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  • Stephen Fry's Edwardian Secrets cover art

    • Stephen Fry's Edwardian Secrets

    • 5 out of 5 stars 897 ratings

    • Powered flight. Votes for women. Human sexuality. Mass migration. The psychology of dreams. The magic of the movies. Spies and detectives. Welcome to Stephen Fry’s Edwardian Secrets....
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    • The First World War

    • A Complete History
    • By: Martin Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 33 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings

    • It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would officially end nearly five years later. Unofficially, however, it has never ended...

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    • A History of Modern Britain

    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 345 ratings
    • A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics....

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    • The Weimar Years

    • Rise and Fall 1918–1933
    • By: Frank McDonough
    • Narrated by: Paul McGann
    • Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 16-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

    • The Weimar Years is a vivid narrative of a dramatic period in German history. Year by year, from 1918 to 1933, Frank McDonough covers the major events in both domestic and foreign policy and the personalities who shaped them, together with developments in music, art, theatre and literature....

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    • Charles and Camilla

    • Portrait of a Love Affair
    • By: Gyles Brandreth
    • Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • This is a story of the most well documented, most commented on love affair of our times....

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    • The Nuremberg Trial

    • By: John Tusa, Ann Tusa
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 25 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,040 ratings
    • Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II....

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    • The Nazis

    • A Warning from History
    • By: Laurence Rees
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 30-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings

    • Following the success of Rees's best-selling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich....

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    • Barbarians at the Gate

    • The Fall of RJR Nabisco
    • By: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings

    • A number-one New York Times best seller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco....

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    • Sky Warriors

    • British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
    • By: Saul David
    • Narrated by: Adam James
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings

    • Bestselling historian Saul David provides a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War....

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    • D-Day

    • June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II
    • By: Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Jesse Boggs
    • Length: 25 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 176 ratings
    • Stephen E. Ambrose draws from hundreds of interviews with US Army veterans and the brave Allied soldiers who fought alongside them to create this exceptional account of the day that shaped the twentieth century....

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    • We Dared to Win

    • The SAS in Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings

    • In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....

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    • King's Counsellor

    • Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles
    • By: Sir Alan Lascelles, Duff Hart-Davis
    • Narrated by: Pip Torrens
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 153 ratings

    • As Assistant Private Secretary to four monarchs, 'Tommy' Lascelles had a ringside seat from which to observe the workings of the royal household and Downing Street during the first half of the 20th century....

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    • American Prometheus

    • The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
    • By: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 362 ratings
    • J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....

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    • A Northern Wind

    • Britain 1962-65
    • By: David Kynaston
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 27 hrs
    • Release date: 28-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

    • A Northern Wind, the keenly anticipated next instalment of David Kynaston’s acclaimed Tales of a New Jerusalem series, brings to vivid life the period between October 1962 and February 1965....

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    • A Certain Idea of France

    • The Life of Charles de Gaulle
    • By: Julian Jackson
    • Narrated by: John Banks
    • Length: 35 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings

    • In six weeks in 1940, France was overrun by German troops and surrendered. One junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England....

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    • Ordinary Men

    • Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
    • By: Christopher R. Browning
    • Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 07-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 470 ratings

    • Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs....

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    • The Great British Dream Factory

    • The Strange History of Our National Imagination
    • By: Dominic Sandbrook
    • Narrated by: David Thorpe
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • Britain's empire has gone. Our manufacturing base is a shadow of its former self; the Royal Navy has been reduced to a skeleton....

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    • Fire and Movement

    • The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914
    • By: Peter Hart
    • Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
    • Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • The dramatic opening weeks of the Great War passed into legend long before the conflict ended. The British Expeditionary Force fought a mesmerizing campaign....

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