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Brothers in Arms
- One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day
- By: James Holland
- Narrated by: Al Murray
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,159
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Performance1,056
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Brought to you by Penguin. ** READ BY AL MURRAY ** 'War as it should be described. The book is an assault on the senses...Painful to read but impossible to put down' Gerard de Groot, The Times From the bestselling author of Normandy '44 and Sicily '43 comes an extraordinary account of the last...
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Remarkable, human, intensely moving
- By Syrinx2112 on 05-11-21
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Brothers in Arms
- One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day
- Narrated by: Al Murray
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 30-09-21
- Language: English
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The War in the West: A New History
- Volume 2: The Allies Fight Back 1941-43
- By: James Holland
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 24 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall477
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Performance420
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Story418
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The War in the West: A New History: Volume 2 by James Holland, read by Leighton Pugh. In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War, James Holland examines the momentous turning points of 1941–1943: Hitler’s invasion...
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WW2 history at its best
- By David Benjamin on 04-01-18
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The War in the West: A New History
- Volume 2: The Allies Fight Back 1941-43
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: The War in the West, Book 2
- Length: 24 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 24-08-17
- Language: English
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Alone in Japan
- A Journey to the Future
- By: Tom Feiling
- Narrated by: Tom Feiling
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Story5
Brought to you by Penguin. No sex. No kids. No future? When Tom Feiling moved to Tokyo as a student in the early nineties, Japan was a beacon of the future: a rising superpower, a technology giant, and a global symbol of prosperity, civility and success. When he returned twenty-four years later...
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Great account of Japan
- By Nige on 19-03-26
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Alone in Japan
- A Journey to the Future
- Narrated by: Tom Feiling
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 26-02-26
- Language: English
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Postwar
- A History of Europe Since 1945
- By: Tony Judt
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 43 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall175
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Performance151
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Story149
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Postwar by Tony Judt, read by Ralph Cosham. Tracing the story of post-war Europe and its changing role in the world, Judt's magnificent history of the continent of our times investigates the political, social and cultural history of Europe from the...
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Monumental
- By Ben Lewis on 17-02-19
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Postwar
- A History of Europe Since 1945
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 43 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 21-12-17
- Language: English
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The Revolutionists
- The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
- By: Jason Burke
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 25 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance44
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Story44
Brought to you by Penguin. ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2025 ** A thrilling and unprecedented account of the radicalism and political extremism that gripped the 1970s – a seismic decade that transformed the modern world. In the 1970s, a network of extremists terrorised the West...
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Very good
- By Luis1989 on 27-01-26
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The Revolutionists
- The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 25 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 02-10-25
- Language: English
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Victory in the West 1945
- By: Peter Caddick-Adams TD VR BA (Hons) PhD FRHistS FRGS KJ
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall170
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Performance151
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Story151
March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is finally within their grasp. But if they believe this victory can be easily won, they face swift disillusionment. The final 100 days of the Second World War will prove to be bitterly and bloodily fought, village by village, town by town. Acclaimed military historian Peter Caddick-Adams brings this closing stage of the Allies' fight against Nazi Germany brilliantly to life. He explores the immense challenges they faced in crossing the Rhine on a 300-mile front.
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Anti British Bias
- By Marea on 23-10-22
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Victory in the West 1945
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 19-05-22
- Language: English
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The Genius Myth
- The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers
- By: Helen Lewis
- Narrated by: Helen Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance48
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Story48
Brought to you by Penguin. *A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman and GQ Book for 2025 * The tortured poet. The rebellious scientist. The monstrous artist. The tech disruptor. You can tell what a society values by who it labels as a genius. You can also tell who it excludes, who it enables...
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Kept me listening intently
- By Anonymous on 20-08-25
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The Genius Myth
- The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers
- Narrated by: Helen Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 19-06-25
- Language: English
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Goose Green
- The Decisive Battle of the Falklands War – by the British Troops Who Fought It
- By: Nigel Ely
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall328
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Performance293
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Story294
On 28 May 1982, 450 men of the 2nd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment—2 Para—went into action to retake the settlement of Goose Green on East Falkland, where more than 1,000 Argentine soldiers were holding 119 Falkland Islanders—men, women, children and one baby—in squalid conditions. Forty years on, Goose Green is still the biggest and bloodiest battle the British Army has fought in modern times. This book is the living narrative of the battle told by the very men who fought it.
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Superb telling of the battle story.
- By Psaronius on 12-05-22
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Goose Green
- The Decisive Battle of the Falklands War – by the British Troops Who Fought It
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 17-02-22
- Language: English
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Catastrophe
- Europe Goes to War 1914
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Nigel Carrington
- Length: 28 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall534
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Performance469
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Story464
The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war. 1914: a year of unparalleled change. The year that diplomacy failed, Imperial Europe was...
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Highly recommended
- By Tommy on 08-04-17
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Catastrophe
- Europe Goes to War 1914
- Narrated by: Nigel Carrington
- Length: 28 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 29-10-15
- Language: English
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2)
- 1938-43
- By: Chips Channon
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Length: 48 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall92
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Performance79
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Story79
This second volume of the best-selling diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon takes us from the heady aftermath of the Munich agreement, when the prime minister Chips so admired was credited with having averted a general European conflagration, through the rapid unravelling of appeasement, and on to the tribulations of the early years of the Second World War. It closes with a moment of hope, as Channon, in recording the fall of Mussolini in July 1943, reflects: 'The war must be more than half over.'
