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Britain's Gulag
- The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
- By: Caroline Elkins
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. Only a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire...
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Essiential reading.
- By Moneenroe on 19-12-25
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Britain's Gulag
- The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 27-06-24
- Language: English
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The King is Dead, Long Live the King!
- Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain
- By: Martin Williams
- Narrated by: Martin Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Unforgettable as it was, the public response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 was not without precedent. When her great-grandfather King Edward VII - glamorous, cosmopolitan and extraordinarily popular - died in May 1910, the political, social and cultural anxieties of a nation in turmoil were temporarily set aside during a summer of intense and ritualised mourning. In The King Is Dead, Long Live the King! Martin Williams charts a period of tension and transition as one era slipped away and another took shape.
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Ghastly narration by the author
- By Gilbert Linton on 24-04-25
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The King is Dead, Long Live the King!
- Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain
- Narrated by: Martin Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 13-04-23
- Language: English
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Voices of Victory
- Powerful eye-witness accounts of the battle to take Germany, Feb 1945 to VE Day
- By: Geraint Jones
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth, Geraint Jones
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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This audiobook includes archived recordings from interviews taken with Second World War soldiers, as well as an Introduction and Epilogue read by the author. 'Enthralling and enlightening . . . A wonderful look into the personal experiences, that heart and soul, of the fighting soldier towards...
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good contemporary accounts
- By PAUL T. on 19-06-25
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Voices of Victory
- Powerful eye-witness accounts of the battle to take Germany, Feb 1945 to VE Day
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth, Geraint Jones
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 24-04-25
- Language: English
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The Yompers
- With 45 Commando in the Falklands War
- By: Ian Gardiner
- Narrated by: Ian Gardiner
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Called to action on 2 April 1982, the men of 45 Commando Royal Marines assembled from around the world to sail 8,000 miles to recover the Falkland Islands from Argentine invasion. Lacking helicopters and short of food, they ‘yomped’ in appalling weather carrying overloaded rucksacks, across the roughest terrain. Yet for a month in mid-winter, they remained a cohesive fighting-fit body of men. They then fought and won the highly successful and fierce night battle for Two Sisters, a 1,000 foot high mountain which was the key to the defensive positions around Stanley.
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The Yompers
- With 45 Commando in the Falklands War
- Narrated by: Ian Gardiner
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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The Achilles Trap
- Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003
- By: Steve Coll
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance30
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Brought to you by Penguin. The Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, details America's fundamental miscalculations during its ruinous, decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein...
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Detailed and easy to follow
- By Armen Avetisyan on 10-10-25
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The Achilles Trap
- Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 27-02-24
- Language: English
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Prague Winter
- A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
- By: Madeleine Albright
- Narrated by: Madeleine Albright
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance19
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“A riveting tale of her family’s experience in Europe during World War II [and] a well-wrought political history of the region, told with great authority. . . . More than a memoir, this is a book of facts and action, a chronicle of a war in progress from a partisan faithful to the idea of...
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Absorbing
- By Purplelotus on 28-02-17
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Prague Winter
- A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
- Narrated by: Madeleine Albright
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 24-04-12
- Language: English
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Hitler's Hangman
- The Life of Heydrich
- By: Robert Gerwarth
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall274
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Performance251
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Story250
Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the 20th century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and leading planner of the "Final Solution," Heydrich played a central role in Hitler's Germany.
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Trying subject matter
- By john on 11-11-16
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Hitler's Hangman
- The Life of Heydrich
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 30-08-16
- Language: English
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Endgame
- Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall—from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
- By: Frank Brady
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall197
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Performance164
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Story163
From Frank Brady, who wrote one of the best-selling books on Bobby Fischer of all time and who was himself a friend of Fischer’s, comes an impressively researched biography that for the first time completely captures the remarkable arc of Bobby Fischer’s life. When Bobby Fischer passed away in January 2008, he left behind a confounding legacy. Everyone knew the basics of his life—he began as a brilliant youngster, then became the pride of American chess, then took a sharp turn, struggling with paranoia and mental illness. But nobody truly understood him.
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Think chess is boring, not your thing? think again
- By Anonymous on 27-05-20
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Endgame
- Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall—from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-02-11
- Language: English
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A Mother's Promise
- My true story of surviving Auschwitz and the horrors of the Holocaust, the Sunday Times bestseller
- By: Renee Salt, Kate Thompson
- Narrated by: Kate Thompson, Maria Louis, Rachel Atkins, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Quite simply the most important book you will read this year' Hazel Gaynor 'An extraordinary read' Lorraine Kelly 'Deeply moving' Daily Mail 'Mama, it's me.' I held her hand in mine, hoping it would give her the strength to hold on. Finally, she spoke, her voice...
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A powerful book
- By rickster5004 on 18-03-26
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A Mother's Promise
- My true story of surviving Auschwitz and the horrors of the Holocaust, the Sunday Times bestseller
- Narrated by: Kate Thompson, Maria Louis, Rachel Atkins, Renee Salt
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 27-02-25
- Language: English
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Idaho Falls
- The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident
- By: William McKeown
- Narrated by: Bob Dunsworth
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance22
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When asked to name the world’s first major nuclear accident, most people cite the Three Mile Island incident or the Chernobyl disaster. Revealed in this book is one of American history’s best-kept secrets: the world’s first nuclear reactor accident to claim fatalities happened on United States soil. Chronicled here for the first time is the strange tale of SL-1, a military test reactor located in Idaho’s Lost River Desert that exploded on the night of January 3, 1961, killing the three-man maintenance crew on duty.
