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    • 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....

    • 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 49 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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    • By: Andrew Marr
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace....

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    • 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 509 ratings
    • In the early 1970s, Britain seemed to be tottering on the brink of the abyss....

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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 509 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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    • 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 144 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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    • 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 185 ratings
    • The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war....

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    • By: Barbara W. Tuchman
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I....

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

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    • 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 23 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 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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    • British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
    • By: Saul David
    • Narrated by: Adam James
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Bestselling historian Saul David provides a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War....

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    • 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 46 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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    • 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 367 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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    • The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974
    • By: Dominic Sandbrook
    • Narrated by: David Thorpe
    • Length: 32 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 488 ratings
    • In the early 1970s, Britain seemed to be tottering on the brink of the abyss....

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    • 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 147 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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    • Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
    • By: Christopher R. Browning
    • Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 07-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 475 ratings
    • Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews - now with a new afterword and additional photographs....

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