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The Greatest Nobodies of History
- Minor Characters from Major Moments
- By: Adrian Bliss
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Whether it’s Julius Caesar, Buffalo Bill or Henry VIII, the lives of history’s greatest heroes have long dominated the history books, and bored generations of high school students in the process. But what about the side characters waiting in the wings of humanity’s defining moments? Who will tell the tale of the pirates who kidnapped Caesar? Of Bill’s horse who thrilled Queen Victoria. Or of Henry’s toilet attendants, who may have caused a wife or two to lose their heads? Adrian Bliss won’t rest until these forgotten heroes are as well-known as their glory hogging contemporaries.
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The Greatest Nobodies of History
- Minor Characters from Major Moments
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 29-08-24
- Language: English
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Henry V
- The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Dan Jones’s life of Henry V stands out for the generous amount of space it allots to the critical first 26 years of his life before he became king. Both standalone biography and a completion of Dan’s sequence of English medieval histories that began with The Plantagenets and The Hollow Crown, Henry V is a thrilling and unmissable life of England’s greatest king from our best-selling medieval historian.
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The Eagle and the Hart
- The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
- By: Helen Castor
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Richard of Bordeaux and Henry Bolingbroke were first cousins, born just three months apart. Their two lives were from the beginning entwined. When they were still children, Richard was crowned King Richard II with Henry at his side, carrying the sword of state: a ten-year-old lord in the service of his ten-year-old king. Helen Castor tells this story of one of the strangest and most fateful relationships in English history. It is a story about power, and masculinity in crisis, and a nation brought to the brink of catastrophe and disintegration – and then brought back.
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The Eagle and the Hart
- The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 03-10-24
- Language: English
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Eighteen
- A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
- By: Alice Loxton
- Narrated by: Alice Loxton
- Length: 10 hrs
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At eighteen, your life is full of of what-ifs and why-nots. You have everything to look forward to – unless you’ve got the plague. From a young Elizabeth Tudor, the orphan facing deadly intrigue at court, to a teenage Richard Burton, the rugby-obsessed son of a Welsh miner, historian Alice Loxton explores Britain’s past through the lives of eighteen figures at this crucial age.
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Eighteen
- A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
- Narrated by: Alice Loxton
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 15-08-24
- Language: English
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The Last Para
- By: John Humphreys, Stuart Tootal
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A powerful and authentic account of WWII from 101-year-old veteran John Humphreys, from boy soldier in the Royal Engineers to jumping into Arnhem with the Parachute Regiment in 1944, spearheading the attack on the bridge. For days they held on, outnumbered and outgunned by a German army fighting to the last bullet. But the Bridge Too Far is only the climax of this extraordinary story... Coinciding with the 80th anniversary of Operation MARKET GARDEN, The Last Para is be the final firsthand account of this legendary action, told with incredible honesty and irrepressible spirit.
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The Last Para
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 29-08-24
- Language: English
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A Training School for Elephants
- By: Sophy Roberts
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In 1879, King Leopold II of Belgium launched an ambitious plan to plunder Africa’s resources. The key to cracking open the continent, or so he thought, was its elephants — if only he could train them. And so he commissioned the charismatic Irish adventurer Frederick Carter to ship four tamed Asian elephants from India to the East African coast, where they were marched inland towards Congo. The ultimate aim was to establish a training school for African elephants. Following in the footsteps of the four elephants, Roberts pieces together the story of this long-forgotten expedition.
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A Training School for Elephants
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 20-02-25
- Language: English
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Being Hindu Being Indian
- Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood
- By: Vanya Vaidehi Bhargava
- Narrated by: Vasundhara Bose
- Length: 19 hrs and 30 mins
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In popular imagination, Lala Lajpat Rai is frequently associated with Bhagat Singh, who, by assassinating J.P. Saunders, avenged Rai’s death, caused by a police lathi charge, and was hanged for it. Lajpat Rai is also remembered for his fervent opposition to British rule. In recent decades, however, historians have converged with the Hindu Right in rediscovering Lajpat Rai as an ideological ancestor of Hindutva. But what then explains Rai’s wholehearted approval of the Congress-Muslim League cooperation, and attempt to endow Hindus and Muslims with bonds of common belonging?
