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Freezing Order
- A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
- By: Bill Browder
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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When Browder’s young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail in 2009, Browder cast aside his business career and made it his life’s mission to pursue justice for Sergei. One of the first steps of that mission was to uncover who had killed Sergei and profited from the $230 million corruption scheme that he had exposed. As Browder and his team tracked the money that flowed out of Russia—through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the Americas—they discovered that Vladimir Putin himself was one of the beneficiaries of the crime.
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An incredible story which we should all read!
- By MIT OrrabaN on 18-05-22
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Freezing Order
- A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 12-04-22
- Language: English
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On Tyranny and On Ukraine
- Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
- By: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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In this exclusive audiobook edition, which includes eight hours of new content, Timothy Snyder combines the original On Tyranny (2017)—20 lessons on how history can instruct our response to the rise of tyranny around the world today—with 20 new lessons that answer the questions everyone is asking about Russia's war on Ukraine. With forays into history, he clarifies the causes of the Russian invasion and the meaning of Ukrainian resistance, and explains the war's connections to threats to democracy around the world.
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History making history
- By yeshua on 15-05-22
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On Tyranny and On Ukraine
- Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
- Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 05-05-22
- Language: English
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Persians
- The Age of the Great Kings
- By: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Narrated by: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
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Our understanding of the Persian Empire has traditionally come from the histories of Greek writers such as Herodotus—and as such, over many centuries, our perspective has been skewed by ancient political and cultural agendas. Professor Llewellyn-Jones, however, calls upon original Achaemenid sources, including inscriptions, art and recent archaeological discoveries in Iran, to create an authentic 'Persian Version' of this remarkable first great empire of antiquity—the Age of the Great Kings.
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Fascinating new history of ancient Persia
- By HistoryLover on 01-05-22
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Persians
- The Age of the Great Kings
- Narrated by: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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Extreme Ownership
- How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
- By: Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
- Narrated by: Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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An updated edition of the blockbuster best-selling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two US Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life.
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American bull crap
- By martin on 14-11-19
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Extreme Ownership
- How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
- Narrated by: Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
- Series: Extreme Ownership
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 19-10-15
- Language: English
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the best-selling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Now, in Homo Deus, he examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy and every discipline in between. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the 21st century - from overcoming death to creating artificial life.
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Full of "wow, I never thought of it like that!"
- By david on 17-03-17
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Series: Sapiens
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 08-09-16
- Language: English
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Harrier
- How to Be a Fighter Pilot
- By: Paul Tremelling
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Paul Tremelling was just seven years old when he watched the Royal Navy's Sea Harriers leave their home base in Somerset to do battle against the Argentine Air Force in the Falklands War. Two decades later, he would join this exclusive club, one of an elite band of Fleet Air Arm fighter pilots, charged with standing in the way of Her Majesty's enemies. This is the story of what it takes to make it in the dog-eat-dog arena of fighter combat. In the cockpit or crew room, the pressure is relentless, the humour merciless. It's no place for the faint-hearted.
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Outstanding
- By Harry Benson on 18-05-22
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Harrier
- How to Be a Fighter Pilot
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-04-22
- Language: English
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Tremors in the Blood
- Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
- By: Amit Katwala
- Narrated by: Matt Reeves
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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John Larson, Gus Vollmer and Leonarde Keeler hoped the lie detector would make the justice system fairer—but the flawed device soon grew too powerful for them to control. It poisoned their lives, turned fast friends into bitter enemies and as it conquered America and the world, it transformed our relationship with the truth in ways that are still being felt.
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Tremors in the Blood
- Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
- Narrated by: Matt Reeves
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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Operation Mincemeat
- The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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April, 1943: A sardine fisherman spots the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and sets off a train of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted, and the strangest. This is the true story of the most extraordinary deception ever planned by Churchill’s spies: an outrageous lie that travelled from a Whitehall basement all the way to Hitler’s desk.
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Fascinating
- By Robyn on 28-02-17
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Operation Mincemeat
- The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 19-07-10
- Language: English
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Sapiens
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us sapiens? In this bold and provocative audiobook, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here, and where we're going.
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Simplistic nonsense
- By RTx on 14-07-19
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Sapiens
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Series: Sapiens
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 30-04-15
- Language: English
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Collapse
- The Fall of the Soviet Union
- By: Vladislav M. Zubok
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 23 hrs and 50 mins
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In 1945, the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong, 5,000 nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward, the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the 20th century.
