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A History of Modern Britain
- By: Andrew Marr
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 29 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall371
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Performance319
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Story314
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and...
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Great Storytelling with few minor problems
- By Mads on 16-05-18
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A History of Modern Britain
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 29 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 07-10-16
- 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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Overall101
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Performance91
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Story93
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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Wannsee
- The Road to the Final Solution
- By: Peter Longerich
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance34
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Story34
On January 20, 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of the Wannsee in the far-western outskirts of Berlin. They came at the invitation of Reinhard Heydrich and were almost all high-ranking Nazi Party, government, and SS officials. But the beauty of the situation stood in stark contrast to the purpose of the meeting to which the fifteen had come in January 1942: the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.”
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Convincing.
- By Jack Graham on 18-02-24
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Wannsee
- The Road to the Final Solution
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 25-04-23
- Language: English
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Tunisgrad
- Victory in Africa
- By: Saul David
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance38
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Story38
A Waterstones and BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year The Aspects of History Book of the Year 2025 'Terrific – full of drama … it has profoundly altered my understanding of the Second World War' PATRICK BISHOP FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SBS COMES AN EPIC HISTORY OF...
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Another Saul David classic
- By andrew hemingway on 04-12-25
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Tunisgrad
- Victory in Africa
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 11-09-25
- Language: English
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A Spectre, Haunting
- By: China Miéville
- Narrated by: China Miéville
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance16
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In 1848, The Communist Manifesto was published by two émigrés from Germany. Marx and Engels' apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system that penetrates every corner of the world reduces every relationship to that of profit, and burst asunder the old forms of production and of politics. It is still a recognisable picture of our world—the vampiric energy of the system being once again highly contentious. This is a strikingly imaginative take on Marx and what his most haunting book has to say to us today.
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A better reading than I expected
- By Anonymous on 08-06-24
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A Spectre, Haunting
- Narrated by: China Miéville
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 20-05-22
- Language: English
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Into the Black
- By: Rowland White
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall379
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Performance339
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Story337
On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia was the most advanced flying machine ever built – the high watermark of post-war aviation development. A direct descendant of the record-breaking X-planes the likes...
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Into the crap...
- By Shaun on 13-06-16
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Into the Black
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-03-16
- Language: English
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Eagle Days
- Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
- By: Victoria Taylor
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall66
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Performance61
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Story61
Eagle Days transforms the Luftwaffe’s historical role during the RAF’s ‘Finest Hour’ from a cartoonish antagonist to a multidimensional, flawed-yet-formidable opponent. The narrative contains not just the voices of the air crews who conducted the fighting, but uniquely never-before-translated primary source material of other contemporary eyewitnesses, (Luftwaffe’s paratroopers, anti-aircraft gunners and air signalmen). Eagle Days will offer all fans of this period a refreshing, comprehensive and exciting account of the Luftwaffe’s real experiences during the Battle of Britain.
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Sensitively told
- By inductible on 03-03-26
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Eagle Days
- Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 22-05-25
- Language: English
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The Weimar Years
- Rise and Fall 1918-1933
- By: Frank McDonough
- Narrated by: Paul McGann
- Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall112
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Performance101
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Story101
Established in 1918–19, in the wake of Germany’s catastrophic defeat in the First World War and the revolution that followed swiftly on its heels, the Weimar Republic ushered in widespread social reform, a radical cultural flowering and the most democratic conditions the German people had ever known. The Weimar Years is a vivid narrative of a dramatic period in German history. Year by year, from 1918 to 1933, Frank McDonough covers the major events in both domestic and foreign policy and the personalities who shaped them, together with developments in music, art, theatre and literature.
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interesting history
- By Tom S on 09-04-25
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The Weimar Years
- Rise and Fall 1918-1933
- Narrated by: Paul McGann
- Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 16-11-23
- Language: English
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The Einstein Vendetta
- The Forgotten War Crime of WW2, Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Award 2026
- By: Thomas Harding
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of HANNS AND RUDOLF, THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE and BLOOD ON THE PAGE, comes the gripping story of an unsolved murder which took place against the extraordinary background of Nazi-occupied Florence during World War Two . . . Italy...
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I rarely cry but ….
- By Jane Shepherd on 28-04-25
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The Einstein Vendetta
- The Forgotten War Crime of WW2, Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Award 2026
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 17-04-25
- Language: English
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Victorious in Defeat
- The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
- By: Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine - translator
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance3
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Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new republican China, a hero of the Second World War, and a faithful ally of the United States. Simultaneously a Christian and a Confucian, Chiang dreamed of universal equality yet was a perfidious and cunning dictator responsible for the deaths of over 1.5 million innocent people. This critical biography is based on Chiang Kai-shek's unpublished diaries, his extensive personal files from the Russian archives, and the Russian files of his relatives, associates, and foes.
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Victorious in Defeat
- The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 01-08-23
- Language: English
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A Russian Journal
- By: John Steinbeck, Robert Capa, Susan Shillinglaw - introduction
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance17
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Brought to you by Penguin. Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad -...
