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The Dutch Moment
- War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
- Written by: Wim Klooster
- Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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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. The fleets and armies that fought for the Dutch in the decades-long war against Spain included numerous foreigners, largely drawn from countries in northwestern Europe. Likewise, many settlers of Dutch colonies were born in other parts of Europe or the New World.
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The Dutch Moment
- War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
- Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-15
- Language: English
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A Needle in the Right Hand of God
- Written by: R. Howard Bloch
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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The Bayeux Tapestry is the world's most famous textile: an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history's most mysterious and compelling works of art. This haunting stitched account of the battle that redrew the map of medieval Europe has inspired dreams of theft, waves of nationalism, visions of limitless power, and esthetic rapture.
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A Needle in the Right Hand of God
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2007-02-12
- Language: English
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A Kidnapped West
- The Tragedy of Central Europe
- Written by: Milan Kundera
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
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Milan Kundera’s early nonfiction work feels especially resonant in our own time. In these pieces, Kundera pleads the case of the “small nations” of Europe who, by culture, are Western with deep roots in Europe, despite Russia imposing its own Communist political regimes in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Ukraine, and elsewhere. Kundera warns that the real tragedy here is not Russia but Europe, whose own identity and culture are directly challenged and threatened in a way that could lead to their destruction.
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A Kidnapped West
- The Tragedy of Central Europe
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 2023-04-11
- Language: English
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Beer in the Middle Ages and the Rennaissance
- Written by: Richard W. Unger
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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Modern beer has little in common with the drink that carried that name through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Looking at a time when beer was often a nutritional necessity, was sometimes used as medicine, could be flavored with everything from the bark of fir trees to thyme and fresh eggs, and was consumed by men, women, and children alike, Beer in the Middle Ages and Renaissance presents an extraordinarily detailed history of the business, art, and governance of brewing.
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Beer in the Middle Ages and the Rennaissance
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2010-11-15
- Language: English
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Seducing and Killing Nazis
- Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII
- Written by: Sophie Poldermans
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
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This is the astonishing true story of three teenage Dutch girls, Hannie Schaft and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, that has inspired many throughout the world. When Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands in World War II, these girls took up arms against the enemy by seducing high-ranking Nazi officers, luring them into the woods and killing them. They provided Jewish children with safe houses and gathered vital intelligence for the resistance.
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Seducing and Killing Nazis
- Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2020-04-17
- Language: English
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Pandora’s Box
- A History of the First World War
- Written by: Jorn Leonhard, Patrick Camiller - translator
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 39 hrs and 33 mins
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In this monumental history of the First World War, Germany's leading historian of the 20th century's first great catastrophe explains the war's origins, course, and consequences. With an unrivaled combination of depth and global reach, Pandora's Box reveals how profoundly the war shaped the world to come. Jörn Leonhard treats the clash of arms with a sure feel for grand strategy, the everyday tactics of dynamic movement and slow attrition, the race for ever more destructive technologies, and the grim experiences of frontline soldiers.
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was not impressed
- By Robert M. on 2020-09-07
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Pandora’s Box
- A History of the First World War
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 39 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2018-12-12
- Language: English
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Princes at War
- The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War
- Written by: Deborah Cadbury
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
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King George V predicted that his son, Edward VIII, would destroy himself within a year of succeeding to the throne. In December 1936 he was proved right, and the world’s press revealed the king was abandoning his throne to marry Wallis Simpson. A life spent in the shadow of his charismatic elder brother left the new king, George VI, magnificently unprepared for the demands of ruling the kingdom and empire. Drawing on personal accounts from the royal archives, Deborah Cadbury uncovers the very private conflict.
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Interesting Look at Edward VIII
- By Morganja22 on 2021-04-04
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Princes at War
- The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2015-10-29
- Language: English
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The Maid and the Queen
- The Secret History of Joan of Arc
- Written by: Nancy Goldstone
- Narrated by: Sandra Burr
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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Even when the dauphin’s own mother betrayed him, Yolande of Aragon, Queen of Sicily, fought to save her son-in-law and his claim to the throne. But the enemy seemed invincible. Just as French hopes dimmed, an astonishingly courageous young woman named Joan of Arc arrived from the farthest recesses of the kingdom, claiming that she carried a divine message. Now, on the 600th anniversary of the birth of Joan of Arc, this beautifully written book explores the relationship between these two remarkable women.
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The Maid and the Queen
- The Secret History of Joan of Arc
- Narrated by: Sandra Burr
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2012-03-29
- Language: English
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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
- Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
- Written by: Miranda Carter
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
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In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever seen, a war that set twentieth-century Europe on course to be the most violent continent in the history of the world.
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Worthwhile
- By Shelly Creasy on 2023-11-07
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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
- Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2010-03-23
- Language: English
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Heretics and Heroes
- How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
- Written by: Thomas Cahill
- Narrated by: Thomas Cahill
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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From the inimitable bestselling author Thomas Cahill, another popular history - this one focusing on how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. A truly revolutionary audiobook. In Volume VI of his acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the thrilling period of the Renaissance and the Reformation (the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century), so full of innovation and cultural change that the Western world would not experience its like again until the twentieth century.
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Heretics and Heroes
- How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
- Narrated by: Thomas Cahill
- Series: The Hinges of History
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2013-10-29
- Language: English
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Chanel's Riviera
- Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte d'Azur, 1930 -1944
- Written by: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsy to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed from politics or conflict.
