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Queen Bees
- Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars – A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition
- By: Siân Evans
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall116
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Performance96
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'ENORMOUS FUN' GUARDIAN 'SO ENTERTAINING' THE TIMES 'GOSSIPY, LIGHT AND FUN' TLS Queen Bees looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor, who went on to become the first female MP, and Mrs Greville, who cultivated relationships...
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Educational and Informative!
- By Fiona on 06-12-16
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Queen Bees
- Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars – A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 08-09-16
- Language: English
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The Last Manchu
- The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
- By: Paul Kramer, Henry Pu Yi
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance58
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In 1908, at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for 13 years in Peking’s Forbidden City, but with none of the power his birth afforded him. The remainder of Pu Yi’s life was lived out in a topsy-turvy fashion: fleeing from a Chinese warlord, becoming head of a Japanese puppet state, being confined to a Russian prison in Siberia, and enduring taxing labor.
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Excellent
- By Mike Bingham on 27-04-20
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The Last Manchu
- The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 27-01-13
- Language: English
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Ten Caesars
- Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
- By: Barry Strauss
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance27
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Story27
Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)—a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives...
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A shame!
- By Dene.F. on 20-09-19
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Ten Caesars
- Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 05-03-19
- Language: English
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The Making of Oliver Cromwell
- By: Ronald Hutton
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall132
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Performance120
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Story120
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) - the only English commoner to become the overall head of state - is one of the great figures of history, but his character was very complex. He was at once courageous and devout, devious and self-serving; as a parliamentarian, he was devoted to his cause; as a soldier, he was ruthless. Cromwell's speeches and writings surpass in quantity those of any other ruler of England before Victoria, and, for those seeking to understand him, he has usually been taken at his word. In this remarkable new work, Ronald Hutton untangles the facts from the fiction.
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With God in his side
- By Rachel Redford on 20-09-21
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The Making of Oliver Cromwell
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-09-21
- Language: English
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Kremlin Winter
- Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin
- By: Robert Service
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance42
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Story42
In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, acclaimed biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky and one of the finest historians of modern Russia, brings his deep understanding of that country to bear on the man who leads it. 'One of our most accomplished, erudite and prolific historians of modern Russia'...
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Absolutely outstanding analysis of Putin + Russia
- By leslie10 on 16-05-22
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Kremlin Winter
- Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 03-10-19
- Language: English
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Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber
- The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale
- By: Sean O'Driscoll
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance39
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Story40
Brought to you by penguin. The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRA She grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate. She was presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace as a debutante in 1958. She trained at Oxford as an academic economist and had a...
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Brilliant
- By Kindle Customer on 23-06-22
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Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber
- The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 16-06-22
- Language: English
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The Mistresses of Cliveden
- By: Natalie Livingstone
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall138
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Performance123
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Story124
From its dawn in the 1660s to its twilight in the 1960s, Cliveden was an emblem of elite misbehaviour and intrigue. Conceived by the Duke of Buckingham as a retreat for his scandalous affair with Anna-Maria, Countess of Shrewsbury, the house later served as the backdrop for the Profumo affair. In the 300 years between, the house was occupied by a dynasty of remarkable women each of whom left their mark on this great house.
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Much More Than A Book About A House
- By Alison on 28-02-17
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The Mistresses of Cliveden
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 06-04-16
- Language: English
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The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- By: Thomas Hager
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance42
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At the dawn of the 20th century, humanity was facing global disaster. Mass starvation, long predicted for the fast-growing population, was about to become a reality. A call went out to the worlds scientists to find a solution. This is the story of the two enormously gifted, fatally flawed men who found it: the brilliant, self-important Fritz Haber and the reclusive, alcoholic Carl Bosch. Together they discovered a way to make bread out of air, built city-sized factories, controlled world markets, and saved millions of lives.
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Extremely interesting
- By Brian B. on 24-02-21
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The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-10-10
- Language: English
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Bertie Ahern Autobiography
- By: Bertie Ahern
- Narrated by: Bertie Ahern
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Abridged
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Overall27
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Performance21
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Story21
Bertie Ahern, three times Irish Taoiseach, is often described as an enigma. The Old IRA man's son who delivered peace in Northern Ireland. A working class boy responsible for the Celtic Tiger. An ardent nationalist admired by European leaders. Now in this frank and revealing autobiography, Ahern gives his own account of a remarkable political life and the personal story that accompanies it.
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Great listen
- By Eamonn Redahan on 20-10-25
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Bertie Ahern Autobiography
- Narrated by: Bertie Ahern
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 07-10-09
- Language: English
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Nicholas and Alexandra
- The Last Tsar and his Family
- By: Robert K. Massie
- Narrated by: Orlando Wells
- Length: 27 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie, read by Orlando Wells. A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the final days of the last Romanovs – Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra. Complementing his Pulitzer prize-winning Peter the Great, in this commanding book...
