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Unruly
- A History of England's Kings and Queens
- By: David Mitchell
- Narrated by: David Mitchell
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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In Unruly, David Mitchell explores how early England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear to us today in their portraits....
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Really Worth it
- By Mr. William Wright on 04-12-2023
By: David Mitchell
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The Legend of Albert Jacka
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Cameron Goodall
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Our heroes can come from the most ordinary of places. As a shy young lad growing up in country Victoria, no one in the district had any idea the man Albert Jacka would become.
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The Narration is brilliant
- By Ian on 07-06-2025
By: Peter FitzSimons
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The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son
- Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom
- By: J. D. Rockefeller
- Narrated by: Rick Font
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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The 38 letters written by Rockefeller to his son imparting his perspectives, ideology, and wisdom to his son....
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Tremendously thought provoking
- By Will on 20-06-2024
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Leonardo Da Vinci
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Alfred Molina
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
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Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science....
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Highly recommended
- By Chris Andrews on 19-11-2018
By: Walter Isaacson
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The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword....
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Exceptional
- By Ian on 17-10-2018
By: Ben Macintyre
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Diary of a Young Girl
- By: Anne Frank
- Narrated by: Helena Bonham Carter
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime comes from the diary of a 13-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank....
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An Endearing Diary
- By Anna Spencer on 24-11-2017
By: Anne Frank
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Unruly
- A History of England's Kings and Queens
- By: David Mitchell
- Narrated by: David Mitchell
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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In Unruly, David Mitchell explores how early England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear to us today in their portraits....
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Really Worth it
- By Mr. William Wright on 04-12-2023
By: David Mitchell
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The Legend of Albert Jacka
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Cameron Goodall
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Our heroes can come from the most ordinary of places. As a shy young lad growing up in country Victoria, no one in the district had any idea the man Albert Jacka would become.
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The Narration is brilliant
- By Ian on 07-06-2025
By: Peter FitzSimons
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The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son
- Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom
- By: J. D. Rockefeller
- Narrated by: Rick Font
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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The 38 letters written by Rockefeller to his son imparting his perspectives, ideology, and wisdom to his son....
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Tremendously thought provoking
- By Will on 20-06-2024
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Leonardo Da Vinci
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Alfred Molina
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science....
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Highly recommended
- By Chris Andrews on 19-11-2018
By: Walter Isaacson
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The Spy and the Traitor
- The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterword....
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Exceptional
- By Ian on 17-10-2018
By: Ben Macintyre
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Diary of a Young Girl
- By: Anne Frank
- Narrated by: Helena Bonham Carter
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime comes from the diary of a 13-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank....
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An Endearing Diary
- By Anna Spencer on 24-11-2017
By: Anne Frank
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Batavia
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 17 hrs
- Unabridged
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The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland....
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Batavia - the worst voice ever
- By Karen on 25-02-2016
By: Peter FitzSimons
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The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- By: Robert A Caro
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 66 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The Power Broker tells the story of Robert Moses, the single most powerful man in New York for almost half a century and the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known.
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It feels real
- By Yusef Elleissy on 11-04-2025
By: Robert A Caro
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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Surprisingly good
- By Amazon Customer on 25-09-2017
By: Jack Weatherford
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Kingmaker
- By: Sonia Purnell
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were scathing - and often downright sexist. Written off as a social climber, her glamorous social life and infamous erotic adventures overshadowed her true legacy.
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Incredible story
- By Anonymous User on 20-04-2025
By: Sonia Purnell
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The Lives of the Caesars
- By: Suetonius, Tom Holland - translator
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth, Tom Holland
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A masterful new translation of Suetonius' renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, The Lives of the Caesars brings to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stunning detail....
By: Suetonius, and others
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Churchill
- Walking with Destiny
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 50 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over 40 new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous Churchill biography, to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors....
