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The Spy and the Traitor
- By: Ben MacIntyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword....
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Brilliant Documentary of the Cold War
- By Paul on 03-10-18
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In Search of Black History with Bonnie Greer
- By: Bonnie Greer
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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In Search Of Black History with Bonnie Greer brings you face-to-face with the people you never knew existed. People whose stories tell us a different tale about who we all are....
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Black women have an untold history.
- By B. S. Mahtani on 23-12-19
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Leonardo Da Vinci
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Alfred Molina
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
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Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science....
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An art history course in a book
- By Nando Cuca on 14-11-17
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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An enjoyable hagiography(?)
- By Nik Jewell on 16-05-18
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The Spy and the Traitor
- By: Ben MacIntyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword....
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Brilliant Documentary of the Cold War
- By Paul on 03-10-18
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In Search of Black History with Bonnie Greer
- By: Bonnie Greer
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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In Search Of Black History with Bonnie Greer brings you face-to-face with the people you never knew existed. People whose stories tell us a different tale about who we all are....
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Black women have an untold history.
- By B. S. Mahtani on 23-12-19
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Leonardo Da Vinci
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Alfred Molina
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
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Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science....
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An art history course in a book
- By Nando Cuca on 14-11-17
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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An enjoyable hagiography(?)
- By Nik Jewell on 16-05-18
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1)
- 1918-38
- By: Chips Channon
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Length: 39 hrs and 13 mins
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Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958....
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Wholly inappropriate choice of reader
- By John Adamson on 08-04-21
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Diary of a Young Girl
- By: Anne Frank
- Narrated by: Helena Bonham Carter
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime comes from the diary of a 13-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank....
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So glad I decided to buy this book.
- By Tracy on 18-06-16
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History Revealed
- By: History Revealed Staff
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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Crusading knights, Tudor monarchs, the D-Day landings and more. Travel back in time with some of the world's most notable historians....
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Nah
- By pumbaesque on 15-02-19
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Muhammad
- His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
- By: Martin Lings
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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This excellent audiobook is the first of its kind and has been selected by a number of organisations as a worthy introduction to the life of Prophet Muhammad....
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I thoroughly enjoyed this
- By 1234 on 19-04-11
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Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- By: Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Danny Glover
- Length: 6 hrs
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The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time....
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Long walk to freedom
- By Jackie on 27-06-07
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Napoleon the Great
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 37 hrs and 23 mins
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Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives....
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Comprehensive and engaging book
- By Garym213 on 27-12-16
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Churchill
- Walking with Destiny
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 50 hrs and 28 mins
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There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over 40 new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous Churchill biography, to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors....
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GLORIOUS! ROBERT'S SPECTACULAR LIFE OF CHURCHILL
- By Leonie Frieda on 16-11-18
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Diana
- Her True Story - in Her Own Words
- By: Andrew Morton
- Narrated by: Caroline Langrishe, Michael Maloney, Andrew Morton, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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A reissue of this classic title, updated with never-before-published material from the original taped interviews and with a new introduction by Andrew Morton...
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Very good start
- By Jan on 15-02-20
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Prince Philip's Century
- The Extraordinary Life of the Duke of Edinburgh
- By: Robert Jobson
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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For decades Prince Philip shared the Queen’s burden of office without upstaging her, always privately providing reassurance and advice but never overstepping the boundaries of his supporting role....
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Radical
- My Journey from Islamist Extremism to a Democratic Awakening
- By: Maajid Nawaz
- Narrated by: Maajid Nawaz
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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Born and raised in Essex, Maajid Nawaz was recruited into politicised Islam as a teenager....
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Facinating, Compelling & Shocking
- By S. Morris on 07-03-18
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Hitler
- A Biography
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 44 hrs and 7 mins
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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....
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Engrossing
- By Buzzzb on 15-09-16
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Too Much and Never Enough
- How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
- By: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Narrated by: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up....
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Too much and never detached
- By Anon on 16-07-20
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Stalin
- The Court of the Red Tsar
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
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This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar....
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Enlightening and entertaining
- By C.W on 06-08-19
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The Life of Elizabeth I
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 23 hrs and 57 mins
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Elizabeth I, also known as the Virgin Queen, ascended to the throne at age 25 and never married, yet ruled for 44 years and steered England into its Golden Age....
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Brilliant!
- By Gemma Thomson on 29-12-15
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Henry VIII: King and Court
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
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This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces....
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“England’s Nero”
- By Mary Carnegie on 10-09-18
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Adolf Hitler
- My Part in His Downfall
- By: Spike Milligan
- Narrated by: Spike Milligan
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked 'This is your enemy'. I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train....
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Gorgeous
- By Allyn J. Carter on 03-01-18
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 28 hrs and 46 mins
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The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface....
