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Thomas Cromwell
- A Life
- By: Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 26 hrs and 38 mins
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Thomas Cromwell by Diarmid MacCulloch, read by David Rintoul. Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, and by the end of the 1530s he was effectively running the country for the King.
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Enormously interesting and very entertaining.
- By Campesque on 21-12-18
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Thomas Cromwell
- A Life
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 26 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 27-09-18
- Language: English
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Reluctant Hero: A 9/11 Hero Speaks Out About What He's Learned, How He's Struggled, and What No One Should Ever Forget
- A 9/11 Hero Speaks Out About What He's Learned, How He's Struggled, and What No One Should Ever Forget
- By: Michael Benfante
- Narrated by: Chris Ruen
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, Michael Benfante went to work, just like he had day after day, at his office on 81st floor in the World Trade Center North Tower. Moments after the first plane struck, just 12 floors above him, Benfante organized his terrified employees, getting them out of the office and moving down the stairwells. On his way down, he and another co-worker encountered a woman in a wheelchair on the 68th floor.
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great story
- By Shane canning on 25-12-21
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Reluctant Hero: A 9/11 Hero Speaks Out About What He's Learned, How He's Struggled, and What No One Should Ever Forget
- A 9/11 Hero Speaks Out About What He's Learned, How He's Struggled, and What No One Should Ever Forget
- Narrated by: Chris Ruen
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 22-05-13
- Language: English
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Always Greener
- The true story behind Restless Dolly Maunder
- By: Kate Grenville
- Narrated by: Kate Grenville
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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Always Greener is an exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother, who she feared as a child and only in adulthood came to understand. Born in rural Australia, Dolly Russell becomes a successful businessperson, mother and troubled wife. Then came the depression, bankruptcy and World War I. Yet, in a way, those disasters freed her. They allowed her to use her intelligence and ambition to make a space for herself in a man’s world.
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Loved it!
- By Amazon Customer on 08-11-21
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Always Greener
- The true story behind Restless Dolly Maunder
- Narrated by: Kate Grenville
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 13-07-21
- Language: English
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Think Twice: Michael Jackson
- By: Leon Neyfakh
- Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Jay Smooth
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More than a decade since Michael Jackson’s death, his legacy remains complicated and unresolved.
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Terrible researched & hiding vital facts, be aware
- By Xoleraz on 04-05-23
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The Hard Way
- Adapt, Survive and Win
- By: Mark 'Billy' Billingham
- Narrated by: Mark 'Billy' Billingham, Simon Slater
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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Billy is a highly decorated veteran, with a reputation for excellence, honesty and integrity not only supporting his comrades Ant Middleton, Jason Fox and Ollie Ollerton but equally intimidating and inspiring the contestants who take on the gruelling challenges each week. The Hard Way details Billy’s story thus far but will also educate and enthral those wishing to seek a challenge and conquer it - the SAS way.
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misleading
- By Anonymous User on 16-12-19
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The Hard Way
- Adapt, Survive and Win
- Narrated by: Mark 'Billy' Billingham, Simon Slater
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
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The Last Manchu
- The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
- By: Paul Kramer, Henry Pu Yi
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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In 1908, at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for 13 years in Peking’s Forbidden City, but with none of the power his birth afforded him. The remainder of Pu Yi’s life was lived out in a topsy-turvy fashion: fleeing from a Chinese warlord, becoming head of a Japanese puppet state, being confined to a Russian prison in Siberia, and enduring taxing labor.
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Excellent
- By Mike Bingham on 27-04-20
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The Last Manchu
- The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 27-01-13
- Language: English
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Mengele
- Unmasking the "Angel of Death"
- By: David G. Marwell
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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Mengele describes the international search for the Nazi doctor in 1985 that ended in a cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the dogged forensic investigation that produced overwhelming evidence that Mengele had died - but failed to convince those who, arguably, most wanted him dead. This is the riveting story of science without limits, escape without freedom, and resolution without justice.
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Minimal info on his background during the war
- By Niceaspies on 26-02-20
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Mengele
- Unmasking the "Angel of Death"
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 28-01-20
- Language: English
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A General History of the Pyrates
- From Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time
- By: Daniel Defoe
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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This work was published in 1724, under the pseudonym Captain Charles Johnson, by an unknown British author, usually assumed to be Daniel Defoe. This work is the prime source for the biographies of many well-known pirates of that era and shaped the popular notions about pirates of the day. Included are Blackbeard, Black Bart, Jolly Roger, Anne Bonny (aka Anne Bonn), Edward Teach, Henry Avery, Mary Read, and many more.
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Horrid Narration
- By James Macdonald on 23-05-17
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A General History of the Pyrates
- From Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-11-16
- Language: English
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The Age of Caesar
- Five Roman Lives
- By: Plutarch, James Romm - preface and notes, Pamela Mensch - translator
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives still haunt us as examples of how the hunger for personal power can overwhelm collective politics, how the exaltation of the military can corrode civilian authority, and how the best intentions can lead to disastrous consequences. Plutarch renders these history-making lives as flesh-and-blood characters.
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A historical classic.
- By Zazafraz on 31-07-24
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The Age of Caesar
- Five Roman Lives
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 31-01-17
- Language: English
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About Face
- By: Colonel David H. Hackworth US Army Ret., Julie Sherman
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 40 hrs and 38 mins
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From age 15 to 40, David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and fast became a living legend. In 1971, however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war effort in Vietnam. With About Face, he has written what many Vietnam veterans have called the most important book of their generation.
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Try it.