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good history
- By roger on 23-11-2018
By: Andrew Roberts
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Hitler's People
- The Faces of the Third Reich
- By: Richard J. Evans
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 21 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Hitler’s People is a chilling, brilliantly written work which allows the reader to understand the texture and values of the Third Reich and just how far individuals will go when so many normal moral constraints have disappeared.
By: Richard J. Evans
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Kosciuszko
- The incredible life of the man behind the mountain
- By: Anthony Sharwood
- Narrated by: Anthony Sharwood
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko: freedom fighter, friend of Thomas Jefferson and champion of liberty on two continents.
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A love letter to Australia
- By Simon A Sharwood on 06-02-2025
By: Anthony Sharwood
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Henry V
- The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
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Both standalone biography and a completion of Dan’s sequence of English medieval histories that began with The Plantagenets and The Hollow Crown, Henry V is a thrilling and unmissable life of England’s greatest king from our best-selling medieval historian.
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Incredible coverage
- By History Bookworm on 28-03-2025
By: Dan Jones
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Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- By: Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Danny Glover
- Length: 6 hrs
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The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time....
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Great story
- By Anonymous User on 03-09-2020
By: Nelson Mandela
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Mortal Monarchs
- 1,000 Years of Royal Deaths
- By: Suzie Edge
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Medical historian Dr Suzie Edge examines 1,000 years of royal deaths to present a humorous deep-dive into the varied—and oft-gruesome—deaths of the king and queens of England and Scotland....
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Entertaining
- By Emeralde on 18-05-2025
By: Suzie Edge
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Thomas Cromwell
- The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
- By: Tracy Borman
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Paul Mendez, Sandra Duncan
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Thomas Cromwell is known to millions as the leading character in Hilary Mantel's best-selling Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies....
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Thoroughly Researched
- By S.Attenborough on 16-09-2024
By: Tracy Borman
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 28 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface....
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Thorough History
- By Shane on 12-06-2016
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Double Cross
- The True Story of the D-Day Spies
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit, aimed at convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong invasion force.
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Superb
- By Anonymous User on 01-02-2025
By: Ben Macintyre
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The Spy in the Archive
- How one man tried to kill the KGB
- By: Gordon Corera
- Narrated by: Gordon Corera
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The Spy in the Archive is the remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin – an introverted archivist who loved nothing more than dusty files – ended up changing the world.
By: Gordon Corera
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The Pillow Book
- By: Sei Shōnagon
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the closing years of the 10th century....
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Poetic accounts of court life
- By Deirdre E Siegel on 26-04-2025
By: Sei Shōnagon
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Diana
- Her True Story - in Her Own Words
- By: Andrew Morton
- Narrated by: Caroline Langrishe, Michael Maloney, Andrew Morton, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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A reissue of this classic title, updated with never-before-published material from the original taped interviews and with a new introduction by Andrew Morton...
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Good read
- By Helen on 19-01-2019
By: Andrew Morton
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Too Much and Never Enough
- How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
- By: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Narrated by: Mary L. Trump PhD
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up....
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Fascinating... Absolutely Fascinating!
- By Love to listen on 17-07-2020
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Stalin
- The Court of the Red Tsar
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar....
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one of the most enthralling books I've listened to
- By The Quiet Reader on 20-03-2020
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The Indifferent Stars Above
- The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party
- By: Daniel James Brown
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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In early December 1846, starving and desperate, Sarah Graves and 14 other pioneers led by George Donner set out for California on snowshoes and over the next 32 days endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors....
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Incredibly in-depth look at The Donner Party
- By Lisa A Kearney on 06-01-2021
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Exactly
- How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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Best-selling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson....
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A revelation and a delight
- By The Quiet Reader on 11-05-2018
By: Simon Winchester
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American Prometheus
- The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- By: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Touching
- By Anju on 16-03-2018
By: Kai Bird, and others
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SAS Great Escapes Four
- By: Damien Lewis
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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SAS Great Escapes Four recounts how soldiers of the world's most famous fighting force, the SAS, carried out some of the most daring escapes of World War Two.
