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The Royals
- By: Kitty Kelley
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall74
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Performance66
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Story65
They are the most chronicled family on the face of the globe. Their every move attracts headlines. Scores of books have tried and failed to penetrate the royal facade. Now Kitty Kelley has gone behind palace walls to provide the first three-dimensional, comprehensive, and evenhanded portrait of the men and women who make up the British Royal family.
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More accurate than the media drivel!
- By Ann D on 02-08-14
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The Royals
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 16-07-13
- Language: English
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An Unsung Hero
- Tom Crean – Antarctic Survivor
- By: Michael Smith
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall303
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Performance276
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Story275
Tom Crean was the farmer’s son from Kerry who sailed on three major expeditions to the unknown Antarctic over a century ago. He served with both Captain Robert Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton, spent longer on the ice than either and outlived them both. But Tom Crean returned to Ireland and never spoke about his exploits, taking his incredible story to the grave - until the publication of An Unsung Hero, which unearthed his story and saw him rightfully placed amongst the annals of the great explorers.
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First time I've ever been annoyed reading a book with such unnecessary repitition..:-(
- By alasdair t. on 11-05-25
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An Unsung Hero
- Tom Crean – Antarctic Survivor
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 08-08-21
- Language: English
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The King in the North
- The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria
- By: Max Adams
- Narrated by: Hamilton McLeod
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance21
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Bloomsbury presents The King in the North by Max Adams, read by Hamilton McLeod. A triumph – a Game of Thrones in the Dark Ages' TOM HOLLAND. The magisterial biography of Oswald Whiteblade, exiled prince of Northumbria, who returned in blood and glory to reclaim his birthright. A charismatic...
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Well researched but very challenging to follow what the author is looking to get across
- By Paul S on 17-12-24
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The King in the North
- The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria
- Narrated by: Hamilton McLeod
- Series: The Founders of Britain Quartet
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 27-07-23
- Language: English
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The Stolen Crown
- The bestselling, gripping account of the succession of Elizabeth I by a leading Tudor expert
- By: Tracy Borman
- Narrated by: Tracy Borman
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance72
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Story72
The explosive, unmissable account of the succession of Elizabeth I from bestselling author Tracy Borman, Chief Historian at Historic Royal Palaces The perfect gift for Tudor fans this Mother's Day 2026 'Compelling and brilliant' - ALISON WEIR 'A meticulously researched must-read for Tudor...
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Stolen crown ? Hardly
- By Oliver Jansson on 02-03-26
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The Stolen Crown
- The bestselling, gripping account of the succession of Elizabeth I by a leading Tudor expert
- Narrated by: Tracy Borman
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
- By: Olaudah Equiano
- Narrated by: Duncan Brownlehe
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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First published in 1789, this autobiography of Olaudah Equiano comprises a variety of styles, such as a slavery narrative, travel tale, and spiritual journey. It recounts Equiano's time as a slave, and chronicles his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual success in gaining his freedom.
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
- Narrated by: Duncan Brownlehe
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 21-06-19
- Language: English
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Adolf Hitler
- By: John Toland
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 44 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall206
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Performance183
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Story180
Based on previously unpublished documents, diaries, notes, photographs, and dramatic interviews with Hitler's colleagues and associates, this is the definitive biography of one of the most despised yet fascinating figures of the 20th century. Painstakingly documented, it is a work that will not soon be forgotten.
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good but...
- By MR H. on 05-06-19
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Adolf Hitler
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 44 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 21-05-14
- Language: English
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A Great and Terrible King
- Edward I and the Forging of Britain
- By: Marc Morris
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall220
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Performance197
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Story196
This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king. Edward I is familiar to millions as 'Longshanks', conqueror of Scotland and nemesis of Sir William Wallace ('Braveheart'). Edward was born to rule England, but believed that it was his right to rule all of Britain. His reign was one of the most dramatic of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an unprecedented scale and leaving a legacy of division that has lasted from his day to our own.
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Marc Morris’ Masterpiece
- By A. J. Taylor on 17-10-21
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A Great and Terrible King
- Edward I and the Forging of Britain
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 30-09-21
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall643
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Performance554
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Story553
Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 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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Ooo ‘e was a bugger
- By G M F on 26-12-20
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Stalin
- The Court of the Red Tsar
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 25-07-19
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall156
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Performance137
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Story135
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. “[An] infectious sense of narrative momentum . . . Its energy is unflagging...
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A good listen
- By edward sidsaph on 10-09-19
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Alexander the Great
- His Life and His Mysterious Death
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 27-08-19
- Language: English
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Mary Boleyn
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall199
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Performance158
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Story156
Mary Boleyn was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife. In this astonishing and riveting biography, Alison Weir’s extensive research gives a new and detailed portrayal, in which she recounts that, contrary to popular belief, Mary was entirely undeserving of her posthumous notoriety as a great whore.