- By gustishmaggi on 21-05-20
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About Face
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 40 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 02-07-19
- Language: English
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Thomas Cromwell
- The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
- By: Tracy Borman
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Paul Mendez, Sandra Duncan
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
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Thomas Cromwell is known to millions as the leading character in Hilary Mantel's best-selling Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. But who was the real Cromwell? Born a lowly tavern keeper's son, Cromwell rose swiftly through the ranks to become Henry VIII's right-hand man, and one of the most powerful figures in Tudor history. The architect of England's break with the Roman Catholic Church and the dissolution of the monasteries, he oversaw seismic changes in our country's history.
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Spoiled by additional narration
- By DrSF on 22-11-14
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Thomas Cromwell
- The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Paul Mendez, Sandra Duncan
- Length: 15 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 22-09-14
- Language: English
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The Explorations of Captain James Cook
- An Introduction
- By: John Lang
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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Captain James Cook FRS RN (1728-1779) was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy. Cook was the first to map Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands as well as the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. This audio edition includes the full text of John Lang's biography, plus additional material.
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Succinct
- By Amazon Customer on 25-04-24
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The Explorations of Captain James Cook
- An Introduction
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-06-12
- Language: English
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Pirate Queen
- The Life of Grace O'Malley
- By: Judith Cook
- Narrated by: Katherine Anderson
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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Grace O'Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She soon had a fleet of galleys under her commander, but her three decades of plundering, kidnapping, murder and mayhem came to a close in 1586, when she was captured and sentenced to hang. Saved from the scaffold by none other than Queen Elizabeth herself—another powerful woman in a man's world—Grace's life took another extraordinary turn, when it was rumored she had become intelligencer for the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham.
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Pirate Queen
- The Life of Grace O'Malley
- Narrated by: Katherine Anderson
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 27-09-22
- Language: English
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2)
- 1938-43
- By: Chips Channon
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Length: 48 hrs and 28 mins
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This second volume of the best-selling diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon takes us from the heady aftermath of the Munich agreement, when the prime minister Chips so admired was credited with having averted a general European conflagration, through the rapid unravelling of appeasement, and on to the tribulations of the early years of the Second World War. It closes with a moment of hope, as Channon, in recording the fall of Mussolini in July 1943, reflects: 'The war must be more than half over.'
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Wonderfully enthralling and yet painfully snobbish
- By Philip Moore on 16-01-22
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2)
- 1938-43
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Series: The Diaries, Book 2
- Length: 48 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 09-12-21
- Language: English
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Charles and Camilla
- Portrait of a Love Affair
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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This is a story of the most well documented, most commented on love affair of our times. Yet the personalities behind the facade remain elusive and the nature of their relationship is an enigma. This is the first major biography of Charles and Camilla, two people who have battled against the curious lot that fate has thrown their way. Gyles Brandreth returns to the same ground as his last book, the bestselling "Philip and Elizabeth"; "Portrait of a Marriage".
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Fascinating Detailed Account Of Royal Life
- By Joan on 03-03-18
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Charles and Camilla
- Portrait of a Love Affair
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 09-12-14
- Language: English
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Mussolini and Hitler
- The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
- By: Christian Goeschel
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally. Goeschel, a scholar of 20th-century Germany and Italy, revisits all of Mussolini and Hitler's key meetings and asks how these meetings constructed a powerful image of a strong Fascist-Nazi relationship that still resonates with the general public.
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Insightful
- By Kindle Customer on 10-06-19
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Mussolini and Hitler
- The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 25-09-18
- Language: English
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Dying Every Day
- Seneca at the Court of Nero
- By: James S. Romm
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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James Romm seamlessly weaves together the life and written words, the moral struggles, political intrigue, and bloody vengeance that enmeshed Seneca the Younger in the twisted imperial family and the perverse, paranoid regime of Emperor Nero, despot and madman.
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A suffering man.
- By Zazafraz on 04-07-24
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Dying Every Day
- Seneca at the Court of Nero
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 26-10-21
- Language: English
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Crassus
- The First Tycoon
- By: Peter Stothard
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
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Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last years of the Roman republic. Without his catastrophic ambition, this trailblazing tycoon might have quietly entered history as Rome's first modern political financier. Instead, Crassus and his son led an army on an unprovoked campaign against Parthia into what are now the borderlands of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, losing a battle at Carrhae which scarred Roman minds for generations.
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Wealth and destruction.
- By Zazafraz on 18-06-24
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Crassus
- The First Tycoon
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 15-11-22
- Language: English
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Our Crime Was Being Jewish
- Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories
- By: Anthony S. Pitch
- Narrated by: Malk Williams, Fenella Fudge
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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Our Crime Was Being Jewish contains 576 vivid memories of 358 Holocaust survivors. These are the true, insider stories of victims, told in their own words. They include the experiences of teenagers who saw their parents and siblings sent to the gas chambers; of starving children beaten for trying to steal a morsel of food; of people who saw their friends commit suicide to save themselves from the daily agony they endured.
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Disjointed, annoying.
- By P-J on 16-04-19
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Our Crime Was Being Jewish
- Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories
- Narrated by: Malk Williams, Fenella Fudge
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 07-07-15
- Language: English
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Muhammad
- His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
- By: Martin Lings
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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This excellent audiobook is the first of its kind and has been selected by a number of organizations as a worthy introduction to the life of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), including Muslim Welfare House, London, and the Muslim Council of Britain.
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A great boigraphy of a great man
- By Shofiqul on 25-02-09
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Muhammad
- His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 19-11-07
- Language: English
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