By: Damien Lewis
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The Churchill Factor
- How One Man Made History
- By: Boris Johnson
- Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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Now leader of the UK himself, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the 'Churchill Factor' - the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the 20th century....
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Indefaticable
- By EileenH on 25-12-2024
By: Boris Johnson
New Releases
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The Spy in the Archive
- How one man tried to kill the KGB
- By: Gordon Corera
- Narrated by: Gordon Corera
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret archive in the world. The answer is to be a librarian. To be so quiet, that no-one knows what you are up to as you toil undercover over decades and so low key, that even after your escape, aided by MI6, no-one even notices you are gone. The Spy in the Archive is the remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin – an introverted archivist who loved nothing more than dusty files – ended up changing the world.
By: Gordon Corera
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Capitalism and Its Critics
- A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World
- By: John Cassidy
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
- Length: 23 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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At a time when we are faced with fundamental questions about the sustainability of the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of the now dominant system of global capitalism, from colonialism and the Industrial Revolution to the ecological crisis and artificial intelligence. John Cassidy adopts a bold new approach: he tells the story through the eyes of the system’s critics.
By: John Cassidy
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Zbig
- The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Cold War Prophet
- By: Edward Luce
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 23 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Zbigniew Brzezinski was a political strategist who rose to prominence as an intellectual architect of US foreign policy during the Cold War. As National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter and a trusted advisor to US presidents from John F. Kennedy onwards, Brzezinski’s expertise helped shape global strategy at critical moments—most significantly as a key figure in the downfall of the Soviet Union.
By: Edward Luce
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Mellon vs. Churchill
- The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
- By: Jill Eicher
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Andrew Mellon, one of the most accomplished businessmen of his era, is almost unknown today. To this shy, diffident (but brilliant) man fell the daunting task of collecting the war debts from European governments still devastated by WWI and struggling to recover economically. Dealing with the US Congress and the heads of foreign governments on the world stage became one of the great adventures of his life. Mellon vs. Churchill presents Winston Churchill through a different lens, focusing on his service as Chancellor of the Exchequer when Great Britain was the largest debtor to the US.
By: Jill Eicher
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The Art Spy
- The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
- By: Michelle Young
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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On August 25, 1944, Rose Valland, a woman of quiet daring, found herself in a desperate position. From the windows of her beloved Jeu de Paume museum, where she had worked and ultimately spied, she could see the battle to liberate Paris thundering around her. The Jeu de Paume, co-opted by Nazi leadership, was now the Germans’ final line of defense. Would the museum curator be killed before she could tell the truth—a story that would mean nothing less than saving humanity’s cultural inheritance?
By: Michelle Young
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Operation Pimento
- My Great-Grandfather's Great Escape
- By: Adam Hart
- Narrated by: Adam Hart
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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On 14 August 1943, a specially adapted Halifax bomber took off from RAF Tempsford, an SOE airbase in rural England. Their secret mission was to drop vital supplies to the French Resistance, deep in occupied France. But their plane crashed into a village near Annecy, killing all six of the crew and five civilians. Only Adam Hart's great-grandfather, Frank Griffiths, survived. Seventy-nine years later, Adam retraced that journey so that he could re-tell the story of the great escape and his emotional encounters with descendants of people who'd risked their lives to save Frank.
By: Adam Hart
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The Spy in the Archive
- How one man tried to kill the KGB
- By: Gordon Corera
- Narrated by: Gordon Corera
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret archive in the world. The answer is to be a librarian. To be so quiet, that no-one knows what you are up to as you toil undercover over decades and so low key, that even after your escape, aided by MI6, no-one even notices you are gone. The Spy in the Archive is the remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin – an introverted archivist who loved nothing more than dusty files – ended up changing the world.
