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The Republic of Pirates
- Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
- By: Colin Woodard
- Narrated by: Lewis Grenville
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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In the early 18th century, the Pirate Republic was home to some of the great pirate captains, including Blackbeard, "Black Sam" Bellamy, and Charles Vane. Along with their fellow pirates - former sailors, indentured servants, and runaway slaves - this "Flying Gang" established a crude but distinctive democracy in the Bahamas, carving out their own zone of freedom in which servants were free, Blacks could be equal citizens, and leaders were chosen or deposed by a vote.
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An interesting read
- By Pete M on 07-08-18
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The Republic of Pirates
- Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
- Narrated by: Lewis Grenville
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 14-08-15
- Language: English
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Napoleon the Great
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 37 hrs and 23 mins
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Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just 20 years, from October 1795, when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'état, he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the revolution had descended.
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37 very listenable hours!
- By mjh on 24-02-15
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Napoleon the Great
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 37 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 20-02-15
- Language: English
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- By: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas in one small office, five windows wide, and answerable only to its distant shareholders. In his most ambitious and riveting audiobook to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.
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Interesting story spoilt by poor narration
- By Gillian on 09-11-19
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 17-10-19
- Language: English
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Frederick the Great
- A Military History
- By: Dennis Showalter
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
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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 that was to endure until 1916. However, much myth surrounds this enigmatic man's personality and his role as politician, warrior, and king.
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Tolerable; but only just.
- By Amazon Customer on 30-12-23
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Frederick the Great
- A Military History
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-08-20
- Language: English
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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
- By: Timothy Tackett
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
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Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror?
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Fantastic
- By L C on 14-06-23
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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 23-06-20
- Language: English
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Marie Antoinette
- By: Antonia Fraser
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
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Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. To many people, she is still 'la reine mechante', whose extravagance and frivolity helped to bring down the French monarchy; her indifference to popular suffering epitomised by the (apocryphal) words: 'let them eat cake'. Others are equally passionate in her defence: to them, she is a victim of misogyny.
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Spectacular.
- By B on 17-12-14
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Marie Antoinette
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 03-06-10
- Language: English
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
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The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
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great read. couldn't stop listening to this book
- By Anna on 25-08-19
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 30-10-18
- Language: English
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Culloden
- Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
- By: Trevor Royle
- Narrated by: Tim Bruce
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between the English Royal Army and the Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English: The battle was also part of a much larger campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of a French invasion.
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Mistitled, but interesting... if not actually entertaining.
- By Grumpy Jack on 27-09-19
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Catherine the Great
- Portrait of a Woman
- By: Robert K. Massie
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
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Robert K. Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination. For thirty-four years, the government, foreign policy, cultural development, and welfare of the Russian people were in her hands.
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Great book about a great woman
- By Mette on 23-12-12
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Catherine the Great
- Portrait of a Woman
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Series: The Romanovs
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 08-11-11
- Language: English
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The Fall of Robespierre
- 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
- By: Colin Jones
- Narrated by: Sasha Higgins
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
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The day of 9 Thermidor (July 27, 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At midnight, Maximilien Robespierre was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced. By midnight at the close of the day, his world had been turned upside down. He was an outlaw, on the run, and himself wanted for conspiracy against the Republic. He shot himself shortly afterwards. Half-dead, the guillotine finished him off. The Fall of Robespierre provides an hour-by-hour analysis of these twenty-four hours.
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Dire Reading
- By Stephen Bentley on 03-09-22
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The Fall of Robespierre
- 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
- Narrated by: Sasha Higgins
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 18-07-22
- Language: English
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main
- HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy’s Revenge
- By: Angus Konstam
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main tells the dramatic story of HMS Hermione, a British frigate which, in 1797, was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history, which saw the death of her captain and many of her officers. Though her crew handed her over to the Spanish, Hermione was subsequently recaptured in a daring raid on a Caribbean port two years later.
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Angus at his best.
- By D Paterson on 24-12-20
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Mutiny on the Spanish Main
- HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy’s Revenge
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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Under the Black Flag
- The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- By: David Cordingly
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of piracy's "Golden Age." As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier.
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Thorough at dispelling romanticism preconceptions
- By Amazon Customer on 09-08-18
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Under the Black Flag
- The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 29-11-11
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Empress
- The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
- By: Nancy Goldstone
- Narrated by: Emma Newman
- Length: 23 hrs and 8 mins
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In the Shadow of the Empress is the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, the only woman to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg empire in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters: lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor general of the Austrian Netherlands; spirited Maria Carolina, the resolute queen of Naples; and the youngest, Marie Antoinette, the glamorous, tragic queen of France, perhaps the most famous princess in history.
