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Mary Boleyn
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall199
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Performance158
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Story156
Mary Boleyn was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife. In this astonishing and riveting biography, Alison Weir’s extensive research gives a new and detailed portrayal, in which she recounts that, contrary to popular belief, Mary was entirely undeserving of her posthumous notoriety as a great whore.
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Scholarly biography
- By Kirstine on 18-02-12
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Mary Boleyn
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 14-11-11
- Language: English
- Great Britain · Europe · England
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Meetings With Remarkable Animals
- By: Martin Clunes
- Narrated by: Martin Clunes
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance42
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Story42
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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What beautiful stories!
- By Babs on 19-02-25
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Meetings With Remarkable Animals
- Narrated by: Martin Clunes
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
- Animals · Biological Sciences · Dogs
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Stick a Flag in It
- 1,000 Years of Bizarre History from Britain and Beyond
- By: Arran Lomas
- Narrated by: Arran Lomas
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall467
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Performance416
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Story414
From the Norman Invasion in 1066 to the eve of the First World War, Stick a Flag in It is a thousand-year jocular journey through the history of Britain and its global empire. Forget what you were taught in school - this is history like you’ve never heard it before, full of captivating historical quirks that will make you laugh out loud and scratch your head in disbelief.
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Brilliant
- By Jamie on 12-10-20
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Stick a Flag in It
- 1,000 Years of Bizarre History from Britain and Beyond
- Narrated by: Arran Lomas
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 12-10-20
- Language: English
- England · Europe · Great Britain
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A History of Britain: Volume 2
- By: Simon Schama
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall877
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Performance753
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Story750
The British wars began on the morning of 23 July 1637, heralding 200 years of battles. Most were driven by religious or political conviction, as Republicans and Royalists, Catholics and Protestants, Tories and Whigs, and colonialists and natives vied for supremacy. Of the battles not fought on home territory, many took place across Europe, America, India, and also at sea. Schama's examination of this turbulent period reveals how the British people eventually united in imperial enterprise, forming 'Britannia Incorporated'.
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Excellent, engaging but lots to remember
- By Roderic on 12-11-14
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A History of Britain: Volume 2
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Series: A History of Britain, Book 2
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 06-09-12
- Language: English
- Great Britain · Europe · England
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Bletchley Park and D-Day
- By: David Kenyon
- Narrated by: Greg Patmore
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall83
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Performance77
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Story77
Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis' codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelligence workers were then involved in making crucial information available to the Allied leaders and commanders who desperately needed it.
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If you like detail, this is your book
- By Guillermo on 24-08-19
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Bletchley Park and D-Day
- Narrated by: Greg Patmore
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 16-07-19
- Language: English
- Great Britain · 20th Century · England
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Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee: An Epically Short History of Our Kings and Queens
- An Epically Short History of Our Kings and Queens
- By: Charlie Higson, Jim Moir
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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Story14
A Waterstones Best History Book 2025 A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2025 ‘Learned, entertaining and highly approachable’ BOB MORTIMER ‘A treat’ ALICE LOXTON ‘Five stars from me…’ AL MURRAY An unmissable collaboration between two comedy legends – an irresistible...
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Excellent,succinct summary of our history
- By GodfreyGerald on 08-12-25
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Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee: An Epically Short History of Our Kings and Queens
- An Epically Short History of Our Kings and Queens
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 09-10-25
- Language: English
- Monarchy · Europe · Great Britain
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Dr. Johnson's London
- By: Liza Picard
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Abridged
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Overall55
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Performance33
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Story33
Like its popular and acclaimed predecessor, Restoration London, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of the everyday life of our ancestors, so often ignored in more conventional history books.
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Too short. Really impressive detail and research
- By Amazon Customer on 11-03-15
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Dr. Johnson's London
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 09-10-07
- Language: English
- Great Britain · Europe · England
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Evacuated
- The Wartime Children Who Never Came Home
- By: Cyril Marlen
- Narrated by: Jane Charles
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance37
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Story37
War is often remembered through the lens of soldiers, battles, and political leaders, but one of its most enduring human stories belongs to those too young to fight—the children. At the outbreak of the Second World War, governments across Europe launched evacuation programmes designed to protect their youngest citizens from the horrors of modern warfare. Operation Pied Piper in Britain uprooted nearly 1.5 million people in just a few days, most of them children carrying gas masks and small suitcases, their names tied to their coats like parcels.
