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38 Londres Street
- On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
- By: Philippe Sands
- Narrated by: Philippe Sands
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall75
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Performance73
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Story73
'An indelible and enthralling work of moral witness' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE 'These questions of memory and impunity are forever timely' FINANCIAL TIMES 'An extraordinary achievement . . . I read with open mouth and thumping heart' STEPHEN FRY The house at 38 Londres Street in Santiago, Chile, is...
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Nuanced, elegant and beautiful
- By Derrick on 06-04-25
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38 Londres Street
- On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
- Narrated by: Philippe Sands
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 03-04-25
- Language: English
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The Great Cat Massacre
- And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
- By: Robert Darnton
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so...
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The Great Cat Massacre
- And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
- Narrated by: Ken Kliban
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 14-07-20
- Language: English
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Hope I Get Old Before I Die
- Why rock stars never retire, from the bestselling author of Abbey Road
- By: David Hepworth
- Narrated by: David Hepworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance39
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Story39
Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of Abbey Road comes the story of how enduring rock icons like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen and many more have remained in the ever changing music game. When Paul McCartney closed Live Aid in July 1985 we thought he was rock's Grand Old Man. He was...
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People Try To Put Us Down
- By alan ball on 28-10-24
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Hope I Get Old Before I Die
- Why rock stars never retire, from the bestselling author of Abbey Road
- Narrated by: David Hepworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-09-24
- Language: English
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Elizabeth's London
- Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
- By: Liza Picard
- Narrated by: Liza Picard
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
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Overall31
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Performance17
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Story17
Like its popular and acclaimed predecessors, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, this fascinating evocation of Elizabethan London is the result of the author's passionate interest in the practical details of everyday life and the conditions in which most people lived, which most history books ignore: the streets, houses and gardens; cooking, housework and shopping; clothes, jewellery and make-up; medicine and sex; education, etiquette and hobbies; religion, law and crime.
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Good Book shame about the Narration
- By Roger on 08-09-11
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Elizabeth's London
- Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
- Narrated by: Liza Picard
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 26-07-11
- Language: English
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- By: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance48
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Story48
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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Good narration, but I want ***MAPS***
- By eastofeast on 11-08-23
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-05-23
- Language: English
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The Killing Age
- How Violence Made the Modern World
- By: Clifton Crais
- Narrated by: Jason Keller
- Length: 21 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
‘Combines brilliant storytelling with rich and deeply researched evidence . . . essential reading’ – Caroline Elkins, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Imperial Reckoning and Legacy of Violence 'Synoptic in its reach, overwhelming in its detail, The Killing Age leaves one feeling like...
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The Killing Age
- How Violence Made the Modern World
- Narrated by: Jason Keller
- Length: 21 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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Hunting Eichmann
- Chasing Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
- By: Neal Bascomb
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall178
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Performance159
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Story158
Best-selling author Neal Bascomb has garnered critical acclaim for such riveting nonfiction as Higher and Red Mutiny. Based on extensive interviews and previously classified details, Hunting Eichmann is a compelling account of the relentless hunt for the nefarious Adolf Eichmann.
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Fantastic narration of an amazing story
- By Neville on 29-10-18
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Hunting Eichmann
- Chasing Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 27-02-09
- Language: English
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The Reformation: History in an Hour
- By: Edward A Gosselin
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance75
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Story74
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The Reformation was a long struggle of ideas between the established Catholic Church and the questioning of faith brought about by the Renaissance in Western Europe. Started by Martin Luther in 1517, religious dissidence spread across Europe...
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Too much in an hour
- By Ian on 11-10-18
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The Reformation: History in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 16-01-13
- Language: English
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The Invisible Bridge
- The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
- By: Rick Perlstein
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 39 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance47
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In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term - until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as little better than a mafia den. The next president declared upon Nixon’s resignation “our long national nightmare is over” - but then congressional investigators exposed the CIA for assassinating foreign leaders. The collapse of the South Vietnamese government rendered moot the sacrifice of some 58,000 American lives.
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Sweeping view of the aftermath of Watergate
- By Mr on 19-10-16
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The Invisible Bridge
- The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 39 hrs
- Release date: 05-08-14
- Language: English
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The Twins of Auschwitz
- The Inspiring True Story of a Young Girl Surviving Mengele’s Hell
- By: Eva Mozes Kor, Lisa Rojany Buccieri
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall205
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Performance175
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Story176
In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes Kor and her family arrived at Auschwitz. Within 30 minutes, they were separated. Her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers while Eva and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man who became known as the Angel of Death: Dr Josef Mengele. They were 10 years old. While twins at Auschwitz were granted the 'privileges' of keeping their own clothes and hair, they were also subjected to Mengele's sadistic medical experiments.
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Should be read alongside Anne Frank's diary
- By Reggy A on 02-06-22
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The Twins of Auschwitz
- The Inspiring True Story of a Young Girl Surviving Mengele’s Hell
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 06-08-20
- Language: English
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Born Survivors
- By: Wendy Holden
- Narrated by: Wendy Holden, Anne Dover, Eva Clarke
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall207
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Performance189
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Story187
Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly pregnant and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women were privately determined to hold on to all they had left: their lives and those of their unborn babies.
