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Izabela the Valiant
- The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess
- By: Adam Zamoyski
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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A Spectator Best Book of the Year Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast into a man’s world. Her aristocratic position enmeshed...
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Izabela the Valiant
- The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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Mussolini: History in an Hour
- By: Rupert Colley
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall88
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Performance78
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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. ‘Il Duce’, Benito Mussolini, was one of the key figures in the creation of fascism. Famed for his dictatorial style, his political cunning and admired – initially – by Hitler, Mussolini led the National Fascist Party and ruled Italy...
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Excellent introduction to Mussolini
- By Mr B L T on 21-05-23
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Mussolini: History in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
- Release date: 24-04-14
- Language: English
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Hide-and-Seek with Angels
- A Life of J.M. Barrie
- By: Lisa Chaney
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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What kind of man creates a boy who never grows up? More than 100 years after Peter Pan first appeared on the London stage, author J. M. Barrie remains one of the most complex and enigmatic figures in modern literature. A few facts, of course, are widely known: Peter Pan made Barrie the richest author of his time, and he bequeathed the royalties to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. In this brilliant biography, Lisa Chaney goes beyond the myths to discover the fascinating, frequently misunderstood man behind the famous boy.
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Loved loved the book
- By Resonate on 27-09-23
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Hide-and-Seek with Angels
- A Life of J.M. Barrie
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 15-08-23
- Language: English
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Meetings With Remarkable Animals
- From the familiar and much-loved face on our television screens since the 1990s
- By: Martin Clunes
- Narrated by: Martin Clunes
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance60
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Brought to you by Penguin. Guide-dog Laura needed a new home. And, after listening to her owner, Jaina, talk on the radio about what would happen to her much loved guide and companion when she retired, Martin Clunes picked up the phone. He’d always been a soft touch when it came to animals...
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Outstanding
- By wendy clarkson on 20-01-25
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Meetings With Remarkable Animals
- From the familiar and much-loved face on our television screens since the 1990s
- Narrated by: Martin Clunes
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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Twelve Against the Gods
- By: William Bolitho
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance15
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The 1929 collection of short and exquisitely written biographical essays on the lives of such famed adventurers as Alexander the Great, Casanova, Christopher Columbus, Napoleon, and Isadora Duncan. The author, William Bolitho, celebrates the contradictions and bipolar tensions that live inside and often drive even history's most celebrated heroes. Although all the greats featured in the book lived ages ago, the principles by which they lived their lives hold valuable lessons for those of us in contemporary times.
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Clear Lies
- By Anonymous on 16-06-25
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Twelve Against the Gods
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 13-04-17
- Language: English
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Witness to Nuremberg
- The Many Lives of the Man Who Translated at the Nazi War Trials
- By: W. Richard Sonnenfeldt
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall101
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Performance91
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Story93
In this gripping memoir by the chief American interpreter at the Nuremberg trials, Richard Sonnenfeldt recounts a remarkable life. By age 22 he had fought in the Battle of the Bulge and helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp, when he was appointed chief interpreter for the American prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials.
During his service, he spent pretrial time with Hermann Göering as well as other top Nazi leaders.
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What an amazing life
- By Paul P. on 01-04-13
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Witness to Nuremberg
- The Many Lives of the Man Who Translated at the Nazi War Trials
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 28-02-12
- Language: English
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Oscar
- A Life
- By: Matthew Sturgis
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 36 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Bloomsbury presents Oscar by Matthew Sturgis, read by Jot Davies. The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years, and the most complete telling of his life and times to date. NOMINATED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2019 'The Book of the Year, perhaps of the decade' TLS 'Simply the best...
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Lots of well-researched information excellently organized
- By Tabby Cat on 23-03-24
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Oscar
- A Life
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 36 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 13-07-23
- Language: English
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Victoria's Secret
- The Private Passion of a Queen
- By: Fern Riddell
- Narrated by: Fern Riddell
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Brought to you by Penguin. ‘Mine is a nature which requires being loved, and I have lost almost all those who loved me most on earth.’ From the moment John Brown arrived as a servant to Queen Victoria's household, he became known across the land as her loyal companion, her fierce protector...
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Discussion on Victoria children
- By Clare Chettle on 16-08-25
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Victoria's Secret
- The Private Passion of a Queen
- Narrated by: Fern Riddell
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 31-07-25
- Language: English
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Rasputin
- The Untold Story
- By: Joseph T. Fuhrmann
- Narrated by: Curtis Sisco
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance22
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A century after his death, Grigory Rasputin remains fascinating: the Russian peasant with hypnotic eyes who befriended Tsar Nicholas II and helped destroy the Russian Empire, but the truth about his strange life has never fully been told. Written by the world's leading authority on Rasputin, this new biography draws on previously closed Soviet archives to offer new information on Rasputin's relationship with Empress Alexandra, sensational revelations about his sexual conquests, a re-examination of his murder, and more.
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An extraordinaire story for a quite normal man.
