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Out of the Darkness
- The Germans, 1942-2022
- By: Frank Trentmann
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 36 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying genocide and a war of extermination. But by 2015 Germany looked to many to be the moral voice of Europe, welcoming almost one million refugees. At the same time, it pursued a controversially rigid fiscal discipline and made energy deals with a dictator. Many people have asked how Germany descended into the darkness of the Nazis, but this book asks another vital question: how, and how far, have the Germans since reinvented themselves?
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Out of the Darkness
- The Germans, 1942-2022
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman
- Length: 36 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 27-02-24
- Language: English
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The Good Germans
- Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945
- By: Catrine Clay
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance55
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After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis - some 20 million people - tried to keep their heads down and protect their families. They moved to the country, or pretended to support the regime to avoid being denounced by...
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Interesting but troubling
- By HGJohn on 19-01-21
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The Good Germans
- Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 03-09-20
- Language: English
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Les Miserables
- A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- By: Victor Hugo
- Narrated by: Full Cast, Joss Ackland, Roger Allam
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall141
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Performance126
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Story124
Joss Ackland, Roger Allam and Leslie Phillips star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel. When poverty drives Jean Valjean to steal a loaf of bread from a baker’s window, it is an action that will haunt him for the rest of his life. A citizen of...
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C’est magnifique!
- By Nigel on 03-03-18
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Les Miserables
- A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- Narrated by: Full Cast, Joss Ackland, Roger Allam
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 19-03-15
- Language: English
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The Big Hop
- The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into the Future
- By: David Rooney
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Brought to you by Penguin. A non-stop flight across the Atlantic might seem routine today. But it is only possible because of those who went first. Newfoundland, 1919. Buffeted by winds, an unwieldy aircraft struggled to take to the air. Cramped side by side in its open cockpit were two men...
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Thrilling adventure
- By G. E. Downie on 21-07-25
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The Big Hop
- The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into the Future
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 12-06-25
- Language: English
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Hitler and the Habsburgs
- The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals
- By: James Longo
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance13
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As he rose to power, Hitler's hatred toward the Habsburgs and their diverse empire fixated on Franz Ferdinand's sons, who became outspoken critics and opponents of the Nazi party and its racist ideology. When Germany seized Austria in 1938, they were the first two Austrians arrested by the Gestapo, deported to Germany, and sent to Dachau. Within hours they went from palace to prison. The women in the family, including the Archduke's only daughter Princess Sophie Hohenberg, declared their own war on Hitler.
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A very good royal Family book.
- By Micka Breen on 24-06-24
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Hitler and the Habsburgs
- The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 06-11-18
- Language: English
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The Forgers
- The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation
- By: Roger Moorhouse
- Narrated by: Roger Moorhouse
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable - and until now, completely unknown - humanitarian operation. In concert with Jewish activists, they masterminded a systematic programme of forging passports and identity documents for Latin American countries, which were then smuggled into German-occupied Europe to save the lives of thousands of Jews facing extermination in the Holocaust.
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Brilliant book
- By Therese Moorhouse on 06-09-23
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The Forgers
- The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation
- Narrated by: Roger Moorhouse
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 10-08-23
- Language: English
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall721
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Performance609
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Story595
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns.
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The most talked about non-fiction book this year
- By David on 08-08-14
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 22-05-14
- Language: English
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Malice in Wonderland
- The witty and perceptive diaries of Cecil Beaton's authorised biographer, 'the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet' - FINANCIAL TIMES
- By: Hugo Vickers
- Narrated by: Hugo Vickers
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance23
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Hugo Vickers's adventures in the world of Cecil Beaton: an unputdownable portrait of a vanishing age, featuring untold anecdotes and thrilling titbits of royal gossip 'A fascinating document, a window on to a lost world of glamour, grandeur and snobbery . . . an elegy, sad and comical, to a...
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Tedious twaddle
- By Alex G on 07-04-26
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Malice in Wonderland
- The witty and perceptive diaries of Cecil Beaton's authorised biographer, 'the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet' - FINANCIAL TIMES
- Narrated by: Hugo Vickers
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 13-05-21
- Language: English
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Citizen Soldiers
- By: Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: George K. Wilson
- Length: 21 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance71
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Story68
From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II. In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues...
