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Mythos
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
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The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce....
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Boring version of the Greek myths
- By IoBB on 22-08-19
By: Stephen Fry
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Sapiens
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us....
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Simplistic nonsense
- By RTx on 14-07-19
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Empire of the Summer Moon
- Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches
- By: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
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Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history....
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Fascinating
- By Tom moran on 01-05-21
By: S. C. Gwynne
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SAS: Sea King Down
- By: Mark Aston, Stuart Tootal
- Narrated by: Simon Darwen
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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The thrilling, edge-of-your-seat true story of one soldier's Special Forces operations in the Falklands War....
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Excellent
- By Adrian L on 07-04-22
By: Mark Aston, and others
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Freezing Order
- A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
- By: Bill Browder
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he exposed Vladimir Putin's campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars from Russia—and how Putin is willing to kill anyone who stands in his way....
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An unbelievable story exposing Russia.
- By Mr M. on 08-05-22
By: Bill Browder
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The Hard Way
- Adapt, Survive and Win
- By: Mark 'Billy' Billingham
- Narrated by: Mark 'Billy' Billingham, Simon Slater
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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Billy Billingham grew up tough; a grim future ahead of him offering little respite from the hostile streets he walked....
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misleading
- By Anonymous User on 16-12-19
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Mythos
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
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The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce....
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Boring version of the Greek myths
- By IoBB on 22-08-19
By: Stephen Fry
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Sapiens
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us....
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Simplistic nonsense
- By RTx on 14-07-19
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Empire of the Summer Moon
- Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches
- By: S. C. Gwynne
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
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Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history....
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Fascinating
- By Tom moran on 01-05-21
By: S. C. Gwynne
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SAS: Sea King Down
- By: Mark Aston, Stuart Tootal
- Narrated by: Simon Darwen
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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The thrilling, edge-of-your-seat true story of one soldier's Special Forces operations in the Falklands War....
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Excellent
- By Adrian L on 07-04-22
By: Mark Aston, and others
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Freezing Order
- A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
- By: Bill Browder
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he exposed Vladimir Putin's campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars from Russia—and how Putin is willing to kill anyone who stands in his way....
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An unbelievable story exposing Russia.
- By Mr M. on 08-05-22
By: Bill Browder
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The Hard Way
- Adapt, Survive and Win
- By: Mark 'Billy' Billingham
- Narrated by: Mark 'Billy' Billingham, Simon Slater
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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Billy Billingham grew up tough; a grim future ahead of him offering little respite from the hostile streets he walked....
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misleading
- By Anonymous User on 16-12-19
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The Pathfinders
- The Elite RAF Force That Turned the Tide of WWII
- By: Will Iredale
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
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The incredible story of the crack team of men and women who transformed RAF Bomber Command and helped the Allies deliver decisive victory over Nazi Germany....
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A very moving story but flawed
- By JWW on 02-01-22
By: Will Iredale
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Stories We Tell Ourselves
- Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
- By: Richard Holloway
- Narrated by: Richard Holloway
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existence....
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Please Listen To This Book
- By Margie on 06-12-20
By: Richard Holloway
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A Promised Land
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 29 hrs and 10 mins
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A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making - from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy....
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Dropping a classic
- By jesse on 17-11-20
By: Barack Obama
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Operation Trojan Horse
- The True Story Behind the Most Shocking Government Cover-Up of the Last Thirty Years
- By: Stephen Davis
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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This explosive book is a story of scandal, betrayal and misuse of intelligence at the highest levels of UK and US governments - which has had direct, horrifying impact on terror attacks in the West and the shape of the Middle East today....
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The Story Behind The Story
- By S. Morris on 03-09-21
By: Stephen Davis
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Command and Control
- By: Eric Schlosser
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 20 hrs and 33 mins
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Command and Control, a ground-breaking account of the management of nuclear weapons from Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation....
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Gripping and insightful
- By Kate on 13-11-13
By: Eric Schlosser
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Troy
- The Siege of Troy Retold
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for 10 whole and very bloody years....
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Chapters?
- By Jason on 03-11-20
By: Stephen Fry
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The Battle of Midway (Pivotal Moments in American History)
- By: Craig L. Symonds
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
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There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway....
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Terrific
- By Cryptochimp on 26-06-20
By: Craig L. Symonds
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A Brief History of the Third Reich: The Rise and Fall of the Nazis
- Brief Histories
- By: Martyn Whittock
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
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Beginning in the broken aftermath of the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles, which made German recovery almost impossible....
