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Modern Times
- The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
- Written by: Paul Johnson
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 37 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance7
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Beginning with May 29, 1919, when photographs of the solar eclipse confirmed the truth of Einstein's theory of relativity, Johnson goes on to describe Freudianism, the establishment of the first Marxist state, the chaos of "Old Europe", the Arcadian 20s, and the new forces in China and Japan. Also discussed are Karl Marx, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Roosevelt, Gandhi, Castro, Kennedy, Nixon, the '29 crash, the Great Depression, Roosevelt's New Deal, and the massive conflict of World War II.
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Magnificent book, weak reader
- By James on 2023-05-10
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Modern Times
- The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 37 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2006-11-29
- Language: English
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I Escaped from Auschwitz
- The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews
- Written by: Rudolf Vrba, Alan Bestic, Sir Martin Gilbert - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance40
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Story40
April 7, 1944 - This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The escapees, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, fled over 100 miles to be the first to give the graphic and detailed descriptions of the atrocities of Auschwitz. Originally published in the early 1960s, I Escaped from Auschwitz is the striking autobiography of none other than Rudolf Vrba himself. Vrba details his life leading up to, during, and after his escape from his 21-month internment in Auschwitz.
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Powerful Account
- By Bearakuda on 2023-12-31
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I Escaped from Auschwitz
- The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2020-11-24
- Language: English
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- The Fall of the Soviet Union
- Written by: Vladislav M. Zubok
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 23 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance16
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In 1945, the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong, 5,000 nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward, the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the 20th century.
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A phenomenal history of the dissolution of the USSR
- By Anonymous on 2023-05-24
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- The Fall of the Soviet Union
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 23 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2021-11-30
- Language: English
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Bloodlands
- Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
- Written by: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century. Americans call the Second World War "The Good War."But before it even...
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New Learning
- By Nick Bright on 2025-02-12
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Bloodlands
- Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-12
- Language: English
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First Man
- The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
- Written by: James R. Hansen
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance19
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Now a major motion picture, this is the first—and only—definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose “one small step” changed history. When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon’s surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became a legend. In First Man, author James R...
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Good Biography
- By Langer MD on 2019-03-22
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First Man
- The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-29
- Language: English
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East West Street
- On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
- Written by: Philippe Sands
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Philippe Sands
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance17
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When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration of the origins of international law and the pursuit of his own secret family history, beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg Trials.
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Poles apart
- By andrew on 2020-05-31
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East West Street
- On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Philippe Sands
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2016-05-24
- Language: English
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Kissinger
- A Biography
- Written by: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 34 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance17
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By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to a Gallup poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world’s imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. Kissinger explores the relationship between this complex man's personality and the foreign policy he pursued.
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Bad acting
- By Matthieu Van Vliet on 2024-03-26
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Kissinger
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 34 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2013-07-10
- Language: English
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Remember Us
- My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust
- Written by: Vic Shayne, Martin Small
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Remember Us is a look back at the lost world of the shtetl: a wise Zayde offering prophetic and profound words to his grandson, the rich experience of Shabbos, and the treasure of a loving family. All this is torn apart with the arrival of the Holocaust, beginning a crucible fraught with twists and turns so unpredictable and surprising that they defy any attempt to find reason within them. Through the eyes of 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Martin Small, we learn that these priceless memories that are too painful to remember are also too painful to forget.
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life is so strange
- By aero_costas on 2022-08-02
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Remember Us
- My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2013-01-25
- Language: English
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The Siege
- A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
- Written by: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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“For six days, it was the Iranian Embassy on Princes Gate in London that riveted the world. . . . Macintyre’s superb reconstruction restores it to vivid, complex life.”—The Washington Post A thrilling tick-tock recounting of one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue...
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Excellent research into story
- By Scooter on 2025-07-18
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The Siege
- A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2024-09-10
- Language: English
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The Rape of Nanking
- Written by: Iris Chang
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall330
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Performance278
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Story277
In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the story of this atrocity- one of the worst in world history- continues to be denied by the Japanese government.
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Eye opening
- By Kooky Canuck on 2019-08-02
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The Rape of Nanking
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2001-02-05
- Language: English
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Yes to Life
- In Spite of Everything
- Written by: Viktor E. Frankl, Daniel Goleman - introduction, Joelle Young - translator
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance38
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Find hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning. Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. The psychiatrist...
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Relevant still today
- By Laurie K on 2023-12-05
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Yes to Life
- In Spite of Everything
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2020-05-05
- Language: English
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The Passage of Power
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4
- Written by: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 32 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance30
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The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career - 1958 to 1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had always pursued, would be thrust upon him in the moment it took an assassin’s bullet to reach its mark.
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Very Detailed
- By Gerald Demooy on 2019-07-31
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The Passage of Power
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Series: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4
- Length: 32 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2012-05-01
- Language: English
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Blood Red Snow
- The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
- Written by: Günter K. Koschorrek
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall130
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Performance114
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Story113
Gunter K. Koschorrek was a machine-gunner on the Russian front in WWII. He 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 was when he was reunited with his daughter in America some 40 years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow.
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The author cuts out or invents things altogether
- By Pavel on 2019-12-28
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Blood Red Snow
- The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2018-07-24
- Language: English
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The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 2
- Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and the Billion-Dollar Battle to Shape Modern Gaming
- Written by: Steven L. Kent
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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The definitive behind-the-scenes history of video games’ explosion into the twenty-first century and the war for industry power “A zippy read through a truly deep research job. You won’t want to put this one down.”—Eddie Adlum, publisher, RePlay Magazine As video games evolve, only the...
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loved the book
- By Escadrille on 2025-02-14
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The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 2
- Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and the Billion-Dollar Battle to Shape Modern Gaming
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Series: The Ultimate History of Video Games, Book 2
- Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2022-09-13
- Language: English
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The Whisperers
- Private Life in Stalin's Russia
- Written by: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 29 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance6
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Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.
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The Whisperers
- Private Life in Stalin's Russia
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 29 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-30
- Language: English
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Gulag
- A History
- Written by: Anne Applebaum
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall63
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Performance54
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The Gulag - a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners - was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.
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Essential reading in today's times
- By Kendall L. Harding on 2022-04-10
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Gulag
- A History
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2012-03-15
- Language: English
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The Final Days
- Written by: Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 19 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance17
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“An extraordinary work of reportage on the epic political story of our time” (Newsweek)—from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthors of All the President’s Men. The Final Days is the #1 New York Times bestselling, classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard...
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The Final Days
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 19 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2018-04-10
- Language: English
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Catherine the Great
- Portrait of a Woman
- Written by: Robert K. Massie
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance37
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An “absorbing” (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs “[A] compelling portrait not...
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Fantastic listen
- By jessica huang on 2024-07-07
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Catherine the Great
- Portrait of a Woman
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Series: The Romanovs
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2011-11-08
- Language: English
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I: Visions of Glory 1874-1932
- Written by: William Manchester
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 41 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance39
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Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political figure of the 20th century. His great oratory and leadership during the Second World War were only part of his huge breadth of experience and achievement. Studying his life is a fascinating way to imbibe the history of his era and gain insight into key events that have shaped our time.
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Brilliant
- By Anonymous on 2023-02-10
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I: Visions of Glory 1874-1932
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Series: Last Lion, Book 1
- Length: 41 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2007-12-12
- Language: English
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Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- Written by: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance32
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As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War...
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Well written but not the story I was hoping for
- By Simon on 2022-02-03
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Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2018-05-15
- Language: English
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