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    The Traitors Circle

    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

    Narrated by Jonathan Freedland ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 41 min

    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ESCAPE ARTISTA THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Magnificent . . . Important and impressive'DAILY TELEGRAPH'Astonishing . . . Freedland is a master'MICK HERRON'Remarkable . . . This is how the best history books will be wri... ... Read more

    £24.99

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    Rosendorfer, Dt. Geschichte Vol. 1 bis 8

    Narrated by Gert Heidenreich ...
    Series series Deutsche Geschichte - Ein Versuch

    Abridged

    33 hours

    1850 Jahre Deutsche Geschichte erzählt mit bestechender Sachkenntnis und feinsinniger Beobachtungsgabe von einem der größten lebenden deutschsprachigen Literaten. Jetzt liegen erstmals alle 28 Einzel-CDs ungekürzt und gesammelt in einem einzigen repräsentativen Jubiläums-Download vor! Das sind im Einzelnen: 01: Von den Anfängen bis zum Wormser Konkordat 02: Von der Stauferzeit bis zu König Wenzel ... Read more

    £27.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Rosendorfer, Dt. Geschichte Vol. 1 bis 8

    Narrated by Gert Heidenreich ...
    Series series Deutsche Geschichte - Ein Versuch

    Abridged

    33 hours

    1850 Jahre Deutsche Geschichte erzählt mit bestechender Sachkenntnis und feinsinniger Beobachtungsgabe von einem der größten lebenden deutschsprachigen Literaten. Jetzt liegen erstmals alle 28 Einzel-CDs ungekürzt und gesammelt in einem einzigen repräsentativen Jubiläums-Download vor! Das sind im Einzelnen: 01: Von den Anfängen bis zum Wormser Konkordat 02: Von der Stauferzeit bis zu König Wenzel ... Read more

    £27.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Crown and Country

    A History of England through the Monarchy

    Unabridged

    15 hours 11 min

    An exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day.The monarchy is one of Britain’s longest surviving institutions – as well as one of its most tumultuous and revered. In this masterful book, David Starkey looks at the monarchy as a whole, charting its history from Roman times, to the Wars of the Roses, the chaos of the Civil War, the fall of Charles I ... Read more

    £18.99

  • Audiobook

    Millennium

    The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

    by Tom Holland ...
    Narrated by Tom Holland, Mark Meadows ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 32 min

    Bestselling historian and broadcaster Tom Holland gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000'An exhilarating sweep across European history either side of the year 1000; riveting' ALLAN MASSIE, SPECTATOR'I relished the blood and thunder narrative - the work of a great storyteller at his best' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, EVENING STANDARD'A splendid, highly ... Read more

    £19.99

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    Medieval Horizons

    Why the Middle Ages Matter

    by Ian Mortimer ...
    Narrated by Ian Mortimer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.We tend to think about the Middle Ages as a dark and backward time, characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. We believe that life was unchanging over the period, so if a peasant fell asleep in in the year 1000 and woke up six hundred years later, he would return to a world that was instantly recognisable. We hold that change is facilitated by science and ... Read more

    £13.99

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    Winters in the World

    A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year

    Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seasons in medieval England.Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs, and traditions linked to the different seasons. Drawing on a wide variety of source material, including poetry, histories, and ... Read more

    £14.99

  • Audiobook

    A Less Boring History of the World

    by Dave Rear ...
    Narrated by Miles Jupp ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 55 min

    Refreshes the parts other history books can’t reach...A bit ropy on the Renaissance?In the dark about the Enlightenment?Or, in fact, do you need a revision course on the entire history of the world and want to read a witty, irreverent, definitely not boring romp through everything that has ever happened on planet earth – from 15 billion years BC to the present day?Good.A Less Boring History of the ... Read more

    £9.99

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    On This Day in History

    by Dan Snow ...
    Narrated by Dan Snow ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 7 min