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A very enjoyable book flawed by annoying omissions.
- By JONATHAN B BAILEY on 20-09-22
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In the Shadow of the Empress
- The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
- Narrated by: Emma Newman
- Length: 23 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 16-09-21
- Language: English
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Avengers of the New World
- The Story of the Haitian Revolution
- By: Laurent DuBois
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the 18th-century Atlantic world. Within a few years, the slave insurgents forced the French administrators of the colony to emancipate them, a decision ratified by revolutionary Paris in 1794. This victory was a stunning challenge to the order of master/slave relations throughout the Americas, including the Southern United States.
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A fantastic study on the Haitian revolution
- By Ben Hall on 20-03-23
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Avengers of the New World
- The Story of the Haitian Revolution
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 25-08-20
- Language: English
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How the Old World Ended
- The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800
- By: Jonathan Scott
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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Between 1500 and 1800, the North Sea region overtook the Mediterranean as the most dynamic part of the world. At its core, the Anglo-Dutch relationship intertwined close alliance and fierce antagonism to intense creative effect. But a precondition for the Industrial Revolution was also the establishment in British North America of a unique type of colony - for the settlement of people and culture, rather than the extraction of things.
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How the Old World Ended
- The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 23-09-20
- Language: English
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Bluestockings
- The First Women's Movement
- By: Susannah Gibson
- Narrated by: Fenella Fudge
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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In Britain in the 1750s, women had no power and no rights - all money and property belonged to their fathers or husbands. A brave group risked everything to think and live as they wished, despite the sneers of contemporaries who argued that books frazzled female brains and damaged their wombs. Bluestockings provides unexpected and inspiring stories of the forgotten heroines of Britain's very first women's movement.
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A Beautiful Account of the lives of the Bluestockings.
- By Kindle Customer on 25-07-24
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Bluestockings
- The First Women's Movement
- Narrated by: Fenella Fudge
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 29-02-24
- Language: English
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The Covent Garden Ladies
- By: Hallie Rubenhold
- Narrated by: Emily Pennant-Rea, Hallie Rubenhold
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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1757 - Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, a salacious publication detailing the names and 'specialties' of the capital's prostitutes, eventually became one of the 18th century's most successful literary works as well as an essential accessory for any serious gentleman of pleasure. Beyond its titillating passages lay a glimpse into the sex lives of those who lived and died by the list's profits during the Georgian era. The Covent Garden Ladies tells the story of three unusual characters whose colourful lives were brought together by this publication.
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Too repetitive
- By Mr Chops on 27-10-19
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The Covent Garden Ladies
- Narrated by: Emily Pennant-Rea, Hallie Rubenhold
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 01-10-19
- Language: English
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France: An Adventure History
- By: Graham Robb
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
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France: An Adventure History is a profoundly original and endlessly entertaining history of France, from the first century BC to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library. Beginning with the Roman army’s first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending with the Gilets Jaunes protests in the era of Emmanuel Macron, each chapter is an adventure in its own right. Along the way, listeners will find the usual faces, events and themes of French history.
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Too tedious for words
- By Client d'Amazon on 14-06-22
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France: An Adventure History
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 26-05-22
- Language: English
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Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune
- How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England
- By: Rory Muir
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything—while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had to make a crucial decision: What should they do to make an independent living? Historian Rory Muir weaves together the stories of many obscure and well-known young men of good family but small fortune, shedding light on an overlooked aspect of Regency society. This is the first scholarly yet accessible exploration of the lifestyle and prospects of these younger sons.
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Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune
- How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 23-01-24
- Language: English
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Blenheim
- Battle for Europe
- By: Charles Spencer
- Narrated by: Charles Spenser
- Length: 6 hrs
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By the summer of 1704, Louis XIV's vast armies dominated Europe. France defeated every alliance formed against her and Louis was poised to extend his frontier to the Rhine and install a French prince on the throne of Spain. Two men saved Europe from French military domination: the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy. Marlborough masterminded a brilliant campaign, working with Eugene to surprise the French invaders inside Germany.
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Excellent
- By Chris on 05-02-12
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Blenheim
- Battle for Europe
- Narrated by: Charles Spenser
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 09-08-06
- Language: English
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