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A Game of Birds and Wolves
- The Secret Game That Won the War
- By: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being torpedoed by German U-boats. Prime Minister Winston Churchill is lying to the country about the number of British ships sunk. He is lying about the...
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Tense and intriguing
- By Phil on 21-11-19
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A Game of Birds and Wolves
- The Secret Game That Won the War
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-11-19
- Language: English
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives
- A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal
- By: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A gripping untold war story: using exclusive new archive material, letters and diaries, this is the story of the prisoners of war in internment camps during the Second World War. The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups...
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interesting story but not riveting
- By Mike L on 24-02-24
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives
- A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-02-22
- Language: English
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The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad
- A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege
- By: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2025* From the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists who risked everything for the future of humanity *An Economist Book of the Year* 'An astonishing story...
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A botanical lens on WW2
- By veyza on 05-01-26
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The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad
- A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 17-10-24
- Language: English
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Wreckers
- Disaster in the Age of Discovery
- By: Simon Park
- Narrated by: Esh Alladi
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Wreckers sinks the old narratives of imperialism, revealing the violent, chaotic and improvised reality of empire-building from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. While figures such as Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan are celebrated for...
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Excellent book and performance
- By Fiona & Colin on 14-06-25
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Wreckers
- Disaster in the Age of Discovery
- Narrated by: Esh Alladi
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 17-04-25
- Language: English
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Death by Video Game
- Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline
- By: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance40
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In Canada, volunteers are raising money for charity by playing marathon stints of Penn & Teller's Desert Bus, probably the worst video game ever created. Across the globe, thousands of viewers tune in to Kurt J. Mac's epic but seemingly pointless voyage towards the outer realms of Minecraft's procedurally generated world. In Iraq, mothers encourage their children to enter Call of Duty competitions to keep them off the bomb-ravaged streets of Baghdad.
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An insightful account into the world of videogames
- By baharnn on 07-10-15
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Death by Video Game
- Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 20-08-15
- Language: English
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My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin
- By: Simon Parkin
- Original Recording
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In My Perfect Console, Simon Parkin, award-winning author video game critic for The Observer invites well-known guests from the worlds of gaming, film and television, music, comedy and more to pick the five video games they would like to immortalise on a fictional games machine. They discuss those five games in chronological order of release, interspersed with biographical chat about the guest’s life and career –– a lens that often leads to new and unexpected insights."Thoroughly modern and ahead of its time...a gift." - NEW YORK'S VULTURE"Charming, insightful." -- THE GUARDIANTIME OUT'S...
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The Forbidden Garden
- The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
- By: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Scientific American, and The Economist The riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who made “the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost of human life” (The New...
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The Forbidden Garden
- The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 15-10-24
- Language: English
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives
- A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
- By: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected foreign agents on the Isle of Man, alongside a renowned group of refugee musicians...
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives
- A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 01-11-22
- Language: English
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Die Insel der außergewöhnlichen Gefangenen [The Island of Extraordinary Prisoners]
- Deutsche Künstler in Churchills Lagern [German Artists in Churchill's Camps]
- By: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Michael A. Grimm
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Simon Parkin beleuchtet ein bisher unbekanntes Kapitel des Zweiten Weltkriegs: Im Mai 1940 ließ Winston Churchill alle männlichen Deutschen und Österreicher zwischen 16 und 60 Jahren ohne Gerichtsverfahren als »feindliche Ausländer« internieren. Die Flüchtlinge waren den Nazis gerade entkommen und wurden nun von Churchill auf die Isle of Man zwischen Irland und England verbannt.
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Die Insel der außergewöhnlichen Gefangenen [The Island of Extraordinary Prisoners]
- Deutsche Künstler in Churchills Lagern [German Artists in Churchill's Camps]
- Narrated by: Michael A. Grimm
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 17-08-23
- Language: German
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Operazione Raspberry
- La battaglia dell'Atlantico e il gioco segreto delle donne che sfidarono Hitler
- By: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Fabrizio Rocchi
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Nel 1941 gli Alleati stanno perdendo la guerra, almeno nell'Atlantico. Migliaia di navi partono dal Nord America cariche di rifornimenti per il Regno Unito, ma viveri e munizioni non arrivano a destinazione: i convogli vengono sistematicamente intercettati e distrutti dagli U-Boot, i temibili sottomarini dei nazisti. La Gran Bretagna è ormai allo stremo, ma il primo ministro Winston Churchill non vuole che la popolazione ne sia informata. I vertici politici e militari mentono sul numero di imbarcazioni affondate e su quello dei morti, pur sapendo che manca poco alla resa.
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Operazione Raspberry
- La battaglia dell'Atlantico e il gioco segreto delle donne che sfidarono Hitler
- Narrated by: Fabrizio Rocchi
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 24-03-21
- Language: Italian
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