Historical Tragedy

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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers
    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 23 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 515 ratings
    • The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller....

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    • 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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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
    • By: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-2007
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Elizabeth Strout
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler Caskey has suffered a terrible loss and finds it hard to be the person he once was.

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    • By: Ferdia Lennon
    • Narrated by: Ferdia Lennon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • It's 412 BC, and Athens' invasion of Sicily has failed catastrophically. Thousands of Athenian soldiers are held captive in the quarries of Syracuse, starving, dejected and hanging on by the slimmest of threads....

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    • A true story of adversity, tragedy, crime and courage
    • By: Mark Tedeschi
    • Narrated by: Stephen Briggs
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • This is the true-crime account of Eugenia Falleni, a woman who in 1920 was charged with the murder of her wife. Eugenia had lived in Australia for 22 years as a man and during that time officially married twice....

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    • The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 1
    • By: James Mace
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
    • Series: The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 1
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • It is December 1878, and war looms on the horizon in South Africa. British high commissioner Sir Henry Bartle-Frere seeks to dismantle the powerful neighboring kingdom of the Zulus....

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    • By: Brenda Davies
    • Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Based on a true story, The Girl Behind the Gates is the raw, heart-breaking yet ultimately uplifting tale of a young woman cut down in her prime, and of the woman who finally brings her back to life....

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    • By: S.G. MacLean
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Series: Damian Seeker, Book 6
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Multi-award-winning historical thriller writer S. G. MacLean returns to her 17th-century heartland. Charles II has been restored to the throne. A list of men who supported Cromwell must be hunted down to face a terrible traitor's death. On that list is the name of Damian Seeker....

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    • An American Life
    • By: Joyce Lee Malcolm
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-2019
    • Language: English
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    • Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict Arnold remains one of the Revolutionary period's great puzzles....

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    • The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother
    • By: Anne Sebba
    • Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 24-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Ethel Rosenberg's story has been called America's Dreyfus Affair: a catastrophic failure of humanity and justice that continues to haunt the national conscience and is still being played out with different actors in the lead roles today....

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    • By: Rita Bradshaw
    • Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Believing in Tomorrow is a heartwarming saga by Rita Bradshaw, author of the bestselling One Snowy Night: In the male-dominated society of the early 1900s, Molly has to fight prejudice and hatred, and rejection comes from all sides....

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    • The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
    • By: Michael J. Tougias
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-2006
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • He gathered his crew of four, readied his 49-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and entered the maelstrom of the blizzard that was to become known as the "Storm of the Century"....

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    • A Romanov Tragedy
    • By: Christopher Warwick
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Described as the 'most beautiful princess in Europe', and a woman 'capable of arousing profane passion', this is the story of a woman whose life combined privilege and tragedy, love and riches, conviction and courage, humanity and inhumanity....

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    • By: Annie Murray
    • Narrated by: Annie Aldington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Two very different girls from this tight-knit community join up as ARP Wardens to do their bit for the home front. Violet Simms lives with her controlling, widowed mother who runs the local pawn shop. At just 20-years-old, Violet longs for friendship, love and escape....

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    • Hearts On The Rails Series, Book 4
    • By: Rachel Wesson
    • Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
    • Series: Hearts on the Rails, Book 4
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Kathleen Green longs for a child of her own. Her work with the orphan trains only serve to heighten her need...

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    • By: Barbara Taylor Bradford
    • Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • At 47, Stephanie Jardine is at the apex of her career and her life, running the American branch of Jardine’s, the prestigious Crown Jewellers of London....

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    • The Railway Detective, Book 19
    • By: Edward Marston
    • Narrated by: Sam Dastor
    • Series: Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck, Book 19, The Railway Detective, Book 19
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • When Robert Pomeroy, a young undergraduate at Corpus Christi College, finds a letter slipped under his door in the early hours of a rainy day, he flies into a panic. He hurries to the railway station. But he doesn’t reach his destination alive....

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    • A spellbinding novel of passion, tragedy and dark secrets
    • By: Judith Lennox
    • Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore
    • Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-2020
    • Language: English
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    • It's 1915 when young Bess Ravenhart, recently widowed, leaves her baby son, Frazer, with her mother-in-law, Cora, while she sails from India to Britain to set up a home. But Cora has no intention of returning Frazer to his mother's care....

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