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Arnhem
- Great Battles
- Di: Christopher Hibbert
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 24 min
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Nine thousand men of the First British Airborne Division were parachuted into the peaceful countryside that surrounded Arnhem. Their objective was to capture and hold the bridge over the Rhine ahead of the advancing British Second Army. Nine days later, after some of the fiercest street-fighting of the war, 2,000 paratroopers managed to escape to safety.
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Arnhem
- Great Battles
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 24 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 15/09/2022
- Lingua: Inglese
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Aircrew
- The Story of the Men Who Flew the Bombers
- Di: Bruce Lewis
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 30 min
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The British and American bomber crews of the Second World War often had to endure the most terrifying conditions. Not for them the glorious, all-or-nothing exhilaration of the Battle of Britain pilots—rather, the slow dwindling of courage as mission followed mission, the long freezing, ear-shattering journey to the target, the bursting flak, the prowling night fighters. Then, if they were lucky, the long haul home, sometimes nursing a battered, barely flyable machine, often perilously short of fuel.
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Aircrew
- The Story of the Men Who Flew the Bombers
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 30 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 18/08/2022
- Lingua: Inglese
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A Brief History of London
- Di: Jeremy Black
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 9 ore e 31 min
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As the United Kingdom left the European Union, during a period of international and domestic turmoil, London found itself at a turning point. This critical moment presents an opportunity to look back, with a distinctive perspective, a focus on London in its national and, perhaps even more importantly, its international contexts, rather than on the city in isolation. It is the interactions of London that Black considers, and he does so in order to address the question as to why London became the foremost international city, how it sustained that position and what its future holds.
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A Brief History of London
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 9 ore e 31 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 07/07/2022
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Road Past Mandalay
- Di: John Masters
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 14 ore e 13 min
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This is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a best-selling novelist at the height of his powers, it is an exceptionally moving story that culminates in him having to personally shoot a number of wounded British soldiers who cannot be evacuated before their position is overrun by the Japanese.
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The Road Past Mandalay
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 14 ore e 13 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 16/02/2023
- Lingua: Inglese
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Bugles and a Tiger
- My Life in the Gurkhas
- Di: John Masters
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 12 ore e 13 min
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John Masters was a soldier before he became a best-selling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of 18 and was commissioned into the Fourth Gurkha Rifles in time to take part in some of the last campaigns on the turbulent North-West Frontier of India. John Masters joined a Gurhka regiment on receiving his commission, and his depiction of garrison life and campaigning on the North-West Frontier has never been surpassed. Bugles and a Tiger is a matchless evocation of the British Army in India on the eve of the Second World War.
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Bugles and a Tiger
- My Life in the Gurkhas
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 12 ore e 13 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 03/11/2022
- Lingua: Inglese
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A Brief History of the Atlantic
- Di: Jeremy Black
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 9 ore e 57 min
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The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and readable book, Jeremy Black takes the reader through its evolution to becoming one of the most important oceans in the world. Black discusses the...
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A Brief History of the Atlantic
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 9 ore e 57 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 02/06/2022
- Lingua: Inglese
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At Day's Close
- A History of Nighttime
- Di: Professor A. Roger Ekirch
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 14 ore e 43 min
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From blanket fairs to night kings, curfews to crime, At Day's Close is an intriguing and captivating investigation into the night. Until now, this rich and complex universe in which we spend nearly half of our lives was a world long-lost to historians. Here, Ekirch explores how the night was lived in the past, through travel accounts, memoirs, letters, folklore, poems, court records and coroner's reports. More than this, it is a passionate argument in the case for less artificial light in an increasingly bright world.
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At Day's Close
- A History of Nighttime
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 14 ore e 43 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 23/06/2022
- Lingua: Inglese
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A Brief History of Germany
- Indispensable for Travellers
- Di: Jeremy Black
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 11 ore e 41 min
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In A Brief History of Germany, Jeremy Black questions how the Germany we know today came to be, chronicling the events that shaped its past, present and future in a fascinating new way. From the fall of Rome in the 1500s to the enlightenment in the 1700s, from World War I and World War II to Germany post-unification, Black's writing will unlock the places and people that formed Germany and enrich your visit with stories of its society and culture.
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A Brief History of Germany
- Indispensable for Travellers
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 11 ore e 41 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 07/04/2022
- Lingua: Inglese
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Growing Up
- Sex in the Sixties
- Di: Peter Doggett
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 15 ore e 20 min
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No era in recent history has been both more celebrated and vilified than the 1960s. For some it was a time when music, fashion and drugs enabled young people to express their individuality and freedom, their hopes and dreams of a different, perhaps better, world. For others, the decade marked the advent of the permissive society, with its undermining of authority, family values and common decency. At the heart of this continuing controversy is sex.
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Growing Up
- Sex in the Sixties
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 15 ore e 20 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 04/11/2021
- Lingua: Inglese
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Goose Green
- The First Crucial Battle of the Falklands War
- Di: Mark Adkin
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 12 ore e 51 min
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Goose Green was the first land battle of the Falklands War. It was also the longest, the hardest-fought, the most controversial and the most important to win. What began as a raid became a vicious 14-hour infantry struggle, in which 2 Para—outnumbered, exhausted, forced to attack across open ground in full daylight, and with inadequate fire support—lost their commanding officer and almost lost the action. This is the only detailed full-length account of this crucial battle.
