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The KGB and the Stasi: The History of the Eastern Bloc’s Most Infamous Intelligence Agencies
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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The KGB is one of the most famous abbreviations of the 20th century, and it has become synonymous with the shadowy and often violent actions of the Soviet Union’s secret police and internal security agencies. Aside from the KGB, the 20th century’s most notorious spy agency was the Stasi, which was instrumental in the history of East Germany. In an era of totalitarian countries dominated by repressive state agencies, the Stasi stood out for its size, and the sheer breadth and depth of its surveillance.
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Very good overview
- By Michael P Kowalewski on 30-12-2025
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The KGB and the Stasi: The History of the Eastern Bloc’s Most Infamous Intelligence Agencies
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-03-2018
- Language: English
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The Fermi Paradox: The History and Legacy of the Famous Debate over the Existence of Aliens
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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As technological advances and the creation of flying aircraft became realities, the sighting of UFOs increased, as did the interest in potential contact with aliens. It would hardly be groundbreaking for scientists in the 20th century to have a lunchtime discussion in which the search for extraterrestrial life arises, and the question of where it might reside is innocuous enough. However, a furor was created somewhat innocently when physicist Enrico Fermi voiced his “casual lunchtime remark” in the presence of colleagues in 1950.
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The Fermi Paradox: The History and Legacy of the Famous Debate over the Existence of Aliens
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Release date: 01-02-2021
- Language: English
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The Mud Flood Hypothesis
- The History of the Conspiracy Theory About the Global Empire of Tartaria
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: David Van Der Molen
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The phenomenon of “conspiracy” or “fringe” theories has always been with people, which makes sense since captivating and entertaining hypotheses arouse the public interest with seemingly sound conclusions that are often based on incomplete, unrelated, or erroneous suppositions. However, with the correct tweaking, they often appear to propound airtight arguments. Conspiracy theories make good use of real or imagined individuals or organizations operating behind a curtain of secrecy manipulating the action.
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Annoying narrator style which doesn't help the information being presented.
- By P. Wolf on 29-04-2024
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The Mud Flood Hypothesis
- The History of the Conspiracy Theory About the Global Empire of Tartaria
- Narrated by: David Van Der Molen
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-12-2022
- Language: English
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American Legends: The Life of Doris Day
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Deborah Fennelly
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees?
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American Legends: The Life of Doris Day
- Narrated by: Deborah Fennelly
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 08-04-2015
- Language: English
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American Legends: The Life of Jack Nicholson
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: James Yi
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1994, the American Film Institute gave a Lifetime Achievement Award to Jack Nicholson, who became one of the youngest actors to ever receive the award. Such tributes typically come as a capstone to a star's career, not when the actor is still in his 50s. In fact, Nicholson would go on to win the Oscar for Best Actor just a few years after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award as a result of As Good As It Gets (1997), and he would earn another Academy Award nomination for About Schmidt (2002). Those two would give him 12 Academy Award nominations, more than any other man in history, and make him one of just two actors to be nominated in every decade between 1960 and 2010.
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American Legends: The Life of Jack Nicholson
- Narrated by: James Yi
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 12-06-2015
- Language: English
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The Partition of the British Mandate of Palestine
- The History and Legacy of the United Nations Partition Plan and the Creation of the State of Israel
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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The conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is technically 69 years old and counting, but it has its roots in over 2,000 years of history. Over time, it has become exceedingly difficult for even sophisticated political pundits and followers to keep track of it all. In 1947, the British delegated the issue of partitioning the British Mandate to the United Nations. The UN General Assembly eventually came up with what is now known as the UN Partition Plan of 1947.
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The Partition of the British Mandate of Palestine
- The History and Legacy of the United Nations Partition Plan and the Creation of the State of Israel
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2017
- Language: English
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Benito Mussolini
- The Life and Legacy of Italy’s Fascist Prime Minister
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Benito Mussolini: The Life and Legacy of Italy’s Fascist Prime Minister profiles one of the 20th century’s most notorious leaders. You will learn about Mussolini like never before.
