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Weimar Germany
- Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition
- By: Eric D. Weitz
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance29
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Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the 20th century - one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex period deserves, and he illuminates the uniquely progressive achievements and even greater promise of the Weimar Republic. Weimar Germany also shows that beneath its glossy veneer lay political turmoil that ultimately led to the demise of the republic and the rise of the radical right.
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Enlightening
- By Shameem on 14-07-23
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Weimar Germany
- Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 22-09-20
- Language: English
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Not Quite Paradise
- An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka
- By: Adele Barker
- Narrated by: Adele Barker
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance24
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A chronicle of life on the resplendent island. Adele Barker and her son, Noah, settled into the central highlands of Sri Lanka for an 18-month sojourn, immersing themselves in the customs, cultures, and landscapes of the island: its elephants, birds, and monkeys; its hot curries and sweet mangoes; the cacophony of its markets; the resonant evening chants from its temples. When, having returned home to Tucson, Barker awakes on December 26, 2004, to see televised images of the island's southern shore disappearing into the ocean, she decides she must go back.
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Sojourn in Serendipity?
- By Adisha on 24-12-12
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Not Quite Paradise
- An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka
- Narrated by: Adele Barker
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 17-08-11
- Language: English
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The Night They Stopped the Mail
- Ten Truths, Ten Myths, and the Real Story of the 1963 Heist
- By: Rowan Hale
- Narrated by: Michelle Peitz
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is one of those rare events that never truly leaves the public imagination. It wasn’t only the money, though the amount was staggering. It wasn’t only the audacity, though the plan was bold enough to feel unreal. It was the way the crime unfolded like a scene from a film, in the quiet countryside, under the cover of darkness, with a nation waking up to the fact that something extraordinary had happened to something they assumed was untouchable.
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The Night They Stopped the Mail
- Ten Truths, Ten Myths, and the Real Story of the 1963 Heist
- Narrated by: Michelle Peitz
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 03-02-26
- Language: English
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NATO
- From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World's Most Powerful Alliance
- By: Sten Rynning
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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For seven decades, NATO's stated aim has been the achievement of world peace—but playing great power politics always involves conflict. Russia's war on Ukraine and on Europe's security order puts the alliance under threat, but also demonstrates why transatlantic cooperation is so necessary. But how did NATO get to where it is today, and what does its future hold?
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NATO
- From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World's Most Powerful Alliance
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 04-06-24
- Language: English
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Pride and Fall
- The British Army in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
- By: Sergio Miller
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 24 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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On 11 September 2001 19 al-Qaeda-inspired jihadists hijacked four aircraft and mounted the deadliest terrorist attack in history. The outrage triggered a chain of events that saw British forces drawn into a lengthy military campaign against a fierce insurgency in Afghanistan. Sergio Miller served in Defence Intelligence in Whitehall throughout the campaign, and Pride and Fall answers the many questions surrounding the conflict. Based on abundant open-source material generated by the war and first-hand testimonies, this is the story of the men and women who served.
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Uncomfortable Truths, and an Odd Revelation…
- By Tristan on 07-01-26
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Pride and Fall
- The British Army in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 24 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 24-10-24
- Language: English
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The Thirty-Year Genocide
- Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924
- By: Benny Morris, Dror Ze'evi, Claire Bloom
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities, who had previously accounted for 20 percent of the population. By 1924 the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks had been reduced to two percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. This is the first account to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christian population.
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The Thirty-Year Genocide
- Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 24-04-19
- Language: English
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Firepower
- How Weapons Shaped Warfare
- By: Paul Lockhart
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance34
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Story34
The “fascinating” (Wall Street Journal) story of how military technology has transformed the world The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells the story of the evolution of weaponry...
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Good but not great
- By Toby Badham on 21-03-22
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Firepower
- How Weapons Shaped Warfare
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 19-10-21
- Language: English
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Clouds of Glory
- The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee
- By: Michael Korda
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 32 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance42
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New York Times Bestseller ""Lively, approachable, and captivating. Like Lee himself, everything about Clouds of Glory is on a grand scale."" —Boston Globe Michael Korda, the acclaimed biographer of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers Ike and Hero, offers a brilliant, balanced, single-volume...
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Very interesting
- By Alex on 02-09-25
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Clouds of Glory
- The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 32 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 13-05-14
- Language: English
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The Fall of Robespierre
- 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
- By: Colin Jones
- Narrated by: Sasha Higgins
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance19
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The day of 9 Thermidor (July 27, 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At midnight, Maximilien Robespierre was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced. By midnight at the close of the day, his world had been turned upside down. He was an outlaw, on the run, and himself wanted for conspiracy against the Republic. He shot himself shortly afterwards. Half-dead, the guillotine finished him off. The Fall of Robespierre provides an hour-by-hour analysis of these twenty-four hours.
