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Wedlock
- How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match
- By: Wendy Moore
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Wedlock is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain's richest young heiresses. She married the Count of Strathmore, who died young, and, pregnant with her lover's child, Mary became engaged to George Gray. Then in swooped Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary was bowled over and married him within the week. But nothing was as it seemed. Stoney was broke and his pursuit of the wealthy Countess a calculated ploy.
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Gripping
- By Benjy1702 on 02-02-16
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Wedlock
- How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 15-10-15
- Language: English
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Culloden
- Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
- By: Trevor Royle
- Narrated by: Tim Bruce
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance32
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The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between the English Royal Army and the Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English: The battle was also part of a much larger campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of a French invasion.
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Mistitled, but interesting... if not actually entertaining.
- By Grumpy Jack on 27-09-19
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Black Flags, Blue Waters
- The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
- By: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance49
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Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown, and then violently opposed them. Upending popular misconceptions and cartoonish stereotypes, Dolin provides this wholly original account of these seafaring outlaws.
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Are most American narrators rubbish? STAY AWAY
- By Amazon Customer on 02-10-20
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Black Flags, Blue Waters
- The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-10-18
- Language: English
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The Pirate Menace
- Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy
- By: Angus Konstam
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance2
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Bloomsbury presents The Pirate Menace by Angus Konstam, read by David Monteath. This new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to a single pirate haven, Nassau. Angus Konstam, one of the world's leading pirate experts, has brought...
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The Pirate Menace
- Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-05-24
- Language: English
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The Black Jacobins
- Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
- By: C. L. R. James, Christienna Fryar
- Narrated by: Don Gilet
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance30
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In 1791, inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the slaves of San Domingo rose in revolt. Despite invasion by a series of British, Spanish and Napoleonic armies, their twelve-year struggle led to the creation of Haiti, the first independent black republic outside Africa. Only three years later, the British and Americans ended the Atlantic slave trade. In this outstanding example of vivid, committed and empathetic historical analysis, C. L. R. James illuminates these epoch-making events.
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a classic read very well.
- By M. E. Watson on 10-06-23
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The Black Jacobins
- Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
- Narrated by: Don Gilet
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 10-11-22
- Language: English
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The Twitnam Summer
- Friendship, Satire and the Writing of Gulliver’s Travels
- By: Hester Grant
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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'A rollicking, brilliant book' GARETH RUSSELL, author of Queen James 'A very fine piece of biographical work, erudite but accessible' JOHN STUBBS, author of Jonathan Swift A rollicking narrative history set during the extraordinary summer of 1726 when Jonathan Swift arrived in London from Dublin...
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The Twitnam Summer
- Friendship, Satire and the Writing of Gulliver’s Travels
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 04-06-26
- 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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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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The Enlightenment
- And Why it Still Matters
- By: Anthony Pagden
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance17
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One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were conceived and developed during the Enlightenment, and which changed forever the intellectual landscape of the Western world.
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Worth every penny.
- By Gabriel ARMSTRONG on 05-07-19
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The Enlightenment
- And Why it Still Matters
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 07-02-14
- Language: English
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main
- HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy’s revenge
- By: Angus Konstam
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance19
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Bloomsbury presents Mutiny on the Spanish Main by Angus Konstam, read by Sid Sagar. ‘A vivid account of a forgotten chapter of British naval history.’ – Dan Snow, Historian, TV Presenter and Broadcaster The true story of one of the most notorious mutinies in naval history, which provided...
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Angus at his best.
- By D Paterson on 24-12-20
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main
- HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy’s revenge
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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The Great Upheaval
- America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
- By: Jay Winik
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 31 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4
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It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of these remarkable events occurred in...
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Scaramucci suggestion ( excellent)
- By Patricia Forde on 16-03-25
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The Great Upheaval
- America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 31 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 09-08-16
- Language: English
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Bluestockings
- The First Women's Movement
- By: Susannah Gibson
- Narrated by: Fenella Fudge
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance10
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A NEW YORKER AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Sophisticated, rich and skilful . . . highlights the extraordinary place these women carved out for themselves against the odds' New Statesman 'Remarkable . . . The Bluestockings bust out of the pages with unmistakable glee . . . their complexity...
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Excellent retelling of the lives and times of these women
- By Eleb on 27-10-24
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Bluestockings
- The First Women's Movement
- Narrated by: Fenella Fudge
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 29-02-24
- Language: English
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The Black Count
- Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
- By: Tom Reiss
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “richly imagined biography” (The New York Times Book Review) of General Alex Dumas, who rose from slavery to command vast armies in the French Revolutionary Wars—and whose exploits were immortalized in his son’s novels The Count...
