British Empire Memoir
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The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire
- The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- Auteur(s): Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
- Narrateur(s): Gildart Jackson
- Durée: 21 h et 5 min
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The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing audiobook makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men historian Andrew O'Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve victory.
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A very informative read.
- Écrit par Robert Hoskins le 2021-08-19
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The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire
- The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- Narrateur(s): Gildart Jackson
- Durée: 21 h et 5 min
- Date de publication: 2013-11-13
- Langue: Anglais
- The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire....
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In Search of a Kingdom
- Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
- Auteur(s): Laurence Bergreen
- Narrateur(s): Michael Page
- Durée: 13 h et 25 min
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In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiral whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history.
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High adventure, war and the birth of England.
- Écrit par Jesse Bongfeldt le 2023-05-31
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In Search of a Kingdom
- Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
- Narrateur(s): Michael Page
- Durée: 13 h et 25 min
- Date de publication: 2021-03-16
- Langue: Anglais
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In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiral whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed....
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George V
- Never a Dull Moment
- Auteur(s): Jane Ridley
- Narrateur(s): Joanna David
- Durée: 22 h et 7 min
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The lasting reputation of George V is for dullness. He was a crack shot and an outstanding stamp collector, but that's about it. The flamboyance and hedonism of his father, Edward VII, defined an era whose influence and magnetism is still felt today. The contrast between the two could hardly be greater.
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Splendid account of George V
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2022-10-25
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George V
- Never a Dull Moment
- Narrateur(s): Joanna David
- Durée: 22 h et 7 min
- Date de publication: 2021-11-04
- Langue: Anglais
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The lasting reputation of George V is for dullness. He was a crack shot and an outstanding stamp collector, but that's about it....
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Gandhi, Smuts and Race in the British Empire
- Of Passive and Violent Resistance
- Auteur(s): Peter Baxter
- Narrateur(s): Peter Baxter
- Durée: 11 h et 59 min
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Towards the end of 1906, a meeting took place between two emerging giants of the age, Mohandas K. Gandhi and General Jan Christian Smuts. United under the same empire, but separated by distance and culture, Smuts was born in the Cape Colony, and Gandhi in Porbandar, a duchy of the Indian province of Gujarat. Both, however, went on to study law in Britain, and while developing a great admiration for the institutions of empire, each man also suffered his own particular crisis of faith.
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Gandhi, Smuts and Race in the British Empire
- Of Passive and Violent Resistance
- Narrateur(s): Peter Baxter
- Durée: 11 h et 59 min
- Date de publication: 2018-06-22
- Langue: Anglais
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Towards the end of 1906, a meeting took place between two emerging giants of the age, Mohandas K. Gandhi and General Jan Christian Smuts....
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Imperial Intimacies
- A Tale of Two Islands
- Auteur(s): Hazel V. Carby
- Narrateur(s): Hazel V. Carby
- Durée: 16 h et 44 min
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“Where are you from?” was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-war London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby’s place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt.
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Imperial Intimacies
- A Tale of Two Islands
- Narrateur(s): Hazel V. Carby
- Durée: 16 h et 44 min
- Date de publication: 2021-12-07
- Langue: Anglais
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“Where are you from?” was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-war London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother....
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Broken Threads
- My Family from Empire to Independence
- Auteur(s): Mishal Husain
- Narrateur(s): Mishal Husain
- Durée: 8 h et 39 min
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An extraordinary history of Mishal Husain’s four grandparents, whose lives were shaped by the tumultuous politics and prejudices of empire, war and partition. Through a narrative odyssey that traces the complexities of her own ancestry, Mishal Husain sheds incredible light on a landmark historical period. Mary, a devout Catholic of Anglo-Indian parentage, leaves a struggling family to train as a nurse. Tahirah was born to middle-class Muslim parents and grows up with an emphasis on education and aspiration.
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Broken Threads
- My Family from Empire to Independence
- Narrateur(s): Mishal Husain
- Durée: 8 h et 39 min
- Date de publication: 2024-06-06
- Langue: Anglais
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An extraordinary history of Mishal Husain’s four grandparents, whose lives were shaped by the tumultuous politics and prejudices of empire, war and partition.
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Empire Made
- My Search for an Outlaw Uncle Who Vanished in British India
- Auteur(s): Kief Hillsbery
- Narrateur(s): James Cameron Stewart
- Durée: 9 h et 42 min
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Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India - a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light. In 1841, 20-year-old Nigel Halleck set out for Calcutta as a clerk in the East India Company. He went on to serve in the colonial administration for eight years before abruptly leaving the company under a cloud and disappearing in the mountain kingdom of Nepal, never to be heard from again.
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Empire Made
- My Search for an Outlaw Uncle Who Vanished in British India
- Narrateur(s): James Cameron Stewart
- Durée: 9 h et 42 min
- Date de publication: 2017-07-25
- Langue: Anglais
- Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India - a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light....
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The Grand Tour
- Letters from the British Empire Expedition 1922
- Auteur(s): Agatha Christie
- Narrateur(s): Fenella Woolgar
- Durée: 4 h et 48 min
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In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a 10-month voyage around the British Empire with her husband as part of a trade mission to promote the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition. Leaving her two-year-old daughter behind with her sister, Agatha set sail at the end of January and did not return until December, but she kept up a detailed weekly correspondence with her mother, describing in detail the exotic places and people she encountered as the mission travelled through South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and Canada.
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The Grand Tour
- Letters from the British Empire Expedition 1922
- Narrateur(s): Fenella Woolgar
- Durée: 4 h et 48 min
- Date de publication: 2022-06-23
- Langue: Anglais
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Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie’s extensive and evocative letters from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition....
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The Last Englishmen
- Love, War, and the End of Empire
- Auteur(s): Deborah Baker
- Narrateur(s): James Cameron Stewart
- Durée: 14 h et 7 min
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Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies, Die Hards and Indian nationalists, political rogues and police informers. Key among them is a highborn Bengali poet named Sudhin Datta, a melancholy soul torn, like many of his generation, between hatred of the British Empire and a deep love of European literature, whose life would be upended by the arrival of war on his Calcutta doorstep.
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Great book, worth the effort
- Écrit par Roberta W le 2024-03-22
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The Last Englishmen
- Love, War, and the End of Empire
- Narrateur(s): James Cameron Stewart
- Durée: 14 h et 7 min
- Date de publication: 2018-08-21
- Langue: Anglais
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Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies....
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The Storied City
- The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
- Auteur(s): Charlie English
- Narrateur(s): Enn Reitel
- Durée: 13 h et 54 min
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To Westerners, the name Timbuktu long conjured a tantalizing paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late 18th century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for "discovery" tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city. But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to attack, the climate, and disease. Timbuktu was rich in another way, too. A medieval center of learning, it was home to tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts.
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The Storied City
- The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
- Narrateur(s): Enn Reitel
- Durée: 13 h et 54 min
- Date de publication: 2017-05-02
- Langue: Anglais
- To Westerners, the name "Timbuktu" long conjured a tantalizing paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold....
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