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Sex: Lessons From History
- By: Fern Riddell
- Narrated by: Fern Riddell
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance38
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Story38
A powerful new cultural history of sex written by one of the UK's most prominent historians. Sex, for the entirety of human history, has never been about reproduction. Statistically speaking, only one out of every one thousand sexual acts between a man and a woman will result in a pregnancy. And...
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Absolutely wonderful and extremely informative.
- By stanleh on 14-05-25
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Sex: Lessons From History
- Narrated by: Fern Riddell
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 22-06-21
- Language: English
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Waterloo
- By: Tim Clayton
- Narrated by: Phillip Franks
- Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall542
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Performance482
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Story482
The bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over 20 years. It also finished the career of the charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. It ensured the final liberation of Germany and the restoration of the old European monarchies, and it represented one of very few defeats for the glorious French army, most of whose soldiers remained devoted to their Emperor until the very end.
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Maps & diagrams needed to get the real effect
- By Alex P on 25-07-15
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Waterloo
- Narrated by: Phillip Franks
- Length: 19 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 09-09-14
- Language: English
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Long Way Back to the River Kwai
- A Harrowing True Story of Survival in World War II
- By: Loet Velmans
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall74
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Performance70
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Story70
The astounding memoir of a World War II veteran who spent three and a half years in the slave-labor camps made famous by The Bridge on the River Kwai.
Loet Velmans was 17 when the Germans invaded Holland. He and his family fled to London on the Dutch Coast Guard cutter Seaman’s Hope and then sailed to the Dutch East Indies - now Indonesia - where he joined the Dutch army. In March 1942, the Japanese invaded the archipelago and made prisoners of the Dutch soldiers. For the next three and a half years Velmans and his fellow POWs toiled in slave-labor camps.
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a veteran's experience conserved
- By Tom S on 09-04-26
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Long Way Back to the River Kwai
- A Harrowing True Story of Survival in World War II
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 04-02-13
- 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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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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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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Whispers in the Tall Grass
- By: Nick Brokhausen
- Narrated by: George Spelvin
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall235
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Performance224
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Story223
On his second combat tour, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. This unit was part of MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observations Group), or Studies and Observations Group as it was innocuously called. The small recon companies that were the center of its activities conducted some of the most dangerous missions of the war, infiltrating areas controlled by the North Vietnamese in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The companies never exceeded more than 30 Americans, yet they were the best source for the enemy's disposition.
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Outstanding
- By Wayne bates on 12-05-21
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Whispers in the Tall Grass
- Narrated by: George Spelvin
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 19-12-19
- Language: English
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Collateral Damage
- The Mysterious Deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen, and the Ties that Bind Them to Robert Kennedy and the JFK Assassination
- By: Mark Shaw
- Narrated by: Phil Thron
- Length: 21 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance22
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Story22
If there had been no cover-up of Robert Kennedy's complicity in the murder of Marilyn Monroe in 1962 and he had been prosecuted based on compelling evidence at the time, the assassination of JFK by Bobby's enemies would not have happened - changing the course of history and preventing the murder of media icon Dorothy Kilgallen.
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Informative but one track
- By Buyer on 11-09-21
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Collateral Damage
- The Mysterious Deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen, and the Ties that Bind Them to Robert Kennedy and the JFK Assassination
- Narrated by: Phil Thron
- Length: 21 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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A History of Modern Britain
- By: Andrew Marr
- Narrated by: Andrew Marr
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Abridged
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Overall454
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Performance264
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Story266
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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A History of Modern British Politicians...
- By Francis on 20-07-07
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A History of Modern Britain
- Narrated by: Andrew Marr
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 07-05-07
- Language: English
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The Happiest Man on Earth
- The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
- By: Eddie Jaku
- Narrated by: Jacek Koman
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall802
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Performance734
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Story736
'Eddie looked evil in the eye and met it with joy and kindness . . . [his] philosophy is life-affirming' – Daily Express Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and now believes he is the ‘happiest man on earth’. In his inspirational memoir, he pays tribute to those who...
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I'm speechless but need to say something...
- By Scarlett on 09-06-21
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The Happiest Man on Earth
- The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
- Narrated by: Jacek Koman
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 12-11-20
- Language: English
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Rasputin
- The Biography
- By: Douglas Smith
- Narrated by: PJ Ochlan
- Length: 33 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall81
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Performance74
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Story76
A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. The spectre of the lustful Siberian holy man and peasant still casts its eerie shadow over Russia's bloody twentieth century. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his...
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Narrator
- By Name on 30-05-17
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Sword Beach
- The Untold Story of D-Day’s Forgotten Victory
- By: Stephen Fisher
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance50
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Story50
Brought to you by Penguin. Filling a massive gap in D-Day literature, marine historian Stephen Fisher provides fresh insight and unrivalled coverage of one of the least well know of the D-Day landings. Although they are well known, coverage of the action on Sword, Juno and Gold beaches is...
