Meilleures ventes
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The Napoleonic Wars
- Auteur(s): Alexander Mikaberidze
- Narrateur(s): Steven Crossley
- Durée: 35 h et 10 min
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The Napoleonic Wars saw fighting on an unprecedented scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, combined with the might of the continental armies, almost two decades to bring down one of the world's greatest military leaders and the empire that he had created...
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informative and broad.
- Écrit par bill le 2021-03-11
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Jane Austen at Home
- A Biography (250th Birthday Edition)
- Auteur(s): Lucy Worsley
- Narrateur(s): Lucy Worsley
- Durée: 17 h et 17 min
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The remarkable true story of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, narrated by Lucy Worsley 'This book is a delight . . . I will return to Austen's novels with a greater appreciation of the hardships and hopes of her heroines.' - LISTENER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I devoured this. Jane's story is...
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Lucy’s clear love of her subject.
- Écrit par RETP le 2025-10-14
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Island of the Lost
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- Auteur(s): Joan Druett
- Narrateur(s): David Colacci
- Durée: 8 h et 35 min
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Performance46
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Histoire46
Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. In 1864, Captain Thomas Musgrave...
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Dueling Journals...
- Écrit par Meredith le 2021-07-30
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La guerre de Sécession
- Auteur(s): John Keegan
- Narrateur(s): François Cottrelle
- Durée: 18 h et 50 min
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Occultée par la vision littéraire antagoniste de La Case de l'oncle Tom et d'Autant en emporte le vent, la guerre de Sécession demeure méconnue...
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Inventing Japan [Modern Library Chronicles]
- Auteur(s): Ian Buruma
- Narrateur(s): Nelson Runger
- Durée: 6 h et 38 min
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Performance2
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LA Times Book Award winner and expert on the past and present Japan, Ian Buruma examines the transformation of a country. Following Japan's history from its opening to the West in 1853 to its hosting of the 1964 Olympics, Buruma focuses on how figures such as Commodore Matthew Perry, Douglas...
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Mark Twain
- Auteur(s): Ron Chernow
- Narrateur(s): Jason Culp
- Durée: 44 h et 35 min
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Au global6
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Performance5
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Histoire5
The #1 New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews “Comprehensive, enthralling . . . Mark Twain...
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Bland
- Écrit par Matthew Hansinger le 2025-12-15
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The Napoleonic Wars
- Auteur(s): Alexander Mikaberidze
- Narrateur(s): Steven Crossley
- Durée: 35 h et 10 min
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Au global22
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Performance20
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Histoire20
The Napoleonic Wars saw fighting on an unprecedented scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, combined with the might of the continental armies, almost two decades to bring down one of the world's greatest military leaders and the empire that he had created...
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informative and broad.
- Écrit par bill le 2021-03-11
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Jane Austen at Home
- A Biography (250th Birthday Edition)
- Auteur(s): Lucy Worsley
- Narrateur(s): Lucy Worsley
- Durée: 17 h et 17 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global6
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Performance6
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Histoire6
The remarkable true story of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, narrated by Lucy Worsley 'This book is a delight . . . I will return to Austen's novels with a greater appreciation of the hardships and hopes of her heroines.' - LISTENER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I devoured this. Jane's story is...
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Lucy’s clear love of her subject.
- Écrit par RETP le 2025-10-14
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Island of the Lost
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- Auteur(s): Joan Druett
- Narrateur(s): David Colacci
- Durée: 8 h et 35 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global52
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Performance46
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Histoire46
Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. In 1864, Captain Thomas Musgrave...
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Dueling Journals...
- Écrit par Meredith le 2021-07-30
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La guerre de Sécession
- Auteur(s): John Keegan
- Narrateur(s): François Cottrelle
- Durée: 18 h et 50 min
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Performance1
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Histoire1
Occultée par la vision littéraire antagoniste de La Case de l'oncle Tom et d'Autant en emporte le vent, la guerre de Sécession demeure méconnue...
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Inventing Japan [Modern Library Chronicles]
- Auteur(s): Ian Buruma
- Narrateur(s): Nelson Runger
- Durée: 6 h et 38 min
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Au global3
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Performance2
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Histoire2
LA Times Book Award winner and expert on the past and present Japan, Ian Buruma examines the transformation of a country. Following Japan's history from its opening to the West in 1853 to its hosting of the 1964 Olympics, Buruma focuses on how figures such as Commodore Matthew Perry, Douglas...
