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The Plantagenets
- The Kings Who Made England
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 22 hrs and 7 mins
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England’s greatest royal dynasty, the Plantagenets, ruled over England through eight generations of kings. Their remarkable reign saw England emerge from the Dark Ages to become a highly organised kingdom that spanned a vast expanse of Europe. Plantagenet rule saw the establishment of laws and creation of artworks, monuments and tombs which survive to this day, and continue to speak of their sophistication, brutality and secrets. Dan Jones brings you a new vision of this battle-scarred history.
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Entertaining and scholarly
- By Kirstine on 23-08-19
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The Plantagenets
- The Kings Who Made England
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 22 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-05-19
- Language: English
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Normandy ‘44
- D-Day and the Battle for France
- By: James Holland
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 24 hrs and 20 mins
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Renowned World War Two historian James Holland presents an entirely new perspective on one of the most important moments in recent history. Unflinchingly examining the brutality and violence that characterised the campaign, it's time to draw some radically different conclusions. D-Day and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed have come to be seen as a defining episode in the Second World War. Its story has been endlessly retold, and yet it remains a narrative burdened by both myth and assumed knowledge.
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New perspectives on D-Day
- By Ian David Williamson on 28-05-19
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Normandy ‘44
- D-Day and the Battle for France
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 24 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-05-19
- Language: English
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The Battle of Britain
- By: James Holland
- Narrated by: Al Murray
- Length: 23 hrs and 25 mins
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'If Hitler fails to invade or destroy Britain, he has lost the war,' Churchill said in the summer of 1940. He was right. The Battle of Britain was a crucial turning point in the history of the Second World War. Had Britain's defences collapsed, Hitler would have dominated all of Europe and been able to turn his full attention east to the Soviet Union. The German invasion of France and the Low Countries in May 1940 was unlike any the world had ever seen. It hit with a force and aggression that no-one could counter and in just a few short weeks, all in their way crumbled.
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A great listen (again)!
- By Ian David Williamson on 20-05-20
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The Battle of Britain
- Narrated by: Al Murray
- Length: 23 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 30-04-20
- Language: English
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Johnson at 10
- By: Anthony Seldon, Raymond Newell
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
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After his sudden rise to power in the summer of 2019 amid the Brexit deadlock, Boris Johnson presided over the most dramatic period of British history in almost a century. From the controversial prorogation of Parliament in August 2019 to the historic landslide victory later that year, the agonising upheaval of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic—and the scandals unleashed by both—the Afghanistan crisis, and the conflict in Ukraine, Johnson's premiership was more turbulent than any other in living memory.
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Well balanced account
- By Vicuña on 05-05-23
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Johnson at 10
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 04-05-23
- Language: English
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Task Force Black
- The explosive true story of the SAS and the secret war in Iraq
- By: Mark Urban
- Narrated by: Mark Urban
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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Following the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq in 2003, the SAS launched one of the most intense and secretive operations in its history: Task Force Black. BBC journalist Mark Urban uncovers the sensational story of this operation and the extraordinary men who carried it out.
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Task Force Black
- The explosive true story of the SAS and the secret war in Iraq
- Narrated by: Mark Urban
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 23-09-24
- Language: English
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No Way Out
- Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris
- By: Tim Shipman
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Length: 36 hrs and 21 mins
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In this gripping account of Britain’s brutal entanglement with Brexit, Tim Shipman follows the key players as they navigate negotiations and the unfolding democratic drama that ensues. With unique access to politicians on both sides of the Brexit divide, Shipman unravels an extraordinary period of British political history. Multiple Brexit secretaries and repeated coups, the ambition, gossip and heated exchanges between Brussels and the British Brexit team are all revealed in Shipman’s unflinching and unfiltered account.
