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The Women of Little Lon
- Sex Workers in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne
- By: Barbara Minchinton
- Narrated by: Fiona Macleod, James Saunders
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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Sex workers in 19th-century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them. But theirs was a thriving trade, with links to the police and political leaders of the day, and the leading brothels were usually managed by women. While today a popular bar and a city lane are famously named after Madame Brussels, the identities of the other ‘flash madams’, the ‘dressed girls’ who worked for them and the hundreds of women who solicited on the streets of the Little Lon district of Melbourne are not remembered.
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Great book!
- By Anjella on 13-11-2022
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The Women of Little Lon
- Sex Workers in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne
- Narrated by: Fiona Macleod, James Saunders
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 01-10-2021
- Language: English
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Tripped
- Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
- By: Norman Ohler
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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Berlin, 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use — long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws — is rampant throughout the city. In the American sector, Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis' drug policies and bringing home anything that might prove 'useful'.
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Interesting history of psychedelics
- By Richie on 19-09-2024
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Blood and Iron
- The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918
- By: Katja Hoyer
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser, convincing proud Prussians, Bavarians and Rhinelanders to become Germans? Once united, could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and France—all without destroying itself in the process?
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Excellent of Bismarck’s Germany
- By Brad Abraham on 16-07-2024
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Blood and Iron
- The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871-1918
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 18-08-2022
- Language: English
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Seabiscuit
- Three Men and a Racehorse
- By: Laura Hillenbrand
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
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Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and the basis of a major film adaptation, Seabiscuit is the true story of three men and their dreams for one racehorse. A story that symbolises a pivotal moment in US history, as modern America was born out of the crucible of the Depression and the new century’s greatest nation found the courage to bet on itself to win against the odds. In 1936, the habits of 19th-century America were finally consigned to history just as Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind was published.
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Great story
- By Mike on 25-09-2023
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Seabiscuit
- Three Men and a Racehorse
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 08-07-2013
- Language: English
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The Habsburg Empire
- A New History
- By: Pieter M. Judson
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
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Rejecting fragmented histories of nations in the making, this bold revision surveys the shared institutions that bridged difference and distance to bring stability and meaning to the far-flung empire. By supporting new schools, law courts, and railroads along with scientific and artistic advances, the Habsburg monarchs sought to anchor their authority in the cultures and economies of Central Europe. A rising standard of living throughout the empire deepened the legitimacy of Habsburg rule.
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A refreshing history of the Late Habsburg Empire
- By Anonymous User on 03-01-2020
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The Habsburg Empire
- A New History
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 25-01-2017
- 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
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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: 27-07-2021
- Language: English
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Spymaster
- Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
- By: Tennent H. Bagley
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia’s notorious KGB espionage apparatus. Rising through its ranks through hard work and keen understanding of how the spy and political games are played, he “handled” American and British defectors, recruited Western operatives as double agents, served as a ranking officer at the East Berlin and Vienna KGB bureaus, and tackled special assignments from the Kremlin.
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Interesting insights
- By Chip Henriss on 22-07-2017
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Spymaster
- Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 06-11-2013
- Language: English
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Yasuke
- By: Thomas Lockley, Geoffrey Girard
- Narrated by: Jude Owusu
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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The man who came to be known as Yasuke arrived in Japan in the 16th century, an indentured mercenary arriving upon one of the Portuguese ships carrying a new language, a new religion and an introduction to the slave trade. Curiously tall, bald, massively built and black skinned, he was known as a steadfast bodyguard of immense strength and stature, swiftly capturing the interest and thence the trust, of the most powerful family in all of Japan. Two years later, he vanished.
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Yasuke
- Narrated by: Jude Owusu
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 27-03-2020
- Language: English
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The Rise of Communism: From Marx to Lenin
- By: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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How did communism become such a pervasive economic and political philosophy? Why did it first take root in early 20th-century Russia? These and other questions are part of a fascinating story whose drama has few equals in terms of sheer scale, scope, or human suffering and belief. These 12 lectures invite you to go inside communism’s journey from a collection of political and economic theories to a revolutionary movement that rocked the world.
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Key errors make this a flawed series
- By Rjurik Davidson on 09-07-2024
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The Rise of Communism: From Marx to Lenin
- Narrated by: Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-11-2019
- Language: English
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- By: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas in one small office, five windows wide, and answerable only to its distant shareholders. In his most ambitious and riveting audiobook to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.
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Directionless and difficult to follow.
- By Howling Fantods on 09-12-2019
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 17-10-2019
- Language: English
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Ten Days That Shook the World
- By: John Reed
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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A journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, John Reed gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and the chance comments of bystanders, set against an idealized backcloth of the proletariat, soldiers, sailors, and peasants uniting to throw off oppression, Reed's account is the product of passionate involvement and remains a classic of reporting.
