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Freedom
- Memoirs 1954-2021 from the former Chancellor of Germany
- By: Angela Merkel
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 27 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall70
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Performance63
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Story64
'A great accomplishment . . . A wonderful reflection of an extraordinary sweep of history' Barack Obama Timely, intimate and important, the long-awaited memoirs from one of the most influential leaders of our times For 16 years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany. She led the country...
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sense of duty! and the story behind.
- By LH on 06-12-24
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Freedom
- Memoirs 1954-2021 from the former Chancellor of Germany
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 27 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 27-11-24
- Language: English
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The First World War
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Michael Howard
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance14
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Story14
By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction audiobook provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War - from the state of Europe in 1914, to the role of the US, the collapse of Russia, and the eventual surrender of the Central Powers.
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The First World War
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 27-07-21
- Language: English
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Mosquito Men
- The Elite Pathfinders of 627 Squadron
- By: David Price
- Narrated by: Greg Wagland
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance58
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Story58
The story of one of the most remarkable–and feared–British aircraft of the Second World War: the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito fighter-bomber.
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A remarkable story
- By FAB on 16-03-23
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Mosquito Men
- The Elite Pathfinders of 627 Squadron
- Narrated by: Greg Wagland
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-12-22
- Language: English
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Da Nang Diary
- A Forward Air Controller's Gunsight View of Flying with SOG
- By: Tom Yarborough
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall66
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Performance61
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Story61
Da Nang Diary is the story of how, in Vietnam, an elite group of Air Force pilots fought a secret air war in Cessna 0-2 and OV-10 Bronco prop planes - flying as low as they could get. The eyes and ears of the fast-moving jets who rained death and destruction down on enemy positions, the forward air controller made an art form out of an air strike - knowing the targets, knowing where friendly troops were, and reacting with split-second, life-and-death decisions as a battle unfolded.
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Good story but lacklustre narration
- By Amazon Customer on 06-04-22
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Da Nang Diary
- A Forward Air Controller's Gunsight View of Flying with SOG
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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The Guns of August
- By: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall295
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Performance239
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Story237
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I. This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of Kings and Kaisers and Czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed...and how horrible it became.
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Not a good choice for an audio version
- By Kirstine on 22-05-14
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The Guns of August
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 28-04-08
- Language: English
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An Improbable Life
- The Autobiography
- By: Trevor McDonald
- Narrated by: Trevor McDonald
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall287
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Performance253
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Story250
Sir Trevor McDonald is an extraordinary man - and he has led an improbable life. Now in his 80th year, he is known and loved by people the world over for his humility, charm and natural ease. As a natural storyteller and communicator, he has few equals. In An Improbable Life, Sir Trevor recounts...
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Interesting to begin with.....
- By Dai Wynne-Jones on 06-12-19
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An Improbable Life
- The Autobiography
- Narrated by: Trevor McDonald
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 17-10-19
- Language: English
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The Taiwan Story
- How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future
- By: Kerry Brown
- Narrated by: Kerry Brown
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance17
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Story17
Brought to you by Penguin. An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters – for China, the West and everyone’s future When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao’s Communists won and took China’s mainland; Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to...
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Author is either ignorant or purposely misleads: don’t waste your money
- By charleyd80 on 09-07-25
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The Taiwan Story
- How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future
- Narrated by: Kerry Brown
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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The Orientalist
- Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
- By: Tom Reiss
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance12
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Story12
Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany. Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge...
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The Orientalist
- Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 04-04-17
- Language: English
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Children of Nazis
- The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others - Living with a Father’s Monstrous Legacy
- By: Tania Crasnianski, Molly Grogan - translator
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance29
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Story29
In 1940, the German sons and daughters of infamous Nazi dignitaries Himmler, Göring, Hess, Frank, Bormann, Speer, and Mengele were children of privilege at four, five, or 10 years old, surrounded by affectionate, all-powerful parents. Although innocent and unaware of what was happening at the time, they eventually discovered the extent of their fathers' occupations: These men were leaders of the Third Reich and would later be convicted as monstrous war criminals.
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A rather insubstantial work
- By Stuart Taylor on 12-09-25
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Children of Nazis
- The Sons and Daughters of Himmler, Göring, Höss, Mengele, and Others - Living with a Father’s Monstrous Legacy
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 20-10-20
- Language: English
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In Plain Sight
- By: Ross Coulthart
- Narrated by: Ross Coulthart
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall394
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Performance351
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Story348
An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right there, in front of our eyes ... Are we not alone? The moment we have an answer might have arrived. Award-winning investigative journalist Ross Coulthart has been intrigued by UFOs since mysterious...
