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Author: Gilda O'Neill
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Author Gilda O'Neill
Narrator Michael Tudor Barnes
Duration 7h 35m
Were things really better in the good old days? Only if you were healthy, wealthy and male. For most, life in London was one of grinding poverty, binge drinking, prostitution and gun crime. The 19th century was a time of growing awareness of the existence of an impoverished underclass - a terrifying demi-monde of criminals, tarts and no-hope low-li...
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Author Jeremy Paxman
Narrator Roy Mcmillan
Duration 10h
We may think we know about it, but what was life really like for the British people during the First World War? The well-known images - the pointing finger of Lord Kitchener; a Tommy buried in the mud of the Western Front; the memorial poppies of remembrance day - all reinforce the idea that it was a pointless waste of life. So why did the British...
View BookFarewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
Author: Jan Morris
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Author Jan Morris
Narrator Roy Mcmillan
Duration 20h 56m
The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris' magnificent history of the British Empire from 1837 to 1965. It is an extraordinary achievement, as entertaining as it is informative, and as vivid and immediate as it is huge in scope and ambition. This final volume charts the decline and dissolution of what was once the largest empire the world had known....
View BookAuthor: Richard Holmes
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Author Richard Holmes
Narrator Richard Holmes
Duration 3h 32m
Military historian Richard Holmes turns his attention to the infamous First World War trench line, the Western Front. Of the nine million British and Dominion soldiers who were killed in action in the Great War, most died here. In this thorough examination of the role the Front played in the war, the eminent historian Richard Holmes considers its i...
View BookVasily Grossman From the Front Line
Author: Vasily Grossman
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Author Vasily Grossman
Narrator Elliot Levey
Duration 40m
Vasily Grossman, author of Life and Fate, was transformed by his experiences as a war correspondent. Following the shock invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Grossman volunteered for front line duty. Declared unfit for active service he was assigned to Red Star newspaper as a special correspondent. In these BBC Radio programmes, Elliot Levey...
View BookThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Author: William L. Shirer
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Author William L. Shirer
Narrator Grover Gardner
Duration 19h 19m
Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer's monumental study of Hitler's German empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the twentieth-century's blackest hours. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world. Shir...
View BookAnything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties
Author: Lucy Moore
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Author Lucy Moore
Narrator Joan Walker
Duration 9h
This is an exhilarating portrait of the era of invention, glamour and excess from one of the brightest young stars of mainstream history writing. Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glittered and seduced: jazz, flappers, wild all-night parties, the bi...
View BookPrinces At War: The British Royal Family's Private Battle In the Second World War
Author: Deborah Cadbury
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Author Deborah Cadbury
Narrator Cameron Stewart
Duration 13h 57m
King George V predicted that his eldest son, Edward VIII, would destroy himself within a year of succeeding to the throne. In December 1936 he was proved right, and the world's press broke their Great Silence: King Edward VIII was abandoning his throne to marry Wallis Simpson, a divorced American socialite. A life spent in the shadow of his charism...
View BookAuthor: M.B. Synge
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Author M.B. Synge
Narrator Lesley Simons
Duration 3h 43m
Brief biographies of sixteen great Englishwomen who lived before the 20th century. In a time when women were rarely noted, these women made such an impact that their names are still known today.
View BookThe Bletchley Girls: War, Secrecy, Love and Loss. the Women of Bletchley Park Tell Their Story
Author: Tessa Dunlop
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Author Tessa Dunlop
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 12h 18m
The Bletchley Girls weaves together the lives of fifteen women who were all selected to work in Britain's most secret organisation - Bletchley Park. It is their story, told in their voices; Tessa met and talked to 15 veterans, often visiting them several times. Firm friendships were made as their epic journey unfolded on paper. The scale of female...