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Dire Reading
- By Stephen Bentley on 03-09-22
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The Fall of Robespierre
- 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
- Narrated by: Sasha Higgins
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 18-07-22
- Language: English
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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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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
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The Plot to Kill King
- The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- By: Dr. William F. Pepper Esq.
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance27
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William Pepper was James Earl Ray's lawyer in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., and even after Ray's conviction and death, Pepper continues to adamantly argue Ray's innocence. This myth-shattering expose is a revised, updated, and heavily expanded volume of Pepper's original best-selling and critically-acclaimed book of the same name, with 26 years of additional research included. The result reveals dramatic new details of the night of the murder, the trial, and why Ray was chosen to take the fall for an evil conspiracy.
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Fantastically detailed, thorough & shocking
- By Donna Shannon on 30-01-21
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The Plot to Kill King
- The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 16-12-16
- Language: English
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Witness to Nuremberg
- The Many Lives of the Man Who Translated at the Nazi War Trials
- By: W. Richard Sonnenfeldt
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall99
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Performance89
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In this gripping memoir by the chief American interpreter at the Nuremberg trials, Richard Sonnenfeldt recounts a remarkable life. By age 22 he had fought in the Battle of the Bulge and helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp, when he was appointed chief interpreter for the American prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials.
During his service, he spent pretrial time with Hermann Göering as well as other top Nazi leaders.
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What an amazing life
- By Paul P. on 01-04-13
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Witness to Nuremberg
- The Many Lives of the Man Who Translated at the Nazi War Trials
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 28-02-12
- Language: English
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Last Woman Hanged
- By: Caroline Overington
- Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance26
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Two husbands, four trials and one bloody execution: Winner of the 2015 Davitt Award for Best Crime Book (Non-fiction) -- the terrible true story of Louisa Collins. In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the...
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Interesting and thought provoking
- By Lady Penelope on 24-02-22
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Last Woman Hanged
- Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 06-06-18
- Language: English
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Cuba Libre!
- Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History
- By: Tony Perrottet
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The surprising story of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them. Most people are familiar with the basics of the Cuban Revolution of 1956–1959: it was led by two of the twentieth century’s most charismatic figures, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara...
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Incredible
- By Kieron Casey on 18-03-19
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Cuba Libre!
- Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 22-01-19
- Language: English
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Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815
- From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras Volume I
- By: John Hussey
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 34 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance40
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The first of two ground-breaking volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this audiobook is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages. It highlights the political stresses between the Allies, the problems of feeding and paying for the Allied forces assembling in Belgium during the undeclared war and how a strategy was thrashed out. It studies the neglected topic of how the Allies beyond the Rhine hampered the plans of Blücher and Wellington, thus allowing Napoleon to snatch the initiative from them.
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It is great! Now PLEASE RELEASE VOLUME 2!
- By Nigel on 31-03-21
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Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815
- From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras Volume I
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 34 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 08-05-20
- Language: English
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Culloden
- Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
- By: Trevor Royle
- Narrated by: Tim Bruce
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance31
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The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between the English Royal Army and the Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English: The battle was also part of a much larger campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of a French invasion.
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Mistitled, but interesting... if not actually entertaining.
- By Grumpy Jack on 27-09-19
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World War II: Desert War
- American Heritage
- By: Stephen W. Sears
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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The struggle for North Africa was unlike any other campaign of World War II. The desert proved a real test of generalship, pitting Germany's Erwin Rommel against Britain's Bernard Montgomery and America's George Patton. Here, from award-winning military historian Stephen W. Sears, is the dramatic story of the generals, politicians, and soldiers who changed the course of the war.
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I really enjoyed this. But weird pronunciation.
- By fjonny on 11-04-24
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World War II: Desert War
- American Heritage
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 17-01-17
- 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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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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The Making of Modern Britain
- By: Andrew Marr
- Narrated by: Andrew Marr
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Abridged
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Overall233
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Performance145
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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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History Retold
- By Wil on 24-05-10
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The Making of Modern Britain
- Narrated by: Andrew Marr
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 15-10-09
- Language: English
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We Few
- US Special Forces in Vietnam
- By: Nick Brokhausen
- Narrated by: George Spelvin
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall309
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Performance285
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Story286
A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.
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The most entertaining Vietnam macvsog recall
- By Paul Tobin on 18-07-19
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We Few
- US Special Forces in Vietnam
- Narrated by: George Spelvin
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 30-10-18
- Language: English
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