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Author: Joseph Bruchac
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Author Joseph Bruchac
Narrator Curtis Zunigha, Robert Tree Cody
Duration 23m
Joseph Bruchac focuses on key events from Crazy Horse's childhood in this drastic tale of the legendary Lakota warrior. When Curly (his boyhood name) witnesses a fierce battle between white settlers and the Lakota Indians, he flees to the hills on a vision quest. An author's note following the story completes this fascination summary of the life an...
View BookAuthor: Paula Byrne
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Author Paula Byrne
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 6h 20m
This is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England Dido Belle was the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy captain and a slave woman, adopted by the Earl of Mansfield. As Lord Chief Justice of England he would preside over the drowning of 142 slaves by a shipping...
View BookAuthor: Vera Brittain
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Author Vera Brittain
Narrator Sheila Mitchell
Duration 23h 43m
This classic memoir of the First World War is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the lives of her whole generation - had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil p...
View BookAuthor: Charles Rivers Editors
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Author Charles Rivers Editors
Narrator Bill Hare
Duration 2h 27m
Though he couldn't have known it, the various scholars and scientists that Napoleon Bonaparte brought to Egypt during his military campaigning there kicked off modern Egyptology, and a general fascination across the West. Until about 200 years ago, the writing of the ancient Egyptians was an enigma to the world, but that changed when an ancient Egy...
View BookAuthor: Carl Chinn
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Author Carl Chinn
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 8h 42m
The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family have become cult anti-heroes.Well-known social historian, broadcaster and author, Carl Chinn, revealed the true story of the notorious gang in his bestselling Peaky Blinders: Th...
View BookAuthor: David Olusoga
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Author David Olusoga
Narrator Nigel Carrington
Duration 16h 56m
A unique account of the millions of colonial troops who fought in the First World War. Every major battle fought on the Western Front, from the First Battle of Ypres to the Second Battle of the Marne, was fought by Allied armies that were multi-racial and multi-ethnic. Yet from the moment the guns fell silent the role of non-white soldiers was forg...
View BookAuthor: Greg Jenner
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Author Greg Jenner
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Duration 10h 50m
Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. But the famous and infamous have been thrilling, titillating and outraging us for much longer than we might realise. Whether it was the scandalous Lord Byron, whose poetry sent female fans into an erotic frenzy; or the cheetah-owning, coffin-sleeping, one-legged French actres...
View BookHow to Teach Classics to Your Dog
Author: Philip Womack
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Author Philip Womack
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Duration 9h 14m
It should have been a beautiful moment between a man and his dog. Philip Womack made a quip about Cerberus, the three-headed hell-hound, but for Una, the beloved lurcher, it was all Greek. Then she ran off after a squirrel. And Womack was left to wonder what else she didn't know about the great civilisations of the past. The Greeks and the Romans l...
View BookAuthor: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Esther Wane
Duration 17h 43m
The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe – these determined women often broke through medieval cons...
View BookAuthor: Patricia Owtram, Jean Owtram
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Author Patricia Owtram, Jean Owtram
Narrator Sally Oliver
Duration 6h 14m
This is the astonishing story of persistence, comradeship and fighting spirit showed by everyday people in bringing the Nazis down. Patricia and Jean Owtram are possibly the only living sisters to have signed the wartime Official Secrets Act. Raised in a Lancashire country house in the 1920s, the family takes in two Austrian Jewish refugees, and th...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Marr
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Author Andrew Marr
Narrator Raj Ghatak
Duration 16h 34m
In a brilliantly entertaining, living history of the modern United Kingdom, Andrew Marr traces how radically we have transformed through the course of Queen Elizabeth II's reign. When the Queen stepped into her crown in 1953 at the age of twenty-five, a British expedition was summiting Mount Everest for the first time. Ian Fleming was publishing th...
View BookAuthor: Winston Groom
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Author Winston Groom
Narrator Robertson Dean
Duration 17h 23m
Gifted storyteller Winston Groom, the bestselling author of Forrest Gump, has written the fascinating story of three extraordinary heroes who defined aviation during the great age of flight: Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of W...
View BookAuthor: Jacky Hyams
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Author Jacky Hyams
Narrator Julia Barrie
Duration 5h 4m
Spitfire Stories, published in association with Imperial War Museums, is a fascinating anthology of first-hand stories from Spitfire heroes and heroines of the Second World War.The Spitfire is the world's most iconic aeroplane. Coming into its own during the Battle of Britain, it became famous during the Second World War as the only plane that coul...
View BookAuthor: David Mccullough
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Author David Mccullough
Narrator Nelson Runger
Duration 19h 24m
This National Book Award winner by Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough shows how sickly "Teedie" becomes the robust, energetic Teddy Roosevelt. Born in 1858, Teddy finds his priviledged Manhattan family isn't immune to pain and sorrow. Potts disease disables his older sister, and epilepsy haunts his brother. Crippled by deadly asthma, Teddy soon...
View BookAuthor: Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Author Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Duration 18h 4m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Leadership written and read by Doris Kearns Goodwin, with additional narration from Beau Bridges, David Morse, Jay O. Sanders and Richard Thomas. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make t...
View BookAuthor: Edward Rutherfurd
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Author Edward Rutherfurd
Narrator Andrew Wincott
Duration 49h 23m
A wonderful, epic story that tells the history of the greatest city in the world, from Roman times to the present day. From the author of Paris, Sarum and New York. London has perhaps the most remarkable history of any city in the world. Now its story has a unique voice. In this epic novel, Edward Rutherfurd takes the listener on a magnificent jour...
View BookThe First Line of Defence: The Kent Castles
Author: Stephanie Forward
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Author Stephanie Forward
Narrator Elizabeth Ryder
Duration 52m
Down through the centuries, the castles of Dover, Deal and Walmer have been of prime strategic importance to England, protecting the south-east tip of the country from invasion. This is an account of their national importance and includes fascinating stories of historical characters associated with them, from Henry VIII through to the late Queen El...
View Book12 Books That Changed the World
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
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Duration 2h
When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughtout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, but between the pages of a book. Here Melvyn Bragg explores a wide and controversial selection of...
View BookRough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves & the American Revolution
Author: Simon Schama
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Author Simon Schama
Narrator Joseph Paterson
Duration 16h 13m
This audiobook is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable Nova...
View BookIndian Summer: The Secret History of the End of An Empire
Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann
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Author Alex Von Tunzelmann
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 14h 38m
At midnight on 15 August 1947, India left the British Empire. This defining moment of world history had been brought about by a handful of people: Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery Indian prime minister, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, leader of the new nation of Pakistan, Mohandas Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation, and Louis and Edwina Mountbatt...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Smith
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Author Andrew Smith
Narrator Glen Mccready
Duration 15h 38m
The Apollo moon programme has been called the last optimistic act of the twentieth century. Over a strange three-year period between 1969 and 1972, twelve men made the longest and most eccentric of all journeys and all were indelibly marked by it. In this audiobook, Andrew Smith sets out to find and interview the remaining moonwalkers in order to l...
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