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Ear opening
- By Amazon Customer on 24-04-16
By: Martyn Whittock
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Ancestors
- A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials
- By: Alice Roberts
- Narrated by: Alice Roberts
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
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Told through seven fascinating burial sites, this groundbreaking prehistory of Britain teaches us more about ourselves and our history: how people came and went, how we came to be on this island....
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Great overview of field, pity about the politics
- By Mr. D. Southcott on 27-06-21
By: Alice Roberts
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Chief of Staff
- By: Gavin Barwell
- Narrated by: Gavin Barwell
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
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Once a more sedate affair, since 2016, British politics has witnessed a barrage of crises, resignations and general elections. As Brexit became logjammed, Theresa May's premiership was the most turbulent of all....
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Clarity into the carnage that continued to polarise and divide the nation over the Brexit negotiations
- By Peter Coates on 23-09-21
By: Gavin Barwell
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Philip and Alexander
- By: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
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A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander transformed Macedon from a weak kingdom into a globe-spanning empire....
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Very detailed, but easy to listen to!
- By Connor Sampson on 02-01-22
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Their Darkest Hour
- People Tested to the Extreme in WWII
- By: Laurence Rees
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Award-winning writer and filmmaker Laurence Rees has spent nearly 20 years meeting people who were tested to the extreme during World War II....
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A hard read
- By Andy W on 28-02-21
By: Laurence Rees
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Red Notice
- By: Bill Browder
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
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November 2009. Sergei Magnitsky is led to an isolation cell in a Moscow prison and beaten to death by eight police officers....
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Bare with it and it will provide.
- By Plamen on 08-01-19
By: Bill Browder
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Homage to Catalonia
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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Orwell chronicled his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War in Homage to Catalonia....
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A telling work of history
- By Banjoman on 07-09-21
By: George Orwell
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The Hollow Crown
- The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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The Hollow Crown completes Dan Jones' epic history of medieval England, and describes how the Plantagenets tore themselves apart to be finally replaced by the Tudors....
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More unbelievable then Game of Thrones!!
- By Foxhole on 28-01-19
By: Dan Jones
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The Norman Conquest
- The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
- By: Marc Morris
- Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
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A riveting and authoritative history of the single most important event in English history: The Norman Conquest....
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Great story, poor reading
- By Matthew on 21-11-14
By: Marc Morris
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How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain
- By: Ruth Goodman
- Narrated by: Ruth Goodman
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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Historian and popular TV presenter Ruth Goodman offers up a history of offensive language, insulting gestures, insolent behaviour, brawling and scandal in the 16th and 17th centuries....
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Joyous!
- By Mrs Trellis on 14-01-19
By: Ruth Goodman
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Operation Mincemeat
- The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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This is the true story of the most extraordinary deception ever planned by Churchill’s spies: an outrageous lie that travelled from a Whitehall basement all the way to Hitler’s desk....
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Fascinating
- By Robyn on 28-02-17
By: Ben Macintyre
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Russia
- Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
- By: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Rob Heaps
- Length: 22 hrs and 3 mins
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Between 1917 and 1921, a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era....
By: Antony Beevor
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the best-selling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges....
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Full of "wow, I never thought of it like that!"
- By david on 17-03-17
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The Colditz Story
- By: P.R. Reid
- Narrated by: Tim Woodward
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Colditz - the dreaded POW camp was supposed to be impregnable....
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A Great Escape From Life!
- By J on 07-07-14
By: P.R. Reid
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Fingerprints of the Gods
- The Quest Continues
- By: Graham Hancock
- Narrated by: Graham Hancock
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
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An intellectual detective story, this history audiobook directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain....
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Should not be in non-fiction
- By hws on 01-02-20
By: Graham Hancock
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Killers of the Flower Moon
- Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI
- By: David Grann
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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In the 1920s the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles....
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Fascinating story that needs to be heard.
- By Elizabeth Lawlor on 16-01-18
By: David Grann
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The Premonitions Bureau
- By: Sam Knight
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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Premonitions are impossible. But they come true all the time. Most are innocent. You think of a forgotten friend. Out of the blue, they call....