- By Johanna on 09-12-13
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Rasputin
- The Untold Story
- Narrated by: Curtis Sisco
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 02-03-13
- 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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Overall16
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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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The Path to Power
- By: Margaret Thatcher
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Abridged
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Overall48
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Performance35
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Story36
A fascinating account of the journey towards number 10 Downing street read by Lady Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher's government was, she says, about the application of a philosophy, not the implementation of an administrative programme. These ideas and beliefs were propelled throughout her time in...
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One person’s truth is always valid
- By DeJay on 27-11-23
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The Path to Power
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 30-09-10
- Language: English
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Galileo
- By: James Reston Jr.
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance23
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The founder of modern science and the embodiment of the conflict between science and faith, Galileo remains the most fascinating figure of his age. In this biography, James Reston Jr. provides a lively, vivid portrait of Galileo, taking the listener to the heart of this passionate, embattled, arrogant, and brilliant man.
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IMPRESSIVE
- By K. Duffy on 11-11-21
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Galileo
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 15-12-99
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective
- Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime
- By: Susannah Stapleton
- Narrated by: Clare Wille, Susannah Stapleton
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance43
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If you are susceptible to Miss Marple and Harriet Vane you must read The Adventures of Maud West. You will never know the difference between fact and fiction again. Jill Paton Walsh, author of the Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mysteries Maud West ran her detective agency in London for more than...
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Wonderful, a must for Golden-Age detective fans
- By Sydney on 16-06-19
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The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective
- Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime
- Narrated by: Clare Wille, Susannah Stapleton
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 13-06-19
- Language: English
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Radical Wordsworth
- The Poet Who Changed the World
- By: Jonathan Bate
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance35
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A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 ‘Radical Wordsworth deserves to take its place as the finest modern introduction to his work, life and impact’ Financial Times ‘Richly repays reading … It is hard to think of another poet who has changed our world so much’ Sunday Times A...
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Largely entertaining, however some of the claims's
- By DavidT on 27-04-20
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Radical Wordsworth
- The Poet Who Changed the World
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 02-04-20
- Language: English
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Charmed Life
- The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon
- By: Damian Collins
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance16
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The story of a fascinating man who connected the great politicians, artists and thinkers at the height of British global power and influence. A famed aesthete, politician and patron of the arts, Philip Sassoon lived in a world of English elegance and oriental flair. Gathering a social set that...
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Very poor reading
- By B D. on 21-05-17
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Charmed Life
- The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 02-06-16
- Language: English
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In the Garden of Beasts
- Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall91
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Performance75
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Story76
Berlin, 1933. William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered academic from Chicago, has, to his own and everyone else's surprise, become America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proves to be a turning point in history. Dodd and his family, most notably his vivacious daughter, Martha, observe at first-hand the many changes - some subtle, some disturbing, and some horrifically violent - that signal Hitler's consolidation of power. Dodd has little choice but to associate with key figures in the Nazi party.
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Enthralling
- By Anna Dundas on 09-12-20
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In the Garden of Beasts
- Love and terror in Hitler's Berlin
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 02-08-12
- Language: English
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Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?
- A Powerful Story of Love and Survival
- By: Horace Greasley
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall467
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Performance430
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Story429
Horace 'Jim' Greasley was 20 years of age in the spring of 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and latterly Poland. There had been whispers and murmurs of discontent from certain quarters, and the British government began to prepare for the inevitable war. After seven weeks training with the 2nd/5th Battalion Leicester, he found himself facing the might of the German army in a muddy field south of Cherbourg, in Northern France, with just 30 rounds of ammunition in his weapon pouch. Horace's war didn't last long. He was taken prisoner on 25th May 1940.
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Disappointing
- By Boofoo on 22-12-19
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Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?
- A Powerful Story of Love and Survival
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
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The Wright Brothers
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: David McCullough
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Overall23
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Performance20
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The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two...
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Great story, awful reading.
- By Amazon Customer on 26-01-25
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The Wright Brothers
- Narrated by: David McCullough
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-05-15
- Language: English
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Too Much and Never Enough
- How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
- By: Mary L. Trump Ph.D.
- Narrated by: Mary L. Trump Ph.D.
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,338
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Performance1,979
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* THE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER * ‘Even in the darkest of Dickens novels, no family comes across quite as mendacious, grasping and avaricious as the Trumps’ Financial Times A REVELATORY PORTRAIT OF DONALD J. TRUMP AND THE TOXIC FAMILY THAT MADE HIM – WRITTEN BY...
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Too much and never detached
- By Anon on 16-07-20
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Too Much and Never Enough
- How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
- Narrated by: Mary L. Trump Ph.D.
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 14-07-20
- Language: English
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Blue Lights and Long Nights
- By: Les Pringle
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall94
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Performance77
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Story77
This book has been re-issued as Dial 999! ISBN 9780552165310. Card-playing corpses, unfaithful husbands and 'flying' ladies - life as an ambulance driver in the 1970s was certainly varied ... At the age of twenty-three, Les Pringle decided to escape from office life, broaden his horizons and...
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29 years Service
- By steve hutchinson on 21-03-18
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Blue Lights and Long Nights
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 03-01-13
- Language: English
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