By: Gordon Corera
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Capitalism and Its Critics
- A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World
- By: John Cassidy
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
- Length: 23 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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At a time when we are faced with fundamental questions about the sustainability of the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of the now dominant system of global capitalism, from colonialism and the Industrial Revolution to the ecological crisis and artificial intelligence. John Cassidy adopts a bold new approach: he tells the story through the eyes of the system’s critics.
By: John Cassidy
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Zbig
- The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Cold War Prophet
- By: Edward Luce
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 23 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Zbigniew Brzezinski was a political strategist who rose to prominence as an intellectual architect of US foreign policy during the Cold War. As National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter and a trusted advisor to US presidents from John F. Kennedy onwards, Brzezinski’s expertise helped shape global strategy at critical moments—most significantly as a key figure in the downfall of the Soviet Union.
By: Edward Luce
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Mellon vs. Churchill
- The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
- By: Jill Eicher
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Andrew Mellon, one of the most accomplished businessmen of his era, is almost unknown today. To this shy, diffident (but brilliant) man fell the daunting task of collecting the war debts from European governments still devastated by WWI and struggling to recover economically. Dealing with the US Congress and the heads of foreign governments on the world stage became one of the great adventures of his life. Mellon vs. Churchill presents Winston Churchill through a different lens, focusing on his service as Chancellor of the Exchequer when Great Britain was the largest debtor to the US.
By: Jill Eicher
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The Art Spy
- The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
- By: Michelle Young
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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On August 25, 1944, Rose Valland, a woman of quiet daring, found herself in a desperate position. From the windows of her beloved Jeu de Paume museum, where she had worked and ultimately spied, she could see the battle to liberate Paris thundering around her. The Jeu de Paume, co-opted by Nazi leadership, was now the Germans’ final line of defense. Would the museum curator be killed before she could tell the truth—a story that would mean nothing less than saving humanity’s cultural inheritance?
By: Michelle Young
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Operation Pimento
- My Great-Grandfather's Great Escape
- By: Adam Hart
- Narrated by: Adam Hart
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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On 14 August 1943, a specially adapted Halifax bomber took off from RAF Tempsford, an SOE airbase in rural England. Their secret mission was to drop vital supplies to the French Resistance, deep in occupied France. But their plane crashed into a village near Annecy, killing all six of the crew and five civilians. Only Adam Hart's great-grandfather, Frank Griffiths, survived. Seventy-nine years later, Adam retraced that journey so that he could re-tell the story of the great escape and his emotional encounters with descendants of people who'd risked their lives to save Frank.
By: Adam Hart
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Maria Theresa
- Empress: The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment
- By: Richard Bassett
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
- Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Maria Theresa was the single most powerful woman in eighteenth-century Europe. At the age of just twenty-three she succeeded to the Habsburg domains only to find them contested by almost every power in Europe. In this engrossing biography, Richard Bassett traces Maria Theresa's life and complex legacy. Drawing on hitherto unpublished sources, Bassett reveals her keen sense of moderation and tolerance, innovative ideas on free trade and finance, and studied reluctance to resort to policies of territorial expansion.
By: Richard Bassett
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On James Baldwin
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling to free himself from a religious upbringing. Inspired by the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, Tóibín found a writer who would be a lifelong companion and exemplar.
By: Colm Toibin
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
- By: Charles Darwin, John Fiore
- Narrated by: John R Fiore
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin. The famous English naturalist tells his life story, in his own words. From his birth, to the famed Voyage of the Beagle, to the Origin of Species, to his marriage and family and finally to his theories of life itself.
By: Charles Darwin, and others
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The Raider
- The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II
- By: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Raider, Cundill Prize-winning historian Stephen R. Platt gives us the first authoritative account of Carlson’s larger-than-life exploits: the real story, based on years of research including newly discovered diaries and correspondence in English and Chinese, with deep insight into the conflicted idealism about the Chinese Communists that would prove Carlson’s undoing in the McCarthy era. Tracing the rise and fall of an unlikely American war hero, The Raider is a story of exploration, of cultural (mis)understanding, and of one man’s awakening to the sheer breadth of the world.
