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Chance
- By: Andrew Rule
- Narrated by: Brett Swain
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall59
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Performance49
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'If you want to bet on numbers, go to a casino. If you want theatre, go to the races.' - Les Carlyon All his life, Andrew Rule has watched racing's heroes and villains, dreamers and schemers. In Chance, he distils the daring, the desperation and danger of the track, peeling back some of racing's...
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just brilliant
- By Stephen on 04-02-2024
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Chance
- Narrated by: Brett Swain
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 31-08-2021
- Language: English
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Battle for the Falklands
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall197
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Performance178
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Story177
The Falklands War was one of the strangest in British history - 28,000 men sent to fight for a tiny relic of empire 8,000 miles from home. At the time, many Britons saw it as a tragic absurdity, but the British victory confirmed the quality of British arms and boosted the political fortunes of the Conservative government.
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Argentina good...Britain bad.
- By Anonymous on 23-01-2021
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Battle for the Falklands
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 02-06-2014
- Language: English
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Inside the Gas Chambers
- Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
- By: Shlomo Venezia
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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Story7
Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz. His mother and sisters disappeared on arrival, and he learned, at first with disbelief, that they had almost certainly been gassed. Given the chance to earn a little extra bread, he agreed to become a 'Sonderkommando', without realizing what this entailed.
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Shlomo tells the haunting facts
- By Anonymous on 21-01-2024
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Inside the Gas Chambers
- Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 29-11-2022
- Language: English
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
- By: Ezra F. Vogel
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance27
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Story28
Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century. He confronted the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao's cult of personality, and loosened the policies that had stunted China's growth. Obsessed with modernization, Deng opened trade relations with the West, which lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. Yet he also answered to his authoritarian roots, most notably when he ordered the crackdown in 1989 at Tiananmen Square.
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A Very Rich Picture of Deng
- By Leo on 07-01-2024
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 23-03-2021
- Language: English
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The Nazis
- A Warning from History
- By: Laurence Rees
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance28
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Story28
Following the success of Rees's best-selling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. During a 16-year period, acclaimed author and documentary-maker Laurence Rees met and interviewed a large number of former Nazis, and his unique insights into the Nazi psyche and World War II received enormous praise.
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outstanding
- By Anonymous on 12-01-2026
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The Nazis
- A Warning from History
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 30-07-2020
- Language: English
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Spymaster
- Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
- By: Tennent H. Bagley
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance28
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From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia’s notorious KGB espionage apparatus. Rising through its ranks through hard work and keen understanding of how the spy and political games are played, he “handled” American and British defectors, recruited Western operatives as double agents, served as a ranking officer at the East Berlin and Vienna KGB bureaus, and tackled special assignments from the Kremlin.
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Interesting insights
- By Chip Henriss on 22-07-2017
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Spymaster
- Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 06-11-2013
- Language: English
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Long Way Back to the River Kwai
- A Harrowing True Story of Survival in World War II
- By: Loet Velmans
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance17
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Story16
The astounding memoir of a World War II veteran who spent three and a half years in the slave-labor camps made famous by The Bridge on the River Kwai.
Loet Velmans was 17 when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman’s Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indies - now Indonesia - where he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of the Dutch soldiers. For the next three and a half years Velmans and his fellow POWs toiled in slave-labor camps.
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Interesting story, reading of could be better..
- By Warren Smith on 06-02-2023
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Long Way Back to the River Kwai
- A Harrowing True Story of Survival in World War II
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 04-02-2013
- Language: English
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Entitled
- A Critical History of the British Aristocracy
- By: Chris Bryant
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Exploring the extraordinary social and political dominance enjoyed by the British aristocracy over the centuries, Entitled seeks to explain how a tiny number of noble families rose to such a position in the first place. It reveals the often nefarious means they have employed to maintain their wealth, power, and prestige and examines the greed, ambition, jealousy, and rivalry which drove aristocratic families to guard their interests with such determination.
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Entitled
- A Critical History of the British Aristocracy
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 19-07-2022
- Language: English
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The Cold War
- A World History
- By: Odd Arne Westad
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 25 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall160
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Performance138
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Story138
As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945, there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment: the Cold War. For over 40 years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us. There was no part of the world where East and West did not ultimately demand a blind and absolute allegiance.
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Objective and we'll organised
- By jasper on 27-01-2020
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The Cold War
- A World History
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 25 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 20-03-2018
- Language: English
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Seasons in the Sun
- The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979
- By: Dominic Sandbrook
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 41 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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In the early 1970s, Britain seemed to be tottering on the brink of the abyss. Under Edward Heath, the optimism of the '60s had become a distant memory. Now the headlines were dominated by strikes and blackouts, unemployment and inflation. As the world looked on in horrified fascination, Britain seemed to be tearing itself apart. And yet, amid the gloom, glittered a creativity and cultural dynamism that would influence our lives long after the nightmarish '70s had been forgotten.
