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    • The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
    • By: James Gardner
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 09-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
    • By: Leonie Frieda
    • Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The best-selling revisionist biography of one of the great women of the 16th century. Orphaned in infancy, Catherine de Medici was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune....

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    • By: Antonia Fraser
    • Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
    • Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions....

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    • The Life of Charles de Gaulle
    • By: Julian Jackson
    • Narrated by: John Banks
    • Length: 35 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In six weeks in 1940, France was overrun by German troops and surrendered. One junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England....

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    • The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
    • By: Fredrik Logevall
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 32 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • An epic story of wasted opportunities and deadly miscalculations, Embers of War delves deep into the historical record to provide hard answers to the unanswered questions surrounding the demise of one Western power in Vietnam and the arrival of another....

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    • The Man Behind the Myth
    • By: Adam Zamoyski
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 27 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamoyski’s portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at its finest....

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    • By: Edmund Burke
    • Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Blending history with principle and graceful imagery with profound practical maxims, this book is one of the most influential political treatises in the history of the world....

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    • The History of the French Revolution
    • By: Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....

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    • The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
    • By: Mary Hollingsworth
    • Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-2024
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • History is rarely kind to women of power, but few have had their reputations quite so brutally shredded as Catherine de’ Medici, Italian-born queen of France and influential mother of three successive French kings.

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    • Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East
    • By: James Barr
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: Nigel Carrington
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • Within days of the D-Day landings, the 'Das Reich' 2nd SS Panzer Division marched north through France to reinforce the front-line defenders of Hitler's Fortress Europe....

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    • A Gripping Tale of Power, Ambition and Murderous Rivalry in Early Medieval France
    • By: Shelley Puhak
    • Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens, The Dark Queens is also an enthralling journey of discovery across the unfamiliar and blood-soaked historical landscape of sixth-century Merovingian France....

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    • By: Charles de Gaulle
    • Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
    • Length: 41 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-2024
    • Language: English
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    • This is the complete war memoirs of the resistance leader Charles de Gaulle, who led France out of its darkest hour during the Nazi occupation during World War II.

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    • The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
    • By: Andrea Wulf
    • Narrated by: Julie Teal
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a revolutionary group of friends based in the small German town of Jena whose modern ideas transformed society and the way we lead our lives today....

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    • Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship That Helped Forge Two Nations
    • By: Tom Chaffin
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 26-11-2019
    • Language: English
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    • In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette....

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    • By: Alan Furst
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Under Occupation is based on a true story. After the German victory in 1939, thousands of Poles were sent to Germany as slave labourers....

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    • A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris
    • By: Alex Kershaw
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The best-selling author of The Liberator brings to life the incredible true story of an American doctor in Paris and his heroic espionage efforts during the Second World War....

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    • By: Karl Marx
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 17-08-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In 1871, the Franco-Prussian War was raging. Observing these events through news reports of the time, Karl Marx made three speeches to the International Workmen's Association....

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    • The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
    • By: Lynne Olson
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In 1941 a 31-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and known for her beauty and glamour, became the leader of a vast intelligence organization - the only woman to serve as a chef de résistance during the war. Listen to learn more about Marie-Madeleine Fourcade....

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