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James Cook

The story behind the man who mapped the world

by Peter FitzSimons

Narrated by Michael Carman

Unabridged

21 hours 22 min
The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated.But who was the real James Cook?This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, scientist, navigator and cartographer of his era, and to personally map a third of the globe. His great voyages of discovery were ... Read more
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The Middle Ages

by Morris Bishop

Narrated by Michael Page
series American Heritage
Unabridged

11 hours 18 min
In this indispensable volume, one of America's ranking scholars combines a life's work of research and teaching with the art of lively narration. Both authoritative and beautifully told, The Middle Ages is the full story of the thousand years between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance-a time that saw the rise of kings and emperors, the flowering of knighthood, the development of Europe, the ... Read more
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Never Give In

The Best of Winston Churchill

by Winston Churchill

Narrated by Winston Churchill

Unabridged

17 hours 16 min
Who can forget the words "We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!" They were uttered in 1940 by one of the 20th century's greatest orators, Winston Churchill, eager to spur on his countrymen in their fight against Nazi Germany. Now the great man's grandson has ... Read more
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Cilka's Journey

The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz

by Heather Morris

Narrated by Louise Brealey

Unabridged

10 hours 51 min
Nominated in Best Fiction at the Audie Awards 2020.The sequel to the International Number One Bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz, based on a true story of love and resilience.Her beauty saved her life - and condemned her.Cilka was only sixteen-years-old when she was taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, noticed her long beautiful hair ... Read more
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Chernobyl

History of a Tragedy

by Serhii Plokhy

Narrated by Leighton Pugh

Unabridged

13 hours 35 min
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize'An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' - Viv Groskop, ObserverThe gripping story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, from an ... Read more
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The Cut Out Girl

A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018

by Bart van Es

Narrated by Bart van Es

Unabridged

8 hours 49 min
*** WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 ***WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Cut Out Girl written and read by Bart van Es.'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' The Times</p... ... Read more
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Istanbul

A Tale of Three Cities

by Bettany Hughes

Narrated by Bettany Hughes

Unabridged

24 hours 35 min
Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu'ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its boundaries - real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between the East and West, it has served as the capital of ... Read more
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The Popes

A History

by Viscount John Julius Norwich

Narrated by Michael Jayston

Unabridged

21 hours 19 min
Well known for his histories of Norman Sicily, Venice, the Byzantine Empire and the Mediterranean, John Julius Norwich has now turned his attention to the oldest continuing institution in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Peter himself - traditionally (though by no means historically) the first pope - to the present Benedict XVI.Of the 280-odd holders of the supreme ... Read more
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The Renaissance

A History of Civilization in Italy from 1304–1576 AD

by Will Durant

Narrated by Grover Gardner
series The Story of Civilization #5
Unabridged

37 hours 9 min
An engrossing volume on the ItalianRenaissance by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Will DurantThe fifth volume of Durant’s acclaimed Story ofCivilization, The Renaissance chronicles the history of Italy from1304 to 1576. In this masterful work, listeners will encounterthe poets Petrarch and Boccaccio, the fathers ofthe Renaissance; the paintings, sculptures, and architecture ofMilan, Florence, and ... Read more
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Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter

A Biography of Princess Louise

by Lucinda Hawksley

Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon

Unabridged

16 hours 2 min
Spirited and lively, Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter is richly packed with arguments, intrigues, scandals, and secrets, and is a vivid portrait of a princess desperate to escape her inheritance. The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented ... Read more
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Emperor

A New Life of Charles V

by Geoffrey Parker

Narrated by Nigel Patterson

Unabridged

26 hours 25 min
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. But the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relentless travel and the control of his own image, together with the complexity of governing the world's first transatlantic empire, complicate the task. ... Read more
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The Guns of August

by Barbara W. Tuchman

Narrated by Wanda McCaddon

Unabridged

19 hours 10 min
In this Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I. This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of kings and kaisers and czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed—and how horrible it became.Tuchman masterfully portrays this ... Read more
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To Marry an English Lord

by Gail MacColl and 1 more

Narrated by Kate Reading

Unabridged

9 hours 12 min
From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles-just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading To Marry An English Lord. Filled with vivid personalities, gossipy anecdotes, grand houses, and a wealth of period details-plus photographs, ... Read more
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The End