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Fantastic content and narration
- By H L Condliffe on 03-06-16
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Philip and Alexander
- By: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
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A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander transformed Macedon from a weak kingdom into a globe-spanning empire....
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Brilliantly informative and thorough
- By Anonymous User on 07-04-21
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The Black Prince
- By: Michael Jones
- Narrated by: Hamilton McLeod
- Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
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In 1346, at the age of 16, he won his spurs at Crécy; nine years later he conducted a brutal raid across Languedoc; in 1356 he captured the king of France at Poitiers; as lord of Aquitaine he ruled a vast swathe of Southwestern France....
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Wonderful book, poor narrator
- By Anonymous User on 06-09-20
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The Wicked Wit of Prince Philip
- By: Karen Dolby
- Narrated by: Greg Wagland
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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In the year in which the Prince has stepped down from his royal duties, this joyous and timely book celebrates his wry humour and supremely wicked wit....
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Not overly impressed
- By Lesley Goodman on 12-08-18
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Alexander the Great
- His Life and His Mysterious Death
- By: Anthony Everitt
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
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What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world’s greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait....
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A good listen
- By edward sidsaph on 10-09-19
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The Churchill Factor
- How One Man Made History
- By: Boris Johnson
- Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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Now leader of the UK himself, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the 'Churchill Factor' - the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the 20th century....
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"...that you enjoyed this programme." Well, YES!
- By petitbilbo on 28-12-15
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A Brief History of British Kings and Queens
- Brief Histories
- By: Mike Ashley
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
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Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdom for over a thousand years...
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Jam packed full.
- By Teresa Cooper on 12-05-15
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Elizabeth and Margaret
- The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
- By: Andrew Morton
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward Vlll decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered....
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Duchess, Countess
- By: Catherine Ostler
- Narrated by: Catherine Ostler
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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When the glamorous Elizabeth Chudleigh, duchess of Kingston and countess of Bristol, went on trial in Westminster for bigamy in April 1776, the story drew more attention in society than the American War of Independence....
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The Only Plane in the Sky
- The Oral History of 9/11
- By: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrated by: Garrett M. Graff, Holter Graham, full cast
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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The first comprehensive oral history of 9/11, deftly woven and told in the voices of ordinary people grappling with extraordinary events....
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A Powerful and Important Work of Nonfiction
- By Vivienne on 15-09-19
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Thomas Cromwell
- A Life
- By: Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 26 hrs and 38 mins
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Thomas Cromwell by Diarmid MacCulloch, read by David Rintoul....
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Enormously interesting and very entertaining.
- By Campesque on 21-12-18
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Lancaster and York
- The Wars of the Roses
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 22 hrs and 9 mins
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Lancater and York is a riveting account of the Wars of the Roses, from the beloved and best-selling historian Alison Weir....
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Incredible Events - Oddly Dull in Presentation
- By Alison on 04-11-14
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About Face
- By: Colonel David H. Hackworth US Army Ret., Julie Sherman
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 40 hrs and 38 mins
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From age 15 to 40, David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and fast became a living legend. In 1971, however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war effort in Vietnam....
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Try it.
- By gustishmaggi on 21-05-20
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The Volunteer
- The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated Auschwitz
- By: Jack Fairweather
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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In the summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interred at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich....
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Philippa on 08-07-19
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Bonhoeffer
- Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
- By: Eric Metaxas, Timothy Keller
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner, Eric Metaxas
- Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In the first major biography of Bonhoeffer in 40 years, New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer's life - the theologian and the spy - to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil....
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Required Reading for every Christian
- By Amazon Customer on 10-04-21
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Means of Ascent
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- By: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 22 hrs and 8 mins
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Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson continues - one of the richest, most intensive, and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of an American President....
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Superb
- By KR on 06-10-15
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Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld
- By: Junichi Saga
- Narrated by: Matt Hawkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn’t a "good" life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he has to tell presents an honest and oddly attractive picture of an insider in that separate, unofficial world. He describes the random events that led the son of a prosperous country shopkeeper to become a member, and ultimately the leader, of a gang organizing illegal dice games in Tokyo's liveliest entertainment area.
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Victoire
- A Wartime Story of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal
- By: Roland Philipps
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 10 hrs
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Paris, 1940. A woman in a red hat and a black fur coat hurries down a side-street. She is Mathilde Carré, codenamed 'the cat', known as Agent Victoire. She is a charismatic spy; her story is one of resistance and survival. These are the darkest days for France, half occupied by Nazi Germany, half run by the collaborationist Vichy regime; and dark days for Britain - isolated and under threat of invasion.