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Goose Green
- The First Crucial Battle of the Falklands War
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 12 ore e 51 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 31/03/2022
- Lingua: Inglese
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Sea Harrier Over The Falklands
- Di: Sharkey Ward
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 15 ore e 16 min
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The controversial first-hand account of what really happened in the south Atlantic skies Sharkey Ward commanded 801 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Invincible, was senior Sea Harrier adviser to the Command, flew over sixty missions and was awarded DSC. Yet had he followed all his instructions to the...
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Sea Harrier Over The Falklands
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 15 ore e 16 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 31/03/2022
- Lingua: Inglese
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Spike
- The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story
- Di: Jeremy Farrar, Anjana Ahuja
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 16 min
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The coronavirus pandemic has devastated lives and livelihoods around the world - and continues to do so. These personal tragedies will, and must, be told and heard. There is, however, also a truthful and objective scientific narrative to be written about how the virus played out and how the world set about dealing with it. Spike is that story - from the inside. Its author, Jeremy Farrar, is one of the UK's leading scientists and a - member of the SAGE emergency committee.
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Spike
- The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 16 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 30/09/2021
- Lingua: Inglese
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Strategy and the Second World War
- How the War Was Won, and Lost
- Di: Jeremy Black
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 9 ore e 58 min
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In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor and Germany declared war on the United States. In this timely book, which fills a real gap, Black engages with the strategic issues of the time - as they developed chronologically and interacted - and relates these to subsequent debates about the choices made, revealing their continued political resonances.
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Strategy and the Second World War
- How the War Was Won, and Lost
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 9 ore e 58 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 01/07/2021
- Lingua: Inglese
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Seize and Hold
- Di: Bryan Perrett
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 10 ore e 31 min
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Seize and Hold vividly demonstrates how military objectives can be seized by clever tactics and ruthless action. From the First World War to Vietnam, this collection gives exciting, atmospheric descriptions of 11 20th-century battlefield triumphs. Portraying military skills at their most daring and inventive, Seize and Hold is full of more drama and excitement than Hollywood could ever invent.
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Seize and Hold
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 10 ore e 31 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 10/12/2020
- Lingua: Inglese
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At All Costs
- Di: Bryan Perrett
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 11 ore e 21 min
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From the jaws of defeat, incredible victories. AT ALL COSTS! transports you to the battlefront for over two centuries of astonishing military confrontations. From the Battle of Minden in 1795 to dramatic second world war stories and the Battle for Goose Green in the Falklands, Bryan Perrett...
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At All Costs
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 11 ore e 21 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 10/12/2020
- Lingua: Inglese
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Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It
- Unlocking the Nine Secrets of People Who Changed the World
- Di: Richard Koch
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 52 min
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How do people of seemingly ordinary talent go on to achieve unexpected results? What can we learn from them? What are the ingredients for unreasonable success and how is it achieved? In this ground-breaking book, bestselling author Richard Koch charts a map of success, identifying the nine key...
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Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It
- Unlocking the Nine Secrets of People Who Changed the World
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 52 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 13/08/2020
- Lingua: Inglese
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At Close Range
- Life and Death in an Artillery Regiment, 1939-45
- Di: Peter Hart
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 16 ore e 38 min
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The best way to understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to see it through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it. The South Notts Hussars fought at almost every major battle. Here, Peter Hart draws on detailed interviews conducted with members of the regiment to provide both a comprehensive account of the conflict and reconstruct its most thrilling moments in the words of the men who experienced it. This is military history at its best.
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At Close Range
- Life and Death in an Artillery Regiment, 1939-45
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 16 ore e 38 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 07/05/2020
- Lingua: Inglese
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A Brief History of the Mediterranean
- Di: Jeremy Black
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 11 ore e 4 min
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The Mediterranean has always been a leading stage for world history, and it is also visited each year by tens of millions of tourists. Jeremy Black provides an account in which the experience of travel is foremost: travel for tourism, trade, war, migration, culture, or, as so often, a variety of reasons. Throughout the audiobook the emphasis is on the sea, on coastal regions and on port cities visited by cruise liners, but it also looks beyond, notably to the other waters that flow into the Mediterranean.
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A Brief History of the Mediterranean
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 11 ore e 4 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 02/07/2020
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy
- Di: Tim Harford
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 1 min
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In Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, the revolutionary, acclaimed book, radio series and podcast, best-selling economist Tim Harford introduced us to a selection of 50 radical inventions that changed the world. Along the way he entertained us with a myriad of great stories and revealed some of the most surprising landmarks in our history.
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The Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 1 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 28/05/2020
- Lingua: Inglese
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A Brief History of Portugal
- Indispensable for Travellers
- Di: Jeremy Black
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 33 min
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This is a comprehensive history of Portugal that covers the whole span, from the Stone Age to today. An introduction provides an understanding of geographical and climatic issues, before an examination of Portugal's prehistory and classical Portugal, from the Stone Age to the end of the the Roman era. Portugal's history from AD 420 to the 13th century takes in the Suevi, Visigoths and Moors. Then, a look at medieval Portugal, covers the development of Christian Portugal culminating with the expulsion of the Moors, with a focus on key sites.
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A Brief History of Portugal
- Indispensable for Travellers
- Letto da: Roger Davis
- Durata: 8 ore e 33 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 02/04/2020
- Lingua: Inglese
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