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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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Overall273
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Performance250
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Story249
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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Escape from the Ghetto
- The Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the Nazis
- By: John Carr
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance42
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Story42
In early 1940, Chaim Herzsman was locked in to the Lódz Ghetto in Poland. Hungry, fearless and determined, he goes on scavenging missions outside the wire limits, until he is forced to kill a Nazi guard. That moment changes the course of his life and sets him on an unbelievable adventure across enemy lines.
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couldn't stop listening
- By David Cattell on 20-06-23
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Escape from the Ghetto
- The Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the Nazis
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 24-06-21
- Language: English
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The White Sniper
- Simo Häyhä
- By: Tapio Saarelainen
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance29
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Story29
Simo Häyhä was a man of action who spoke very little, but he was respected by his men and his superiors and given many difficult missions, including taking out specific targets. Able to move silently and swiftly through the landscape, melting into the snowbound surroundings in his white camouflage fatigues, his aim was deadly and his quarry rarely escaped. The Russians learned of his reputation as a marksman and tried several times to kill him by indirect fire. He was promoted from corporal to second lieutenant and he was awarded the Cross of Kollaa.
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Hardly anything about the sniper disappointing
- By adam on 21-04-20
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The White Sniper
- Simo Häyhä
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 19-11-19
- Language: English
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The Mirror of Great Britain
- A Life of James VI & I
- By: Clare Jackson
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Brought to you by Penguin. A major reassessment of one of Britain’s most strange and fascinating kings, James I of England and VI of Scotland James VI & I, who died 400 years ago, was one of Britain’s most consequential and interesting monarchs, not least in creating the British monarchy...
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The Mirror of Great Britain
- A Life of James VI & I
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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The Women Are Not Fine
- The Dark History of a Poisonous Sisterhood
- By: Hope Reese
- Narrated by: Alexandra Boulton
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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'Compelling' TELEGRAPH 'Such a compelling account of a small but significant dark corner of history... Profound, angry, and tender all at once' VIRGINIA FEITO, author of MRS MARCH 'An insightful, empathetic and well-researched account of a deeply fascinating and macabre true story' KATE MOORE...
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A fascinating and gripping tale
- By Weaver on 31-07-25
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The Women Are Not Fine
- The Dark History of a Poisonous Sisterhood
- Narrated by: Alexandra Boulton
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 11-07-25
- Language: English
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World War Two: History in an Hour
- By: Rupert Colley
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall225
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Performance182
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Story185
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. World War Two was one of the most devastating conflicts the world has ever seen. Between 1939 and 1945 almost every country in the world was affected by the war in some way. World War Two: History in an Hour neatly covers all the major facts...
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A worthwhile and informative listen.
- By Gary on 02-03-17
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World War Two: History in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-02-12
- Language: English
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My Friend Anne Frank
- By: Hannah Pick-Goslar
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance42
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Story42
When Hannah's family flee from the Nazis to Amsterdam, she soon strikes up a friendship with a girl just like her freshly arrived from Germany. Precocious and outspoken, the girl's name is Anne Frank and for seven blissful years the inseparable pair navigate school, boys and coming of age.
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amazing story
- By joan harrison on 12-06-23
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My Friend Anne Frank
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 08-06-23
- Language: English
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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
- By: Timothy Tackett
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance15
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Story15
Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror?
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Fantastic
- By L C on 14-06-23
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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 23-06-20
- Language: English
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Pakistan or the Partition of India
- By: B. R. Ambedkar
- Narrated by: Derek Denzil
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Delve into the profound insights of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in Pakistan or the Partition of India. This seminal work offers an in-depth analysis of the factors leading to the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan. Ambedkar's scholarly approach and compelling arguments shed light on the political, social, and religious dynamics that shaped one of the most significant events in South Asian history. A must-listen for anyone seeking to understand the historical context and enduring impact of partition.
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Pakistan or the Partition of India
- Narrated by: Derek Denzil
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 15-11-24
- Language: English
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The Invention of Murder
- How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
- By: Judith Flanders
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall149
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Performance78
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Story77
A deeply engaging and completely original book about nineteenth-century Britain’s fascination with good quality murder. Murder in nineteenth-century Britain was ubiquitous – not necessarily in quantity but in quality. This was the era of penny-bloods, early crime fiction and melodramas for...
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Utterly absorbing
- By Avid reader on 01-08-12
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The Invention of Murder
- How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 20-01-11
- Language: English
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The Price of Peace
- Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
- By: Zachary D. Carter
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall95
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Performance74
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Story73
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of the influential economist and his transformative ideas “A timely, lucid and compelling...
