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Kill or Be Killed
- By: Major W. Robert Foran
- Narrated by: Paul Maitrejean
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you from the Peter Capstick Library. Major W. Robert Foran once killed a lion while "garbed in dinner clothes and patent leather shoes" in the days when it was still possible to meet simba in the streets of Nairobi. He hunted the big five of the dangerous game, experienced many close shaves in the process. Buckley served in the Boer War, and in the British East Africa Police, a paramilitary group that blazed a rough trail through Kenya's early days. He survived injury and disease, and covered Theodore Roosevelt's famous safari for the Associated Press.
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Worth a read
- By c jameson on 20-02-26
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Kill or Be Killed
- Narrated by: Paul Maitrejean
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 17-09-25
- Language: English
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Waco
- A Survivor's Story
- By: David Thibodeau, Leon Whiteson, Aviva Layton
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance43
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The basis of the celebrated Paramount Network miniseries starring Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch -- Waco is the critically-acclaimed, first person account of the siege by Branch Davidian survivor, David Thibodeau. Twenty-five years ago, the FBI staged a deadly raid on the Branch Davidian...
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A difficult & potentially divisive read.
- By Braid7 on 02-03-18
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Waco
- A Survivor's Story
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 02-01-18
- Language: English
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Titanic
- A Survivor's Story
- By: Colonel Archibald Gracie
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance21
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Story22
It was one of the most traumatic events in maritime history, and Archibald Gracie was probably among the last to leave the sinking Titanic on that cold April night in 1912. In this unique account, he describes his personal experiences and remarkable escape from death in the icy waters of the Atlantic, painting a vivid picture of what it was like on board the Titanic in its final hours.
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A collection of survivor's experiences
- By BlueButter on 08-01-26
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Titanic
- A Survivor's Story
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-12-06
- Language: English
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The Twelve Caesars
- By: Suetonius
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance38
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Story38
The Twelve Caesars was written based on the information of eyewitnesses and public records. It conveys a very accurate picture of court life in Rome and contains some of the raciest and most salacious material to be found in all of ancient literature. The writing is clear, simple and easy to understand, and the numerous anecdotes of juicy scandal, bitter court intrigue, and murderous brigandage easily hold their own against the most spirited content of today's tabloids.
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Try the abridged version
- By J. Goss on 12-07-15
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The Twelve Caesars
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 27-04-09
- Language: English
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Spymistress
- The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
- By: William Stevenson
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall204
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Performance190
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A rousing tale of espionage and unsung valor, this is the captivating true story of Vera Atkins, Great Britain's spymistress from the age of 25. With her fierce intelligence, blunt manner, personal courage, and exceptional informants, Vera ran countless missions throughout the 1930s. After rising to the leadership echelon in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a covert intelligence agency formed by Winston Churchill, she became head of a clandestine army in World War II.
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A fascinating character who deserved better representation.
- By Dunblane1 on 16-08-17
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Spymistress
- The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 27-03-14
- Language: English
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Dead Doubles
- The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War's Most Notorious Spy Rings
- By: Trevor Barnes
- Narrated by: William Gaminara
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance38
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The Portland Spy Ring was one of the most infamous espionage cases from the Cold War. People the world over were shocked when its exposure revealed the shadowy world of deep cover KGB 'illegals' - spies operating under false identities stolen from the dead.
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Outstanding story telling
- By DP on 16-08-25
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Dead Doubles
- The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War's Most Notorious Spy Rings
- Narrated by: William Gaminara
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 03-09-20
- Language: English
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Stalin: History in an Hour
- By: Rupert Colley
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall138
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Performance119
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Story115
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Arguably no person in history had such a direct and negative impact on the lives of so many as Joseph Stalin. Under the Red Tsar terror knew no limits, it did not discriminate; no one was safe, no institution, no single town or village was...
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A good short introduction to a monster
- By Wras on 01-05-16
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Stalin: History in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-01-13
- Language: English
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In My Life
- A Music Memoir
- By: Alan Johnson
- Narrated by: Alan Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance23
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of In My Life, written and read by Alan Johnson. From being transported by the sound of 'True Love' by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly on the radio, as a small child living in condemned housing in ungentrified West London in the late 1950s, to going out to...
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Warm, witty memoir
- By WhatCathyReadNext on 30-08-19
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In My Life
- A Music Memoir
- Narrated by: Alan Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-09-18
- Language: English
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The Race to Save the Romanovs
- The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family
- By: Helen Rappaport
- Narrated by: Damien Lynch
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance24
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Race to Save the Romanovs by Helen Rapport, read by Damien Lynch. The Race to Save the Romanovs will completely change the way we see the Romanov story. Finally, here is the truth about the secret plans to rescue Russia’s last imperial family...
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Good book, bad as Audio
- By Caitlin on 17-01-19
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The Race to Save the Romanovs
- The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family
- Narrated by: Damien Lynch
- Series: The Romanov Sisters Series, Book 3
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 05-07-18
- Language: English
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Etta Lemon
- The Woman Who Saved the Birds
- By: Tessa Boase
- Narrated by: Tessa Boase
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall130
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Performance114
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A heroine for our times, Etta Lemon campaigned for 50 years against the worldwide slaughter of birds for extravagantly feathered hats. Her legacy is the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (the RSPB), grown from an all-female pressure group of 1889 with the splendidly simple pledge: Wear No Feathers. Etta’s long battle against ‘murderous millinery’ triumphed with the Plumage Act of 1921 - but her legacy has been eclipsed by the more glamorous campaign for the vote, led by the elegantly plumed Emmeline Pankhurst.
