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George V
- Never a Dull Moment
- By: Jane Ridley
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 22 hrs and 7 mins
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The lasting reputation of George V is for dullness. He was a crack shot and an outstanding stamp collector, but that's about it. The flamboyance and hedonism of his father, Edward VII, defined an era whose influence and magnetism is still felt today. The contrast between the two could hardly be greater.
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Tough going..
- By rightlemon on 24-03-22
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George V
- Never a Dull Moment
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 22 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 04-11-21
- Language: English
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Young Romantics
- The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives
- By: Daisy Hay
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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Young Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective - celebrating their extreme youth and outsize yearning for friendship as well as their individuality and political radicalism. The book focuses on the network of writers and readers who gathered around Percy Bysshe Shelley and the campaigning journalist Leigh Hunt.
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Perfect for a TV series
- By Teresa Gamble on 22-12-13
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Young Romantics
- The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 02-03-13
- Language: English
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You Can’t Win
- By: Jack Black
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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The favorite book of William Burroughs. A journey into the hobo underworld, freight hopping around the still Wild West, becoming a highwayman and member of the yegg (criminal) brotherhood, getting hooked on opium, doing stints in jail or escaping, often with the assistance of crooked cops or judges. Our lost history revived. With an introduction by Burroughs. A BookSense 77 selection.
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A must listen!
- By Amazon Customer on 09-04-21
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You Can’t Win
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 16-04-13
- Language: English
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The Lady in the Tower
- The Fall of Anne Boleyn
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
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The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in 1536 was unprecedented in English history and never before has there been a book devoted entirely to her fall. But here Alison Weir has reassessed the evidence and created a richly researched and detailed portrait of the last days of one of the most influential and important figures in English history.
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Not proper history
- By Anonymous User on 24-10-24
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The Lady in the Tower
- The Fall of Anne Boleyn
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 10-07-24
- Language: English
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Good-Bye to All That
- An Autobiography
- By: Robert Graves
- Narrated by: Joel Schrank
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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"Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography" by Robert Graves is a seminal work that vividly captures the harrowing experiences of a young British officer during World War I.
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All time classic Great War memoir
- By Dylan Baynham on 31-10-24
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Good-Bye to All That
- An Autobiography
- Narrated by: Joel Schrank
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 19-07-24
- Language: English
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Country of Ash
- A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945
- By: Edward Reicher, Magda Bogin - translator
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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Country of Ash is the starkly compelling, original chronicle of a Jewish doctor who miraculously survived near-certain death, first inside the Lodz and Warsaw ghettoes, where he was forced to treat the Gestapo, then on the Aryan side of Warsaw, where he hid under numerous disguises. He clandestinely recorded the terrible events he witnessed, but his manuscript disappeared during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After the war, reunited with his wife and young daughter, he rewrote his story.
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Country of Ash
- A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-03-14
- Language: English
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Samuel Pepys
- The Unequalled Self
- By: Claire Tomalin
- Narrated by: Jill Balcon
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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Samuel Pepys kept a diary in which he wrote with astonishing candour about the life he saw around him in London in the 1660s, and about his private desires and ambitions. The diary was kept for fewer than 10 years of his long life: Claire Tomalin tells the whole story of the Fleet Street tailor's son who made himself rich and powerful, an MP and adviser to royalty.
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Essential reading before you read the diaries.
- By MrPower on 23-07-20
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Samuel Pepys
- The Unequalled Self
- Narrated by: Jill Balcon
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 14-02-05
- Language: English
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Lawrence of Arabia
- By: Ranulph Fiennes
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Thomas Edward Lawrence first set foot on the hot sands of Arabia in 1909. By 1918 there was a £20,000 price on his head. His journey to this point has long been legend. From his first postings as archaeologist, liaison and map officer, to fighting alongside guerrilla forces during the Arab Revolt, Lawrence gave over his life fully to this land and its people. A legend in his own lifetime, Lawrence's epic story has always been ripe for the retelling. In Lawrence of Arabia, Fiennes brings us at last to a true and full account of this mysterious adventurer who captivated the world.
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A Tale of Two Hero’s
- By M. McGuirk on 12-01-24
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Lawrence of Arabia
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 26-10-23
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz
- By: Jeremy Dronfield
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz, a certain death sentence, Fritz refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering they endured, there was one constant that kept them alive: the love between father and son.
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Unforgettable
- By shaun hutton on 07-03-19
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The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 24-01-19
- Language: English
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The Patriarch
- The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
- By: David Nasaw
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 30 hrs and 55 mins
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Joseph Patrick Kennedy - whose life spanned the First World War, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the Cold War - was the patriarch of America’s greatest political dynasty. The father of President John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert and Edward Kennedy, 'Joe' Kennedy was an indomitable and elusive figure whose dreams of advancement for his nine children were matched only by his extraordinary personal ambition and shrewd financial skills.
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The grandson of poor Irish migrants, what a meteoric rise!