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Benito Mussolini
- The Life and Legacy of Italy’s Fascist Prime Minister
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 20-02-2019
- Language: English
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The Battle of Kosovo
- The History and Legacy of the Battle Between the Serbs and Ottomans That Forged Serbia's National Identity
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The Balkan area has historically been one of the world’s most combustible regions. Home to several national groups and at a crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the Balkans have exerted an outsized role on world affairs. Infamously, the 1914 assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, was the final straw that led to World War I. The Balkans, however, had been flammable long before Princip’s bullets murdered the Austrian monarch-in-waiting.
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Not an objective account
- By Anonymous on 06-02-2024
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The Battle of Kosovo
- The History and Legacy of the Battle Between the Serbs and Ottomans That Forged Serbia's National Identity
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 17-12-2019
- Language: English
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The Slavs and the Slave Trade
- The History of Enslaved Slavs Across Eastern Europe and the Islamic World
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Whereas for much of human history slavery was somewhat arbitrary, in its later forms, it often had a discriminatory component, typically based on race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. This distinction shows how the practitioners of slavery justified the practice in terms of ideology, and Slavic people were discriminated against within the Ottoman Empire. Slavs had lived in the lands of today’s Eastern European region for centuries.
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Short but sweet.
- By David on 11-01-2023
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The Slavs and the Slave Trade
- The History of Enslaved Slavs Across Eastern Europe and the Islamic World
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 01-12-2021
- Language: English
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Apartheid in South Africa: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Segregationist Policies in the 20th Century
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Although apartheid is typically dated from the late 1940s until its dismantling decades later, segregationist policies had been the norm in South Africa from nearly the moment European explorers sailed to the region and began settling there. Whether it was displacing and fighting indigenous groups like the Khoi and San, or fighting other whites like the Boer, separation between ethnicities was the norm in South Africa for centuries before the election of Malan signaled the true rise of the Afrikaner far right.
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Great Listen
- By Ryan Greaves on 03-08-2023
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Apartheid in South Africa: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Segregationist Policies in the 20th Century
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 15-04-2019
- Language: English
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The History of Iraq, 1900-2012
- By: Charles River Editors, M. Clement Hall
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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For much of the past 30 years, Iraq has been one of the world’s greatest hot spots. The 1980s saw Ba’athist strongman Saddam Hussein go to war with Iran as well as the Kurds, who maintained an autonomous region of their own in Northern Iraq. Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait touched off a Gulf War that was followed by biting sanctions. And the 2003 American-led invasion against Hussein’s regime provided the uninformed an all-too-brutal crash course on Iraq’s ethnic and religious divisions and the Middle East’s as a whole.
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The History of Iraq, 1900-2012
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 13-08-2018
- Language: English
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The History of the Sunni and Shia Split
- Understanding the Divisions within Islam
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Different branches of the same religion are the exception more than the rule, and they have had a profound impact upon history. The schism between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches influenced relationships between nations across Europe, and religious intolerance based on different Christian faiths led to persecution and outright violence across the continent for centuries.
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This is a Great Audiobook
- By Anonymous on 27-01-2021
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The History of the Sunni and Shia Split
- Understanding the Divisions within Islam
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 24-03-2015
- Language: English
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The Donner Party
- The Tragic Story of the Wild West's Most Notorious Journey
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Neil Holmes
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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While people still romanticize the Wild West, many Americans are still all too familiar with the fate of the Donner Party, a group of 87-90 people that met with disaster in the Sierra Nevada mountain range during the winter of 1846-1847. The party knew the journey would take months, but early snowfalls in the mountains left dozens of people trapped in snow drifts that measured several feet, stranding them in a manner that made it virtually impossible for them to go any further for several weeks.
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The Donner Party
- The Tragic Story of the Wild West's Most Notorious Journey
- Narrated by: Neil Holmes
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 24-04-2015
- Language: English
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The History of Iran from Ancient Persia to the Ayatollahs
- By: M Clement Hall, Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Tracey Norman
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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How did Iran get to where it is today, at the forefront of global affairs? The history of Iran and the theme of Persian conflict with the West stretches back thousands of years, and it is a unique history of empire, culture, art, pride, and religious nationalism. The History of Iran from Ancient Persia to the Ayatollahs comprehensively and descriptively covers this history, progressing through a timeline dating back to antiquity and examining all of the different religious, political, foreign, and military issues that affect Iran and are affected by Iran today.