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Mark Twain
- Auteur(s): Ron Chernow
- Narrateur(s): Jason Culp
- Durée: 44 h et 35 min
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Au global6
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Performance5
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Histoire5
The #1 New York Times Bestseller One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews “Comprehensive, enthralling . . . Mark Twain...
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Bland
- Écrit par Matthew Hansinger le 2025-12-15
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Blood Red Snow
- The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
- Auteur(s): Günter K. Koschorrek
- Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
- Durée: 9 h et 41 min
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Performance115
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Gunter Koschorrek wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on. As keeping a diary was strictly forbidden, he sewed the pages into the lining of his thick winter coat and deposited them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing, and it...
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The author cuts out or invents things altogether
- Écrit par Pavel le 2019-12-28
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Vatican I
- The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church
- Auteur(s): John W. O'Malley
- Narrateur(s): Matthew McAuliffe
- Durée: 8 h et 20 min
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At the Vatican Council of 1869-1870, the church made a dramatic effort to set things right by defining the doctrine of papal infallibility. Author John W. O'Malley draws us into the bitter controversies over papal infallibility that at one point seemed destined to rend the church in two....
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A good historical insight into VAT 1
- Écrit par Mark le 2024-02-12
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The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism
- A New History
- Auteur(s): Yanni Kotsonis
- Narrateur(s): Steven Crossley
- Durée: 13 h et 16 min
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A sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece In 1821, a diverse territory in the southern Balkans on the fringe of the Ottoman Empire was thrust into a decade of astounding mass violence. The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism traces how something new emerged from...
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Crimea
- Auteur(s): Orlando Figes
- Narrateur(s): Malk Williams
- Durée: 20 h et 38 min
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The terrible conflict that dominated the mid-19th century, the Crimean War, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire....
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entertaining and informative
- Écrit par brian finamore le 2020-05-22
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American Civil Wars
- A Continental History, 1850-1873
- Auteur(s): Alan Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Graham Winton
- Durée: 17 h et 8 min
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A MASTERFUL HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR AND ITS REVERBERATIONS ACROSS THE CONTINENT BY A TWO-TIME PULITZER PRIZE WINNER. In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period...
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The Pursuit of Power
- Europe: 1815-1914
- Auteur(s): Richard J. Evans
- Narrateur(s): Napoleon Ryan
- Durée: 41 h et 37 min
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Richard J. Evans's gripping narrative ranges across a century of social and national conflicts, from the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 to the unification of both Germany and Italy, from the Russo-Turkish wars to the Balkan upheavals that brought this era of relative peace and growing prosperity...
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So good
- Écrit par MyPublicName le 2023-11-12
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American Republics
- A Continental History of the United States 1783-1850
- Auteur(s): Alan Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Graham Winton
- Durée: 14 h et 42 min
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent. In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its...
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Emperor of Japan
- Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
- Auteur(s): Donald Keene
- Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
- Durée: 38 h et 13 min
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When Emperor Meiji began his rule in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, cut off from the outside world, staunchly antiforeign, and committed to the traditions of the past. Before long, the shogun surrendered to the emperor, a new constitution was adopted...
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For All the Tea in China
- How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
- Auteur(s): Sarah Rose
- Narrateur(s): Sarah Rose
- Durée: 7 h et 42 min
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In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China - territory forbidden to foreigners - to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea...
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The Kingdom of Italy: The History and Legacy of the Italian State from Unification to the End of World War II
- Auteur(s): Charles River Editors
- Narrateur(s): Colin Fluxman
- Durée: 4 h et 26 min
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The Kingdom of Italy: The History and Legacy of the Italian State from Unification to the End of World War II chronicles the turbulent events and wars that unified Italy into one kingdom, and the struggle to maintain it over the next 75 years....
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The Regency Years
- During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern
- Auteur(s): Robert Morrison
- Narrateur(s): Chris MacDonnell
- Durée: 13 h et 2 min
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The Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era, yet the seeds of change were planted in the years before. The Regency (1811-1820) began when the profligate Prince of Wales - the future King George IV - replaced his insane father, George III, as Britain's ruler. Around the...
