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A History of Britain: Volume 3
- By: Simon Schama
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
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Timothy West reads the third and concluding volume of award-winning historian Simon Schama's compelling chronicle of the British Isles. Here he illuminates the period from 1776 to 2000 through a variety of historical themes, including Victorian advances in technology and industry, women's increasing role in society, and the burgeoning British Empire which promised civilisation and material betterment for all.
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Excellent and thought-provoking perspective
- By Roderic on 23-04-15
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A History of Britain: Volume 3
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Series: A History of Britain, Book 3
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 06-09-12
- Language: English
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To Rule the Waves
- How the British Navy Changed the Modern World
- By: Arthur Herman
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 29 hrs and 57 mins
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To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian Arthur Herman tells the spellbinding tale of great battles at sea, heroic sailors, violent conflict, and personal tragedy - of the way one mighty institution forged a nation, an empire, and a new world.
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I thought i'd like this and boy did i ever.
- By Anonymous User on 12-07-17
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To Rule the Waves
- How the British Navy Changed the Modern World
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 29 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 19-12-16
- Language: English
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Out
- By: Tim Shipman
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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How did Boris Johnson supersede Theresa May to become Britain's Prime Minister? How did he pursue his promise to Get Brexit Done amidst multiple Brexit secretaries, repeated coup attempts and reshuffles, and an extraordinarily terse relationship with Brussels? What really happened in Downing Street – from the political choices to the party place settings – as the pandemic took the world in its grip? Out follows from May's resignation through to the tussles over the final Brexit deal, the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and our shortest serving PM ever.
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Out
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 04-07-24
- Language: English
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The Nuremberg Trial
- By: John Tusa, Ann Tusa
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 25 hrs and 45 mins
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Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II. The Nuremberg Trial brilliantly recreates the trial proceedings and offers a reasoned, often profound examination of the processes that created international law. From the whimpering of Kaltenbrunner and Ribbentrop on the stand to the icy coolness of Goering, each participant is vividly drawn.
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Brings horrible history alive
- By Tim Conway on 18-04-14
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The Nuremberg Trial
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 25 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 15-02-13
- Language: English
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Bomber Command
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins
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With an introduction read by Max Hastings. Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British and Commonwealth aircrew and 600,000 Germans died in the course of the RAF's attempt to win the war by bombing. The struggle began in 1939 with a few score primitive Whitleys, Hampdens and Wellingtons, and ended six years later with 1,600 Lancasters, Halifaxes, and Mosquitoes razing whole cities in a single night.
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Unvarnished truth in painful detail
- By Kirstine on 24-10-17
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Bomber Command
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 02-06-14
- Language: English
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Powers and Thrones
- A New History of the Middle Ages
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 24 hrs and 33 mins
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From the best-selling author of The Templars, Dan Jones' epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. Across 16 chapters, blending Dan Jones' trademark gripping narrative style with authoritative analysis, Powers and Thrones shows how, at each stage in this story, successive Western powers thrived by attracting - or stealing - the most valuable resources, ideas and people from the rest of the world.
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Oh Dear.
- By iain ward on 10-10-21
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Powers and Thrones
- A New History of the Middle Ages
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 24 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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Das Reich
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Nigel Carrington
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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Within days of the D-Day landings, the 'Das Reich' 2nd SS Panzer Division marched north through France to reinforce the front-line defenders of Hitler's Fortress Europe. Veterans of the bloodiest fighting of the Russian Front, 15,000 men with their tanks and artillery, they were hounded for every mile of their march by saboteurs of the Resistance and agents of the Allied Special Forces. Along their route they took reprisals so savage they will live forever in the chronicles of the most appalling atrocities of war.
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Gripping, balanced, multifaceted
- By Jim on 04-08-14
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Das Reich
- Narrated by: Nigel Carrington
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-06-14
- Language: English
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The Hitler Years, Volume 1: Triumph 1933-1939
- By: Frank McDonough
- Narrated by: Paul McGann
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
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On 30th January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the German chancellor of a coalition government by President Hindenburg. Within a few months he had installed a dictatorship, jailing and killing his left-wing opponents, terrorising the rest of the population and driving Jews out of public life. In The Hitler Years, Frank McDonough charts the rise and fall of the Third Reich under Hitler's hand.
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Excellent
- By Anonymous User on 18-06-22
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The Hitler Years, Volume 1: Triumph 1933-1939
- Narrated by: Paul McGann
- Series: The Hitler Years, Book 1
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 18-08-20
- Language: English
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Winter King
- The Dawn of Tudor England
- By: Thomas Penn
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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A fresh look at the endlessly fascinating Tudors - the dramatic and overlooked story of Henry VII and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty - filled with spies, plots, counter-plots, and an uneasy royal succession to Henry VIII. Near the turn of the sixteenth century, England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy and civil war. Henry Tudor clambered to the top of the heap, a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England’s crown who managed to win the throne and stay on it for 24 years.
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A Lesser-Known But Fascinating King
- By Olivier on 23-09-12
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Winter King
- The Dawn of Tudor England
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 06-03-12
- Language: English
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Crusaders
- An Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
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From the preaching of the First Crusade by Pope Urban II in 1095 to the loss of the last crusader outpost in the Levant in 1302-03, and from the taking of Jerusalem from the Fatimids in 1099 to the fall of Acre to the Mamluks in 1291, Crusaders tells a tale soaked in Islamic, Christian and Jewish blood, peopled by extraordinary characters, and characterised by both low ambition and high principle.