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Incredible story, wonderfully written
- By M. Giddens on 08-05-22
By: Sam Knight
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Snake Eyes
- Murder in a Southern Town
- By: Bitty Martin
- Narrated by: Karen Commins
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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By 1966, Hot Springs, Arkansas wasn’t your typical sleepy little Southern town. Once a favorite destination for mobsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, illegal activities continued to lure out-of-state gamblers, flim-flam men, and high rollers to its racetracks, clubs, and bordellos. Still, the town was shaken to its core after a girl was found dead on a nearby ranch. The ranch owner claimed it was an accident. Then the rancher was found to be the killer of another woman - his fourth wife.
By: Bitty Martin
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Soviet Union
- Russian History of the Tsars and the Collapse of the USSR After World War 2: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Stalin and the Winter War
- By: History Forever
- Narrated by: Khai Lannor
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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Do you want to discover the lives of tsars and why they were such ruthless rulers? Perhaps you want to discover what made the Soviet Union so powerful? If your answer is yes, get this book now, because it focuses on just that! This book focuses on over 1,000 years of Russian history from the Bronze Age all the way through the end of the Second World War until the fall of Soviet Union. Buy this book now and discover how the tsars made the Soviet Union one of the most feared countries in the world!
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A potted summary of Russian History
- By Lewis S. Waldron on 16-05-22
By: History Forever
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The Story of Earl Nightingale
- And His Strangest Secret
- By: Pamela Nightingale, Earl Nightingale
- Narrated by: Joe Price, Arielle Loftis, Benjamin Gray, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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Hello, I'm Pamela Nightingale, daughter of the late international best-selling author and radio personality, Earl Nightingale. I'd like to share with you the true-life story of my father and the personal secrets of his life, with behind-the-scenes details of how he discovered the Strangest Secret. In this time of uncertainty and difficulty for many, the time is right to release the inspirational example of how Earl Nightingale lived his life and overcame adversity and limitations to help others do the same. Join me and my cousins on the adventure of a lifetime.
By: Pamela Nightingale, and others
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Phoenix Squadron
- HMS Ark Royal, Britain's Last Topguns and the Untold Story of Their Most Dramatic Mission
- By: Rowland White
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
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January 1972: the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battle-hardened, US-trained Guatemalan paratroopers. Britain's response must be immediate and decisive. But there is only one deterrent the government can offer: HMS Ark Royal, once the navy's most powerful warship, now a white elephant on the verge of being scrapped. To save the small colony, she must launch a pair of Buccaneer fighter bombers on an unprecedented long-range mission. But first the old carrier must make a high-speed 1,500-mile dash across the Atlantic.
By: Rowland White
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Geography Is Destiny
- Britain and the World, a 10,000 Year History
- By: Ian Morris
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
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Geography Is Destiny tells the history of Britain and its changing relationships with Europe and the wider world, from its physical separation at the end of the Ice Age to the first flickers of a United Kingdom, struggles for the Atlantic and rise of the Pacific Rim. Applying the latest archaeological evidence, Ian Morris explores how geography, migration, government and new technologies interacted to produce regional inequalities that still affect us today.
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Storm Front
- By: Rowland White
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- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Dawn. 19th July 1972. A force of nearly 300 heavily armed, well-trained guerrillas launches a surprise attack on the small fishing village of Mirbat. All that stands in their way is a troop of just nine SAS, aided only by an elite band of fighter pilots overhead. Two years earlier, a Communist rebellion had threatened the Arabian Peninsula, in the strategically critical Sultanate of Oman. Following a covert intelligence mission, 22 SAS deployed their largest ever assault force against the rebels. But this was to be a bitter and hard-fought campaign culminating the Battle of Mirbat.
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Snake Eyes
- Murder in a Southern Town
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By 1966, Hot Springs, Arkansas wasn’t your typical sleepy little Southern town. Once a favorite destination for mobsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, illegal activities continued to lure out-of-state gamblers, flim-flam men, and high rollers to its racetracks, clubs, and bordellos. Still, the town was shaken to its core after a girl was found dead on a nearby ranch. The ranch owner claimed it was an accident. Then the rancher was found to be the killer of another woman - his fourth wife.
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Soviet Union
- Russian History of the Tsars and the Collapse of the USSR After World War 2: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Stalin and the Winter War
- By: History Forever
- Narrated by: Khai Lannor
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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Do you want to discover the lives of tsars and why they were such ruthless rulers? Perhaps you want to discover what made the Soviet Union so powerful? If your answer is yes, get this book now, because it focuses on just that! This book focuses on over 1,000 years of Russian history from the Bronze Age all the way through the end of the Second World War until the fall of Soviet Union. Buy this book now and discover how the tsars made the Soviet Union one of the most feared countries in the world!
