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The Greek Revolution
- 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
- Auteur(s): Mark Mazower
- Narrateur(s): John Lee, Mark Mazower
- Durée: 20 h et 58 min
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As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new account, myths about the Greek War of Independence outpaced the facts from the very beginning, and for good reason....
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The only Greek independence audio book I can find
- Écrit par Jason Gacek le 2023-06-15
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Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- Auteur(s): Stephen R. Platt
- Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
- Durée: 17 h et 50 min
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As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it....
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Well written but not the story I was hoping for
- Écrit par Simon le 2022-02-03
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City of Light, City of Shadows
- Paris in the Belle Époque
- Auteur(s): Mike Rapport
- Narrateur(s): Paul Daintry
- Durée: 14 h et 48 min
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A top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle Époque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French....
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The Race to the Future
- 8000 Miles to Paris – The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
- Auteur(s): Kassia St. Clair
- Narrateur(s): Kassia St. Clair
- Durée: 10 h
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The Race to the Future sets the drivers' derring-do against the backdrop of a larger geopolitical and technological race to the future. Bestselling historian Kassia St. Clair shows how the Peking-to-Paris provided an impetus for profound social, cultural, and industrial change.
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Auteur(s): Thorstein Veblen
- Narrateur(s): Mark Sebastian
- Durée: 11 h et 34 min
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His most famous work, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions, is a treatise on economics and a social critique of consumption and of consumerism, based on the social stratification of people and the division of labor....
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Le soleil d'Austerlitz
- Napoléon 2
- Auteur(s): Max Gallo
- Narrateur(s): Jean-Marc Galéra
- Durée: 11 h et 51 min
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Napoléon a trente ans en ce mois de noembre 1799. Il est Premier consul. Dans cinq ans, il sera Empereur des Français...
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The Greek Revolution
- 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
- Auteur(s): Mark Mazower
- Narrateur(s): John Lee, Mark Mazower
- Durée: 20 h et 58 min
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As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new account, myths about the Greek War of Independence outpaced the facts from the very beginning, and for good reason....
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The only Greek independence audio book I can find
- Écrit par Jason Gacek le 2023-06-15
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Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- Auteur(s): Stephen R. Platt
- Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
- Durée: 17 h et 50 min
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As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it....
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Well written but not the story I was hoping for
- Écrit par Simon le 2022-02-03
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City of Light, City of Shadows
- Paris in the Belle Époque
- Auteur(s): Mike Rapport
- Narrateur(s): Paul Daintry
- Durée: 14 h et 48 min
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A top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle Époque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French....
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The Race to the Future
- 8000 Miles to Paris – The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
- Auteur(s): Kassia St. Clair
- Narrateur(s): Kassia St. Clair
- Durée: 10 h
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The Race to the Future sets the drivers' derring-do against the backdrop of a larger geopolitical and technological race to the future. Bestselling historian Kassia St. Clair shows how the Peking-to-Paris provided an impetus for profound social, cultural, and industrial change.
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Auteur(s): Thorstein Veblen
- Narrateur(s): Mark Sebastian
- Durée: 11 h et 34 min
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His most famous work, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions, is a treatise on economics and a social critique of consumption and of consumerism, based on the social stratification of people and the division of labor....
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Le soleil d'Austerlitz
- Napoléon 2
- Auteur(s): Max Gallo
- Narrateur(s): Jean-Marc Galéra
- Durée: 11 h et 51 min
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Napoléon a trente ans en ce mois de noembre 1799. Il est Premier consul. Dans cinq ans, il sera Empereur des Français...
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- Auteur(s): Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrateur(s): Ralph Lister
- Durée: 7 h et 54 min
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In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation....
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I really wanted to like this but...
- Écrit par Sam Larkham le 2018-09-06
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Louis Riel
- Auteur(s): Dan Asfar, Tim Chodan
- Narrateur(s): Steve Jodoin
- Durée: 6 h et 33 min
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Champion of a people or traitorous rabble-rouser? Political visionary or religious lunatic? Louis Riel is one of the most ambiguous figures in Canadian history, a man who stood and fell for the Métis nation. Hear about the fascinating western icon in this well-paced biography....
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Louis Riel Doesn’t Take Sides in Its Telling
- Écrit par Ringo Davil le 2023-07-09
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Victorian London
- The Life of a City, 1840-1870
- Auteur(s): Liza Picard
- Narrateur(s): Anton Lesser
- Durée: 6 h et 39 min
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All the splendours and horrors of Victorian life will be vividly recalled....
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American Civil Wars
- A Continental History, 1850-1873
- Auteur(s): Alan Taylor
- Narrateur(s): Graham Winton
- Durée: 17 h et 8 min
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The American Civil War stands at the center of the story, its military history and the drama of emancipation the highlights....
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Bismarck's War
- The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
- Auteur(s): Rachel Chrastil
- Narrateur(s): Sarah Borges
- Durée: 17 h et 37 min
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Historian Rachel Chrastil presents a definitive new history of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I....
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Island of the Lost
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- Auteur(s): Joan Druett
- Narrateur(s): David Colacci
- Durée: 8 h et 35 min
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In 1864, Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of Auckland Island....
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Dueling Journals...
- Écrit par Meredith le 2021-07-30
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The Greater Journey
- Americans in Paris
- Auteur(s): David McCullough
- Narrateur(s): Edward Herrmann
- Durée: 16 h et 50 min
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Here is the enthralling story of the American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900....