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Very interesting and enjoyable
- By Amazon Customer on 06-12-22
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A Russian Journal
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 26-11-20
- Language: English
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Humankind
- A Hopeful History
- By: Rutger Bregman
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd, Rutger Bregman
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,895
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Performance2,483
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Providing a new historical perspective on the last 200,000 years of human history, Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that people are good. In this major book, internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman shows how believing in human kindness and altruism can be a new way to think – and act as the foundation for achieving true change in our society. When we think the worst of others, it brings out the worst in our politics and economics too. It is time for a new view of human nature.
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Misunderstanding the world
- By Myles Hocking on 08-09-20
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Humankind
- A Hopeful History
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd, Rutger Bregman
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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The Last Battle
- When US and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
- By: Stephen Harding
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall92
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Performance86
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May 1945. Hitler is dead, and the Third Reich is little more than smoking rubble. No GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. But for cigar-chewing, rough-talking, hard-drinking, hard-charging Captain Jack Lee and his men, there is one more mission: rescue 14 prominent French prisoners held in an SS-guarded castle high in the Austrian Alps. It's a dangerous mission, but Lee has help from a decorated German Wehrmacht officer and his men, who voluntarily join the fight.
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Interestering incident
- By Jan on 28-04-24
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The Last Battle
- When US and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 03-09-13
- Language: English
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Rollercoaster
- Europe, 1950-2017
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 26 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall217
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Performance188
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Story188
After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catastrophic era of the world wars receded into an ever more distant past, though its long shadow continued to shape mentalities. Europe was now a divided continent, living under the nuclear threat in a period intermittently fraught with anxiety.
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Superb history, great narration - add chapters!
- By Amazon Customer on 30-05-21
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Rollercoaster
- Europe, 1950-2017
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 9
- Length: 26 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-11-18
- Language: English
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Endgame 1944
- How Stalin Won The War. The Sunday Times bestselling WW2 book about the year that sealed the Nazis' fate
- By: Jonathan Dimbleby
- Narrated by: Jonathan Dimbleby
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall88
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Performance75
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Brought to you by Penguin. A Sunday Times Bestseller A gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the bestselling historian June 1944: In Operation Bagration, more than two million Red Army soldiers, facing 500,000 German soldiers, finally avenged...
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Needs an attached pdf
- By Michael Grunwell on 04-06-24
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Endgame 1944
- How Stalin Won The War. The Sunday Times bestselling WW2 book about the year that sealed the Nazis' fate
- Narrated by: Jonathan Dimbleby
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 23-05-24
- Language: English
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Stranger Than We Can Imagine
- Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
- By: John Higgs
- Narrated by: John Higgs
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall488
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Performance440
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The 20th century should make sense. It's the period of history that we know the most about, an epic geopolitical narrative that runs through World War One, the Great Depression, World War Two, the American century and the fall of the Berlin Wall. But somehow that story doesn't quite lead into the world we find ourselves in now, this bewildering 21st century, adrift in a network of constant surveillance, unsustainable competition, tsunamis of trivia and extraordinary opportunity.
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A wild ride through the twentieth century - hop on board
- By J. Drew on 25-03-20
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Stranger Than We Can Imagine
- Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: John Higgs
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 27-08-15
- Language: English
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Postwar
- How Europe rebuilt and redefined itself after 1945
- By: Tony Judt
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 43 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall177
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Performance153
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Postwar by Tony Judt, read by Ralph Cosham. Tracing the story of post-war Europe and its changing role in the world, Judt's magnificent history of the continent of our times investigates the political, social and cultural history of Europe from the...
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Monumental
- By Ben Lewis on 17-02-19
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Postwar
- How Europe rebuilt and redefined itself after 1945
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 43 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 21-12-17
- Language: English
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The Prize
- The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
- By: Daniel Yergin
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 46 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis. Now with an epilogue that...
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The Prize
- The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 46 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 17-12-24
- Language: English
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Great Contemporaries
- By: Winston Churchill
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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Great Contemporaries profiles towering figures ranging from Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Lawrence of Arabia and Leon Trotsky to Charlie Chaplin, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling and George Bernard Shaw. Written in the decade before Churchill became prime minister, the essays in Great Contemporaries focus on the challenges of statecraft at a time when the democratic revolution was toppling older regimes based on tradition and aristocratic privilege.
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Churchill at his best
- By shannybong on 08-03-21
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Great Contemporaries
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 15-10-15
- Language: English
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Stalin
- New Biography of a Dictator
- By: Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Nora Seligman Favorov - translator
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall212
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Performance187
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This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator. Without mythologizing Stalin as either benevolent or an evil genius, Khlevniuk resolves numerous controversies about specific events in the dictator's life while assembling many hundreds of previously unknown letters, memos, reports, and diaries into a comprehensive, compelling narrative of a life that altered the course of world history.
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Not bad, but...
- By Alan Myers on 11-06-19
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Stalin
- New Biography of a Dictator
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 18 hrs
- Release date: 13-03-18
- Language: English
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