    'History is an infinite reservoir of stories, examples, warnings, explanations, jokes, rebukes and inspiration . . . You can't understand the present if you can't understand the past' DAN SNOW3000 years of the most important stories from the past in 365 days -- from the Ides of March to D-Day, from Britain's favourite historian.In ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY Dan Snow, Britain's favourite historian, ... Read more

    £21.99

  • Audiobook

    Voices of a People’s History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition

    Unabridged

    31 hours 15 min

    Selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her thirty-five-year prison sentence; Naomi Klein, speaking ... Read more

    £21.94 or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Daylight Robbery

    How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future

    Narrated by Dominic Frisby ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 48 min

    'Fuel for the post-Christmas lunch argument' Financial TimesDeath and taxes are our inevitable fate. We've been told this since the beginning of civilisation. But what if we stopped to question our antiquated system? Is it fair? And is it capable of serving the needs of our rapidly-changing, modern society?In Daylight Robbery, Dominic Frisby traces the origins of taxation, from its roots in the ... Read more

    £13.99

  • Audiobook

    Emancipadores e Abolicionistas: Trechos selecionados de "A abolição"

    Documentos do Brasil

    Narrated by Marcela de Barros ...
    Series series MiniPops

    Unabridged

    22 min

    Nestes trechos de "A abolição", Osório Duque-Estrada apresenta o clima fervilhante que antecedeu o fim da escravidão no Brasil, no momento em que a Lei do Ventre Livre começava a ser discutida no parlamento e na sociedade. Com clareza e riqueza de detalhes, o autor expõe os principais nomes do movimento abolicionista, revelando suas estratégias, lutas e convicções. Entre figuras consagradas como ... Read more

    £2.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Why Learn History

    (When It's Already on Your Phone)

    by Sam Wineburg ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 27 min

    Let’s start with two truths about our era: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious.With the internet always at our fingertips, what's a teacher of history to do? Sam Wineburg has answers, beginning with this: ... Read more

    £11.99

  • Audiobook

    Der Kreuzzug der Kinder

    3: Die Saat des Bösen

    Series Audiobook 3 - Der Kreuzzug der Kinder

    Unabridged

    44 min

    Der Zug der Kinder setzt seinen Weg fort. Doch allmählich beginnt der Hunger an den Wandernden zu nagen. Unverhofft bietet sich eine Gelegenheit, die weder Nikolaus noch Vater Magnus ausschlagen können... Die Hörspielreihe erzählt mit Hilfe einer fiktionalen Rahmenhandlung die realen historischen Ereignisse in Rückblenden und aus Sicht der Kinder, die sich auf dem Weg befinden. Eine große Cast mit ... Read more

    £1.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Albert Jack's Mysterious World

    by Albert Jack ...
    Narrated by Albert Jack ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 52 min

    Albert Jack now turns his attention to the mysteries that have haunted us throughout history.Albert Jack's Mysterious World cleverly combines his research with riveting stories and hilarious observations.All life's most perplexing questions answered: UFOs, Crop Circles and Alien invasions Where is the Mona Lisa? (clue: it's not in the Louvre) Is the Loch Ness Monster really a circus elephant? Will ... Read more

    £12.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Страна имен. Как мы называем улицы, деревни и города в России

    Unabridged

    6 hours 38 min

    На берегу Москвы-реки до сих пор стоит деревня Марс, названная так большевиками, а Екатерина II повально переименовывала места, чьи имена звучали «срамно» и «непристойно». Географические названия, топонимы — не только наш ориентир в пространстве, но и способ перемещаться во времени. В каждом имени — надежды, амбиции и эстетика разных эпох. Появляясь и меняясь под влиянием исторических событий, ... Read more

    £5.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Und sie schämeten sich nicht Vol. 01

    Eine Geschichte der Liebe

    Series Audiobook 1 - Eine Geschichte der Liebe

    Unabridged

    4 hours 32 min

    Warum ist die Nacht das lichteste Kapitel der germanischen Geschichte? Weshalb wechselte man vom Minnegesang so schnell zum Minnedienst? Was verbarg sich hinter der Prüderie des Biedermeier? Diese und viele andere Fragen beantwortet Joachim Fernau mit großem erzählerischen Elan. Die funkensprühende Geschichte der Liebe, von den alten Germanen bis zur sexuellen Befreiung. Joachim Fernau, 1909 in ... Read more

