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A Woman of No Importance
- The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
- Auteur(s): Sonia Purnell
- Narrateur(s): Juliet Stevenson
- Durée: 13 h et 54 min
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London Winner of the Plutarch Award for...
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No issues with EXCELLENT narration!
- Écrit par Ron Larocque le 2019-07-16
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Hero of Two Worlds
- The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
- Auteur(s): Mike Duncan
- Narrateur(s): Mike Duncan
- Durée: 17 h et 20 min
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From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equality Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette...
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Well woven tale
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2024-12-10
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The Revolutionary Temper
- Paris, 1748-1789
- Auteur(s): Robert Darnton
- Narrateur(s): Andrew J. Andersen
- Durée: 21 h
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When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society.
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fascinating content, lackluster narration.
- Écrit par Shaz Taslimi le 2025-02-11
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The Art Spy
- The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
- Auteur(s): Michelle Young
- Narrateur(s): Erin Bennett
- Durée: 11 h et 51 min
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* Library Journal Best Books of 2025 * New York Public Library Best Books of 2025 * Hyperallergic Favorite Art Books of 2025 * Publishers Weekly Best Books of Summer 2025 * BookBub Best Non-Fiction Release of the Season * Newsday’s Top Must-Read Book for Summer * Christian Science Monitor Best...
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Rose Volland’s story, at last!
- Écrit par RW le 2025-06-04
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The Black Count
- Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
- Auteur(s): Tom Reiss
- Narrateur(s): Paul Michael
- Durée: 13 h et 30 min
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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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Very enjoyable dive into the forgotten father
- Écrit par Alex Martin le 2020-11-05
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Normandy '44
- D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
- Auteur(s): James Holland
- Narrateur(s): John Sackville
- Durée: 24 h et 20 min
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D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west - the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries....
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Excellent
- Écrit par Kindle Customer le 2023-08-12
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A Woman of No Importance
- The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
- Auteur(s): Sonia Purnell
- Narrateur(s): Juliet Stevenson
- Durée: 13 h et 54 min
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Au global93
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Performance76
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Histoire77
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London Winner of the Plutarch Award for...
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No issues with EXCELLENT narration!
- Écrit par Ron Larocque le 2019-07-16
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Hero of Two Worlds
- The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
- Auteur(s): Mike Duncan
- Narrateur(s): Mike Duncan
- Durée: 17 h et 20 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global217
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Performance195
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Histoire195
From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equality Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette...
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Well woven tale
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2024-12-10
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The Revolutionary Temper
- Paris, 1748-1789
- Auteur(s): Robert Darnton
- Narrateur(s): Andrew J. Andersen
- Durée: 21 h
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Histoire1
When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society.
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fascinating content, lackluster narration.
- Écrit par Shaz Taslimi le 2025-02-11
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The Art Spy
- The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
- Auteur(s): Michelle Young
- Narrateur(s): Erin Bennett
- Durée: 11 h et 51 min
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Histoire4
* Library Journal Best Books of 2025 * New York Public Library Best Books of 2025 * Hyperallergic Favorite Art Books of 2025 * Publishers Weekly Best Books of Summer 2025 * BookBub Best Non-Fiction Release of the Season * Newsday’s Top Must-Read Book for Summer * Christian Science Monitor Best...
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Rose Volland’s story, at last!
- Écrit par RW le 2025-06-04
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The Black Count
- Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
- Auteur(s): Tom Reiss
- Narrateur(s): Paul Michael
- Durée: 13 h et 30 min
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Au global27
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Performance25
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Histoire24
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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Very enjoyable dive into the forgotten father
- Écrit par Alex Martin le 2020-11-05
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Normandy '44
- D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
- Auteur(s): James Holland
- Narrateur(s): John Sackville
- Durée: 24 h et 20 min
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Au global32
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Performance30
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Histoire30
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west - the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries....
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Excellent
- Écrit par Kindle Customer le 2023-08-12
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A New World Begins
- The History of the French Revolution
- Auteur(s): Jeremy D. Popkin
- Narrateur(s): Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
- Durée: 21 h et 54 min
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In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....
