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Flashes of Creation
By: Paul Halpern
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A respected physics professor and author breaks down the great debate over the Big Bang and the continuing quest to understand the fate of the universe. Today, the Big Bang is so entrenched in our understanding of the cosmos that to doubt it would seem crazy. But as Paul Halpern shows in Flashes of Creation, just decades ago its mere mention... Read more
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The War Against the Jews
By: Lucy S. Dawidowicz
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 23 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A history of how anti-Semitism evolved into the Holocaust in Germany: "If any book can tell what Hitlerism was like, this is it" (Alfred Kazin).
Lucy Dawidowicz's groundbreaking The War Against the Jews inspired waves of both acclaim and controversy upon its release in 1975. Dawidowicz argues that genocide was, to the Nazis, as central a war... Read more
Shoal of Time
By: Gavan Daws
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
Length: 20 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The Hawaiian kingdom was tiny, and the big world was huge. The nineteenth century was the high water mark of Western imperialism, worldwide, and the great powers were planting their flags across the Pacific. Hawai'i was in their sights. By late in the century, two strong American currents were running, one east from the islands, one west from... Read more
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Vlad and the Florence Nightingale Adventure
By: Kate Cunningham
Narrated by: Emma Hixson
Length: 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The dirt and filth of Scutari Hospital creates the perfect home for Vlad the flea and Loxton the rat. But the arrival of Florence Nightingale and her strange companion changes everything.Will the friends be driven out or can they save the day?The Vlad flea books are a series of historically accurate stories narrated by Vlad himself. In them he... Read more
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Vlad and the First World War
By: Kate Cunningham
Narrated by: Emma Hixson
Length: 19 minutes
Abridged: No
On 25th March 1918 Vlad the flea and his friend, Crisp VC the carrier pigeon, are on a mission to deliver a secret message from behind enemy lines.They must dodge the dog-fights, survive the trenches and seek help from the staff of the hospital tent as they race to reach Britain safely.In this adventure Vlad encounters Skipper Thomas Crisp,... Read more
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The Taste of Longing
By: Suzanne Evans
Narrated by: Gwenlyn Cumyn
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singaporeâs infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other women jailed there as POWs during the Second World War. They beat back pangs of hunger by playing decadent games of make-believe and writing down recipes filled with cream, raisins, chocolate,... Read more
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What They Didn't Burn
By: Mel Laytner
Narrated by: Colin Martin
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
What if you uncovered a Nazi paper trail that revealed your father to be a man very different from the quiet, introspective Dad you knewâŠor thought you knew?Kirkus Reviews..."A scrupulously researched and dramatic remembranceâŠÂ the author presents his findings with a remarkable blend of meticulousness and unabashed emotion, movingly communicating... Read more
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El TriĂĄngulo de las Bermudas
By: Blake Aguilar
Narrated by: Vinicio Aguinaga
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
¿Te has preguntado cuål es la razón detrås de los cientos de barcos y decenas de aviones que han desaparecido en el triångulo de las bermudas? ¿Porqué esta zona es reconocida cómo una de las mås peligrosas en el océano? ¿Cuåles son los casos mås impactantes que han ocurrido en este misterioso lugar del mundo? Entonces sigue leyendo..
âSe... Read more
The Maxims
By: Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Narrated by: David Rintoul
Length: 3 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
There's no fool like an old fool....
The world is full of pots calling kettles black....
We can no more set a term to our passions than to our life.
These are just three of the aphorisms that made the collection of maxims by François, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, an enduring influence upon succeeding generations following their initial publication in... Read more
Germany: Memories of a Nation
By: Neil MacGregor
Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no other
For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe. Thirty years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people now understand... Read more
Documents That Changed The World
By: Mike Thompson
Narrated by: Mike Thompson
Length: 29 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The BBC Radio 4 historical series that uses documentary evidence to shed new light on the past
In this Sony Award-winning investigative history series, BBC international correspondent Mike Thomson and guest presenters pore over private papers, public records and primary sources, uncovering the hidden truth about historical events.
As they follow... Read more
London at War
By: Alan Jeffreys
Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
London was a city on the front line in the Second World War. It suffered hits from nearly 12,000 tons of bombs, with nearly 30,000 civilians killed by enemy action.