    £6.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Patton's Shadow

    The Making of a Hero in Modern Memory

    Narrated by Kent Klineman ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 32 min

    Patton's Shadow by Nathan C. Jones, a leading authority on George S. Patton, offers a definitive account of the creation of the Patton legend and what it illuminates about American culture and the worship of heroes. Jones traces how the persona of Patton, a brash and brilliant general in the European theater of World War II, transcended the individual man and became a cultural icon and byword for ... Read more

    £18.99

  • Audiobook

    Die Freimaurer - Der mächtigste Geheimbund der Welt (Ungekürzte Lesung)

    by John Dickie ...
    Narrated by Julian Mehne ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 58 min

    Die wahre Geschichte hinter dem Mythos. Der Historiker und Mafia-Experte John Dickie liefert die erste umfassende und seriöse Geschichte der Freimaurer - des Geheimbunds, der seit seiner Gründung im 18. Jahrhundert die Geschicke des Westens entscheidend mitbestimmt hat. Mozart, Goethe und Friedrich der Große gehörten dazu. George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt und Winston Churchill auch. ... Read more

    £18.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Light Between Apple Trees

    Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit

    Narrated by Priyanka Kumar ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 16 min

    As a child in the foothills of the Himalayas, Priyanka Kumar was entranced by forest-like orchards of diverse and luscious fruit—especially apples. These biodiverse orchards seemed worlds away from the cardboard apples that lined supermarket shelves. Yet on a small patch of woods near her home in Santa Fe, Kumar discovered a wild apple tree—and the seeds of an odyssey were planted. In The Light ... Read more

    £14.99

  • Audiobook

    How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator

    Unabridged

    8 hours 41 min

    'Irresistibly fascinating' MARIE CLAIRE GREECE'Essential' VICTORIA HISLOP'Brilliantly conceived' PAUL CARTLEDGEAn enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty retelling of the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeologyTwo strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do you do?’, becomes the springboard... ... Read more

    £16.99

  • Audiobook

    Goethe, Schiller und die Romantik

    by Rudolf Eucken ...
    Narrated by Various Artists ...
    Series series Lebensanschauungen großer Denker

    Abridged

    1 hour 8 min

    Der deutsche Humanismus bildet die Höhe der geistigen Bewegung, welche die zweite Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland erzeugte. Hier forderte die Zeit des Sturmes und Dranges mehr Unmittelbarkeit des Lebens und des Gefühles und hielt damit der Aufklärung mit ihrem Nützlichkeitsstreben sein Verlangen nach Schönheit und nach einem Selbstwert des Lebens siegesbewußt entgegen. Der deutsche ... Read more

    £3.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Os caucheiros: Trechos selecionados de "À margem da história"

    Narrated by Yuri Ribeiro ...
    Series series MiniPops

    Abridged

    36 min

    Um testemunho pungente da violência com que tribos inteiras eram exterminadas por conta do caucho – gênero de goma concorrente da seringa: eis o teor de "Os caucheiros", de Euclides da Cunha, extraído do livro "À margem da história". Que é caucheiro? O autor bem o define: "O caucheiro é irritantemente absurdo na sua brutalidade elegante... É o homúnculo da civilização". ... Read more

    £1.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Abolicionismo - Conceito e partido: Trechos selecionados de "O abolicionismo"

    Narrated by Yuri Ribeiro ...
    Series series MiniPops

    Abridged

    25 min

    Uma rara perspectiva para a discussão da escravidão: uma testemunha de época consciente e esclarecida. Nestes trechos selecionados de seu livro "O abolicionismo", Joaquim Nabuco explora o conceito de abolicionismo, como emancipação em massa dos escravos, chamando a atenção dos leitores para a indiferença pela sorte dos escravos, para então defender a criação de um partido abolicionista. ... Read more

    £1.99 or Free with Kobo Plus