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Being Hindu Being Indian
- Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood
- Narrated by: Vasundhara Bose
- Length: 19 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 30-07-24
- Language: English
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Clarissa
- Muse to Power, The Untold Story of Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon
- By: Hugo Vickers
- Length: 10 hrs
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Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon, wife of Prime Minister Anthony Eden, once famously said: 'For the past few weeks I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through my drawing-room.' With her impressive intellect and acerbic wit, she was a highly influential muse to many leading figures over several decades.
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Clarissa
- Muse to Power, The Untold Story of Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 21-11-24
- Language: English
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Hitler's People
- The Faces of the Third Reich
- By: Richard J. Evans
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In his major new work, renowned historian Richard J. Evans makes use of a mass of recently unearthed new evidence to strip away the veneer of myth and legend from the faces of the Third Reich and present a more realistic view of Nazi perpetrators as human beings who were disturbingly like us.
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Hitler's People
- The Faces of the Third Reich
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 13-08-24
- Language: English
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Ottoline Morrell
- Life on the Grand Scale
- By: Miranda Seymour
- Narrated by: Elaine Claxton
- Length: 23 hrs and 22 mins
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One name links Betrand Russell and Axel Munthe, Augustus John and Henry Lamb, H.H. Asquith and Duncan Grant, Aldous Huxley and Lytton Strachey. To some she was a lover, to others a confidant and adviser. To many she was a mother substitute. But wherever the phrase ‘Bloomsbury group’ is spoken, Lady Ottoline Morrell’s name is not far behind.
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Ottoline Morrell
- Life on the Grand Scale
- Narrated by: Elaine Claxton
- Length: 23 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 04-07-24
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Caesars
- By: Suetonius, Tom Holland - translator
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The ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, where emperors had no choice but to fight, to thrill, to dazzle. To rule as a Caesar was to stand as an actor upon the great stage of the world. No biography invites us into the lives of the Caesars more vividly or intimately than that by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, written from the centre of Rome and power, in AD 121. Placing each Caesar in the context of the generations that had gone before, and connecting personality with policy, Suetonius injected flesh and blood into their stories.
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The Lives of the Caesars
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 20-02-25
- Language: English
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Mark Twain: The Non-Fiction Collection
- Chapters from My Autobigraphy; Old Times on the Mississippi; Life on the Mississippi; Roughing It; The Innocents Abroad; The Tramp Abroad; Following The Equator; Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion; and More
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood, Ian Porter, Todd Kramer, and others
- Length: 100 hrs
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This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of Mark Twain's Chapters From My Autobiography; 5 pieces of short non-fiction; and 6 pieces of his groundbreaking, wide-ranging travel writing.
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Mark Twain: The Non-Fiction Collection
- Chapters from My Autobigraphy; Old Times on the Mississippi; Life on the Mississippi; Roughing It; The Innocents Abroad; The Tramp Abroad; Following The Equator; Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion; and More
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood, Ian Porter, Todd Kramer, Kenneth Jay
- Length: 100 hrs
- Release date: 29-07-24
- Language: English
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Kingmaker
- By: Sonia Purnell
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 10 hrs
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When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were scathing - and often downright sexist. Written off as a social climber, her glamorous social life and infamous erotic adventures overshadowed her true legacy. Much of what she did behind the scenes to shape the twentieth century, on both sides of the Atlantic, remained invisible. That is, until now: with a wealth of fresh research, Sonia Purnell unveils for the first time the full, spectacular story of how Harriman left an indelible mark on the world today.