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A truly incredible story
- By Mrs J M Blanc on 25-11-15
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Born Survivors
- Narrated by: Wendy Holden, Anne Dover, Eva Clarke
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 22-10-15
- Language: English
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Passchendaele
- The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres 1917
- By: Lyn Macdonald
- Narrated by: Alison Dowling
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57
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Performance51
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Story51
Brought to you by Penguin. 'Four years of war turned Ypres into a ghost town. Not a leaf grew on a tree. Scarcely one stone stood upon another. From the battered ramparts the eye swept clean across a field of rubble to the swamp-lands beyond . . .' The Third Battle of Ypres, ending in a...
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A story that needed to be told
- By MR JAMES PARIS on 29-01-21
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Passchendaele
- The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres 1917
- Narrated by: Alison Dowling
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 03-12-20
- Language: English
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The Lost King
- The Search for Richard III
- By: Philippa Langley, Michael Jones
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall84
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Performance72
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Story72
The official inside story of the life, death and remarkable discovery of history's most controversial monarch. On 22 August 1485 Richard III was killed at Bosworth Field, the last king of England to die in battle. His victorious opponent, Henry Tudor (the future Henry VII), went on to found one of our most famous ruling dynasties. Richard's body was displayed in undignified fashion for two days in nearby Leicester and then hurriedly buried in the church of the Greyfriars.
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Excellent
- By cgwx on 18-03-19
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The Lost King
- The Search for Richard III
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin Hussey
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 19-07-18
- Language: English
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night
- A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
- By: Tahir Hamut Izgil, Joshua L. Freeman
- Narrated by: Greg Watanabe
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century. Over a million people have vanished into China's internment camps for Muslim minorities. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night is the story of the political, social, and cultural destruction of Tahir Hamut Izgil's homeland.
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Deeply shocking, very enlightening, essential reading…
- By Sahara10 on 21-03-24
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night
- A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
- Narrated by: Greg Watanabe
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-08-23
- Language: English
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The Russian Revolution
- By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
- Narrated by: Steve Fortune
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance27
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Story27
The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the 20th century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution, Fitzpatrick takes the story from 1917, through Stalin's "revolution from above", to the great purges of the 1930s.
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Decent book, awful narration
- By Kevin O'Brien on 08-05-22
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The Russian Revolution
- Narrated by: Steve Fortune
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 29-01-21
- Language: English
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Boomerang
- The Meltdown Tour
- By: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall500
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Performance392
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Story394
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Boomerang by Michael Lewis, read by Dylan Baker. Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly had it come to hit the rest of...
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Good stories, lazy analysis
- By A. Groves on 08-04-17
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Boomerang
- The Meltdown Tour
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 25-10-11
- Language: English
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Mistress of Life and Death
- The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
- By: Susan J. Eischeid
- Narrated by: Bronwen Price
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance4
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By the time of her execution at thirty-six, Maria Mandl had achieved the highest rank possible for a woman in the Third Reich. As Head Overseer of the women's camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, she was personally responsible for the murders of thousands, and for the torture and suffering of countless more. Susan J. Eischeid explores how Mandl, regarded locally as “a nice girl from a good family,” came to embody the very worst of humanity. Her life mirrors the period in which she lived: turbulent, violent, and suffused with paradoxes.
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Mistress of Life and Death
- The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Narrated by: Bronwen Price
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 29-01-24
- Language: English
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The Auschwitz Volunteer
- Beyond Bravery
- By: Witold Pilecki, Jarek Garlinski - translator
- Narrated by: Marek Probosz, Jarek Garlinski, Ken Kliban, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance55
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In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and report from inside the camp. His intelligence reports, smuggled out in 1941, were among the first eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz atrocities: the extermination of Soviet POWs, its function as a camp for Polish political prisoners, and the "final solution" for Jews. Pilecki received brutal treatment until he escaped in April 1943; soon after, he wrote a brief report....
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Riveting
- By Andy Round on 13-03-18
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The Auschwitz Volunteer
- Beyond Bravery
- Narrated by: Marek Probosz, Jarek Garlinski, Ken Kliban, John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 19-07-13
- Language: English
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Checkpoint Charlie
- The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
- By: Iain MacGregor
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Overall93
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Performance84
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A powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the legendary and most important military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States and her allies confronted the USSR during the Cold War. As tensions between east and west rose during the Cold War, East Germany committed $millions to the creation of the Berlin Wall in the early 1960s....
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Brilliant
- By Rossano Nocera on 20-05-21
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Checkpoint Charlie
- The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 24-10-19
- Language: English
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The Gunpowder Plot
- Terror And Faith In 1605
- By: Antonia Fraser
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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Overall102
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Performance79
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Story78
With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she unravels the tangled web of religion and...
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A Roller Coaster
- By Alan on 26-12-08
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The Gunpowder Plot
- Terror And Faith In 1605
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 03-01-07
- Language: English
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