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Jennie Churchill
- Winston's American Mother
- By: Anne Sebba
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance29
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Story29
After a three-day romance, Brooklyn-born Jennie Jerome married into the British aristocracy to become Lady Randolph Churchill. At a time when women had few freedoms, she was a cornerstone of high society and behind-the-scenes political dynamo. However it was Jennie's love life that marked her out, causing scandal and earning her the epithet 'more panther than woman'.
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Interesting but a bit of a slog.
- By Juliet on 18-03-21
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Jennie Churchill
- Winston's American Mother
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 04-12-08
- Language: English
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Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt
- By: Bob Brier, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Bob Brier
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall157
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Performance143
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Story141
What is it about ancient Egypt that still captures our imaginations? How did it grow from a few villages along the Nile into the greatest power the world had ever seen? Explore these questions and more in these 12 entertaining lectures that tell the stories of the great pharaohs and the daily realities of Egyptian life.
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Very enjoyable except....
- By Caro on 08-02-14
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Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt
- Narrated by: Bob Brier
- Series: The Great Courses: Ancient History
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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LBJ's 1968
- Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval
- By: Kyle Longley
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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Story14
1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kyle Longley leads his listeners on a behind-the-scenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the 'year of a continuous nightmare'. Longley explores how LBJ perceived the most significant events of 1968, including the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, and the violent Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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Nicely laid out and great depth of detail
- By Tom on 31-08-25
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LBJ's 1968
- Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-12-18
- Language: English
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The Blue Sweater
- Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
- By: Jacqueline Novogratz
- Narrated by: Jacqueline Novogratz
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance14
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Story15
The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty. It all started back home in Virginia, with the blue sweater, a gift that quickly became her prized possession - until the day she outgrew it and gave it away to Goodwill. Eleven years later in Africa, she spotted a young boy wearing that very sweater, with her name still on the tag inside.
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Best book I've listened too this year!!
- By Amazon Customer on 13-12-22
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The Blue Sweater
- Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
- Narrated by: Jacqueline Novogratz
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 10-12-10
- Language: English
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The Sun Rising
- 'A majestic account of the birth of an empire. Spectacularly good' PETER FRANKOPAN
- By: Anna Whitelock
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Bloomsbury presents The Sun Rising by Anna Whitelock, read by Alix Dunmore. A panoramic history of the arrival of the Stuarts, and how the reign of King James I saw England reach new corners of the globe 'A majestic, brilliant account of the birth of an empire. Spectacularly good' PETER...
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Quite wise, not such a fool
- By Mr I C Wilson on 17-04-26
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The Sun Rising
- 'A majestic account of the birth of an empire. Spectacularly good' PETER FRANKOPAN
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 24-04-25
- Language: English
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Sophia
- Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
- By: Anita Anand
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance28
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Story28
Bloomsbury presents Sophia by Anita Anand, read by Tania Rodrigues. **By the presenter of the hit podcast EMPIRE** 'Sophia is the sort of remarkable, almost unbelievable untold true story that every writer dreams of chancing upon. A wonderful debut, written with real spirit and gusto. Anita...
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Really enjoyed
- By adam on 25-06-23
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Sophia
- Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 20-10-22
- Language: English
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The Victorians
- Twelve Titans Who Forged Britain
- By: Jacob Rees-Mogg
- Narrated by: Jacob Rees-Mogg
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall96
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Performance84
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Story85
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Victorians, written and read by Jacob Rees-Mogg. They built a nation. Now it’s our turn. Many associate the Victorian era with austere social attitudes and filthy factories. But in this bold and provocative book, Jacob Rees-Mogg - leading Tory MP and prominent Brexit advocate - takes up the story of 12 landmark figures to paint a very different picture of the age: one of bright ambition, bold self-belief and determined industriousness.
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Poor narration and lack of contextual explanation
- By Amazon Customer on 15-06-19
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The Victorians
- Twelve Titans Who Forged Britain
- Narrated by: Jacob Rees-Mogg
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 23-05-19
- Language: English
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The Mirror of Great Britain
- A Life of James VI & I
- By: Clare Jackson
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
Brought to you by Penguin. A major reassessment of one of Britain’s most strange and fascinating kings, James I of England and VI of Scotland James VI & I, who died 400 years ago, was one of Britain’s most consequential and interesting monarchs, not least in creating the British monarchy...
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The Mirror of Great Britain
- A Life of James VI & I
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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Crown of Blood
- The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- By: Nicola Tallis
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance69
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Story70
'Good people, I am come hither to die and by a law I am condemned to the same.' These were the words uttered by 17-year-old Lady Jane Grey as she stood on the scaffold on a cold February morning in 1554. Forced on to the throne by power players at court, Queen Jane reigned for just 13 days before being imprisoned in the tower, condemned for high treason and executed.
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Absorbing and well read episode of Tudor history.
- By ColCam on 02-10-17
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Crown of Blood
- The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 18-09-17
- Language: English
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Young Queens
- The gripping, intertwined story of three queens, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
- By: Leah Redmond Chang
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance24
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Story24
Bloomsbury presents Young Queens by Leah Redmond Chang, read by Olivia Dowd. LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: HISTORY The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots –...
