Great Disasters

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    • The Story of the Fight to Expose a Multimillion Pound IT Disaster Which Put Innocent People in Jail
    • By: Nick Wallis
    • Narrated by: Nick Wallis
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • This is the story of how these innocent people fought back to clear their names against a background of institutional arrogance and obfuscation, a fight dragged out by the Post Office’s refusal to accept responsibility for its failings....

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    • The True Story of the Great Springhill Mine Disaster
    • By: Ken Cuthbertson
    • Narrated by: Miles Meili
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-09-2023
    • Language: English
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    • The riveting true story of one of Canada’s worst mining disasters, Blood on the Coal is told in the voices of the men who survived it.

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    • The Battle for Afghanistan
    • By: William Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: Sagar Arya
    • Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Using a range of forgotten Afghan and Indian sources, William Dalrymple's masterful retelling of Britain's greatest imperial disaster is a powerful parable of colonial ambition and cultural collision, folly and hubris. Return of a King is history at its most urgent and important....

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    • The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
    • By: Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Kate Winkler Dawson's debut, Death in the Air, is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing....

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    • The Classified World War Ii Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer
    • By: Jennet Conant
    • Narrated by: John Kroft
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-2020
    • Language: English
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    • On the night of December 2nd, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed an Allied port in Bari, Italy.. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard bombs....

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    • The Biography, Fire and Pestilence
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 12-09-2005
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs, but this is not a simple chronological record....

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    • The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
    • By: Gary Krist
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-2018
    • Language: English
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    • From renowned writer and travel journalist Gary Krist comes the story of two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, hit by a devastating avalanche....

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    • Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
    • By: Douglas Brinkley
    • Narrated by: Kyf Brewer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-2006
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In The Great Deluge, Douglas Brinkley, a New Orleans resident and professor of history at Tulane University, rips the story of Katrina apart....

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    • By: William Kent Krueger
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson, William Kent Krueger
    • Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • It’s 1927, and the most devastating flood in American history has swelled the Mississippi River to a width of eighty miles. In an attempt to save a family trapped by the rising water, four men in a tiny rowboat battle the treacherous flow....

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    • How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself
    • By: Philip L. Fradkin
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-2012
    • Language: English
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    • The first indication of the prolonged terror that followed the 1906 earthquake occurred when a ship steaming off San Francisco's Golden Gate "seemed to jump clear out of the water"....

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    • The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
    • By: Daniel James Brown
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Daniel James Brown
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • On September 1, 1894, two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire....

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    • The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
    • By: Stephen Puleo
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Sarah Blake
    • Narrated by: Shayna Small
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 09-04-2019
    • Language: English
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    • A wildly imaginative novel of the reluctant heroine who rescued life on earth....

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    • By: John Prebble
    • Narrated by: David Monteath
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 27-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • On December 28th, 1879, the night of the Great Storm, the Tay Bridge collapsed, along with the train that was crossing and everyone on board....

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    • How the Great Flood of 1913, America’s Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever
    • By: Geoff Williams
    • Narrated by: Jim Vann
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-2013
    • Language: English
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    • The incredible story of a flood of near-Biblical proportions - its destruction, its heroes and victims, and how it shaped America’s natural-disaster policies for the next century....

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