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Strongmen
- How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall
- By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Ours is the age of the strongman. Russia, India, Turkey and America are ruled by men who, as they have risen to the top, have reshaped their countries around them, creating cults of personality which earn the loyalty of millions. And as they do so, they draw on a playbook of behaviour established by figures such as Benito Mussolini, Muammar Gaddafi and Adolf Hitler.
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Absolutely Fantastic
- By Cian Tormey on 16-02-21
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Strongmen
- How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 17-11-20
- Language: English
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Politics Without Politicians
- The Case for Citizen Rule
- By: Hélène Landemore
- Narrated by: Hélène Landemore
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Politicians have failed us. But democracy doesn’t have to. Bought by special interests, detached from real life, obsessed with re-election. Politicians make big promises, deliver little to nothing, and keep the game rigged in their favour. But what can we do? With...
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Politics Without Politicians
- The Case for Citizen Rule
- Narrated by: Hélène Landemore
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-02-26
- Language: English
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Unit X
- How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
- By: Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year “An exceedingly important book!” —General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Director of the CIA “Essential reading for understanding how technology will change the future of warfare.” —Chris Miller, New York...
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Loves war and tech bros
- By Sarah on 06-01-25
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Unit X
- How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-07-24
- Language: English
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
- The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
- By: Jonathan Blitzer
- Narrated by: André Santana, Jonathan Blitzer
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2024 SELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA'S READING LIST 2024 'Urgent, extraordinary . . . a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, bestselling author Empire of Pain 'Moving, sweeping...
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The stating of pure facts in a detached manner.
- By Andrei Alexandru on 27-01-26
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
- The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
- Narrated by: André Santana, Jonathan Blitzer
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 30-05-24
- Language: English
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The Prime Ministers We Never Had
- Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn
- By: Steve Richards
- Narrated by: Steve Richards
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall278
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Performance240
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Was Harold Wilson a bigger figure than Denis Healey? Was John Major more ‘prime ministerial’ than Michael Heseltine? Would David Miliband have become prime minister if it were not for his brother, Ed? Would Ed have become prime minister if it were not for David? How close did Jeremy Corbyn come to being prime minister? In this piercing and original study, journalist and commentator Steve Richards looks at 11 prime ministers we never had, examining what made each of these illustrious figures unique and why they failed to make the final leap to the very top.
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Analysis of character and the world of politics
- By samuelburke on 04-01-22
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The Prime Ministers We Never Had
- Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn
- Narrated by: Steve Richards
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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You're Doing It Wrong
- The BBC Radio 4 Series
- By: Adam Buxton
- Narrated by: Adam Buxton
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance64
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Adam Buxton takes a sideways look at some of our confusing modern ideas and explains why you're definitely doing it all wrong. Across five episodes he explores the worlds of work, parenting, diet, the environment and family. Is the idea of a 'dream job' - one that inspires and fulfils us and makes our lives worth living - really possible? Does your toddler eat strictly rationed organic produce, or are they allowed to eat what they want? Does installing solar panels and despairing over plastic bottles make a difference if we continue to jet off on holidays and eat imported guava?!
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Wish it had been longer!
- By Amazon Customer on 20-11-19
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You're Doing It Wrong
- The BBC Radio 4 Series
- Narrated by: Adam Buxton
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Japan
- By: Lesley Downer
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Zen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games . . . Japanese culture has long enriched our Western way of life. Yet from a Western perspective, Japan remains a remote island country that has long had a complicated relationship with the outside world. Japan—an archipelago strung like a necklace around the Asian mainland—is considerably farther from Asia than Britain is from Europe. The sea has provided an effective barrier against invasion and enabled the culture to develop in unique ways.
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Better as a paperback...
- By Amazon Customer on 28-02-26
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The Shortest History of Japan
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 24-09-24
- Language: English
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A Call at 4 AM
- Thirteen Prime Ministers and the Crucial Decisions That Shaped Israeli Politics
- By: Amit Segal
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The full and untold story of Israeli politics penned by one of Israel's most distinguished political journalists. In A Call at 4 AM, Israel’s top political journalist, Amit Segal, takes you inside the moments when history was decided in real time. From Golda Meir’s sleepless nights before the Yom Kippur War to Benjamin Netanyahu's power struggles during missile attacks, Segal uncovers the untold stories of war rooms, last-minute deals, and the relentless pressure of governing a country that never knows a quiet day.
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A Call at 4 AM
- Thirteen Prime Ministers and the Crucial Decisions That Shaped Israeli Politics
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 11-11-25
- Language: English
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
- The Last Soviet Generation
- By: Alexei Yurchak
- Narrated by: Bob Johnson
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they were mutually constitutive.
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
- The Last Soviet Generation
- Narrated by: Bob Johnson
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-03-26
- Language: English
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Democracy Awakening
- Notes on the State of America
- By: Heather Cox Richardson
- Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance12
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Brought to you by Penguin. In Democracy Awakening, American historian Heather Cox Richardson examines how, over the decades, an elite minority have made war on American ideals. By weaponising language and promoting false history, they are leading Americans into authoritarianism and creating a...