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Best British political writer
- By Bradley Thompson on 04-06-24
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No Way Out
- Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Length: 36 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 25-04-24
- Language: English
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The Last Witch of Scotland
- A bewitching story based on true events
- By: Philip Paris
- Narrated by: Samara MacLaren, Steven Cree
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a tragic fire that kills her father, Aila and her mother, Janet, move to the remote parish of Loth, north-west of Inverness. Blending in does not come easily to the women: Aila was badly burned in the fire and left with visible injuries, while her mother struggles to maintain her grip on reality. When a temporary minister is appointed in the area, rather than welcome the two women, he develops a strange curiosity for them that sets them even further apart from the community.
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excellent performance for an excellent story
- By Anonymous User on 15-11-23
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The Last Witch of Scotland
- A bewitching story based on true events
- Narrated by: Samara MacLaren, Steven Cree
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 13-04-23
- Language: English
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The Perfect King
- The Life of Edward III
- By: Ian Mortimer
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 19 hrs and 32 mins
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Edward’s life is one of the most extraordinary in all English history. He ordered his uncle to be beheaded, he usurped his father’s throne and he started a war which lasted for more than a hundred years. He took the crown when it was at its lowest point and raised it to new heights, presenting himself as a new King Arthur, victorious across Europe. He was the architect of many English icons - from parliamentary rule to the adoption of English as the official language and even the building of a great clock tower at Westminster.
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Very Dissapointing.
- By D. T. Sykes on 24-02-20
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The Perfect King
- The Life of Edward III
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 19 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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White Heat
- A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties
- By: Dominic Sandbrook
- Narrated by: Dominic Sandbrook, Roger Davis
- Length: 39 hrs and 51 mins
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Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed to have taken on a dramatic new momentum.
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White Heat
- A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties
- Narrated by: Dominic Sandbrook, Roger Davis
- Length: 39 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 03-10-24
- Language: English
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SAS Great Escapes
- Seven Great Escapes Made by Real Second World War Heroes
- By: Damien Lewis
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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The finest fighting force in the world. Escape. Evade. Survive. Repeat. Seven gripping tales of overcoming the impossible. Arguably the finest special forces troops of the Second World War, the SAS was the jewel in the British military crown. But the near-impossible nature of their heroic missions sometimes left them trapped behind enemy lines, the enemy closing and forced to endure the unendurable. But the unendurable is all in a day’s work for these magnificent seven. Incredible odds. Outstanding bravery. Real adventure.
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A Remarkable Narrative - well performed
- By Killian iPad on 28-05-20
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SAS Great Escapes
- Seven Great Escapes Made by Real Second World War Heroes
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: SAS Great Escapes, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 28-05-20
- Language: English
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...And What Do You Do?
- What the Royal Family Don't Want You to Know
- By: Norman Baker
- Narrated by: David Vickery
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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...And What Do You Do? is a hard-hitting analysis of the royal family, exposing its extravagant use of public money and the highly dubious behaviour of some among its ranks, whilst being critical of the knee-jerk sycophancy shown by the press and politicians. Baker also considers the wider role the royals play in society, including the link with House of Lords reform, and the constitutional position of the monarch, which is important given Prince Charles’ present and intended approach.
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The tree that does not bend will be broken
- By papapownall on 30-04-20
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...And What Do You Do?
- What the Royal Family Don't Want You to Know
- Narrated by: David Vickery
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 23-04-20
- Language: English
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Mary Boleyn
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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Mary Boleyn was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife. In this astonishing and riveting biography, Alison Weir’s extensive research gives a new and detailed portrayal, in which she recounts that, contrary to popular belief, Mary was entirely undeserving of her posthumous notoriety as a great whore.
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Scholarly biography
- By Kirstine on 18-02-12
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Mary Boleyn
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 14-11-11
- Language: English
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
- By: Ian Mortimer
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
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What was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases, violence, sexism and famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a visitor to late 16th-century England would ask.