View BookPax Britannica: The Climax of An Empire
Author: Jan Morris
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Author Jan Morris
Narrator Roy Mcmillan
Duration 17h 5m
Jan Morris recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour. This classic work of history portrays a nation at the very height of its vigour and self-satisfaction, imposing on the rest of the world its traditions and tastes, its i...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Boroweic
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Author Andrew Boroweic
Narrator Tim Bruce
Duration 13h 17m
Poland suffered terribly under the Nazis. By the end of the war six million had been killed. On 1 August 1944 Andrew Borowiec, a 15-year-old volunteer in the Resistance, lobbed a grenade from a Warsaw apartment block onto some German soldiers below - he felt he had come of age. Over that summer Andrew faced danger at every moment. Wounded the day a...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Dimbleby
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Author Jonathan Dimbleby
Narrator Jonathan Dimbleby
Duration 20h 34m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Battle of the Atlantic, written and read by Jonathan Dimbleby. The Battle of the Atlantic was-though often overlooked-crucial to victory in the Second World War. If the German U-boats had prevailed, the maritime artery across the Atlantic would have been severed. Mass hunger...
View BookAir Force Blue: The Raf In World War Two - Spearhead of Victory
Author: Patrick Bishop
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Author Patrick Bishop
Narrator Tim France
Duration 15h 1m
Air warfare was a terrible novelty of the modern age, requiring a new military outlook. From the beginning, the RAF's identity set it apart from the traditional services. It was innovative, flexible and comparatively meritocratic, advancing the quasi-revolutionary idea that competence was more important than background. Drawing from diaries, letter...
View BookAuthor: Anthony Beevor
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Author Anthony Beevor
Narrator Peter Noble
Duration 18h 9m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Berlin by Antony Beevor, read by Peter Nobel. Berlin: The Downfall 19145 is Antony Beevor's brilliant account of the fall of the Third Reich. The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the mes...
View BookAuthor: Lucy Worsley
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Author Lucy Worsley
Narrator Ruth Redman
Duration 14h 17m
On the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death, historian Lucy Worsley leads us into the world in which our best-loved novelist lived. This new telling of the story of Jane's life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the way in which home is used in her novels to mean bot...
View BookAuthor: Philip Ziegler
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Author Philip Ziegler
Narrator Charlie Anson
Duration 2h 18m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of George VI: The Dutiful King by Philip Ziegler, read by Charlie Anson. If Ethelred was notoriously 'Unready' and Alfred 'Great', King George VI should bear the designation of 'George the Dutiful'. Throughout his life he dedicated himself to the pursuit of what he thought he ought to be doing rather than what...
View BookAuthor: Douglas Hurd
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Author Douglas Hurd
Narrator Jeremy Clyde
Duration 2h 33m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Elizabeth II: The Steadfast by Douglas Hurd, read by Jeremy Clyde. Elizabeth II is the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne. Yet her personality and influence remain elusive. This book, by a senior politician who has spent significant periods of time in her company, and is a...
View BookAuthor: Tom Shore
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Author Tom Shore
Narrator Luke De Lacey
Duration 11h 43m
This is one of the great untold stories of the 20th century. It is a firsthand account of a mission by an SAS soldier sent behind the Iron Curtain by MI6 to find someone who didn't necessarily want to be found and how, on a follow-up mission, he found himself manoeuvring against a mysterious KGB officer and a murder plot by Kremlin hardliners. If t...
View BookAuthor: Lucy Worsley
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Author Lucy Worsley
Narrator Lucy Paterson
Duration 13h 49m
Best-selling author and historian Lucy Worsley tracks a new course through Queen Victoria's life, examining how she transformed from dancing princess to the Widow of Windsor and became one of Britain's greatest monarchs along the way. Taking 24 significant days from Victoria's life, from her birth, her wedding and her coronation to her husband's de...
View BookThe Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Author: Giles Milton
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Author Giles Milton
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 12h 19m
Shortly after the outbreak of the WW2, a country house called The Firs in Buckinghamshire was requisitioned by the War Office. Sentries were posted at the entrance gates, and barbed wire was strung around the perimeter fence. To local villagers it looked like a prison camp. But the truth was far more sinister. This rambling Edwardian mansion had be...
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