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The Holocaust
By: James Bulgin
Narrated by: John Telfer
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
During the Second World War, the Nazis and their collaborators murdered two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population - six million people.
In some parts of Europe this represented the complete annihilation of entire households, families, and communities. Those that survived were forced to live their lives in the shadow of an incalculable loss. They,... Read more
Whatever Happened to Tradition?
By: Tim Stanley
Narrated by: Tim Stanley
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us.
The central argument of this book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a proper sense of tradition – political, social and religious. We ignore our past at our peril. The... Read more
The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club
By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
Length: 17 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
This book tells the full story of the US Naval air campaign during the Vietnam War between 1965 to 1975, where the US Seventh Fleet, stationed off the Vietnamese coast, was given the tongue-in-cheek nickname 'The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club'.
On August 2, 1964, USS Maddox became embroiled in the infamous 'Gulf of Tonkin incident’ that lead directly to... Read more
On The Ground
By: Audrey Gillan & Dan Maudsley
Narrated by: Audrey Gillan & Dan Maudsley
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Audrey Gillan revisits her time on the ground with the British Army in Iraq, and the infamous friendly fire incident that killed Matty Hull
'A remarkable listen: detailed, unflinching and revealing about the ripple effects of a wholly avoidable tragedy'Financial Times
Award-winning journalist Audrey Gillan was embedded with British troops during... Read more
From the Ground Up
By: Edward Smithies
Narrated by: Roger Davis
Length: 12 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
'Fascinating ... this collection illuminates corners of the wartime world ... it provides a valuable and often entertaining window' GUARDIAN
'The horrors have not been suppressed. Everyone who speaks was very young then. You sense their wonder that they did the things they recall' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
When we remember the Second World War in the... Read more
Stars and Spies
By: Christopher Andrew & Julius Green
Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
Length: 15 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
A vastly entertaining and unique history of the interaction between spying and showbiz, from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War and beyond.
Throughout history, there has been a consistent crossover between show business and espionage, often producing some of the most extraordinary undercover agents, and... Read more
Avhopparna
By: Jesper Clemmensen
Narrated by: Peter Melin
Length: 13 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Den 24 juli år 1960 hoppar plötsligt fem personer av den östtyska färjan Ahlbeck när den ligger i dansk hamn. De är tre vuxna, och två barn, som riskerar allt för att komma undan den kommunistiska diktaturen i Tjeckoslovakien. När de landar i vattnet blir de jagade av östtysk polis, men får hjälp av en modig dansk medborgare. De ska komma att... Read more
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Back of the Hiring Line
By: Roy Beck
Narrated by: Roy Beck
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
150 years after the end of slavery and nearly 60 years after passage of the civil rights laws of the 1960s, average Black household wealth in the 21st century remains a fraction of the median assets of other racial, ethnic, and immigrant populations.There are many reasons, but this book is about one: two centuries of governmental encouragement... Read more
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Socrates
By: C.C.W. Taylor
Narrated by: Michael Page
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Socrates has a unique position in the history of philosophy; it is no exaggeration to say that had it not been for his influence on Plato, the whole development of Western philosophy might have been unimaginably different. Yet Socrates wrote nothing himself, and our knowledge of him is derived primarily from the engaging and infuriating figure... Read more
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Historiens största fälttåg
By: Allt om Historia
Narrated by: Dan Kandell
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Först var de dödsfiender. Sedan blev de affärspartners, därpå allierade, rivaler och så dödsfiender igen. Förhållandet mellan Hitler och Stalin förvirrade alla som försökte följa de båda männens vilja och det är tveksamt om huvudpersonerna själva förstod situationen till fullo. Operation Barbarossa gjorde slut på all tvekan.Operation Barbarossa... Read more
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The Loneliest Americans
By: Jay Caspian Kang
Narrated by: Intae Kim
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A “provocative and sweeping” (Time) blend of family history and original reportage that explores—and reimagines—Asian American identity in a Black and white world
“[Kang’s] exploration of class and identity among Asian Americans will be talked about for years to come.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
ONE OF THE... Read more
The Hitler Years
By: Frank McDonough
Narrated by: Paul McGann
Length: 22 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
The second volume of a new chronicle of the Third Reich under Hitler's hand, ending with his death and Germany's disastrous defeat.In The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940–1945, Frank McDonough completes his brilliant two-volume history of Germany under Hitler’s Third Reich. At the beginning of 1940, Germany was at the pinnacle of its power. By May... Read more
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Seed Money
By: Bartow J. Elmore
Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
An authoritative and eye-opening history that examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system.
Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds, merged with German pharma-biotech giant Bayer in 2018—but its Roundup Ready® seeds, introduced twenty-five years ago,... Read more
Midnight in Washington
By: Adam Schiff
Narrated by: Adam Schiff
Length: 18 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, from the rise of autocracy unleashed by Trump to the January 6 insurrection, and a warning that those forces remain as potent as ever—from the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump
“Engaging and informative . . . a manual for... Read more
The Man Who Hated Women
By: Amy Sohn
Narrated by: Amy Sohn
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author Amy Sohn presents a narrative history of Anthony Comstock, antivice activist and US postal inspector, and the remarkable women who opposed his war on women’s rights at the turn of the twentieth century.Anthony Comstock, special agent to the US Post Office, was one of the most important men in the lives of nineteenth-century... Read more
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Washington at the Plow
By: Bruce A. Ragsdale
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
George Washington spent more of his working life farming than he did at war or in political office. For over forty years, he devoted himself to the improvement of agriculture.
Washington at the Plow depicts the "first farmer of America" as a leading practitioner of the New Husbandry, a transatlantic movement that spearheaded advancements in... Read more
Churchill's Shadow
By: Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 23 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Winston Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, revered for his opposition to appeasement, his defiance in the face of German bombing of England, his political prowess, and his memorable speeches. He became the savior of his country, as prime minister during the most perilous period in British... Read more
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Roadmap to a Brighter Future
By: Paul A. Laudicina
Narrated by: Paul A. Laudicina
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The future doesn't just happen. It's a choice that we can and must help determine. But as our deeply divided nation reels from converging crises and seemingly intractable discord, where do we begin when the stakes are unfathomably high?
With multiple possible futures before us, Americans need to understand the specific consequences of our... Read more
The Lost Café Schindler
By: Meriel Schindler
Narrated by: Caitlin Cavannaugh
Length: 14 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Meriel Schindler spent her adult life trying to keep her father, Kurt, at bay. But when he died in 2017, he left behind piles of Nazi-era documents related to her family’s fate in Innsbruck, Austria, and a treasure trove of family albums reaching back to before World War I. Meriel was forced to confront not only their fractured relationship but... Read more
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The War on the Uyghurs
By: Sean R. Roberts
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The first account of one of the world’s most pressing humanitarian catastrophes. This book reveals how China has used the US-led Global War on Terror as cover for its increasingly brutal suppression of the Uyghur people. China’s actions, it argues, have emboldened states around the globe to persecute ethnic minorities and severely repress... Read more
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The Cornfield
By: David A. Welker
Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
For generations of Americans, the word Antietam—the name of a bucolic stream in western Maryland—held the same sense of horror and carnage that the date 9/11 does for Americans today. But Antietam eclipses even this modern tragedy as America's single bloodiest day, on which 22,000 men became casualties in a war to determine our nation's future.
... Read more
The Gilded Edge
By: Catherine Prendergast
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
“The Gilded Edge is a compelling read from start to finish. Gripping, suspenseful, cinematic. This is narrative nonfiction at its best.”—Lindsey Fitzharris, bestselling author of The Butchering Art
Astonishingly well written, painstakingly researched, and set in the evocative locations of earthquake-ravaged San Francisco and the Monterey... Read more
Capote's Women
By: Laurence Leamer
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
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New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers—the dark secrets, tragic glamour,... Read more
The Legal Analyst
By: Ward Farnsworth
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
There are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand, and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other. Although the tools are far more interesting and useful than the rules, they tend to be neglected in favor of other aspects of the curriculum. In The Legal Analyst, Ward Farnsworth brings together in one... Read more
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