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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- Auteur(s): Peter H. Wilson
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Waterson
- Durée: 33 h et 25 min
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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. When defiant...
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An amazing performance for an incomprehensible book
- Écrit par F. Toro le 2024-02-28
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The Devils of Loudun
- A True Story of Demonic Possession
- Auteur(s): Aldous Huxley
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Durée: 13 h et 1 min
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In 1632, an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent's charismatic priest Urban Grandier - accused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his charge - was convicted of being in...
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A Commonwealth of Thieves
- The Improbable Birth of Australia
- Auteur(s): Thomas Keneally
- Narrateur(s): Simon Vance
- Durée: 12 h et 26 min
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It was 1786 when Arthur Phillip, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy, was assigned the formidable task of organizing an expedition to Australia in order to establish a penal colony. The squalid and turbulent prisons of London were overflowing, and crime was on the rise. Even the hulks sifting...
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A Warrior Dynasty
- The Rise and Fall of Sweden as a Military Superpower 1611-1721
- Auteur(s): Henrik O. Lunde
- Narrateur(s): Mark Ashby
- Durée: 10 h et 28 min
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This audiobook examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s....
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The Habsburgs
- To Rule the World
- Auteur(s): Martyn Rady
- Narrateur(s): Simon Boughey
- Durée: 14 h et 58 min
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Performance22
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Histoire22
The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries -- from their rise to power to their eventual downfall. Habsburgs ruled much of Europe for centuries. From modest origins as minor German nobles, the family used fabricated documents, invented genealogies...
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Excellent History
- Écrit par L. C. le 2020-10-05
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Black Flags, Blue Waters
- The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
- Auteur(s): Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrateur(s): Paul Brion
- Durée: 10 h et 29 min
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Histoire16
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" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Best-selling...
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Boring
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2024-11-29
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- Auteur(s): Peter H. Wilson
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Waterson
- Durée: 33 h et 25 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global6
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Performance4
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Histoire4
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. When defiant...
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An amazing performance for an incomprehensible book
- Écrit par F. Toro le 2024-02-28
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The Devils of Loudun
- A True Story of Demonic Possession
- Auteur(s): Aldous Huxley
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Durée: 13 h et 1 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global9
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Performance5
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Histoire5
In 1632, an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent's charismatic priest Urban Grandier - accused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his charge - was convicted of being in...
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A Commonwealth of Thieves
- The Improbable Birth of Australia
- Auteur(s): Thomas Keneally
- Narrateur(s): Simon Vance
- Durée: 12 h et 26 min
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Au global2
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Performance1
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Histoire1
It was 1786 when Arthur Phillip, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy, was assigned the formidable task of organizing an expedition to Australia in order to establish a penal colony. The squalid and turbulent prisons of London were overflowing, and crime was on the rise. Even the hulks sifting...
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A Warrior Dynasty
- The Rise and Fall of Sweden as a Military Superpower 1611-1721
- Auteur(s): Henrik O. Lunde
- Narrateur(s): Mark Ashby
- Durée: 10 h et 28 min
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Au global4
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Performance4
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Histoire4
This audiobook examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s....
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The Habsburgs
- To Rule the World
- Auteur(s): Martyn Rady
- Narrateur(s): Simon Boughey
- Durée: 14 h et 58 min
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Au global28
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Performance22
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Histoire22
The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries -- from their rise to power to their eventual downfall. Habsburgs ruled much of Europe for centuries. From modest origins as minor German nobles, the family used fabricated documents, invented genealogies...
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Excellent History
- Écrit par L. C. le 2020-10-05
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Black Flags, Blue Waters
- The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
- Auteur(s): Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrateur(s): Paul Brion
- Durée: 10 h et 29 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global17
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Performance16
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Histoire16
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" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Best-selling...
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Boring
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2024-11-29
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Nature's Mutiny
- How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
- Auteur(s): Philipp Blom
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Keeble
- Durée: 10 h et 32 min
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An illuminating work of environmental history that chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, which transformed the social and political fabric of Europe. Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the 16th century plummeted so drastically...
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Excellent listening experience
- Écrit par Marcus Aurelius le 2023-02-08
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The Barbarous Years
- The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
- Auteur(s): Bernard Bailyn
- Narrateur(s): Henry Strozier
- Durée: 26 h et 11 min
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Bernard Bailyn gives us a compelling account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard...
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The Seeker
- The Seeker 1
- Auteur(s): S.G. MacLean
- Narrateur(s): Nicholas Camm
- Durée: 10 h et 22 min
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Winner of the 2015 CWA Endeavour Dagger for Historical Fiction London, 1654. Oliver Cromwell is at the height of his power and has declared himself Lord Protector. Yet he has many enemies, at home and abroad. London is a complex web of spies and merchants, priests and soldiers, exiles and...
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How the Old World Ended
- The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Scott
- Narrateur(s): David de Vries
- Durée: 12 h et 46 min
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A magisterial account of how the cultural and maritime relationships between the British, Dutch, and American territories changed the existing world order-and made the Industrial Revolution possible Between 1500 and 1800, the North Sea region overtook the Mediterranean as the most dynamic part...
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They Flew
- A History of the Impossible
- Auteur(s): Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrateur(s): Emmanuel Chumaceiro
- Durée: 16 h et 56 min
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Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture...