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Excellent
- By A. S. Hunt on 25-02-20
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The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
- By: Patrick N. Allitt, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Patrick N. Allitt
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
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What were the forces that thrust the British Empire to its extraordinary position of greatness and then just as powerfully drove it into decline? And why is nearly every nation on earth, in one way or another, the consequence of the British Empire?In these 36 lectures, Professor Allitt leads you through four centuries of British power, innovation, influence, and, ultimately, diminishment-four profound centuries that literally remade the world and bequeathed the complex global legacy that continues to shape your everyday life.
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Vitally important narrative
- By Raleigh Chiwuta on 07-05-15
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The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
- Narrated by: Patrick N. Allitt
- Series: The Great Courses: Modern History
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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The Fall
- Last Days of the English Republic
- By: Henry Reece
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
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Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivaled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of Englishmen faced each other across the Scottish border; and the Long Parliament was finally dissolved after two decades. Why was this period so turbulent, and why did the republic, backed by a formidable standing army, come crashing down in such spectacular fashion?
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The Fall
- Last Days of the English Republic
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 18-06-24
- Language: English
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Killing Thatcher
- The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown
- By: Rory Carroll
- Narrated by: Gary Trainor
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet – an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles and the most daring conspiracy against the Crown since the Gunpowder Plot.
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Well balanced and very well researched.
- By M R Colacicco on 14-04-23
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Killing Thatcher
- The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown
- Narrated by: Gary Trainor
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 04-04-23
- Language: English
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Hitler
- A Biography
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 44 hrs and 7 mins
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Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness. From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in the 20th century.
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Exhaustive, occasionally exhausting...
- By Mark Brandon on 22-02-16
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Hitler
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 44 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 13-11-15
- Language: English
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We Don't Know Ourselves
- A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958
- By: Fintan O'Toole
- Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
- Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
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Fintan O'Toole was born in 1958. His life covers Ireland's journey out of underdevelopment and domination by the Church, to the country's transformation into the relatively prosperous and tolerant society that it is today. But, along the way, there was a sectarian civil war in the North, which cast a dark shadow over the whole island, and bitter struggles for intellectual, civil and sexual freedoms. This is a very personal history by a writer who is considered by many to be the country's leading public intellectual.
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Outstanding cultural analysis
- By Auntie Kappy Tallest on 06-01-22
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We Don't Know Ourselves
- A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958
- Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
- Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 30-09-21
- Language: English
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The Royal Art of Poison
- Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul
- By: Eleanor Herman
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns and antidotes tested on condemned prisoners. The Royal Art of Poison is a hugely entertaining work of popular history that traces the use of poison as a political - and cosmetic - tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Kremlin today.
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A really great book!
- By James Moynihan on 20-06-20
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The Royal Art of Poison
- Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 04-07-19
- Language: English
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The Battle of Britain
- By: James Holland
- Narrated by: Al Murray
- Length: 23 hrs and 25 mins
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'If Hitler fails to invade or destroy Britain, he has lost the war,' Churchill said in the summer of 1940. He was right. The Battle of Britain was a crucial turning point in the history of the Second World War. Had Britain's defences collapsed, Hitler would have dominated all of Europe and been able to turn his full attention east to the Soviet Union. The German invasion of France and the Low Countries in May 1940 was unlike any the world had ever seen. It hit with a force and aggression that no-one could counter and in just a few short weeks, all in their way crumbled.
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A great listen (again)!
- By Ian David Williamson on 20-05-20
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The Battle of Britain
- Narrated by: Al Murray
- Length: 23 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 30-04-20
- Language: English
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A Very Private School
- By: Charles Spencer
- Narrated by: Charles Spencer
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend a boarding school. A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt aged eight, describing the pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all.
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Interesting retelling of a terrible experience.
- By Carmel on 13-03-24
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A Very Private School
- Narrated by: Charles Spencer
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 12-03-24
- Language: English
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The Last Witch of Scotland
- A bewitching story based on true events
- By: Philip Paris
- Narrated by: Samara MacLaren, Steven Cree
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a tragic fire that kills her father, Aila and her mother, Janet, move to the remote parish of Loth, north-west of Inverness. Blending in does not come easily to the women: Aila was badly burned in the fire and left with visible injuries, while her mother struggles to maintain her grip on reality. When a temporary minister is appointed in the area, rather than welcome the two women, he develops a strange curiosity for them that sets them even further apart from the community.
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excellent performance for an excellent story
- By Anonymous User on 15-11-23
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The Last Witch of Scotland
- A bewitching story based on true events
- Narrated by: Samara MacLaren, Steven Cree
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 13-04-23
- Language: English
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The Turbulent Crown
- The Story of the Tudor Queens
- By: Roland Hui
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
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Ten remarkable women. One remarkable era. In the Tudor period, 1485 to 1603, a host of fascinating women sat on the English throne. The dramatic events of their lives are told in The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens.
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alas poor queens
- By knitter on 28-03-20
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The Turbulent Crown
- The Story of the Tudor Queens
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 21-08-18
- Language: English
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