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Snowbird
- The Rise and Fall of a Drug Smuggler
- By: William Norris
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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Andrew Richard Barnes is known as the man who flew the very first shipment of cocaine for the Medellín Cartel into the United States. A young pilot with a family at home, and little money to spare, he was easily coerced by promises of wealth to make these dangerous excursions. After his first trip, he realized there was no going back and continued the dangerous flight for over a decade.
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The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
- By: Rifleman Harris
- Narrated by: Jason Salkey
- Length: 53 mins
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This audiobook is read by Jason Salkey, who played Harris in the Sharpe films, with sound effects provided by the 95th Rifles Re-enactment Society. A musical score by Adam Wakeman adds to this lavish production. A great deal of time and care has been spent creating an audiobook which truly honors the rifleman of the Peninsular War.
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Homage to Catalonia
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell’s brutally honest account of his experience as a militiaman during the Spanish Civil War. When civil war broke out in Spain in 1936, Orwell, like many other European socialists, was quick to join the fight against Fascism. And so, in December that year, he found himself in Catalonia with a 40-year-old rifle, no helmet, uniform, maps, or tools, and a platoon of near children under his command.
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Duchess, Countess
- By: Catherine Ostler
- Narrated by: Catherine Ostler
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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When the glamorous Elizabeth Chudleigh, duchess of Kingston and countess of Bristol, went on trial in Westminster for bigamy in April 1776, the story drew more attention in society than the American War of Independence. Now, in Catherine Ostler's brilliantly told and evocative biography, we get to see the full story of how Elizabeth came to be there and how she responded to what should have been the most humiliating episode of her life.
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Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld
- By: Junichi Saga
- Narrated by: Matt Hawkins
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn’t a "good" life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he has to tell presents an honest and oddly attractive picture of an insider in that separate, unofficial world. He describes the random events that led the son of a prosperous country shopkeeper to become a member, and ultimately the leader, of a gang organizing illegal dice games in Tokyo's liveliest entertainment area.
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Victoire
- A Wartime Story of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal
- By: Roland Philipps
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Paris, 1940. A woman in a red hat and a black fur coat hurries down a side-street. She is Mathilde Carré, codenamed 'the cat', known as Agent Victoire. She is a charismatic spy; her story is one of resistance and survival. These are the darkest days for France, half occupied by Nazi Germany, half run by the collaborationist Vichy regime; and dark days for Britain - isolated and under threat of invasion.
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Snowbird
- The Rise and Fall of a Drug Smuggler
- By: William Norris
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Andrew Richard Barnes is known as the man who flew the very first shipment of cocaine for the Medellín Cartel into the United States. A young pilot with a family at home, and little money to spare, he was easily coerced by promises of wealth to make these dangerous excursions. After his first trip, he realized there was no going back and continued the dangerous flight for over a decade.
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The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
- By: Rifleman Harris
- Narrated by: Jason Salkey
- Length: 53 mins
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This audiobook is read by Jason Salkey, who played Harris in the Sharpe films, with sound effects provided by the 95th Rifles Re-enactment Society. A musical score by Adam Wakeman adds to this lavish production. A great deal of time and care has been spent creating an audiobook which truly honors the rifleman of the Peninsular War.
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Homage to Catalonia
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell’s brutally honest account of his experience as a militiaman during the Spanish Civil War. When civil war broke out in Spain in 1936, Orwell, like many other European socialists, was quick to join the fight against Fascism. And so, in December that year, he found himself in Catalonia with a 40-year-old rifle, no helmet, uniform, maps, or tools, and a platoon of near children under his command.
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Duchess, Countess
- By: Catherine Ostler
- Narrated by: Catherine Ostler
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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When the glamorous Elizabeth Chudleigh, duchess of Kingston and countess of Bristol, went on trial in Westminster for bigamy in April 1776, the story drew more attention in society than the American War of Independence. Now, in Catherine Ostler's brilliantly told and evocative biography, we get to see the full story of how Elizabeth came to be there and how she responded to what should have been the most humiliating episode of her life.
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Lincolnomics
- How President Lincoln Constructed the Great American Economy
- By: John F. Wasik
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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Author John F. Wasik tracks Lincoln from his time in the 1830s as a young Illinois state legislator pushing for internal improvements; through his work as a lawyer representing the Illinois Central Railroad in the 1840s; to his presidential fight for the Transcontinental Railroad; and his support of land-grant colleges that educated a nation. These brick-and-mortar developments were essential to how the nation could lift citizens above poverty and its isolating origins.
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Midnight in Cairo
- The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s
- By: Raphael Cormack
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
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One of the world's most multicultural cities, 20th-century Cairo was a magnet for the ambitious and talented. During the 1920s and '30s, a vibrant music, theater, film, and cabaret scene flourished, defining what it meant to be a "modern" Egyptian. Women came to dominate the Egyptian entertainment industry - as stars of the stage and screen but also as impresarias, entrepreneurs, owners, and promoters of a new and strikingly modern entertainment industry.
