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Victorians Undone
- Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
- Di: Kathryn Hughes
- Letto da: Jenny Funnell
- Durata: 13 ore e 44 min
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‘Intriguing, gleefully contentious and – appropriately enough – fizzing with life, Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while’ Daily Mail A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one...
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Victorians Undone
- Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
- Letto da: Jenny Funnell
- Durata: 13 ore e 44 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 26/01/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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Young and Damned and Fair
- The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII
- Di: Gareth Russell
- Letto da: Jenny Funnell
- Durata: 15 ore e 57 min
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017 Born into nobility and married into the royal family, Catherine Howard was attended every waking hour – secrets were impossible to keep. In this thrilling reappraisal of Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Gareth Russell’s history...
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Young and Damned and Fair
- The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII
- Letto da: Jenny Funnell
- Durata: 15 ore e 57 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 12/01/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Face of Britain
- The Nation through Its Portraits
- Di: Simon Schama
- Letto da: Roy McMillan, Simon Schama
- Durata: 14 ore e 21 min
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Face of Britain by Simon Schma, read by Simon Schama and Roy McMillian. Churchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares; Gainsborough watching his daughters run after a butterfly; a naked John Lennon five...
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The Face of Britain
- The Nation through Its Portraits
- Letto da: Roy McMillan, Simon Schama
- Durata: 14 ore e 21 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 16/09/2015
- Lingua: Inglese
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Crown and Country
- A History of England through the Monarchy
- Di: David Starkey
- Letto da: Tim Pigott-Smith, Jim Norton
- Durata: 15 ore e 11 min
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An exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. The monarchy is one of Britain’s longest surviving institutions – as well as one of its most tumultuous and revered. In this masterful book, David Starkey looks at the monarchy as a whole, charting...
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Crown and Country
- A History of England through the Monarchy
- Letto da: Tim Pigott-Smith, Jim Norton
- Durata: 15 ore e 11 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 30/09/2010
- Lingua: Inglese
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Waterloo
- The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
- Di: Bernard Cornwell
- Letto da: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Durata: 8 ore e 55 min
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The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller ‘A fabulous story, superbly told … cannot be bettered’ Max Hastings ‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’ On the 18th June 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels...
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Waterloo
- The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
- Letto da: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Durata: 8 ore e 55 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 11/09/2014
- Lingua: Inglese
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Elizabeth
- The Forgotten Years
- Di: John Guy
- Letto da: Alex Jennings
- Durata: 17 ore e 16 min
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Brought to you by Penguin. An ageing queen, an heirless state, conspiracy all round: here is the court of Elizabeth I as never known before. History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power -- and has focused on the early years of her reign. But in 1583, when Elizabeth...
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Elizabeth
- The Forgotten Years
- Letto da: Alex Jennings
- Durata: 17 ore e 16 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 08/06/2016
- Lingua: Inglese
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Paths to the Past
- Encounters with Britain's Hidden Landscapes
- Di: Francis Pryor
- Letto da: Francis Pryor
- Durata: 5 ore e 2 min
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Penguin Presents the audiobook edition of Paths to the Past written and read by Francis Pryor. Landscapes reflect and shape our behaviour. They make us who we are and bear witness to the shifting patterns of human life over the generations. Formed by a complex series of natural and human...
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Paths to the Past
- Encounters with Britain's Hidden Landscapes
- Letto da: Francis Pryor
- Durata: 5 ore e 2 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 01/03/2018
- Lingua: Inglese
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Catastrophe
- Europe Goes to War 1914
- Di: Max Hastings
- Letto da: Nigel Carrington
- Durata: 28 ore e 58 min
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The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war. 1914: a year of unparalleled change. The year that diplomacy failed, Imperial Europe was...
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Catastrophe
- Europe Goes to War 1914
- Letto da: Nigel Carrington
- Durata: 28 ore e 58 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 29/10/2015
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Royal British Legion
- 90 Years of Heroes
- Di: Matt Croucher, The Royal British Legion
- Letto da: Keeley Hawes, Bernard Cribbins, Nicky Henson, e altri
- Durata: 5 ore e 35 min
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The Royal British Legion was founded in 1921. It is now the country’s leading charity providing financial, social and emotional support to those who have served or who are currently serving in the British Armed Forces and their dependants. The RBL is behind the annual Poppy Appeal, the highest...
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The Royal British Legion
- 90 Years of Heroes
- Letto da: Keeley Hawes, Bernard Cribbins, Nicky Henson, Sean Barrett, Philip Franks
- Durata: 5 ore e 35 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 16/09/2011
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Blitz
- The British Under Attack
- Di: Juliet Gardiner
- Letto da: Catherine Harvey
- Durata: 17 ore e 42 min
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From the author of ‘Wartime’ and ‘The Thirties’comes an outstanding history of the most prolonged and devastating attack ever endured by Britain's civilian population – the Blitz. September 1940 marked the beginning of Nazi Germany's sustained attack on civilian Britain. Lasting eight...