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Ten Days That Shook the World
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 01-12-2016
- Language: English
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Churchill, Hitler, and 'The Unnecessary War'
- How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
- By: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen - Winston Churchill first among them - the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins.
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Enlightening
- By Anonymous User on 25-05-2024
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Churchill, Hitler, and 'The Unnecessary War'
- How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 29-08-2008
- Language: English
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The Invention of Sicily
- A Mediterranean History
- By: Jamie Mackay
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, and the Spanish and the French for thousands of years, Sicily became a unique melting pot where diverse traditions merged, producing a unique heritage and singular culture. In this fascinating account of the island from the earliest times to the present day, author and journalist Jamie Mackay leads us through this most elusive of places.
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Brilliant overview
- By Daniel on 12-02-2023
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The Invention of Sicily
- A Mediterranean History
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 13-07-2021
- Language: English
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
- The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
- By: Lucy Adlington
- Narrated by: Lucy Adlington
- Length: 12 hrs
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At the height of the Holocaust, 25 young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - mainly Jewish women and girls - were selected to design, cut and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. Drawing on diverse sources - including interviews with the last surviving seamstress - The Dressmakers of Auschwitz follows the fates of these brave women.
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Amazing, moving, sensitive story
- By Anonymous User on 11-02-2022
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
- The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
- Narrated by: Lucy Adlington
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 02-09-2021
- Language: English
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Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: Nick Sandys
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period’s most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw’s research on the Holocaust for the first time. The writings are arranged in three sections - Hitler and the Final Solution, popular opinion and the Jews in Nazi Germany, and the Final Solution in historiography - and Kershaw provides an introduction and a closing section on the uniqueness of Nazism.
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Kershaw, like a searchlight, illuminates Europe’s Darkest Topic. Brilliant.
- By Simon on 02-11-2019
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Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution
- Narrated by: Nick Sandys
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 22-01-2019
- Language: English
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Agent Sonya
- Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
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In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944, a thin and unusually elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted mother of three, attentive wife and friendly neighbour, Sonya Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity. However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, Sonya was heading for the Oxfordshire countryside to gather scientific secrets from a nuclear physicist. Secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the atomic bomb.
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Good story.
- By Anonymous User on 09-11-2020
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Agent Sonya
- Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2020
- Language: English
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One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
- By: Craig Brown
- Narrated by: Mark McGann, Kate Robbins, Craig Brown
- Length: 20 hrs and 20 mins
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One Two Three Four traces the chance fusion of the four key elements that made up the Beatles: fire (John), water (Paul), air (George) and earth (Ringo). It also tells the bizarre and often unfortunate tales of the disparate and colourful people within their orbit. History, etymology, diaries, autobiography, fan letters, essays, parallel lives, party lists, charts, interviews, announcements and stories.
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A huge disappointment
- By Les Clarence on 16-01-2023
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One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
- Narrated by: Mark McGann, Kate Robbins, Craig Brown
- Length: 20 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2020
- Language: English
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Our Crime Was Being Jewish
- Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories
- By: Anthony S. Pitch
- Narrated by: Malk Williams, Fenella Fudge
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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Our Crime Was Being Jewish contains 576 vivid memories of 358 Holocaust survivors. These are the true, insider stories of victims, told in their own words. They include the experiences of teenagers who saw their parents and siblings sent to the gas chambers; of starving children beaten for trying to steal a morsel of food; of people who saw their friends commit suicide to save themselves from the daily agony they endured.
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disturbing
- By Amazon Customer on 04-02-2020
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Our Crime Was Being Jewish
- Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories
- Narrated by: Malk Williams, Fenella Fudge
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 07-07-2015
- Language: English
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Victory in the West 1945
- By: Peter Caddick-Adams TD VR BA (Hons) PhD FRHistS FRGS KJ
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
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March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is finally within their grasp. But if they believe this victory can be easily won, they face swift disillusionment. The final 100 days of the Second World War will prove to be bitterly and bloodily fought, village by village, town by town. Acclaimed military historian Peter Caddick-Adams brings this closing stage of the Allies' fight against Nazi Germany brilliantly to life. He explores the immense challenges they faced in crossing the Rhine on a 300-mile front.
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Required listening
- By Long distance car driver on 07-09-2022
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Victory in the West 1945
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 19-05-2022
- Language: English
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Crimea
- By: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
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The terrible conflict that dominated the mid-19th century, the Crimean War, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe of land from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf. But it was also a war of religion, driven by a fervent, populist and ever more ferocious belief by the Tsar and his ministers that it was Russia's task to rule all Orthodox Christians and control the Holy Land.
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Crimea
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 20 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 12-07-2018
- Language: English
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