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Scholarly biography
- By Kirstine on 18-02-12
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Mary Boleyn
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 14-11-11
- Language: English
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The Nuremberg Women
- THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - 'Transforms what we think we know' Peter Frankopan
- By: Natalie Livingstone
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance20
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Natalie Livingstone's deeply researched, unfailingly fascinating book gives the many extraordinary women at or near the centre of the Nuremberg trials their proper, important, and often ignored place in history' Salman Rushdie 'Brilliant . . . History erased...
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Thrilling
- By Bobby Baker on 04-05-26
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The Nuremberg Women
- THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - 'Transforms what we think we know' Peter Frankopan
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-04-26
- Language: English
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Masters of the Air
- How the Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine
- By: Donald L. Miller
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall249
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Performance231
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Story230
Historian and World War II expert Donald Miller brings us the story of the bomber boys who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. Unlike ground soldiers, they slept on clean beds, drank beer in local pubs and danced to the swing music of the travelling Air Force bands. But they were also an elite group of fighters who put their lives on the line in the most dangerous role of all. Miller takes listeners from the adrenaline filled battles in the sky, to the airbases across England, the German prison camps and onto the ground to understand the devastation faced by civilians.
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Only two mistakes that I noticed.
- By Alan D. on 28-03-22
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Masters of the Air
- How the Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 14-05-20
- Language: English
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Charles III
- New King. New Court. The Inside Story.
- By: Robert Hardman
- Narrated by: Robert Hardman
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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Story14
Read by the author, Robert Hardman. The instant No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller, updated with exclusive new material covering the turbulent events of 2024, including the serious health challenges facing the King and Princess of Wales. 'Scoops aplenty are here . . . An irresistible insider account...
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Beautifully written and narrated. Very amusing in parts.
- By Helen Cole on 16-11-25
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Charles III
- New King. New Court. The Inside Story.
- Narrated by: Robert Hardman
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 14-11-24
- Language: English
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Philip and Alexander
- By: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall282
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Performance248
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Story246
A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander transformed Macedon from a weak kingdom into a globe-spanning empire. During his short life Alexander the Great carved out an empire stretching from the Balkans to Central India, re-drawing the map of the ancient world. Yet Alexander represents only half of the story, for his success was not just the product of his own genius, restless energy and ambition, but was built on decades of effort by his father.
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Very detailed, but easy to listen to!
- By Connor Sampson on 02-01-22
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Philip and Alexander
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-09-20
- Language: English
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Short Stories for Seniors
- 30 Feel-Good True Stories in History That Celebrate Unsung Heroes Who Changed the World (Interesting and Inspirational)
- By: Deborah Ezzell
- Narrated by: Abby Filsinger
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance20
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A collection of 30 true stories about unsung heroes who quietly changed the world through acts of courage, innovation, and compassion, from inventors to everyday people.
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Love these short stories
- By mellie on 15-06-26
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Short Stories for Seniors
- 30 Feel-Good True Stories in History That Celebrate Unsung Heroes Who Changed the World (Interesting and Inspirational)
- Narrated by: Abby Filsinger
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 02-06-26
- Language: English
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The Path to Power
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- By: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 40 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall415
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Performance364
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Story360
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered.
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Magisterial, engrossing, powerful
- By Derrick on 01-04-20
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The Path to Power
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Series: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 1
- Length: 40 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 10-12-13
- Language: English
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Napoleon the Great
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 37 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,791
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Performance1,604
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Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just 20 years, from October 1795, when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'état, he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the revolution had descended.
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37 very listenable hours!
- By mjh on 24-02-15
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Napoleon the Great
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 37 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 20-02-15
- Language: English
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Above the Ground
- A True Story of the Troubles in Northern Ireland
- By: Dan Lawton
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance18
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In 1978, the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland, known as The Troubles, had reached a boiling point. Hundreds of members of the Irish Republican Army, determined to drive the hated British out of the province—killing soldiers and police, detonating bombs, while arming themselves with firearms and explosives—had been arrested and incarcerated in the notorious British prison known as the Maze.
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The level of truth.
- By Amazon Customer on 11-04-25
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Above the Ground
- A True Story of the Troubles in Northern Ireland
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 25-06-24
- Language: English
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The Chief
- The Life of Lord Northcliffe Britain's Greatest Press Baron
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance13
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'Superb...his pages fizz with character and colour' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Scholarly and very readable' Andrew Lycett, Spectator 'Energetic and hugely entertaining' A.N.Wilson, TLS The definitive biography of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, the first and greatest press...
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A superb biography
- By Antoine Vanner on 08-01-23
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The Chief
- The Life of Lord Northcliffe Britain's Greatest Press Baron
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 18-08-22
- Language: English
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
- By: Anthony Everitt
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall224
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Performance195
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Story195
In this dynamic and engaging biography, Anthony Everitt plunges us into the fascinating, scandal-ridden world of ancient Rome in its most glorious heyday. Accessible to us through his legendary speeches but also through an unrivaled collection of unguarded letters to his close friend Atticus, Cicero comes to life here as a witty and cunning political operator.
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An excellent history
- By StevenCF on 05-03-17
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 18-11-14
- Language: English
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