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The Making of Modern Britain
- By: Andrew Marr
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation...
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Wonderful and informative
- By A. Curtis on 18-09-17
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The Making of Modern Britain
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 06-10-16
- Language: English
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A Short History of Russia
- By: Mark Galeotti
- Narrated by: Mark Galeotti
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance142
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Brought to you by Penguin. Can anyone truly understand Russia? Let one of the world's leading experts show you how, using the fascinating history of a nation to illuminate its future. Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethnos, no true central identity. At the crossroads of...
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Competent digest of topic
- By William on 04-02-21
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A Short History of Russia
- Narrated by: Mark Galeotti
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 28-01-21
- Language: English
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Waterloo
- The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
- By: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart, Bernard Cornwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller ‘A fabulous story, superbly told … cannot be bettered’ Max Hastings ‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’ On the 18th June 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels...
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Excellent History
- By Jakob on 03-10-14
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Waterloo
- The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart, Bernard Cornwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 11-09-14
- Language: English
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Made in Manchester
- A people’s history of the city that shaped the modern world
- By: Brian Groom
- Narrated by: David Judge
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance15
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A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it ‘What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.’ Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan Roman fort of Mamucium. But it was as the...
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Interesting and informative
- By Pamela on 18-02-26
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Made in Manchester
- A people’s history of the city that shaped the modern world
- Narrated by: David Judge
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 23-05-24
- Language: English
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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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Performance87
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How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? 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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A Little History of the United States
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Series: Little Histories Series
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 15-09-15
- Language: English
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Israel
- A History
- By: Anita Shapira, Anthony Berris - translator
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Written by one of Israel's most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late nineteenth century to the present day.
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This Bool Concludes Ben Shapiro by Anita Shapira
- By Kindle Customer on 29-08-25
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Israel
- A History
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 18-02-25
- Language: English
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A Savage War
- A Military History of the Civil War
- By: Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Williamson Murray
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance16
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The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War.
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Very enjoyable
- By BargainBiker on 03-04-25
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A Savage War
- A Military History of the Civil War
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 26-09-17
- Language: English
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The West
- A History of an Idea
- By: Georgios Varouxakis
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined by nineteenth-century imperialists? Neither, writes Georgios Varouxakis in The West, his ambitious and fascinating genealogy of the idea. "The West" was not used by Plato, Cicero, Locke, Mill, or other canonized figures of what we today call the Western tradition. It was not first wielded by empire-builders.
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Fascinating
- By Mr R E Ewart Smith on 03-06-26
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The West
- A History of an Idea
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 08-07-25
- Language: English
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The Europeans
- By: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 23 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance14
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From the best-selling author of Natasha's Dance, The Europeans is a richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of 19th-century Europe, told through the intertwined lives of three remarkable people: a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a great connoisseur, Pauline's husband, Louis. Their passionate, ambitious lives were bound up with an array of writers, composers and painters all trying to make their way through the exciting, prosperous and pan-European culture that came about as a result of huge economic and technological change.
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Great historian, brilliant concept, verbose result
- By Fletcher Christian on 05-01-20
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The Europeans
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 23 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 28-11-19
- Language: English
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Rot
- An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
- By: Padraic X. Scanlan
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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'Captivating, notable, brilliant, thought-provoking' A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 'A vigorous and engaging new study of the Irish famine . . . Richly underpinned by research in contemporary sources and firmly rooted in historical scholarship.' Fintan O'Toole 'Comprehensive, elegantly written...
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Must read about a pivotal period on Irish history
- By Danny T on 02-11-25
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Rot
- An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 13-03-25
- Language: English
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Entitled
- A Critical History of the British Aristocracy
- By: Chris Bryant
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Exploring the extraordinary social and political dominance enjoyed by the British aristocracy over the centuries, Entitled seeks to explain how a tiny number of noble families rose to such a position in the first place. It reveals the often nefarious means they have employed to maintain their wealth, power, and prestige and examines the greed, ambition, jealousy, and rivalry which drove aristocratic families to guard their interests with such determination.
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Interesting but spoiled by narrator
- By Mary Carnegie on 01-04-24
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Entitled
- A Critical History of the British Aristocracy
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 19-07-22
- Language: English
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American Civil Wars
- A Continental History, 1850-1873
- By: Alan Taylor
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military history and the drama of emancipation the highlights. Taylor relies on vivid characters to carry the story, from Joseph Hooker, whose timidity in crisis was exploited by Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the Union defeat at Chancellorsville, to Martin Delany and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Black abolitionists whose critical work in Canada and the United States advanced emancipation and the enrollment of Black soldiers in Union armies.
