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The Phoney Victory
- The World War II Illusion
- By: Peter Hitchens
- Narrated by: Peter Hitchens
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Was World War II really the 'Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945, many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this audiobook, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the narrative of the 'Good War'. Whilst not criticising or doubting the need for war against Nazi Germany at some stage, Hitchens does query whether September 1939 was the right moment or the independence of Poland the right issue.
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Interesting throughout
- By Mr. M. Cumming on 29-08-2019
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The Phoney Victory
- The World War II Illusion
- Narrated by: Peter Hitchens
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-01-2019
- Language: English
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Koh-i-Noor
- The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
- By: Anita Anand, William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance16
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On 29 March 1849, the 10-year-old Maharajah of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great Fort in Lahore. There, in a public ceremony, the frightened but dignified child handed over to the British East India Company in a formal act of submission not only swathes of the richest land in India but also arguably the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond. The Mountain of Light.
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Insight to
- By Karen on 04-11-2018
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Koh-i-Noor
- The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 15-06-2017
- Language: English
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The Doomsday Machine
- By: Daniel Ellsberg
- Narrated by: Steven Cooper
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance36
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The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization, whose legacy - and renewal under the Obama administration - threatens the very survival of humanity. It is scarcely possible to estimate the true dangers of our present nuclear policies without penetrating the secret realities of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, when Ellsberg had high-level access to them.
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Slow and Boring
- By Amazon Customer on 24-08-2025
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The Doomsday Machine
- Narrated by: Steven Cooper
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 05-12-2017
- Language: English
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The Age of Genius
- The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
- By: A. C. Grayling
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance21
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The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics. Acclaimed philosopher and historian A. C. Grayling points to three primary factors that led to the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature.
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The 30 years' war as trigger for the modern world
- By calorie counter on 24-08-2019
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The Age of Genius
- The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 01-03-2016
- Language: English
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The Billionaires Club
- By: James Montague
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Once upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. Today it is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, staggeringly wealthy from oil and gas, from royalty, or from murkier sources. But who are these new masters of the universe? Where did all their money come from? And what do they want with our beautiful game? In The Billionaires Club James Montague delves deeper than anyone else has dared, to tell this story for the first time.
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The Billionaires Club
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 24-08-2017
- Language: English
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The Dreyfus Affair
- The Scandal That Tore France in Two
- By: Piers Paul Read
- Narrated by: David Pevsner
- Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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On October 13, 1894, Captain Dreyfus was summoned by the General de Boisdeffre to the Ministry of War. Despite minimal evidence against him he was placed under arrest for the crime of high treason. Not long afterward Dreyfus was incarcerated on Devil's Island. But how did an innocent man come to be convicted? And why was he kept locked up for so long? The Dreyfus Affair uniquely combines a fast-moving mystery story with a snapshot of France at a moment of great social flux and cultural richness.
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The Dreyfus Affair
- The Scandal That Tore France in Two
- Narrated by: David Pevsner
- Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 04-03-2013
- Language: English
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In Manchuria
- A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China
- By: Michael Meyer
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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For three years Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming community of Wasteland, hometown of his wife's family, and their personal saga mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing in the form of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and constructed high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land rights.
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In Manchuria
- A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 17-02-2015
- Language: English
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Gangster Warlords
- By: Ioan Grillo
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance20
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In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps 500 body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit men to gun down 41 police officers and prison guards in two days. In Southern Mexico a meth maker is venerated as a saint while enforcing Old Testament justice on his enemies. A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, and part rock star, unleashing guerrilla attacks, strong-arming governments, and taking over much of the world's trade in narcotics, guns, and humans.
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Gangster Warlords
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 12-07-2016
- Language: English
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The Epic City
- The World on the Streets of Calcutta
- By: Kushanava Choudhury
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta. When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of 12, he had already migrated halfway around the world four times. After graduating from Princeton, he moved back to the world which his immigrant parents had abandoned, to a city built between a river and a swamp, where the moisture-drenched air swarms with mosquitos after sundown.
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The Epic City
- The World on the Streets of Calcutta
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-08-2017
- Language: English
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Indigo
- In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
- By: Catherine E. McKinley
- Narrated by: Tracey Farrar
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Brimming with rich, electrifying tales of the precious dye and its ancient heritage, Indigo is also the story of a personal quest: Catherine McKinley is the descendant of a clan of Scots who wore indigo tartan; Jewish "rag traders"; a Massachusetts textile factory owner; and African slaves - her ancestors were traded along the same Saharan routes as indigo, where a length of blue cotton could purchase human life.
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Interesting travelogue
- By Margaret M Mitchell on 03-07-2025
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Indigo
- In Search of the Color That Seduced the World
- Narrated by: Tracey Farrar
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 26-02-2013
- Language: English
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The Lexicographer's Dilemma
- The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park
- By: Jack Lynch
- Narrated by: Anthony Gettig
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers - those who have tried to regulate or otherwise organize the way we speak. The Lexicographer's Dilemma poses a pair of questions: What does proper English mean? And who gets to say what's right? Our ideas of correct or proper English have a history, and today's debates over the state of the language - whether about Ebonics in schools, the unique use of language in a South Park episode, or split infinitives in the Times - make sense only in historical context.
