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Anglo-Saxon Portraits
- Thirty ground-breaking men and women of the early English nation
- By: Various
- Narrated by: Barbara Yorke, David Almond, Full Cast, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance26
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The half millennium between the creation of the English nation in around 550 and the Norman Conquest in 1066 was a formative one. This groundbreaking series rediscovers the Anglo-Saxons through vivid portraits of thirty incredible men and women, as told by their contemporary admirers. Nobel...
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A great walk through anglo saxon England
- By Scott R on 28-11-20
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Anglo-Saxon Portraits
- Thirty ground-breaking men and women of the early English nation
- Narrated by: Barbara Yorke, David Almond, Full Cast, Michael Wood, Rowan Williams, Seamus Heaney
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 26-11-20
- Language: English
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Charmed Life
- The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon
- By: Damian Collins
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance16
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Story17
The story of a fascinating man who connected the great politicians, artists and thinkers at the height of British global power and influence. A famed aesthete, politician and patron of the arts, Philip Sassoon lived in a world of English elegance and oriental flair. Gathering a social set that...
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Very poor reading
- By B D. on 21-05-17
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Charmed Life
- The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 02-06-16
- Language: English
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The Real Queen Charlotte
- Inside the Real Bridgerton Court
- By: Catherine Curzon
- Narrated by: Kim Bretton
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Known to millions as the imperious matriarch of Bridgerton's court, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was still a teenager when she was chosen to be the bride of King George III. Shy, innocent, and sheltered, the orphaned princess and her groom carried the hopes of a nation on their shoulders. The unassuming young couple symbolized a new beginning, but soon those hopes began to sour. Charlotte and George's marriage lasted for nearly sixty years and produced more than a dozen children, but it was beset by unrest at home, war in the colonies, and the king's encroaching madness.
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Very limited and brief overview
- By MABS on 16-10-24
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The Real Queen Charlotte
- Inside the Real Bridgerton Court
- Narrated by: Kim Bretton
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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Elizabeth
- By: David Starkey, Kati Nicholl
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Abridged
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Overall80
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Performance61
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Story60
A brilliant and compelling account of the apprentice years of Elizabeth I. An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man’s world, passionately sexual yet – she said – a virgin, Elizabeth I was to be famed as England’s most successful ruler. This absorbing new...
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Very enjoyable
- By Teebs on 23-06-16
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Elizabeth
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 24-06-05
- Language: English
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Queen Victoria's Granddaughters: 1860-1918
- By: Christina Croft
- Narrated by: Fleur Edwards
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance43
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Story42
On 6 July 1868, when told of the birth of her seventh granddaughter, Queen Victoria remarked that the news was "a very uninteresting thing for it seems to me to go on like the rabbits in Windsor Park". Her apathy was understandable - this was her 14th grandchild, and, though she had given birth to nine children, she had never been fond of babies, viewing them as "frog-like and rather disgusting...particularly when undressed".
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A whole lot of Princesses
- By Franklymydarling on 26-04-17
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Queen Victoria's Granddaughters: 1860-1918
- Narrated by: Fleur Edwards
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 03-04-17
- Language: English
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In Love with George Eliot
- A Novel
- By: Kathy O’Shaughnessy
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance20
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Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of England’s greatest woman novelist as you’ve never heard it before.
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An excellent novel !
- By Anonymous on 22-05-23
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In Love with George Eliot
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-10-20
- Language: English
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The Sins of Jack Saul (Second Edition)
- The True Story of Dublin Jack and The Cleveland Street Scandal
- By: Glenn Chandler
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance19
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The Cleveland Street scandal, involving a homosexual brothel reputedly visited by the queen's grandson, shocked Victorian Britain in 1889. This is the first full-length account of one of its key players, Jack Saul, a working-class, Irish-Catholic rent boy who worked his way into the upper echelons of the aristocracy, and wrote the notorious pornographic memoir The Sins of the Cities of the Plain.
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Fascinating
- By Aliratz on 26-04-25
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The Sins of Jack Saul (Second Edition)
- The True Story of Dublin Jack and The Cleveland Street Scandal
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 09-03-21
- Language: English
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J. R. R. Tolkien
- A Biography
- By: Humphrey Carpenter
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall126
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Performance107
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Story107
The original authorised biography, and the only one written by an author who actually met J.R.R. Tolkien, released for the first time on audio. In more than 40 years since Tolkien’s death in September 1973, millions have read The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and become...
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Pleasing and well-read biography of a complex man
- By Kl Love on 18-05-20
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J. R. R. Tolkien
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 19-07-18
- Language: English
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Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Ulysses S. Grant
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 29 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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In this epic 1885 work, General Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States and staunch supporter of the Union cause, set the record straight on his storied life and career. At its heart is Grant, victor and eyewitness to the defining moments of the Civil War, including the Battles of Shiloh, Chattanooga, and the Wilderness; the Siege of Vicksburg; and the Appomattox campaign, which concluded with the surrender of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
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Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 29 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 29-09-20
- Language: English
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Four Weeks in May
- The Loss of HMS Coventry
- By: David Hart Dyke
- Narrated by: Paul Blake
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance34
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On 25 May 1982, at a critical juncture in the Falklands War, the destroyer HMS Coventry was attacked by Argentinean aircraft. In a devastating strike, she was hit by three bombs, two of which exploded inside her hull, killing 19 of her crew and leaving many others badly injured. Within minutes Coventry had capsized, and would finally sink the following day. It was the first occasion since the Second World War that a British captain and crew had to abandon a stricken ship.