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Elisabeth d'Autriche
- La véritable histoire de Sissi
- Auteur(s): Brigitte Hamann
- Narrateur(s): Hélène Lausseur
- Durée: 20 h et 28 min
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Impératrice d'Autriche-Hongrie, la monarchie la plus autoritaire et la plus compassée qui fût en Europe, elle haïssait l'Etiquette...
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Hymns of the Republic
- The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
- Auteur(s): S. C. Gwynne
- Narrateur(s): Robert Petkoff
- Durée: 14 h et 29 min
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From the New York Times best-selling, celebrated, and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes the spellbinding, epic account of the dramatic conclusion of the Civil War....
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Skeletons on the Zahara
- A True Story of Survival
- Auteur(s): Dean King
- Narrateur(s): Michael Prichard
- Durée: 12 h et 58 min
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Everywhere hailed as a masterpiece of historical adventure, this enthralling narrative recounts the experiences of 12 American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815....
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Skeletons on the Zahara
- Écrit par Conrad Noble le 2022-06-14
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On the Origin of Species
- Auteur(s): Charles Darwin
- Narrateur(s): Richard Dawkins
- Durée: 5 h et 53 min
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A literally world-changing book, Darwin put forward the anti-religious and scientific idea that humans in fact evolved over millions of generations from animals....
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The Origin of Evolutionary Theory
- Écrit par Norman le 2024-04-11
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The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution
- Auteur(s): D.H. Robinson
- Narrateur(s): Liam Gerrard
- Durée: 15 h et 9 min
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In The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution, Dan Robinson presents a new history of politics in colonial America and the imperial crisis, tracing how ideas of Europe and Europeanness shaped British-American political culture....
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The Famine Plot
- England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
- Auteur(s): Tim Pat Coogan
- Narrateur(s): Roger Clark
- Durée: 11 h et 13 min
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Unflinching in depicting the evidence, Coogan presents a vivid and horrifying picture of a catastrophe that shook the 19th century and finally calls to account those responsible....
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Captivating
- Écrit par Dude le 2020-10-25
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Massacre, Trial, and Aftermath: 1880-1916
- The Donnellys, Volume 2
- Auteur(s): John Little
- Narrateur(s): Gareth Richards
- Durée: 9 h et 35 min
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In 1880, an organized mob of the Donnellys' enemies murders four family members and burns their house to the ground. Another sibling is shot to death in a house a short distance away. William Donnelly and a teenage boy are the only witnesses to the murders....
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Worst narrator ever
- Écrit par DollakLaw le 2022-02-10
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Killing Dragons
- The Conquest of the Alps
- Auteur(s): Fergus Fleming
- Narrateur(s): Richard Halverson
- Durée: 14 h et 46 min
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In a riveting narrative of daredevils and eccentrics, Fergus Fleming gives us the breathtaking story of some of history's greatest explorers as they conquer the soaring peaks of the Alps....
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The North Star
- Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln
- Auteur(s): Julian Sher
- Narrateur(s): Julian Sher
- Durée: 15 h et 11 min
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The North Star weaves together the different strands of several Canadians and a handful of Confederate agents in Canada to present a riveting account of the years, months and days leading up to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln....
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Fascinating and enjoyable
- Écrit par Derick le 2023-06-08
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Le chant du départ
- Napoléon 1
- Auteur(s): Max Gallo
- Narrateur(s): Jean-Marc Galéra
- Durée: 15 h et 37 min
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Il est arrivé le 15 mai 1779 à l'École royale militaire de Brienne. Il n'a pas encore dix ans et parle à peine le français... Il va rester cinq ans dans cette école...
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Like Wolves on the Fold
- The Defense of Rorke's Drift
- Auteur(s): Lieutenant Colonel Mike Snook, Lieutenant Colonel Huw Lloyd-Jones - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Mike Cooper
- Durée: 8 h et 44 min
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On January 22, 1879, the British Army in South Africa was swept aside by the seemingly unstoppable Zulu warriors at the Battle of Isandlwana....
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Adam Smith
- Father of Economics
- Auteur(s): Jesse Norman
- Narrateur(s): Jesse Norman
- Durée: 13 h et 40 min
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A dazzlingly original account of the life and thought of Adam Smith, the greatest economist of all time....
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Liberty's Torch
- The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty
- Auteur(s): Elizabeth Mitchell
- Narrateur(s): Andi Ackerman
- Durée: 9 h et 8 min
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For decades, the myth has persisted that the statue was a grand gift from France, but now Liberty's Torch reveals how she was in fact the pet project of one quixotic and visionary French sculptor....
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La guerre de Sécession
- Auteur(s): John Keegan
- Narrateur(s): François Cottrelle
- Durée: 18 h et 50 min
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Occultée par la vision littéraire antagoniste de La Case de l'oncle Tom et d'Autant en emporte le vent, la guerre de Sécession demeure méconnue...
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Blood and Iron
- The Rise and Fall of the German Empire; 1871-1918
- Auteur(s): Katja Hoyer
- Narrateur(s): Natasha Soudek
- Durée: 8 h et 13 min
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In this vivid 50-year history of Germany from 1871-1918 - which inspired events that forever changed the European continent - is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War....
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Iron and blood
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-01-25
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Crimea
- Auteur(s): Orlando Figes
- Narrateur(s): Malk Williams
- Durée: 20 h et 38 min
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The terrible conflict that dominated the mid-19th century, the Crimean War, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire....
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entertaining and informative
- Écrit par brian finamore le 2020-05-22
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Formation
- The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation
- Auteur(s): Fola Fagbule, Feyi Fawehinmi
- Narrateur(s): Elnathan John
- Durée: 13 h et 27 min
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Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that turned a collection of disparate nations into a British colony in 1914....