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Very well done
- By Roberta W on 2022-09-08
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Chanel's Riviera
- Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côte d'Azur, 1930 -1944
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2019-06-13
- Language: English
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From Gutenberg to Google
- The History of Our Future
- Written by: Tom Wheeler
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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In an era of seemingly instant change, it's easy to think that today's revolutions - in communications, business, and many areas of daily life - are unprecedented. Today's changes may be new and may be happening faster than ever before. But our ancestors at times were just as bewildered by rapid upheavals in what we now call “networks” - the physical links that bind any society together.
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From Gutenberg to Google
- The History of Our Future
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-01
- Language: English
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Gandhi & Churchill
- Written by: Arthur Herman
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 29 hrs and 19 mins
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In this fast-paced epic, best-selling historian and master storyteller Arthur Herman spotlights two giants of the 20th century. Gandhi & Churchill shows how their 40-year rivalry revolutionized India and the British Empire, paving the way for a new era. Gandhi championed India's independence, Churchill the British Empire.
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Gandhi & Churchill
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 29 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2008-10-25
- Language: English
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Brand Luther
- How an Unheralded Young Minister Turned His Small German Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe - and Started the Protestant Reformation
- Written by: Andrew Pettegree
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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When an obscure monk named Martin Luther tacked his theses on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, protesting corrupt practices, he was virtually unknown. Within months his ideas spread across Germany then all of Europe; within years their author was not just famous but infamous, responsible for catalyzing the violent wave of religious reform that would come to be known as the Protestant Reformation and engulfing Europe in decades of bloody war.
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Brand Luther
- How an Unheralded Young Minister Turned His Small German Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe - and Started the Protestant Reformation
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2015-10-27
- Language: English
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N-4 Down
- The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
- Written by: Mark Piesing
- Narrated by: Matt Jamie
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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Triumphantly returning from the North Pole on May 24, 1928, the world-famous exploring airship Italia — code-named N-4 — was struck by a terrible storm and crashed somewhere over the Arctic ice, triggering the largest polar rescue mission in history. Helping lead the search was Roald Amundsen, the poles’ greatest explorer, who himself soon went missing in the frozen wastes. Amundsen’s body has never been found, the last victim of one of the Arctic’s most enduring mysteries....
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Interesting and insightful
- By Roberta W on 2024-07-30
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N-4 Down
- The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
- Narrated by: Matt Jamie
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2021-08-31
- Language: English
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The Invention of Power
- Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
- Written by: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
- Narrated by: Michael Beck
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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Western exceptionalism - the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent - is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has been a source of peace and prosperity in some societies, and of ethnic cleansing and havoc in others. Yet in The Invention of Power, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita draws on his expertise in political maneuvering, deal-making, and game theory to present a revolutionary new theory of Western exceptionalism: that a single, rarely discussed event in the 12th century changed the course of European and world history.
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The Invention of Power
- Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
- Narrated by: Michael Beck
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2022-01-18
- Language: English
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World War One: History in an Hour
- Written by: Rupert Colley
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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History for busy people. Listen to a concise history of World War One in just one hour. World War One brought with it the world’s first experience of Total War, involving all of the world’s great powers, polarized between the Triple Entente, led by Britain, France and Russia, and the Central Powers, dominated by Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary. Around nine million men lost their lives in a conflict that introduced the horrors of trench warfare, machine guns, and toxic gas attacks.
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World War One: History in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 2012-08-02
- Language: English
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Rebel in the Ranks
- Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World
- Written by: Brad S. Gregory
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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For five centuries, Martin Luther has been lionized as an outspoken and fearless icon of change who ended the Middle Ages and heralded the beginning of the modern world. In Rebel in the Ranks, Brad Gregory, renowned professor of European history at Notre Dame, recasts this long-accepted portrait. Luther did not intend to start a revolution that would divide the Catholic Church and forever change Western civilization. Yet his actions would profoundly shape our world in ways he could never have imagined.
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Rebel in the Ranks
- Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2017-09-12
- Language: English
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How Democracy Ends
- Written by: David Runciman
- Narrated by: David Runciman
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Since the end of World War II, democracy's sweep across the globe seemed inexorable. Yet today, it seems radically imperiled, even in some of the world's most stable democracies. How bad could things get? In How Democracy Ends, David Runciman argues that we are trapped in outdated 20th-century ideas of democratic failure. By fixating on coups and violence, we are focusing on the wrong threats. Our societies are too affluent, too elderly, and too networked to fall apart as they did in the past. We need new ways of thinking the unthinkable....
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How Democracy Ends
- Narrated by: David Runciman
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2018-07-30
- Language: English
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The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman
- A Bone-Shaking Tour Through Cycling’s Flemish Heartlands
- Written by: Harry Pearson
- Narrated by: Harry Pearson
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Committed Belgophile and road cycling obsessive Harry Pearson takes you on a journey across Flanders - through the lumpy horizontal rain, up the elbow-juddering cobbled inclines, past the fans dressed as chickens and the shop window displays of constipation medicines as he follows races big, small and even smaller, through one glorious, muddy spring. Ranging over 500 years of Flemish and European history, Pearson examines the characters, the myths and the rivalries that make Flanders a place where cycling is a religion and the riders its Lycra-clad priests.
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Funny, Fascinating & Revealing
- By Michael Tipping on 2023-02-23
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The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman
- A Bone-Shaking Tour Through Cycling’s Flemish Heartlands
- Narrated by: Harry Pearson
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2020-02-06
- Language: English
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