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Henry VIII: King and Court
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall930
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Performance848
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Story841
This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court - the most spectacular court ever seen in England - and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces. An entertaining narrative packed with colourful description and a wealth of anecdotal evidence, but also a comprehensive analytical study of the development of both monarch and court during a crucial period in English history.
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“England’s Nero”
- By Mary Carnegie on 10-09-18
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Henry VIII: King and Court
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 02-05-17
- Language: English
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Unruly
- A History of England's Kings and Queens
- By: David Mitchell
- Narrated by: David Mitchell
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,086
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Performance5,685
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Story5,684
Brought to you by Penguin. THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Read by David Mitchell. A funny book about a serious subject, Unruly is for anyone who has ever wondered how we got here - and who is to blame. Think you know your kings and queens? Think again. Taking us right back to King Arthur...
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Some smart history amongst all the jokey rants
- By Anonymous on 29-09-23
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Unruly
- A History of England's Kings and Queens
- Narrated by: David Mitchell
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 28-09-23
- Language: English
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Auschwitz
- A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
- By: Richard Seaver - translator, Tibere Kremer - translator, Miklos Nyiszli
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall600
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Performance538
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Story536
When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known as the infamous "Angel of Death" - Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research pathologist. In that capacity he also served as physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked exclusively in the crematoriums and were routinely executed after four months.
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disappointing
- By Amazon Customer on 19-04-18
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Auschwitz
- A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 31-08-13
- Language: English
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57
- By: Chips Channon
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Length: 48 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall70
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Performance68
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Story68
This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with a prematurely aged Chips descending into poor health but still socially active and able to turn a pointed phrase about the political events that swirl around him and the great and the good with whom he mingles.
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Good production but flawed!
- By Fiona on 13-02-23
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Series: The Diaries, Book 3
- Length: 48 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 24-11-22
- Language: English
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Always Greener
- The true story behind Restless Dolly Maunder
- By: Kate Grenville
- Narrated by: Kate Grenville
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall91
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Performance85
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Story85
Always Greener is an exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother, who she feared as a child and only in adulthood came to understand. Born in rural Australia, Dolly Russell becomes a successful businessperson, mother and troubled wife. Then came the depression, bankruptcy and World War I. Yet, in a way, those disasters freed her. They allowed her to use her intelligence and ambition to make a space for herself in a man’s world.
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Loved it!
- By Amazon Customer on 08-11-21
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Always Greener
- The true story behind Restless Dolly Maunder
- Narrated by: Kate Grenville
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 13-07-21
- Language: English
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Orphan Smith
- My Father’s Secret
- By: BBC Studios
- Narrated by: Megan Follows, Turi King
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall231
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Performance231
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Story231
When a DNA test blows apart her father’s hidden identity many years after his death, Deb finds she has a sister, Barbara, and an entirely new family she never knew. As the sisters work to unravel more of their father’s secrets, they find his connection to a dark chapter of British-Canadian history. Will the sisters finally get to the bottom of their father’s past? Or are some secrets meant to stay buried forever?
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A fascinating listen
- By C. Weaver on 31-07-25
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Orphan Smith
- My Father’s Secret
- Narrated by: Megan Follows, Turi King
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 03-07-25
- Language: English
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Shackleton
- Explorer. Leader. Legend.
- By: Ranulph Fiennes
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall909
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Performance820
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Story817
In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. The disaster left Shackleton and his men alone at the frozen South Pole, fighting for their lives. Their survival and escape is the most famous adventure in history.
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A truly epic story!!
- By L. BETTLES on 20-10-21
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Shackleton
- Explorer. Leader. Legend.
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 16-09-21
- Language: English
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Eleanor
- A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen: From the bestselling author of Eighteen
- By: Alice Loxton
- Narrated by: Alice Loxton
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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Story10
Read by the author. An extraordinary journey that uncovers historical secrets about England’s forgotten Queen. From Alice Loxton, author of the acclaimed bestseller Eighteen. ‘Alice Loxton is the star of her generation’ – Dan Snow, historian and host of History Hit ‘I loved this...
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Informal
- By adrian d peaty on 01-12-25
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Eleanor
- A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen: From the bestselling author of Eighteen
- Narrated by: Alice Loxton
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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The Greatest Nobodies of History
- Minor Characters from Major Moments
- By: Adrian Bliss
- Narrated by: Adrian Bliss
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall143
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Performance136
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Story136
Whether it’s Julius Caesar, Buffalo Bill or Henry VIII, the lives of history’s greatest heroes have long dominated the history books, and bored generations of high school students in the process. But what about the side characters waiting in the wings of humanity’s defining moments? Who will tell the tale of the pirates who kidnapped Caesar? Of Bill’s horse who thrilled Queen Victoria. Or of Henry’s toilet attendants, who may have caused a wife or two to lose their heads? Adrian Bliss won’t rest until these forgotten heroes are as well-known as their glory hogging contemporaries.
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Entertaining - but not what I was expecting
- By Robert J. on 25-05-25
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The Greatest Nobodies of History
- Minor Characters from Major Moments
- Narrated by: Adrian Bliss
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 29-08-24
- Language: English
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The Stolen Crown
- The Perfect Tudor Christmas Gift
- By: Tracy Borman
- Narrated by: Tracy Borman
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance39
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Story39
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTELLER - AS FEATURED ON CHANNEL 5'S INSIDE THE TOWER OF LONDON Succession meets the Tudors in this explosive account of the succession of Elizabeth I from bestselling author Tracy Borman, Chief Historian at Historic Royal Palaces 'COMPELLING AND BRILLIANT' -...