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Well-Written and Well-Narrated
- By M. J. Dudley on 11-06-26
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Nicholas and Alexandra
- The Last Tsar and his Family
- Narrated by: Orlando Wells
- Series: Great Lives, Book Great Lives: The Romanovs, The Romanovs
- Length: 27 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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The Last Secrets of Anne Frank
- The Heartbreaking Story of Her Silent Protector
- By: Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl, Jeroen De Bruyn
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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‘DEVASTATING’ Daily Mail ‘FASCINATING’ Daily Telegraph ‘POIGNANT’ TLS The extraordinary story of Bep Voskuijl, Anne Frank’s closest friend during the 761 days she spent in the Secret Annex. Bep Voskuijl was just twenty-three when the Franks went into hiding and she risked her life...
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Absolutely....
- By Janet Jones on 28-12-25
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The Last Secrets of Anne Frank
- The Heartbreaking Story of Her Silent Protector
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-06-23
- Language: English
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The Cleopatras
- Discover the powerful story of the seven queens of Ancient Egypt!
- By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Narrated by: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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'A thrilling biography, filled with the imperial ambitions and merciless intrigues' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony...
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A soap opera of a story told with flair
- By HistoryLover on 17-05-24
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The Cleopatras
- Discover the powerful story of the seven queens of Ancient Egypt!
- Narrated by: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 09-05-24
- Language: English
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The River of Doubt
- Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
- By: Candice Millard
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes...
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The River of Doubt
- Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 21-10-05
- Language: English
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The Inner War
- A German WWII Survivor’s Journey from Pain to Peace
- By: Gerda Hartwich Robinson
- Narrated by: Susannah Tyrrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance12
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It is sometimes difficult to remember that in war there are innocents on all sides who suffer. German citizens who had no connection to the atrocities committed by their countrymen nonetheless endured great hardships because of them.
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Insightful from one who truly knows
- By Harries mom on 27-06-24
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The Inner War
- A German WWII Survivor’s Journey from Pain to Peace
- Narrated by: Susannah Tyrrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 28-01-16
- Language: English
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Leonardo Da Vinci
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Alfred Molina
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall1,601
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Performance1,400
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Read by acclaimed actor Alfred Molina, star of The Da Vinci Code, An Education and Chocolat, this is the definitive biography of Leonardo Da Vinci. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative...
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An art history course in a book
- By Nando Cuca on 14-11-17
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Leonardo Da Vinci
- Narrated by: Alfred Molina
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 17-10-17
- Language: English
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Never Will I Die
- The inspiring Special Forces soldier who cheated death and learned to live again
- By: Toby Gutteridge, Michael Calvin
- Narrated by: Toby Gutteridge, Matt Chambers
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall240
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Performance216
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Story216
Brought to you by Penguin. There's no pain, no theatrical agony. No screaming, no shouting. The kill shot is catastrophic, yet surgically precise. I slumped silently on to my knees and toppled forward, head first, into the dirt. The lads had seen enough death to assume mine was instantaneous...
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Gave me a great kick up the A**s
- By Mr N Bennet-Williams on 04-11-22
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Never Will I Die
- The inspiring Special Forces soldier who cheated death and learned to live again
- Narrated by: Toby Gutteridge, Matt Chambers
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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Anybody Can Do Anything
- By: Betty MacDonald
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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After surviving both the failed chicken farm - and marriage - immortalized in The Egg and I, Betty MacDonald returns to live with her mother and desperately searches to find a job to support her two young daughters. With the help of her older sister Mary, Anybody Can Do Anything recounts her failed, and often hilarious, attempts to find work during the Great Depression.
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excellent story, fun and superb narrator
- By Sylvi on 28-02-25
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Anybody Can Do Anything
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 30-05-16
- Language: English
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Bolivar
- American Liberator
- By: Marie Arana
- Narrated by: David Crommett
- Length: 20 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall81
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Performance66
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It is astonishing that Simón Bolívar, the great Liberator of South America, is not better known in the United States. He freed six countries from Spanish rule, traveled more than 75,000 miles on horseback to do so, and became the greatest figure in Latin American history. His life is epic, heroic, straight out of Hollywood: he fought battle after battle in punishing terrain, forged uncertain coalitions of competing forces and races, lost his beautiful wife soon after they married and died relatively young, uncertain whether his achievements would endure.
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The truth RDH
- By r on 14-01-16
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Bolivar
- American Liberator
- Narrated by: David Crommett
- Length: 20 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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Napoleon
- A Life
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 32 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George...
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Nero
- Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome
- By: Anthony Everitt, Roddy Ashworth
- Narrated by: Greg Patmore
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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A striking, nuanced biography of Nero—the controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars—and a vivid portrait of ancient Rome “Exciting and provocative . . . Nero is a pleasure to read.”—Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian...
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A more humane telling.
- By Zazafraz on 01-07-23
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Nero
- Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome
- Narrated by: Greg Patmore
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 08-11-22
- Language: English
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