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Surprising, gripping and unexpectedly moving
- By Susan on 06-06-18
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Etta Lemon
- The Woman Who Saved the Birds
- Narrated by: Tessa Boase
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 03-05-18
- Language: English
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The Spy in the Archive
- How one man tried to kill the KGB
- By: Gordon Corera
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance31
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The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West. How do you steal a library? Not...
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Levendig en meeslepend geschreven: leest bijna als thriller, ondanks non-fictie.
- By Adrie on 18-12-25
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The Spy in the Archive
- How one man tried to kill the KGB
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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I Shall Bear Witness
- The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41
- By: Victor Klemperer
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 27 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance31
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A publishing sensation, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. 'A classic ... Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank's' SUNDAY TIMES 'I can't remember when I read a more engrossing book'...
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Klemperer's Genius
- By Andrea Liu on 11-02-22
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I Shall Bear Witness
- The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 27 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 03-02-22
- Language: English
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The Case of the Married Woman
- By: Antonia Fraser
- Narrated by: Penelope Wilton
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Poet, pamphleteer and artist's muse, Caroline Norton dazzled 19th-century society with her vivacity and intelligence. After her marriage in 1828 to the MP George Norton, she continued to attract friends and admirers to her salon in Westminster, which included the young Disraeli. Most prominent among her admirers was the widowed prime minister, Lord Melbourne. Racked with jealousy, George Norton took the prime minister to court, suing him for damages on account of his 'criminal conversation' (adultery) with Caroline. A dramatic trial followed.
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Excellent!
- By Anonymous on 19-07-25
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The Case of the Married Woman
- Narrated by: Penelope Wilton
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-05-21
- Language: English
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The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- By: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance42
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At the dawn of the 20th century, humanity was facing global disaster. Mass starvation, long predicted for the fast-growing population, was about to become a reality. A call went out to the worlds scientists to find a solution. This is the story of the two enormously gifted, fatally flawed men who found it: the brilliant, self-important Fritz Haber and the reclusive, alcoholic Carl Bosch. Together they discovered a way to make bread out of air, built city-sized factories, controlled world markets, and saved millions of lives.
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Extremely interesting
- By Brian B. on 24-02-21
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The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-10-10
- Language: English
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Winston and the Windsors
- How Churchill Shaped a Royal Dynasty
- By: Andrew Morton
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Few figures in British history have been so deeply and so consequentially involved with the British royal family as Winston Spencer Churchill. While numerous men of stature have advised kings and queens during their reigns, Churchill is unique in his role: helping to shape not only a single reign but an entire royal dynasty. However, it was by no means a seamless relationship. At times, the royal family treated him with suspicion and contempt; at others, their relations were avuncular, competitive and cheering.
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the detail
- By Anonymous on 05-11-25
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Winston and the Windsors
- How Churchill Shaped a Royal Dynasty
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 09-10-25
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Rising Sun
- Surviving a Prisoner of War Childhood
- By: Olga Henderson
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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February 2022 marked 80 years since the Fall of Singapore and Olga is now ready to tell the story of her years as a child prisoner of war. It's a story of great fear and deprivation; of a childhood utterly lost to conflict. It's also a story of class prejudice and unkindness that didn't end when Olga was freed from the camp and returned to England as a refugee.
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The feelings experienced as took me back to when I was a child in changi village in last 50’s
- By dawne on 09-09-25
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In the Shadow of the Rising Sun
- Surviving a Prisoner of War Childhood
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 21-02-24
- Language: English
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.
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An enjoyable hagiography(?)
- By Nik Jewell on 16-05-18
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-02-10
- Language: English
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- By: Anne Frank
- Narrated by: Susan Adams
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance40
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Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story. It relates how Anne, her family, and their friends hid in secret rooms - "the Annex" - in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months. Anne, just 13 when the family moved in and only 15 when the Gestapo at last broke down the doors of her secret world, found hope where there was only fear and the first blush of love when outside and all around there washed a sea of hate.
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A priceless piece of history
- By Jody B on 26-04-18
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- Narrated by: Susan Adams
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 08-12-15
- Language: English
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Machiavelli: His Life and Times
- By: Alexander Lee
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
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Overall12
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Performance10
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Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolo` Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular imagination. But was Machiavelli as sinister as he is often thought to be? In Machiavelli: His Life and Times, Alexander Lee reveals the man behind the myth, following him from cradle to grave, from his father's penury and the abuse he suffered at a teacher's hands, to his marriage and his many affairs (with both men and women), to his political triumphs and, ultimately, his fall from grace and exile.
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Gripping, informative, eye opening
- By Auguste Dupin on 30-11-21
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Machiavelli: His Life and Times
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 18-03-21
- Language: English
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Kutuzov
- A Life in War and Peace
- By: Alexander Mikaberidze
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 28 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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He was the general who triumphed over Napoleon's Grande Armee during the Patriotic War of 1812, not merely restoring national pride but securing national identity. Many Russians consider Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Golenischev-Kutuzov the greatest figure of the 19th century, ahead of Pushkin, Tchaikovsky, even Tolstoy himself. As award-winning author Alexander Mikaberidze shows in this fascinating, often startling, and wholly humanizing new biography, Kutuzov's story is far more compelling and complex than the myths that have encased him.
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Excellent scholarship let down by the narrator
- By Nikola Kostić on 31-07-23
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Kutuzov
- A Life in War and Peace
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 28 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 02-05-23
- Language: English
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