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Excellent research of the UAP phenomenon
- By robofids on 16-08-21
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In Plain Sight
- Narrated by: Ross Coulthart
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 28-07-21
- Language: English
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Gulag
- A History
- By: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall258
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Performance221
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Story222
The Gulag - a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners - was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.
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Worthy but not riveting
- By Anonymous on 10-04-13
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Gulag
- A History
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 15-03-12
- Language: English
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Nein!
- Standing up to Hitler 1935–1944
- By: Paddy Ashdown
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall74
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Performance67
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Story66
From the bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler from 1935 – 1944 In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been betrayed by his own people, defeated from the inside. In part, he was right. By 1945, his...
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Superb writing and reading
- By Charles Palmer on 13-01-19
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Nein!
- Standing up to Hitler 1935–1944
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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The Auschwitz Volunteer
- Beyond Bravery
- By: Witold Pilecki, Jarek Garlinski - translator
- Narrated by: Marek Probosz, Jarek Garlinski, Ken Kliban, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance55
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Story54
In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and report from inside the camp. His intelligence reports, smuggled out in 1941, were among the first eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz atrocities: the extermination of Soviet POWs, its function as a camp for Polish political prisoners, and the "final solution" for Jews. Pilecki received brutal treatment until he escaped in April 1943; soon after, he wrote a brief report....
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Riveting
- By Andy Round on 13-03-18
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The Auschwitz Volunteer
- Beyond Bravery
- Narrated by: Marek Probosz, Jarek Garlinski, Ken Kliban, John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 19-07-13
- Language: English
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The Vietnam War: History in an Hour
- By: Neil Smith
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall128
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Performance111
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Story109
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. ‘War, what is it good for?’ THE VIETNAM WAR: HISTORY IN AN HOUR gives a gripping account of the most important Cold War-era conflict, fought between the United States and the Viet Cong, the Vietnam People’s Army and their Communist...
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reasonable introduction to the vietnam war
- By Customer on 11-09-16
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The Vietnam War: History in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 02-08-12
- Language: English
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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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Overall3
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Performance3
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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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exceptional
- By DM on 12-05-26
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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
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The Age of Extremes
- 1914-1991
- By: Eric Hobsbawm
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 25 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance72
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Story73
The Age of Extremes is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the 20th century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book reviews the uniquely destructive and creative nature of the troubled 20th century and makes challenging predicitions for the future.
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The Best 20th Century Summary
- By Thomas Jeffrey on 02-08-20
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The Age of Extremes
- 1914-1991
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 25 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 13-02-20
- Language: English
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Eve of Destruction
- The Inside Story of Our Dangerous Nuclear World
- By: John Hughes-Wilson
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance21
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Story21
Truman evidently understood the terrifying power of atomic weaponry, but no one could have realised its full potential when he ordered the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Those military attacks, along with the disasters at the Fukashima and Chernobyl nuclear reactors, might immediately spring to mind at the mention of nuclear destruction, but the vast majority of the events recorded in this audiobook are entirely unknown to most people.
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Interesting topics
- By James B on 25-07-23
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Eve of Destruction
- The Inside Story of Our Dangerous Nuclear World
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-04-21
- Language: English
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The Price of Peace
- Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
- By: Zachary D. Carter
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall96
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Performance75
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Story74
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of the influential economist and his transformative ideas “A timely, lucid and compelling...
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Brilliant, excoriating, fascinating, devastating
- By Fletcher Christian on 07-07-20
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The Price of Peace
- Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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Charles and Camilla
- Portrait of a Love Affair
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall93
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Performance81
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Story80
This is a story of the most well documented, most commented on love affair of our times. Yet the personalities behind the facade remain elusive and the nature of their relationship is an enigma. This is the first major biography of Charles and Camilla, two people who have battled against the curious lot that fate has thrown their way. Gyles Brandreth returns to the same ground as his last book, the bestselling "Philip and Elizabeth"; "Portrait of a Marriage".
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Fascinating Detailed Account Of Royal Life
- By Joan on 03-03-18
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Charles and Camilla
- Portrait of a Love Affair
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 09-12-14
- Language: English
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Achtung Panzer!
- By: Heinz Guderian
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance23
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Story24
This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible for German armoured supremacy in the early years of the Second World War. Published in 1937...
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Great Material
- By Kane on 16-10-25
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Achtung Panzer!
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-01-20
- Language: English
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