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Erebus
- One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
- Written by: Michael Palin
- Narrated by: Michael Palin
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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Intrepid voyager, writer and comedian Michael Palin follows the trail of two expeditions made by the Royal Navy's HMS Erebus to opposite ends of the globe, reliving the voyages and investigating the ship itself, lost on the final Franklin expedition and discovered with the help of Inuit knowledge in 2014.
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Such a gripping story!
- By Amazon Customer on 2019-02-07
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Erebus
- One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
- Narrated by: Michael Palin
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-16
- Language: English
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Mussolini's Daughter
- The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
- Written by: Caroline Moorehead
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
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Edda Mussolini was Benito's favorite child: spoiled and venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately strong and loyal. For much of the twenty-year period of Fascist rule, she was her father's closest confidante. Moorehead draws a portrait of a complicated, bold, and determined woman—one who emerges not just as a witness but as a key player in some of the twentieth century's defining moments. And we see Fascist Italy with all its glamour, decadence and political intrigue, and the turbulence before its violent end.
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Bio of subject plus history of Italian fascism
- By fishface42 on 2024-02-21
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Mussolini's Daughter
- The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
- Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
- Series: The Resistance Quartet
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2022-11-01
- Language: English
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Outspoken
- My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
- Written by: Sima Samar, Sally Armstrong
- Narrated by: Wajma Soroor, Sally Armstrong
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Dr. Sima Samar has been fighting for equality and justice for most of her life. Born into a polygamous family, she learned early that girls had inferior status, and she had to agree to an arranged marriage if she wanted to go to university. By the time she was in medical school, she had a son, Ali, and had become a revolutionary. After her husband was disappeared by the pro-Russian regime, she escaped. With her son and medical degree, she took off into the rural areas—by horseback, by donkey, even on foot—to treat people who had never had medical help before.
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Outspoken
- My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan
- Narrated by: Wajma Soroor, Sally Armstrong
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2024-02-27
- Language: English
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Shake Hands with the Devil
- The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
- Written by: Romeo Dallaire
- Narrated by: Marcel Jeannin
- Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
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A brave, unforgettable first-hand account of the Rwandan genocide by a man almost literally haunted by the dead and by the spectre of his mission's failure. Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of this horrific event, this edition includes a new note from Roméo Dallaire.
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A history sign post!
- By David Unger on 2021-04-05
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Shake Hands with the Devil
- The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
- Narrated by: Marcel Jeannin
- Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-22
- Language: English
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I Shall Not Hate
- A Gaza Doctor's Journey
- Written by: Izzeldin Abuelaish
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish—now known simply as "the Gaza doctor" captured hearts and headlines around the world in the aftermath of horrific tragedy: on January 16, 2009, Israeli shells hit his home in the Gaza Strip, killing three of his daughters and a niece. By turns inspiring and heartbreaking, hopeful and horrifying, this is Abuelaish's account of a Gazan life in all its struggle and pain.
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I Shall Not Hate
- A Gaza Doctor's Journey
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2023-12-05
- Language: English
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Her Space, Her Time
- How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
- Written by: Shohini Ghose
- Narrated by: Asha Vijayasingham
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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Her Space, Her Time shares the stories of women in physics and astronomy whose work expanded scientific understanding yet whose accomplishments are often overlooked—creating a thrilling account of scientific discovery, inspirational leadership and persistence in the face of overwhelming challenges. In shaping her narrative around the science that fascinated them and the social context in which they worked, award-winning quantum physicist Shohini Ghose champions these remarkable women’s contributions, which loom even larger given the misogyny and discrimination they faced.
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Captivating and Powerful
- By Tracey Akitt on 2023-12-28
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Her Space, Her Time
- How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
- Narrated by: Asha Vijayasingham
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-17
- Language: English
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Great-Uncle Harry
- A Tale of War and Empire
- Written by: Michael Palin
- Narrated by: Michael Palin
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Some years ago a stash of family records was handed down to Michael Palin, among which were photos of an enigmatic young man in army uniform, as well as photos of the same young man as a teenager looking uncomfortable at family gatherings. This, Michael learned, was his Great-Uncle Harry, born in 1884, died in 1916. He had previously had no idea that he had a Great-Uncle Harry, much less that his life was cut short at the age of 32 when he was killed in the Battle of the Somme. The discovery both shocked him and made him want to know much more.
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Fascinating and moving
- By t-bob on 2023-11-11
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Great-Uncle Harry
- A Tale of War and Empire
- Narrated by: Michael Palin
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-10
- Language: English
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A History of Women in 101 Objects
- A Walk Through Female History
- Written by: Annabelle Hirsch
- Narrated by: Eleanor Updergraff, Gillian Anderson, Katy Hessel, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular: a single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, manifold, and too often overlooked histories of women.
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A History of Women in 101 Objects
- A Walk Through Female History
- Narrated by: Eleanor Updergraff, Gillian Anderson, Katy Hessel, Anita Rani, Jackie Kay, Len Pennie, Shirley Manson, Rebecca Solnit, Sandi Toksvig, Marina Hyde, Naomi Shimada, full cast
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2024-03-05
- Language: English
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The Peace
- A Warrior's Journey
- Written by: Romeo Dallaire
- Narrated by: Paul Gross
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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In The Peace, Roméo Dallaire shows us the past, present and future of war through the prism of his own life. Trained in classic warfare during the Cold War era of mutual deterrence, Dallaire in good faith commanded the UN’s peacekeeping mission for Rwanda in 1994, only to see the country abandoned and descend into the hell of genocide. The battered, tortured warrior who emerged from that catastrophe grew determined to help repair the new world disorder—to prevent genocide, abolish the use of child soldiers, and find ways to intervene in, even prevent, conflicts in defence of humanity.
