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All His Spies
- The Secret World of Robert Cecil
- By: Stephen Alford
- Narrated by: Stephen Alford
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
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Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor and enemies both external and internal threatened to destroy England as a Protestant state, most spectacularly with the Spanish Armada and the Gunpowder Plot. All His Spies is a wonderfully engaging and original work of history. Many listeners are familiar with the great events of this tumultuous time, but All His Spies shows how easily these dramas could have turned out very differently.
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All His Spies
- The Secret World of Robert Cecil
- Narrated by: Stephen Alford
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 04-07-2024
- Language: English
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Steel Lobsters
- Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights in England
- By: Myke Cole
- Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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The 17th-century battlefield ushered in a new era, with formed musketeers and pistol-wielding cavalry gradually taking over from the knights and men-at-arms that had dominated the European battlefield. Based on a detailed study of the primary sources, Steel Lobsters tells the story of this transition through the history of the last fully armoured knights in England.
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Steel Lobsters
- Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights in England
- Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 07-11-2024
- Language: English
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Frederick the Great
- A Military History
- By: Dennis Showalter
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
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Frederick the Great is one of history's most important leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe, securing Prussia's place as a continental power and inaugurating a new pattern of total war that was to endure until 1916. However, much myth surrounds this enigmatic man's personality and his role as politician, warrior, and king.
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Frederick the Great
- A Military History
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-08-2020
- Language: English
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Jawbreaker
- The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
- By: Gary Berntsen, Ralph Pezzullo
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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In Jawbreaker, Gary Berntsen, until recently one of the CIA's most decorated officers, comes out from under cover for the first time to describe his no-holds-barred pursuit of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.
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Interesting story
- By Rodney on 19-02-2020
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Jawbreaker
- The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 22-12-2005
- Language: English
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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 - with practical tips on just how to horrify the neighbours. From royalty to peasantry, every age has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the wrong way. But their niggling, antisocial and irritating ways tell us about not only what upset people but also what mattered to them, how their society functioned and what kind of world they lived in.
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Couldn't finish it
- By Jen on 22-02-2022
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How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain
- Narrated by: Ruth Goodman
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 05-04-2018
- Language: English
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Born to Be Hanged
- The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
- By: Keith Thomson
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than 300 daring, hardened pirates—a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers—gather on a remote Caribbean island. The plan: to wreak havoc on the Pacific coastline, raiding cities, mines, and merchant ships. The booty: the bright gleam of Spanish gold and the chance to become a legend. So begins one of the greatest piratical adventures of the era—a story not given its full due until now.
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Born to Be Hanged
- The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 10-05-2022
- Language: English
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History's Lost Speeches
- By: Professor Suzannah Lipscomb
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A five part series exploring how the story of Western ideology may have unfolded differently in the 20th Century, based on the undelivered speeches of world leaders. Features academics, writers and historians talking to presenter Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. Tracking through the 20th century, from the Western heroic rhetoric borne of Allied success in the D-Day Landings, all the way to Britain's present day relationship with Europe, we'll explore the fragile balance of power, nuclear armament, warfare, heroic narratives and the spread of democratic protest throughout the world.
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Exceptional and riveting
- By Patrick on 11-09-2020
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Bridge of Spies
- A True Story of the Cold War
- By: Giles Whittell
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Who were the three men the Soviet and American superpowers exchanged on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge on February 10, 1962? Bridge of Spies is the true story of those men - Rudolf Abel, a Soviet Spy who was a master of disguise; Gary Powers, an American who was captured when his spy plane was shot down; and Frederic Pryor, a young American doctor mistakenly identified as a spy. They had been drawn into the nadir of the Cold War by duty and curiosity, rescued against daunting odds by fate and by their families, and then all but forgotten.
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Bridge of Spies
- A True Story of the Cold War
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-04-2012
- Language: English
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Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation
- Journeys in Bougainville (Pacific Series)
- By: Gordon Peake
- Narrated by: Gordon Peake
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Blending narrative history, travelogue, and personal reminiscences, Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation is an engaging memoir as well as an insightful meditation on the realities of nation-making and international development.
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Great Storytelling
- By Anonymous User on 07-06-2024
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Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation
- Journeys in Bougainville (Pacific Series)
- Narrated by: Gordon Peake
- Series: Pacific Series
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 01-02-2023
- Language: English
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Radio Free Afghanistan
- A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul
- By: Saad Mohseni, Jenna Krajeski
- Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby Group, Afghanistan’s largest media company, charts a twenty-year effort to bring a free press to his country after years of Taliban rule, and how that effort persists even after the Taliban’s return to power in 2021. Radio Free Afghanistan is a stunning, vibrant portrait of a nation in turmoil, poised between despair and hope.
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Radio Free Afghanistan
- A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul
- Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 24-09-2024
- Language: English
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The Invention of Murder
- How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
- By: Judith Flanders
- Narrated by: Janice McKenzie
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
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A deeply engaging and completely original book about nineteenth-century Britain’s fascination with good quality murder. Murder in nineteenth-century Britain was ubiquitous – not necessarily in quantity but in quality. This was the era of penny-bloods, early crime fiction and melodramas for the masses.