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The Lexicographer's Dilemma
- The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park
- Narrated by: Anthony Gettig
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2013
- Language: English
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The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting
- By: Anne Trubek
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In the digital age of instant communication, handwriting is less necessary than ever before, and indeed fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to write in cursive. Signatures - far from John Hancock's elegant model - have become scrawls. In her recent and widely discussed and debated essays, Anne Trubek argues that the decline and even elimination of handwriting from daily life does not signal a decline in civilization, but rather the next stage in the evolution of communication.
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The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 25-10-2016
- Language: English
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Rescue Pilot
- Cheating the Sea
- By: Jerry Grayson
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance27
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Jerry Grayson is an ordinary man who chose an extraordinary career. At age 17 he became the youngest helicopter pilot ever to serve in the Royal Navy. By age 25 he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history.
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Rollicking aviation adventure
- By Ian on 02-07-2015
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Rescue Pilot
- Cheating the Sea
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 16-06-2015
- Language: English
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Meeting the Enemy
- The Human Face of the Great War
- By: Richard van Emden
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A British soldier walked over to the German front line to deliver newspapers; British women married to Germans became ‘enemy aliens’ in their own country; a high-ranking British POW discussed his own troops’ heroism with the Kaiser on the battlefield. Just three amazing stories of contact between the opposing sides in the Great War that eminent historian Richard van Emden has unearthed - incidents that show brutality, great humanity, and above all the bizarre nature of a conflict between two nations with long-standing ties of kinship and friendship.
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Meeting the Enemy
- The Human Face of the Great War
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 10-01-2014
- Language: English
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Zimbabwe
- Years of Hope and Despair
- By: Philip Barclay
- Narrated by: Eric Brooks
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Zimbabwe is a country both blessed and cursed. Arriving to work at the British Embassy in Zimbabwe, Philip Barclay found a temperate paradise and a sophisticated and charming population. But during a three-year stay in what used to be Africa's finest country, he saw it ruined by violence and grotesque economic mismanagement. Philip Barclay was at the centre of the tumultuous events of 2008.
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Great book
- By Anonymous on 13-11-2025
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Zimbabwe
- Years of Hope and Despair
- Narrated by: Eric Brooks
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-03-2013
- Language: English
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Eureka Man
- The Life and Legacy of Archimedes
- By: Alan Hirshfeld
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Many of us know little about Archimedes other than his "Eureka" exclamation upon discovering that he could immerse an object in a full tub of water and measure the spillage to determine the object's weight. That seemingly simple observation not only proved to King Hieron II of Syracuse that a certain amount of silver had been used in what was supposed to be his solid-gold crown, it established the key principles of buoyancy that govern the flotation of hot-air balloons, ships, and denizens of the sea.
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Eureka Man
- The Life and Legacy of Archimedes
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-03-2013
- Language: English
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Story of a Death Foretold
- The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973
- By: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
- Narrated by: Danny Pardo
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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On the fortieth anniversary of revolution and rebellion in Chile, a searching history of the rise and fall of the world’s first and only democratically elected Marxist president. On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile was deposed in a violent coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. The coup had been in the works for months, even years. Shortly after giving a farewell speech to his people, Allende died of gunshot wounds - whether inflicted by his own hand or an assassin’s remains uncertain.
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Story of a Death Foretold
- The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973
- Narrated by: Danny Pardo
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 14-01-2014
- Language: English
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The Downfall of Money
- Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class
- By: Frederick Taylor
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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A hundred years ago, many theorists believed - just as they did at the beginning of our 21st century - that the world had reached a state of economic perfection, a never-before-seen human interdependence that would lead to universal growth and prosperity. Then, as now, the German mark was one of the most trusted currencies in the world. Yet the early years of the Weimar Republic in Germany witnessed the most calamitous meltdown of a developed economy in modern times.
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The Downfall of Money
- Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 18-02-2014
- Language: English
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The Exile
- The Flight of Osama bin Laden
- By: Cathy Scott-Clark, Adrian Levy
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser
- Length: 24 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The Exile joins Osama bin Laden as he escapes into Pakistan in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, bringing to vivid life the years leading up to his death spent on the run and in exile. It tells the human story, and illuminates the global political workings. It is a tale of evasion, collusion, betrayal and the deep pain of isolation.
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Interesting
- By C Doyle on 17-04-2019
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The Exile
- The Flight of Osama bin Laden
- Narrated by: Chris Kayser
- Length: 24 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 23-05-2017
- Language: English
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Milk!
- A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
- By: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the best-selling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic and culinary story of milk and all things dairy - with recipes throughout. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk became our galaxy, the Milky Way.
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The narration of this book killed it for me
- By Amazon Customer on 15-02-2020
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Milk!
- A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
- Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 08-05-2018
- Language: English
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