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The Scandalous Lady W
- By: Hallie Rubenhold
- Narrated by: Emily Pennant-Rea
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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It was the divorce that scandalised Georgian England. She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. Their marriage had the makings of a fairy tale but ended as one of the most salacious and highly publicised divorces in history. For over 200 years the story of Lady Worsley, her vengeful husband, and her lover, George Maurice Bisset, lay forgotten. Now Hallie Rubenhold throws open a window to a rarely seen view of Georgian England, one coloured by passion, adventure and the defiance of social convention.
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Made a fascinating story tedious
- By chan on 26-10-19
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The Scandalous Lady W
- Narrated by: Emily Pennant-Rea
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 29-08-19
- Language: English
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Eyewitness: 1950-1999
- Voices from the BBC Archives
- By: Joanna Bourke
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 24 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance16
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The events of 1950-1999 are described by the people who saw them happen, from the Festival of Britain in 1951 through to the dawn of a new millennium at the end of 1999. In between are the eras of the Angry Young Men, the Teddy Boys and the Punk Rockers; the arrival of rock and roll and the permissive society; the advent of industrial strife in England and sectarian unrest in Northern Ireland; the rise to power of Margaret Thatcher; the miners' strike, three-day week and Winter of Discontent; the Queen's Silver Jubilee....
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A perfect way to remember history.
- By Mr Gary Magee on 26-07-19
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Eyewitness: 1950-1999
- Voices from the BBC Archives
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 24 hrs
- Release date: 06-04-17
- Language: English
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The Fall of the West
- How They Really Lost It
- By: Owen Jones
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the critically acclaimed author of The Establishment, an excoriating take-down of Western hubris – and the book that reveals why we’re really in the state we’re in. Almost everywhere we turn these days, there’s talk of a West in decline. Our jobs, our...
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The Fall of the West
- How They Really Lost It
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 01-10-26
- Language: English
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The Nuremberg Interviews
- An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses
- By: Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - editor, Robert Gellately - introduction
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine, Joshua Kane
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance27
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The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history’s greatest atrocities speak out about their lives, their careers in the Nazi Party, and their views on the Holocaust...
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Interesting
- By Anonymous on 19-10-24
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The Nuremberg Interviews
- An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine, Joshua Kane
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 16-11-21
- Language: English
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Citizen Clem
- A Biography of Attlee
- By: John Bew
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 26 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall406
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Performance356
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Story353
Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar government, delivering the end of the empire in India, the foundation of the NHS and Britain's place in NATO. Called 'a sheep in sheep's clothing', his reputation has long been that of an unassuming character in the shadow of Churchill. But as John Bew's revelatory biography shows, Attlee was not only a hero of his age but an emblem of it, and his life tells the story of how Britain changed over the 20th century.
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Good old Clem
- By P Garbett on 12-11-17
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Citizen Clem
- A Biography of Attlee
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 26 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-09-17
- Language: English
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Spymistress
- The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
- By: William Stevenson
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall206
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Performance192
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Story192
A rousing tale of espionage and unsung valor, this is the captivating true story of Vera Atkins, Great Britain's spymistress from the age of 25. With her fierce intelligence, blunt manner, personal courage, and exceptional informants, Vera ran countless missions throughout the 1930s. After rising to the leadership echelon in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a covert intelligence agency formed by Winston Churchill, she became head of a clandestine army in World War II.
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A fascinating character who deserved better representation.
- By Dunblane1 on 16-08-17
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Spymistress
- The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 27-03-14
- Language: English
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Capitalism and Its Critics
- A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World
- By: John Cassidy
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
- Length: 23 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Brought to you by Penguin. A sweeping history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics At a time when we are faced with fundamental questions about the sustainability and morality of the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global...
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An Even-Handed History of Capitalism’s Critics
- By Mr. Anuj Ghai on 29-01-26
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Capitalism and Its Critics
- A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
- Length: 23 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Last Stand at Khe Sanh
- The US Marines’ Finest Hour in Vietnam
- By: Gregg Jones
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall249
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Performance228
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Story226
The vivid, fast-paced account of the siege of Khe Sanh told through the eyes of the men who lived it. For seventy-seven days in 1968, amid fears that America faced its own disastrous Dien Bien Phu, six thousand US Marines held off thirty thousand North Vietnamese Army regulars at the remote mountain stronghold called Khe Sanh. It was the biggest battle of the Vietnam War, with sharp ground engagements, devastating artillery duels, and massive US air strikes.
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Fantastic
- By JB on 26-09-21
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Last Stand at Khe Sanh
- The US Marines’ Finest Hour in Vietnam
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 01-04-14
- Language: English
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The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
- The Most Happy
- By: Eric Ives
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance1
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Anne Boleyn is the most notorious of England’s queens, but more famous for her death as an adulterer than for her life. Henry’s second wife and mother of Elizabeth I, Anne, was the first English queen to be publicly executed. Yet what do we know of the achievements and the legacy of her short reign? In The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: The Most Happy, Eric Ives provides the most detailed and convincing portrait we have of the queen.
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An Excellent Account of the Life of Anne Boleyn
- By Strawberry on 02-06-26
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The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
- The Most Happy
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-04-26
- Language: English
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Letters to Camondo
- From the bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes
- By: Edmund de Waal
- Narrated by: Edmund de Waal
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance31
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Brought to you by Penguin. 63 rue de Monceau, Paris Dear friend, As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know your street rather well. Count Moïse de Camondo lived a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears, the Ephrussi, first encountered in his bestselling...
