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Citizen Soldiers
- By: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: George K. Wilson
- Length: 21 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance71
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Story68
From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II. In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues...
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Excellent
- By Phil on 07-02-16
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Citizen Soldiers
- Narrated by: George K. Wilson
- Length: 21 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 24-01-11
- Language: English
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The Fall
- Last Days of the English Republic
- By: Henry Reece
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivaled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of Englishmen faced each other across the Scottish border; and the Long Parliament was finally dissolved after two decades. Why was this period so turbulent, and why did the republic, backed by a formidable standing army, come crashing down in such spectacular fashion?
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Good facts on little part of English history
- By Anonymous on 30-05-25
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The Fall
- Last Days of the English Republic
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 18-06-24
- Language: English
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
- The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny
- By: Ai Weiwei
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance45
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Story45
In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet. Hailed as 'the most important artist working today' by the Financial Times and as 'an eloquent and unsilenceable voice of freedom' by the New York Times, Ai Weiwei has written a sweeping memoir that presents a remarkable history of China over the last 100 years while illuminating his artistic process.
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Fascinating account of family, artists and China
- By JudiH on 11-11-21
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
- The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 02-11-21
- Language: English
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Spymaster
- Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
- By: Tennent H. Bagley
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall81
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Performance73
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Story73
From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia’s notorious KGB espionage apparatus. Rising through its ranks through hard work and keen understanding of how the spy and political games are played, he “handled” American and British defectors, recruited Western operatives as double agents, served as a ranking officer at the East Berlin and Vienna KGB bureaus, and tackled special assignments from the Kremlin.
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Not good enough narration
- By Dan on 15-12-21
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Spymaster
- Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 06-11-13
- Language: English
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The Sisters of Auschwitz
- The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
- By: Roxane van Iperen
- Narrated by: Susan Hoffman
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance80
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Story79
It is 1940, and the Final Solution is about to begin. The Nazis have occupied The Netherlands, but resistance is growing and two Jewish sisters - Janny and Lien Brilleslijper - are risking their lives to save those being hunted, through their clandestine safehouse 'The High Nest'. It becomes one of the most important safehouses in the country, but when the house and its occupants are betrayed, the most terrifying time of the sisters' lives begins. This is the beginning of the end.
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Is Auschwitz not Aus-witch
- By Anonymous on 11-11-20
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The Sisters of Auschwitz
- The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
- Narrated by: Susan Hoffman
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 21-11-19
- Language: English
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Unspeakable
- The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography
- By: John Bercow
- Narrated by: John Bercow
- Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall303
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Performance250
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Story249
When John Bercow retired as Speaker of the House of Commons on 31 October 2019, he had become one of the most recognisable and iconoclastic figures in British politics, occupying a ringside seat during one of the most febrile periods in modern British history. In his no-holds-barred memoir, he...
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Pompous
- By Adrienne on 17-02-20
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Unspeakable
- The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography
- Narrated by: John Bercow
- Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-02-20
- Language: English
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The Grand Tour
- Letters from the British Empire Expedition 1922
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie’s extensive and evocative letters from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition. In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a...
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The Grand Tour
- Letters from the British Empire Expedition 1922
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 23-06-22
- Language: English
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Liquid Rules
- The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
- By: Mark Miodownik
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance34
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Story34
We all know that without water we couldn't survive, and that sometimes a cup of coffee or a glass of wine feels just as vital. But do we really understand how much we rely on liquids, or the destructive power they hold? Set over the course of a flight from London to San Francisco, Liquid Rules offers listeners a fascinating tour of these formless substances, told through the language of molecules, droplets, heartbeats, and ocean waves.
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All mixed up
- By andrew beeston on 19-03-21
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Liquid Rules
- The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 19-02-19
- Language: English
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Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It
- By: Craig Taylor
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Stephen Crossley, Sartaj Garewell, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall98
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Performance83
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Story83
Here are the voices of London - rich and poor, native and immigrant, women and men. From the woman whose voice announces the stations on the London Underground to the man who plants the trees along Oxford Street; from a Pakistani currency trader to a Guardsman at Buckingham Palace - together, these voices paint a vivid, epic and wholly fresh portrait of 21st Century London.
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Distractingly random
- By Dr Caterpillar on 10-01-15
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Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck, Stephen Crossley, Sartaj Garewell, Jo Hall, Robert Slade, Various
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 04-10-12
- Language: English
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The Terror Years
- From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer, Lawrence Wright
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall78
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Performance69
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Story70
With the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken...