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The History of Iran from Ancient Persia to the Ayatollahs
- Narrated by: Tracey Norman
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 03-05-2018
- Language: English
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Heaven’s Gate
- The History and Legacy of Marshall Applewhite’s Notorious Doomsday Cult
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
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While Waco remains notorious more for the federal agents’ siege of David Koresh’s compound and the deaths of the Branch Davidians, it was followed a few years later by a mass suicide carried out by one of the most notorious doomsday cults in American history. On paper, the extraordinarily unorthodox ideology spouted by Heaven's Gate ranks near the top of the list of most outlandish end-of-the-world prophecies, and it was built on a blend of Christian, Gnostic, supernatural, New Age, and extraterrestrial lore.
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Heaven’s Gate
- The History and Legacy of Marshall Applewhite’s Notorious Doomsday Cult
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Release date: 29-01-2021
- Language: English
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The Soviet Union During the Brezhnev Era
- The History of the USSR Under Leonid Brezhnev
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
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Stalin had ruled with an iron fist for nearly 30 years before his death in 1953, just as Stalin was preparing to conduct another purge. With his death, Soviet strongman and long-time Stalinist Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), became the Soviet premier...Khrushchev made his most audacious and ultimately costly decision by attempting to place nuclear warheads at advanced, offensive bases located in Cuba...the Cuban Missile Crisis would show the Kennedy Administration’s resolve, force Khrushchev to back down, and ultimately sow the seeds of Khrushchev’s fall from power.
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The Soviet Union During the Brezhnev Era
- The History of the USSR Under Leonid Brezhnev
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-07-2019
- Language: English
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Lord Byron: The Life and Legacy of the Most Famous Romantic Poet
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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Lord Byron’s very name conjures up visions of the Romantic movement and outlandishly dressed bohemians, for if Alfred, Lord Tennyson was the poetic darling of the masses, Byron was the hero of the hedonists. While the traditional English literary hero was a nobleman rescuing a damsel in distress, Byron created the antihero, a man plagued by self-doubt and hidden sorrow. At the same time, his hero was also capable of facing reality once he had wrestled through his own angst, and even of occasionally acting nobly in the great tradition of the author’s Puritan forebears.
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Lord Byron: The Life and Legacy of the Most Famous Romantic Poet
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 07-08-2018
- Language: English
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The Columbia Disaster
- The History of the Last Space Shuttle to Be Lost During a Mission
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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On the morning of January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger launched for the 10th time, beginning mission STS-51-L. Space shuttles had already successfully completed 24 missions, and no American spacecraft had ever failed to reach orbit during an official mission.
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The Columbia Disaster
- The History of the Last Space Shuttle to Be Lost During a Mission
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 24-12-2024
- Language: English
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Menachem Begin
- The Life and Legacy of the Irgun Leader Who Became Israel’s Prime Minister
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
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The conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is over 70 years old and counting but has its roots in over 2,000 years of history. With so much time and history, the Middle East peace process has become laden with unique, politically sensitive. Menachem Begin: The Life and Legacy of the Irgun Leader Who Became Israel’s Prime Minister looks at how Begin rose the ranks through militias and governments to become one of the Jewish State’s most consequential leaders.
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Menachem Begin
- The Life and Legacy of the Irgun Leader Who Became Israel’s Prime Minister
- Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 18-07-2019
- Language: English
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Antoni Gaudí: The Life and Legacy of the Architect of Catalan Modernism
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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Halfway into the 19th century, Spain's Catalonia underwent a sweeping transformation when it was thrust into not one, but two golden eras - the Renaixença and the Industrial Revolution. It was during this explosive period of creativity, thriving prosperity, and invigorated patriotism that a steadfastly nonconforming and fascinatingly eccentric icon was born, one that was about to take Catalonia by storm with his brilliant eye for unorthodox art and his legendary - or as some would say, notoriously - out-of-the-box ideas.
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A great summary of Antoni Gaudi’s life and work!
- By Anonymous on 26-03-2022
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Antoni Gaudí: The Life and Legacy of the Architect of Catalan Modernism
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 05-10-2017
- Language: English
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