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Operation Biting
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones proposed an assault to capture key components. The nearest accessible enemy set stood upon a steep cliff at Bruneval in Normandy. Winston Churchill enthused, as did Lord Louis Mountbatten, chief of Combined Operations.
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Operation Biting
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 23-05-2024
- Language: English
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White Heat
- A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties
- By: Dominic Sandbrook
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs
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Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed to have taken on a dramatic new momentum.
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White Heat
- A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 20-06-2024
- Language: English
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Endgame 1944
- How Stalin Won The War
- By: Jonathan Dimbleby
- Narrated by: Jonathan Dimbleby
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
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In this book, bestselling historian Jonathan Dimbleby describes and analyses this momentous year, covering the military, political and diplomatic story in his evocative style. Drawing on previously untranslated German, Russian and Polish sources, we see how sophisticated new forms of deception and ruthless Partisan warfare shifted the Soviets’ fortunes, how their triumphs effectively gave Stalin authority to occupy Eastern Europe and how it was the events of 1944 that enabled Stalin to dictate the terms of the post-war settlement, laying the foundations for the Cold War . . .
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Endgame 1944
- How Stalin Won The War
- Narrated by: Jonathan Dimbleby
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 23-05-2024
- Language: English
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Vertigo
- The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
- By: Harald Jähner, Shaun Whiteside
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Germany, 1918: a country in flux. The First World War is lost, traditional values are shaken to their core, revolution is afoot and the victory of democracy beckons. Everything must change with the times. The country is abuzz with talk of the 'new woman', the 'new man', 'new living' and 'new thinking'. What follows is the establishment of the Weimar Republic, an economic crisis and the transformation of Germany. A triumphant procession of liberated lifestyles emerges.
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Vertigo
- The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 20-06-2024
- Language: English
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Britain's Gulag
- The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
- By: Caroline Elkins
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Only a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of 1.5 million and to portray them as sub-human savages. Detainees in their thousands - possibly a hundred thousand or more - died from exhaustion, disease, starvation and systemic physical brutality. For decades these events remained untold.
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Britain's Gulag
- The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 27-06-2024
- Language: English
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Paris '44
- The Shame and the Glory
- By: Patrick Bishop
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This fresh new account of the liberation, packed with revelation, tells the story of those heady days of suspense, danger, exhilaration – and vengeance – through the eyes of a range of participants, reflecting all sides of the conflict: Americans, French and Germans; resisters and collaborators. Among them are famous names like Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger and Pablo Picasso, but also some fascinating unknowns including a medic turned Resistance gunwoman, an androgynous Hungarian sculptor and a French bluestocking who quietly set about saving the nation’s art treasures from the Nazi looters.
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Paris '44
- The Shame and the Glory
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 04-07-2024
- Language: English
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Going to the Wars
- By: Max Hastings
- Length: 15 hrs
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Max Hastings grew up with romantic dreams of a life amongst warriors. But after his failure as a parachute soldier in Cyprus in 1963, he became a journalist instead. Before he was thirty he had reported conflicts in Northern Ireland, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Middle East, Cyprus, Rhodesia, India and a string of other trouble spots. His final effort was as a war correspondent during the Falklands War. Going to the Wars is a story of his experiences reporting from these battlefields. It is also the story of a self-confessed coward: a writer with heroic ambitions.
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Going to the Wars
- Length: 15 hrs
- Release date: 31-10-2024
- Language: English
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Broken Threads
- My Family from Empire to Independence
- By: Mishal Husain
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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An extraordinary history of Mishal Husain’s four grandparents, whose lives were shaped by the tumultuous politics and prejudices of empire, war and partition. Through a narrative odyssey that traces the complexities of her own ancestry, Mishal Husain sheds incredible light on a landmark historical period. Mary, a devout Catholic of Anglo-Indian parentage, leaves a struggling family to train as a nurse. Tahirah was born to middle-class Muslim parents and grows up with an emphasis on education and aspiration.
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Broken Threads
- My Family from Empire to Independence
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 06-06-2024
- Language: English
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Opening the Gates of Hell
- The Untold Story of Herbert Kenny, the Man Who Discovered Belsen
- By: Mark Hodkinson
- Length: 9 hrs
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With unprecedented access to Herbert's diaries, letters and interviews, Mark Hodkinson brings to life the harrowing conditions of Belsen and its eventual liberation. From the events leading up to its gruesome discovery, to the trauma Herbert faced and his abandonment in the aftermath, this is a testament to the power of one person in the face of unimaginable darkness.
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Opening the Gates of Hell
- The Untold Story of Herbert Kenny, the Man Who Discovered Belsen
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 01-08-2024
- Language: English
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The Dragon from Chicago
- The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany
- By: Pamela D. Toler
- Length: 6 hrs
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The Dragon from Chicago tells the gripping tale of American journalist Sigrid Schultz's fights on two fronts: to establish herself as a serious foreign correspondent in an era when her male colleagues saw a powerful unmarried woman as a “freak” and to keep the news flowing out of Nazi Germany despite the regime’s tightening controls on the media. Drawing on extensive archival research, Pamela D. Toler unearths the largely forgotten story of Schultz’s years spent courageously reporting the news from Berlin, from the revolts of 1919 through Nazi atrocities and air raids over Berlin in 1941.