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The Blitz
- The British Under Attack
- Letto da: Catherine Harvey
- Durata: 17 ore e 42 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 31/03/2011
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- Di: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Letto da: Sam Woolf
- Durata: 7 ore e 29 min
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris, read by Sam Woolf. In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to...
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- Letto da: Sam Woolf
- Durata: 7 ore e 29 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 17/10/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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Target Tirpitz
- X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters - The Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler’s Mightiest Warship
- Di: Patrick Bishop
- Letto da: Richard Burnip
- Durata: 15 ore e 36 min
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Target Tirpitz is gripping WW2 storytelling at its best and a return to the RAF territory of Patrick Bishop’s bestselling Bomber Boys and Fighter Boys. The Tirpitz, Hitler’s greatest weapon, was reputed to be unsinkable and the battleship inflamed an Allied obsession: to destroy her at any...
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Target Tirpitz
- X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters - The Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler’s Mightiest Warship
- Letto da: Richard Burnip
- Durata: 15 ore e 36 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 02/02/2012
- Lingua: Inglese
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Viking Britain
- A History
- Di: Thomas Williams
- Letto da: Richard Trinder
- Durata: 13 ore e 18 min
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A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields. To many, the word ‘Viking’ brings to mind red scenes of rape and pillage, of...
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Viking Britain
- A History
- Letto da: Richard Trinder
- Serie: Viking Britain
- Durata: 13 ore e 18 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 07/09/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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Fall Out
- A Year of Political Mayhem
- Di: Tim Shipman
- Letto da: Rupert Farley
- Durata: 29 ore e 4 min
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The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa May’s battle for a Brexit deal, the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War. By the bestselling author of All Out War, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2017. This...
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Fall Out
- A Year of Political Mayhem
- Letto da: Rupert Farley
- Durata: 29 ore e 4 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 15/12/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Birth of the RAF, 1918
- The World's First Air Force
- Di: Richard Overy
- Letto da: Jonathan Keeble
- Durata: 4 ore e 8 min
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Penguin presents The Birth of the RAF by Richard Overy, read by Jonathan Keeble. The dizzying pace of technological change in the early 20th century meant that it took only a little over ten years from the first flight by the Wright Brothers to the clash of fighter planes in the Great War. A...
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The Birth of the RAF, 1918
- The World's First Air Force
- Letto da: Jonathan Keeble
- Durata: 4 ore e 8 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 01/03/2018
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Making of Modern Britain
- Di: Andrew Marr
- Letto da: Andrew Marr
- Durata: 7 ore e 5 min
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In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation...
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The Making of Modern Britain
- Letto da: Andrew Marr
- Durata: 7 ore e 5 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 15/10/2009
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Monarchy of England
- The Beginnings
- Di: David Starkey
- Letto da: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Durata: 5 ore e 15 min
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The thrilling launch of David Starkey's new mammoth venture – MONARCHY: three books linked to 18 hours of television on the Kings and Queens of England. Volume 1 The Early Kings covers the retreat of the Romans from Britain in 410 to the fall of the House of Lancaster in the middle of the 15th...
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The Monarchy of England
- The Beginnings
- Letto da: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Durata: 5 ore e 15 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 23/08/2005
- Lingua: Inglese
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A History of Modern Britain
- Di: Andrew Marr
- Letto da: Andrew Marr
- Durata: 7 ore e 10 min
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A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and...
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A History of Modern Britain
- Letto da: Andrew Marr
- Durata: 7 ore e 10 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 07/05/2007
- Lingua: Inglese
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Road to the Dales
- The Story of a Yorkshire Lad
- Di: Gervase Phinn
- Letto da: Gervase Phinn
- Durata: 6 ore e 6 min
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In this abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Road to the Dales: The Story of a Yorkshire Lad, Gervase tells of a life full of happiness, conversation, music and books shared with his three siblings, mother and father. This audiobook is a snapshot of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s -...
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Road to the Dales
- The Story of a Yorkshire Lad
- Letto da: Gervase Phinn
- Durata: 6 ore e 6 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 13/05/2011
- Lingua: Inglese
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A Woman's Work
- Di: Harriet Harman
- Letto da: Harriet Harman
- Durata: 15 ore e 52 min
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of A Woman's Work, written and read by Harriet Harman. The first time the story of women's progressive politics over the past thirty years has been told - by someone at the forefront of the movement Why does the political...
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A Woman's Work
- Letto da: Harriet Harman
- Durata: 15 ore e 52 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 02/02/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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