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Shows the Long Shadow of Childhood Trauma
- By Emily Wade on 25-01-26
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Evacuated
- The Wartime Children Who Never Came Home
- Narrated by: Jane Charles
- Series: Everything World War 2 - WWII, Book 20
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 06-10-25
- Language: English
- War · Europe · Great Britain
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Black Gold
- The History of How Coal Made Britain
- By: Jeremy Paxman
- Narrated by: Jeremy Paxman
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall207
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Performance187
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Story187
Coal mining in the UK dates back to Roman times, but in the 21st century, has practically disappeared. In this history, Jeremy Paxman charts our vital relationship with coal and all the extraordinary change it has fuelled. Told through the stories of real people, Paxman travels the regions of the UK where communities were built around coal, to the industrial revolution, to the beginnings of time and coal’s geological formation, to the great tragedies such as Aberfan, and to the picket lines of the miners’ strike.
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Poorly Edited
- By Helpless on 03-11-21
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Black Gold
- The History of How Coal Made Britain
- Narrated by: Jeremy Paxman
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 30-09-21
- Language: English
- Great Britain · Europe · Natural Resources
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In Search of the Dark Ages
- By: Michael Wood
- Narrated by: Marston York
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall164
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Performance142
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Story142
Brought to you by Penguin. In Search of the Dark Ages is an unrivalled exploration of the origins of English identity, and the bestselling book that established Michael Wood as one of Britain's leading historians. Now, on the book's 40th anniversary, this fully revised and expanded edition...
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Appaling production
- By Daearegydd on 04-09-22
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In Search of the Dark Ages
- Narrated by: Marston York
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 11-08-22
- Language: English
- Great Britain · Europe · England
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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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Performance1
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of 2018 One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018 One of The New York Times’s Notable Books of 2018 “Unarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill . . . A brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in...
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Churchill
- Walking with Destiny
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 50 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 06-11-18
- Language: English
- Europe · Great Britain · Historical
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Isabella
- She-Wolf of France
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 21 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall302
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Performance230
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Story232
Here is the first full-length biography of a much maligned but astonishingly colourful Queen of England. In Newgate Street, in the city of London, stand the meagre ruins of Christ Church. On the same site once stood a royal mausoleum set to rival Westminster Abbey in the 14th century. Among the many crowned heads buried there was Isabella of France, Edward II's queen - one of the most notorious femme fatales in history. But how did she acquire her evil reputation? And is it justified?
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Excellent Historical Work
- By Gregory on 18-02-11
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Isabella
- She-Wolf of France
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 21 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 18-01-07
- Language: English
- Great Britain · Europe · England
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This Golden Fleece
- A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History
- By: Esther Rutter
- Narrated by: Esther Rutter
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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In This Golden Fleece, Esther’s unwavering fascination with this humble material takes her on an enchanting journey across the British landscape, as she unveils exactly how wool has shaped the island’s people, economy and imagination. From Fair Isle, Yorkshire, the Cotswolds and beyond, she explores the forgotten traditions, trade secrets and steadfast communities all shaped by this unique fibre. With warmth and curiosity, Esther cleverly gathers the threads that connect us to the past and each other, detailing the why, how and who behind this ancient craft.
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This Golden Fleece
- A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History
- Narrated by: Esther Rutter
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 11-12-25
- Language: English
- Crafts & Hobbies · Europe · Great Britain
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Return of a King
- The Battle for Afghanistan
- By: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sagar Arya
- Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall113
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Performance95
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Story96
In the spring of 1839, Britain invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But after two years of occupation, the Afghan people rose in answer to the call for jihad and the country exploded into violent rebellion. The First Anglo-Afghan War ended in Britain's greatest military humiliation of the 19th century.