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- Auteur(s): Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrateur(s): Ralph Lister
- Durée: 7 h et 54 min
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Performance144
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Histoire145
In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation....
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I really wanted to like this but...
- Écrit par Sam Larkham le 2018-09-06
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City of Light, City of Shadows
- Paris in the Belle Époque
- Auteur(s): Mike Rapport
- Narrateur(s): Paul Daintry
- Durée: 14 h et 48 min
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A top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle Époque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French From the wrought ironwork of the Eiffel Tower to the flourishing art nouveau movement...
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The Chinese Question
- The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
- Auteur(s): Mae M. Ngai
- Narrateur(s): Cindy Kay
- Durée: 13 h et 49 min
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Between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations. But friction between Chinese and white settlers on the goldfields of California, Australia, and South Africa catalyzed a global battle...
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Massacre, Trial, and Aftermath: 1880-1916
- The Donnellys, Volume 2
- Auteur(s): John Little
- Narrateur(s): Gareth Richards
- Durée: 9 h et 35 min
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A story made all the more shocking because it's true. In 1880, an organized mob of the Donnellys' enemies murders four family members and burns their house to the ground. Another sibling is shot to death in a house a short distance away. William Donnelly and a teenage boy are the only witnesses...
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Worst narrator ever
- Écrit par DollakLaw le 2022-02-10
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The Age of Revolution
- 1789-1848
- Auteur(s): Eric Hobsbawm
- Narrateur(s): Hugh Kermode
- Durée: 14 h et 29 min
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This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with...
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L'empereur des rois
- Napoléon 3
- Auteur(s): Max Gallo
- Narrateur(s): Jean-Marc Galéra
- Durée: 15 h et 34 min
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Il est Napoléon le Grand : après Austerlitz, qui peut arrêter l'Empereur des Français ? Il bouscule les Rois, à Iéna, à Friedland, à Wagram...
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Heirs of the Founders
- The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
- Auteur(s): H. W. Brands
- Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
- Durée: 14 h et 55 min
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From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy In the early 1800s, three young men strode...
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L'immortel de Sainte-Hélène
- Napoléon 4
- Auteur(s): Max Gallo
- Narrateur(s): Jean-Marc Galéra
- Durée: 15 h et 21 min
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Ici se nouent les derniers actes du fabuleux destin de Napoléon. Le 24 juin 1812, il entre en Russie à la tête de la Grande Armée...
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Très bonne série
- Écrit par marco lapointe le 2022-07-19
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Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918
- Modern War Studies
- Auteur(s): Daniel J. Hughes, Richard L. DiNardo
- Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
- Durée: 21 h et 6 min
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An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the critical pillars of the German Empire - and a chief architect of the military and political...
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Bismarck
- The Man and the Statesman
- Auteur(s): A.J.P. Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
- Durée: 9 h et 20 min
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In this compelling biography, historian A. J. P. Taylor reevaluates Bismarck's motives and methods, focusing on the chancellor's rise to power in the 1860s and his removal from office in 1890...
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Hell's Half Acre
- The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier
- Auteur(s): Susan Jonusas
- Narrateur(s): Lee Osorio
- Durée: 9 h et 16 min
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One of NPR's "Books We Love" New York Times Book Review's "The Best True Crime of 2022" "Rich in historical perspective and graced by novelistic touches, grips the reader from first to last.”—Wall Street Journal A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light...
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The Greek Revolution
- 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
- Auteur(s): Mark Mazower
- Narrateur(s): John Lee, Mark Mazower
- Durée: 20 h et 58 min
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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize One of The Economist's top history books of the year From one of our leading historians, the definitive history of the Greek War of Independence The Greek War of Independence was an unlikely cause, a disorganized collection of Greek patriots up against what...
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Great detail, but heavy obfuscation of the Albanian factor.
- Écrit par DN le 2025-10-11
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Nelson's Trafalgar
- The Battle That Changed the World
- Auteur(s): Roy Adkins
- Narrateur(s): John Telfer
- Durée: 13 h et 6 min
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An explosive chronicle of history's greatest sea battle, from the coauthor of Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History In the tradition of Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous naval battle, when the British...