Private History

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 27-05-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,040 ratings
    • Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of....

    Non-member price: $32.99

    • Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty
    • By: Tracy Borman
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Sandra Duncan
    • Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Tracy Borman takes us behind the scenes to reveal the intimate secrets of the Tudor court and the private lives of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I and more....

    Non-member price: $26.99

    • ExxonMobil and American Power
    • By: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States, revealing the true extent of its power....

    Non-member price: $43.99

    • A Short History of Private Life
    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 27-05-2010
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying the battles and wars of history than to considering what history really consists of....

    Non-member price: $21.99

    • By: Don Watson
    • Narrated by: Don Watson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • The Passion of Private White describes the meeting of two worlds: that of the driven anthropologist Neville White, and the world of hunter-gatherer clans in remote northern Australia with whom he has lived and worked for half a century, mapping their culture and history in breathtaking detail.

    Non-member price: $26.99

    • Liberated Body, Captive Mind: A World War II POW’s Journey
    • By: Norman Bussel
    • Narrated by: Alpha Trivette
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This is one soldier's searing and honest story of his battle with post-traumatic stress disorder. A battle that speaks to the hearts and minds of veterans of all wars....

    Non-member price: $27.99

    • The Secret History of Female Sleuths
    • By: Caitlin Davies
    • Narrated by: Annie Aldington
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The female private detective has been a staple of popular culture for over 150 years. But what about the real-life women behind these fictional tales?

    Non-member price: $26.99

    • An Eyewitness in Action at the Battle of Waterloo (Military Memoirs)
    • By: B.H. Liddell Hart
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 28-07-2022
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • These letters, in the form of a frank and amusing diary, were written by a private in Wellington's army who fought throughout the Napoleonic Wars....

    Non-member price: $26.99

    • How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
    • By: Kate Conger, Ryan Mac
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk’s unprecedented hostile takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal’s seismic political, social, and financial fallout.

    Non-member price: $26.99

    • The Haunting of America—The Private Use of Secret Agents
    • By: Jim Hougan
    • Narrated by: William Sarris
    • Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-2025
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • A classic of investigative reporting, Spooks is a treasure trove of who-shot-who research on the metastasis of the United States intelligence community, whose practices and personnel have engulfed the larger society.

    Non-member price: $33.99

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    • The True Story of Australia's Canine War Hero
    • By: Sandra Lee
    • Narrated by: Peter Byrne
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The amazing true story of Australia's canine war hero....

    Non-member price: $39.99

    • The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War
    • By: Deborah Cadbury
    • Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • King George V predicted that his son, Edward VIII, would destroy himself within a year of succeeding to the throne....

    Non-member price: $26.99

    • Inside the Private World of the White House
    • By: Kate Andersen Brower
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-2015
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Residence reveals daily life in the White House as it is really lived through the voices of the maids, butlers, cooks, florists, doormen, engineers, and others....

    Non-member price: $26.99

    • Private Life in Stalin's Russia
    • By: Orlando Figes
    • Narrated by: John Telfer
    • Length: 29 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin....

    Non-member price: $43.99

    • How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America
    • By: Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner
    • Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • These Are the Plunderers traces the thirty-year history of corporate takeovers in America and private equity’s increasing dominance....

    Non-member price: $26.99

    • The Private, Political, and Military Decisions of America's Greatest President
    • By: Stephen Wynalda
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • For the first time ever, the intimate thoughts and political decisions of Abraham Lincoln’s entire presidency - day by day....

    Non-member price: $33.99

    • A Nurse in Wartime
    • By: Mary Morris
    • Narrated by: Lara Hutchinson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-2014
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 'The real war started for me today.' So begins the diary of 18-year-old Mary Mulry, a young Irish nurse, newly arrived in London in 1940....

    Non-member price: $26.99

    • The Private World of the Kennedy White House
    • By: Sally Bedell Smith
    • Narrated by: Lee Adams
    • Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-2004
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In Grace and Power, New York Times best-selling author Sally Bedell Smith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleled access and insight....

    Non-member price: $33.99

    • What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President
    • By: Ronald C. White
    • Narrated by: Ronald C. White
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • New York Times best-selling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses presents a revelatory glimpse into the mind and soul of our 16th president through his private notes to himself, explored together here for the first time....

    Non-member price: $16.99