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Well written
- By Macksparky on 18-03-15
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Idaho Falls
- The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident
- Narrated by: Bob Dunsworth
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 11-12-12
- Language: English
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Architects of Terror
- Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain
- By: Paul Preston
- Narrated by: Robin Laing
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence...
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Architects of Terror
- Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain
- Narrated by: Robin Laing
- Length: 16 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 02-02-23
- Language: English
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The Taiwan Story
- How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future
- By: Kerry Brown
- Narrated by: Kerry Brown
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance17
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Brought to you by Penguin. An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters – for China, the West and everyone’s future When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao’s Communists won and took China’s mainland; Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to...
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Author is either ignorant or purposely misleads: don’t waste your money
- By charleyd80 on 09-07-25
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The Taiwan Story
- How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future
- Narrated by: Kerry Brown
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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Out of the Darkness
- The Germans, 1942-2022
- By: Frank Trentmann
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 36 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and a war of extermination. But by 2015 Germany looked to many to be the moral voice of Europe, welcoming almost one million refugees. At the same time, it pursued a controversially rigid fiscal discipline and made energy deals with a dictator. Many people have asked how Germany descended into the darkness of the Nazis, but this book asks another vital question: how, and how far, have the Germans since reinvented themselves?
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Out of the Darkness
- The Germans, 1942-2022
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 36 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 27-02-24
- Language: English
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Cuba Libre!
- Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History
- By: Tony Perrottet
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance38
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The surprising story of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the scrappy band of rebel men and women who followed them. Most people are familiar with the basics of the Cuban Revolution of 1956–1959: it was led by two of the twentieth century’s most charismatic figures, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara...
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Incredible
- By Kieron Casey on 18-03-19
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Cuba Libre!
- Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 22-01-19
- Language: English
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The House by the Lake
- By: Thomas Harding
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall164
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Performance148
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Story148
In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding travelled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a house by a lake. It had been a holiday home for her family, that she had been forced to leave as the Nazis swept to power. As he began to piece together the lives of the five families who had lived, he realised that this house had witnessed violence, betrayals and murders, had withstood the trauma of a world war and the dividing of a nation.
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5 families, one house, a fantastic journey
- By JJ on 15-08-18
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The House by the Lake
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 24-09-15
- Language: English
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The Thomas Sowell Reader
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance48
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Story48
These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of half a century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell’s letters, books, newspaper columns, and articles in both scholarly journals and popular magazines. The topics range from latetalking children to tax cuts for the rich, baseball, race, war, the role of judges, medical care, and the rhetoric of politicians.
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Grateful.
- By Elspeth on 05-09-19
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The Thomas Sowell Reader
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 04-10-11
- Language: English
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Cold Crematorium
- Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
- By: József Debreczeni, Paul Olchvary - translator, Paul Olchvary, and others
- Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz, Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance29
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József Debreczeni, a prolific Hungarian language journalist and poet, arrived in Auschwitz in 1944; had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would have been approximately forty-five minutes. One of the 'lucky' ones, he was sent to the 'right', which led to twelve horrifying months of incarceration and slave labour in a series of camps, ending in the 'Cold Crematorium' - the so-called hospital of the forced labour camp Dörnhau, where prisoners too weak to work were left to die. Debreczeni beat the odds and survived.
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A very hard listen
- By Issy Isaacs on 26-02-24
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Cold Crematorium
- Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
- Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz, Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 18-01-24
- Language: English
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Anne Frank
- Her Life and Legacy
- By: Jemma J. Saunders
- Narrated by: Joanna Daniel
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall154
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Performance133
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Story133
Anne Frank is the most well-known victim of the Holocaust. In 1945, at the age of 15, she died at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, becoming one of the six million Jews who were murdered in Europe under the Nazi regime. But through her writing, her memory lives on. Jemma Saunders goes beyond Anne Frank's diary to fill in the gaps about her family history, her life before she went into hiding, and her final months at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. A sobering tale, Anne Frank's story is one that will continue to inspire for decades to come.
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Concise & nice to listen to
- By Vicki on 21-01-26
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Anne Frank
- Her Life and Legacy
- Narrated by: Joanna Daniel
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 29-08-16
- Language: English
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Hubris
- The Origins of Russia's War Against Ukraine
- By: Jonathan Haslam
- Narrated by: Jonathan Haslam
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukraine conflict that began eight years earlier. But Russia’s recent rise on the world’s stage began long before that historic date. In Hubris, Jonathan Haslam, one of the world’s greatest experts on Russian foreign policy and espionage, examines one of the most intractable issues of our time.
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Brilliant in every respect
- By Varvara the Fox on 14-06-25
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Hubris
- The Origins of Russia's War Against Ukraine
- Narrated by: Jonathan Haslam
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-09-24
- Language: English
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The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz
- A Story of Survival
- By: Anne Sebba
- Narrated by: Anne Sebba, Helen Stern
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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'Superb and timely' KATE MOSSE 'Impressive, important, deeply moving' SARAH WATERS 'Brilliant' ANTHONY HOROWITZ What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women who owed their survival to their participation in a Nazi propaganda project? And how did it feel to be...
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Inspirational
- By Sally C. on 15-04-25
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The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz
- A Story of Survival
- Narrated by: Anne Sebba, Helen Stern
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 27-03-25
- Language: English
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