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Britty Britty Bang Bang: One Man's Attempt to Understand His Country
- By: Hugh Dennis
- Narrated by: Hugh Dennis
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Mock the Week and Outnumbered's Hugh Dennis with an hilarious and insightful exploration of the changing image of Britain and Britishness.
Hugh Dennis has secretly been worrying about what being "British" meant for nearly a decade, ever since his friend Ardal O'Hanlon had told him in passing that he was the most British person he had ever met. Hugh was unclear whether he was being praised, teased, vaguely insulted, or possibly all three - because it has always been very difficult to know how to feel about being British.
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Informative and entertaining read
- By Sue McW on 28-07-13
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Britty Britty Bang Bang: One Man's Attempt to Understand His Country
- Narrated by: Hugh Dennis
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 23-05-13
- Language: English
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The Battle of the Boyne
- The History of the Battle That Ended James II’s Attempt to Reclaim the Throne of England
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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The 17th century in Europe, particularly its latter years, is often considered the beginning of the Enlightenment, as nations across the continent experienced a surge in innovation and scientific progress, a period also commonly referred to as the Age of Reason. There was English natural philosopher, Francis Bacon, whose book Novum Organum challenged Aristotelian philosophy and stressed the significance of inductive reasoning.
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The Battle of the Boyne
- The History of the Battle That Ended James II’s Attempt to Reclaim the Throne of England
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 04-05-23
- Language: English
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The Fight for Zimbabwe
- The History and Legacy of the British Empire's Attempt to Establish a Colony in the 19th Century
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismark, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event - known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 - galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa.
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The Fight for Zimbabwe
- The History and Legacy of the British Empire's Attempt to Establish a Colony in the 19th Century
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 24-03-20
- Language: English
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The Warsaw Uprising of 1944
- The History of the Polish Resistance's Failed Attempt to Liberate Poland's Capital from Nazi Germany
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: David Hubbard
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
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After a brief revival following World War I, during which it successfully defeated a Soviet attempt to invade in an effort to carry "international revolution" into Germany and Central Europe, Poland once again fell victim to its neighbors in 1939. Adolf Hitler's Third Reich and Josef Stalin's USSR collaborated in the conquest and then split Poland between them. The Germans instituted oppressive rule in their portion of Poland, executing some 7,000 people on political grounds and imprisoning thousands of others.
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Unlistanable monotone narration
- By B. Collins on 06-04-19
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The Warsaw Uprising of 1944
- The History of the Polish Resistance's Failed Attempt to Liberate Poland's Capital from Nazi Germany
- Narrated by: David Hubbard
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 04-11-16
- Language: English
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Die Reichsbürger [The Reich Citizens]
- Ermächtigungsversuche einer gespenstischen Bewegung [Attempts to Empower a Ghostly Movement]
- By: Christoph Schonberger, Sophie Schonberger
- Narrated by: Heiko Grauel
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
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Am 7. Dezember 2022 rückten mehr als 3 000 Polizisten zur wohl größten Anti-Terror-Razzia in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik aus. Sie verhafteten die Rädelsführer einer Gruppe aus dem Reichsbürgermilieu, die einen gewaltsamen Umsturz der Regierung geplant hatte. Wer aber sind diese Reichsbürger, die die Bundesrepublik Deutschland nicht als legitimen Staat anerkennen, von einer BRD GmbH fabulieren und sich immer noch im Deutschen Reich wähnen?
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Die Reichsbürger [The Reich Citizens]
- Ermächtigungsversuche einer gespenstischen Bewegung [Attempts to Empower a Ghostly Movement]
- Narrated by: Heiko Grauel
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 26-10-23
- Language: German
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The Beer Hall Putsch
- The History and Legacy of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party's Failed Coup Attempt in 1923
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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It is often claimed that Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany through democratic means, and while that is a stretch, it is true that he managed to become an absolute dictator as Chancellor of Germany in the 1930s through a mixture of politics and intimidation. Ironically, he had set such a course only because of the failure of an outright coup attempt known as the Beer Hall Putsch about a decade earlier.
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The Beer Hall Putsch
- The History and Legacy of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party's Failed Coup Attempt in 1923
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Release date: 06-04-15
- Language: English
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Assassinating Adolf Hitler and Reinhard Heydrich
- The History of the Attempts to Kill the Nazi Dictator and the Blond Beast
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Chris Morris
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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Like other totalitarian regimes, the leader of the Nazis kept an iron grip on power in part by making sure nobody else could attain too much of it, leading to purges of high-ranking officials in the Nazi party. Of these purges, the most notorious was the Night of the Long Knives, a purge in the summer of 1934 that came about when Hitler ordered the surprise executions of several dozen leaders of the SA.
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Assassinating Adolf Hitler and Reinhard Heydrich
- The History of the Attempts to Kill the Nazi Dictator and the Blond Beast
- Narrated by: Chris Morris
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 31-03-23
- Language: English
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The Crusade of Varna
- The History of the Unsuccessful Attempt to Prevent the Ottoman Empire’s Expansion into Central Europe
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: David Van Der Molen
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the 4th century, when Constantine the Great shifted the power center of the Roman Empire there, effectively establishing two almost equally powerful halves of antiquity’s greatest empire. Constantinople would continue to serve as the capital of the Byzantine Empire even after the Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the late 5th century.
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The Crusade of Varna
- The History of the Unsuccessful Attempt to Prevent the Ottoman Empire’s Expansion into Central Europe
- Narrated by: David Van Der Molen
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 16-01-23
- Language: English
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Assassinating Adolf Hitler
- The History of the Failed Conspiracies and Attempts to Kill the Nazi Dictator
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Ken Teutsch
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
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Like other totalitarian leaders, Adolf Hitler kept an iron grip on power in part by making sure nobody else could attain too much of it, leading to purges of high-ranking officials in the Nazi party. Of these purges, the most notorious was the Night of the Long Knives, a purge in the summer of 1934 that came about when Hitler ordered the surprise executions of several dozen leaders of the SA.
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Short and Sweet
- By H Buckner on 20-04-23
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Assassinating Adolf Hitler
- The History of the Failed Conspiracies and Attempts to Kill the Nazi Dictator
- Narrated by: Ken Teutsch
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Release date: 17-11-16
- Language: English
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