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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....
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An amazing performance for an incomprehensible book
- Écrit par F. Toro le 2024-02-28
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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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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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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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As he explodes many accepted pirate myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier....
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Providence Lost
- The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate
- Auteur(s): Paul Lay
- Narrateur(s): Gordon Griffin
- Durée: 10 h et 24 min
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England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart King Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king's son and his Scottish allies....
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Born to Be Hanged
- The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
- Auteur(s): Keith Thomson
- Narrateur(s): Feodor Chin
- Durée: 9 h et 41 min
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Discover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England—perfect for readers of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough (Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times...
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Great story, hard to follow.
- Écrit par Steve Bohemier le 2025-06-16
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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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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....
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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....
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An amazing performance for an incomprehensible book
- Écrit par F. Toro le 2024-02-28
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The Habsburgs
- To Rule the World
- Auteur(s): Martyn Rady
- Narrateur(s): Simon Boughey
- Durée: 14 h et 58 min
- Version intégrale
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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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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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Performance1
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Histoire1
As he explodes many accepted pirate myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier....
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Providence Lost
- The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate
- Auteur(s): Paul Lay
- Narrateur(s): Gordon Griffin
- Durée: 10 h et 24 min
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England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart King Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king's son and his Scottish allies....
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Born to Be Hanged
- The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
- Auteur(s): Keith Thomson
- Narrateur(s): Feodor Chin
- Durée: 9 h et 41 min
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Au global2
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Performance2
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Histoire2
Discover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England—perfect for readers of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough (Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times...
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Great story, hard to follow.
- Écrit par Steve Bohemier le 2025-06-16
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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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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....
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Boring
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2024-11-29
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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....
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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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Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the 200-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day....
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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 Black Friar
- The Seeker 2
- Auteur(s): S.G. MacLean
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Keeble
- Durée: 11 h et 13 min
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Rebellion in the city, and a Royalist spy in his own ranks - Damian Seeker, Captain of Oliver Cromwell's guard, must eradicate both in this action-packed historical thriller for fans of CJ Sansom, Rory Clements and The Three Musketeers. 'MacLean skilfully weaves together the disparate threads of...
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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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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....
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The Blood in Winter
- England on the Brink of Civil War, 1642
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Healey
- Narrateur(s): Mark Meadows
- Durée: 13 h et 30 min
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A riveting account of the five heated months in which King Charles I attempted to arrest five dissident Members of Parliament by bringing an armed force to the House of Commons—a shocking act of political terrorism that pushed England toward civil war and planted the seeds of the American...
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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....
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Thunderclap
- A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
- Auteur(s): Laura Cumming
- Narrateur(s): Laura Cumming
- Durée: 7 h et 39 min
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Named a Top 100 Must-Read Book of the Year by Time and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker * Winner of the 2024 Writers’ Prize for Nonfiction * Shortlisted for the Inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction * Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize New York Times bestselling author Laura...
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The English Civil Wars
- 1640-1660
- Auteur(s): Blair Worden
- Narrateur(s): Leighton Pugh
- Durée: 5 h et 29 min
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The political upheaval of the mid-17th century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic....
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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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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....
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Intermittent static ruins experience
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2024-10-28
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Captain Alatriste
- Auteur(s): Arturo Perez-Reverte, Margaret Sayers Peden - translator
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick, Margaret Sayers Peden
- Durée: 6 h et 48 min
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The novels of Arturo Pérez-Reverte have captivated readers around the world and earned him a reputation as “the master of the intellectual thriller.” (Chicago Tribune) His books have been published in fifty countries. Now, beginning with Captain Alatriste, comes Pérez-Reverte’s most...
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Wonderful book!
- Écrit par Christian G. Cameron le 2022-01-10
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Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century Agriculture
- Haney Foundation Series
- Auteur(s): Frances E. Dolan
- Narrateur(s): Nancy Bober
- Durée: 10 h et 8 min
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Digging the Past offers fine-grained case studies of projects heralded as innovations both in the 17th century and in our own time: composting and soil amendment, local food, natural wine, and hedgerows....
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Devil-Land
- England Under Siege, 1588-1688
- Auteur(s): Clare Jackson
- Narrateur(s): Emma Gregory
- Durée: 24 h et 10 min
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Clare Jackson's dazzling original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis....
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Decent coverage and listenable
- Écrit par DAVID STAMPE le 2025-01-23
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Taking Manhattan
- The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
- Auteur(s): Russell Shorto
- Narrateur(s): Russell Shorto
- Durée: 11 h et 31 min
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The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New York—that brash, bold, archetypal city—came to be.
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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 Island at the Center of the World
- The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America
- Auteur(s): Russell Shorto
- Narrateur(s): Russell Shorto
- Durée: 14 h et 33 min
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In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today. In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New York State Library made an astounding discovery...
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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....
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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 Lost Painting
- The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Harr
- Narrateur(s): Campbell Scott
- Durée: 6 h et 22 min
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Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story. An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed...
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Superb
- Écrit par RW le 2025-04-27
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The Dutch East India Company: A History from Beginning to End
- Auteur(s): Hourly History
- Narrateur(s): Bridger Conklin
- Durée: 1 h
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Once valued at close to seven trillion dollars by today’s standards, the Dutch East India Company, formed in 1602, became the world’s first multinational corporation....
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The Pirate Hunter
- Auteur(s): Richard Zacks
- Narrateur(s): Michael Prichard
- Durée: 18 h et 42 min
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Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer....
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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, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed....