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History Revealed
- By: History Revealed Staff
- Original Recording
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Overall170
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Performance140
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Story140
Crusading knights, Tudor monarchs, the D-Day landings and more. Travel back in time with some of the world's most notable historians. Meet the unsung heroes of the past and hear their untold stories. Discover what really happened, despite what the history books tell us.
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Interesting topics
- By matthew brown on 16-03-18
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To Fight Alongside Friends
- The First World War Diaries of Charlie May
- By: not specified, Gerry Harrison - editor, David Crane - introduction
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance24
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Story25
The First World War Diaries of Manchester Pals Captain Charlie May – written and kept in secret and published now for the first time. A born storyteller, Charlie May’s vivid eye for detail and warm good humour brings his experience in the trenches (and the experience of millions of ordinary...
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Tragic, moving
- By Hayley Kemp on 25-01-15
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To Fight Alongside Friends
- The First World War Diaries of Charlie May
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 03-07-14
- Language: English
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Emperor of Japan
- Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
- By: Donald Keene
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 38 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Story10
Little has been written about the strangely obscured figure of Meiji himself, the first Japanese emperor ever to meet a European. But now, Donald Keene sifts the available evidence to present a rich portrait not only of Meiji but also of rapid and sometimes violent change during this pivotal period in Japan's history. Emperor of Japan conveys in sparkling prose the complexity of the man and offers an unrivaled portrait of Japan in a period of unique interest.
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Good overall, just bad Japanese pronunciation
- By Anonymous on 13-10-24
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Emperor of Japan
- Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 38 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 11-10-22
- Language: English
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Stalin
- The Court of the Red Tsar
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: John Nettles
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Abridged
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Overall461
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Performance388
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Story386
Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar...
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Superb and horrifying biography
- By Kirstine on 12-08-15
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Stalin
- The Court of the Red Tsar
- Narrated by: John Nettles
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 19-04-06
- Language: English
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Elizabeth of York
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 22 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall271
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Performance248
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Story245
Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman. One of the key figures of the Wars of the Roses, daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, she married Henry Tudor to bring peace to a war-torn England. In Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen, Alison Weir builds a portrait of this beloved queen, placing her in the context of the magnificent, ceremonious, often brutal world she inhabited.
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Hard work
- By mollymoon1 on 13-07-15
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Elizabeth of York
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 22 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 07-11-13
- Language: English
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The Young H.G. Wells
- Changing the World
- By: Claire Tomalin
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance28
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Story28
Brought to you by Penguin. A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers. How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction? From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to...
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The Amazing H G Wells
- By Ken P on 03-01-22
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The Young H.G. Wells
- Changing the World
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 04-11-21
- Language: English
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The Lodger
- Shakespeare on Silver Street
- By: Charles Nicholl
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance20
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Story20
In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - providing us with the only surviving record of his spoken words. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry - but it opens up an unexpected window into the dramatist's famously obscure life-story. Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating but neglected episode in Shakespeare's life.
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Much more than Shakespeare's life.
- By Stephen on 24-12-09
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The Lodger
- Shakespeare on Silver Street
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 15-10-08
- Language: English
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Storyteller
- The Life of Roald Dahl
- By: Donald Sturrock
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall90
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Performance69
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Story69
The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time. "Irresistible. I thought I knew quite a lot about Roald Dahl, but now I know much much more. Donald Sturrock's book lucidly describes a complicated life and relates it to the richness of Dahl's storytelling."Quentin Blake...
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Thoroughly enjoyed it, despite minor flaws
- By Amazon Customer on 05-10-11
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Storyteller
- The Life of Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-09-11
- Language: English
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The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940
- Twentieth Century Journey Series, Book 2
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance20
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Story19
The famous journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich documents his front row seat at the pivotal events leading up to World War II. In the second of a three-volume series, William L. Shirer tells the story of his own eventful life, detailing the most notable moments of his career as a journalist stationed in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Shirer was there while Hitler celebrated his new domination of Germany, unleashed the Blitzkrieg on Poland, and began the conflict that would come to be known as World War II.
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The Truth will out
- By Dai pp. Sandy on 01-05-20
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The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940
- Twentieth Century Journey Series, Book 2
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Series: Twentieth Century Journey, Book 2
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 28-01-20
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall79
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Performance60
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Story60
Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches. Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works...
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An Unforgetable Memoir
- By Mercadier on 24-12-12
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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 14-07-09
- Language: English
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Ten Days in a Mad-House
- By: Nellie Bly
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance21
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Story21
In 1887 Nellie Bly had herself committed to the notorious Blackwell's Island insane asylum in New York City with the goal of discovering what life was like for its patients. While there, Bly experienced firsthand the shocking abuse and neglect of its inmates, from inedible food to horrifyingly unsanitary conditions. Ten Days in a Mad-House is Bly's exposé of the asylum.
