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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- By: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....
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Interesting story spoilt by poor narration
- By Gillian on 09-11-19
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
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great read. couldn't stop listening to this book
- By Anna on 25-08-19
By: Peter FitzSimons
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A Little History of the United States
- By: James West Davidson
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson's vividly told A Little History of the United States....
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Another great piece of little history
- By redngreen on 06-12-22
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The Duchess
- By: Amanda Foreman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day....
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wonderful listen
- By Artemis on 13-09-20
By: Amanda Foreman
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A New World Begins
- The History of the French Revolution
- By: Jeremy D. Popkin
- Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....
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Injects utter tedium into a fascinating subject
- By Arkhidamos on 21-08-21
By: Jeremy D. Popkin
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Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune
- How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England
- By: Rory Muir
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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Historian Rory Muir weaves together the stories of many obscure and well-known young men of good family but small fortune, shedding light on an overlooked aspect of Regency society....
By: Rory Muir
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- By: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....
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Interesting story spoilt by poor narration
- By Gillian on 09-11-19
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
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great read. couldn't stop listening to this book
- By Anna on 25-08-19
By: Peter FitzSimons
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A Little History of the United States
- By: James West Davidson
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson's vividly told A Little History of the United States....
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Another great piece of little history
- By redngreen on 06-12-22
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The Duchess
- By: Amanda Foreman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day....
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wonderful listen
- By Artemis on 13-09-20
By: Amanda Foreman
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A New World Begins
- The History of the French Revolution
- By: Jeremy D. Popkin
- Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....
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Injects utter tedium into a fascinating subject
- By Arkhidamos on 21-08-21
By: Jeremy D. Popkin
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Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune
- How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England
- By: Rory Muir
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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Historian Rory Muir weaves together the stories of many obscure and well-known young men of good family but small fortune, shedding light on an overlooked aspect of Regency society....
By: Rory Muir
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Catherine the Great
- Portrait of a Woman
- By: Robert K. Massie
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert K. Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination....
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Great book about a great woman
- By Mette on 23-12-12
By: Robert K. Massie
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Gibraltar
- The Greatest Siege in British History
- By: Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France....
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- By Jdharrison on 15-08-19
By: Roy Adkins, and others
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The Pirate Menace
- Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy
- By: Angus Konstam
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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The growth of piracy led to a major surge in attacks in the Caribbean and along North America’s Atlantic seaboard. With the fragile maritime economy of the Americas threatened with collapse, major ports were threatened and trade brought to a standstill, the British government finally declared war.
By: Angus Konstam
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Liberty Equality Fashion
- The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
- By: Anne Higonnet
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelee, Anne Higonnet
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose....
By: Anne Higonnet
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London Journal
- By: James Boswell
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
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Between the years of 1762 and 1763, James Boswell kept a journal of his time in London. During his time, he met the renowned writer, moralist, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, with whom Boswell would form a close relationship....
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outrageous but fascinating
- By CKC on 11-10-20
By: James Boswell
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Villains of All Nations
- Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
- By: Marcus Rediker
- Narrated by: Cornell Womack
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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Villains of All Nations explores the "Golden Age" of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates....
By: Marcus Rediker
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The Penguin Book of Pirates
- By: Katherine Howe
- Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Jerome Harmann-Hardeman, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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The Penguin Book of Pirates takes us behind the eye patches, the peg legs, and the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger and into the no-man’s-land of piracy that is rife with paradoxes and plot twists....
By: Katherine Howe
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The Shape of the New
- Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World
- By: Scott L. Montgomery, Daniel Chirot
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
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This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution, and democracy have reverberated through modern history....
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In depth but fascinating
- By Amazon Customer on 06-03-21
By: Scott L. Montgomery, and others
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The Dark Side of the Enlightenment
- Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason
- By: John V. Fleming
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Why spiritual and supernatural yearnings, even investigations into the occult, flourished in the era of rationalist philosophy.....
