Light History

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    • Original Edition
    • By: Geoffrey Wellum
    • Narrated by: Andrew Brooke
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-18
    • Language: English
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    • Penguin presents the audiobook edition of First Light by Geoffrey Wellum, read by Andrew Brooke. Two months before the outbreak of the Second World War, 18-year-old Geoffrey Wellum becomes a fighter pilot with the RAF....

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    • By: Terence McKenna
    • Narrated by: Terence McKenna
    • Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
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    • A talk by Terence McKenna about how our global culture is preparing to depart for the stars, so we must begin to pack for the trip. He begins with a discussion of botanical dimensions of folk medicine which are lost in pharmacology....

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    • A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age
    • By: Bruce Watson
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-16
    • Language: English
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    • Light begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise....

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    • Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond
    • By: A.J. Balaam
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 21-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother, or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. This is the story of Andrew Balaam, a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and the Selous Scouts for 12 years....

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    • A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History
    • By: Susan Cahill
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 13-08-19
    • Language: English
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    • From the author of Hidden Gardens of Paris, The Streets of Paris is Susan Cahill's wonderfully unique guide to present-day Paris following in the footsteps of famous Parisians through the last 800 years....

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    • Bomb Light, Book 1
    • By: Neal Stephenson
    • Narrated by: January LaVoy
    • Series: Bomb Light, Book 1
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora.

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    • A History of the Republican Convention in 1964
    • By: Norman Mailer
    • Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
    • Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • There was entertainment at the Republican Gala on Sunday night. The climax was a full marching band of bagpipers....

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    • A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky
    • By: Kent Nerburn
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-18
    • Language: English
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    • A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding....

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    • A History of Movie Directors
    • By: David Thomson
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In little more than a century of cinema - Birth of a Nation was 100 years old in 2015 - our sense of what a film director is, or should be, has shifted in fascinating ways....

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    • A History of Western Fascination with the East
    • By: Christopher Harding
    • Narrated by: Christopher Harding
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Christopher Harding's captivating gallery of geniuses, adventurers and con-men celebrates Asia's impact on the West in all its variety.....

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    • Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism (Sunlight Editions)
    • By: Daniel Sjursen
    • Narrated by: Daniel Sjursen
    • Series: Truth to Power
    • Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
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    • Brilliant, listenable, and raw. Maj. (ret.) Danny Sjursen, who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at West Point, delivers a true epic and the perfect companion to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States....

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    • By: K. J. Whittaker
    • Narrated by: Emma Spurgin-Hussey
    • Series: The Regency Romance, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 21-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Cornwall, 1817. Napoleon has crushed the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, and his ex-wife, Josephine, presides over French-occupied England....

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    • From the Australian bush to the Battle of Beersheba - an Epic Story of Courage, Resilience and Derring-Do
    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Richard Bligh
    • Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-23
    • Language: English
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    • The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse traces the hard path of the Light Horse from the bleakest of starts - being deprived of their horses and fighting at Gallipoli in the tragic Battle of the Nek - to triumph and glory in the desert....

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    • The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football
    • By: Jim Dent
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-19
    • Language: English
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    • In the 1930s and '40s, there was nothing bigger in Texas high school football than the Masonic Home Mighty Mites - a group of orphans bound together by hardship and death. These youngsters, in spite of being outweighed by at least 30 pounds per man, were the toughest football team around....

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    • A Journey of Darkness and Light Through Britain’s Ancient Places
    • By: Fiona Robertson
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 19-06-25
    • Language: English
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    • Journeying aross Britain, from West Penwith and Avebury to the Lake District and Orkney, Stone Lands uncovers the magic and rich history of our incredible prehistoric standing stones.

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    • A Medieval Journey of Discovery
    • By: Seb Falk
    • Narrated by: Seb Falk
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-20
    • Language: English
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    • The Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They gave us the first universities, the first eyeglasses and the first mechanical clocks as medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky....

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    • Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower
    • By: Michel Paradis
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • Acclaimed author of Last Mission to Tokyo Michel Paradis provides a thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history.

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