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Putin's Wars
- From Chechnya to Ukraine
- By: Mark Galeotti
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
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Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Chechen War to the two military incursions into Georgia, the annexation of Crimea and the eventual invasion of Ukraine itself. But it also looks more broadly at Putin's recreation of Russian military power and its expansion to include a range of new capabilities, from mercenaries to operatives in a relentless information war against Western powers.
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Putin's Wars
- From Chechnya to Ukraine
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 10-11-2022
- Language: English
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A Spy Among Friends
- Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby’s two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and James Jesus Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew Philby better than anyone, and then discovered they had not known him at all.
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incompetence at the highest level
- By Grant Lewis on 10-09-2021
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A Spy Among Friends
- Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 31-03-2021
- Language: English
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- By: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas in one small office, five windows wide, and answerable only to its distant shareholders. In his most ambitious and riveting audiobook to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.
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Directionless and difficult to follow.
- By Howling Fantods on 09-12-2019
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 17-10-2019
- Language: English
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How to Be a Dictator
- The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Jack Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support. Throughout the 20th century, hundreds of millions of people were condemned to enthusiasm, obliged to hail their leaders even as they were herded down the road to serfdom.
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Gives you a lot to think about
- By Michael Geros on 05-07-2021
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How to Be a Dictator
- The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: Jack Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 16-10-2019
- Language: English
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The International Brigades
- Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War
- By: Giles Tremlett
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 23 hrs and 49 mins
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The first major history of the International Brigades: a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy in the fight against fascism. The Spanish Civil War was the first armed battle in the fight against fascism, and a rallying cry for a generation. Over 35,000 volunteers from 61 countries around the world came to defend democracy against the troops of Franco, Hitler and Mussolini. Ill-equipped and disorderly, yet fuelled by a shared sense of purpose and potential glory, disparate groups of idealistic young men and women banded together to form a volunteer army.
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Extremely detailed account spoiled by narration
- By Amazon Customer on 27-05-2023
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The International Brigades
- Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 23 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 15-10-2020
- Language: English
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The Reckoning
- The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944
- By: Prit Buttar
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
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Prit Buttar retraces the ebb and flow of the various battles and campaigns fought throughout the Ukraine and Romania in 1944. January and February saw Army Group South encircled in the Korsun Pocket. Although many of the encircled troops did escape, in part due to Soviet intelligence and command failures, the Red Army would endeavour to not make the same mistakes again. Indeed, in the coming months the Red Army would demonstrate an ability to learn and improve, reinventing itself as a war-winning machine, demonstrated clearly in its success in the Iasi-Kishinev operation.
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The Reckoning
- The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2020
- Language: English
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Killers of the King
- The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
- By: Charles Spencer
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain’s history, Parliament faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king who refused to surrender? Parliamentarians resolved to do the unthinkable, to disregard the Divine Right of Kings and hold Charles I to account for the suffering and slaughter endured by his people. On a winter’s day outside Whitehall, the king of England was executed. When the king’s son, Charles II, was restored to the throne, he set about enacting a deadly wave of retribution against all those responsible for his father’s death.
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Killers of the King
- The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 11-11-2021
- Language: English
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main
- HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy’s Revenge
- By: Angus Konstam
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main tells the dramatic story of HMS Hermione, a British frigate which, in 1797, was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history, which saw the death of her captain and many of her officers. Though her crew handed her over to the Spanish, Hermione was subsequently recaptured in a daring raid on a Caribbean port two years later.
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main
- HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy’s Revenge
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2020
- Language: English
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The Collapse of Yugoslavia
- 1991-99
- By: Alastair Finlan
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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In 1991, an ethnically diverse and peaceful region of Europe descended into violence, lawlessness, bitter hatred and chaos, almost overnight to the bewilderment of international observers. Communities fractured along lines of ethnic and religious affiliation, and the ensuing fighting was deeply personal, resulting in horrific brutality, rape, torture and genocide, causing the deaths of thousands of people. In this book, Alastair Finlan examines the internal upheavals of the former Yugoslavia and their international implications.
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The Collapse of Yugoslavia
- 1991-99
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 17-03-2022
- Language: English
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On the Cusp
- Days of '62
- By: David Kynaston
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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The real '60s began on 5 October 1962. On that remarkable Friday, the Beatles hit the world with their first single, ‘Love Me Do’, and the first James Bond film, Dr No, had its world premiere in London: two icons of the future heralding a social and cultural revolution. Sometimes indignant, sometimes admiring, always empathetic, On the Cusp evokes a world of seaside holidays, of church fetes, of Steptoe and Son - a world still of seemingly settled social and economic certainties, but in fact on the edge of fundamental change.
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On the Cusp
- Days of '62
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-09-2021
- Language: English
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Rifleman
- A Front-Line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
- By: Victor Gregg, Rick Stroud - editor
- Narrated by: David John, Victor Gregg
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Born into a working-class family in London in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at 19, was sent to the Middle East and saw action in Palestine. Following service in the western desert and at the battle of Alamein, he joined the Parachute Regiment and in September 1944 found himself at the battle of Arnhem. When the paratroopers were forced to withdraw, Gregg was captured. He attempted to escape but was caught and became a prisoner of war.