The Blitz changed the landscape of the city. Many famous landmarks were hit, including Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, the Tower of London - even the Imperial War... Read more
Something Out of Place
By: Eimear McBride
Narrated by: Eimear McBride
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In her blistering non-fiction debut, Eimear McBride unpicks the contradictory forces of disgust and objectification that control and shame women. From playground taunts of 'only sluts do it' but 'virgins are frigid', to ladette culture, and the arrival of 'ironic' porn, via Debbie Harry, the Kardashians and the Catholic church - she looks at how... Read more
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The Islamic Golden Age
By: Baroness Sayeeda Warsi & Kamila Shamsie
Narrated by: Kamila Shamsie, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi & Melvyn...
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Major BBC series rediscovering some of the key thinkers and achievements from the Golden Age of Islam.
Between the 8th and 13th Century, the Islamic world flourished. This 500-year period of monumental political and cultural change became known as its 'Golden Age', characterised by unprecedented advancement in the fields of architecture,... Read more
The Soldier's Hobnailed Boots
By: Alex Amit
Narrated by: Chelsea Jane Kanak
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The last time Monique laughed was September 12, 1940. Although the Germans arrived a few months ago and occupied Paris, so far nothing has changed in the life of Monique, a fifteen-year-old Jewish girl. But in recent days the Germans have begun to hang orders on billboards, instructing all Jews to mark themselves with a yellow badge on their... Read more
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Love Letters from the Front
By: Eric Appleby & Phyllis Kelly
Narrated by: Roisin Gallagher & RuairĂ Tohill
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A landmark drama series telling the compelling real-life WW1 love story of English soldier Eric Appleby and his Irish sweetheart Phyllis Kelly
Eric Appleby was an engineering student from Liverpool, who joined the Royal Field Artillery when war began in 1914. Posted to Athlone, he met and fell in love with solicitor's daughter Phyllis Kelly at a... Read more
Första vÀrldskriget
By: Allt om Historia
Narrated by: HĂ„kan Mohede
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
NÀr det första vÀrldskriget startade i juli Är 1914 trodde de allra flesta att det skulle bli en kort historia. IstÀllet varade striderna i över fyra Är, Ànda till slutet av 1918. Att krig föder elÀnde Àr förstÄs ingen nyhet, men i detta krig var misÀren pÄ mÄnga sÀtt extrem, med leriga skyttegravar, dödliga giftgasattacker och myteri. Mitt i... Read more
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The Infinite Staircase
By: Geoffrey A. Moore
Narrated by: Kyle Tait
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In this bold new book, high-techâs best-known strategist makes a seminal contribution to the search for meaning in a secular era.
Two questions fundamental to human existence have always been the metaphysical âwhere do I fit in the grand scheme of things?â and the ethical âhow should I behave?â Religion is no longer a source of answers for many... Read more
Two Miserable Presidents
By: Steve Sheinkin
Narrated by: Vikas Adam & Steve Sheinkin
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin gives young listeners the causes and curses that divided America into Union and Confederate nations in Two Miserable Presidents: The Amazing, Terrible, and Totally True Story of the Civil War.
A Bank Street Best Childrenâs Book of the Year
A Beacon of Freedom Award... Read more
King George: What Was His Problem?
By: Steve Sheinkin
Narrated by: Vikas Adam & Steve Sheinkin
Length: 4 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin gives young listeners an American history lesson they'll never forget in the fun and funny King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution.
A Bank Street Best Childrenâs Book of the Year
A New York Public... Read more
Empire of the Romans
By: John Matthews
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 24 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A wide-ranging survey of the history of the Roman Empireâfrom its establishment to decline and beyond
Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian provides a sweeping historical survey of the Roman empire. Uncommonly expansive in its chronological scope, this unique two-volume text explores the time period encompassing Julius Caesar's... Read more
White Malice
By: Susan Williams
Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
Length: 21 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
 A revelatory history of how post-colonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US.
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 In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show of political strength and purpose. Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah,... Read more
You Deserve It
By: Brian Reese
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
You SERVED. You DESERVE.
Brian Reese was good at masking his PTSD, bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety. He even told himself he did not âdeserveâ benefits, which he later discovered was complete bullshit. As an air force officer deployed to Afghanistan, he embodied the motto of âservice before self.â Unfortunately, like many veterans, his... Read more
Hollywood Black
By: Donald Bogle & Turner Classic Movies
Narrated by: Donald Bogle
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle.
The story opens in the silent film era, when white actors in blackface often played black characters, but... Read more