The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945

by Ian Kershaw

Narrated by Sean Pratt

Unabridged

18 hours 32 min
From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to hold out as long as it did. The Third Reich did not ... Read more
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In Deadly Combat

A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front

by Gottlob Herbert Bidermann

Narrated by Paul Woodson

Unabridged

13 hours 59 min
Wounded five times and awarded numerous decorations for valor, Gottlob Herbert Bidermann saw action in the Crimea and siege of Sebastopol, participated in the vicious battles in the forests south of Leningrad, and ended the war in the Courland Pocket. In his memoir, he shares his impressions of countless Russian POWs seen at the outset of his service, of peasants struggling to survive the ... Read more
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Blood Will Tell

A Medical Explanation of the Tyranny of Henry VIII

by Kyra Cornelius Kramer

Narrated by Pam Ward

Unabridged

13 hours 16 min
With his tumultuous love life, relentless pursuit of a male heir, and drastic religious transformation, England's King Henry VIII's life sounds more like reality television than history. He was a man of fascinating contradictions-he pursued a woman he loved for almost a decade only to behead her less than four years after their marriage. He defended Catholicism so vigorously that he was honored as ... Read more
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The War in the West: A New History

Volume 2: The Allies Fight Back 1941-43

by James Holland

Narrated by Leighton Pugh

Unabridged

24 hours 54 min
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The War in the West: A New History: Volume 2 by James Holland, read by Leighton Pugh.In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War, James Holland examines the momentous turning points of 1941–1943: Hitler’s invasion of Russia; America’s entry into the conflict; the devastating Thousand Bomber Raids over Germany; the long ... Read more
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The War in the West - A New History

Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941

by James Holland

Narrated by Leighton Pugh

Unabridged

26 hours 42 min
Are you ready for the truth about World War Two?In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war on land, in the air and at sea, James Holland reveals not only the truth behind the familiar legends of the Second World War but he also unveils those lesser known events which were to have the greatest significance.The first book to consider the economic, political and social as well ... Read more
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The Last 100 Days

The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe

by John Toland

Narrated by Ralph Cosham

Unabridged

27 hours 31 min
A dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II inEurope, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and theultimate submission of the Third Reich. To reconstruct the tumultuous hundreddays between Yalta and the fall of Berlin, John Toland traveled more than100,000 miles in twenty-one countries and interviewed more than six hundredpeople—from Hitler’s personal chauffeur to Generals ... Read more
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Russia: The Wild East

The complete BBC Radio 4 series

by Martin Sixsmith and 1 more

Narrated by Martin Sixsmith

Unabridged

11 hours 18 min
Power struggles have a constant presence in Martin Sixsmith’s story of Russia. Collected here in 50 episodes, he chronicles the Mongol hordes invading in the 13th century, through the iron autocratic fists of successive Tsars, to the fall of the Soviet Union and Russia’s re-emergence as a superpower.Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, Peter the Great – all left their mark on a nation that ... Read more
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Iron, Fire and Ice

The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones

by Ed West

Narrated by Rory Barnett

Unabridged

20 hours 15 min
A young pretender raises an army to take the throne. Learning of his father’s death, the adolescent, dashing and charismatic and descended from the old kings of the North, vows to avenge him. He is supported in this war by his mother, who has spirited away her two younger sons to safety. Against them is the queen, passionate, proud, and strong-willed and with more of the masculine virtues of the ... Read more
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Rites of Spring

The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

by Modris Eksteins

Narrated by Michael Prichard

Unabridged

14 hours 53 min
Dazzling in its originality, Rites of Spring probes the origins, impact, and aftermath of World War I, from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. "The Great War," as Modris Eksteins writes, "was the psychological turning point . . . for modernism as a whole. The urge to create and the urge to destroy had changed places." Eksteins goes on to ... Read more
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To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape

by Charles Spencer

Narrated by Richard Trinder

Unabridged

9 hours 18 min
How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might of Cromwell’s armies at the battle of Worcester.With 3,000 of his supporters lying dead and ... Read more
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France

A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle

by John Julius Norwich

Narrated by John Julius Norwich

Unabridged

15 hours 12 min
A witty history of 2000 years of French history from legendary popular historian John Julius Norwich I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936; the regiment of porters, smelling asphyxiatingly of garlic in their blue-green blousons; the raucous sound all around me of spoken French; the immense fields of ... Read more
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