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A potted summary of Russian History
- By Lewis S. Waldron on 16-05-22
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The Story of Earl Nightingale
- And His Strangest Secret
- By: Pamela Nightingale, Earl Nightingale
- Narrated by: Joe Price, Arielle Loftis, Benjamin Gray, and others
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Hello, I'm Pamela Nightingale, daughter of the late international best-selling author and radio personality, Earl Nightingale. I'd like to share with you the true-life story of my father and the personal secrets of his life, with behind-the-scenes details of how he discovered the Strangest Secret. In this time of uncertainty and difficulty for many, the time is right to release the inspirational example of how Earl Nightingale lived his life and overcame adversity and limitations to help others do the same. Join me and my cousins on the adventure of a lifetime.
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Phoenix Squadron
- HMS Ark Royal, Britain's Last Topguns and the Untold Story of Their Most Dramatic Mission
- By: Rowland White
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
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January 1972: the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battle-hardened, US-trained Guatemalan paratroopers. Britain's response must be immediate and decisive. But there is only one deterrent the government can offer: HMS Ark Royal, once the navy's most powerful warship, now a white elephant on the verge of being scrapped. To save the small colony, she must launch a pair of Buccaneer fighter bombers on an unprecedented long-range mission. But first the old carrier must make a high-speed 1,500-mile dash across the Atlantic.
By: Rowland White
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Geography Is Destiny
- Britain and the World, a 10,000 Year History
- By: Ian Morris
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
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Geography Is Destiny tells the history of Britain and its changing relationships with Europe and the wider world, from its physical separation at the end of the Ice Age to the first flickers of a United Kingdom, struggles for the Atlantic and rise of the Pacific Rim. Applying the latest archaeological evidence, Ian Morris explores how geography, migration, government and new technologies interacted to produce regional inequalities that still affect us today.
By: Ian Morris
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Storm Front
- By: Rowland White
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
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Dawn. 19th July 1972. A force of nearly 300 heavily armed, well-trained guerrillas launches a surprise attack on the small fishing village of Mirbat. All that stands in their way is a troop of just nine SAS, aided only by an elite band of fighter pilots overhead. Two years earlier, a Communist rebellion had threatened the Arabian Peninsula, in the strategically critical Sultanate of Oman. Following a covert intelligence mission, 22 SAS deployed their largest ever assault force against the rebels. But this was to be a bitter and hard-fought campaign culminating the Battle of Mirbat.
By: Rowland White
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Tutankhamun's Trumpet
- The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects
- By: Toby Wilkinson
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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On 26th November 1922, Howard Carter first peered into the newly opened tomb of an ancient Egyptian boy-king. When asked if he could see anything, he replied: ‘Yes, yes, wonderful things.' In Tutankhamun’s Trumpet, acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes a unique approach to that tomb and its contents. Instead of concentrating on the oft-told story of the discovery, or speculating on the brief life and politically fractious reign of the boy king, Wilkinson takes the objects buried with him as the source material for a wide-ranging, detailed portrait of ancient Egypt.
By: Toby Wilkinson
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The King's Painter
- The Life and Times of Hans Holbein
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Hans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realised portraiture, which includes representations of Henry VIII, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Anne of Cleves, Jane Seymour and an array of the Tudor lords and ladies he encountered during the course of two sojourns in England. But beyond these familiar images, which have come to define our perception of the world of the Henrician court, Holbein was a protean and multi-faceted genius.
By: Franny Moyle
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At the Gates of Rome
- The Fall of the Eternal City, AD 410
- By: Don Hollway
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
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It took little more than a single generation for the centuries-old Roman Empire to fall. In those critical decades, while Christians and pagans, legions and barbarians, generals and politicians squabbled over dwindling scraps of power, two men—former comrades on the battlefield—rose to prominence on opposite sides of the great game of empire. Roman general Flavius Stilicho, the man behind the Roman throne, dedicated himself to restoring imperial glory, only to find himself struggling for his life against political foes.
By: Don Hollway
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These Bodies of Water
- Notes on the British Empire, the Middle East and Where We Meet
- By: Sabrina Mahfouz
- Narrated by: Sabrina Mahfouz
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Sabrina Mahfouz once sat in a Whitehall interview room and was interrogated about everything from her political leanings to her private life. It was ostensibly a job interview, but implicit in their demands was the unspoken question: as a woman of Middle Eastern heritage, could she really be trusted? Years later, Sabrina found herself confronting the meaning behind this interrogation, and how it was specifically informed by the British Empire's historical dominance in the Middle East.