- By Chris B on 15-05-20
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The Patriarch
- The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 30 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 13-11-12
- Language: English
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The Little Princesses
- The Story of the Queen's Childhood by Her Nanny Crawfie
- By: Marion Crawford
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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In little more than 50 years the regard with which the Royal Family are held has changed out of all recognition. Their private lives are now the stuff of soap opera and it seems any one who comes into contact with them sells their story to the magazines or to the newspapers. The Little Princesses was published in 1950 to a furore we cannot imagine today. Crawfie was demonised by the press, and the Queen Mother, who had been a great friend and who had, Crawfie maintained, given her permission to write the account, never spoke to her again.
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Beautiful story
- By Rebecca Thornqvist on 07-11-22
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The Little Princesses
- The Story of the Queen's Childhood by Her Nanny Crawfie
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 26-03-20
- 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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Spymaster
- Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
- By: Tennent H. Bagley
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia’s notorious KGB espionage apparatus. Rising through its ranks through hard work and keen understanding of how the spy and political games are played, he “handled” American and British defectors, recruited Western operatives as double agents, served as a ranking officer at the East Berlin and Vienna KGB bureaus, and tackled special assignments from the Kremlin.
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Poor narration
- By Joseph Jewell on 16-09-22
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Spymaster
- Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 06-11-13
- Language: English
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Churchill: A Life, Part 2 (1918-1965)
- By: Martin Gilbert
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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Churchill: A Life follows Winston Churchill from his earliest days to his moments of triumph. Here, the drama and excitement of his story are ever-present. Martin Gilbert gives us a vivid portrait, using Churchill's most personal letters and the recollections of his contemporaries, both friends and enemies, to go behind the scenes of some of the stormiest and most fascinating political events of our time.
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What a book
- By Blair Milligan on 24-08-16
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Churchill: A Life, Part 2 (1918-1965)
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 16-04-12
- Language: English
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Constantine the Emperor
- By: David Potter
- Narrated by: Phil Holland
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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This year Christians worldwide will celebrate the 1700th anniversary of Constantine's conversion and victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along after him. Indeed, this major new biography argues that Constantine's conversion is but one feature of a unique administrative style that enabled him to take control of an empire beset by internal rebellions and external threats by Persians and Goths.
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very interesting, broad view
- By Jens Müller on 15-12-22
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Constantine the Emperor
- Narrated by: Phil Holland
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 06-02-14
- Language: English
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Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's Own Hero
- By: Max Adams
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Admiral Lord Collingwood, the eldest son of a Newcastle merchant, went to sea in 1761 at the age of 13. In his nearly fifty years in the Navy Collingwood's service took him to Boston, where he lived and fought during the American War of Independence; to Antigua, where he and Nelson both fell in love with Mary Moutray; to Corsica; Sicily; and Menorca, where he ended his career as the effective viceroy of the Mediterranean.
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Fine biography
- By Mister Peridot on 26-07-16
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Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's Own Hero
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 03-09-15
- Language: English
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Unbroken
- By: Laura Hillenbrand
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
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The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. Motion Picture Artwork © Universal Studios 2014. All Rights Reserved. In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant survives. Louis Zamperini had already transformed himself from child delinquent to prodigious athlete, running in the Berlin Olympics. Now he must embark on one of the Second World War’s most extraordinary odysseys.
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Best real life story I have read.
- By MR A M INNES on 14-02-15
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Unbroken
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 04-12-14
- Language: English
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The Start
- 1904-1930
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 22 hrs and 9 mins
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William L. Shirer was a CBS foreign correspondent and renowned author of New York Times best-selling nonfiction about World War II, and this is the first part of his three-part autobiography. A renowned journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer chronicles his own life story in a personal history that parallels the greater historical events for which he served as a witness.
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The Start
- 1904-1930
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Series: Twentieth Century Journey, Book 1
- Length: 22 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 26-11-19
- Language: English
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Agent Twister
- John Stonehouse and the Scandal that Gripped the Nation – A True Story
- By: Philip Augar, Keely Winstone
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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A period thriller with powerful political and espionage themes, Agent Twister is the remarkable story behind one of the greatest scandals of the 1970s, told in full for the first time. If you think you know the true story of John Stonehouse—think again. It’s November 1974 and John Stonehouse MP, once a star in Harold Wilson’s Labour government, is missing in Miami, presumed drowned. His disappearance exposes the most lurid details of his life, including identity fraud, corporate corruption, a love triangle, blackmail, links with the Mafia and a career as a Soviet spy.
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Gripping Stuff!
- By Annette on 17-01-23
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Agent Twister
- John Stonehouse and the Scandal that Gripped the Nation – A True Story
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 30-05-22
- Language: English
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Upstairs at the White House
- My Life with the First Ladies
- By: J. B. West
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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J. B. West, chief usher of the White House, directed the operations and maintenance of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue - and coordinated its daily life - at the request of the president and his family. He directed state functions; planned parties, weddings, funerals, gardens, playgrounds, and extensive renovations; and with a large staff, supervised every activity in the presidential home.
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Upstairs at the White House
- My Life with the First Ladies
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 25-10-13
- Language: English
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