Biographies European History

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    • By: Johannes Fried, Peter Lewis
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 30 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Johannes Fried paints a compelling portrait of a devout ruler, a violent time, and a unified kingdom that deepens our understanding of the man often called the father of Europe....

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    • The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
    • By: Christian Goeschel
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that affected both countries. While Germany is regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally....

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    • A Military History
    • By: Dennis Showalter
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Frederick the Great is one of history's most important leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe, securing Prussia's place as a continental power and inaugurating a new pattern of total war....

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    • David Headley, the Mumbai Massacre, and His European Revenge
    • By: Kaare Sørensen, Cory Klingsporn - translator
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • With the pacing of a thriller, a veteran journalist's account of the terrorist behind the Mumbai attacks and a planned attack in Europe....

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    • A New Life of Charles V
    • By: Geoffrey Parker
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers....

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    • Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
    • By: Leah Redmond Chang
    • Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
    • Length: 18 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Boldly original, dramatic story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots – three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men – Young Queens weaves the personal stories of these three queens into one....

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    • A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives
    • By: Adam Smyth
    • Narrated by: Adam Smyth
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The Book-Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders....

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    • The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
    • By: Andrea Wulf
    • Narrated by: Julie Teal
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a revolutionary group of friends based in the small German town of Jena whose modern ideas transformed society and the way we lead our lives today....

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    • The Rise of Suleyman the Magnificent
    • By: Christopher de Bellaigue
    • Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on Rome. With Christendom divided, Suleyman the Magnificent has his hand on its entrails....

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    • An Infantry Officer's Harrowing Journey from D-Day to V-E Day
    • By: Craig S. Chapman
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 24-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Battle Hardened tells the story of an American soldier's growth from a Second Lieutenant eager to prove his worth in battle to a skilled and resolute commander....

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    • Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940
    • By: Susan Ronald
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's shockingly controversial tenure as ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II....

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    • Making the Renaissance in Europe
    • By: Maureen Quilligan
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A leading Renaissance scholar shows in this revisionist history how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious 16th century.

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    • By: G. K. Chesterton
    • Narrated by: Fred Williams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 14-12-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Orthodoxy is Chesterton's great apologia for the Christian faith, which was prompted by a serious attack in 1903 against Christianity by well-known newspaper editor Robert Blatchford....

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    • Voyages of a Viking Woman
    • By: Nancy Marie Brown
    • Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Spanish Explorers, Conquest of the Americas, Cultural Exchange, and Legacy (European Exploration and Settlement)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-24
    • Language: English
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    • Have you ever heard about the Spaniard Cabeza de Vaca, who survived eight years wandering from Florida to Texas? Find his story and more in this audiobook!

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    • Eddie Rickenbacker's Twenty-Four Days Adrift on the Pacific: A World War II Tale of Courage and Faith
    • By: John Wukovits
    • Narrated by: Nathan Agin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 16-05-23
    • Language: English
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    • Award-winning author John Wukovits brings to life the forgotten story of American war hero Eddie Rickenbacker's crash landing in the Pacific during World War II, and his incredible twenty-three-day crusade to keep his crew alive....

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    • By: Jim Gigliotti
    • Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
    • Length: 53 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-17
    • Language: English
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    • Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian Era, a period of industrial, cultural, scientific, and political change....

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    • Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939
    • By: Iryna Vushko
    • Narrated by: Angela Juarez
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 26-03-24
    • Language: English
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    • How the demise of the Habsburg Empire, postwar sovereignty, and new diplomatic frontiers shaped the nature of citizenship, identity, and belonging across Europe.

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