By: Sabrina Mahfouz
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The History of Russia: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Communism
- Russian History of the Tsars, Lenin and the Bolsheviks, Stalin & the Russian Revolution
- By: History Forever
- Narrated by: Khai Lannor
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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This book focuses on a brief history of Russia from the Bronze Age all the way up to end of Second World War until the fall of Soviet Communism. First you are going to discover the origins of Russia from the 9th Century, up until the 19th Century.
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A comprehensive and very informative book
- By Thomas D. Ball on 16-05-22
By: History Forever
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Karl Marx and the Satanic Roots of Communism
- By: Richard Wurmbrand
- Narrated by: Michael Beck
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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Karl Marx, coauthor of the revolutionary text The Communist Manifesto, grew up in a Christian family, and his early writings showed belief in a Christian worldview. Yet in his adulthood, Marx embraced a deep personal rebellion against God and all Christian values. In Karl Marx and the Satanic Roots of Communism, Richard Wurmbrand explores the development of Marx’s antireligious perspective that led to the philosophical foundations of communism.
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Unprecedented?
- How COVID-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy
- By: William Davies, Sahil Jai Dutta, Nick Taylor, and others
- Narrated by: Anthony Shuster
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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The dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic represented an exceptional interruption in the routines of work, financial markets, movement across borders, and education. The policies introduced in response were said to be unprecedented—but the distribution of risks and rewards was anything but. Unprecedented? explores the events of 2020-21, as they afflicted the UK economy, as a means to grasp the underlying dynamics of contemporary capitalism, too often obscured from view. It is essential listening for anyone seeking to understand the turbulence of the pandemic’s first 18 months.
By: William Davies, and others
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The Last Train
- A Family History of the Final Solution
- By: Peter Bradley
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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It was only by accident that Peter as a child discovered that his father, Fred Bradley, was in fact born Fritz Brandes. And it was only after his father’s death in 2004 that Peter was able to begin to piece together the family’s story and set out on the journey—literally and figuratively—that forms the basis of his book.
By: Peter Bradley
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The Kingdom of the Moghuls: The Rulers, Who Created History
- The Muslim Rulers’ Series, Book 7
- By: Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Shams
- Narrated by: Michael Stuhre
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Little is known about the Moghuls in the book of history. Nevertheless, their impact on the world system and their great feat is not something that can be swept under the carpet. The Moghuls dynasty were the rulers of most of Northern India from the early 16th to the mid-18th century. Prominent among the Moghul rulers were the founder, Bābur, who ruled between 1526-30, followed by his grandson Akbar (r. 1556-1605). As far as Akbar's life history was concerned, his forefathers came from three separate non-Indian ethnic groups.
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Chinese Civil War
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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The audiobook covers the first stages of the war, from 1927-1937, the interlude from 1938-1945 during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, and the final and most well-known phase of the war from 1946-1949. Learn about the causes, events, and lasting effects of the Chinese Civil War and about the warfare tactics and political strategy of the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Kuomintang during these integral years. This is the story about how a group of young, inexperienced Chinese revolutionaries changed the destiny of China.
By: Hourly History
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The Emergency Bouzouki Player
- Conscription in the SADF
- By: Andrew Brel
- Narrated by: Andrew Brel
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
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The Emergency Bouzouki Player is the true story of a teenage conscript railroaded into the South African army for two years of national service at the height of the Apartheid War. The cruelty, the absurdity, and the mindlessness of life in the South African army are candidly described in this firsthand account by an unwilling and resentful conscript who, to escape the infamous Diskobolos Infantry Training Camp and its murderous instructors, claimed he could play the bouzouki in a subterfuge that was to have unforeseen, comical, and sometimes life-threatening consequences.
By: Andrew Brel
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We Saved SOG Souls
- 101st Airborne Missions in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos During the Vietnam War
- By: Roger Lockshier
- Narrated by: Justin Smallbridge
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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During the Vietnam War, far from the halls of Congress, snooping reporters, loving family members, and conventional US military forces in South Vietnam, a deadly, top-secret war was conducted for eight years across the fence in Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam by small Green Beret-led reconnaissance teams.
By: Roger Lockshier