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American Civil Wars
- A Continental History, 1850-1873
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 21-05-24
- Language: English
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The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism
- A New History
- By: Yanni Kotsonis
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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This panoramic book shows how the Greek Revolution was a demographic upheaval more consequential than the overthrow of a ruler. Drawing on Ottoman sources together with archival evidence from Greece, Britain, France, Russia, and Switzerland, the book reframes the birth of modern Greece within the imperial history of the global nineteenth century.
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The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism
- A New History
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 14-01-25
- Language: English
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Italy's Most Powerful Mafias
- The History and Legacy of the Cosa Nostra, La Camorra, and 'Ndrangheta
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim Johnston
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The word “mafia,” Sicilian in origin, is synonymous with Italy, but Italy is home to several different mafias, with three being particularly notorious. While the Cosa Nostra of western Sicily is the most infamous, other powerful groups include the ferocious ‘Ndrangheta of Calabria and the Camorra, the third-largest mafia, which is active in Naples and the Campania region.
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Italy's Most Powerful Mafias
- The History and Legacy of the Cosa Nostra, La Camorra, and 'Ndrangheta
- Narrated by: Jim Johnston
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 19-11-19
- Language: English
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Predator of the Seas
- A History of the Slaveship that Fought for Emancipation
- By: Stephen Taylor
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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In 1827 the Royal Navy purchased a Baltimore clipper and renamed her the Black Joke. Assigned to the Preventative Squadron, she patrolled the west coast of Africa and freed 3,692 captives from enslavement. Beloved by seafarers and celebrated by the public, the Black Joke would become the most famous weapon in the campaign for abolition. But in her previous life as the Henriqueta, the Black Joke had been a slave ship. Through the experiences of slavers and abolitionists, captives and crew, Stephen Taylor charts the vessel's extraordinary double life.
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Predator of the Seas
- A History of the Slaveship that Fought for Emancipation
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 24-09-24
- Language: English
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American Civil War: A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Grant Finley
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Beginning with the birth of the nation, slavery divided and caused conflict for the United States of America, worsening during the country's early decades as the practice became more economically vital. Finally, in 1861, the American Civil War erupted after the election of President Abraham Lincoln. Never acknowledging the South’s right to secede, Lincoln and the North fought the South through four long, bloody, destructive years; much longer than anyone thought the war would last.
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American Civil War: A History from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Grant Finley
- Series: American Civil War, Book 1
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 22-12-17
- Language: English
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Bad Girls
- A History of Rebels and Renegades
- By: Caitlin Davies
- Narrated by: Rose Ackroyd
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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A history of a century of women, punishment and crime in HM Prison Holloway. Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been considered dangerous and unnatural, and ever since the Victorian era they have been removed from public view, locked up and often forgotten about. Many of these women ended up at HM Prison Holloway, the self-proclaimed 'terror to evil-doers'.
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Fascinating history of women in prison
- By Chris on 24-01-26
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Bad Girls
- A History of Rebels and Renegades
- Narrated by: Rose Ackroyd
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 08-03-18
- Language: English
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The Colonies of British South Africa
- The History and Legacy of British Imperialism in Modern South Africa and Zimbabwe
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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The Napoleonic Wars radically altered the old, established European power dynamics, and in 1795, the British, now emerging as the globe’s naval superpower, assumed control of the Cape as part of the spoils of war. In doing so, they recognized the enormous strategic value of the Cape as global shipping routes were developing and expanding. Possession passed back and forth once or twice, but more or less from that point onward, the British established their presence at the Cape, which they held until the unification of South Africa in 1910.
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The Colonies of British South Africa
- The History and Legacy of British Imperialism in Modern South Africa and Zimbabwe
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 05-12-20
- Language: English
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American Republics
- A Continental History of the United States 1783-1850
- By: Alan Taylor
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny.
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All together now and it works
- By Amazon Customer on 25-05-21
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American Republics
- A Continental History of the United States 1783-1850
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 18-05-21
- Language: English
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Liberty's Dawn
- A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
- By: Emma Griffin
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class (the New Yorker). The era didn't just bring about misery and poverty. On the contrary, Emma Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For many, this was a period of new, and much valued, sexual and cultural freedom.
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Liberty's Dawn
- A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 08-08-23
- Language: English
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