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Heavy going, but ultimately worth the effort
- By Mrs. G. Moynihan on 22-05-22
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Collapse
- The Fall of the Soviet Union
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 23 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 30-11-21
- Language: English
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A Short History of England
- By: Simon Jenkins
- Narrated by: Simon Jenkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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A Short History of England sheds light on all the key individuals and events, bringing them together in an enlightening and engaging account of the country's birth, rise to global prominence and then partial eclipse. There have been long synoptic histories of England, but until now there has been no standard short work covering all significant events, themes and individuals.
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A Short History of England
- Narrated by: Simon Jenkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 06-01-22
- Language: English
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The Choice
- Embrace the Possible
- By: Edith Eger
- Narrated by: Edith Eger, Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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In 1944, 16-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimaginable experiences, including being made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. Over the coming months, Edith's bravery helped her sister to survive and led to her bunkmates rescuing her during a death march. When their camp was finally liberated, Edith was pulled from a pile of bodies, barely alive. In The Choice, Dr Edith Eger shares her experience of the Holocaust and the remarkable stories of those she has helped since.
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Nothing short of extraordinary-10stars...100stars!
- By Kathy on 27-09-17
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The Choice
- Embrace the Possible
- Narrated by: Edith Eger, Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 07-09-17
- Language: English
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.
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An enjoyable hagiography(?)
- By Nik Jewell on 16-05-18
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-02-10
- Language: English
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Phoenix Squadron
- HMS Ark Royal, Britain's Last Topguns and the Untold Story of Their Most Dramatic Mission
- By: Rowland White
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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January 1972: the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battle-hardened, US-trained Guatemalan paratroopers. Britain's response must be immediate and decisive. But there is only one deterrent the government can offer: HMS Ark Royal, once the navy's most powerful warship, now a white elephant on the verge of being scrapped. To save the small colony, she must launch a pair of Buccaneer fighter bombers on an unprecedented long-range mission. But first the old carrier must make a high-speed 1,500-mile dash across the Atlantic.
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I very much enjoy Rowland White’s writing but…
- By JohnC on 21-05-22
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Phoenix Squadron
- HMS Ark Royal, Britain's Last Topguns and the Untold Story of Their Most Dramatic Mission
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Series: Rowland White, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-05-22
- Language: English
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Debt - Updated and Expanded
- The First 5,000 Years
- By: David Graeber
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
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Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods - that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
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Hmmmmmmm. Interesting.
- By Mr on 13-11-19
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Debt - Updated and Expanded
- The First 5,000 Years
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 15-09-15
- Language: English
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The Beginning of Infinity
- Explanations That Transform the World
- By: David Deutsch
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 20 hrs
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A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe.
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Interesting, complex and sometimes flawed!
- By Jim Vaughan on 11-10-12
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The Beginning of Infinity
- Explanations That Transform the World
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release date: 18-08-11
- Language: English
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Chavs
- The Demonization of the Working Class
- By: Owen Jones
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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In this acclaimed investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from 'salt of the earth' to 'scum of the earth.' Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the chav caricature, he portrays a far more complex reality. The chav stereotype, he argues, is used by governments as a convenient fig leaf to avoid genuine engagement with social and economic problems and to justify widening inequality.
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Thought provoking, but lacks substance.
- By Tom on 23-01-20
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Chavs
- The Demonization of the Working Class
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 30-03-17
- Language: English
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Goose Green
- The decisive battle of the Falklands War – by the British troops who fought it
- By: Nigel Ely
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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This is a true story of a great victory against all the odds. Forty years on, Goose Green is still the biggest, bloodiest battle the British Army has fought in modern times. In chronological order and in their own voices, the author has compiled a living narrative of the battle by the men who fought it: the men of 2 Para, the SAS, the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy, and others, in more than 100 exclusive and untold personal accounts.
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Superb telling of the battle story.
- By Psaronius on 12-05-22
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Goose Green
- The decisive battle of the Falklands War – by the British troops who fought it
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 17-02-22
- Language: English
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.
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The definitive Audible purchase
- By Jim on 22-01-14
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 18-01-11
- Language: English
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Typhoon
- By: Mike Sutton
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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The Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 is the most advanced multi-role combat aircraft in the world. Capable of flying at nearly twice the speed of sound and powering to a height of more than 10 miles in less time than it takes to boil a kettle, a single Typhoon can also deliver a heavy bombload with such lethal precision that a whole squadron of Lancasters could not have guaranteed the same result.
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Insightfull, informative, exciting story
- By Dovydas on 31-12-21
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Typhoon
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 25-11-21
- Language: English
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