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Lords of the Desert
- Britain's Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East
- By: James Barr
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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Within a single generation, between 1945 and 1970, America replaced Britain as the dominant power in the Middle East. By any standard, it was an extraordinary role reversal, and it was one that came with very little warning. Starting in the 19th century, Britain had first established themselves as protector of the sheikhdoms along the southern shore of the Persian Gulf, before acquiring Aden, Cyprus and then Egypt and the Sudan. In the Great War in the 20th century they then added Palestine, Jordan and Iraq by conquest. And finally Britain had jointly run Iran with the Soviets since 1941 to defeat Hitler.
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Lords of the Desert
- Britain's Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-08-2018
- Language: English
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The Hacienda
- How Not to Run a Club
- By: Peter Hook
- Narrated by: Peter Hook
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for 30 years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs.
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FAC51
- By Anonymous User on 14-09-2020
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The Hacienda
- How Not to Run a Club
- Narrated by: Peter Hook
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-12-2010
- Language: English
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Lancaster
- The Making of a Very British Legend
- By: John Nichol
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
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After its maiden flight on 5 January 1941, Lancaster Chief Test Pilot Sam Browne said, ‘Oh boy, oh boy. What an aircraft!’ With a maximum weight of over 30 tonnes, far heavier than the RAF’s previous generation of bomber, the standard version could lift, on average, 14,000 lbs of bombs. Britain was ready to take the aerial war to Nazi Germany in a deadly fashion. During the course of the Second World War, 7,377 Lancaster bombers were built, flying a total of 156,000 sorties and dropped 618,378 tonnes of bombs on German cities.
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Wanted more
- By Simon Sproull on 13-06-2021
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Lancaster
- The Making of a Very British Legend
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 28-05-2020
- Language: English
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Witchcraft
- A History in Thirteen Trials
- By: Marion Gibson
- Narrated by: Rose Akroyd
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Salem, King James VI, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch hunts and witch trials sounds antiquated, relics of an unenlightened and brutal age. However, 'witch hunt' is heard often in the present-day media, and the misogyny it is rooted in is all too familiar today. A woman was prosecuted under the 1735 Witchcraft Act as recently as 1944. This book uses thirteen significant trials to explore the history of witchcraft and witch hunts.
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Witchcraft
- A History in Thirteen Trials
- Narrated by: Rose Akroyd
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 22-06-2023
- Language: English
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Road to Surrender
- Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
- By: Evan Thomas
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war “at once.” Stimson is waiting for him. He wants to know: has Groves selected the targets yet? So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America’s decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan’s decision to surrender.
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A great summary of the closing months of the Pacific War
- By David Lovelock on 13-12-2023
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Road to Surrender
- Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-06-2023
- Language: English
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Every Day Is Extra
- By: John Kerry
- Narrated by: John Kerry
- Length: 28 hrs and 25 mins
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Every Day Is Extra is John Kerry’s personal story. The title comes from a saying he and his buddies had in Vietnam. A child of privilege, Kerry went to private schools and Yale, then enlisted in the US Navy during the Vietnam War. He commanded river patrols - swift boats - and was highly decorated, but he discovered that the truth about what was happening in Vietnam was different from what the government was reporting. He returned home disillusioned, became active against the war, and testified in Congress as a 27-year-old veteran who opposed the war.
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Every Day Is Extra
- Narrated by: John Kerry
- Length: 28 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 06-09-2018
- Language: English
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Eject! Eject!
- By: John Nichol
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Nichol tells the remarkable tale of how the ejection seat was first conceived during the Second World War as countless lives were lost in accidents and in battle. In the wake of the war, that technological race to save aircrew lives using explosive seats continued at an incredible pace. Nichol tells the story of the brave men who risked their lives testing those early devices, and interviewed the first British pilot to eject back in 1949, when ejection, from pulling the handle to being under the parachute, took thirty seconds. Today, that figure is down to around one second.
