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Historical Stories: The Great Fire of London
Author: Jill Atkins
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Author Jill Atkins
Narrator Richard Popple
Duration 21m
As a sleepy William awakes from the cries of Fire, Fire, he thinks something big must be burning. But from the comfort of his own bed he does not realise the whole of London is ablaze! Will is desperate to help save his home and beloved city but are Will and his family in danger? Will they be able to escape with their lives?
View BookAuthor: Anthony Beevor
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Author Anthony Beevor
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 39h 35m
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria, and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and re...
View BookAuthor: Emily Arnold McCully
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Author Emily Arnold McCully
Narrator The Author
Duration 3h
This illuminating biography reveals how the daughter of Lord Byron, Britain's most infamous Romantic poet, became the world's first computer programmer. Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her strict mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as the long-suffering ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron while raisi...
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 46m
This unique collection features original recordings from 1908-1947, and includes Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address, the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes, the rarely heard humour of Charley Case and readings from 'God's Trombones' by James Weldon Johnson.
View BookEssential Histories: The Vietnam War 1956-1975
Author: Andrew A. Wiest
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Author Andrew A. Wiest
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 4h 34m
The Vietnam War was arguably the most important event, or series of events, of the "American century". America entered the brutal conflict certain of its moral mission to save the world from the advance of communism. As this title explains, however, the war was not at all what the US expected. Outnumbered and outgunned the North Vietnamese and Viet...
View BookAuthor: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator Polly Boyes
Duration 3h 17m
Horrible Christmas is filled with all the festive facts every Horrible Histories reader wanted to know, but were too stuffed full of mince pies to ask! The complete horrible history of Christmas tells tales from the dark days when Puritans tried to abolish Christmas, to Christmas in the trenches when the British and Germans traded bullets for footb...
View BookThe Boys Who Challenged Hitler
Author: Phillip Hoose
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Author Phillip Hoose
Narrator Phillip Hoose
Duration 4h 51m
At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill...
View BookAuthor: Leon Leyson
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Author Leon Leyson
Narrator Danny Burstein
Duration 4h 14m
Even in the darkest of times - especially in the darkest of times - there is room for strength and bravery. A remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindlers list. Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to...
View BookAuthor: Kadir Nelson
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Author Kadir Nelson
Narrator Debbie Allen
Duration 1h 38m
Kadir Nelson's Heart and Soul is the winner of numerous awards, including the 2012 Coretta Scott King Author Award and Illustrator Honor, and the recipient of five starred reviews. The story of America and African Americans is a story of hope and inspiration and unwavering courage. This is the story of the men, women, and children who toiled in the...
View BookHorrible Histories: Rowdy Revolutions
Author: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 4h 25m
It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: which Chinese Emperor was overthrown by his mum? Why one revolution made ugly people very scared indeed? What Count Dracula was really like? Find out about the gruesome guillotine in the French Revolution, meet legendary leaders like Leon Trotsky, and discover how to plan your own rowdy revolu...
View BookAuthor: Kenneth C. Davis
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Author Kenneth C. Davis
Narrator Macleod Andrews
Duration 4h 40m
With 2018 marking the 100th anniversary of the worst disease outbreak in modern history, the story of the Spanish flu is more relevant today than ever. This dramatic narrative, told through the stories and voices of the people caught in the deadly maelstrom, explores how this vast, global epidemic was intertwined with the horrors of World War I-and...
View BookAuthor: Peter Hart
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Author Peter Hart
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 6h 21m
This epic account of the events of 1918 describes what is in some respects a forgotten chapter in history. The soldiers who returned to Britain in November 1918 were not the martyrs or victims of popular memory - they were a victorious army and were greeted as heroes. As the Oral Historian at the Imperial War Museum, Peter Hart has unprecedented ac...
View BookAuthor: Irene Gut Updike
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Author Irene Gut Updike
Narrator Hope Davis
Duration 7h 6m
IRENE GUT WAS just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it.
View BookAtticus the Storyteller's 100 Greek Myths: Volume 2
Author: Lucy Coats
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Author Lucy Coats
Narrator Simon Russell Beale
SeriesAtticus the Storyteller, Book 2
Duration 2h 20m
Atticus the Storyteller leaves his family in Crete and sets off on a year-long journey round Greece. Wherever he goes he tells stories to anyone who will listen - sailors, shepherds, actors, athletes, children and grannies. The stories he tells are the myths of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, King Midas, the labours of Heracles, the...
View BookAuthor: Diane Ackerman
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Author Diane Ackerman
Narrator Suzanne Toren
Duration 11h
When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen guests hid inside the Zabinskis' villa. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and s...
View BookHorrible Histories: The Groovy Greeks & the Stormin' Normans
Author: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator
Duration 2h
THE GROOVY GREEKS: Terrible tales about horrible heroes, savage Spartans, foolish philosophers and suffering slaves. Find out how Ancient Greek doctors had to examine their patients vomit, earwax and rotting flesh - by tasting them! THE STORMIN' NORMANS: Everyone knows about 1066: William the Conqueror scored a bull's eye at the Battle of Hastings....
View BookHorrible Histories: The Savage Stone Age & the Frightful First World War
Author: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
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Duration 2h
THE SAVAGE STONE AGE: This was a time when fast food meant tearing open an animal and pinching its last meal - straight from its guts! Listen to find out more about nasty Neanderthals! THE FRIGHTFUL FIRST WORLD WAR: Kids as young as fourteen fought at the Front, dogs and pigeons played their part in the combat, and, most shocking of all, a bug kill...
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