Showing results for "The Game" in History
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The Game Changers
- How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change You Too
- By: Tim Clare
- Narrated by: Tim Clare
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In this fascinating and entertaining look at games throughout history, Tim Clare explores the legal highs of a good dice roll, the thrills of a predatory race game, and the tactile pleasures of the games that age with us through our lives. Drawing on Roman anti-cheating devices, organised crime card games, and dice contests that link Chaucer to Warren G, The Game Changers will show you why games are more popular now than ever, and how playing them helps us win more often, become better losers and stay one step ahead - on and off the board. Through play, we become fully ourselves.
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A look at the breadth of humanity through the lens of games
- By David Dorward on 21-12-25
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The Game Changers
- How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change You Too
- Narrated by: Tim Clare
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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Endgame
- By: Omid Scobie
- Narrated by: Omid Scobie
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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On September 8, 2022, the world stood still as news broke of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing. Her death dismantled the protective shield around the world’s most famous family, and saw a long-simmering crisis of confidence in the British monarchy begin to resurface. Now, with unique insight, deep access and exclusive revelations, journalist Omid Scobie pulls back the curtain on an institution in turmoil—exposing the chaos, family dysfunction, distrust and draconian practices threatening its very future. This is the monarchy’s endgame. Do they have what it takes to save it?
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Don’t waste your time or money
- By Lynsey wareing on 28-11-23
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Endgame
- Narrated by: Omid Scobie
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 28-11-23
- Language: English
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The Making of the Modern Middle East
- a fascinating personal account of the region’s complex history, politics, and power games
- By: Jeremy Bowen
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bowen
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook is read by the author, Jeremy Bowen. Now updated with a new chapter on the 7 October attacks and more. A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year A Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year ‘An illuminating and riveting read’ – Jonathan Dimbleby 'Arresting . . . excellent...
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So much to learn.
- By Mrs W on 17-10-23
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The Making of the Modern Middle East
- a fascinating personal account of the region’s complex history, politics, and power games
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bowen
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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The Wargame
- By: Sky News
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Russia knows our weaknesses. But do you? A major five-part series from Sky News and Tortoise which imagines how a Russian attack on the UK could play out – and invites real-life former ministers, military chiefs and other experts to figure out how to defend the country. Written and presented by Sky News' security and defence editor, Deborah Haynes. This is Deborah's second podcast series for Sky News. In her first series, Into The Grey Zone, Deborah explores the murky evolution of warfare. What do assassinations, cyber hacks and disinformation have in common? They're all weapons ...
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Outstanding look at uk vulnerability
- By James Peart on 22-06-25
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Iron, Fire and Ice
- The Real History That Inspired Game of Thrones
- By: Ed West
- Narrated by: Rory Barnett
- Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance76
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A young pretender raises an army to take the throne. Learning of his father’s death, the adolescent, dashing and charismatic and descended from the old kings of the North, vows to avenge him. He is supported in this war by his mother, who has spirited away her two younger sons to safety. Against them is the queen, passionate, proud, and strong-willed and with more of the masculine virtues of the time than most men. She too is battling for the inheritance of her young son, not yet fully grown but already a sadist who takes delight in watching executions.
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History with all interesting and gory bits!
- By Jack Clancy on 03-03-20
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Iron, Fire and Ice
- The Real History That Inspired Game of Thrones
- Narrated by: Rory Barnett
- Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-04-19
- Language: English
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A History of Video Games
- By: Jeremy Parish, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Jeremy Parish
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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Since their arrival in the mid-20th century, video games have become a sprawling, multi-billion dollar business. On an annual basis, the industry is even more profitable than Hollywood. Today’s video games feature stunning, lifelike visuals and complex storylines - but they didn’t start out that way. The origin of video games can be traced back to World War II. In the 10 lectures of A History of Video Games, listeners will follow the development of the digital game from its roots in the war room to its proliferation in the 21st-century living room.
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Interesting subject, presentation a bit too dry.
- By Dan on 05-11-20
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A History of Video Games
- Narrated by: Jeremy Parish
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 21-04-20
- Language: English
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Endgame
- Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall—from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
- By: Frank Brady
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall199
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Performance166
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From Frank Brady, who wrote one of the best-selling books on Bobby Fischer of all time and who was himself a friend of Fischer’s, comes an impressively researched biography that for the first time completely captures the remarkable arc of Bobby Fischer’s life. When Bobby Fischer passed away in January 2008, he left behind a confounding legacy. Everyone knew the basics of his life—he began as a brilliant youngster, then became the pride of American chess, then took a sharp turn, struggling with paranoia and mental illness. But nobody truly understood him.
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Think chess is boring, not your thing? think again
- By Anonymous on 27-05-20
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Endgame
- Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall—from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-02-11
- Language: English
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The Great Game
- By: Peter Hopkirk
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance19
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For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized by Kipling. When play first began the...
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Superbly Enjoyable
- By Nigel on 11-03-26
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The Great Game
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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A Short History of Role-Playing Games
- By: Jamin Warren, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Jamin Warren
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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In the six lectures of A Short History of Role-Playing Games, gaming consultant and avid gamer Jamin Warren will take you on a whirlwind tour of role-playing games, tracing a fascinating story of community-building, technical innovation, and, occasionally, cultural backlash.
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A Short History of Role-Playing Games
- Narrated by: Jamin Warren
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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Endgame 1944
- How Stalin Won The War. The Sunday Times bestselling WW2 book about the year that sealed the Nazis' fate
- By: Jonathan Dimbleby
- Narrated by: Jonathan Dimbleby
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance75
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Brought to you by Penguin. A Sunday Times Bestseller A gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the bestselling historian June 1944: In Operation Bagration, more than two million Red Army soldiers, facing 500,000 German soldiers, finally avenged...