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narrator is brilliant... does all the voices!
- By Amazon Customer on 12-12-2023
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Seasons in the Sun
- The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 41 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 16-11-2012
- Language: English
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Tunisgrad
- Victory in Africa
- By: Saul David
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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A Waterstones and BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year The Aspects of History Book of the Year 2025 'Terrific – full of drama … it has profoundly altered my understanding of the Second World War' PATRICK BISHOP FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SBS COMES AN EPIC HISTORY OF...
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Tunisgrad
- Victory in Africa
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 11-09-2025
- Language: English
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Francis Bacon
- Revelations
- By: Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 28 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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The Times Art Book of the Year 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD 2022 ‘Must surely be the definitive life of Francis Bacon … A biography that no Bacon fan – or indeed foe – can afford to overlook … Mesmerising’ THE TIMES ‘A magnificent triumph … I was captivated by every...
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Francis Bacon
- Revelations
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 28 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 21-01-2021
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie
- The Sunday Times bestselling biography of the legendary creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple
- By: Lucy Worsley
- Narrated by: Lucy Worsley
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall84
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Performance77
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The bestselling biography of Britain's 'Queen of Crime' by acclaimed historian Lucy Worsley OBE 'Every Christie fan should read this' - THE TIMES To Lucy Worsley, Agatha Christie was 'thrillingly, scintillatingly modern'. She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by...
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Narration
- By S.Attenborough on 04-10-2022
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Agatha Christie
- The Sunday Times bestselling biography of the legendary creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple
- Narrated by: Lucy Worsley
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 08-09-2022
- Language: English
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Yes to Life in Spite of Everything
- By: Viktor Frankl, Joelle Young, Daniel Goleman
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall81
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Performance64
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Story65
Eleven months after his liberation from Auschwitz, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. The psychologist, who was to become world famous, explained his central thoughts on meaning, resilience and the importance of embracing life even in the face of great adversity. Published for the very first time, Frankl’s words resonate as strongly today as they did in 1946. He offers an insightful exploration of the maxim ‘live as if you were living for the second time’ and unfolds his basic conviction that every crisis also includes an opportunity.
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a brilliant summary/ reminder of Frankl's legacy
- By Beth on 18-01-2021
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Yes to Life in Spite of Everything
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2020
- Language: English
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Das Reich
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Nigel Carrington
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall128
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Performance116
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Story115
Within days of the D-Day landings, the 'Das Reich' 2nd SS Panzer Division marched north through France to reinforce the front-line defenders of Hitler's Fortress Europe. Veterans of the bloodiest fighting of the Russian Front, 15,000 men with their tanks and artillery, they were hounded for every mile of their march by saboteurs of the Resistance and agents of the Allied Special Forces. Along their route they took reprisals so savage they will live forever in the chronicles of the most appalling atrocities of war.
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Beyond the Normandy beachs: This is what happened
- By Phillip on 19-12-2014
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Das Reich
- Narrated by: Nigel Carrington
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-06-2014
- Language: English
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Postwar
- A History of Europe Since 1945
- By: Tony Judt
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 43 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance37
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Postwar by Tony Judt, read by Ralph Cosham. Tracing the story of post-war Europe and its changing role in the world, Judt's magnificent history of the continent of our times investigates the political, social and cultural history of Europe from the...
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You will learn so much
- By David Sanders on 04-07-2024
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Postwar
- A History of Europe Since 1945
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 43 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 21-12-2017
- Language: English
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Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad
- A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
- By: Daniel Finkelstein
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Epic, moving and important’ ROBERT HARRIS 'I'm not sure I've ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the horror and the sadness it's also a 'memoir of miraculous survival'. I can't recommend it enough' ANTHONY...
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A must read…..
- By Margaretta A. Jones on 11-06-2024
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Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad
- A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 08-06-2023
- Language: English
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The Rising Sun
- The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
- By: John Toland
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 41 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall81
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Performance76
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Story75
This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, "a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened - muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox."
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a very detailed account of Americas pacific war
- By Truthfull Jones on 20-06-2015
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The Rising Sun
- The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 41 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 27-06-2014
- Language: English
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Storyteller
- The Life of Roald Dahl
- By: Donald Sturrock
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time. "Irresistible. I thought I knew quite a lot about Roald Dahl, but now I know much much more. Donald Sturrock's book lucidly describes a complicated life and relates it to the richness of Dahl's storytelling."Quentin Blake...
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Storyteller
- The Life of Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-09-2011
- Language: English
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The West
- A History of an Idea
- By: Georgios Varouxakis
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined by nineteenth-century imperialists? Neither, writes Georgios Varouxakis in The West, his ambitious and fascinating genealogy of the idea. "The West" was not used by Plato, Cicero, Locke, Mill, or other canonized figures of what we today call the Western tradition. It was not first wielded by empire-builders.
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The West
- A History of an Idea
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 08-07-2025
- Language: English
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