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engaging and informative
- By sha on 08-12-25
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The Stolen Crown
- The Perfect Tudor Christmas Gift
- Narrated by: Tracy Borman
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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Hitler
- A Biography
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 44 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,609
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Performance2,314
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Story2,296
Hailed as the most compelling biography of the German dictator yet written, Ian Kershaw's Hitler brings us closer than ever before to the heart of its subject's immense darkness. 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, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails: the sheer scale of the evils that he unleashed on the world has made him a demonic figure without equal in the 20th century.
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Exhaustive, occasionally exhausting...
- By Mark Brandon on 22-02-16
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Hitler
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 44 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 13-11-15
- Language: English
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Josephine
- By: Carolly Erickson
- Narrated by: S. Patricia Bailey
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall140
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Performance128
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Story128
Josephine's life story was as turbulent as the age, an era of revolution and social upheaval, of the guillotine and of frenzied hedonism. With telling psychological depth and compelling literary grace, Carolly Erickson brings the complex, charming, ever resilient Josephine to life in this memorable portrait, one that carries the reader from the sensual richness of her childhood in the tropics to her final lonely days at Malmaison.
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Wonderful.
- By h on 08-12-12
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Josephine
- Narrated by: S. Patricia Bailey
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 14-12-05
- Language: English
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SAS The Great Train Raid
- The Most Daring SAS Mission of WWII
- By: Damien Lewis
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance23
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Story23
So secret was this mission, the SAS seizure of a train to raid deep into enemy territory to liberate a concentration camp, that it wasn't until 1968 - twenty-seven years after the formation of the SAS - that a short mention of it was made in the Rover and Wizard annual, under the headline 'Who Dares Wins'. No further published record exists. Best-selling author Damien Lewis has unearthed the full incredible story from long-hidden files and first hand-testimony, his latest elite forces narrative delivering a scintillating tale of bravery, daring and determination which simply beggars belief.
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The detail is great
- By J. E. Ashfield on 10-12-25
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SAS The Great Train Raid
- The Most Daring SAS Mission of WWII
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 23-10-25
- Language: English
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Mortal Monarchs
- 1,000 Years of Royal Deaths
- By: Suzie Edge
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall351
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Performance324
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Story322
How the monarchs of England and Scotland met their deaths has been a wonderful mixture of violence, infections, overindulgence and occasional regicide. In Mortal Monarchs, medical historian Dr Suzie Edge examines 1,000 years of royal deaths to uncover the plots, accusations, rivalries and ever-present threat of poison that the kings and queens of old faced.
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Superb but with some factual errors
- By Stevie on 07-06-23
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Mortal Monarchs
- 1,000 Years of Royal Deaths
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 29-09-22
- Language: English
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Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King
- The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King
- By: Gareth Russell
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall88
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Performance83
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Story83
A BBC History magazine, Esquire, Historia magazine and Waterstones History Book of the Year 'James comes alive in full flamboyance … Russell expertly weaves the bedchamber gossip into the tapestry of a tumultuous reign' SUNDAY TIMES 'Brings the backbiting and power struggles of the Jacobean...
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Accessible Easy Listen
- By Alison Harrower on 01-06-25
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Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King
- The Life and Loves of Britain’s First King
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 27-02-25
- Language: English
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2)
- 1938-43
- By: Chips Channon
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Length: 48 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall92
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Performance79
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Story79
This second volume of the best-selling diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon takes us from the heady aftermath of the Munich agreement, when the prime minister Chips so admired was credited with having averted a general European conflagration, through the rapid unravelling of appeasement, and on to the tribulations of the early years of the Second World War. It closes with a moment of hope, as Channon, in recording the fall of Mussolini in July 1943, reflects: 'The war must be more than half over.'
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Wonderfully enthralling and yet painfully snobbish
- By Philip Moore on 16-01-22
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2)
- 1938-43
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Series: The Diaries, Book 2
- Length: 48 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 09-12-21
- Language: English
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I Escaped from Auschwitz
- The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews
- By: Rudolf Vrba, Alan Bestic, Sir Martin Gilbert - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall157
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Performance154
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April 7, 1944 - This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The escapees, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, fled over 100 miles to be the first to give the graphic and detailed descriptions of the atrocities of Auschwitz. Originally published in the early 1960s, I Escaped from Auschwitz is the striking autobiography of none other than Rudolf Vrba himself. Vrba details his life leading up to, during, and after his escape from his 21-month internment in Auschwitz.
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Amazing Audiobook
- By PaulC6230 on 06-12-20
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I Escaped from Auschwitz
- The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 24-11-20
- Language: English
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Churchill
- Walking with Destiny
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 50 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,167
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Performance1,040
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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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Churchill
- Walking with Destiny
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 50 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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Henry V
- The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall293
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Performance267
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Story266
Dan Jones’s life of Henry V stands out for the generous amount of space it allots to the critical first 26 years of his life before he became king. Both standalone biography and a completion of Dan’s sequence of English medieval histories that began with The Plantagenets and The Hollow Crown, Henry V is a thrilling and unmissable life of England’s greatest king from our best-selling medieval historian.
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Top men. Author and subject.
- By Shades of Blue Q on 14-10-24
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Mandela: The Lost Tapes
- By: Richard Stengel
- Narrated by: Richard Stengel
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Overall32
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Performance30
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Story30
In 1993, after 27 years of imprisonment, Nelson Mandela sat down with ghostwriter Richard Stengel to begin working on Long Walk to Freedom, a critically acclaimed memoir that would become a best seller around the globe.
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Nelson Mandela freedom fighter
- By Mr Jitesh K Patel on 14-12-22
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