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Super
- By Anonymous User on 05-09-2023
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Rifleman
- A Front-Line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
- Narrated by: David John, Victor Gregg
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 07-02-2019
- Language: English
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Under the Southern Cross
- The South Pacific Air Campaign Against Rabaul
- By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
- Narrated by: Lance C Fuller
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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From August 7th 1942 until February 24th 1944, the US Navy fought the most difficult campaign in its history. Between the landing of the 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal and the final withdrawal of the Imperial Japanese Navy from its main South Pacific base at Rabaul, the US Navy suffered such high personnel losses that for years it refused to publicly release total casualty figures.
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Under the Southern Cross
- The South Pacific Air Campaign Against Rabaul
- Narrated by: Lance C Fuller
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2021
- Language: English
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I Will Run Wild
- The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
- By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
- Narrated by: Lance C Fuller
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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In many popular histories of the Pacific War, the period from the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor to the US victory at Midway is often passed over because it is seen as a period of darkness. Indeed, it is easy to see the period as one of unmitigated disaster for the Allies, with the fall of the Philippines, Malaya, Burma and the Dutch East Indies and the wholesale retreat and humiliation at the hands of Japan throughout Southeast Asia.
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I Will Run Wild
- The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
- Narrated by: Lance C Fuller
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2020
- Language: English
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
- or The Murder at Road Hill House
- By: Kate Summerscale
- Narrated by: Jessica Ball
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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On a summer’s morning in 1860, the Kent family awakes in their elegant Wiltshire home to a terrible discovery; their youngest son has been brutally murdered. When celebrated detective Jack Whicher is summoned from Scotland Yard he faces the unenviable task of identifying the killer – when the grieving family are the suspects.
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
- or The Murder at Road Hill House
- Narrated by: Jessica Ball
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 17-10-2019
- Language: English
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Spain
- The Centre of the World 1519-1682
- By: Robert Goodwin
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
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In the sixteenth century, the Spaniards became the first nation in history to have worldwide reach; across most of Europe to the Americas, the Philippines, and India. Goodwin tells the story of Spain and the Spaniards, from great soldiers like the Duke of Alba to literary figures and artists such as El Greco, Velázquez, Cervantes, and Lope de Vega, and the monarchs who ruled over them.
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Spain
- The Centre of the World 1519-1682
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-06-2023
- Language: English
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The Chinese Civil War
- 1945–49
- By: Michael Lynch
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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Dr Michael Lynch provides a concise overview of the Chinese Civil War, a defining conflict in world history. Between the end of World War II and the dawn of the Cold War, one of the most important conflicts in modern history reached its climax. Delving into the political background and complex ramifications of the conflict, he assesses Mao and Chiang’s millions-strong armies, their strategies and commanders, and the critical campaigns that won and lost China.
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The Chinese Civil War
- 1945–49
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-09-2022
- Language: English
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Come to This Court and Cry
- How the Holocaust Ends
- By: Linda Kinstler
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead—a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather—was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won facts about the Holocaust at the precise moment that the last living survivors—the last legal witnesses—were dying.
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Come to This Court and Cry
- How the Holocaust Ends
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 26-05-2022
- Language: English
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Speak, Silence
- In Search of W. G. Sebald
- By: Carole Angier
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
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The first biography to explore his life and work, Speak, Silence pursues the true Sebald through the memories of those who knew him and through the work he left behind. This quest takes Carole Angier from Sebald’s birth as a second-generation German at the end of the Second World War, through his rejection of the poisoned inheritance of the Third Reich, to his emigration to England. It digs deep into a creative mind on the edge, finding profound empathy and paradoxical coldness, saving humour and an elusive mix of fact and fiction in his life as well as work.
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Speak, Silence
- In Search of W. G. Sebald
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 19-08-2021
- Language: English
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Peace, War and Whitehall
- A Memoir
- By: Charles Guthrie
- Narrated by: Paul Blezard
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Field Marshal the Lord Guthrie commanded at every level in the British Army from platoon to army group and was Britain’s senior military commander at a time of great change. He oversaw the modernisation of the armed forces following the Cold War years and led Britain’s military involvement in operations in the Balkans and Sierra Leone. Peace, War and Whitehall details Lord Guthrie’s extraordinary career from a young platoon commander through to chief of the Defence staff.
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Fantastic Leadership Lessons
- By Sam on 28-02-2023
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Peace, War and Whitehall
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Paul Blezard
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 28-10-2021
- Language: English
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Talking Until Nightfall
- Remembering Jewish Salonica, 1941–44
- By: Isaac Matarasso
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin, Rebecca Front
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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When Nazi occupiers arrived in Greece in 1941, it was the beginning of a horror that would reverberate through generations. In the city of Salonica (Thessaloniki), almost 50,000 Jews were sent to Nazi concentration camps during the war, and only 2,000 returned. A Jewish doctor named Isaac Matarasso and his son escaped imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Nazis and joined the resistance. After the city’s liberation they returned to rebuild Salonica and, along with the other survivors, to grapple with the near-total destruction of their community.
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Talking Until Nightfall
- Remembering Jewish Salonica, 1941–44
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin, Rebecca Front
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-07-2020
- Language: English
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