Great Lives
9 books in seriesThe Black Russian Summary
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The Black Russian
- Great Lives
- By: Vladimir Alexandrov
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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After the brutal death of his father when he was a teenager, Frederick Thomas fled the stifling racism of the American South and headed for New York City, where he worked as a valet and trained as a singer. Through charisma and cunning, Thomas emigrated to Europe, where his acquired skills as a multilingual maitre d'hôtel allowed him to travel from London to Monte Carlo before settling in Moscow in the glorious days before the 1917 Revolution. There Thomas became a rich and respected nightclub impresario, opening a lavish nightclub called Maxim...
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The Black Russian
- Great Lives
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's Own Hero
- Great Lives
- By: Max Adams
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Admiral Lord Collingwood, the eldest son of a Newcastle merchant, went to sea in 1761 at the age of thirteen. In his nearly fifty years in the Navy he rose to become a fine seaman, a master of gunnery, a battle commander the equal of his friend – and rival in love – Nelson. He was also an accomplished writer and wit, a doting father, inveterate gossip and consummate diplomat and strategist.
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Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's Own Hero
- Great Lives
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford - The Biography
- Great Lives
- By: Laura Thompson
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Life in a Cold Climate is full of the sound of Mitfordian laughter; but tells also the often paradoxical and complex story beneath the smiling and ever elegant façade.
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Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford - The Biography
- Great Lives
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money
- Great Lives
- By: David Lough
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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The popular image of Churchill – grandson of a duke, drinking champagne and smoking a cigar – conjures up a man of wealth and substance. The reality is that Britain's most celebrated 20th-century statesman lived for most of his life on a financial cliff-edge. Only fragments of information about his finances, or their impact on his public life, have previously emerged...
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No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money
- Great Lives
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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Tigress of Forli: The Life of Caterina Sforza
- Great Lives
- By: Elizabeth Lev
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Between her birth in 1463 as the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan, and her death in 1509 as a member of the powerful Medici family, the life of Caterina Sforza crossed the firmament of Renaissance Italy like a shooting star. She was painted by Botticelli, feted by Pope Sixtus IV, slandered by Macchiavelli and celebrated as a warrior who led her own troops fearlessly into battle. While defending her fortress city-state of Forli, she was prepared to sacrifice her children rather than surrender – yet she was eventually defeated, imprisoned and raped by a Borgia.
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Tigress of Forli: The Life of Caterina Sforza
- Great Lives
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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So Great a Prince: England and the Accession of Henry VIII
- Great Lives
- By: Lauren Johnson
- Narrated by: Matthew Biddulph
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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The King is dead: long live the King. In 1509, Henry VII was succeeded by his son Henry VIII, second monarch of the house of Tudor. But this is not the familiar Tudor world of Protestantism and playwrights. Decades before the Reformation, ancient traditions persist: boy bishops, pilgrimage, Corpus Christi pageants, the jewel-decked shrine at Canterbury...
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So Great a Prince: England and the Accession of Henry VIII
- Great Lives
- Narrated by: Matthew Biddulph
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor
- Great Lives
- By: Elizabeth Norton
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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England, late 1547. Henry VIII is dead. His 14-year-old daughter Elizabeth is living with the old king's widow Catherine Parr and her new husband Thomas Seymour. Ambitious, charming and dangerous, Seymour begins an overt flirtation with Elizabeth that ends in her being sent away by Catherine. When Catherine dies in autumn 1548 and Seymour is arrested for treason soon after, the scandal explodes into the open...
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The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor
- Great Lives
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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Book Great Lives: The Romanovs
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and His Family
- Great Lives: The Romanovs
- By: Robert K. Massie
- Narrated by: Orlando Wells
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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Nicholas's political naivete, Alexandra's obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis's brave struggle with haemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and history – the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and His Family
- Great Lives: The Romanovs
- Narrated by: Orlando Wells
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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Peter the Great
- Great Lives: The Romanovs
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 40 hrs
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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