World Disasters

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    • The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
    • By: Andrew Leatherbarrow
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl's fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation....

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    • The How and Why of the World's Worst Aviation Disaster
    • By: Jon Ziomek, Caroline Hopkins - contributor
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The world's worst air disaster happened more than 40 years ago on a remote Atlantic Ocean island, when two fully loaded 747 passenger jets collided after a horrendous series of human errors....

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    • 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
    • By: William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-2019
    • Language: English
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    • 1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall....

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    • El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
    • By: Mike Davis
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....

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    • The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
    • By: Adam Higginbotham
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 218 ratings
    • Midnight In Chernobyl is an indelible portrait of one of the great disasters of the 20th century, of human resilience and ingenuity and the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will....

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    • The Hitler Years, Book 2
    • By: Frank McDonough
    • Narrated by: Paul McGann
    • Series: The Hitler Years, Book 2
    • Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The second volume in a new, immensely listenable narrative of the rise and catastrophic fall of the Nazi regime by a respected expert on the Third Reich....

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    • The Life and Loss of the RMS Titanic
    • By: Tad Fitch, J. Kent Layton, Bill Wormstedt, George Behe - introduction
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 32 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-2024
    • Language: English
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    • On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Of the 2,208 people on board, only 712 were saved. The rest either drowned or froze to death.

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    • The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
    • By: Peter Zeihan
    • Narrated by: Peter Zeihan, Roy Worley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push France, Turkey, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to the top of international concerns? Find out more....

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    • A True Story from a Hotter World
    • By: John Vaillant
    • Narrated by: Alan Carlson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • John Vaillant explores the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind in this stunning account of this century's most intense urban fire....

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    • The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story
    • By: Pablo Vierci, Jennie Erikson - translator
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 14-12-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • It was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly into the Andean mountains to devastating consequences....

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    • By: Hazel Gaynor
    • Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Liverpool 1940. Alice King stands on the deck of SS Carlisle, waiting to escort a group of children to Canada as overseas evacuees. She is finally doing her bit for the war....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Myriam J. A. Chancy
    • Narrated by: Ella Turenne
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 14-09-2021
    • Language: English
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    • At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster....

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    • Survive the Fall, Book 1
    • By: Derek Shupert
    • Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
    • Series: Survive the Fall, Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • It had been 12 months since the worst day in Russell’s life. The anniversary of his daughter’s death sent him into the bottle. He loved his wife, but they grieved in different ways. Would the pain ever stop? Sarah missed Russell. She lay in bed unable to sleep....

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    • Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever
    • By: Jared Knott
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • How often does a single tiny mistake cause an entire civilization to collapse? More often than you think! Listeners of Jared Knott’s book Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters will be amazed at the little things that changed history in a big way....

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