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Moving account of Bravery and patriotism
- By Bradley on 12-03-19
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Four Weeks in May
- The Loss of HMS Coventry
- Narrated by: Paul Blake
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 25-02-13
- Language: English
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Titans of History
- The Giants Who Made Our World
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance38
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NEW EDITION - FEATURING UPDATED INTRODUCTION AND NEW CHAPTERS The giant characters of history - from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare to Einstein, Henry VIII to Hitler, Catherine the Great to Margaret Thatcher, Jesus Christ to Genghis Khan - lived lives of astonishing drama and adventure...
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Like listening to wikipedia
- By Joanne on 08-07-19
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Titans of History
- The Giants Who Made Our World
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 18-10-18
- Language: English
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Death in Ten Minutes
- The forgotten life of radical suffragette Kitty Marion
- By: Fern Riddell
- Narrated by: Fern Riddell
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance54
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The never before told story of radical suffragette Kitty Marion. Historian Fern Riddell finds a hidden diary and uses Kitty's own words to tell the story of her sensational life and explosive actions. Kitty Marion was sent across the country by the Pankhurst family to carry out a nationwide...
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Revealing an Untold History
- By M. Atkinson on 04-06-18
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Death in Ten Minutes
- The forgotten life of radical suffragette Kitty Marion
- Narrated by: Fern Riddell
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 19-04-18
- Language: English
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Nixon and Kissinger
- Partners in Power
- By: Robert Dallek
- Narrated by: Eric Conger
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Abridged
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Overall26
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Performance18
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More than thirty years after working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger still stand as two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful leaders in America in the second half of the twentieth century. Both were largely self-made men, brimming with ambition...
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WARNING: not the unabridged version
- By Adam on 05-03-14
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Nixon and Kissinger
- Partners in Power
- Narrated by: Eric Conger
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 24-04-07
- Language: English
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Charlemagne
- By: Johannes Fried, Peter Lewis
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 30 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance34
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When the legendary Frankish king and emperor Charlemagne died in 814 he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Johannes Fried paints a compelling portrait of a devout ruler, a violent time, and a unified kingdom that deepens our understanding of the man often called the father of Europe.
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Very heavy going
- By Amazon Customer on 01-12-17
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Charlemagne
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 30 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 12-09-17
- Language: English
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SAS Great Escapes Three
- Five of the Most Daring Escapes Carried Out by the SAS During World War Two
- By: Damien Lewis
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance41
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'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee Child 'Now that's a Great Escape! How 34 members of the SAS evaded 5,000 Nazi troops in blizzard conditions, after wreaking havoc in Italian mountain ambush ... The full gripping story of Operation Galia and the incredible...
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SAS Great Escapes Three
- By Peter Carr on 09-06-24
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SAS Great Escapes Three
- Five of the Most Daring Escapes Carried Out by the SAS During World War Two
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Series: SAS Great Escapes, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 23-05-24
- Language: English
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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries
- How Women (Also) Built the World
- By: Kate Mosse
- Narrated by: Jade Anouka, Kate Mosse
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance25
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'One brilliant woman writing about so many other brilliant women, this is a wonderful treasure chest of women’s lives, full of wit, verve and emotion . . . Epic, unputdownable, gripping. I loved it’ - Professor Kate Williams “My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been inspired...
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Loved it and a gift for Quiet Revolutionaries
- By Catriona Ferris on 18-02-24
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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries
- How Women (Also) Built the World
- Narrated by: Jade Anouka, Kate Mosse
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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Black Spartacus
- The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
- By: Sudhir Hazareesingh
- Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance61
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Brought to you by Penguin. Shortlisted for THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION, 2020 The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's first independent...
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Fantastic Researched Biography
- By Agberolistic on 10-01-21
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Black Spartacus
- The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
- Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-09-20
- Language: English
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The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
- By: Robert Southey
- Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Dive into the extraordinary life of Britain's greatest naval hero in Robert Southey's definitive biography of Horatio Lord Nelson. With unparalleled insight, Southey captures Nelson's meteoric rise, fierce battles, and unyielding dedication to his country. From the fiery clash at the Nile to the triumph and tragedy of Trafalgar, this richly detailed account paints a vivid picture of the man who reshaped naval warfare and inspired a nation.
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Battle of trafalgar
- By pete on 30-08-25
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The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
- Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 27-05-25
- Language: English
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Jerusalem
- The Biography – A History of the Middle East
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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Overall170
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Performance101
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Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the...
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Brilliant. Extremely well narrated
- By Amazon Customer on 09-07-18
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Jerusalem
- The Biography – A History of the Middle East
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 09-02-11
- Language: English
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall124
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Performance111
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The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy. Examples of infamy flourished alongside some of the finest art produced in western history.
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Must read if you're interested in European history
- By Liam on 16-10-20
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-08-19
- Language: English
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