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The Peace
- A Warrior's Journey
- Narrated by: Paul Gross
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-02
- Language: English
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In Praise of Blood
- The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
- Written by: Judi Rever
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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A finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize: A stunning work of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist who has risked her own life to bring us a deeply disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that takes the true measure of Rwandan head of state Paul Kagame.
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Fantastic Read
- By Sarah on 2021-04-24
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In Praise of Blood
- The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-20
- Language: English
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All We Leave Behind
- A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others
- Written by: Carol Off
- Narrated by: Carol Off
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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In 2002, Carol Off and a CBC TV crew encountered an Afghan man with a story to tell. Asad Aryubwal became a key figure in their documentary on the terrible power of thuggish warlords who were working arm in arm with Americans and NATO troops. When Asad publicly exposed the deeds of one of the warlords, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, it set off a chain of events from which there was no turning back. Asad, his wife, Mobina, and their five children had to flee their home.
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Powerful, frustrating, gripping
- By Keith Burgoyne on 2017-11-18
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All We Leave Behind
- A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others
- Narrated by: Carol Off
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2017-10-09
- Language: English
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A Train in Winter
- An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship and Survival in World War Two
- Written by: Caroline Moorehead
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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On January 24, 1943, 230 women were placed in four cattle trucks on a train in Compiegne, in Northeastern France, and the doors bolted shut for the journey to Auschwitz. They were members of the French Resistance, ranging in age from teenagers to the elderly, women who before the war had been doctors, farmers' wives, secretaries, biochemists, schoolgirls. With immense courage they had taken up arms against a brutal occupying force; now their friendship would give them strength as they experienced unimaginable horrors.
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Reads like a very long news article
- By Anonymous User on 2023-11-25
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A Train in Winter
- An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship and Survival in World War Two
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2017-10-10
- Language: English
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Waiting for First Light
- My Ongoing Battle with PTSD
- Written by: Romeo Dallaire, Jessica Dee Humphreys - contributor
- Narrated by: Paul Gross
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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Longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize: In this piercing memoir, Roméo Dallaire, retired general and former senator, the author of the bestsellers Shake Hands with the Devil and They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, and one of the world's leading humanitarians, delves deep into his life since the Rwandan genocide. At the heart of Waiting for First Light is a no-holds-barred self-portrait of a top political and military figure whose nights are invaded by despair, but who at first light faces the day with the renewed desire to make a difference in the world.
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Cringe & crying worthy
- By Ex-RCPO on 2024-02-26
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Waiting for First Light
- My Ongoing Battle with PTSD
- Narrated by: Paul Gross
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2023-11-07
- Language: English
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Village of Secrets
- Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
- Written by: Caroline Moorehead
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
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Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a small village of scattered houses high in the mountains of the Ardèche. Surrounded by pastures and thick forests of oak and pine, the plateau Vivarais lies in one of the most remote and inaccessible parts of Eastern France. During the Second World War, the inhabitants of the area saved thousands wanted by the Gestapo: resisters, freemasons, communists, downed Allied airmen, and above all Jews. Many of these were children and babies whose parents had been deported to the death camps in Poland.
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Village of Secrets
- Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Series: The Resistance Quartet
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2017-11-14
- Language: English
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North Korea Journal
- Written by: Michael Palin
- Narrated by: Michael Palin
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin ventured into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, camera crew in tow, to gain a glimpse of life in the most notoriously secretive and cut-off nation on earth. His resulting two-part documentary for Channel 5 fascinated millions and won universal plaudits.
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North Korea Journal
- Narrated by: Michael Palin
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2019-11-05
- Language: English
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A House in the Mountains
- The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism
- Written by: Caroline Moorehead
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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In the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in WWII and the Germans, now their enemies, occupied the north of the country, an Italian Resistance was born. Ada, Frida, Silvia, and Bianca were four young Piedmontese women who joined the Resistance, living secretively in the mountains surrounding Turin. They were not alone. Between 1943 and 1945, as the Allies battled their way north, thousands of men and women throughout occupied Italy rose up and fought to liberate their country from the German invaders and their Fascist collaborators.
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Amazing story but awful Italian pronunciation
- By Thea on 2020-08-17
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A House in the Mountains
- The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Series: The Resistance Quartet
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2020-04-21
- Language: English
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A Bold and Dangerous Family
- The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism
- Written by: Caroline Moorehead
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
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Italy's Rosselli family were members of the cosmopolitan, cultural elite in Florence at the start of the twentieth century. Led by their fierce matriarch, Amelia Rosselli, they were also vocal anti-fascists. As Mussolini rose to power in Italy following WWI, the Rossellis took leading roles in the rebellion against him, a stance that few in their class would risk. And when Mussolini established a police state whose tactics grew more brutal, the Rossellis and their anti-fascist friends transformed from debaters and critics into activists.
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A Bold and Dangerous Family
- The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Series: The Resistance Quartet
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2017-10-31
- Language: English
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Lytton
- Climate Change, Colonialism and Life Before the Fire
- Written by: Peter Edwards, Kevin Loring
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From bestselling true-crime author Peter Edwards and Governor General's Award-winning playwright Kevin Loring, two sons of Lytton, BC, the town that burned to the ground in 2021, comes a meditation on hometown―when hometown is gone.
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Lytton
- Climate Change, Colonialism and Life Before the Fire
- Length: Not yet known
- Release date: 2024-06-25
- Language: English
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