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Difficult but well worthwhile
- By mike on 11-07-24
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Sword Beach
- The Untold Story of D-Day’s Forgotten Victory
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 23-05-24
- Language: English
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Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
- The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
- By: Mark Singleton
- Narrated by: Benjamin Crow
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world - practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping malls - that we take its presence, and its meaning, for granted. But how did the current yoga boom happen? And is it really rooted in ancient Indian practices, as many of its adherents claim? In this groundbreaking book, Mark Singleton calls into question many commonly held beliefs about the nature and origins of postural yoga (asana) and suggests a radically new way of understanding the meaning of yoga as it is practiced by millions today.
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Interesting!
- By CMS on 11-08-24
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Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
- The Origins of Modern Posture Practice
- Narrated by: Benjamin Crow
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 25-02-22
- 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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Power and Glory - As seen on Channel 4’s Edward vs George
- Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty
- By: Alexander Larman
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Power and Glory begins with the fallout from the revelation of the Duke of Windsor's wartime treachery, and ends with the Coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. In between, it depicts a monarchy - and a country - struggling to cope with the aftermath of World War Two, in an era where old...
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EXCELLENT BOOK
- By Pixie Girl on 16-02-26
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Power and Glory - As seen on Channel 4’s Edward vs George
- Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 28-03-24
- Language: English
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Supper with the Crippens
- The True Story of One of the Most Notorious Murderers of All Time
- By: David James Smith
- Narrated by: David James Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance14
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At a time when Edwardian Britain seemed a golden place, basking in its imperial glory, Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen and his wife, Belle, lived among the suburban villas of North London, renting a house at 39 Hilldrop Crescent. After supper on 31st January 1910, their friends went home and Crippen killed Belle with poison, dismembered her body and buried some of her remains beneath the brick floor of the coal cellar. Crippen never admitted killing his wife and took the secrets of the crime with him when he was hanged, following his conviction for murder.
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Still unsolved!
- By L. BETTLES on 13-12-21
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Supper with the Crippens
- The True Story of One of the Most Notorious Murderers of All Time
- Narrated by: David James Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 09-12-21
- Language: English
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The Soviet Century
- By: Moshe Lewin, Gregory Elliott - editor
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Departing from a simple linear history, The Soviet Century traces all the continuities and ruptures that led from the founding revolution of October 1917, to the final collapse of the late 1980s and early 1990s, passing through the Stalinist dictatorship, the impossible reforms of the Khrushchev years, and the glasnost and perestroika policies of Gorbachev.
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The Soviet Century
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-05-24
- Language: English
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The Gift
- 12 Lessons to Save Your Life
- By: Edith Eger, Esmé Schwall Weigand - contributor
- Narrated by: Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall665
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Performance569
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Story567
In the end, it's not what happens to us that matters most - it's what we choose to do with it. We all face suffering - sadness, loss, despair, fear, anxiety, failure. But we also have a choice; to give in and give up in the face of trauma or difficulties or to live every moment as a gift. Celebrated therapist and Holocaust survivor Dr Edith Eger provides a hands-on guide that gently encourages us to change the imprisoning thoughts and destructive behaviours that may be holding us back.
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Remarkable
- By Amazon Customer on 12-04-21
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The Gift
- 12 Lessons to Save Your Life
- Narrated by: Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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The Wages of Destruction
- The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
- By: Adam Tooze
- Narrated by: Adam Tooze, Simon Vance
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall118
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Performance98
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Story96
"Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study…Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism." —Financial Times An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam...
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Genuinely brilliant
- By Derrick on 29-11-21
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The Wages of Destruction
- The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
- Narrated by: Adam Tooze, Simon Vance
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 03-08-21
- Language: English
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Citizen Clem
- A Biography of Attlee
- By: John Bew
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 26 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall405
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Performance355
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Story352
Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar government, delivering the end of the empire in India, the foundation of the NHS and Britain's place in NATO. Called 'a sheep in sheep's clothing', his reputation has long been that of an unassuming character in the shadow of Churchill. But as John Bew's revelatory biography shows, Attlee was not only a hero of his age but an emblem of it, and his life tells the story of how Britain changed over the 20th century.
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Good old Clem
- By P Garbett on 12-11-17
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Citizen Clem
- A Biography of Attlee
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 26 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-09-17
- Language: English
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The Trigger
- By: Tim Butcher
- Narrated by: Tim Butcher
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance44
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Story45
On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip triggered conflict that would claim millions of lives in battle, and turmoil that would change our world. Tim Butcher uncovers the unreported details of Princip’s life and draws on his own experience.
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Enlightening
- By circus god on 06-01-15
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The Trigger
- Narrated by: Tim Butcher
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 03-07-14
- Language: English
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Victorious in Defeat
- The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
- By: Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine - translator
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance3
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Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new republican China, a hero of the Second World War, and a faithful ally of the United States. Simultaneously a Christian and a Confucian, Chiang dreamed of universal equality yet was a perfidious and cunning dictator responsible for the deaths of over 1.5 million innocent people. This critical biography is based on Chiang Kai-shek's unpublished diaries, his extensive personal files from the Russian archives, and the Russian files of his relatives, associates, and foes.
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Victorious in Defeat
- The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 01-08-23
- Language: English
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