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great historical account
- By Graham A on 05-03-20
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Ten Days in a Mad-House
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 17-01-17
- Language: English
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The Last Manchu
- The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
- By: Paul Kramer, Henry Pu Yi
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance57
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Story57
In 1908, at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for 13 years in Peking’s Forbidden City, but with none of the power his birth afforded him. The remainder of Pu Yi’s life was lived out in a topsy-turvy fashion: fleeing from a Chinese warlord, becoming head of a Japanese puppet state, being confined to a Russian prison in Siberia, and enduring taxing labor.
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Excellent
- By Mike Bingham on 27-04-20
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The Last Manchu
- The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 27-01-13
- Language: English
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Five Love Affairs and a Friendship
- The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Rosy Armitage
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance12
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Born in March 1896, Nancy Cunard was a great beauty, rich, promiscuous, with a mesmeric effect on men. She was also highly intelligent, reading widely and writing poetry. Of Nancy's many affairs the five included in this audiobook are the ones with the American poet Ezra Pound, the novelists Aldous Huxley and Michael Arlen (who characterised her as Iris Storm in his best-selling novel The Green Hat), Louis Aragon (the real founder of the Surrealist movement) and finally and controversially the black American pianist Henry Crowder, with whom she ran her printing press in Paris.
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The vocal delivery of a primary school teacher
- By Anonymous on 04-11-25
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Five Love Affairs and a Friendship
- The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age
- Narrated by: Rosy Armitage
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 28-04-22
- Language: English
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Lion Rampant
- The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer from D-Day to the Rhineland
- By: Robert Woollcombe
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Vividly evoking the confusion, horror and comradeship of war - from the killing fields of Normandy bocage, through house-to-house fighting in shattered Flemish towns, to the final Rhine crossing - Lion Rampant is a powerful, authentic and moving story, telling with extraordinary clarity how the author, his fellow officers and the men of his company lived through one of the most bitter campaigns in history.
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First hand account
- By Richard Noakes on 25-05-25
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Lion Rampant
- The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer from D-Day to the Rhineland
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 21-10-22
- Language: English
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Red Dawn over China
- How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Red Dawn Over China reveals how unlikely the Party's victory actually was, had it not been for financial and military support from the Soviet Union. By 1936 they had the same popular appeal as an obscure religious sect. After Soviet troops invaded Manchuria in 1945 and provided more money and munitions, the Communists at long last prevailed through a pitiless war of attrition, driven by an unflinching will to conquer at all costs.
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Red Dawn over China
- How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 12-02-26
- Language: English
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A Certain Idea of France
- The Life of Charles de Gaulle
- By: Julian Jackson
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 35 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall175
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Performance150
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Story148
Brought to you by Penguin. In six weeks in 1940, France was over-run by German troops and surrendered. One junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. At that moment...
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A detailed account of De Gaulle
- By Simon Brady on 17-03-22
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A Certain Idea of France
- The Life of Charles de Gaulle
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 35 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 19-09-19
- Language: English
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Reluctant Hero: A 9/11 Hero Speaks Out About What He's Learned, How He's Struggled, and What No One Should Ever Forget
- A 9/11 Hero Speaks Out About What He's Learned, How He's Struggled, and What No One Should Ever Forget
- By: Michael Benfante
- Narrated by: Chris Ruen
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance53
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On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, Michael Benfante went to work, just like he had day after day, at his office on 81st floor in the World Trade Center North Tower. Moments after the first plane struck, just 12 floors above him, Benfante organized his terrified employees, getting them out of the office and moving down the stairwells. On his way down, he and another co-worker encountered a woman in a wheelchair on the 68th floor.
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remember
- By Damian Mcreynolds on 14-01-25
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Reluctant Hero: A 9/11 Hero Speaks Out About What He's Learned, How He's Struggled, and What No One Should Ever Forget
- A 9/11 Hero Speaks Out About What He's Learned, How He's Struggled, and What No One Should Ever Forget
- Narrated by: Chris Ruen
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 22-05-13
- Language: English
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The Book of Margery Kempe
- By: Margery Kempe
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance5
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The Book of Margery Kempe is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother, and mystic from Norfolk. Having married in c. 1393, given birth to 14 children, and pursued unsuccessful ventures in brewing and milling, Kempe made a vow of chastity and embarked on a life of prayer, penance, and pilgrimage.
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The Hitchhiker's guide to going on pilgrimage.
- By Jeremy Critchlow on 26-01-24
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The Book of Margery Kempe
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 20-10-21
- Language: English
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The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography
- By: M. K. Gandhi
- Narrated by: Sagar Arya
- Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance37
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Story37
Gandhi's nonviolent struggles against racism, violence and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety and adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. He feared the enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a deeper understanding of his quest for truth rooted in devotion to God.
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Realised he's so hypocritical
- By Louise M. on 29-09-22
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The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography
- Narrated by: Sagar Arya
- Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 02-10-19
- Language: English
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Elizabeth Jane Howard
- A Dangerous Innocence
- By: Artemis Cooper
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall116
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Performance104
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Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to...
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Superb!
- By Richard H on 01-08-20
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Elizabeth Jane Howard
- A Dangerous Innocence
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 22-09-16
- Language: English
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