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  • The Thirty Years War cover art

    • The Thirty Years War

    • Europe's Tragedy
    • By: Peter H. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world....

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    • Black Flags, Blue Waters

    • The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....

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    • They Flew

    • A History of the Impossible
    • By: Carlos M. N. Eire
    • Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
    • Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal....

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    • Under the Black Flag

    • The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
    • By: David Cordingly
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • As he explodes many accepted pirate myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier....

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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
    • Release date: 07-11-2024
    • Language: English
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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.

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    • The Enlightenment

    • And Why it Still Matters
    • By: Anthony Pagden
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-2014
    • Language: English
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    • One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world....

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    • The Dutch Moment

    • War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
    • By: Wim Klooster
    • Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast....

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    • Reformations

    • The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
    • By: Carlos M. N. Eire
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 39 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 19-06-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the 200-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day....

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    • Devil-Land

    • England Under Siege, 1588-1688
    • By: Clare Jackson
    • Narrated by: Emma Gregory
    • Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Clare Jackson's dazzling original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis....

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    • Unfabling the East

    • The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
    • By: Jürgen Osterhammel, Robert Savage - translator
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • During the long 18th century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. Author Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East....

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    • Republic

    • Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660
    • By: Alice Hunt
    • Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Events moved fast in the 1650s. Something cataclysmic happened every year, something that would thrust the newly formed republic, its people, and its eventual 'Lord Protector' Oliver Cromwell, in an entirely new direction.

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    • 1619

    • Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
    • By: James Horn
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Along the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course of history....

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    • Killers of the King

    • The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
    • By: Charles Spencer
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain’s history, Parliament faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender....

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    • Qing Dynasty

    • A History from Beginning to End (History of China)
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-2023
    • Language: English
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    • The history of China as a single nation began more than 2,000 years ago, when Qin Shi Huangdi first united a group of warring kingdoms into a single empire....

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    • The Vanishing Point

    • By: Andrea Hotere
    • Narrated by: Victoria Fox
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 04-10-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • London, 1991: Alex Johns, trainee art intern at the Courtauld, believes a hidden secret lies within Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas—one of the most written about paintings of all time....

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    • The Pirate Hunter

    • By: Richard Zacks
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-2004
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer....

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    • Mayflower

    • A History from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Jimmy Kieffer
    • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-2018
    • Language: English
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    • The story of the Mayflower is one of adventure, courage, and destiny. Leaving England in September of 1620, the ship carried 102 English Separatists to a new life, one that came with the freedom to practice their religious beliefs as they saw fit....

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    • Providence Lost

    • The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate
    • By: Paul Lay
    • Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart King Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king's son and his Scottish allies....

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