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Kingmaker
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 19-09-24
- Language: English
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To the Bitter End
- The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45
- By: Victor Klemperer
- Length: 20 hrs
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The international best-selling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany. A sensation when first published, this is one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933 a professor of languages in Dresden. Over the next decade he lost his job, his house and many of his friends, even his cat, as Jews were not allowed to own pets. Saved for much of the war from the Holocaust by his marriage to a gentile, he was able to escape in the aftermath of the Allied bombing of Dresden and survived the remaining months of the war in hiding.
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To the Bitter End
- The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release date: 31-12-24
- Language: English
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A Thousand Miles from Care
- The Hunt for My Brother’s Killer – A Thirty-Year Quest for Justice
- By: Steve Johnson
- Narrated by: Steve Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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At the entrance of Sydney Harbor, the cliffs rise fourteen stories above the Pacific, like a gigantic skirt made of sandstone. North Head, one of the most memorable cliffs, is a gorgeous place to watch the sunrise. But it’s an unforgiving place to lose your footing. When Steve Johnson’s younger brother Scott went over the edge in 1988, he hit an outcrop on the way down and exploded on the rocks below.
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A Thousand Miles from Care
- The Hunt for My Brother’s Killer – A Thirty-Year Quest for Justice
- Narrated by: Steve Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 04-07-24
- Language: English
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The Lesser Evil
- The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959
- By: Victor Klemperer
- Length: 20 hrs
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June 1945. The immediate postwar period produces many shocks and revelations - some people have behaved better than Klemperer had believed, others much worse.
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The Lesser Evil
- The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release date: 31-12-24
- Language: English
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The Traitor's Daughter
- Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past
- By: Roxana Spicer
- Narrated by: Roxana Spicer
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As a child, Roxana Spicer would sometimes wake to the sound of the Red Army choir. She would tip-toe downstairs to find her mother, cigarette in one hand and Black Russian in the other, singing along. Roxana would keep her company, and wonder. Everyone in their village knew Agnes Spicer was Russian, that she had been a captive of the Nazis. And that was all they knew, because Agnes kept her secrets close: how she managed to escape Germany, what the tattoo on her arm meant, even her real name. Discovering the truth about her beloved, charismatic, volatile mother became Roxana's obsession.
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The Traitor's Daughter
- Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past
- Narrated by: Roxana Spicer
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 27-08-24
- Language: English
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Mark Twain: The Travel Writing Collection
- The Innocents Abroad; Roughing It; Old Times on the Mississippi; Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion; A Tramp Abroad; Life on the Mississippi; Following the Equator
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood, Ian Porter, Kenneth Jay
- Length: 80 hrs
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This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of Mark Twain's 5 most inventive and humorous travel monologues.
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Mark Twain: The Travel Writing Collection
- The Innocents Abroad; Roughing It; Old Times on the Mississippi; Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion; A Tramp Abroad; Life on the Mississippi; Following the Equator
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood, Ian Porter, Kenneth Jay
- Length: 80 hrs
- Release date: 29-07-24
- Language: English
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Auschwitz – A Mother's Story
- How I Fought to Survive and See My Daughter Again
- By: Rosa de Winter-Levy
- Length: 5 hrs
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In 1943, as the Nazi power swept across central Europe, Rosa, her husband Emanuel and their daughter, Judy, were forced into hiding. But after a year and a half of living a terrifying, day-by-day existence, they were betrayed. As they arrived in Auschwitz, Rosa was torn from her husband and her only daughter. Could she dare to hope she would see either of them again?
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Auschwitz – A Mother's Story
- How I Fought to Survive and See My Daughter Again
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 31-07-24
- Language: English
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Never Far Apart
- The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, Book 36
- By: Kitty Salsberg, Ellen Foster, Adara Goldberg
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Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrive in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which has taken both of their parents. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto is fresh in their minds, as are their fragile hopes to be adopted. But their lives in Toronto are far from what they expected, and full of broken promises. As the sisters navigate their new surroundings, they each grow fiercely strong and independent, while holding onto the comfort that they will be Never Far Apart.
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Never Far Apart
- The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, Book 36
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 10-09-24
- Language: English
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