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Richly informative but ruined by the performance
- By Carol on 01-06-23
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Young Queens
- The gripping, intertwined story of three queens, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
- Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: English
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True Spirit
- The Aussie girl who took on the world
- By: Jessica Watson
- Narrated by: Jessica Watson
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance38
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Story38
There is something different about adventurers; about the way their minds work. They look at the world as a place of challenges and though they know what fear is, they refuse to be hindered by it. TRUE SPIRIT is Jessica's story and in it she will detail her preparation, her journey and her...
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Her story
- By Fran P on 18-08-25
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True Spirit
- The Aussie girl who took on the world
- Narrated by: Jessica Watson
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 03-10-15
- Language: English
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My Old Man
- A Personal History of Music Hall
- By: John Major
- Narrated by: Sir John Major, Roy Hudd OBE
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance10
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Story9
Former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, class-conscious, but always patriotic and on the side of...
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A detailed and throughly history told well with a dash of personal history
- By Amazon Customer on 11-08-24
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My Old Man
- A Personal History of Music Hall
- Narrated by: Sir John Major, Roy Hudd OBE
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 18-10-12
- Language: English
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Queens at War
- England's Medieval Queens, Book 4
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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The fifteenth century was a turbulent age: the Hundred Years War between England and France, and the Wars of the Roses dominated the lives of people both inside and out of the royal courts. Joan of Navarre, Katherine of Valois, Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Wydeville and Anne Neville were the queens who stood by England's sovereigns, caught up in wars that changed the course of their lives, and the course of history. They were also formidable women who defied the limitations of their times, often living out the brutal consequences of their determination.
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excellent conclusion to this series
- By kaykay on 24-02-26
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Queens at War
- England's Medieval Queens, Book 4
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Series: England's Medieval Queens, Book 4
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 19-09-25
- Language: English
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Lula!
- The Man, The Myth and a Dream of Latin America
- By: Richard Lapper
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents Lula!: The Man, The Myth and a Dream of Latin America by Richard Lapper read by David Thorpe Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s extraordinary career spans five decades. He has gone beyond ‘a Brazilian politician’ and become one of the most fascinating political operators of...
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Lula!
- The Man, The Myth and a Dream of Latin America
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 26-02-26
- Language: English
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Something Lost, Something Gained
- Reflections on Life, Love and Liberty
- By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance18
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CHOSEN BY WATERSTONES AS ONE OF THEIR BEST POLITICS BOOKS OF 2024 What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats...
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Awesome woman
- By Mrs. Snaylor on 04-05-26
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Something Lost, Something Gained
- Reflections on Life, Love and Liberty
- Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 17-09-24
- Language: English
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Embroidering Her Truth
- Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
- By: Clare Hunter
- Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance56
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An alternative biography of Mary, Queen of Scots through the textiles of her life from the author of Sunday Times bestseller Threads of Life. I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of the material world that...
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Fabulous
- By Mr Burgess on 25-08-22
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Embroidering Her Truth
- Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
- Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 17-03-22
- Language: English
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The Bodyguard
- By: Lee Sansum, Howard Linskey
- Narrated by: Karl Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall69
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Performance67
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This is the story of the real bodyguard, Lee Sansum, ex-Royal Military Policeman, martial arts champion, and expert in close protection. Part of Mohamed and Dodi Al-Fayed's protection team, Lee had to guard the most famous woman in the world, Princess Diana. He formed a close bond with Diana and...
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Not what I expected.
- By Andrew T. on 29-09-22
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The Bodyguard
- Narrated by: Karl Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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The Roman Emperor Aurelian
- Restorer of the World: New Revised Edition
- By: John F. White
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance5
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The ancient Sibylline prophecies had foretold that the Roman Empire would last for 1000 years. As the time for the expected dissolution approached in the middle of the third century AD, the empire was lapsing into chaos, with seemingly interminable civil wars over the imperial succession. The western empire had seceded under a rebel emperor and the eastern empire was controlled by another usurper. Barbarians took advantage of the anarchy to kill and plunder all over the provinces.
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Poorly read
- By L J Reinhardt on 01-12-24
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The Roman Emperor Aurelian
- Restorer of the World: New Revised Edition
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 28-11-23
- Language: English
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Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
- By: William T. Sherman
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 34 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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First published in 1875, General William T. Sherman's memoir was one of the first from the Civil War and was offered to the public because, as Sherman wrote in his dedication, "no satisfactory history" of the war was yet available. Although Memoirs has been revised and corrected many times over the years, Sherman famously never changed the original text of his recollections.
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the level of detail
- By Mike78 on 06-12-25
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Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 34 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 26-04-16
- Language: English
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger
- By: Christopher Hitchens, Ariel Dorfman - introduction
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall195
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Performance169
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"If the courts and lawyers of this country will not do their duty, we shall watch as the victims and survivors of this man pursue justice and vindication in their own dignified and painstaking way, and at their own expense, and we shall be put to shame." Forget Pinochet, Milosevic, Hussein, Kim Jong-il, or Gaddafi: America need look no further than its own lauded leaders for a war criminal whose offenses rival those of the most heinous dictators in recent history-Henry Kissinger.
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A compelling case that shames the USA
- By Product user on 09-01-13
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 12-11-12
- Language: English
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