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Jane Austen at Home
- A Biography (250th Birthday Edition)
- Auteur(s): Lucy Worsley
- Narrateur(s): Lucy Worsley
- Durée: 17 h et 17 min
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 3
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To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, Lucy Worsley has written an Introduction to her Sunday Times Bestselling biography - the book that leads us into the rooms from which our best-loved novelist quietly changed the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- Écrit par Heather Wijcik le 2025-02-07
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The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism
- A New History
- Auteur(s): Yanni Kotsonis
- Narrateur(s): Steven Crossley
- Durée: 13 h et 16 min
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This panoramic book shows how the Greek Revolution was a demographic upheaval more consequential than the overthrow of a ruler.
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The Napoleonic Wars
- Auteur(s): Alexander Mikaberidze
- Narrateur(s): Steven Crossley
- Durée: 35 h et 10 min
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The Napoleonic Wars saw fighting on an unprecedented scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, combined with the might of the continental armies, almost two decades to bring down one of the world's greatest military leaders and the empire he had created....
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5 out of 5 stars
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informative and broad.
- Écrit par bill le 2021-03-11
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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Dueling Journals...
- Écrit par Meredith le 2021-07-30
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Farthest North
- The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer
- Auteur(s): Fridtjof Nansen
- Narrateur(s): Ulf Bjorklund
- Durée: 28 h et 10 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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In 1893 Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel north with the sea's drift. Experts said that such a ship couldn't be built....
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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Iron and blood
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-01-25
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Jane Austen at Home
- A Biography (250th Birthday Edition)
- Auteur(s): Lucy Worsley
- Narrateur(s): Lucy Worsley
- Durée: 17 h et 17 min
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Au global5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars 3
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, Lucy Worsley has written an Introduction to her Sunday Times Bestselling biography - the book that leads us into the rooms from which our best-loved novelist quietly changed the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- Écrit par Heather Wijcik le 2025-02-07
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The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism
- A New History
- Auteur(s): Yanni Kotsonis
- Narrateur(s): Steven Crossley
- Durée: 13 h et 16 min
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This panoramic book shows how the Greek Revolution was a demographic upheaval more consequential than the overthrow of a ruler.
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The Napoleonic Wars
- Auteur(s): Alexander Mikaberidze
- Narrateur(s): Steven Crossley
- Durée: 35 h et 10 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 17
The Napoleonic Wars saw fighting on an unprecedented scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, combined with the might of the continental armies, almost two decades to bring down one of the world's greatest military leaders and the empire he had created....
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5 out of 5 stars
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informative and broad.
- Écrit par bill le 2021-03-11
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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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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Dueling Journals...
- Écrit par Meredith le 2021-07-30
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Farthest North
- The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer
- Auteur(s): Fridtjof Nansen
- Narrateur(s): Ulf Bjorklund
- Durée: 28 h et 10 min
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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 3
In 1893 Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel north with the sea's drift. Experts said that such a ship couldn't be built....
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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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Au global4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Iron and blood
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-01-25
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The War Lovers
- Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898
- Auteur(s): Evan Thomas
- Narrateur(s): Richard Davidson
- Durée: 14 h et 1 min
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On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor. Although there was no evidence that the Spanish were responsible, yellow newspapers whipped Americans into a frenzy....
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Mark Twain
- Auteur(s): Ron Chernow
- Narrateur(s): Jason Culp
- Durée: 48 h
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Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain.
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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entertaining and informative
- Écrit par brian finamore le 2020-05-22
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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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3 out of 5 stars
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Worst narrator ever
- Écrit par DollakLaw le 2022-02-10
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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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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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3 out of 5 stars
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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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Stranger in the Shogun's City
- A Japanese Woman and Her World
- Auteur(s): Amy Stanley
- Narrateur(s): Joy Osmanski
- Durée: 10 h et 1 min
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A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo - the city that would become Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A pindrop of history
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2024-02-20
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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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5 out of 5 stars
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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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Nelson's Trafalgar
- The Battle That Changed the World
- Auteur(s): Roy Adkins
- Narrateur(s): John Telfer
- Durée: 13 h et 6 min
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In the tradition of Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous naval battle, when the British Royal Navy, under Lord Horatio Nelson, dealt a decisive blow to the forces of Napoleon....
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The River War
- Auteur(s): Winston Churchill
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Thorne
- Durée: 13 h et 57 min
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The northeastern quarter of the continent of Africa is drained and watered by the Nile....
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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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1 out of 5 stars
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I really wanted to like this but...
- Écrit par Sam Larkham le 2018-09-06
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Auteur(s): Thorstein Veblen
- Narrateur(s): John Lescault
- Durée: 11 h et 54 min
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The controversial American economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen here appropriates Darwin's theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system....
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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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3 out of 5 stars
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Skeletons on the Zahara
- Écrit par Conrad Noble le 2022-06-14
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The Pursuit of Power
- Europe: 1815-1914
- Auteur(s): Richard J. Evans
- Narrateur(s): Napoleon Ryan
- Durée: 41 h et 37 min
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Richard J. Evans's gripping narrative ranges across a century of social and national conflicts, from the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 to the unification of both Germany and Italy....
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5 out of 5 stars
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So good
- Écrit par MyPublicName le 2023-11-12
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The China Mirage
- The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
- Auteur(s): James Bradley
- Narrateur(s): Pete Larkin
- Durée: 12 h et 1 min
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The China Mirage explores a difficult century that defines US-Chinese relations to this day....
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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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Chasing Chopin
- A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions
- Auteur(s): Annik LaFarge
- Narrateur(s): Nancy Peterson
- Durée: 6 h et 58 min
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A modern take on a classical icon: this “luminous book” tells the story of when, where, and how Chopin composed his most famous work, uncovering many surprises along the way and showing how his innovative music still animates and thrives in our culture centuries later....
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The Enlightenment That Failed
- Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830
- Auteur(s): Jonathan I. Israel
- Narrateur(s): James Cameron Stewart
- Durée: 60 h et 58 min
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The Enlightenment That Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally....
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3 out of 5 stars
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The most monotonous narration....everrrrrrr !!!
- Écrit par Marian le 2021-12-14
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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 is a riveting account of the years, months and days leading up to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and the unexpected ways Canadians were involved in every aspect of the American Civil War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and enjoyable
- Écrit par Derick le 2023-06-08
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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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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
- Penguin Classics
- Auteur(s): Mary Seacole
- Narrateur(s): Yasmin Mwanza
- Durée: 8 h et 45 min
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Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War....
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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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Habsburgs on the Rio Grande
- The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire
- Auteur(s): Raymond Jonas
- Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
- Durée: 11 h et 22 min
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Based on research in five languages and in archives across the globe, Habsburgs on the Rio Grande fundamentally revises narratives of global history.
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The Graves Are Walking
- The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
- Auteur(s): John Kelly
- Narrateur(s): Gerard Doyle
- Durée: 13 h et 50 min
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It started in 1845 and lasted six years. Before it was over, more than one million men, women, and children starved to death and another million fled the country....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating!
- Écrit par Dude le 2020-12-15