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GOOD LISTEN
- Écrit par Stephen le 2025-06-28
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Paris in Ruins
- Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
- Auteur(s): Sebastian Smee
- Narrateur(s): Julian Elfer
- Durée: 12 h et 6 min
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Incisive and absorbing, Paris in Ruins captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, revealing how the siege and the chaos of the Commune had a profound impact on modern art, and how artistic genius can emerge from darkness and catastrophe.
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Very good - with Berthe Morisot included
- Écrit par RW le 2025-11-05
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Marie Antoinette
- The Journey
- Auteur(s): Antonia Fraser
- Narrateur(s): Donada Peters
- Durée: 20 h et 27 min
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The national bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wives of Henry VIII. France’s beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous “Let them eat cake,” was the subject of ridicule and curiosity even before her death; she has since been the object of...
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Useful for perspective
- Écrit par Meera le 2025-12-10
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Napoleon
- A Life
- Auteur(s): Adam Zamoyski
- Narrateur(s): Leighton Pugh
- Durée: 27 h et 10 min
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The definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as "magnificent" by The Economist. "What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him into a...
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Great narration. Historically biased writing.
- Écrit par Quadratic le 2019-06-10
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Talleyrand
- Auteur(s): Duff Cooper
- Narrateur(s): Leighton Pugh
- Durée: 12 h et 6 min
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In the tumultuous world of revolutionary France, the enigmatic diplomat Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord survived–and shaped–five regimes.
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Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815
- From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras Volume I
- Auteur(s): John Hussey
- Narrateur(s): Ric Jerrom
- Durée: 34 h et 6 min
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The first of two ground-breaking volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this audiobook is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages....
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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
- Auteur(s): Timothy Tackett
- Narrateur(s): Michael Page
- Durée: 15 h et 16 min
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Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights....
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Eminence
- Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France
- Auteur(s): Jean-Vincent Blanchard
- Narrateur(s): Mary Kane
- Durée: 9 h et 59 min
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Chief minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the 17th century, and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power....
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A Great Improvisation
- Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
- Auteur(s): Stacy Schiff
- Narrateur(s): Susan Denaker
- Durée: 21 h et 54 min
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“In December 1776, a small boat delivered an old man to France.” So begins a dazzling narrative account of Benjamin Franklin’s French mission, the most exacting—and momentous—eight years of his life. When Franklin embarked, the colonies were without money, munitions, gunpowder, or...
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Public City/Public Sex
- Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Sexuality Studies)
- Auteur(s): Andrew Israel Ross
- Narrateur(s): Sebastian Brown
- Durée: 9 h et 6 min
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Public City/Public Sex examines how the notion that male sexual desire required suitable outlets shaped urban policing and development. Ross traces the struggle to control sex in public....
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A Year in Provence
- Auteur(s): Peter Mayle
- Narrateur(s): Peter Mayle
- Durée: 2 h et 52 min
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More than 40,000 listeners have enjoyed this story on cassette. Now anyone who's ever dreamed of getting away from it all can enjoy the charms and challenges of A Year in Provence on CD! Peter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence as tourists. They had dreamed of one day trading the long, gray...
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More like Half a Year In Provence
- Écrit par Juan Manuel Villalpando Berumen le 2022-04-08
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The French Revolution
- A Political History
- Auteur(s): John Hardman
- Narrateur(s): Jennifer M. Dixon
- Durée: 13 h et 26 min
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In 1786, France's ancien régime was functioning as usual. Its alliance with the victorious American colonies had restored its diplomatic prestige, the economy seemed to be flourishing, and internal politics seemed quiet. But just a few short years later.
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The Collapse of the Third Republic
- An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940
- Auteur(s): William L. Shirer
- Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
- Durée: 48 h et 10 min
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As an international war correspondent and radio commentator, William L. Shirer didn't just research the fall of France. He was there. In just six weeks, he watched the Third Reich topple one of the world's oldest military powers - and institute a rule of terror and paranoia....
