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Rebel Queen
- The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster
- By: Susan Polgar, Yasser Seirawan - introduction
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A real life Queen’s Gambit, this captivating memoir tells the story of one of the most renowned women in chess history, Susan Polgar, taking on a sexist establishment and rewriting the rules of what women could achieve against the oppressive backdrop of Cold War Eastern Europe. Born to a poor...
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A true gem
- By Matthew Pope on 20-07-25
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Rebel Queen
- The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 11-03-25
- Language: English
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Sunburn
- The Unofficial History of the Sun Newspaper in 99 Headlines
- By: James Felton
- Narrated by: Alexei Sayle
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance365
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Using his famed on-the-nose commentary, Twitter legend James Felton has dissected 99 of the most outlandish stories The Sun (for a long time the biggest-selling British newspaper) has run since it became a tabloid in 1969, hoping to answer once and for all whether the press has reflected - or manipulated - the British people over the last 50 years.
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Better than using Audible credits to buy crack
- By Andrew Parker on 25-10-20
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Sunburn
- The Unofficial History of the Sun Newspaper in 99 Headlines
- Narrated by: Alexei Sayle
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-10-20
- 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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Noble Ambitions
- The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II
- By: Adrian Tinniswood
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided with aristocratic values As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, its mansions fell and rose. Ancient families were reduced to demolishing the parts of their stately homes they could no longer...
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Great historical resumé of a recently bygone era.
- By J.K. Watson on 03-01-23
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Noble Ambitions
- The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 21-09-21
- Language: English
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James Joyce
- Author of Ulysses
- By: Edna O'Brien
- Narrated by: Stanley Townsend
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Edna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'. The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his lofty courtship of Nora Barnacle, their hectic sexuality, children, wanderings...
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brilliant book really enjoyed it Edna is excellent
- By Stephanie on 01-09-20
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James Joyce
- Author of Ulysses
- Narrated by: Stanley Townsend
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 18-06-20
- Language: English
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The Unwomanly Face of War
- By: Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrated by: Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall167
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Performance144
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexeivich, read by Julia Emelin and Yelena Shmulenson. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of stories from Soviet women who...
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Sadness of War
- By helloitsmefolks on 11-03-18
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The Unwomanly Face of War
- Narrated by: Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 16-11-17
- Language: English
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Australia: A History - How an ancient land became a great democracy
- By: Tony Abbott
- Narrated by: Tony Abbott
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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How an ancient land became a great democracy. Longlisted for Best Non Fiction in the Indie Book Awards 2026 'Tony Abbott should be congratulated ... This history of Australia is vivid, readable, provocative' Geoffrey Blainey, historian 'I think it's very good' Tom Holland, historian Australia is...
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An amazing tour de force of Australia’s remarkable story
- By Amazon Customer on 04-05-26
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Australia: A History - How an ancient land became a great democracy
- Narrated by: Tony Abbott
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 13-10-25
- 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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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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a true eye opener
- By Miss Kelly Bibby on 04-05-26
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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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Why Empires Fall
- Rome, America and the Future of the West
- By: John Rapley, Peter Heather
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance17
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Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in freefall. This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration - a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence.
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Great relevant historic lessons for today
- By merchant on 29-05-23
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Why Empires Fall
- Rome, America and the Future of the West
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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Vertigo
- The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
- By: Harald Jähner, Shaun Whiteside - translator
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. *An Observer Book of the Year* Germany, 1918: a country in flux. The First World War is over, the nation defeated. Revolution is afoot, the monarchy has fallen and the victory of democracy beckons. Everything must change with the times. Out of the ashes of the First...
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Best Weimar book
- By mr t a graham on 13-08-24
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Vertigo
- The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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The Boy with the Knapsack
- By: Alf Dubs
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Escaping the Nazis to arrive in Britain as a child refugee, growing up in 1950s Manchester, and making it to London in time for the swinging 60s; by the time Alf Dubs reached adulthood, he'd already lived a remarkable life. But nobody could have predicted what happened next. Selected as a candidate for the Labour Party, Dubs campaigned for Labour through the tumultuous politics of the 1970s, eventually winning the seat of Battersea South in time for the Thatcher era.
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The Boy with the Knapsack
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 27-08-26
- Language: English
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Angels of Amsterdam
- How a band of brave women outsmarted the Nazis to save 600 Jewish children
- By: Susan B. Katz, Esther Shaya
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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'A rare story that reframes the Holocaust narrative from victimhood to heroism' MITCH ALBOM Just two miles from where Anne Frank hid during WWII, Henriëtte Pimentel, a Jewish nursery director, plotted one of the most daring and far-reaching rescues of the war. Recruiting young women from her...
