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The Evolution of Charles Darwin
- The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth
- Written by: Diana Preston
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
- Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
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When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles—invited by ship’s captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship’s naturalist—he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history.
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The Evolution of Charles Darwin
- The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
- Length: 16 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2022-12-27
- Language: English
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Wilful Murder
- The Sinking of the Lusitania
- Written by: Diana Preston
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins
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On May 7th, 1915 a passenger ship crossing the Atlantic sank with the loss of 1200 lives. On board were some world-famous figures, including multimillionaire Alfred Vanderbilt. But this wasn’t the Titanic and there was no iceberg. The liner was the Lusitania and it was torpedoed by a German U-boat.Wilful Murder is the hugely compelling story of the sinking of the Lusitania. The first book to look at the events in their full historical context, it is also the first to place the human dimension at its heart.
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Wilful Murder
- The Sinking of the Lusitania
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 17 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2011-02-22
- Language: English
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A Higher Form of Killing
- Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare
- Written by: Diana Preston
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas at French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches; on May 7, the German submarine U-20, without warning, torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania, killing 1,198 civilians; and on May 31, a German Zeppelin began the first aerial bombardment of London and its inhabitants.
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A Higher Form of Killing
- Six Weeks in World War I That Forever Changed the Nature of Warfare
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2015-02-24
- Language: English
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Paradise in Chains
- The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia
- Written by: Diana Preston
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony. The story of the mutiny of the Bounty and William Bligh and his men's survival on the open ocean for 48 days and 3,618 miles has become the stuff of legend. But few realize that Bligh's escape across the seas was not the only open-boat journey in that era of British exploration and colonization.
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Paradise in Chains
- The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2017-11-07
- Language: English
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Eight Days at Yalta
- How Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World
- Written by: Diana Preston
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of Yalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast, and intermittent bonhomie, they decided on the conduct of the final stages of the war against Germany, on how a defeated and occupied Germany should be governed, on the constitution of the nascent United Nations, and on spheres of influence in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Greece.
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Eight Days at Yalta
- How Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2020-02-04
- Language: English
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The Dark Defile
- Britain's Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan, 1838-1842
- Written by: Diana Preston
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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Convinced in 1838 that Britain's invaluable empire in India was threatened by Russia, Persia, and Afghan tribes, the British government ordered its Army of the Indus into Afghanistan to oust from power the independent-minded king, Dost Mohammed, and install in Kabul the unpopular puppet ruler Shah Shuja. Expecting a quick campaign, the British found themselves trapped by unforeseen circumstances; eventually the tribes united and the seemingly omnipotent army was slaughtered in 1842 as it desperately retreated through the mountain passes from Kabul to Jalalabad.
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The Dark Defile
- Britain's Catastrophic Invasion of Afghanistan, 1838-1842
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2013-03-18
- Language: English
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Lusitania
- An Epic Tragedy
- Written by: Diana Preston
- Narrated by: Anne Twomey
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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Preston, an Oxford-trained historian, brilliantly captures the political and personal impact of the 1915 sinking of the British liner Lusitania by a German U-boat. This "captivating and conscientious narrative" is riveting, offering new insights into the controversial event, which helped draw America into World War I.
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Lusitania
- An Epic Tragedy
- Narrated by: Anne Twomey
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2002-05-03
- Language: English
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Cleopatra and Antony
- Written by: Diana Preston
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
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After Julius Caesar's murder, his mistress Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, fled to Alexandria where she gave birth to their son. Civil war broke out in Rome, and Mark Antony, Caesar's friend, was given control over the East. Summoned to his headquarters, Cleopatra made her entry at dusk on a scented, candle-lit barge: and so began one of the greatest love stories of all time.
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Cleopatra and Antony
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2008-12-10
- Language: English
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Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World
- Written by: Diana Preston
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
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The story of the worlds best-remembered celebrity couple, set against the political backdrop of their time. Oceans of mythology have grown up around them, all of which Diana Preston explores in her stirring history of the lives and times of a couple whose names more than two millennia later still invoke passion, curiosity, and intrigue.
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Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2010-03-30
- Language: English
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A First Rate Tragedy
- Written by: Diana Preston
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought - the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside, they made a grim discovery: Scott's frozen body lay between the bodies of two fellow explorers. They had died just eleven miles from the depot of supplies which might have saved them.
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A First Rate Tragedy
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2012-03-12
- Language: English
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