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Summary of Grant By Ron Chernow
Author: Abbey Beathan
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Author Abbey Beathan
Narrator Peter Prova
Duration 2h 55m
Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. The life and work of the magnificent general and President Ulysses Grant. Ulysses Grant must be one of the most misunderstood characters of United States' history. The majority of people have a polarized but incorrect impression of him as a loser and a bad businessman or as the triumphant but vicious gener...
View BookAuthor: David Hilliam
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Author David Hilliam
Narrator Eileen Mills
Duration 11h 55m
This audiobook tells the stories of the 38 royal coronations of the English monarchs, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II. The early ceremonies of monarchs such as King Edgar and Edward the Confessor are brought to life, and anecdotes include Edward VII being advised by a fortune-teller of the most propitious date to be crowned; and of how h...
View BookAuthor: Kate Williams
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Author Kate Williams
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 14h 40m
In 'Becoming Queen', Kate Williams tells the astonishing story of Queen Victoria's passionate youth, her bitter struggle with her mother - and how her life was shaped by the life of her forgotten cousin, Princess Charlotte, the Queen who never was.
View BookAuthor: John Guy
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Author John Guy
Narrator John Banks
Duration 3h 25m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Henry VIII: The Quest for Fame by John Guy, read by John Banks. Henry VIII's reign transformed the physical and spiritual landscape of England. Magnificent, tyrannical, a strong ruler, a 'pillager of the commonwealth', this most notorious of kings remains a figure of extreme contradictions: a devout traditi...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey
SeriesThis Sceptered Isle, Book 7
Duration 3h
The seventh part of the major Radio 4 series that tells the history of Britain from the Roman invasion to the death of Queen Victoria. This audiobook focuses on the period 1760 - 1792, a time of revolution.
View BookAuthor: Lyn Macdonald
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Author Lyn Macdonald
Narrator Jan Boyd
Duration 16h 6m
'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War ...' Yet the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion; in this audiobook they get a chance to tell their own stor...
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 BookNineteenth-century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie
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Author Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie
Narrator Ian Collington
Duration 4h 37m
Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, when it faced its greatest test since...
View BookAuthor: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
Duration 1h 51m
The BBC's Nick Robinson continues his fascinating and absorbing Radio 4 series featuring eight famous British Prime Ministers. This series explores how Prime Ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time. William Pitt the Younger, who became Prime Minister aged only 24 and held the post for almost 19 years in t...
View BookThe Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 8
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 8
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the job what it is today. This episode features Clement Attlee, who lacked any charisma, but created the modern welfare state and managed the big political b...
View BookAuthor: Lee Child
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Author Lee Child
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 1h 18m
In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age-old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human. He demonstrates how hero stories continue to shape our world - arguing that we need them now more than ever. From the Ston...
View BookThe Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 7
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 7
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the job what it is today. This episode features Stanley Baldwin, the first prime minister to master radio broadcasting, and how his notion of Englishness sha...
View BookAuthor: John Lewis-Stempel
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Author John Lewis-Stempel
Narrator Roy Mcmillan
Duration 1h 51m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Secret Life of the Owl by John Lewis-Stempel, read by Roy McMillan. 'Dusk is filling the valley. It is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light. Out in the wood, the resident tawny has started calling, Hoo-hoo-hoo-h-o-o-o.' There is something about owls. They feature in every major culture from the...
View BookThe Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 6
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 6
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the job what it is today. This episode features David Lloyd George, Welsh radical who set up the early welfare state, became a presidential PM in the First W...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Cunningham
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Author Andrew Cunningham
Narrator Various
Duration 6h 47m
The Making of Modern Medicine covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original sources from diaries, medical journals and stage satires to shed light on the experiences of physicians, surgeons, nurses and patients. From classical beliefs about illness that would dominate medical thinking for centuries, through to the...
View BookAuthor: Robert Scott
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Author Robert Scott
Narrator David Horovitch
Duration 7h 14m
Captain Robert Scott's final journey to the South Pole has been called one of history's greatest tales of adventure. And his journals are among the most dramatic and moving documents in the English language. Sensitively read by David Horovitch, this new audio adaptation starts in 1910 as Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, sets sail from New Zealand. The...
View BookThe Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 5
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 5
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the job what it is today. This episode features Benjamin Disraeli, who turned his skills as a novelist to politics and became Britain's first Jewish-born pri...
View BookThe Prime Minister's, Series 1: Episode 2
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 2
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the job what it is today. This episode features Lord North, who is remembered as the prime minister who lost America.
View BookThe Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 4
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 4
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the job what it is today. This episode features Lord Palmerston, who cultivated a cavalier image and dominated mid-Victorian politics.
View BookThe Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 3
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 3
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the job what it is today. This episode features Sir Robert Peel, who put national interest before party.
View BookThe Trial & the Death of Socrates
Author: Plato
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Author Plato
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Duration 4h 39m
'The Trial' and 'The Death of Socrates' remain powerful documents not least because they give a first-hand account of the end of one of the greatest figures in history. In 'Apology' Socrates defends himself before the Athenian court against charges of corrupting youth, and 'Phaedo' is a young man's account of the actual last moments and words of So...
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