailored suits and dark sunglasses strut down the street. Their eyes are shielded, but the icy scowl on their faces is a clear sign to stay out of their paths. A few of their collars hang open, showing off a glimpse of the vibrant and intricate ink work on their chests, and presumably, their entire bodies. Tattoos are the norm these days, but then, one suddenly spots a man with a peculiarly pint-sized pinkie.
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Breathing into the mic after every word?
- By Ayigiyigi on 29-04-22
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The Yakuza and the Triads
- The History of Asia’s Most Notorious Transnational Criminal Organizations
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 01-05-20
- Language: English
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony
- The History and Legacy of the Settlement of Colonial New England
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Tracey Norman
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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The first successful American colony in North America was settled in 1607 at Jamestown, Virginia. Though the Virginian colonists had difficulty in the beginning, by the late 1620s the Chesapeake area was thriving, having become a haven for those seeking economic opportunity in the new world.
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony
- The History and Legacy of the Settlement of Colonial New England
- Narrated by: Tracey Norman
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 15-03-17
- Language: English
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Chairman Mao: The Life and Legacy of Mao Zedong
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Cliff Truesdell
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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It's a sure sign of fame when a man is known simply by his first name, and Mao Zedong, often referred to simply as Mao or Chairman Mao, was one of the most influential men of the 20th century. He was also arguably the most controversial; as the founder of the People's Republic of China, Mao rose from being a communist revolutionary to successfully overthrowing a regime and transforming China into a communist powerhouse in Asia.
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Chairman Mao: The Life and Legacy of Mao Zedong
- Narrated by: Cliff Truesdell
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 15-05-15
- Language: English
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Miyamoto Musashi
- The Life and Legacy of Japan’s Most Legendary Samurai
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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Little may have been known about Musashi at the time, but centuries later, he is the most infamous and renowned warrior in Japanese history. As a veteran of the Battle of Sekigahara (1600), Naiwa (1615), and the Shimabara Rebellion in Hizen (1637-1638), Musashi was a seasoned battlefield soldier, who went undefeated in over 60 duels, and authored an essential book on strategy Go Rin No Sho (The Book of Five Rings).
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Miyamoto Musashi
- The Life and Legacy of Japan’s Most Legendary Samurai
- Narrated by: Jim Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 07-04-20
- Language: English
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History for Kids: The Maya, the Inca, and the Aztec
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Tracey Norman
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Many ancient civilizations have influenced and inspired people in the 21st century. The Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate the West today. But of all the world's civilizations, none have intrigued people more than the Mayans, whose culture, astronomy, language, and mysterious disappearance all continue to captivate people.
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History for Kids: The Maya, the Inca, and the Aztec
- Narrated by: Tracey Norman
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 27-07-17
- Language: English
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Fritz Lang
- The Life and Legacy of the Influential German-American Film Legend
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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In the early 20th century, Germany's most renowned film directors were pioneering the genre known as "expressionism", and within it, Fritz Lang was known as the "Master of Darkness". Together with his eventual wife Thea von Harbou, Lang wrote a number of acclaimed movies. Some of his well-known films include Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922), Die Nibelungen (1924), Metropolis (1927), and Woman in the Moon (1929).
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Fritz Lang
- The Life and Legacy of the Influential German-American Film Legend
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 19-02-20
- Language: English
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The Neanderthals
- The History of the Extinct Humans Who Were Contemporaries of Homo Sapiens in Europe
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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The Neanderthals looks at the evolution of the Neanderthals and examines the theories regarding how they went extinct.
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The Neanderthals
- The History of the Extinct Humans Who Were Contemporaries of Homo Sapiens in Europe
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Release date: 26-04-18
- Language: English
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The Seven Years’ War
- The History and Legacy of the Decisive Global Conflict Between the French and British
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
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Some historians have called the Seven Years’ War the first true world war, and they make a good point. Ultimately, this globally coordinated war involved five continents and at least 29 states and tribal confederacies, with a casualty toll in the millions and the maps forever altered. As part of the Seven Years’ War, the French and Indian War was the last in a long series of colonial conflicts between the French and British and also changed the map in America. At the end of the war, disputed borders were finally settled, and both empires were left reeling from the costs of war.
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terrible narrator
- By Alun Hewinson on 23-03-24
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The Seven Years’ War
- The History and Legacy of the Decisive Global Conflict Between the French and British
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 14-07-22
- Language: English
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The California Gold Rush and the Klondike Gold Rush: The History of America's Most Famous Gold Rushes
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Dennis E. Morris
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
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One of the most important and memorable events of the United States' westward push across the frontier came with the discovery of gold in the lands that became California in January 1848. Located thousands of miles away from the country's power centers on the east coast at the time, the announcement came a month before the Mexican-American War had ended, and among the very few Americans that were near the region at the time, many of them were Army soldiers who were participating in the war and garrisoned there.
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The California Gold Rush and the Klondike Gold Rush: The History of America's Most Famous Gold Rushes
- Narrated by: Dennis E. Morris
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 21-05-15
- Language: English
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The Battle of Kosovo
- The History and Legacy of the Battle Between the Serbs and Ottomans That Forged Serbia's National Identity
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
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The Balkan area has historically been one of the world’s most combustible regions. Home to several national groups and at a crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the Balkans have exerted an outsized role on world affairs. Infamously, the 1914 assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, was the final straw that led to World War I. The Balkans, however, had been flammable long before Princip’s bullets murdered the Austrian monarch-in-waiting.