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The Solitude of Self
- Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- By: Vivian Gornick
- Narrated by: Theresa Conkin
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the most important leaders of the movement to gain American women the vote. But, as Vivian Gornick argues in this passionate, vivid biographical essay, Stanton is also the greatest feminist thinker of the 19th century. Endowed with a philosophical cast of mind large enough to grasp the immensity that women's rights addressed, Stanton developed a devotion to equality uniquely American in character. Her writing and life make clear why feminism as a liberation movement has flourished here as nowhere else in the world.
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Churchill & Son
- By: Josh Ireland
- Narrated by: Andy Mace
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
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Few fathers and sons can ever have been so close as Winston Churchill and his only son, Randolph. Both showed flamboyant impatience, reckless bravery and generosity of spirit. The glorious and handsome Randolph was a giver and devourer of pleasure, a man who exploded into rooms, trailing whisky tumblers and reciting verbatim whole passages of classic literature. But while Randolph inherited many of his fathers' talents, he also inherited all of his flaws.
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"an asphyxiating charisma"
- By Rachel Redford on 12-04-21
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Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism
- A Biography
- By: Mark Hussey
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Clive Bell is perhaps more well-known today for being a Bloomsbury socialite and the husband of Vanessa Bell, sister to Virginia Woolf. Yet Bell was a highly important figure in his own right: an internationally renowned art critic who championed young artists, he defended daring new forms of expression at a time when Britain was closed off to all things foreign. For decades Bell has been a shadowy figure, refracted through the wealth of writing on Bloomsbury, but here Mark Hussey brings Bell to the forefront.
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1)
- 1918-38
- By: Chips Channon
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Length: 39 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958. His career was unremarkable. His diaries are quite the opposite. Elegant, gossipy and bitchy by turns, they are the unfettered observations of a man who went everywhere and who knew everybody.
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Wholly inappropriate choice of reader
- By John Adamson on 08-04-21
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Elizabeth and Margaret
- The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
- By: Andrew Morton
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward Vlll decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered. Forever more Margaret would have to curtsey to the sister she called 'Lillibet'. And bow to her wishes. From the idyll of their cloistered early life, through their hidden war-time lives, into the divergent paths they took following their father's death and Elizabeth's ascension to the throne, this book explores their relationship over the years.
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The World as I See It
- By: Albert Einstein
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Including letters, speeches, articles, and essays written before 1935, this collection offers a complete portrait of Einstein as a humanitarian and as a human being trying to make sense of the world changing around him.
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The House on Thrömerstrasse
- A Story of Rebirth and Renewal in the Wake of the Holocaust (Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII, Book 10)
- By: Ron Vincent
- Narrated by: Ron Vincent
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Louis and Jenni Böhm were a middle-class Jewish couple who established a thriving business and raised a family in a small country town in Upper Silesia in 1885. The book follows the fortunes of the family over a period of 70 years, during which their peaceful and prosperous existence is gradually eroded as they are forced to suffer increasing humiliation and ostracisation under the Nazi regime imposed on pre-war Germany by Adolf Hitler.
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Collected Works of George Orwell
- Animal Farm. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984). Looking Back on the Spanish War. Down and Out in Paris and London
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen, Peter Coates
- Length: 23 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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This collection features some of George Orwell's most well-known works of literature, including Animal Farm, 1984, Looking Back on the Spanish War, and Down and Out in Paris and London.
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Recollections
- An Autobiography
- By: Viktor E. Frankl
- Narrated by: S. D. Cousins
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Born in 1905 in the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical, and scientific upheavals of the 20th century. In these stirring recollections, Frankl describes how as a young doctor of neurology in prewar Vienna, his disagreements with Freud and Adler led to the development of "the third Viennese School of Psychotherapy", known as logotherapy; recounts his harrowing trials in four concentration camps during the War; and reflects on the celebrity brought by Man's Search for Meaning in 1945.
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A Partisan’s Memoir
- Woman of the Holocaust
- By: Faye Schulman
- Narrated by: Kathryn Alexandre
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Faye tells her unforgettable story of heroism, hardship, and resistance. Faye was an ordinary teenager when the Nazis invaded her town on the Russian-Polish border. She had a large, loving family, good friends and neighbours, most of whom were lost soon after the horrors of the Holocaust began. But Faye survived, and the photographs she took testify to her experiences and the persecution she witnessed. Decorated for heroism, Schulman uses her biography to tell an extraordinary story not just of survival, but of struggle and resistance against oppression.