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Eject! Eject!
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 25-05-2023
- Language: English
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The Co-Op's Got Bananas
- A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North
- By: Hunter Davies
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing football with your pals, saving up to go to the movies at the weekend, and being captivated by the latest escapade of Dick Barton on the radio. Chocolate might be scarce, and bananas would be a pipe dream, but you could still have fun.
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Unable to stop listening!
- By Jacqui Buck on 14-09-2019
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The Co-Op's Got Bananas
- A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-08-2017
- Language: English
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Wordy
- By: Simon Schama
- Narrated by: Simon Schama, Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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Sir Simon Schama has been at the forefront of the arts, political commentary, social analysis and historical study for over 40 years. As a teacher of Art History and an award-winning television presenter of iconic history-based programming, Simon is equally a prolific bestselling writer and award-winning columnist for many of the world’s foremost publishers, broadsheet newspapers, periodicals and magazines.
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Would have been better with one reader
- By V on 16-09-2021
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Wordy
- Narrated by: Simon Schama, Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 25-07-2019
- Language: English
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Berlin
- Biography of a City
- By: Barney White-Spunner
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker, Barney White-Spunner - introduction
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
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Berlin is Europe’s most fascinating and exciting city. It is and always has been a city on the edge – geographically, culturally, politically and morally. The great movements that have shaken Europe, from the Reformation to Marxism have their origins in Berlin’s streets. The long-time capital of Prussia and of the Hohenzollern dynasty it has never, paradoxically, been a Prussian city. Instead it has always been a city of immigrants, a city that accepts everyone and turns them into Berliners. A typical Berliner, it is said, is someone who has just arrived at the railway station.
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Berlin
- Biography of a City
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker, Barney White-Spunner - introduction
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2020
- Language: English
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Beyond the Known
- How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
- By: Andrew Rader
- Narrated by: Andrew Rader
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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For the first time in history, the human species has the technology to destroy itself. But having developed that power, humans are also able to leave Earth and voyage into the vastness of space. After millions of years of evolution, we’ve arrived at the point where we can settle other worlds and begin the process of becoming multi-planetary. How did we get here? What does the future hold for us?
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Barely OK
- By Anonymous User on 07-05-2022
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Beyond the Known
- How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
- Narrated by: Andrew Rader
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-11-2019
- Language: English
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The French Mind
- 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal
- By: Peter Watson
- Narrated by: Richard Attlee
- Length: 29 hrs and 16 mins
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We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity, sophistication and self-assurance, and even their insistence that they are exceptional. But how did France become the country it is today, and what really sets it apart? Journalist and historian Peter Watson sets out to answer these questions in The French Mind, a dazzling history of France that takes us from the 17th century to the present day through the nation’s most influential thinkers.
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Informative and enjoyable
- By JayD on 27-08-2022
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The French Mind
- 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal
- Narrated by: Richard Attlee
- Length: 29 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 17-03-2022
- Language: English
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The Ticket Collector from Belarus
- An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial
- By: Mike Anderson, Neil Hanson
- Narrated by: Luke Thompson
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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The Ticket Collector from Belarus tells the remarkable story of two interwoven journeys. Ben-Zion Blustein and Andrei Sawoniuk were childhood companions in 1930s Domachevo, once a holiday and health resort in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and then a struggling township in Belarus. During the events which followed its Nazi occupation in 1942, they became the bitterest of enemies. After the war, Ben-Zion made his way to Israel, and ‘Andrusha the bastard’ found work as a London Transport ticket collector.
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Belarus
- By Anonymous User on 01-01-2023
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The Ticket Collector from Belarus
- An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial
- Narrated by: Luke Thompson
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 20-01-2022
- Language: English
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Icebound
- By: Andrea Pitzer
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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In Icebound, Andrea Pitzer combines a movie-worthy tale of survival with a sweeping history of the period - a time of hope, adventure and seemingly unlimited scientific and geographic frontiers. At the story’s centre is William Barents, one of the 16th century’s greatest navigators, whose larger-than-life ambitions and obsessive quest to find a path through the deepest, most remote regions of the Arctic ended in both catastrophe and glory.