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Excellent
- By Phil on 07-02-16
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Citizen Soldiers
- Narrated by: George K. Wilson
- Length: 21 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 24-01-11
- Language: English
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Weimar Germany
- Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition
- By: Eric D. Weitz
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance29
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Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the 20th century - one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating and complex period deserves, and he illuminates the uniquely progressive achievements and even greater promise of the Weimar Republic. Weimar Germany also shows that beneath its glossy veneer lay political turmoil that ultimately led to the demise of the republic and the rise of the radical right.
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Superficial
- By C. Brown on 31-08-22
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Weimar Germany
- Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 22-09-20
- Language: English
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Why Empires Fall
- Rome, America and the Future of the West
- By: John Rapley, Peter Heather
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance17
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Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in freefall. This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration - a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence.
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Great relevant historic lessons for today
- By merchant on 29-05-23
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Why Empires Fall
- Rome, America and the Future of the West
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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The Eurasian Century
- Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern Century
- By: Hal Brands
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Hal Brands argues that a better understanding of Eurasia's strategic geography can illuminate the contours of rivalry and conflict in today's world. The Eurasian Century explains how revolutions in technology and warfare, and the rise of toxic ideologies of conquest, made Eurasia the center of twentieth-century geopolitics—with pressing implications for the struggles that will define the twenty-first.
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strong start, strong end, perspective could be enriched
- By Kindle Customer on 17-12-25
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The Eurasian Century
- Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern Century
- Narrated by: Tim Fannon
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
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The Visionaries
- The Making of the Post World War II Order in the West
- By: James Holland
- Narrated by: Al Murray
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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Brought to you by Penguin. Although the Second World War was still a long way from being won, even by early 1941, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was already planning for peace. America’s entry of the war may still have been almost a year away, but he could already see the new world...
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Inspiring
- By Tyron Lobo on 24-05-26
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The Visionaries
- The Making of the Post World War II Order in the West
- Narrated by: Al Murray
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 07-05-26
- 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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Overall80
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Performance78
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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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Great research
- By Alfredo on 24-04-25
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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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Emperor
- A New Life of Charles V
- By: Geoffrey Parker
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall65
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Performance51
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The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relentless travel and the control of his own image, together with the complexity of governing the world's first transatlantic empire, complicate the task.
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Outstanding
- By Mr on 28-05-20
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Emperor
- A New Life of Charles V
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 11-06-19
- Language: English
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Spymaster
- Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
- By: Tennent H. Bagley
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall81
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Performance73
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From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia’s notorious KGB espionage apparatus. Rising through its ranks through hard work and keen understanding of how the spy and political games are played, he “handled” American and British defectors, recruited Western operatives as double agents, served as a ranking officer at the East Berlin and Vienna KGB bureaus, and tackled special assignments from the Kremlin.
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Not good enough narration
- By Dan on 15-12-21
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Spymaster
- Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 06-11-13
- Language: English
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Stolen Revolution
- Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran
- By: Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, Yeganeh Torbati
- Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The moving, riveting and immersive story of six Iranians who, together, lived the entire arc of modern Iranian history: the promise of the 1979 revolution, its betrayal by the Islamic mafia state and a people’s undying spirit of resistance. Fuelled by Iranians’ dreams of social justice and...
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Stolen Revolution
- Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran
- Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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The Hands of War
- A Tale of Endurance and Hope, From a Survivor of the Holocaust
- By: Marione Ingram
- Narrated by: Teresa DeBerry
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall68
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Performance61
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An inspiring account from one of history’s darkest moments. Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was German. She was Jewish. She was a survivor. This is her story. As a young girl, Marione was aware that people of the Jewish faith were regarded as outsiders, the supposed root of Germany’s many problems. She grew up in an apartment building where neighbors were more than happy to report Jews to the Gestapo.
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Astonishing memory
- By sadith on 27-08-21
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The Hands of War
- A Tale of Endurance and Hope, From a Survivor of the Holocaust
- Narrated by: Teresa DeBerry
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-02-13
- Language: English
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1493
- Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- By: Charles C. Mann
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
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Overall50
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Performance44
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From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two...
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A startling new view of world history
- By Andrew on 23-02-15
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1493
- Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 09-08-11
- Language: English
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Japan Story
- In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present
- By: Christopher Harding
- Narrated by: Christopher Harding
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall71
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Performance66
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Japan Story written and read by Christopher Harding. This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is told through the eyes of people who greeted this...
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A well researched plod fest
- By Chris Kelly on 27-12-18
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Japan Story
- In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present
- Narrated by: Christopher Harding
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-11-18
- Language: English
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