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    • The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance
    • By: Michael S. Neiberg
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • According to US Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the "most shocking single event" of World War II was not the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but rather the fall of France in spring 1940....

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    • Emmanuel Macron's Race to Revive France and Save the World
    • By: William Drozdiak
    • Narrated by: Paul Hodgson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • A revelatory examination of the global impact of Emmanuel Macron's tumultuous presidency. In The Last President of Europe, William Drozdiak tells with exclusive inside access the story of Macron's presidency and the political challenges the French leader continues to face....

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    • The Life of Charles de Gaulle
    • By: Julian Jackson
    • Narrated by: John Banks
    • Length: 35 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • In six weeks in 1940, France was overrun by German troops and surrendered. One junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England....

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    • The True History of the Women of SOE
    • By: Kate Vigurs
    • Narrated by: Esther Wane
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The full story of the 39 female SOE agents who went undercover in France....

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    • The She-Wolf of France
    • By: Alison Weir
    • Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
    • Length: 21 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 297 ratings
    • The first full-length biography of a much maligned but astonishingly colourful Queen of England....

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    • The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum
    • By: James Gardner
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's greatest art museum....

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    • Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East
    • By: James Barr
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 870 ratings
    • Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including T. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, A Line in the Sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when Britain and France ruled the Middle East....

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    • The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
    • By: Mary Hollingsworth
    • Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • History is rarely kind to women of power, but few have had their reputations quite so brutally shredded as Catherine de’ Medici, Italian-born queen of France and influential mother of three successive French kings.

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    • By: Antonia Fraser
    • Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
    • Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 328 ratings
    • Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions....

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    • By: Edmund Burke
    • Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Blending history with principle and graceful imagery with profound practical maxims, this book is one of the most influential political treatises in the history of the world....

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    • Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
    • By: Leonie Frieda
    • Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • The best-selling revisionist biography of one of the great women of the 16th century. Orphaned in infancy, Catherine de Medici was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune....

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    • By: Alan Furst
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Series: Night Soldiers, Book 14
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Spring 1941: Britain is losing the war, but the fighters of the French Resistance are determined not to give up....

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    • The Life of Henry II in Five Acts
    • By: Claudia Gold
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Henry so famed during his lifetime has slipped into the shadows of history. King of the North Wind offers a fresh evaluation of this great yet tragic ruler....

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    • By: Agnès Poirier
    • Narrated by: Jilly Bond
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The profound emotion felt around the world upon seeing images of Notre-Dame in flames opens up a series of questions...

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    • A Gripping Tale of Power, Ambition and Murderous Rivalry in Early Medieval France
    • By: Shelley Puhak
    • Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens, The Dark Queens is also an enthralling journey of discovery across the unfamiliar and blood-soaked historical landscape of sixth-century Merovingian France....

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    • The Life and Death of Henry Stuart
    • By: Sarah Fraser
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Henry Stuart's life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. Shadowed by the gravity of the Thirty Years' War and the huge changes taking place across Europe in 17th-century society....

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    • 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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    • The Maker of Modern France
    • By: Leonie Frieda
    • Narrated by: Carole Boyd
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Francis I (1494-1547) was inconstant, amorous, hotheaded and flawed. Yet he was also arguably the most significant king that France ever had....

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    • By: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: Nigel Carrington
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,016 ratings
    • Within days of the D-Day landings, the 'Das Reich' 2nd SS Panzer Division marched north through France to reinforce the front-line defenders of Hitler's Fortress Europe....

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    • The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
    • By: Fredrik Logevall
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 32 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • An epic story of wasted opportunities and deadly miscalculations, Embers of War delves deep into the historical record to provide hard answers to the unanswered questions surrounding the demise of one Western power in Vietnam and the arrival of another....

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