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Reformations
- The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
- Auteur(s): Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrateur(s): David Drummond
- Durée: 39 h et 42 min
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This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the 200-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that...
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The Favourite
- Auteur(s): Ophelia Field
- Narrateur(s): Natalie Boscombe
- Durée: 17 h et 44 min
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This biography brings Sarah Churchill's own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life and casts a critical eye over images of the Duchess handed down through art, history and literature....
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Batavia's Graveyard
- The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
- Auteur(s): Mike Dash
- Narrateur(s): Guy Bethell
- Durée: 12 h et 36 min
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It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the company's fleet, a tangible symbol of the world's richest and most powerful commercial...
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Saints of the American Wilderness
- The Brave Lives and Holy Deaths of the Eight North American Martyrs
- Auteur(s): John A. O'Brien
- Narrateur(s): Chris Larsen
- Durée: 8 h et 32 min
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Gripping true tales of holiness and horror: In the savage forests and rivers of 17th-century Canada, eight courageous Jesuits braved torture, treachery, and martyrdom to bring the light of Christ to a land steeped in darkness. Their blood sanctified North America.
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The Year of Lear
- Shakespeare in 1606
- Auteur(s): James Shapiro
- Narrateur(s): Robert Fass
- Durée: 11 h et 6 min
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In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James of Scotland, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed, and it may have seemed to some that his prolific genius was a thing of the past. But that year, at age 42, he found...
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Spinoza, Atheist
- Auteur(s): Steven Nadler
- Narrateur(s): Robert G. Slade
- Durée: 8 h et 40 min
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This audiobook narrated by Robert Slade shares a fascinating historical and philosophical account that unravels the mystery of whether Spinoza was an atheist.
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Spain
- The Centre of the World 1519-1682
- Auteur(s): Robert Goodwin
- Narrateur(s): Jeremy Clyde
- Durée: 21 h et 2 min
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Robert Goodwin delves into previously unrecorded sources to bring a tumultuous and exciting period to life. Spain is a revealing portrait of an empire at the height of its power and a world at the dawn of a new age....
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The Warwolf
- A Peasant Chronicle of the Thirty Years War
- Auteur(s): Hermann Löns, Robert Kvinnesland - translator
- Narrateur(s): Paul Bellantoni
- Durée: 7 h et 44 min
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The Thirty Years War, fought between 1618 and 1648, was a ruthless struggle for political and religious control of central Europe. Engulfing most of present-day Germany, the war claimed at least ten million lives. The lengthy conflict was particularly hard on the general population, as thousands...
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excellent narration and story.
- Écrit par josh le 2024-11-06
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The East India Company: A History From Beginning to End
- Auteur(s): Hourly History
- Narrateur(s): John Riddle
- Durée: 1 h et 10 min
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Founded at the dawn of the 17th century as European nations were establishing global empires, the English East India Company would become a vital part of burgeoning British supremacy....
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Dead Famous
- An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
- Auteur(s): Greg Jenner
- Narrateur(s): Greg Jenner
- Durée: 12 h et 45 min
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Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. But the famous and infamous have been thrilling, titillating, and outraging us for much longer than we might realize. Whether it was the scandalous Lord Byron, whose poetry sent female fans into an erotic frenzy; or the...
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- Auteur(s): William Egginton
- Narrateur(s): Michael Butler Murray
- Durée: 8 h et 14 min
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In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel....
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A powerful and provocative work
- Écrit par GUY le 2023-02-18
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Killers of the King
- The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
- Auteur(s): Charles Spencer
- Narrateur(s): Richard Trinder
- Durée: 12 h et 1 min
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January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain’s history, Parliament faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender....
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The Dutch Moment
- War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
- Auteur(s): Wim Klooster
- Narrateur(s): Fred Filbrich
- Durée: 11 h et 52 min
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In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast....
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The Dark Side of the Enlightenment
- Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason
- Auteur(s): John V. Fleming
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Pariseau
- Durée: 16 h et 20 min
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Why spiritual and supernatural yearnings, even investigations into the occult, flourished in the era of rationalist philosophy.....
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Under the Black Flag
- The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- Auteur(s): David Cordingly
- Narrateur(s): Don Hagen
- Durée: 10 h et 31 min
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For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of piracy's "Golden Age." As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is...
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The Enlightenment
- And Why It Still Matters
- Auteur(s): Anthony Pagden
- Narrateur(s): Robert Blumenfeld
- Durée: 16 h et 24 min
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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....
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Hot Protestants
- A History of Puritanism in England and America
- Auteur(s): Michael P. Winship
- Narrateur(s): Paul Boehmer
- Durée: 15 h et 37 min
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On fire for God - a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America. Begun in the mid-16th century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that...
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A Hangman’s Diary
- The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
- Auteur(s): Franz Schmidt, Albrecht Keller - editor and translator, C. Calvert BA - translator, Autres
- Narrateur(s): John McLain
- Durée: 4 h et 51 min
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Now an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman's Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt's executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason for the punishment. From 1573 to 1617...
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Intermittent static ruins experience
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2024-10-28
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The Fall
- Last Days of the English Republic
- Auteur(s): Henry Reece
- Narrateur(s): Richard Trinder
- Durée: 15 h et 57 min
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Why did England's one experiment in republican rule fail? Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivaled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of Englishmen faced each other across the Scottish...