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Icebound
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2021
- Language: English
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Hitler's British Isles
- By: Duncan Barrett
- Narrated by: Duncan Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
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In the summer of 1940, Britain stood perilously close to invasion. One by one, the nations of Europe had fallen to the unstoppable German Blitzkrieg, and Hitler’s sights were set on the English coast. And yet, following the success of the Battle of Britain, the promised invasion never came. The prospect of German jackboots landing on British soil retreated into the realm of collective nightmares.
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Hitler's British Isles
- Narrated by: Duncan Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 14-06-2018
- Language: English
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The Plot to Save South Africa
- The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
- By: Justice Malala
- Narrated by: Nick Boraine, Justice Malala
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three years and is in slow-moving power-sharing talks with President FW de Klerk when a white supremacist shoots Mandela’s popular young heir apparent, Chris Hani, in the hope of igniting an all-out civil war. Will he succeed in plunging South Africa into chaos, safeguarding apartheid for perhaps years to come? Or can Mandela and de Klerk overcome their differences and mutual suspicion and calm their followers, plotting a way forward?
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The Plot to Save South Africa
- The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
- Narrated by: Nick Boraine, Justice Malala
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-04-2023
- Language: English
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We Are Your Soldiers
- How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World
- By: Alex Rowell
- Narrated by: Nigel Paterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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Gamal Abdel Nasser, the larger-than-life Egyptian president who ruled for eighteen years from the coup d'etat he led in 1952, is best known for wresting the Suez Canal from the British and French empires and befriending such iconic revolutionaries as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Yet there is a darker side to Nasser's regime. He was a brutal authoritarian, whose legacy lies at the heart of the violent and repressive order that still prevails throughout the Arab world today. In We Are Your Soldiers, Alex Rowell focuses on seven countries to reassess Nasser's impact in the Arab sphere.
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We Are Your Soldiers
- How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World
- Narrated by: Nigel Paterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 11-01-2024
- Language: English
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The Real Special Relationship
- The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together
- By: Michael Smith
- Narrated by: Richard Attlee
- Length: 20 hrs and 32 mins
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The Special Relationship between America and Britain is feted by politicians on both sides of the Atlantic when it suits their purpose and just as frequently dismissed as a myth, not least by the media, which announces its supposed death on a regular basis. Yet the simple truth is that the two countries are bound together more closely than either is to any other ally. Michael Smith reveals how it all began, 80 years ago, when a top-secret visit by four American codebreakers to Bletchley Park in February 1941.
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The Real Special Relationship
- The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together
- Narrated by: Richard Attlee
- Length: 20 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 04-08-2022
- Language: English
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Money
- A Story of Humanity
- By: David McWilliams
- Length: 10 hrs
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Global economist David McWilliams explores our relationship with money and how it sustains the existence of civilisation as we know it. In Money, McWilliams aims to do for cash what David Attenborough did for the Planet: to unlock its mysteries, its limitations and its awesome power. We journey all across the world, through the present and the past, to survey the ever-evolving dynamics of money in a way that has never been seen before.
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Money
- A Story of Humanity
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 12-09-2024
- Language: English
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Tory Nation
- How One Party Took Over
- By: Samuel Earle
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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The Conservative Party has presided over countless corruption scandals, blundered its way through a pandemic and into a cost of living crisis that is set to plunge millions more into poverty. But in spite of their track record the party remains in power. Why? Tory Nation tells the story of how the Conservatives came to dominate Britain, and how this dominance is eroding our democracy, pushing us closer to a one-party state.
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Great book
- By Stepho on 19-09-2023
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Tory Nation
- How One Party Took Over
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 04-05-2023
- Language: English
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