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  • The Anarchy cover art

    • The Anarchy

    • The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
    • By: William Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,147 ratings

    • The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....

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    • Mutiny on the Bounty

    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 452 ratings

    • The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.

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    • How the Old World Ended

    • The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800
    • By: Jonathan Scott
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 23-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Between 1500 and 1800, the North Sea region overtook the Mediterranean as the most dynamic part of the world. At its core, the Anglo-Dutch relationship intertwined close alliance and fierce antagonism to intense creative effect....

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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
    • Release date: 15-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Duchess

    • By: Amanda Foreman
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day....

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    • Culloden

    • Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
    • By: Trevor Royle
    • Narrated by: Tim Bruce
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil....

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  • With Musket & Tomahawk, Vol III cover art

    • With Musket & Tomahawk, Vol III

    • The West Point–Hudson Valley Campaign in the Wilderness War of 1777
    • By: Michael O. Logusz
    • Narrated by: Dennis Johnson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A sizable British military force attacks the Northern Army's southern front in the fall of 1777 in hopes of assisting a much larger British Army....

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  • A New World Begins cover art

    • A New World Begins

    • The History of the French Revolution
    • By: Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings

    • In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....

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    • Catherine the Great

    • Portrait of a Woman
    • By: Robert K. Massie
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Series: The Romanovs
    • Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 221 ratings

    • Robert K. Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination....

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    • Unfabling the East

    • The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
    • By: Jürgen Osterhammel, Robert Savage - translator
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 25 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • During the long 18th century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. Author Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East....

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    • Mutiny on the Spanish Main

    • HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy’s Revenge
    • By: Angus Konstam
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • Mutiny on the Spanish Main tells the dramatic story of HMS Hermione, a British frigate which, in 1797, was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history, which saw the death of her captain and many of her officers....

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    • The Favourite

    • By: Ophelia Field
    • Narrated by: Natalie Boscombe
    • Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings

    • This biography brings Sarah Churchill's own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life and casts a critical eye over images of the Duchess handed down through art, history and literature....

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    • Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days

    • Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie
    • By: Will Bashor
    • Narrated by: Aaron Killian
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 20-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family's arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a fortress turned prison....

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    • Avengers of the New World

    • The Story of the Haitian Revolution
    • By: Laurent DuBois
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the 18th-century Atlantic world....

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    • The Great Divide

    • The Conflict Between Washington and Jefferson That Defined a Nation
    • By: Thomas Fleming
    • Narrated by: David Rapkin
    • Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Acclaimed historian Thomas Fleming examines how the differing characters and leadership styles of Washington and Jefferson shaped two opposing views of the presidency....

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    • London Journal

    • By: James Boswell
    • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • Between the years of 1762 and 1763, James Boswell kept a journal of his time in London. During his time, he met the renowned writer, moralist, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, with whom Boswell would form a close relationship....

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    • John Marshall

    • The Man Who Made the Supreme Court
    • By: Richard Brookhiser
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • The life of John Marshall, founding father and America's premier chief justice....

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    • The Last Day

    • Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
    • By: Nicholas Shrady
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A riveting history of how the cataclysmic Lisbon earthquake shook the religious and intellectual foundations of Enlightenment Europe....

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