Biographies European History

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    • England's Greatest Medieval Warrior
    • Written by: Michael Jones
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2018-12-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This is a remarkable and inspiring story of one of the greatest warrior-princes of the Middle Ages - and an unforgettably vivid portrait of warfare and chivalry in the 14th century....

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    • A Military History
    • Written by: Dennis Showalter
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2020-08-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Frederick the Great is one of history's most important leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe, securing Prussia's place as a continental power and inaugurating a new pattern of total war....

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    • A New Life of Charles V
    • Written by: Geoffrey Parker
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers....

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    • The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
    • Written by: Christian Goeschel
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-25
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that affected both countries. While Germany is regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally....

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    • The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
    • Written by: Gwen Strauss
    • Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a 10-day journey across the front lines of World War II from Germany back to Paris....

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    • Written by: Johannes Fried, Peter Lewis
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 30 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2017-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Johannes Fried paints a compelling portrait of a devout ruler, a violent time, and a unified kingdom that deepens our understanding of the man often called the father of Europe....

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    • Making the Renaissance in Europe
    • Written by: Maureen Quilligan
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2021-10-12
    • Language: English
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    • A leading Renaissance scholar shows in this revisionist history how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious 16th century.

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    • My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
    • Written by: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2017-10-03
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth....

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    • Wars, Memory, and Families
    • Written by: R.H. Thomson
    • Narrated by: R.H. Thomson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2023-10-31
    • Language: English
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    • From one of Canada’s most beloved performing artists comes an audacious work of non-fiction that explores the stories that shape us and the reach that the past can have across generations....

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    • Voyages of a Viking Woman
    • Written by: Nancy Marie Brown
    • Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2023-02-28
    • Language: English
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    • Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say....

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    • Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici
    • Written by: Elizabeth Lev
    • Narrated by: Edita Brychta
    • Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2021-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In this glittering biography of Caterina Sforza, one of the most prominent women of Renaissance Italy, who was a wife, mother, leader, and warrior with enough fierceness to make Machiavelli himself wince, Elizabeth Lev reexamines her extraordinary life and accomplishments....

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    • Written by: G. K. Chesterton
    • Narrated by: Fred Williams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2006-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Orthodoxy is Chesterton's great apologia for the Christian faith, which was prompted by a serious attack in 1903 against Christianity by well-known newspaper editor Robert Blatchford....

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    • Written by: Paul Johnson
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2004-12-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Paul Johnson's book is a refreshing return to a concept whose time has come once again: the Great Man theory of biography....

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    • The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
    • Written by: Susan Nagel
    • Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2008-03-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The story of an astonishing woman, from her birth, to her upbringing by doting parents, to Revolution, imprisonment, exile, Restoration, and, finally, her reincarnation as saint and matriarch....

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    • America's #1 Ace Fighter Pilot of World War II (American War Heroes)
    • Written by: Don Keith
    • Narrated by: René Ruiz
    • Series: American War Heroes
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2023-06-06
    • Language: English
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    • The heroic true story of Major Richard Bong, America’s greatest fighter pilot of the Pacific War and the nation’s top flying ace of World War II....

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    • Written by: John Keegan
    • Narrated by: Richard Matthews
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2005-01-27
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The eminent historian John Keegan charts Churchill's career, following his steadfast leadership during the catastrophic events of World War II....

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    • Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women
    • Written by: Barbie Latza Nadeau
    • Narrated by: Barbie Latza Nadeau
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2022-09-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • For as long as it has gripped our imaginations, the Mafia has been tied to an ingrained image of masculinity. We learn about "made men," "wiseguys," and "goodfellas" leading criminal organizations whose culture prizes machismo....

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    • Written by: John Berendt
    • Narrated by: John Berendt
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2005-09-22
    • Language: English
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    • The City of Falling Angels opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house. The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdi's operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians....

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    • Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
    • Written by: Nancy Goldstone
    • Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard
    • Length: 19 hrs
    • Release date: 2025-02-25
    • Language: English
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    • From the author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe—Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie, empress of France—and their efforts to rule amid the scandal, intrigue, tragedy, and violence of their era.

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