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Excellent and Well Researched
- By A. J. Taylor on 12-05-21
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Return of a King
- The Battle for Afghanistan
- Narrated by: Sagar Arya
- Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 31-03-21
- Language: English
- Great Britain · Europe · Middle East
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The Blitz: The British Under Attack
- The British Under Attack
- By: Juliet Gardiner
- Narrated by: Catherine Harvey
- Length: 17 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall71
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Performance57
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Story57
From the author of ‘Wartime’ and ‘The Thirties’comes an outstanding history of the most prolonged and devastating attack ever endured by Britain's civilian population – the Blitz. September 1940 marked the beginning of Nazi Germany's sustained attack on civilian Britain. Lasting eight...
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An avalanche of information
- By R. Fowler on 02-06-11
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The Blitz: The British Under Attack
- The British Under Attack
- Narrated by: Catherine Harvey
- Length: 17 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 31-03-11
- Language: English
- War · Civilization · Europe
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The Making of Modern Britain
- By: Andrew Marr
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall158
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Performance136
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Story135
In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation...
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Wonderful and informative
- By A. Curtis on 18-09-17
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The Making of Modern Britain
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 06-10-16
- Language: English
- War · 19th Century · Imperialism
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Get In
- The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer
- By: Patrick Maguire, Gabriel Pogrund
- Length: 20 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall116
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Performance104
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Story104
Brought to you by Penguin. Get In is the definitive behind-the-scenes account of Labour’s brutal reinvention and dramatic return to power under Keir Starmer. From electoral wipeout in 2019 to landslide victory in 2024 and on into Labour’s first hundred days in government, Get In is a...
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Inside scoop, much known on the outside
- By Mr J on 16-02-25
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Get In
- The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer
- Length: 20 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 13-02-25
- Language: English
- Europe · Great Britain · Politicians
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Killers of the King
- The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
- By: Charles Spencer
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall82
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Performance73
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Story73
January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain’s history, Parliament faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king who refused to surrender? Parliamentarians resolved to do the unthinkable, to disregard the Divine Right of Kings and hold Charles I to account for the suffering and slaughter endured by his people. On a winter’s day outside Whitehall, the king of England was executed. When the king’s son, Charles II, was restored to the throne, he set about enacting a deadly wave of retribution against all those responsible for his father’s death.
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Entertaining summary and account of the Cromwell regime
- By Amazon Customer on 06-06-22
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Killers of the King
- The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 11-11-21
- Language: English
- Great Britain · 17th Century · Europe
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The Templars
- The Secret History Revealed
- By: Barbara Frale
- Narrated by: Kate Udall
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance53
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Story53
At its height, the Order of the Knights Templar rivaled the kingdoms of Europe in military might, economic power, and political influence. For 700 years the tragic demise of this society of warrior-monks amid accusations of heresy has been plagued by controversy, in part because the transcript of their trial by the Inquisition - which held the key to the truth - had vanished.Templar historian Barbara Frale happened to be studying a document at the Vatican Secret Archives when she suddenly realized that it was none other than the long-lost transcript!
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Very disappointing
- By Viv on 18-04-23
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The Templars
- The Secret History Revealed
- Narrated by: Kate Udall
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 17-03-14
- Language: English
- Great Britain · Christianity · War
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The Yompers
- With 45 Commando in the Falklands War
- By: Ian Gardiner
- Narrated by: Ian Gardiner
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Called to action on 2 April 1982, the men of 45 Commando Royal Marines assembled from around the world to sail 8,000 miles to recover the Falkland Islands from Argentine invasion. Lacking helicopters and short of food, they ‘yomped’ in appalling weather carrying overloaded rucksacks, across the roughest terrain. Yet for a month in mid-winter, they remained a cohesive fighting-fit body of men. They then fought and won the highly successful and fierce night battle for Two Sisters, a 1,000 foot high mountain which was the key to the defensive positions around Stanley.
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The Yompers
- With 45 Commando in the Falklands War
- Narrated by: Ian Gardiner
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
- War · 20th Century · Americas
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