By: Stephen R. Platt
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Eine Frau in Berlin
- Tagebuchaufzeichnungen vom 20. April bis 22. Juni 1945
- By: N.N.
- Narrated by: Sandra Busch, Lisa Rauen
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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Die Anonyma berichtet von massenhaften Vergewaltigungen von Frauen im besetzten Land durch Rotarmisten. Die Rache der Sieger in den Ruinen von Berlin berührt ein Tabuthema. Die Schreckenstage, festgehalten in Schulheften und auf Zetteln, hörten Zehntausende von Leserinnen und Lesern.
By: N.N.
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Masters of Mayhem
- Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz
- By: James Stejskal
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness before he can react. Never confronting a stronger force directly, but using audacity and surprise to confound and demoralize an opponent. Operations driven by good intelligence, area knowledge, mobility, speed, firepower, and detailed planning, and executed by a few specialists with indigenous warriors—this is unconventional warfare.
By: James Stejskal
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Horace: Poet on a Volcano
- Ancient Lives
- By: Peter Stothard
- Narrated by: Kevin Kemp
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BCE) wrote some of ancient Rome's greatest poetry, melding languages and cultures with youthful ideals and a realist's recognition of the dictatorial world around him. Horace is famed for his fine phrases, lyric sex, and guidance on how to live, but he was a poet maddened by war, and many of his most self-revealing poems have rarely been seen. He could be sublime and obscene, amusing and abusive, a model of moderation and anything but.
By: Peter Stothard
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Hidden Histories
- 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class
- By: Tim Rayborn
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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From ancient civilization to modern times, history is full of mysterious and downright bizarre circumstances. With these crazy and compelling facts, Hidden Histories will change your view of history
By: Tim Rayborn
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35 Wives
- The Mormon Polygamist Joseph Smith
- By: Terry Houlahan
- Narrated by: Vicki-Jo Eva
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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35 Wives opens with 37-year-old Mormon prophet Joseph Smith marrying 14-year-old Helen Mar Kimball. Was it a sacred ceremony? Or was it the rape of a vulnerable girl by a predatory prophet under cover of religious sponsorship? For 120 years, Mormon apologists have argued it was holy matrimony. Telling Helen and her sisters’ stories, 35 Wives is the counter thrust to the Church’s sacred mendacity. Was Joseph a saint or a sinner? Written from an energetic outsider’s POV, 35 Wives is a naturalistic dissection of Joseph and the Church’s truth claims for a skeptical general audience.
By: Terry Houlahan
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The Bose Deception
- By: Anuj Dhar, Chandrachur Ghose
- Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
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What exactly is this controversy about Netaji’s ‘disappearance’? Efforts by the authors led to the declassification of more than 1,300 secret files on Bose. Does new material offer new evidence on Bose’s reported death in 1945? The Bose Deception: Declassified opens a window to this and much more.
By: Anuj Dhar, and others
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The Real Jefferson Davis
- By: Landon Knight
- Narrated by: Ron Altman
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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Jefferson Davis (1808 - 1889) was an American politician who became president of the Confederate States during the Civil War. He took his seat in Congress as the representative for Mississippi in 1847. As a Democrat, Davis was an enthusiastic supporter of the expansion of slavery. In 1861, he resigned from the Senate when the state of Mississippi seceded. During the Civil War, Davis acted as chief executive and commander in chief for the Confederacy. After the war, he was captured and charged with treason.
By: Landon Knight
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The Sugar King of California
- The Life of Claus Spreckels
- By: Sandra E. Bonura
- Narrated by: Margaret Wakeley
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
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Claus Spreckels (1828-1908) emigrated from his homeland of Germany to the United States with only seventy-five cents in his pocket, built a sugar empire, and became one of the richest Americans in history. Migrating to San Francisco after the gold rush, Spreckels built the largest sugar beet factory of its kind in the United States. When Spreckels gave America its first sugar cube, he became the “Sugar King.” The indomitable Spreckels was a colorful and complicated character on both sides of the Pacific.