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excellent, powerful
- By Lillith Golightly on 02-02-22
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Letters to Camondo
- From the bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes
- Narrated by: Edmund de Waal
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 22-04-21
- Language: English
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Unspeakable
- The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography
- By: John Bercow
- Narrated by: John Bercow
- Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall303
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Performance250
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When John Bercow retired as Speaker of the House of Commons on 31 October 2019, he had become one of the most recognisable and iconoclastic figures in British politics, occupying a ringside seat during one of the most febrile periods in modern British history. In his no-holds-barred memoir, he...
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Pompous
- By Adrienne on 17-02-20
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Unspeakable
- The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography
- Narrated by: John Bercow
- Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-02-20
- Language: English
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Beyond the Wall
- East Germany, 1949-1990
- By: Katja Hoyer
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall256
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Performance238
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Brought to you by Penguin. The definitive new history of East Germany by an acclaimed historian In 1990, a country disappeared. For the previous forty-one years, East Germany had existed in Western minds as more of a metaphor than a place, more of a grey communist blur than a land of real people...
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So informative and just brilliant
- By Ms. C. Beak on 19-04-23
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Beyond the Wall
- East Germany, 1949-1990
- Narrated by: Sam Peter Jackson
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 06-04-23
- Language: English
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Hue 1968
- A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
- By: Mark Bowden
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall247
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Performance215
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By January 1968, despite an influx of half a million American troops, the fighting in Vietnam seemed to be at a stalemate. Yet General William Westmoreland, commander of American forces, announced a new phase of the war in which "the end begins to come into view". The North Vietnamese had different ideas. In mid-1967, the leadership in Hanoi had started planning an offensive intended to win the war in a single stroke.
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Outstanding Military History
- By Stephen on 02-08-17
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Hue 1968
- A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-07-17
- Language: English
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All Out War
- The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class
- By: Tim Shipman
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Length: 32 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall625
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Performance549
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Story548
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘The best political book of the year’ Andrew Marr ‘A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history’ Guardian The only book to tell the full story of how and...
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Fabulous and frightening insight.
- By Mr. Chris B Nicholls on 06-11-18
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All Out War
- The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Length: 32 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 24-11-16
- Language: English
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White Heat
- A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties
- By: Dominic Sandbrook
- Narrated by: Dominic Sandbrook, Roger Davis
- Length: 39 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall95
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Performance86
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Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life...
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Excellent book ruined by terrible narration
- By cathy smith on 09-10-24
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White Heat
- A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties
- Narrated by: Dominic Sandbrook, Roger Davis
- Length: 39 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 03-10-24
- Language: English
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The Boer War
- By: Martin Bossenbroek, Yvette Rosenberg - Translator
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance67
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In The Boer War, winner of the Netherland's 2013 Libris History Prize and shortlisted for the 2013 AKO Literature Prize, the author brings a completely new perspective to this chapter of South African history, critically examining the involvement of the Netherlands in the war. Furthermore, unlike other accounts, Martin Bossenbroek explores the war primarily through the experiences of three men uniquely active during the bloody conflict.
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The Boer War,
- By R N BLAIR on 30-06-18
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The Boer War
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 09-01-18
- Language: English
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Reckonings
- Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice
- By: Mary Fulbrook
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 29 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Mary Fulbrook's encompassing book explores the lives of individuals across a full spectrum of suffering and guilt, each one capturing one small part of the greater story. Using "reckoning" in the widest possible sense to evoke how the consequences of violence have expanded almost infinitely through time. Fulbrook exposes the disjuncture between official myths about "dealing with the past" and the extent to which the vast majority of Nazi perpetrators evaded responsibility.
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A stunning account of the Holocaust and the aftermath
- By E P on 07-12-21
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Reckonings
- Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 29 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 18-02-20
- Language: English
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Reflections on a Ravaged Century
- By: Robert Conquest
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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Overall22
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Performance17
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Robert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson "our greatest living modern historian". As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination of our past failures and a guide to where we should go next. Graced with one of the most acute gifts for political prescience since Orwell, Conquest assigns responsibility for our century’s cataclysms not to impersonal economic or social forces but to the distorted ideologies of revolutionary Marxism and National Socialism.
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Time well spent
- By Anonymous on 28-09-20
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Reflections on a Ravaged Century
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-03-14
- Language: English
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Idaho Falls
- The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident
- By: William McKeown
- Narrated by: Bob Dunsworth
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance22
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When asked to name the world’s first major nuclear accident, most people cite the Three Mile Island incident or the Chernobyl disaster. Revealed in this book is one of American history’s best-kept secrets: the world’s first nuclear reactor accident to claim fatalities happened on United States soil. Chronicled here for the first time is the strange tale of SL-1, a military test reactor located in Idaho’s Lost River Desert that exploded on the night of January 3, 1961, killing the three-man maintenance crew on duty.
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Well written
- By Macksparky on 18-03-15
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Idaho Falls
- The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident
- Narrated by: Bob Dunsworth
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 11-12-12
- Language: English
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Travellers in the Third Reich
- The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People
- By: Julia Boyd
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall335
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Performance306
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Travellers in the Third Reich is an extraordinary history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating firsthand accounts, drawing together a multitude of voices and stories, including students, politicians, musicians, diplomats, schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, journalists, fascists, artists, tourists, even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. Their experiences create a remarkable three-dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler - one so palpable that the listener will feel, hear, even breathe the atmosphere.
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An unusual journey
- By japlah on 07-07-19
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Travellers in the Third Reich
- The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 10-01-19
- Language: English
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