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The Escape Artist
- The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
- By: Jonathan Freedland
- Narrated by: Jonathan Freedland
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance988
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The astonishing, forgotten story of the hero who escaped from Auschwitz to reveal the truth of the Holocaust. In April 1944 a teenager named Rudolf Vrba was planning a daring and unprecedented escape from Auschwitz. After hiding in a pile of timber planks for three days while 3,000 SS men and...
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Astonishing achievement
- By Seagull on 25-08-22
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The Escape Artist
- The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
- Narrated by: Jonathan Freedland
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 09-06-22
- Language: English
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Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815
- From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras Volume I
- By: John Hussey
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 34 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance41
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The first of two ground-breaking volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this audiobook is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages. It highlights the political stresses between the Allies, the problems of feeding and paying for the Allied forces assembling in Belgium during the undeclared war and how a strategy was thrashed out. It studies the neglected topic of how the Allies beyond the Rhine hampered the plans of Blücher and Wellington, thus allowing Napoleon to snatch the initiative from them.
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It is great! Now PLEASE RELEASE VOLUME 2!
- By Nigel on 31-03-21
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Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815
- From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras Volume I
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 34 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 08-05-20
- Language: English
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Borderland
- A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
- By: Anna Reid
- Narrated by: Anna Reid
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance17
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FULLY UPDATED 'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture' INDEPENDENT Flat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders, for centuries Ukraine was fought over by more powerful neighbours. Though its modern national movement dates back to the...
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An excellent book on Ukraine - highly recommended
- By Smccoull on 11-12-22
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Borderland
- A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
- Narrated by: Anna Reid
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 10-11-22
- Language: English
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Wannsee
- The Road to the Final Solution
- By: Peter Longerich
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance33
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Story33
On January 20, 1942, fifteen men arrived for a meeting in a luxurious villa on the shores of the Wannsee in the far-western outskirts of Berlin. They came at the invitation of Reinhard Heydrich and were almost all high-ranking Nazi Party, government, and SS officials. But the beauty of the situation stood in stark contrast to the purpose of the meeting to which the fifteen had come in January 1942: the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.”
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Convincing.
- By Jack Graham on 18-02-24
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Wannsee
- The Road to the Final Solution
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 25-04-23
- Language: English
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38 Londres Street
- On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
- By: Philippe Sands
- Narrated by: Philippe Sands
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance74
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'An indelible and enthralling work of moral witness' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE 'These questions of memory and impunity are forever timely' FINANCIAL TIMES 'An extraordinary achievement . . . I read with open mouth and thumping heart' STEPHEN FRY The house at 38 Londres Street in Santiago, Chile, is...
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Nuanced, elegant and beautiful
- By Derrick on 06-04-25
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38 Londres Street
- On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
- Narrated by: Philippe Sands
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 03-04-25
- Language: English
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Case Closed
- Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
- By: Gerald Posner
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance39
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Story37
The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark audiobook, reissued with a new afterword for the 40th anniversary of the assassination, Gerald Posner examines all of the available evidence and reaches the only possible conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
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Follow the Evidence
- By Review Tiger on 21-05-15
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Case Closed
- Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 18-03-15
- Language: English
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King of Kings
- The Fall of the Shah and the Revolution That Forged Modern Iran
- By: Scott Anderson
- Narrated by: Malcom Hillgartner, Scott Anderson
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance24
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Story24
Brought to you by Penguin. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NEW STATESMAN, ATLANTIC AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR A spellbinding narrative history of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and its devastating consequences by the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia. Before the...
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Interesting
- By Hamid on 30-09-25
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King of Kings
- The Fall of the Shah and the Revolution That Forged Modern Iran
- Narrated by: Malcom Hillgartner, Scott Anderson
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 07-08-25
- Language: English
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The Cold War
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Robert J. McMahon
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? Why did it move from its initial origins in Postwar Europe to encompass virtually every corner of the globe? And why, after lasting so long, did the war end so suddenly and unexpectedly? Robert McMahon considers these questions and more, as well as looking at the legacy of the Cold War and its impact on international relations today.
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Really good
- By Helen on 03-12-23
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The Cold War
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 25-05-21
- Language: English
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Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs)
- The Quest for Fame
- By: John Guy
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance8
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Story8
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Henry VIII: The Quest for Fame by John Guy, read by John Banks. Henry VIII's reign transformed the physical and spiritual landscape of England. Magnificent, tyrannical, a strong ruler, a 'pillager of the commonwealth', this most notorious of kings...
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Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs)
- The Quest for Fame
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Series: Penguin Monarchs
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 28-06-18
- Language: English
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Born Survivors
- By: Wendy Holden
- Narrated by: Wendy Holden, Anne Dover, Eva Clarke
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall207
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Performance189
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Story187
Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly pregnant and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women were privately determined to hold on to all they had left: their lives and those of their unborn babies.