By: Sandra E. Bonura
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After the Wagon Wheels
- Stories from Oregon Trail Genealogy, Vol. 2
- By: Mark Goddard
- Narrated by: Chris Rouman
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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In the mid to late 1800's tens of thousands braved the harsh landscape of the Oregon Trail to settle the West. Common to most all of them is that they were families whose collective efforts shaped towns, commerce and the history of the West. The collected stories in After the Wagon Wheels evolved from genealogical research into some of those families. While fascinating to build our family trees, what often comes out is a picture of the life they led; the hardships, the joys, the adventures, vignettes of the people themselves.
By: Mark Goddard
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The Girl of Many Crowns
- The True Story of a Runaway Queen and a Powerful Knight Who Defy an Empire
- By: D. H. Morris
- Narrated by: D.H. Morris
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
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"The Girl of Many Crowns" is the true and inspiring story of Judith, the first princess of France, who is a pawn in a complex political game of chess as her father, King Charles, tries to hold on to his kingdom. King Charles, grandson of Emperor Charlemagne, is beset on every side by Vikings, rebel lords, and greedy neighboring monarchs. He marries 12-year-old Judith to Aethelwulf, the aging King of Wessex, for political advantage. When she is widowed, less than two years later, he arranges a second marriage for her.
By: D. H. Morris
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It Was My Turn
- One of Vietnam's Most Decorated Pilots and America's Secret War
- By: Gerald Baron
- Narrated by: Gerald Baron
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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Warrant Officer Terry Crump was a Cobra gunship pilot who earned a near-unprecedented seven Distinguished Flying Crosses in his one-year tour in Vietnam. This is the untold story of the Pink Panthers, the 361st Aerial Weapons Company, an all-Cobra unit dedicated to supporting the secret war of MACVSOG. SOG, the so-called "Studies and Observation Group" sent small teams led by Special Forces commandos into Laos and Cambodia in violation of their supposed neutrality. It was considered "the hairiest mission" of the war with more Medals of Honor awarded to SOG teams at Kontum than any other unit.
By: Gerald Baron
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"Grenzen akzeptieren wir nicht!"
- Über Migration, Heimat und den Wert der Freiheit
- By: Dr. med. Umes Arunagirinathan, Peggy Parnass, Doris Mendlewitsch
- Narrated by: Robert Moeck
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
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Umes Arunagirinathan und Peggy Parnass trennten fünfzig Lebensjahre, die Hautfarbe, das Geschlecht und auch sonst eine ganze Menge. Doch entscheidend ist, was sie verband. Beide erlebten die tiefgreifende Erfahrung von Flucht und Vertreibung. Peggy wurde von ihrer Mutter 1939 auf einem Kindertransport nach Schweden geschickt, um sie vor der NS-Verfolgung zu retten. Umes kam als 13-jähriger unbegleiteter Flüchtling aus Sri Lanka nach Deutschland. Bei beiden verursacht dieses Schicksal viel Leid, aber löst auch den tiefen Wunsch aus, die Welt besser zu machen.
By: Dr. med. Umes Arunagirinathan, and others
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Freedom Value and Price
- Wieslaw Jozef Sporyszkiewicz: The Dreamer Political Prisoner in Communist Poland
- By: Talent Discovery
- Narrated by: Lauren Voss
- Length: 23 mins
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This fascinating life story of Wieslaw Jozef Sporyszkiewicz takes us to Poland, the United States of America, and Great Britain, from struggles to triumphs, from dreams of freedom to torture, through building positive societies and helping others, eventually dying early and unexpectedly at the age of 56 from controversial reasons.