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Excellent
- Écrit par Kindle Customer le 2023-08-12
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The Last Emperor of Mexico
- The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
- Auteur(s): Edward Shawcross
- Narrateur(s): Gustavo Rex
- Durée: 11 h et 54 min
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The true operatic tragedy of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico—and faced bloody consequences. In the 1860s, Napoleon III, intent on curbing the rise of American imperialism, persuaded a young Austrian archduke and a Belgian princess to leave...
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Germaine Tillion dans l'Algérie en guerre
- Auteur(s): Germaine Tillion
- Narrateur(s): Roselyne Sarazin
- Durée: 8 h et 46 min
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L'entrée, en 2015, de Germaine Tillion au Panthéon a consacré un itinéraire remarquable. Après avoir mené des recherches ethnologiques...
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Citizens
- A Chronicle of the French Revolution
- Auteur(s): Simon Schama
- Narrateur(s): Frederick Davidson
- Durée: 36 h et 48 min
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From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution. Simon Schama deftly refutes the contemporary notion that the French Revolution represented an uprising of the oppressed poor against a decadent aristocracy and corrupt court....
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Recording skips
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2025-09-11
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A Bite-Sized History of France
- Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment
- Auteur(s): Stephane Henaut, Jeni Mitchell
- Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
- Durée: 11 h et 18 min
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A witty exploration of the facts and legends surrounding some of the most popular French foods and wines by a French cheesemonger and an American academic, A Bite-Sized History of France tells the compelling and often surprising story of France from the Roman era to modern times....
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A mix of history of France with tasty experience
- Écrit par Tamara le 2025-10-13
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Métronome. L'Histoire de France au rythme du métro parisien
- Métronome 1
- Auteur(s): Lorànt Deutsch
- Narrateur(s): Lorànt Deutsch
- Durée: 9 h et 19 min
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Saviez-vous que la Lutèce des origines ne se situait pas sur l'île de la Cité, mais à Nanterre ? Que les derniers combattants gaulois massacrés par les Romains reposent sous la tour Eiffel...
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Nancy Wake
- World War Two's Most Rebellious Spy
- Auteur(s): Russell Braddon
- Narrateur(s): Nico Evers-Swindell
- Durée: 9 h et 5 min
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This is the incredible true story of the greatest spy you’ve never heard of - as told to the author by the woman herself. At the outbreak of World War Two, Nancy Wake’s glamorous life in the South of France seemed far removed from the fighting....
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History of France
- A Captivating Guide to French History
- Auteur(s): Captivating History
- Narrateur(s): Jason Zenobia
- Durée: 7 h et 19 min
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France has influenced the course of history in Europe and the world for centuries....
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The Return of Martin Guerre
- Auteur(s): Natalie Zemon Davis
- Narrateur(s): Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Durée: 3 h et 35 min
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The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre....
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This was intriguing!
- Écrit par RW le 2024-10-28
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Thorns, Lust, and Glory
- The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn
- Auteur(s): Estelle Paranque
- Narrateur(s): Anna Wilson-Jones
- Durée: 8 h et 18 min
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In this groundbreaking biography of Queen Anne Boleyn, learn how the ill-fated second wife of Renaissance England's Henry XVIII met her downfall–and how she came to be so vilified and misunderstood. Anne Boleyn has mesmerized the general public for centuries. Her tragic execution at the Tower...
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Wine and War
- The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure
- Auteur(s): Donald Kladstrup, Petie Kladstrup
- Narrateur(s): Todd McLaren
- Durée: 9 h et 23 min
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In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine....
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Louis XIV
- The Power and the Glory
- Auteur(s): Josephine Wilkinson
- Narrateur(s): Kate Reading
- Durée: 16 h et 25 min
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This stylish and incisive narrative presents listeners with a fresh perspective on one of the most fascinating kings in European history. Louis XIV's story has all the ingredients of a Dumas classic....