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Auschwitz
- By: Laurence Rees
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall278
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Performance252
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Story251
In this compelling book, highly acclaimed author and broadcaster Laurence Rees tells the definitive history of the most notorious Nazi institution of them all. We discover how Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners into the site of the largest mass murder in history - part death camp, part concentration camp, where around a million Jews were killed.
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Simply a must listen....
- By Blethers on 09-06-21
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Auschwitz
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 30-07-20
- Language: English
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Bletchley Park and D-Day
- By: David Kenyon
- Narrated by: Greg Patmore
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall86
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Performance80
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Story80
Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis' codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelligence workers were then involved in making crucial information available to the Allied leaders and commanders who desperately needed it.
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If you like detail, this is your book
- By Guillermo on 24-08-19
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Bletchley Park and D-Day
- Narrated by: Greg Patmore
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 16-07-19
- Language: English
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GCHQ
- Centenary Edition
- By: Richard Aldrich
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 25 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall540
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Performance476
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Story476
FULLY UPDATED CENTENARY EDITION ‘An important book’ Max Hastings, Sunday Times ‘An intriguing history of covert surveillance … thoroughly engaging’ Daily Telegraph GCHQ is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the UK, and has existed for 100 years – but we still...
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Sober and detailed history
- By Philip on 15-10-19
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GCHQ
- Centenary Edition
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 25 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 11-07-19
- Language: English
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Nazi Germany: History in an Hour
- By: Rupert Colley
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall118
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Performance98
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Story95
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Listen to this bite size audiobook about Hitler's experience as a soldier during World War One, the Nazi Party's climb to power, the elimination of their political opponents and the Weimar constitution. Learn about life in Nazi Germany, for...
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enjoyed it!
- By Grant M on 14-01-20
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Nazi Germany: History in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 02-02-12
- Language: English
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A History of Modern Britain
- By: Andrew Marr
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 29 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall371
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Performance319
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Story314
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and...
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Great Storytelling with few minor problems
- By Mads on 16-05-18
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A History of Modern Britain
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 29 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 07-10-16
- Language: English
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The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals
- By: Michelle Morgan
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall293
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Performance264
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Story262
'Ghoulishly entertaining' Jacqueline Banerjee, Times Literary Supplement 'This is a great book for dipping into . . . the cases themselves are written engagingly and with appealing dramatisation of key events.' Kim Fleet, Crime Review A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and...
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Oh god the accents
- By Mrs Trellis on 22-08-18
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The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 12-04-18
- Language: English
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To Hell and Back
- Europe, 1914-1949
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 24 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall501
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Performance437
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Story436
In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its survivors, shocked that a civilization that had blandly assumed itself to be a model for the rest of the world had collapsed into a chaotic savagery beyond any comparison.
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An excellent history
- By Cryptochimp on 09-01-18
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To Hell and Back
- Europe, 1914-1949
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 8
- Length: 24 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 24-09-15
- Language: English
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul
- A richly immersive history of Afghanistan from the BBC's Chief International Correspondent
- By: Lyse Doucet
- Narrated by: Lyse Doucet
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall86
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Performance81
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Story81
Brought to you by Penguin. The Sunday Times Bestseller Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Nero Book Award Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction The Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer and Economist Book of the Year 2025 A sweeping...
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Excellent - highly recommended
- By balzar on 24-09-25
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul
- A richly immersive history of Afghanistan from the BBC's Chief International Correspondent
- Narrated by: Lyse Doucet
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 18-09-25
- Language: English
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The Rising Sun
- The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
- By: John Toland
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 41 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall204
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Performance180
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Story178
This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, "a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened - muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox."
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The stupidity of war
- By R on 26-06-15
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The Rising Sun
- The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 41 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 27-06-14
- Language: English
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White Heat
- A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties
- By: Dominic Sandbrook
- Narrated by: Dominic Sandbrook, Roger Davis
- Length: 39 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall94
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Performance85
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Story85
Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life...
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Excellent book ruined by terrible narration
- By cathy smith on 09-10-24
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White Heat
- A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties
- Narrated by: Dominic Sandbrook, Roger Davis
- Length: 39 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 03-10-24
- Language: English
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The Great British Dream Factory
- The Strange History of Our National Imagination
- By: Dominic Sandbrook
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall224
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Performance195
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Story194
Britain's empire has gone. Our manufacturing base is a shadow of its former self; the Royal Navy has been reduced to a skeleton. In military, diplomatic and economic terms, we no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one area in which we can legitimately claim superpower status: our popular culture.
