Historical Tragedy

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    • Europe's Tragedy
    • By: Peter H. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world....

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    • The Railway Detective, Book 19
    • By: Edward Marston
    • Narrated by: Sam Dastor
    • Series: The Railway Detective, Book 19, Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck, Book 19
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • When Robert Pomeroy, a young undergraduate at Corpus Christi College, finds a letter slipped under his door in the early hours of a rainy day, he flies into a panic. He hurries to the railway station. But he doesn’t reach his destination alive....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Elizabeth Strout
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler Caskey has suffered a terrible loss and finds it hard to be the person he once was.

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    • An American Life
    • By: Joyce Lee Malcolm
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict Arnold remains one of the Revolutionary period's great puzzles....

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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
    • By: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 363 ratings
    • J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....

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    • The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 1
    • By: James Mace
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
    • Series: The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 1
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • It is December 1878, and war looms on the horizon in South Africa. British high commissioner Sir Henry Bartle-Frere seeks to dismantle the powerful neighboring kingdom of the Zulus....

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    • By: Rita Bradshaw
    • Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Believing in Tomorrow is a heartwarming saga by Rita Bradshaw, author of the bestselling One Snowy Night: In the male-dominated society of the early 1900s, Molly has to fight prejudice and hatred, and rejection comes from all sides....

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    • By: Annie Murray
    • Narrated by: Annie Aldington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Two very different girls from this tight-knit community join up as ARP Wardens to do their bit for the home front. Violet Simms lives with her controlling, widowed mother who runs the local pawn shop. At just 20-years-old, Violet longs for friendship, love and escape....

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    • A Romanov Tragedy
    • By: Christopher Warwick
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-23
    • Language: English
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    • Described as the 'most beautiful princess in Europe', and a woman 'capable of arousing profane passion', this is the story of a woman whose life combined privilege and tragedy, love and riches, conviction and courage, humanity and inhumanity....

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    • A spellbinding novel of passion, tragedy and dark secrets
    • By: Judith Lennox
    • Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore
    • Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • It's 1915 when young Bess Ravenhart, recently widowed, leaves her baby son, Frazer, with her mother-in-law, Cora, while she sails from India to Britain to set up a home. But Cora has no intention of returning Frazer to his mother's care....

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    • Tales of Love and Tragedy
    • By: Sherry Norfolk
    • Narrated by: Sherry Norfolk
    • Length: 50 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-00
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Simple, potent and direct to the heartstings, this mix of traditional and original tales draws the listener into a transformational journey of the soul...

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    • Hearts On The Rails Series, Book 4
    • By: Rachel Wesson
    • Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
    • Series: Hearts on the Rails, Book 4
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Kathleen Green longs for a child of her own. Her work with the orphan trains only serve to heighten her need...

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    • By: Barbara Taylor Bradford
    • Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • At 47, Stephanie Jardine is at the apex of her career and her life, running the American branch of Jardine’s, the prestigious Crown Jewellers of London....

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    • The Amelia Earhart Tragedy
    • By: Ric Gillespie
    • Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • This book is the product of The Earhart Project, a thirty-four-year investigation of the Earhart tragedy by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery.

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    • A historical fiction novel of adventure, tragedy, and romance in the early days of Yellowstone (Frontier Traveler series, Book 1)
    • By: D.A. Galloway
    • Narrated by: Michael Bauer
    • Series: Frontier Traveler Series, Book 1
    • Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 16-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Does time heal all wounds? Or do some last forever? Pennsylvania, 1971: Graham Davidson is a young man with survivor’s guilt after the death of three siblings. Estranged from his father and seeking a direction in his life, Graham learns about vision quests from a Crow Indian....

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    • The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother
    • By: Anne Sebba
    • Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 24-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Ethel Rosenberg's story has been called America's Dreyfus Affair: a catastrophic failure of humanity and justice that continues to haunt the national conscience and is still being played out with different actors in the lead roles today....

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    • An Interpretation of Greek Tragedy
    • By: Jan Kott
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-15
    • Language: English
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    • In The Eating of the Gods, the distinguished Polish critic Jan Kott reexamines Greek tragedy from the modern perspective....

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    • By: Charles Dickens
    • Narrated by: Anton Lesser
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 21-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this, perhaps Dickens' most profound and personal novel, we are invited to share in the sentimental education of Pip, the poor boy from the village forge...

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