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Almost but not quite
- By Minkymaid on 17-04-12
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Series: Time Traveler’s Guides
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 09-03-12
- Language: English
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A History of Britain: Volume 1
- By: Simon Schama
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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The story of Britain from the earliest settlements in 3000BC to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. To look back at the past is to understand the present. In this vivid account of over 4,000 years of British history, Simon Schama takes us on an epic journey which encompasses the very beginnings of the nation's identity, when the first settlers landed on Orkney. From the successes and failures of the monarchy to the daily life of a Roman soldier stationed on Hadrian's Wall, Schama gives a vivid, fascinating account of the many different stories and struggles that lie behind the growth of our island nation.
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Well written but hard to manage as an audiobook
- By Roderic on 23-01-14
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A History of Britain: Volume 1
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Series: A History of Britain, Book 1
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-09-12
- Language: English
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A Spy Among Friends
- Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. This is a story of loyalty, trust and treachery, of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed. With access to newly released MI5 files and previously unseen papers, A Spy Among Friends unlocks what was perhaps the last great secret of the Cold War.
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an exciting listen about even more exciting times
- By IVAN SIKORA on 19-09-24
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A Spy Among Friends
- Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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The Crew
- By: David Price
- Narrated by: Peter McGovern
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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The Crew recounts the intimate, personal testimonies of Wing Commander Ken Cook, who served as Bomb Aimer with the Comans crew. The audiobook specifically follows Flying Officer Jim Comans and his crewmen from their enlistment as volunteers, through training and into operational service. The Comans crew flew 45 hazardous bombing missions - mostly deep into Germany at night - through the winter of 1943 to the summer of 1944.
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What a howler!
- By z kerdova on 24-08-20
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The Crew
- Narrated by: Peter McGovern
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 09-01-20
- Language: English
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Isabella
- The She-Wolf of France
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 21 hrs and 45 mins
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Here is the first full-length biography of a much maligned but astonishingly colourful Queen of England. In Newgate Street, in the city of London, stand the meagre ruins of Christ Church. On the same site once stood a royal mausoleum set to rival Westminster Abbey in the 14th century. Among the many crowned heads buried there was Isabella of France, Edward II's queen - one of the most notorious femme fatales in history. But how did she acquire her evil reputation? And is it justified?
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Excellent Historical Work
- By Gregory on 18-02-11
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Isabella
- The She-Wolf of France
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 21 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 18-01-07
- Language: English
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Escape from Stalag Luft III
- The True Story of My Successful Great Escape: The Memoir of Bob Vanderstok
- By: Bram Vanderstok
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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On the night of March 24, 1944, Bram Vanderstok was number 18 of 76 men who crawled beyond the barbed wire fence of Stalag Luft III in Zagan, Poland. His memoir sets down his wartime adventures before being incarcerated in Stalag Luft III and then, in extraordinary detail, describes various escape attempts which culminated with the famous March breakout.
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Great audiobook
- By Jim The Thing on 07-07-24
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Escape from Stalag Luft III
- The True Story of My Successful Great Escape: The Memoir of Bob Vanderstok
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 16-04-19
- Language: English
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English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable
- By: Lacey Baldwin Smith
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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Here at last is a history of England that is designed to entertain as well as inform and that will delight the armchair traveler, the tourist, or just about anyone interested in history. No people have engendered quite so much acclaim or earned so much censure as the English: extolled as the Athenians of modern times, yet hammered for their self-satisfaction and hypocrisy. But their history has been a spectacular one.
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Inaccurate
- By Omar Dawod on 22-10-21
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English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 21-02-17
- Language: English
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The Royal Art of Poison
- Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul
- By: Eleanor Herman
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns and antidotes tested on condemned prisoners. The Royal Art of Poison is a hugely entertaining work of popular history that traces the use of poison as a political - and cosmetic - tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Kremlin today.
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A really great book!
- By James Moynihan on 20-06-20
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The Royal Art of Poison
- Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 04-07-19
- Language: English
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