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Fascinating book, excellently read
- By Giles on 01-04-21
By: John V. Fleming
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The Enlightenment
- And Why it Still Matters
- By: Anthony Pagden
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
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One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world....
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Worth every penny.
- By Gabriel ARMSTRONG on 05-07-19
By: Anthony Pagden
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main
- HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy’s Revenge
- By: Angus Konstam
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main tells the dramatic story of HMS Hermione, a British frigate which, in 1797, was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history, which saw the death of her captain and many of her officers....
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Angus at his best.
- By D Paterson on 24-12-20
By: Angus Konstam
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Dr. Johnson's London
- By: Liza Picard
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Abridged
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Like its popular and acclaimed predecessor, Restoration London, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of the everyday life of our ancestors....
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Too short. Really impressive detail and research
- By Amazon Customer on 11-03-15
By: Liza Picard
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The HMS Wager
- The History of the 18th Century's Most Famous Shipwreck and Mutiny
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Mark Norman
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Mention the 18th century Royal Navy and visions come to mind of swashbuckling sailors swinging from rope to rope....
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The Invisible Hook
- The Hidden Economics of Pirates
- By: Peter T. Leeson
- Narrated by: Jeremy Gage
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Revealing the democratic and economic forces propelling history's most colorful criminals, The Invisible Hook establishes pirates' trailblazing relevance to the contemporary world....
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Patronising and Repetative
- By David on 30-10-11
By: Peter T. Leeson
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From Conquest to Colony
- Empire, Wealth, and Difference in Eighteenth-Century Brazil
- By: Kirsten Schultz
- Narrated by: Alex Picard
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Kirsten Schultz provides a new history of Brazil's eighteenth century that foregrounds debates about wealth, difference, and governance....
By: Kirsten Schultz
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The Favourite
- By: Ophelia Field
- Narrated by: Natalie Boscombe
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
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This biography brings Sarah Churchill's own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life and casts a critical eye over images of the Duchess handed down through art, history and literature....
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Great narration, boring meandering story
- By Briony Rees on 31-12-18
By: Ophelia Field
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The Wandering Army
- The Campaigns That Transformed the British Way of War
- By: Huw J. Davies
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
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A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe....
By: Huw J. Davies
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The Lion at Dawn
- Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783–1797 (Campaigns and Commanders Series, Book 75)
- By: Nathaniel Jarrett
- Narrated by: Simon Barber
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In February 1793, in the wake of the War of American Independence and one year after British prime minister William Pitt the Younger had predicted fifteen years of peace, the National Convention of Revolutionary France declared war on Great Britain and the Netherlands....
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A General History of the Pyrates
- From Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time
- By: Daniel Defoe
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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This work is the prime source for the biographies of many well-known pirates of that era and shaped the popular notions about pirates of the day....
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Horrid Narration
- By James Macdonald on 23-05-17
By: Daniel Defoe
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The American Revolution
- A Concise History from Colonial Rebellion to the War for Independence to the Constitution
- By: Eric Porterfield
- Narrated by: Daniel Winski
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Relive the revolution that gave birth to the United States as it stands today....
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INFORMATIVE!!
- By Grace on 10-02-24
By: Eric Porterfield
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Queen Anne
- By: Herbert Paul
- Narrated by: Melissa Thompson
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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An examination of the politics and social mores of Queen Anne's reign. The book includes sections on the War of Spanish succession, politics, literature, and society and manners....
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A book for fact and speculation.
- By Shades of Blue Q on 08-01-21
By: Herbert Paul
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A Warrior Dynasty
- The Rise and Fall of Sweden as a Military Superpower 1611-1721
- By: Henrik O. Lunde
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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This audiobook examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s....
By: Henrik O. Lunde
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The Great Cat Massacre
- And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
- By: Robert Darnton
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The landmark history of France and French culture in the 18th century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize....
By: Robert Darnton
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The Zong
- A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery
- By: James Walvin
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America....
By: James Walvin