By: Talent Discovery
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Сын племени навахов
- By: Джеймс Уиллард Шульц
- Narrated by: Александр Бордуков
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
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Двух осиротевших мальчиков из племени навахов, усыновляет добрая семья племени тэва. Дети воспитываются в доброте, любви и уважении к своим приемным родителям, знакомятся с обычаями своего нового племени и стараются найти свое место среди тэва, доказав свою преданность семье и соплеменникам.
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Florence Stephens förlorade värld
- By: Lena Ebervall, Per E Samuelson
- Narrated by: Helge Skoog
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Huseby bruk var i början av 1900-talet Smålands mäktigaste egendom, masugnens eld dånade, skogen och jorden bar rikedom till familjen Stephens. Det var i denna ljusa tillvaro Florence växte upp. Men livet igenom hade hon en stor svaghet–sin starka kärlek till kungahuset–och hon blev ett lätt offer när ögonstenen prins Carl och hans skrupelfria vän gjorde entré. Det tog inte många år förrän Florence var barskrapad och Huseby bruk stod på ruinens brant. ”Husebysaken” blev en av de skandaler som skakade Sverige på femtiotalet. Florence Stephens förtrollade värld sjönk sakta ner i mörkret.
By: Lena Ebervall, and others
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Ers Majestäts olycklige Kurt : en roman med verklighetsbakgrund
- By: Lena Ebervall, Per E Samuelson
- Narrated by: Helge Skoog
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
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Året är 1938. Genom ett grönskande landskap susar en amerikansk lyxbil fram i hög fart. Bakom ratten sitter restaurangdirektör Kurt Haijby, på väg mot sin senaste investering, slottet Trystorp i Närke. Han gläder sig åt att äntligen kunna förverkliga sina drömmar; allt har blivit möjligt tack vare de generösa utbetalningarna från hovet. Vad ingen vet är att Kurt har ett förbjudet förhållande med kungen, Gustaf V, och att det är denna relation som tillåter honom att leva i lyx.
By: Lena Ebervall, and others
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Family's Stories
- A Documentary Account of Some of the Stories of My Family
- By: Robert Parker McFarland
- Narrated by: Robert Parker McFarland
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
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The reason for the publication of this book is twofold. First, to put into a documentary account of the family stories that I have heard in my lifetime so that future generations will have knowledge of them. Second, to document the many family stories that I have told over my lifetime about actual events in my life.
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Piece by Piece
- Picking Up What's Left Behind
- By: Nikita Apte, Elisabeth Campbell, Madeleine Cronn, and others
- Narrated by: Ayushee Roy
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
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Fourteen writers uncover the hidden lives behind old photographs: a son battling for a mother's love in a family of thirteen; teenagers forced to grow up too soon; a Chinese-American descendant chasing lost family histories.
By: Nikita Apte, and others
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Pearl and Bessie
- A Baby Abandoned on a Rubbish Dump, and the Woman Who Saved Her
- By: Julia Bishop, Andy Bull
- Narrated by: Elena Curti
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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On the rubbish dump, a baby cried. The cry was weak, and fading. The wild dogs had picked up the cries, and the scent, and were circling, closing in. Bessie walked towards the sound and found a day-old baby girl. She had been abandoned because of her sex. It happened often here, in south west China.
By: Julia Bishop, and others
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Eine außergewöhnliche Freundschaft: Episoden aus meinem bewegten Leben in der DDR bis heute
- By: Karin Rieger
- Narrated by: Birgitt Scheiner
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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Außergewöhnliche Begebenheiten im Leben der Autorin riefen bei ihren Bekannten und Verwandten häufig Verwunderung hervor. Sie schreibt über zeitgeschichtlich wichtige Ereignisse, einzelne Episoden und auch Details, die wahrhaftig so verlaufen sind. Ihr ist es wichtig, dass die heutige Jugend etwas über die Menschen aus ihrer Generation erfährt, was so bestimmt nicht in Geschichtsbüchern zu finden ist. Es geht um die Erzählung der Geschichten für Menschen in ganz Deutschland und anderswo.
By: Karin Rieger