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"Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Dry Bones"
- By D. Menashy on 20-07-16
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The Great British Dream Factory
- The Strange History of Our National Imagination
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 02-02-16
- Language: English
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The Diana Chronicles
- By: Tina Brown
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 21 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall68
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Performance59
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Story59
Brought to you by Penguin. More than twenty years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she "the people's princess," who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? The...
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interesting, enjoyable listening
- By Thistle on 29-10-22
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The Diana Chronicles
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 21 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 11-02-21
- Language: English
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The War of the World
- History's Age of Hatred
- By: Niall Ferguson
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 34 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall182
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Performance158
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Story159
The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalising, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalised in history, with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbreak of the First World War and the end of the Cold War. What went wrong?
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Not able finish
- By Steve Seaman on 16-03-18
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The War of the World
- History's Age of Hatred
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 34 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-10-17
- Language: English
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Armageddon
- The Battle for Germany 1944-45
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: John Sessions
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Abridged
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Overall302
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Performance227
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Story224
In this compelling study Max Hastings addresses the big human and military questions. Why did the Allies not win the war in 1944, when they were vastly stronger than the Germans? Why did the Russians produce the best generals? What was it like to fight the British, American, German and Soviet...
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Masterful history. Story telling at its best.
- By J NEILL on 18-11-08
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Armageddon
- The Battle for Germany 1944-45
- Narrated by: John Sessions
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 13-02-08
- Language: English
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Hitler and Stalin
- The Tyrants and the Second World War
- By: Laurence Rees
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall148
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Performance127
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Story126
Brought to you by Penguin. The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years' work - examines the two tyrants during the Second World War, when Germany and...
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Narrator bumming alert
- By D. R. Boorman on 15-03-21
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Hitler and Stalin
- The Tyrants and the Second World War
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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Operation Biting
- The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall109
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Performance105
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Story105
THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A Times Best History Book of the Year; A Waterstones Best Book of the Year 'Reads like a thriller… I couldn't put Max Hastings's new book down' DAILY MAIL 'Hastings is a master of drama, a writer intimately familiar with the mind of the soldier' THE TIMES...
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Good
- By mike on 29-10-24
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Operation Biting
- The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 23-05-24
- Language: English
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Operation Gladio
- The Plan, the People, and the Fallout
- By: Miles Dunsford
- Narrated by: Erin B Clark
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance38
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Story38
In Operation Gladio: The Plan, the People, and the Fallout, Miles Dunsford takes listeners deep into one of the most controversial and misunderstood covert operations of the 20th century.
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Perfect for History Enthusiasts
- By Eva Bowen on 14-05-26
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Operation Gladio
- The Plan, the People, and the Fallout
- Narrated by: Erin B Clark
- Series: Zentara Cold War Operations Revealed, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 28-01-26
- Language: English
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Fighter
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Len Deighton
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance78
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Story76
Brought to you by Penguin History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of the Battle of Britain, Len Deighton drew on a decade of research and his own wartime experiences to puncture these...
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Really interesting
- By Ian Smith on 11-03-22
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Fighter
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 29-07-21
- Language: English
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The End
- Hitler's Germany, 1944-45
- By: Ian Kershaw
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall398
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Performance336
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Story336
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook of Ian Kershaw's The End, a searing account of the last days of the Nazi Regime and the downfall of a nation. Read by David Timson. The last months of the Second World War were a nightmarish time to be alive. Unimaginable levels of violence destroyed entire...
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The End of Hitler
- By Dr.Stuart on 01-02-14
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The End
- Hitler's Germany, 1944-45
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 08-06-12
- Language: English
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Pandemic 1918
- The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History
- By: Catharine Arnold
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall81
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Performance71
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Story72
In the dying months of World War I, Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world, killing between 50 and 100 million people. Nowhere escaped this common enemy: in Britain, 250,000 people died, and in the United States it was 750,000, while European deaths reached over two million. The numbers are staggering. And yet at the time, news of the danger was suppressed for fear of impacting wartime morale. Behind the numbers are human lives, stories of those who suffered and fought it - in the hospitals and laboratories.
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History Repeats
- By Ms. Jm Harrington on 30-04-20
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Pandemic 1918
- The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-09-18
- Language: English
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