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Quite entertaining
- By JayD on 12-11-2022
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The Invention of Murder
- How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
- Narrated by: Janice McKenzie
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 20-01-2011
- Language: English
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Wake Up
- Why the world has gone nuts
- By: Piers Morgan
- Narrated by: Piers Morgan
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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In 2020, the world faced its biggest crisis in a generation: a global pandemic. In the UK, it exposed deep divisions within society and laid bare a toxic culture war that had been raging beneath the surface. From the outset, Piers Morgan urged the nation to come to its senses, once and for all, and held the government to often ferocious account over its handling of the crisis. COVID-19 shed shocking light on the problems that plague our country. Stockpilers and lockdown-cheats revealed our grotesque levels of self-interest.
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listen to both sides
- By lmc on 15-08-2021
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Wake Up
- Why the world has gone nuts
- Narrated by: Piers Morgan
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 12-10-2020
- Language: English
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The Immediate Aftermath of WWII
- Rebuilding Nations, Redrawing Borders, and the Birth of a New World Order (World War II: A Comprehensive History, Book 2)
- By: Alexander L. Sheppard
- Narrated by: Daniel Hamel
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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WWII forever changed what it means to go to war. After putting down this book, you'll understand exactly why.
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The Immediate Aftermath of WWII
- Rebuilding Nations, Redrawing Borders, and the Birth of a New World Order (World War II: A Comprehensive History, Book 2)
- Narrated by: Daniel Hamel
- Series: World War II: A Comprehensive History, Book 2
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 18-10-2024
- Language: English
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Assad
- The Triumph of Tyranny
- By: Con Coughlin
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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In Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny, Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Middle East and author of Saddam: The Secret Life, examines how a mild-mannered ophthalmic surgeon has transformed himself into the tyrannical ruler of a once flourishing country.
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Assad
- The Triumph of Tyranny
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 22-06-2023
- Language: English
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Hubris
- The Origins of Russia's War Against Ukraine
- By: Jonathan Haslam
- Narrated by: Jonathan Haslam
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukraine conflict that began eight years earlier. But Russia’s recent rise on the world’s stage began long before that historic date. In Hubris, Jonathan Haslam, one of the world’s greatest experts on Russian foreign policy and espionage, examines one of the most intractable issues of our time.
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Hubris
- The Origins of Russia's War Against Ukraine
- Narrated by: Jonathan Haslam
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-09-2024
- Language: English
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Vulcan Boys
- From the Cold War to the Falklands: True Tales of the Iconic Delta V Bomber
- By: Tony Blackman
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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The Vulcan, the second of the three V bombers built to guard the UK during the Cold War, has become an aviation icon like the Spitfire, its delta shape instantly recognizable, as is the howling noise it makes when the engines are opened for takeoff. Vulcan Boys is the first Vulcan book recounted completely firsthand by the operators themselves.
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Vulcan Boys
- From the Cold War to the Falklands: True Tales of the Iconic Delta V Bomber
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2015
- Language: English
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Next War
- Reimagining How We Fight
- By: John Antal
- Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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The nature of war is constant change. We live in an era of exponential technological acceleration which is transforming how wars are waged. Today, the battlespace is transparent; multi-domain sensors can see anything, and long-range precision fire can target everything that is observed. Autonomous weapons can be unleashed into the battlespace and attack any target from above, hitting the weakest point of tanks and armored vehicles. The velocity of war is hyper-fast.
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Next War
- Reimagining How We Fight
- Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-10-2023
- Language: English
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The Berlin Wall
- By: Frederick Taylor
- Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
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The appearance of a hastily constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days, it had started to metamorphose into a structure that would come to symbolise the brutal insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. A city of almost four million was cut ruthlessly in two, unleashing a potentially catastrophic East-West crisis and plunging the entire world for the first time into the fear of imminent missile-borne apocalypse.
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Fascinating History
- By zico on 13-10-2022
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The Berlin Wall
- Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-01-2020
- Language: English
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Beautiful and Impossible Things
- By: Oscar Wilde, Gyles Brandreth - introduction
- Narrated by: John Telfer, Gyles Brandreth - introduction
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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This selection of essays by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) demonstrate the varied power of his genius. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these writings show that beneath his trademark wit and love of paradox, Oscar Wilde was an original and remarkably modern writer.
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Beautiful and Impossible Things
- Narrated by: John Telfer, Gyles Brandreth - introduction
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 22-02-2018
- Language: English
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Opening the Gates of Hell
- The Untold Story of Herbert Kenny, the Man Who Discovered Belsen
- By: Mark Hodkinson
- Narrated by: Jason Done
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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With unprecedented access to Herbert's diaries, letters and interviews, Mark Hodkinson brings to life the harrowing conditions of Belsen and its eventual liberation. From the events leading up to its gruesome discovery, to the trauma Herbert faced and his abandonment in the aftermath, this is a testament to the power of one person in the face of unimaginable darkness.
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Opening the Gates of Hell
- The Untold Story of Herbert Kenny, the Man Who Discovered Belsen
- Narrated by: Jason Done
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 01-08-2024
- Language: English
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