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Yawn!
- By Stu F on 14-12-19
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The Terror Years
- From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer, Lawrence Wright
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 23-08-16
- Language: English
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Why Nations Succeed or Fail
- By: Ray Dalio
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance6
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD “A provocative read...There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history that can be applied to...
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Good fundamentals
- By Kiran on 07-01-24
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Why Nations Succeed or Fail
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb, Ray Dalio
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 30-11-21
- Language: English
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The Big Hop
- The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into the Future
- By: David Rooney
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Brought to you by Penguin. A non-stop flight across the Atlantic might seem routine today. But it is only possible because of those who went first. Newfoundland, 1919. Buffeted by winds, an unwieldy aircraft struggled to take to the air. Cramped side by side in its open cockpit were two men...
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Thrilling adventure
- By G. E. Downie on 21-07-25
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The Big Hop
- The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into the Future
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 12-06-25
- Language: English
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Charles I (Penguin Monarchs)
- An Abbreviated Life
- By: Mark Kishlansky
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Charles I: An Abbreviated Life by Mark Kishlansky, read by John Sackville. The tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself apart over a deadly, entangled series of...
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Brilliant from start to finish
- By michael Billington on 25-06-22
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Charles I (Penguin Monarchs)
- An Abbreviated Life
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Series: Penguin Monarchs
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-06-18
- Language: English
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A Little History of the United States
- By: James West Davidson
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall102
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Performance87
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Story87
How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson's vividly told A Little History of the United States.
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Another great piece of little history
- By redngreen on 06-12-22
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A Little History of the United States
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Series: Little Histories Series
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 15-09-15
- Language: English
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Five Chimneys
- A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz
- By: Olga Lengyel
- Narrated by: Jennifer Wydra
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall171
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Performance148
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Story150
Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization.
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A honest account of events
- By carol breeze on 13-01-19
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Five Chimneys
- A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz
- Narrated by: Jennifer Wydra
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 08-01-19
- Language: English
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The Cut Out Girl
- A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award
- By: Bart van Es
- Narrated by: Bart van Es
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall296
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Performance264
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Story263
*** WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 *** WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Cut Out Girl written and read by Bart van Es. 'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard 'Superb. This is a necessary book -...
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A compelling listening and revelatory account.
- By Amazon Customer on 09-08-18
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The Cut Out Girl
- A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award
- Narrated by: Bart van Es
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 02-08-18
- Language: English
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Target Tirpitz
- X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters - The Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler’s Mightiest Warship
- By: Patrick Bishop
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall88
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Performance64
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Target Tirpitz is gripping WW2 storytelling at its best and a return to the RAF territory of Patrick Bishop’s bestselling Bomber Boys and Fighter Boys. The Tirpitz, Hitler’s greatest weapon, was reputed to be unsinkable and the battleship inflamed an Allied obsession: to destroy her at any...
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Superb .... Buy it now!
- By Ali on 09-12-12
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Target Tirpitz
- X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters - The Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler’s Mightiest Warship
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 02-02-12
- Language: English
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Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders
- Enforcing Abolition at Sea, 1808–1898
- By: Bernard Edwards
- Narrated by: Kevin Hanssen
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance5
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On 16 March 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. In the following year the Royal Navy's African Squadron was formed, its mission to stop and search ships at sea suspected of carrying slaves from Africa to the Americas and the Middle East. With typical thoroughness, the Royal Navy went further, and took the fight to the enemy, sailing boldly up uncharted rivers and creeks to attack the barracoons where the slaves were assembled ready for shipment.
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A brilliant narration
- By M A HYDE on 11-08-24
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Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders
- Enforcing Abolition at Sea, 1808–1898
- Narrated by: Kevin Hanssen
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 09-07-24
- Language: English
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The Many-Headed Hydra
- Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
- By: Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker
- Narrated by: Cornell Womack
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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Winner of the International Labor History Award Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever change history. The...
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Simply brilliant.
- By Howard on 05-11-24
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The Many-Headed Hydra
- Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
- Narrated by: Cornell Womack
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 05-04-22
- Language: English
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In the Midst of Civilized Europe
- The 1918–1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust
- By: Jeffrey Veidlinger
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a defining moment of the twentieth century...
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Powerful & harrowing account of forgotten pogroms!
- By Kevin Leigh on 10-12-22
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In the Midst of Civilized Europe
- The 1918–1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-11-21
- Language: English
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