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Angels of Amsterdam
- How a band of brave women outsmarted the Nazis to save 600 Jewish children
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 12-01-27
- Language: English
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Tenuous Threads/One of the Lucky Ones
- By: Judy Abrams, Eva Felsenburg Marx
- Narrated by: Judy Abrams, Eva Felsenburg Marx
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Two Jewish girls born six months apart–Judit Grünfeld (Judy Abrams) in Hungary and Eva Felsenburg (Marx) in Czechoslovakia–are separated from their parents and forced to "pass" as Christian children. Theirs are the amazingly parallel but unique stories of two children who were able to survive when so many others perished.
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Tenuous Threads/One of the Lucky Ones
- Narrated by: Judy Abrams, Eva Felsenburg Marx
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-05-26
- Language: English
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The Hands of War
- A Tale of Endurance and Hope, From a Survivor of the Holocaust
- By: Marione Ingram
- Narrated by: Teresa DeBerry
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall68
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Performance61
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An inspiring account from one of history’s darkest moments. Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was German. She was Jewish. She was a survivor. This is her story. As a young girl, Marione was aware that people of the Jewish faith were regarded as outsiders, the supposed root of Germany’s many problems. She grew up in an apartment building where neighbors were more than happy to report Jews to the Gestapo.
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Astonishing memory
- By sadith on 27-08-21
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The Hands of War
- A Tale of Endurance and Hope, From a Survivor of the Holocaust
- Narrated by: Teresa DeBerry
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-02-13
- Language: English
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Beyond the Wall
- East Germany, 1949-1990
- By: Katja Hoyer
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall255
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Performance237
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Brought to you by Penguin. The definitive new history of East Germany by an acclaimed historian In 1990, a country disappeared. For the previous forty-one years, East Germany had existed in Western minds as more of a metaphor than a place, more of a grey communist blur than a land of real people...
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So informative and just brilliant
- By Ms. C. Beak on 19-04-23
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Beyond the Wall
- East Germany, 1949-1990
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 06-04-23
- Language: English
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Abridged
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Performance184
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Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James. With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic...
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Another great clearing in the jungle from CJ
- By Matt on 17-05-08
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Cultural Amnesia
- Notes in the Margin of My Time
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 08-04-08
- Language: English
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The Nazi Dictatorship
- Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation - 40th Anniversary Edition
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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With a brand new foreword by Mary Fulbrook, The Nazi Dictatorship covers all the major themes and debates relating to Nazism including the Holocaust, Hitler's authority and leadership, economics in the Nazi state, Nazi foreign policy, German resistance, and the aftermath. Regarded by many as the world's leading authority on Hitler and the Third Reich, Kershaw has redefined the way we look at this period of modern European history.
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The Nazi Dictatorship
- Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation - 40th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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Hostile Skies
- The Battle for the Falklands
- By: David Morgan
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance64
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David Morgan, RAF officer and poet, relives his experiences during the Falklands War in this vivid memoir. On secondment to the Royal Navy when the Argentine invasion of the Falklands began, and personally credited with shooting down two Argentine Skyhawks as well as enemy helicopters, Morgan was later awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Here he recounts his involvement in the first British airstrike against Argentine positions around Port Stanley and describes being first on the scene when enemy jets bombed the landing ships Sir Tristram and Sir Galahad.
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average to mediocre story
- By FAB on 04-01-22
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Hostile Skies
- The Battle for the Falklands
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 25-02-21
- Language: English
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Remember Us
- My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust
- By: Vic Shayne, Martin Small
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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Overall77
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Remember Us is a look back at the lost world of the shtetl: a wise Zayde offering prophetic and profound words to his grandson, the rich experience of Shabbos, and the treasure of a loving family. All this is torn apart with the arrival of the Holocaust, beginning a crucible fraught with twists and turns so unpredictable and surprising that they defy any attempt to find reason within them. Through the eyes of 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Martin Small, we learn that these priceless memories that are too painful to remember are also too painful to forget.
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A fascinating story and insight into Jewish life
- By fifitrixabelled on 29-08-21
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Remember Us
- My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 25-01-13
- Language: English
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Escape from the Ghetto
- The Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the Nazis
- By: John Carr
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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In early 1940, Chaim Herzsman was locked in to the Lódz Ghetto in Poland. Hungry, fearless and determined, he goes on scavenging missions outside the wire limits, until he is forced to kill a Nazi guard. That moment changes the course of his life and sets him on an unbelievable adventure across enemy lines.
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couldn't stop listening
- By David Cattell on 20-06-23
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Escape from the Ghetto
- The Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the Nazis
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 24-06-21
- Language: English
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