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Wonderfully enthralling and yet painfully snobbish
- By Philip Moore on 16-01-22
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2)
- 1938-43
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Series: The Diaries, Book 2
- Length: 48 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 09-12-21
- Language: English
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SAS: My Trial By Fire
- True Stories and Life Lessons from SAS Selection
- By: Des Powell
- Narrated by: Des Powell
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall94
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Performance91
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Story91
Des Powell left school with no qualifications and little in the way of formal education. At nineteen he signed up to join the Parachute Regiment. Famously, the Paras is home to the UK military's second-toughest training regime after the SAS. Des Powell knows all about both. In fact, Des knows SAS selection better than anyone because he's done it twice. In SAS: Trial by Fire he tells the story of those gruelling tests: how Para training turned him into a soldier but, more crucially, how the SAS process turned him into a member of the elite.
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very basic and not much you dont know
- By mr g. on 19-03-26
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SAS: My Trial By Fire
- True Stories and Life Lessons from SAS Selection
- Narrated by: Des Powell
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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The Making of Modern Britain
- By: Andrew Marr
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall160
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Performance138
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Story137
In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation...
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Wonderful and informative
- By A. Curtis on 18-09-17
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The Making of Modern Britain
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 06-10-16
- Language: English
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57
- By: Chips Channon
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Length: 48 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall73
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Performance70
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Story70
This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with a prematurely aged Chips descending into poor health but still socially active and able to turn a pointed phrase about the political events that swirl around him and the great and the good with whom he mingles.
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Good production but flawed!
- By Fiona on 13-02-23
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Series: The Diaries, Book 3
- Length: 48 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 24-11-22
- Language: English
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The Writer and the Traitor
- Graham Greene, Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- By: Robert Verkaik
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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'A wholly fascinating account of an extraordinary friendship. Robert Verkaik's nuanced and insightful portraits of these two highly complicated individuals is brilliantly convincing.' - William Boyd 'Ever since first reading Graham Greene's extraordinary foreword to my grandfather's...
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The Writer and the Traitor
- Graham Greene, Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 09-04-26
- Language: English
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Courtiers
- The Secret History of the Georgian Court
- By: Lucy Worsley
- Narrated by: Lucy Worsley
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance62
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Story62
Ambitious and talented people flocked to court of George II and Queen Caroline in search of power and prestige, but Kensington Palace was also a gilded cage. Successful courtiers needed level heads and cold hearts; their secrets were never safe. Among them, a Vice Chamberlain with many vices, a Maid of Honour with a secret marriage, a pushy painter, an alcoholic equerry, a Wild Boy, a penniless poet, a dwarf comedian, two mysterious turbaned Turks and any number of discarded royal mistresses.
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Lucy's humour and knowledge.
- By Debra K on 29-06-25
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Courtiers
- The Secret History of the Georgian Court
- Narrated by: Lucy Worsley
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 17-06-25
- Language: English
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Chernobyl
- History of a Tragedy
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall928
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Performance816
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Story810
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 'An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens 'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a...
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The narrator can't pronounce "nuclear"
- By MR on 23-05-19
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Chernobyl
- History of a Tragedy
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 31-01-19
- Language: English
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All Out War
- The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class
- By: Tim Shipman
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Length: 32 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall623
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Performance547
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Story546
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘The best political book of the year’ Andrew Marr ‘A superb work of storytelling and reporting. Sets new benchmark for the writing of contemporary political history’ Guardian The only book to tell the full story of how and...
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Fabulous and frightening insight.
- By Mr. Chris B Nicholls on 06-11-18
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All Out War
- The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Length: 32 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 24-11-16
- Language: English
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The Traitors Circle
- THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
- By: Jonathan Freedland
- Narrated by: Jonathan Freedland
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall159
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Performance157
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ESCAPE ARTIST A THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Magnificent . . . Important and impressive' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Astonishing . . . Freedland is a master' MICK HERRON 'Remarkable . . . This is how the best history books will be written in the...
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Beautifully written despite the subject
- By Amazon Customer on 16-10-25
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The Traitors Circle
- THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
- Narrated by: Jonathan Freedland
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-09-25
- Language: English
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State of Emergency
- The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974
- By: Dominic Sandbrook
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 32 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall525
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Performance447
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Story447
In the early 1970s, Britain seemed to be tottering on the brink of the abyss. Under Edward Heath, the optimism of the Sixties had become a distant memory. Now the headlines were dominated by strikes and blackouts, unemployment and inflation. As the world looked on in horrified fascination, Britain seemed to be tearing itself apart. And yet, amid the gloom, glittered a creativity and cultural dynamism that would influence our lives long after the nightmarish Seventies had been forgotten.
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Just Brilliant
- By Baz Borozitch on 29-04-13
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State of Emergency
- The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 32 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 07-01-13
- Language: English
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Iran
- A Modern History
- By: Abbas Amanat
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 41 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall93
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Performance80
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Story79
This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years. The book covers the complex history of the diverse societies and economies of Iran against the background of dynastic changes, revolutions, civil wars, foreign occupation, and the rise of the Islamic Republic.
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An excellent scholarly work
- By Parissa on 22-10-18
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Iran
- A Modern History
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 41 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 07-08-18
- Language: English
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