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Clear and timely
- By Amazon Customer on 12-11-24
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Democracy Awakening
- Notes on the State of America
- Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 28-09-23
- Language: English
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Into the Wood Chipper
- A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID
- By: Nicholas Enrich, Atul Gawande - introduction
- Narrated by: Nicholas Enrich
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Propulsive….When the full history of this moment is ready to be written, Into the Wood Chipper will be a vivid source.” —The New York Times “A gripping page-turner that doubles as both a warning and an inspiration.” —Samantha Power, Pulitzer...
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Into the Wood Chipper
- A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID
- Narrated by: Nicholas Enrich
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 14-04-26
- Language: English
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Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis
- By: Leon Neyfakh, Andrew Parsons, Sam Graham-Felsen, and others
- Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh
- Original Recording
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Performance66
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From the co-creators of Slow Burn, Fiasco is a narrative podcast that transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of America’s most pivotal historical events.
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Great listen
- By Kindle Customer on 03-04-22
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All in It Together
- England in the Early 21st Century
- By: Alwyn Turner
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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Performance38
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The headlines may be all COVID now; as a few short months ago, they were all Brexit, but breakdown of the UK's political sphere has been a long time coming and it is a symptom of a much deeper malaise. We seem to have lost our faith in all our social institutions, from parliament and the press to banking and religion. It is this wider disillusionment that All in It Together, a cultural, political and social history of Britain from 2000 to 2015, explains.
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Modern history but nothing new.
- By Amazon Customer on 23-06-21
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All in It Together
- England in the Early 21st Century
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 17-06-21
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
- By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries came to power in the war-torn Russian Empire in a way that defied all predictions. Scarcely a lifespan later, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed as accidentally as it arose. The decades between witnessed drama on an epic scale-the chaos and hope of revolution, famines and purges, hard-won victory in history's most destructive war, and worldwide geopolitical conflict, all entwined around the dream of building a better society.
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The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 12-07-22
- Language: English
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Someone Is Hiding Something
- What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?
- By: Richard Belzer, George Noory, David Wayne
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall66
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Performance59
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A year after the disappearance and commencement of the international search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, no sign of the plane has been found - no debris, no bodies, no sign of the much-talked-about black box. Richard Belzer, George Noory, and David Wayne want to know why.
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Dreadful.
- By christopher on 12-02-21
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Someone Is Hiding Something
- What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 12-05-15
- Language: English
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Gaza in Crisis
- Reflections on the US-Israeli War Against the Palestinians
- By: Ilan Pappe, Noam Chomsky, Frank Barat - editor
- Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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While numerous books address Israel-Palestine conflict, Gaza in Crisis brings together two renowned thinkers—American activist Noam Chomsky and Israeli historian Ilan Pappé—to examine why this conflict has lasted so long, who can stop it, and how. Israel's Operation Cast Lead, a 2008 military assault on the Gaza Strip, thrust the region to the center of the discussion. With expert knowledge and deep insight, Chomsky and Pappé survey the fallout from Israel's conduct in Gaza and place it in historical context.
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Gaza in Crisis
- Reflections on the US-Israeli War Against the Palestinians
- Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 15-04-25
- Language: English
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A Village in the Third Reich
- How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism
- By: Julia Boyd, Angelika Patel
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich – the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Month: a stunningly evocative portrait of Hitler’s Germany through the people of a single village. Oberstdorf is a beautiful village high up in the Bavarian Alps, a place...
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Very interesting insight
- By T. Hodge on 11-08-22
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A Village in the Third Reich
- How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 05-05-22
- Language: English
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Revenge
- The Inside Story of Trump's Return to Power
- By: Alex Isenstadt
- Narrated by: Alan Peterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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From Politico’s National Political Reporter Alex Isenstadt, a fly-on-the-wall account of Donald Trump’s history-defying reelection campaign, illustrating how he overcame seemingly insurmountable challenges to return to the White House. Over the course of the last four years, the American...
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Enjoyable and insightful
- By Lorraine Simpson on 16-08-25
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Revenge
- The Inside Story of Trump's Return to Power
- Narrated by: Alan Peterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 18-03-25
- Language: English
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Night of Power
- The Betrayal of the Middle East
- By: Robert Fisk
- Narrated by: Tim Bruce, Kit Griffiths
- Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance37
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'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING…AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY In this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up reporting on the Middle East where his internationally bestselling The Great War of...
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You need a strong stomach for this
- By S_M on 16-09-24
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Night of Power
- The Betrayal of the Middle East
- Narrated by: Tim Bruce, Kit Griffiths
- Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 04-07-24
- Language: English
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The Descent
- Witnessing Russia's Spiral into Madness Under Putin
- By: Marc Bennetts, Allie Collins
- Narrated by: Marc Bennetts
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Marc Bennetts, foreign correspondent for The Times and The Sunday Times, moved to Russia in the chaotic yet free final years of President Yeltsin's rule. Twenty-five years later, The Times pulled him out of Russia over concerns for his security following his arrest in Moscow at a protest against the war in Ukraine. From the "wild" 1990s in Moscow to narrowly escaping death under fire in Ukraine, The Descent is a unique and personal diary of how Russia spiraled into violent insanity.
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A timely and well written book
- By Part Time Reader on 22-04-26
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The Descent
- Witnessing Russia's Spiral into Madness Under Putin
- Narrated by: Marc Bennetts
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 26-03-26
- Language: English
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