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Needs an attached pdf
- By Michael Grunwell on 04-06-24
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Endgame 1944
- How Stalin Won The War. The Sunday Times bestselling WW2 book about the year that sealed the Nazis' fate
- Narrated by: Jonathan Dimbleby
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 23-05-24
- Language: English
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The Game Of Kings
- The Lymond Chronicles Book One
- By: Dorothy Dunnett
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 21 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance185
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath. It is 1547 and, after five years imprisonment and exile far from his homeland, Francis Crawford of Lymond - scholar, soldier, rebel, nobleman, outlaw - has at last come back to Edinburgh. But...
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My favourite character in all of literature
- By Helen on 30-11-18
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The Game Of Kings
- The Lymond Chronicles Book One
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Series: The Lymond Chronicles, Book 1
- Length: 21 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 08-11-18
- Language: English
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The Great Game in Cuba
- How the CIA Sabotaged Its Own Plot to Unseat Fidel Castro
- By: Joan Mellen
- Narrated by: Katina Kalin
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The Great Game in Cuba uses the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution to examine the CIA's inner workings during the '50s and '60s. Detailing the agency's lies and deceits, Mellen paints a vivid behind-the-scenes picture of the CIA in Cuba after the Castro revolution: what it wanted and the lengths it was willing to go to in order to paralyze the opposition to Fidel Castro.
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The Great Game in Cuba
- How the CIA Sabotaged Its Own Plot to Unseat Fidel Castro
- Narrated by: Katina Kalin
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 21-04-16
- Language: English
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The Waiting Game
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
- By: Nicola Clark
- Narrated by: Karen Cass, Nicola Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Every queen had ladies-in-waiting. Her confidantes and chaperones, they are the forgotten agents of the Tudor court. Ever present and yet hidden behind the scenes, these women held the secrets and the hearts of some of the Tudor period's most powerful men and women. Experts at survival, negotiating the competing demands of their families and their queen, the ladies-in-waiting of Henry VIII's wives were far more than decorative 'extras': they were serious political players who changed the course of history, and four of them became queen themselves.
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- By julie ann sterndale on 23-01-26
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The Waiting Game
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
- Narrated by: Karen Cass, Nicola Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 25-04-24
- Language: English
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Berlin
- Endgame 1945
- By: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents Berlin: Endgame 1945 by Prit Buttar, read by John Telfer. Written by one of the world's leading experts on the Eastern Front, this captivating history explores the final battle for Berlin and the heart of Germany. This sweeping saga takes us from the banks of the River Oder...
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Berlin
- Endgame 1945
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 07-05-26
- Language: English
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The Game
- Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968
- By: George Howe Colt, George Howe Colt - introduction
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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*A New York Times Notable Book* *A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year* From the bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of The Big House comes “a well-blended narrative packed with top-notch reporting and relevance for our own time” (The Boston Globe) about the young athletes...
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The Game
- Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 09-10-18
- Language: English
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Red Dead's History
- A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past
- By: Tore C. Olsson
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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"A must-listen for fans of the beloved game."—Den of Geek This program is read by Roger Clark, the iconic and award-winning full performance-capture actor of Red Dead Redemption 2's Arthur Morgan, who returns to the wildly dramatic and gritty world of the American frontier in this audiobook...
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Mind-blowing.
- By Anonymous on 08-08-24
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Red Dead's History
- A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 06-08-24
- Language: English
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Game of My Life: New York Rangers
- Memorable Stories of Rangers Hockey
- By: John Halligan, John Kreiser
- Narrated by: David Deboy
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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Famous games and players have been the hallmark of the New York Rangers from their NHL debut in 1926 to the present day. From Frank Boucher and the original Blueshirts to Jaromir Jagr, the Rangers have thrilled their fans with some of the most memorable performances in hockey history. In Game of My Life: New York Rangers, John Halligan and John Kreiser share the recollections of 24 of the most famous names in Rangers history as they discuss the most memorable games in their careers.
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Game of My Life: New York Rangers
- Memorable Stories of Rangers Hockey
- Narrated by: David Deboy
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 18-12-12
- Language: English
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Game of Spies
- The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944
- By: Paddy Ashdown
- Narrated by: Paddy Ashdown
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Spies, bed-hopping, treachery and executions – this story of espionage in wartime Bordeaux is told for the first time. Game of Spies uncovers a lethal spy triangle at work during the Second World War. The story centres on three men – on British, one French and one German – and the duels...
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Brilliantly researched, possibly a bit too much....
- By JOhn on 02-05-17
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Game of Spies
- The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944
- Narrated by: Paddy Ashdown
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 22-09-16
- Language: English
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A Game of Birds and Wolves
- The Secret Game That Won the War
- By: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being torpedoed by German U-boats. Prime Minister Winston Churchill is lying to the country about the number of British ships sunk. He is lying about the...
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Tense and intriguing
- By Phil on 21-11-19
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A Game of Birds and Wolves
- The Secret Game That Won the War
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-11-19
- Language: English
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Season of '42
- Joe D, Teddy Ballgame, and Baseball's Fight to Survive a Turbulent First Year of War
- By: Jack Cavanaugh
- Narrated by: Robert C. Brewster
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Big league baseball would seem to have been a hard sell in 1942. World War II was not going well for the United States in the Pacific and not much better in Europe. Moreover, the country was in drastically short supply of ships, planes, submarines, torpedoes, and other war materials, and Uncle Sam needed men, millions of them, including those from 21 through 35 years of age who had been ordered to register for the draft, the age range of most big league baseball players.
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Season of '42
- Joe D, Teddy Ballgame, and Baseball's Fight to Survive a Turbulent First Year of War
- Narrated by: Robert C. Brewster
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 23-01-13
- Language: English
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