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A couple of nuggets, but not about the War
- By Aucher on 02-09-22
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The Battle of Kosovo
- The History and Legacy of the Battle Between the Serbs and Ottomans That Forged Serbia's National Identity
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 17-12-19
- Language: English
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The Phaistos Disc
- The History of the Indecipherable Ancient Minoan Artifact Found on Crete
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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The pre-modern world, especially the ancient world, is full of many mysteries, riddles, and enigmas. Nearly 2,500 years after the Golden Age of Athens, people across the world today continue to be fascinated by the Ancient Greeks, but the Greeks looked up to the Minoans. Questions persist over the origins of the Minoan civilization, the end of the civilization, and substantial parts of their history, including their religion and buildings. All of this is largely because their written language, known today as “Linear A”, remains undeciphered....
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First disappointment on Audible
- By Simone starr on 01-07-22
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The Phaistos Disc
- The History of the Indecipherable Ancient Minoan Artifact Found on Crete
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 30-01-18
- Language: English
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: 13 Days That Brought the Cold War to the Brink
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Cynthia O'Brien
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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When young president Kennedy came to power in 1961, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was eager to test his mettle from the start. Questioning Kennedy's resolve and attempting to placate the concerns of Cuban leader Fidel Castro following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Khrushchev attempted to place medium-range nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles off the coast of the United States.
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One star is generous
- By Anonymous User on 28-05-23
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: 13 Days That Brought the Cold War to the Brink
- Narrated by: Cynthia O'Brien
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 09-06-15
- Language: English
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Typhoid Mary
- The Notorious Life and Legacy of the Cook Who Caused a Typhoid Outbreak in New York
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Ray Howard
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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Outbreaks of disease, much like wars, inevitably produce a series of public figures who serve as emblematic heroes or villains of the era and event. In the case of Mary Mallon, now known around the world as “Typhoid Mary", only a few deaths and a relatively small group of infections actually occurred before she was arrested. That her small but deadly outbreak incited such a firestorm among New York’s health agencies was certainly driven by the fact that the “ghetto disease” had suddenly appeared in New York City’s wealthy neighborhoods.
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Typhoid Mary
- The Notorious Life and Legacy of the Cook Who Caused a Typhoid Outbreak in New York
- Narrated by: Ray Howard
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 17-07-20
- Language: English
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The Battle of Sekigahara
- The History and Legacy of the Battle that Unified Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
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On October 21, 1600, two massive Japanese armies, totaling an estimated 200,000 soldiers armed to the teeth with swords, yari (spears), arrows, muskets, and cannons, faced off on a battlefield near the town of Sekigahara. A bitter fight to the death ensued, and the results would determine the course of Japanese history for the next 250 years. On the battlefield was the warlord Leyasu Tokugawa, a man desiring domain over the entire island of Japan, but standing in his way was Ishida Mitsunari, a warlord controlling vast swaths of western Japan.
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The Battle of Sekigahara
- The History and Legacy of the Battle that Unified Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 29-01-20
- Language: English
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The French Resistance
- The History of the Opposition Against Nazi Germany's Occupation of France During World War II
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Kevin Kollins
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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The French Army crumbled swiftly under the powerful blows delivered to it in 1940 by Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht. Launching a massive feint into Belgium to lure French armies and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) away from the actual point of attack, the weakly protected Ardennes Forest, the Germans struck past the Maginot Line. In a lightning campaign, panzers punched through to the coast, dividing Allied forces with a steel cordon across France and forcing the evacuation of the BEF from the port of Dunkirk.
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The French Resistance
- The History of the Opposition Against Nazi Germany's Occupation of France During World War II
- Narrated by: Kevin Kollins
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Release date: 01-12-16
- Language: English
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Robert Frost: The Life and Legacy of the Famous 20th Century American Poet
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Of all the authors and poets American schoolchildren may be exposed to over the course of their education, Robert Frost is often one of the first, and on rare occasions that he is not, it is still a near certainty that some of his most famous poems will be discussed at some point. Frost may not be as remembered or influential as other American literary giants, or even poets such as Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, but his career was historic in terms of its length and breadth of accomplishments.
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Robert Frost: The Life and Legacy of the Famous 20th Century American Poet
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 14-10-19
- Language: English
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Grizzly Adams: The Life of the Mountain Man Who Trained Bears and Other Wild Animals for the Circus
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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By the golden age of the mountain man in the mid-19th-century, there were perhaps only 3,000 living in the West. Their origins were disparate, although they included many Anglo-Americans. A good number hailed from wilderness regions of Kentucky and Virginia and throughout the newly purchased Louisiana Territory, which occupied the entire central section of the continent. French Canadians traveled from the north to work in the fur trade, while Creole-Europeans represented approximately 15 percent of the men known to be living the isolated mountain life.
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Grizzly Adams: The Life of the Mountain Man Who Trained Bears and Other Wild Animals for the Circus
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 17-07-18
- Language: English
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Alhambra
- The History and Legacy of the Moors' Most Famous Palace in Spain
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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At one point in time, this place had been decked out with a network of captivating castles, heavenly homes and gorgeous gardens, and a handsome military fortress envied by the city's neighboring kingdoms. This was none other than Alhambra, once so enchanting that a countless number of those who visited the place in its heyday praised it as a true paradise on earth. Today, this historic complex has become the setting and inspiration for a host of books, music, movies, and other works of art and literature.
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Alhambra
- The History and Legacy of the Moors' Most Famous Palace in Spain
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 10-05-17
- Language: English
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