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The Dragon from Chicago
- The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 06-08-2024
- Language: English
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To the Bitter End
- The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45
- By: Victor Klemperer
- Length: 20 hrs
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The international best-selling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany. A sensation when first published, this is one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933 a professor of languages in Dresden. Over the next decade he lost his job, his house and many of his friends, even his cat, as Jews were not allowed to own pets. Saved for much of the war from the Holocaust by his marriage to a gentile, he was able to escape in the aftermath of the Allied bombing of Dresden and survived the remaining months of the war in hiding.
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To the Bitter End
- The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release date: 31-12-2024
- Language: English
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The Lesser Evil
- The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959
- By: Victor Klemperer
- Length: 20 hrs
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June 1945. The immediate postwar period produces many shocks and revelations - some people have behaved better than Klemperer had believed, others much worse.
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The Lesser Evil
- The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release date: 31-12-2024
- Language: English
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Brotherhood of the Bomb
- The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
- By: Gregg Herken
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
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The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict between Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller—the scientists most responsible for the advent of weapons of mass destruction. How did science—and its practitioners—enlisted in the service of the state during the Second World War, become a slave to its patron during the Cold War?
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Brotherhood of the Bomb
- The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 21-05-2024
- Language: English
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Give Her Credit
- The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation
- By: Grace L. Williams
- Length: 7 hrs
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In the 1970s, a new wave of feminism was sweeping America. But in the boys’ club of banking and finance, women were still infantilized—no credit without a male cosigner, and their income was dismissed as unreliable. If bankers weren’t going to accommodate women, then women had to take control of their own futures. In 1978 in Denver, Colorado, the opening of the Women’s Bank changed everything.
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Give Her Credit
- The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 05-11-2024
- Language: English
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Where Courage Lives
- The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, Book 34
- By: Muguette Myers
- Length: Not Yet Known
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From the bustling city of Paris to the quaint, countryside village of Champlost, France, Where Courage Lives follows ten-year-old Muguette Szpajzer and her family as they sought refuge from the war.
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Where Courage Lives
- The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, Book 34
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 28-01-2025
- Language: English
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The Weight of Freedom
- The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
- By: Nate Leipciger, Debórah Dwork
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Nate Leipciger, a thoughtful, shy eleven-year-old boy, is plunged into an incomprehensible web of ghettos, concentration and death camps during the German occupation of Poland. As he struggles to survive, he forges a new, unbreakable bond with his father and yearns for a free future. But when he is finally liberated, the weight of his pain will not ease, and his memories remain etched in tragedy.
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The Weight of Freedom
- The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 28-01-2025
- Language: English
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Stronger Together
- The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Book 40
- By: Andy Reti, Ibolya Grossman
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In the fall of 1941, as the situation for Jews worsens across Europe, Ibolya (Ibi) Grossman learns she is pregnant. She is scared and confused–a baby during wartime? But her husband, Zolti, assures her, “We need this baby, you will see.”
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Stronger Together
- The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Book 40
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 28-01-2025
- Language: English
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Never Far Apart
- The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, Book 36
- By: Kitty Salsberg, Ellen Foster, Adara Goldberg
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Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrived in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which took both of their parents. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto was fresh in their minds, as were their fragile hopes to be adopted.
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Never Far Apart
- The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, Book 36
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 28-01-2025
- Language: English
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Sword Beach
- The Untold Story of D-Day’s Forgotten Victory
- By: Stephen Fisher
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
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Filling a massive gap in D-Day literature, marine historian Stephen Fisher provides fresh insight and unrivalled coverage of one of the least well know of the D-Day landings. Although they are well known, coverage of the action on Sword, Juno and Gold beaches is relatively sparse and overshadowed by the more famous American landing at Omaha. In fact, the capture of all the beaches were events in their own right, full of drama and incident, and in particular, Sword Beach turned out to be crucial in securing the Normandy Landings.
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Sword Beach
- The Untold Story of D-Day’s Forgotten Victory
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 23-05-2024
- Language: English
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The Revolutionists
- The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
- By: Jason Burke
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In the 1970s, a network of radical extremists terrorised the West with plane hijackings and hostage-takings. Among them were the beautiful young Leila Khaled with her jewellery made from grenade rings, the hard-drinking philanderer Carlos the Jackal sporting shades and open-neck shirts, and the radical leftists of the Baader-Meinhof Gang. They sought to liberate the Palestinians and overthrow western imperialism, orchestrating spectacularly violent attacks that held governments to ransom and the world gripped to their television screens.
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The Revolutionists
- The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 20-03-2025
- Language: English
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