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The Black Count
- Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 18-09-12
- Language: English
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War Along the Wabash
- The Ohio Indian Confederacy’s Destruction of the U.S. Army, 1791
- By: Steven P. Locke
- Narrated by: Steven P. Locke
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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On November 4, 1791, a coalition of warriors determined to set the Ohio River as a permanent boundary between tribal lands and White settlements faced an army led by Arthur St. Clair—the resulting horrific struggle ended in the greatest defeat of an American army at the hands of Native Americans. The road to the battle of the Wabash began when Arthur St. Clair was appointed to lead an army into the heart of the Ohio Indian Confederacy while building a string of fortifications along the way. He would face difficulties in recruiting, training, feeding, and arming volunteer soldiers.
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War Along the Wabash
- The Ohio Indian Confederacy’s Destruction of the U.S. Army, 1791
- Narrated by: Steven P. Locke
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 25-07-23
- Language: English
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The Napoleonic Wars
- One Shot at Glory (The Great Wars of the World)
- By: History Nerds, Aleksa Vučković
- Narrated by: Joseph Meyer
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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The French Revolution of the late 1790s was one of the critical events in the history of Europe. It was the defining moment—a historic landslide that ushered the world into a completely new different epoch. Alas, all such changes come at a great cost. In the wake of the revolution, a series of large scale conflicts ensued, which are collectively known as the Napoleonic Wars. Their magnitude, their ferocity, and the loss of lives they caused were unprecedented up to that time.
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The Napoleonic Wars
- One Shot at Glory (The Great Wars of the World)
- Narrated by: Joseph Meyer
- Series: The Great Wars of the World
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 22-07-22
- Language: English
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Liberty or Death
- The French Revolution
- By: Peter McPhee
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century France...
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Liberty or Death
- The French Revolution
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-06-26
- Language: English
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The Secular Enlightenment
- By: Margaret Jacob
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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A majestic work of intellectual and cultural history, The Secular Enlightenment demonstrates how secular values and pursuits took hold of 18th-century Europe, spilled into the American colonies, and left their lasting imprint on the Western world for generations to come.
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Good start, then loses focus
- By JCM on 23-02-24
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The Secular Enlightenment
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 14-07-20
- Language: English
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The Fall of Robespierre
- 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
- By: Colin Jones
- Narrated by: Sasha Higgins
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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The day of 9 Thermidor (July 27, 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At midnight, Maximilien Robespierre was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced. By midnight at the close of the day, his world had been turned upside down. He was an outlaw, on the run, and himself wanted for conspiracy against the Republic. He shot himself shortly afterwards. Half-dead, the guillotine finished him off. The Fall of Robespierre provides an hour-by-hour analysis of these twenty-four hours.
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Dire Reading
- By Stephen Bentley on 03-09-22
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The Fall of Robespierre
- 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
- Narrated by: Sasha Higgins
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 18-07-22
- Language: English
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Avengers of the New World
- The Story of the Haitian Revolution
- By: Laurent DuBois
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the 18th-century Atlantic world. Within a few years, the slave insurgents forced the French administrators of the colony to emancipate them, a decision ratified by revolutionary Paris in 1794. This victory was a stunning challenge to the order of master/slave relations throughout the Americas, including the Southern United States.
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A fantastic study on the Haitian revolution
- By Ben Hall on 20-03-23
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Avengers of the New World
- The Story of the Haitian Revolution
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 25-08-20
- Language: English
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Revolution Song
- A Story of American Freedom
- By: Russell Shorto
- Narrated by: Russell Shorto
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
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From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today. With America's founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. Drawing on new sources, he weaves the lives of six people into a seamless narrative that casts fresh light on the range of experience in colonial America on the cusp of revolution.
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Revolution Song
- A Story of American Freedom
- Narrated by: Russell Shorto
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 27-11-17
- Language: English
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Frederick the Great
- A Military History
- By: Dennis Showalter
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
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Frederick the Great is one of history's most important leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe, securing Prussia's place as a continental power and inaugurating a new pattern of total war that was to endure until 1916. However, much myth surrounds this enigmatic man's personality and his role as politician, warrior, and king.
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Tolerable; but only just.
- By Amazon Customer on 30-12-23
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Frederick the Great
- A Military History
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-08-20
- Language: English
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