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    • Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism
    • By: John Foot
    • Narrated by: Daniel Philpott
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • A dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war, in Blood and Power, historian John Foot draws on decades of research to chart the turbulent years between 1915 and 1945, and beyond....

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    • The Hidden History
    • By: G. J. Meyer
    • Narrated by: Enn Reitel
    • Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • The startling truth behind one of the most notorious dynasties in history is revealed in a remarkable new account by the acclaimed author of The Tudors and A World Undone....

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    • The Memoir of a Third Reich Brandenburger
    • By: Sepp de Giampietro, Lawrence Paterson - foreword, Eva Burke - translator
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The Brandenburgers were Hitler's Special Forces, a band of mainly foreign German nationals who used disguise and fluency in other languages to complete daring missions into enemy territory. Overshadowed by stories of their Allied equivalents, their history has largely been ignored....

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    • By: Tobias Jones
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy....

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    • By: Christopher Duggan
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Since its formation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. Christopher Duggan's acclaimed introduction charts the country's history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West to the present day....

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    • A Modern Abridgment by Moses Hadas
    • By: Edward Gibbon, Moses Hadas, Mitch Horowitz
    • Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 21-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • For listeners eager to experience Gibbon’s brilliant primary historicism, to understand the long decline of Rome—and the reasons for the Empire’s demise—there exists no better or more accessible condensation of Decline and Fall.

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    • How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
    • By: Ross King
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance genius bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder we continue to marvel at today. Denounced at first as a madman, Brunelleschi was celebrated at the end as a genius....

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    • The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
    • By: Dennis Romano
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.”....

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    • By: Norman Lewis
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • Naples '44 is an unflinching autobiographical account of a year in Naples after the armistice and Allied landings in Sorrento in 1943. Working as a British counterintelligence officer under the Allied occupation, Lewis documents the rich pageant of life in the city and its surrounding areas....

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    • The Life and Times of the Legendary Venice Landmark
    • By: Arrigo Cipriani
    • Narrated by: Bryan Bendle
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The complete history of the legendary Venice landmark where Hemingway, Welles, and others were regulars....

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    • By: Mary Hollingsworth
    • Narrated by: Julie Maisey
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Conspiracy, intrigue and faction-fighting as the future of Europe hangs in the balance: Mary Hollingsworth tells the extraordinary story of the papal conclave in 1559 - the longest and bitterest of the 16th century....

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    • Canada's Epic World War II Battle
    • By: Mark Zuehlke
    • Narrated by: William Dufris
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • In one furious week of fighting in December 1943, the First Canadian Infantry Division took Ortona, Italy, from elite German paratroopers ordered to hold the medieval port at all costs....

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    • A Memoir with Food
    • By: Anna Del Conte
    • Narrated by: Rula Lenska
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Anna Del Conte brought Italian cooking to Britain at a time when the nearest most of us came to pasta was a Heinz spaghetti hoop....

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    • A Mediterranean History
    • By: Jamie Mackay
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 13-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, and the Spanish and the French for thousands of years, Sicily became a unique melting pot....

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    • The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
    • By: Christian Goeschel
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 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 Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero
    • By: Tacitus, J. C. Yardley - translated, Anthony A. Barrett - introduction
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Annals also provides a vivid account of the violent suppression of the revolt led by Boudicca in Britain, the great fire of Rome under Nero, and the subsequent bloody persecution of the Christians....

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