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  • Stephen Fry's Edwardian Secrets cover art

    • Stephen Fry's Edwardian Secrets

    • 5 out of 5 stars 897 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 129 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 45 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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    • Sky Warriors

    • 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 25 ratings

    • Bestselling historian Saul David provides a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War....

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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 21 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 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 138 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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    • King's Counsellor

    • Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles
    • By: Sir Alan Lascelles, Duff Hart-Davis
    • Narrated by: Pip Torrens
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 153 ratings

    • As Assistant Private Secretary to four monarchs, 'Tommy' Lascelles had a ringside seat from which to observe the workings of the royal household and Downing Street during the first half of the 20th century....

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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 1,041 ratings
    • Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II....

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    • State of Emergency

    • 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 481 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 363 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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    • 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 499 ratings
    • In the early 1970s, Britain seemed to be tottering on the brink of the abyss....

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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 145 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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    • 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 200 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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    • James May's 20th Century

    • By: James May, Phil Dolling
    • Narrated by: James May
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • Longlisted for the Audiobook Download of the Year, 2007.
      How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related....

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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 144 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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    • The Guns of August

    • 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 260 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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  • The Great British Dream Factory cover art

    • The Great British Dream Factory

    • The Strange History of Our National Imagination
    • By: Dominic Sandbrook
    • Narrated by: David Thorpe
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • Britain's empire has gone. Our manufacturing base is a shadow of its former self; the Royal Navy has been reduced to a skeleton....

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