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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- By: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
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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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History at its best
- By Anonymous User on 28-02-2024
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-05-2023
- Language: English
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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
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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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Great History
- By Derek Ironside-Hughes on 09-09-2024
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Black Flags, Blue Waters
- The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-10-2018
- Language: English
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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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Reformations
- The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
- By: Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 39 hrs and 42 mins
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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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Appears a bit pro-Catholic
- By Joshua Ebert on 17-11-2024
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Reformations
- The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 39 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 19-06-2018
- Language: English
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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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Hoax
- The Catholic Plot That Never Was
- By: Victor Stater
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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In 1678, a handful of perjurers claimed that the Catholics of England planned to assassinate the king. Victor Stater examines the Popish Plot in full, arguing that it had a profound and lasting significance on British politics....
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Hoax
- The Catholic Plot That Never Was
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 13-09-2022
- Language: English
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In 1678, a handful of perjurers claimed that the Catholics of England planned to assassinate the king. Victor Stater examines the Popish Plot in full, arguing that it had a profound and lasting significance on British politics....
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English Civil War: A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: William Irvine
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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In 1642, King Charles I and the elected Parliament of England went to war over the future of the Stuart kingdom. Over the next nine years, three civil wars would be fought, devastating the populations of England, Scotland, and Ireland....
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English Civil War: A History from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: William Irvine
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Release date: 20-12-2017
- Language: English
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In 1642, King Charles I and the elected Parliament of England went to war over the future of the Stuart kingdom. Over the next nine years, three civil wars would be fought, devastating the populations of England, Scotland, and Ireland....
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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
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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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Killers of the King
- The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 11-11-2021
- Language: English
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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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They Flew
- A History of the Impossible
- By: Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
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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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They Flew
- A History of the Impossible
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 13-02-2024
- Language: English
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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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A Warrior Dynasty
- The Rise and Fall of Sweden as a Military Superpower 1611-1721
- By: Henrik O. Lunde
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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This audiobook examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s....
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A Warrior Dynasty
- The Rise and Fall of Sweden as a Military Superpower 1611-1721
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 24-12-2014
- Language: English
- This audiobook examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s....
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The Dutch East India Company: A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Bridger Conklin
- Length: 1 hr
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Once valued at close to seven trillion dollars by today’s standards, the Dutch East India Company, formed in 1602, became the world’s first multinational corporation....
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The Dutch East India Company: A History from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Bridger Conklin
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 29-11-2017
- Language: English
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Once valued at close to seven trillion dollars by today’s standards, the Dutch East India Company, formed in 1602, became the world’s first multinational corporation....
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Mayflower
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Jimmy Kieffer
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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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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Mayflower
- A History from Beginning to End
- 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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A Hangman’s Diary
- The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
- By: Franz Schmidt, Albrecht Keller - editor and translator, C. Calvert BA - translator, and others
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Now an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman's Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt's executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason for the punishment....
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A Hangman’s Diary
- The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 17-08-2021
- Language: English
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Now an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman's Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt's executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason for the punishment....
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Illuminating History
- A Retrospective of Seven Decades
- By: Bernard Bailyn
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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Over a remarkable career Bernard Bailyn has reshaped our understanding of the early American past. Illuminating History is the most personal of Bailyn's works....
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Illuminating History
- A Retrospective of Seven Decades
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 07-07-2020
- Language: English
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Over a remarkable career Bernard Bailyn has reshaped our understanding of the early American past. Illuminating History is the most personal of Bailyn's works....
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Charles I: An Abbreviated Life
- Penguin Monarchs, Book 4
- By: Mark Kishlansky
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
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A remarkable portrait of one of the most talented, thoughtful, loyal, moral, artistically alert and yet, somehow, disastrous of all this country's rulers....
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Charles I: An Abbreviated Life
- Penguin Monarchs, Book 4
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Series: Penguin Monarchs
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-06-2018
- Language: English
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A remarkable portrait of one of the most talented, thoughtful, loyal, moral, artistically alert and yet, somehow, disastrous of all this country's rulers....
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Devil-Land
- England Under Siege, 1588-1688
- By: Clare Jackson
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
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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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Devil-Land
- England Under Siege, 1588-1688
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 21-07-2022
- Language: English
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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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The Enlightenment
- And Why it Still Matters
- By: Anthony Pagden
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
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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 Enlightenment
- And Why it Still Matters
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 07-02-2014
- Language: English
- 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 Favourite
- By: Ophelia Field
- Narrated by: Natalie Boscombe
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
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This biography brings Sarah Churchill's own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life and casts a critical eye over images of the Duchess handed down through art, history and literature....
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Boring
- By Robyn on 23-11-2024
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The Favourite
- Narrated by: Natalie Boscombe
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 01-11-2018
- Language: English
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This biography brings Sarah Churchill's own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life and casts a critical eye over images of the Duchess handed down through art, history and literature....
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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
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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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Lacks narrative flair
- By mrs on 21-11-2015
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Under the Black Flag
- The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 29-11-2011
- Language: English
- 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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An Alternative History of Britain
- The Tudors
- By: Timothy Venning
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Timothy Venning's series of alternative histories explores the pathways of British events from the Anglo-Saxon Age to the English Civil War. In this volume, he presents an in-depth analysis of the Tudor period.
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An Alternative History of Britain
- The Tudors
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 19-03-2024
- Language: English
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Timothy Venning's series of alternative histories explores the pathways of British events from the Anglo-Saxon Age to the English Civil War. In this volume, he presents an in-depth analysis of the Tudor period.
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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
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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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The Dutch Moment
- War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
- Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-10-2019
- Language: English
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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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Viceroys
- By: Christopher Lee
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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Viceroys is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of how the modern British identity was established....
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Viceroys
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 30-08-2018
- Language: English
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Viceroys is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of how the modern British identity was established....
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