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Normandy ‘44
- D-Day and the Battle for France
- By: James Holland
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 24 hrs and 20 mins
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Renowned World War Two historian James Holland presents an entirely new perspective on one of the most important moments in recent history. Unflinchingly examining the brutality and violence that characterised the campaign, it's time to draw some radically different conclusions. D-Day and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed have come to be seen as a defining episode in the Second World War. Its story has been endlessly retold, and yet it remains a narrative burdened by both myth and assumed knowledge.
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New perspectives on D-Day
- By Ian David Williamson on 28-05-19
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Normandy ‘44
- D-Day and the Battle for France
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 24 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-05-19
- Language: English
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Countdown to D-Day
- The German Perspective
- By: Peter Margaritis
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 28 hrs and 53 mins
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In December 1943, with the rising realization that the Allies are planning to invade Fortress Europe, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is assigned the title of General Inspector for the Atlantic Wall. His mission is to assess their readiness. His superior, theater commander, crusty old Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, who had led the Reich to victory in the early years of the war, is now fed up with the whole Nazi regime. He lives comfortably in a plush villa in a quiet Paris suburb, waiting for the inevitable Allied invasion that will bring about their final defeat.
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Great book.
- By P Foster on 24-03-20
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Countdown to D-Day
- The German Perspective
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 28 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 08-10-19
- Language: English
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Napoleon the Great
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 37 hrs and 23 mins
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Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just 20 years, from October 1795, when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'état, he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the revolution had descended.
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37 very listenable hours!
- By mjh on 24-02-15
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Napoleon the Great
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 37 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 20-02-15
- Language: English
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Citizens
- Chronicle of the French Revolution
- By: Simon Schama
- Narrated by: Sara Powell
- Length: 38 hrs and 11 mins
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In this New York Times best seller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology - a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution ever produced.
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Biography based approach to the revolution
- By Andrew on 23-01-22
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Citizens
- Chronicle of the French Revolution
- Narrated by: Sara Powell
- Length: 38 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 22-07-21
- Language: English
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A Short History of Europe
- From Pericles to Putin
- By: Simon Jenkins
- Narrated by: Simon Jenkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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Europe is an astonishingly successful place. In this dazzling new history, best-selling author Simon Jenkins grippingly tells the story of its evolution from warring peoples to peace, wealth and freedom - a story that twists and turns from Greece and Rome, through the Dark Ages, the Reformation and the French Revolution, to the Second World War and up to the present day. Jenkins takes in leaders from Julius Caesar and Joan of Arc to Wellington and Angela Merkel as well as cultural figures from Aristotle to Shakespeare and Picasso.
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Nothing new and from a very British point of view
- By Anonymous User on 06-01-19
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A Short History of Europe
- From Pericles to Putin
- Narrated by: Simon Jenkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 08-11-18
- Language: English
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The Collapse of the Third Republic
- An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 48 hrs and 10 mins
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As an international war correspondent and radio commentator, William L. Shirer didn't just research the fall of France. He was there. In just six weeks, he watched the Third Reich topple one of the world's oldest military powers - and institute a rule of terror and paranoia. Based on in-person conversation with the leaders, diplomats, generals, and ordinary citizens who both shaped the events of this time and lived through them on a daily basis, Shirer shapes a compelling account of historical events - without losing sight of the personal experience.
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Decent, but with some issues
- By Anonymous User on 02-07-19
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The Collapse of the Third Republic
- An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 48 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 30-04-19
- Language: English
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A History of the Peninsular War, Volume 4
- December 1810-December 1811
- By: Charles Oman
- Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Length: 26 hrs and 18 mins
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FNH Audio presents a slightly abridged performance of this fourth volume of Charles Oman's military history classic. In this fourth volume, a detailed examination is made of the period from December 1810 to December 1811. This volume covers the battles of Gebora, Barrosa, Fuentes de Ornon, Albuera and the seiges of Badajoz and Tarragona.
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A History of the Peninsular War, Volume 4
- December 1810-December 1811
- Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Series: A History of the Peninsular War, Book 4
- Length: 26 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 11-01-18
- Language: English
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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
- By: Timothy Tackett
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
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Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror?
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Fantastic
- By L C on 14-06-23
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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 23-06-20
- Language: English
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Valley of the Shadow
- The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
- By: Kevin Boylan, Luc Olivier
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Struggling to reassert control over their Indochinese colonies after World War II, the French established a huge air-land base in the valley of Dien Bien Phu. But when the opposing Vietnamese People's Army (VPA) began massing its forces against the base in late 1953, French commanders seized the opportunity to draw their elusive enemy into a decisive set-piece battle. Defending a series of fortified positions which were reliant upon a single airstrip for reinforcement and resupply, the French troops quickly discovered that they had underestimated their enemy.
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shadow of the valley
- By JP on 25-06-19
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Valley of the Shadow
- The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 12-02-19
- Language: English
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Landing on the Edge of Eternity
- Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach
- By: Robert Kershaw
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
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When Company A of the US 116th Regiment landed on Omaha Beach in D-Day's first wave on June 6, 1944, it lost 96 percent of its effective strength. Sixteen teams of US engineers arriving in the second wave were unable to blow the beach obstacles, as first wave survivors were still sheltering behind them. This was the beginning of the historic day that Landing on the Edge of Eternity narrates hour by hour.
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The narrator is excellent.