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Brilliant, excoriating, fascinating, devastating
- By Fletcher Christian on 07-07-20
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The Price of Peace
- Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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Flying Blind
- The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
- By: Peter Robison
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance69
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Story70
Brought to you by Penguin. Boeing's story is the corporate scandal that's transfixed the world like none since the bankruptcy of Enron and the BP oil spill. In examining the history of the 737, a highly-regarded plane that Boeing's new management degraded with cost-focused mandates, Flying Blind...
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frightening
- By Duncan Williamson on 31-03-22
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Flying Blind
- The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 18-11-21
- Language: English
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Method and Madness
- The Hidden Story of Israel's Assaults on Gaza
- By: Norman G. Finkelstein
- Narrated by: Gary Dana
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall114
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Performance102
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Story102
In the past five years, Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), and Operation Protective Edge (2014) have resulted in the deaths of some 3,700 Palestinians. Meanwhile a total of 90 Israelis were killed in the invasions. On the face of it, this succession of vastly disproportionate attacks has often seemed frenzied and pathological.
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Fantastic insight into Israeli terror machine
- By Tomislav Jakopec on 11-03-22
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Method and Madness
- The Hidden Story of Israel's Assaults on Gaza
- Narrated by: Gary Dana
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 07-07-15
- Language: English
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Fire and Movement
- The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914
- By: Peter Hart
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance54
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Story54
A remarkable story of high hopes and crushing disappointment, the campaign contains moments of sheer horror and nerve-shattering excitement; pathos and comic relief; occasional cowardice and much selfless courage - all culminating in the climax of the First Battle of Ypres. And yet, as Peter Hart shows in this gripping and revisionary look at the war's first year, for too long the British part in the 1914 campaigns has been veiled in layers of self-congratulatory myth.
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Excellent account, poor delivery
- By Mr on 14-05-15
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Fire and Movement
- The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-01-15
- Language: English
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The Florentines
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall81
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Performance66
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Story66
Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened that transformed the entire culture of Western civilisation. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what had taken place. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely new aspect. Sciences would be born or emerge in an entirely new guise. The ideas that broke this mould largely began, and continued to flourish, in the city of Florence in the province of Tuscany.
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Interesting overview of key characters
- By M Turner on 26-10-21
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The Florentines
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 17-06-21
- Language: English
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Paris Undercover
- A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal
- By: Matthew Goodman
- Narrated by: Kristi Burns
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Two women in Nazi-occupied Paris created a daring escape line that rescued dozens of Allied servicemen. With one still in a German prison camp, the other wrote a book about it—a memoir built on fabrications. Now the bestselling author of Eighty Days shares their incredible, never-before-told...
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This was ruined by the narrator
- By cj on 05-02-25
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Paris Undercover
- A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal
- Narrated by: Kristi Burns
- Length: 14 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 04-02-25
- Language: English
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No Such Thing as Society
- A History of Britain in the 1980s
- By: Andy McSmith
- Narrated by: David Holt
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall446
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Performance329
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Story325
The 1980s was the revolutionary decade of the 20th century. From the Falklands war and the miners' strike to Bobby Sands and the Guildford Four, from Diana and the New Romantics to Live Aid and the 'big bang', from the Rubik's cube to the ZX Spectrum, McSmith's brilliant narrative account uncovers the truth behind the decade that changed Britain forever - politically, economically and culturally.
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So close and yet so far
- By E. Bailey on 08-09-11
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No Such Thing as Society
- A History of Britain in the 1980s
- Narrated by: David Holt
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 15-03-11
- Language: English
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Remembering Peasants
- A Personal History of a Vanished World
- By: Patrick Joyce
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
A way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time: the eclipse of the rural world by the urban. In this new history of peasantry, Patrick Joyce tells the story of this lost world and its people. In contrast to the usual insulting stereotypes, we discover a rich and complex culture: traditions, songs, celebrations, and revolts, across Europe from the plains of Poland to the farmsteads and villages of Italy and Ireland, through the 19th century to the present day.
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Superb!
- By Martin and Sofia Carter on 21-06-25
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Remembering Peasants
- A Personal History of a Vanished World
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 15-02-24
- Language: English
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- By: David Wootton
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance24
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We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. Yet today science and its practitioners have come under political attack. In this fascinating history spanning continents and centuries, historian David Wootton offers a lively defense of science, revealing why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history. The Invention of Science goes back 500 years in time to chronicle this crucial transformation, exploring the factors that led to its birth and the people who made it happen.
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Marvellous
- By Joye C. on 10-12-21
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 19-04-16
- 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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