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A truly incredible story
- By Mrs J M Blanc on 25-11-15
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Born Survivors
- Narrated by: Wendy Holden, Anne Dover, Eva Clarke
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 22-10-15
- Language: English
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Margot at War
- Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore
- Length: 16 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance43
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Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her last five years at Number 10 were a period...
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Splendid and compelling.
- By iris on 28-03-15
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Margot at War
- Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916
- Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore
- Length: 16 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 29-01-15
- Language: English
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Give Her Credit
- The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation
- By: Grace L. Williams
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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In the 1970s, a new wave of feminism was sweeping America. But in the boys’ club of banking and finance, women were still infantilized—no credit without a male cosigner, and their income was dismissed as unreliable. If bankers weren’t going to accommodate women, then women had to take control of their own futures. In 1978 in Denver, Colorado, the opening of the Women’s Bank changed everything.
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A powerful message
- By Laura.brarian on 23-03-26
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Give Her Credit
- The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 01-01-25
- Language: English
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Hitler
- Ascent 1889-1939
- By: Volker Ullrich
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 34 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall83
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Performance75
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For all the literature about Adolf Hitler, there have been just four seminal biographies; this is the fifth, a landmark work that sheds important new light on Hitler himself. Drawing on previously unseen papers and a wealth of recent scholarly research, Volker Ullrich reveals the man behind the public persona, from Hitler's childhood, to his failures as a young man in Vienna, to his experiences during the First World War, to his rise as a far-right party leader.
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Excellent
- By Badger on 04-03-20
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How the French Won Waterloo - or Think They Did
- By: Stephen Clarke
- Narrated by: Justin Edwards
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance52
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Published in the 200th anniversary year of the Battle of Waterloo, a witty look at how the French still think they won, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. Two centuries after the Battle of Waterloo, the French are still in denial. If Napoleon lost on 18 June 1815 (and that's a big 'if') then whoever rules the universe got it wrong. As soon as the cannons stopped firing, French historians began rewriting history.
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A new look at Waterloo
- By JDEVLIN on 12-10-16
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How the French Won Waterloo - or Think They Did
- Narrated by: Justin Edwards
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 02-07-15
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz
- The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
- By: Jeremy Dronfield
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall541
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Performance496
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield, read by John Sackville. In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There...
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Unforgettable
- By shaun hutton on 07-03-19
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The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz
- The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 24-01-19
- Language: English
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How to Survive a Plague
- The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS
- By: David France
- Narrated by: Rory O'Malley
- Length: 24 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall101
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Performance85
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Winner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literature Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT non-fiction Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2017 'This superbly written chronicle will stand as a towering work in its field' Sunday Times 'Inspiring, uplifting and necessary reading' -...
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A piece of history that needs to be shared
- By E on 08-01-21
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How to Survive a Plague
- The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS
- Narrated by: Rory O'Malley
- Length: 24 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 21-09-17
- Language: English
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The Favourite
- By: Ophelia Field
- Narrated by: Natalie Boscombe
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
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Overall33
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Performance28
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Sarah Churchill, first Duchess of Marlborough, was the glamorous and controversial subject of hundreds of satires, newspaper articles and publications both during her lifetime and after her death. This biography brings Sarah Churchill's own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life and casts a critical eye over images of the Duchess handed down through art, history and literature. Here is an unforgettable portrait of a woman who cared intensely about how we would remember her.
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Great narration, boring meandering story
- By Briony Rees on 31-12-18
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The Favourite
- Narrated by: Natalie Boscombe
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 01-11-18
- Language: English
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The Orientalist
- Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
- By: Tom Reiss
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany. Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge...
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The Orientalist
- Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 04-04-17
- Language: English
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The Damascus Events
- The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World
- By: Eugene Rogan
- Narrated by: Ronan Summers
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle East: the ferocious outbreaks of disorder across the Levant in 1860 which resulted in the massacre of thousands of Christians in Damascus. Eugene Rogan brilliantly recreates the lost world of the Middle East under Ottoman rule. This is both an essential book for understanding the emergence of the modern Middle East from the destruction of the old Ottoman world, and a uniquely gripping story.
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The Damascus Events
- The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World
- Narrated by: Ronan Summers
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 02-05-24
- Language: English
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Ascenso y crisis
- Europa 1950-2017: un camino incierto
- By: Ian Kershaw, Yolanda Fontal Rueda - translator
- Narrated by: not specified
- Length: 27 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Indispensable para conocer la historia de Europa desde finales de la segunda guerra mundial hasta la actualidad. Después de los horrores de la primera mitad del siglo XX, que Ian Kershaw describió en su libro anterior como un «descenso a los infiernos», los años de 1950 a 2017 trajeron paz...
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Ascenso y crisis
- Europa 1950-2017: un camino incierto
- Narrated by: not specified
- Length: 27 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-05-26
- Language: Spanish
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