- By Kingfisheri on 05-06-21
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Landing on the Edge of Eternity
- Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 16-04-19
- Language: English
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Street Without Joy
- The French Debacle in Indochina
- By: Bernard B. Fall
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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In this classic account of the French war in Indochina, Bernard B. Fall vividly captures the sights, sounds, and smells of the savage eight-year conflict in the jungles and mountains of Southeast Asia from 1946 to 1954. The French fought well to the last, but even with the lethal advantages of airpower, they could not stave off the Communist-led Vietnamese nationalists, who countered with a hit-and-run campaign of ambushes, booby traps, and nighttime raids. Defeat came at Dien Bien Phu, in 1954.
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Missed opportunity for the US
- By Mr S.M.R.Plocki on 28-04-15
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Street Without Joy
- The French Debacle in Indochina
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 13-05-13
- Language: English
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Marie Antoinette
- By: Antonia Fraser
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
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Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. To many people, she is still 'la reine mechante', whose extravagance and frivolity helped to bring down the French monarchy; her indifference to popular suffering epitomised by the (apocryphal) words: 'let them eat cake'. Others are equally passionate in her defence: to them, she is a victim of misogyny.
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Spectacular.
- By B on 17-12-14
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Marie Antoinette
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 03-06-10
- Language: English
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Paris '44
- The Shame and the Glory
- By: Patrick Bishop
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
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This fresh new account of the liberation, packed with revelation, tells the story of those heady days of suspense, danger, exhilaration – and vengeance – through the eyes of a range of participants, reflecting all sides of the conflict: Americans, French and Germans; resisters and collaborators. Among them are famous names like Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger and Pablo Picasso, but also some fascinating unknowns including a medic turned Resistance gunwoman, an androgynous Hungarian sculptor and a French bluestocking who quietly set about saving the nation’s art treasures from the Nazi looters.
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British Parisienne
- By Mrs. Shirley Gould-smith on 29-08-24
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Paris '44
- The Shame and the Glory
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 25-07-24
- Language: English
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When France Fell
- The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance
- By: Michael S. Neiberg
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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According to US Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the "most shocking single event" of World War II was not the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but rather the fall of France in spring 1940. Michael Neiberg offers a dramatic history of the American response - a policy marked by panic and moral ineptitude, which placed the United States in league with fascism and nearly ruined the alliance with Britain.
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Petain & the USA
- By Walter King on 06-12-21
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When France Fell
- The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 09-11-21
- Language: English
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A Line in the Sand
- Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East
- By: James Barr
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
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Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including T. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, A Line in the Sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when Britain and France ruled the Middle East. It explains exactly how the old antagonism between these two powers inflamed the more familiar modern rivalry between the Arabs and the Jews and ultimately led to war between the British and the French in 1941 and between the Arabs and the Jews in 1948.
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An absolute Perfection
- By Charles King-Tenison on 14-08-19
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A Line in the Sand
- Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 29-11-18
- Language: English
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The War That Made America
- A Short History of the French and Indian War
- By: Fred Anderson
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, most Americans know little of the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years' War, and yet it remains one of the most fascinating periods in our history. In January 2006, PBS will air The War That Made America, a four-part documentary about this epic conflict. Fred Anderson, the award-winning and critically acclaimed historian, has written the official tie-in to this exciting television event.
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The War That Made America
- A Short History of the French and Indian War
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 25-01-06
- Language: English
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The Return of Martin Guerre
- By: Natalie Zemon Davis
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the Continent. Natalie Zemon Davis reconstructs the lives of ordinary people, in a sparkling way that reveals the hidden attachments and sensibilities of nonliterate 16th-century villagers.
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Extraordinary
- By Karen on 01-02-24
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The Return of Martin Guerre
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 10-04-18
- Language: English
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Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency
- By: Louis de Rouvroy Duc de Saint-Simon, Bayle St. John - translator
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 42 hrs and 4 mins
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Duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon (1675-1755) was a French soldier, diplomat, and noted diarist. A French courtier during the 18th century, today he's best known for his comprehensive multi-volume memoirs, which depict life in France at the time. He was an indefatigable writer, and he began very early to record all the gossip he collected, all his interminable legal disputes over precedence, and a vast mass of unclassified material. He is petty, unjust to private enemies and to those who espoused public views contrary to his, as well as being an incessant gossip.
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Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 42 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 09-09-16
- Language: English
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C'est Modnifique!
- Adventures of an English Grump in Rural France
- By: Ian Moore
- Narrated by: Ian Moore
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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After six years in the idyllic Loire Valley, comedian Ian Moore, his family, and his ever-expanding menagerie are beginning to feel like they're on the cusp of the peace and tranquility they hoped for when they moved from dreary Crawley to la belle France. Their grand project, a writing school called Les Champs Créatifs, is finally complete - only, nobody's signed up.
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Lovely listen/read!
- By Ann D on 26-04-15
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C'est Modnifique!
- Adventures of an English Grump in Rural France
- Narrated by: Ian Moore
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-12-14
- Language: English
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Napoleon
- The Art of War & Power
- By: Napoleon Bonaparte
- Narrated by: Stephane Cornicard, Andrew Wincott
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
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Napoleon Bonaparte's ascent to power was meteoric. Ever the outsider and regarded by many as an upstart, his extraordinary determination, courage, and tactical skill saw him rise from ordinary beginnings to become the greatest military commander of his age. A brigadier general by the age of 24, crowned Emperor of France by age 35, he had conquered most of the countries of Europe by the time he was 45.
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Napoleon
- The Art of War & Power
- Narrated by: Stephane Cornicard, Andrew Wincott
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 30-10-23
- Language: English
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