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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
- A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
- By: Ian Mortimer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,687
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Performance2,098
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Story2,083
Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? And what are you going to eat? Ian Mortimer shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived. He sets out to explain what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking you to the Middle Ages. The result is the most astonishing social history book you are ever likely to read: evolutionary in its concept, informative and entertaining in its detail.
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Totally unputdownable - recommend 100%
- By Heather on 24-02-11
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
- A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Series: Time Traveler’s Guides
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 13-04-09
- Language: English
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Blood, Iron, and Gold
- How the Railways Transformed the World
- By: Christian Wolmar
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance33
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Story33
Blood, Iron, and Gold reveals the huge impact of the railways as they spread rapidly across the world, linking cities that had hitherto been isolated, stimulating both economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. From Panama to the Punjab, Christian Wolmar describes the vision and determination of the pioneers who developed railways that would one day span continents, as well as the labour of the navvies who built this global network.
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Fascinating, but maybe too broad
- By Mr. Adrian Mcmenamin on 23-12-12
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Blood, Iron, and Gold
- How the Railways Transformed the World
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 18-02-10
- Language: English
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Sissinghurst
- An Unfinished History
- By: Adam Nicolson
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance14
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Story15
Sissinghurst is world famous as a place of beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of an Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its creators intended? Adam Nicolson has uncovered remarkable new findings about its history as a medieval manor and on to the creation, by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, of a garden in a weed-strewn wreck.
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interesting but idealistic
- By Mr. P. Buggs on 22-02-11
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Sissinghurst
- An Unfinished History
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 09-06-09
- Language: English
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Medic
- Saving Lives from Dunkirk to Afghanistan
- By: John Nichol, Eleo Gordon, Tony Rennell
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall68
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Performance55
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Story54
Doctors, nurses, medics and stretcher-bearers must venture wherever someone is injured and the cry for assistance goes up. Their job is to put themselves in the heart of danger – to risk their own lives as they try to save the dying. War at its rawest is their domain, an ugly place of shattered bodies, severed limbs and death. They fulfil society’s vital pledge to its warriors that they will not be abandoned on the battlefield. Yet, more often than not, what they do goes unnoticed – except by those who survive because of their extraordinary courage and skill.
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Brilliant
- By Ian on 02-08-10
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Medic
- Saving Lives from Dunkirk to Afghanistan
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 11-05-10
- Language: English
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Fire & Steam
- A New History of the Railways in Britain
- By: Christian Wolmar
- Narrated by: Christian Wolmar
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall142
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Performance102
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Story100
The opening of the pioneering Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the railway network's vital role in changing the face of Britain. Fire & Steam celebrates the vision of the ambitious Victorian pioneers who developed this revolutionary transport system and the navvies who cut through the land to enable a country-wide railway to emerge.
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Fascinating & Compelling
- By Neil on 11-04-09
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Fire & Steam
- A New History of the Railways in Britain
- Narrated by: Christian Wolmar
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 12-08-08
- Language: English
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Ground Truth
- 3 Para Return to Afghanistan
- By: Patrick Bishop
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance25
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Story25
In April 2006 the elite 3 Para Battle Group was despatched to Helmand Province on a tour that has become a legend. All that summer the Paras were subjected to relentless attacks. Two years later the Paras are back. The enemy has been forced to adopt new weaponry and tactics. But how much progress are we really making in the war against the insurgents? And is there an end in sight? In this searing account of 3 Para's return,
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Another excellent book
- By LEE T. on 19-11-21
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Ground Truth
- 3 Para Return to Afghanistan
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 18-12-09
- Language: English
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Shadow of the Silk Road
- By: Colin Thubron
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall141
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Performance89
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Story88
Out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across Northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron undertakes a journey along the greatest land route on earth: the Silk Road. Travelling 7,000 miles in eight months, he traces the passage not only of trade and armies, but of ideas, religions and inventions.
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Another world
- By Peter on 14-10-07
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Shadow of the Silk Road
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-08-07
- Language: English
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Monuments Men
- Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
- By: Robert M. Edsel
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall78
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Performance69
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Story71
As Hitler was attempting to conquer the western world, his armies were methodically pillaging the finest art in Europe, from Michelangelos to Vermeers, all stolen for the Führer. The Monuments Men had a mandate from President Roosevelt to find these artworks, but no vehicles, typewriters, or authority. In a race against time to save the world’s greatest cultural treasures from destruction at the hands of Nazi fanatics, each man constructed his own treasure map....
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Soon to be a movie
- By Ms. R. Daniel on 13-04-13
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Monuments Men
- Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 14-06-10
- Language: English
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Return to Akenfield
- Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century
- By: Craig Taylor
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance6
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Story6
Thirty-five years after the publication of Ronald Blythe's classic portrait of an English village, Akenfield, Craig Taylor returned to the Suffolk village on which the book was based. He sought out locals who appeared in the original book to learn how their lives had changed, met newcomers, and interviewed Ronald Blythe himself.
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Uncomfortable
- By K. Logan on 02-04-24
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Return to Akenfield
- Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 15-08-07
- Language: English
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Cleopatra and Antony
- By: Diana Preston
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance11
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Story11
After Julius Caesar's murder, his mistress Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, fled to Alexandria where she gave birth to their son. Civil war broke out in Rome, and Mark Antony, Caesar's friend, was given control over the East. Summoned to his headquarters, Cleopatra made her entry at dusk on a scented, candle-lit barge: and so began one of the greatest love stories of all time.
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Fascinating!
- By Lianne on 21-09-09
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Cleopatra and Antony
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 10-12-08
- Language: English
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The Pattern in the Carpet
- By: Margaret Drabble
- Narrated by: Diana Bishop
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance4
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Story5
In The Pattern in the Carpet, Margaret Drabble tells the history of the jigsaw, a uniquely British form of meditation, from its earliest incarnation as a teaching tool to the extraordinary variety of cut-outs that have continued to amuse children and adults until the present.
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Clever but dry
- By Hilary on 17-05-23
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The Pattern in the Carpet
- Narrated by: Diana Bishop
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 24-11-09
- Language: English
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Friends and Romans
- On the Run in Wartime Italy
- By: John Miller
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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With a single daring leap from an Italian train carrying prisoners of war, John Miller jumped out of the war of soldiers and into the war as lived by Italian civilians - many of whom risked their lives to help him. The year was 1943 and Captain Miller had been in captivity for over a year. Italian anti-fascists harboured and fed him, first in a remote mountain village, then in Rome itself.
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Friends and Romans
- On the Run in Wartime Italy
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 12-05-09
- Language: English
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