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Plague: Outbreak in London 1665-1666
Author: Tony Bradman
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Author Tony Bradman
Narrator Andrew Fettes
Duration 1h 55m
London is in the grip of a terrible plague and Daniel has been locked in his own home, doomed to die alongside his infected family. Can he find a way to escape before he catches the disease, too? And with the streets full of criminals and corrupt plague doctors, who can he turn to if he does? A thrilling story about a young boy's fight to stay aliv...
View BookAuthor: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator Louise Amos
Duration 4h 51m
Readers can discover all the foul facts about Scotland, including the truth about William Wallace, the disgusting details of sick Scottish torture techniques, and how to terrify a tourist with gory Scottish ghost stories. With a bold, accessible new look and a heap of extra-horrible bits, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet...
View BookThe Second World War: Milestones To Disaster (1919-10th May 1940)
Author: Winston S. Churchill
Format: MP3 CD
Author Winston S. Churchill
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 10h 42m
This history of the Second World War is the definitive work. It is remarkable for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement. This edition is Churchill's own abridgement of his original six volume history.
View BookThe Beginning: Voyages Through Time
Author: Peter Ackroyd
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Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator Anthony Richardson
Duration 4h 30m
There was once a world of blazing heat and falling meteorites, of enormous rodents and gigantic scorpions, where eventually, out of the violence and the chaos, the first humans emerged. That world is brought to life again in this audiobook. Dare you voyage back through the mists of time to the beginning?
View BookWould You Believe... the Losers Were Killed In Mayan Football?! and Other Perilous Pastimes
Author: Richard Platt
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Author Richard Platt
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 6m
This audiobook looks at the outlandish history of sport and leisure around the world. Discover the story behind the games we play like never before as we examine the amazing peculiarities of international sport and leisure activities past and present. Learn about the wacky and often bloodthirsty games that our ancestors liked such as fierce gladiat...
View BookThe Age of Revolution: A History of the English Speaking Peoples
Author: Winston S. Churchill
Format: MP3 CD
Author Winston S. Churchill
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 12h 42m
During the period of this volume, from 1688 to 1815, three revolutions profoundly influenced mankind and led to war between the British and the French: the English Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution of 1775 and the French Revolution of 1789. Beneath these political upheavals other revolutions in science and manufacture were laying the foun...
View BookThe Big Idea: Oppenheimer and the Bomb
Author: Paul Strathern
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Author Paul Strathern
Narrator Fergus Mcclelland
Duration 1h 45m
A charismatic teacher who inspired a generation of physicists, Robert Oppenheimer, the subject of this brief biography, is remembered today as 'the father of the atom bomb'. It was his creation that brought a devastating end to World War II. The two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed hundreds of thousands, destroyed the lives of million...
View BookWould You Believe... In 1400, Reading Could Save Your Life?! and Other Academic Advantages
Author: Richard Platt
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Author Richard Platt
Narrator Rachel Sternberg
Duration 1h
Listeners will learn about the often painful and frequently distasteful educational practices that our ancestors employed and explore some unusual teaching methods used today. Find out about the Neolithic cave school, the English charity boarding school in Dickensian times, where pupils shared their boarding rooms with chickens and turkeys, and the...
View BookAuthor: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 6m
Terry Deary and Martin Brown's brilliant books about the nastiest periods in history have now - with the help of some astounding actors and directed by Dirk Maggs - been transformed into a series of audio extravaganzas. Featuring new, extra material not found anywhere in the books, these sound spectaculars are just as thrilling and spilling, funny...
View BookAuthor: Nicolas Soames
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Author Nicolas Soames
Narrator
Duration 2h 43m
More short biographies of people who have changed the world: This audio book focuses on Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, George Washington, Ludwig van Beethoven, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie and Mahatma Gandhi.
View BookAuthor: Nicolas Soames
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Author Nicolas Soames
Narrator
Duration 2h 31m
Short biographies of ten people whose energy, imagination and courage changed the world: Columbus, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, Mozart, Nelson, Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Abraham Lincoln and Anne Frank.
View BookAuthor: Richard Fawkes
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Author Richard Fawkes
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 5h 19m
A history of opera from its beginnings in the 16th century through to to present day, with examples from Monteverdi to Wagner.
View BookAuthor: David Timson
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Author David Timson
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 5h 12m
The actor Derek Jacobi guides the listener through the story of the Theatre from Ancient Greece up to present day. This audiobook traces the development of dramatic art through the miracle plays, the great Shakespearean period, Moliere and Racine in France, Goethe in Germany, through the 19th century and the main movements in the 20th century.
View BookAuthor: Richard Fawkes
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Author Richard Fawkes
Narrator Kim Criswell
Duration 5h 17m
Featuring over 120 musical examples, this audiobook traces the musical from its origins in classical music, (Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera', Offenbach's operettas and Gilbert and Sullivan) through to its flowering in America with 'Showboat', 'Anything Goes', 'High Society', 'Guys and Dolls', 'Oklahoma', 'West Side Story', 'The Sound of Music', 'Oliver'...
View BookAuthor: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 2h 40m
What is war really like? Here are stories of sacrifices and massacres, of battles fought on horseback and in the trenches, at sea and on land. Find out about the savage school teacher who betrayed his students to the Roman soldiers, the American hero who led his country to independence only to be abandoned after the battle was won, and the footba...
View BookAuthor: Verna Wilkins
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Author Verna Wilkins
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 42m
Stephen Lawrence was a bright, athletic young man with high hopes for the future. He lived in South East London with both of his parents, one younger brother and sister. On April 22nd 1993 he was brutally murdered while waiting for the bus. He was 18 years old. This is the story of his life.
View BookAuthor: Phillip Ingram
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Author Phillip Ingram
Narrator Robin Houston
Duration 2h 30m
This GCSE text focuses on the history of Russia and the USSR from 1905-1991. It covers the decline of the Tsarist regime, the revolutions of 1917, the civil war, the influence of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, the Cold War, and the end of the Communist rule. A Cambridge University Press title.
View BookTurning Points In History: 1066
Author: Richard Tames
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Author Richard Tames
Narrator John Albasiny
Duration 42m
Could Harold have won the Battle of Hastings? Did the Bayeux tapestry record the history of the war or was it merely propaganda?
View BookTwentieth Centuryhistory Makers: Mao Zedong
Author: Anne Faulkner
Format: MP3 CD
Author Anne Faulkner
Narrator Robin Houston
Duration 2h 50m
Mao Zedong helped found the Chinese Communist Party and rose with it to power. As Leader of the party, he transformed his country into the People's Republic of China. Learn all about his life in this informative audio book.
View BookTwentieth Century History Makers: Adolf Hitler
Author: Liz Gogerly
Format: MP3 CD
Author Liz Gogerly
Narrator John Albasiny
Duration 2h 13m
History has its fair share of evil characters, but Adolf Hitler is still considered by many to have been the most inhumane and dangerous of all. How did a man who was sleeping rough on the streets of Vienna in 1909 become one of the world's most feared dictators?
View BookHistory of the Conquest of Mexico
Author: W. H. Prescott
Format: MP3 CD
Author W. H. Prescott
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 5h
In 1519, Hernando Cortes arrived in Mexico to investigate stories of a wealthy empire. What he encountered was beyond his wildest dreams - an advanced civilisation with complex artistic, political and religious systems and replete with gold. This was the Aztec empire, headed by the aloof emperor Montezuma. With just a handful of men, Cortes brutall...
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