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  • Stephen Fry's Edwardian Secrets cover art

    • Stephen Fry's Edwardian Secrets

    • 5 out of 5 stars 898 ratings

    • Powered flight. Votes for women. Human sexuality. Mass migration. The psychology of dreams. The magic of the movies. Spies and detectives. Welcome to Stephen Fry’s Edwardian Secrets....
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    • The First World War

    • A Complete History
    • By: Martin Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 33 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings

    • It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would officially end nearly five years later. Unofficially, however, it has never ended...

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    • A History of Modern Britain

    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics....

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    • The Weimar Years

    • Rise and Fall 1918–1933
    • By: Frank McDonough
    • Narrated by: Paul McGann
    • Length: 19 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 16-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings

    • The Weimar Years is a vivid narrative of a dramatic period in German history. Year by year, from 1918 to 1933, Frank McDonough covers the major events in both domestic and foreign policy and the personalities who shaped them, together with developments in music, art, theatre and literature....

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    • The Nazis

    • A Warning from History
    • By: Laurence Rees
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 30-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings

    • Following the success of Rees's best-selling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich....

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    • A Certain Idea of France

    • The Life of Charles de Gaulle
    • By: Julian Jackson
    • Narrated by: John Banks
    • Length: 35 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings

    • In six weeks in 1940, France was overrun by German troops and surrendered. One junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England....

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    • Inside the Gas Chambers

    • Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
    • By: Shlomo Venezia
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings

    • Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz....

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    • Barbarians at the Gate

    • The Fall of RJR Nabisco
    • By: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings

    • A number-one New York Times best seller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco....

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    • We Few

    • US Special Forces in Vietnam
    • By: Nick Brokhausen
    • Narrated by: George Spelvin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 30-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 259 ratings

    • A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War....

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    • GCHQ

    • Centenary Edition
    • By: Richard Aldrich
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 25 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 506 ratings

    • GCHQ is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the UK, and has existed for 100 years - but we still know next to nothing about it....

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    • Fire and Movement

    • The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914
    • By: Peter Hart
    • Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
    • Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • The dramatic opening weeks of the Great War passed into legend long before the conflict ended. The British Expeditionary Force fought a mesmerizing campaign....

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    • Charles and Camilla

    • Portrait of a Love Affair
    • By: Gyles Brandreth
    • Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • This is a story of the most well documented, most commented on love affair of our times....

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    • A Northern Wind

    • Britain 1962-65
    • By: David Kynaston
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 27 hrs
    • Release date: 28-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

    • A Northern Wind, the keenly anticipated next instalment of David Kynaston’s acclaimed Tales of a New Jerusalem series, brings to vivid life the period between October 1962 and February 1965....

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    • The Nuremberg Trial

    • By: John Tusa, Ann Tusa
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 25 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,046 ratings
    • Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II....

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    • Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1)

    • 1918-38
    • By: Chips Channon
    • Narrated by: Tom Ward
    • Series: The Diaries, Book 1
    • Length: 39 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings

    • Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958....

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    • Seasons in the Sun

    • The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979
    • By: Dominic Sandbrook
    • Narrated by: David Thorpe
    • Length: 41 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 16-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 505 ratings
    • In the early 1970s, Britain seemed to be tottering on the brink of the abyss....

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    • American Prometheus

    • The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
    • By: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 365 ratings
    • J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....

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    • Children of the Night

    • The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania
    • By: Paul Kenyon
    • Narrated by: Paul Kenyon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 27-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 202 ratings

    • The country that gave us Vlad Dracula, and whose citizens consider themselves descendants of ancient Rome, has traditionally preferred the status of enigmatic outsider. But this beautiful and unexplored land has experienced some of the most disastrous leaderships of the last century....

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    • The Third Reich in Power

    • By: Richard J. Evans
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 31 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war....

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