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Supper with the Crippens
- The True Story of One of the Most Notorious Murderers of All Time
- By: David James Smith
- Narrated by: David James Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance14
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At a time when Edwardian Britain seemed a golden place, basking in its imperial glory, Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen and his wife, Belle, lived among the suburban villas of North London, renting a house at 39 Hilldrop Crescent. After supper on 31st January 1910, their friends went home and Crippen killed Belle with poison, dismembered her body and buried some of her remains beneath the brick floor of the coal cellar. Crippen never admitted killing his wife and took the secrets of the crime with him when he was hanged, following his conviction for murder.
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Still unsolved!
- By L. BETTLES on 13-12-21
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Supper with the Crippens
- The True Story of One of the Most Notorious Murderers of All Time
- Narrated by: David James Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 09-12-21
- Language: English
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The Thomas Sowell Reader
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance48
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These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of half a century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell’s letters, books, newspaper columns, and articles in both scholarly journals and popular magazines. The topics range from latetalking children to tax cuts for the rich, baseball, race, war, the role of judges, medical care, and the rhetoric of politicians.
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Grateful.
- By Elspeth on 05-09-19
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The Thomas Sowell Reader
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 04-10-11
- Language: English
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Clara's War
- By: Clara Kramer
- Narrated by: Rula Lenska
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance60
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On 21 July 1942, the Nazis invaded Poland. In the small town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, Clara and her family hid perilously in a hand-dug cellar. Living above and protecting them were the Becks. Mr Beck was a womaniser, a drunkard, and a self-professed anti-Semite, yet he risked his life throughout the war to keep his charges safe.
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An amazing story
- By Helen on 13-12-13
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Clara's War
- Narrated by: Rula Lenska
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 23-03-11
- Language: English
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East West Street
- Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
- By: Philippe Sands
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Philippe Sands
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall663
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Performance596
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WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision' - John le Carré 'A triumph of astonishing research ... No novel could possibly match such an important work of truth' - Antony Beevor 'Magnificent ... I...
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I never write reviews....
- By mrchrisc on 20-07-17
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East West Street
- Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Philippe Sands
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 26-05-16
- Language: English
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The Last Shah
- America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
- By: Ray Takeyh
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance13
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Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on the throne in 1941 to the 1979 revolution that brought the present Islamist government to power.
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Informative and fascinating history of modern Iran.
- By Kevin Leigh on 25-09-24
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The Last Shah
- America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 28-06-22
- Language: English
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Beda Fomm to Operation Crusader, 1940-41
- Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa
- By: Robert Forczyk
- Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Robert Forczyk covers the development of armored warfare in North Africa from the earliest Anglo-Italian engagements in 1940 to the British victory over the German Afrikakorps in Operation Crusader in 1941. The war in the North African desert was pure mechanized warfare, and in many respects the most technologically advanced theatre of World War II. It was also the only theatre where for three years British and Commonwealth, and later United States, troops were in constant contact with Axis forces.
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a very detailed history
- By FAB on 11-04-24
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Beda Fomm to Operation Crusader, 1940-41
- Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa
- Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 30-01-24
- Language: English
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Hope I Get Old Before I Die
- Why rock stars never retire, from the bestselling author of Abbey Road
- By: David Hepworth
- Narrated by: David Hepworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance39
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of Abbey Road comes the story of how enduring rock icons like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen and many more have remained in the ever changing music game. When Paul McCartney closed Live Aid in July 1985 we thought he was rock's Grand Old Man. He was...
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People Try To Put Us Down
- By alan ball on 28-10-24
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Hope I Get Old Before I Die
- Why rock stars never retire, from the bestselling author of Abbey Road
- Narrated by: David Hepworth
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-09-24
- Language: English
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Trinity
- The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History
- By: Frank Close
- Narrated by: Anthony Howell
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance43
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'Trinity' was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. This exceptional book - Trinity - tells the story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of...
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Detailed spying history with some nuclear physics
- By Yasir Noori on 18-01-20
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Trinity
- The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History
- Narrated by: Anthony Howell
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 29-08-19
- Language: English
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If This Is A Man/The Truce
- 'Miraculous' Philippe Sands
- By: Primo Levi, Stuart Woolf - translator
- Narrated by: Henry Goodman
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall427
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Performance375
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Story373
"With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was...
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Levi's humanity shines.
- By Liz... Bristol on 12-10-15
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If This Is A Man/The Truce
- 'Miraculous' Philippe Sands
- Narrated by: Henry Goodman
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 04-12-14
- Language: English
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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
- By: Richard A. McKay
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance13
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In Patient Zero, Richard A. McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Gaetan Dugas, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the HIV/AIDS epidemic developed - and who received widespread posthumous infamy when he was incorrectly identified as patient zero of the North American outbreak.
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Not An Evidenced Persuasion; An Attack
- By catherinespark on 23-11-22
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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 15-11-17
- Language: English
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The Great Transformation
- China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
- By: Chen Jian, Odd Arne Westad
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world.
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fascinating period expertly told
- By Little Chandler on 28-11-24
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The Great Transformation
- China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 14 hrs
- Release date: 29-10-24
- Language: English
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Chernobyl
- The Devastation, Destruction and Consequences of the World's Worst Radiation Accident
- By: Ian Fitzgerald
- Narrated by: David Vickery
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4
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In the early hours of the morning of April 26, 1986, the nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine exploded, unleashing a storm of radioactive material into the atmosphere and contaminating most of Europe with its fallout. It was a disaster on an unprecedented scale.
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Authoritative and compelling
- By Vicuña on 18-10-23
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Chernobyl
- The Devastation, Destruction and Consequences of the World's Worst Radiation Accident
- Narrated by: David Vickery
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 24-01-23
- Language: English
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On the Cusp
- Days of '62
- By: David Kynaston
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance16
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The real '60s began on 5 October 1962. On that remarkable Friday, the Beatles hit the world with their first single, ‘Love Me Do’, and the first James Bond film, Dr No, had its world premiere in London: two icons of the future heralding a social and cultural revolution. Sometimes indignant, sometimes admiring, always empathetic, On the Cusp evokes a world of seaside holidays, of church fetes, of Steptoe and Son - a world still of seemingly settled social and economic certainties, but in fact on the edge of fundamental change.
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Disappointing
- By Routini on 14-08-22
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On the Cusp
- Days of '62
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Series: Tales of a New Jerusalem
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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Empire of Destruction
- A History of Nazi Mass Killing
- By: Alex J. Kay
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance11
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Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians and other noncombatants in deliberate policies of mass murder, overwhelmingly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust, the core of the Nazis’ pan-European racial purification program. Alex Kay argues that the genocide of European Jewry can also be examined in the wider context of Nazi mass killing.
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Too many numbers to engage
- By Helen on 13-12-22
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Empire of Destruction
- A History of Nazi Mass Killing
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 26-10-21
- Language: English
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The Taiwan Story
- How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future
- By: Kerry Brown
- Narrated by: Kerry Brown
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance17
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Brought to you by Penguin. An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters – for China, the West and everyone’s future When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao’s Communists won and took China’s mainland; Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to...
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Author is either ignorant or purposely misleads: don’t waste your money
- By charleyd80 on 09-07-25
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The Taiwan Story
- How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future
- Narrated by: Kerry Brown
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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A Kim Jong-Il Production
- The Incredible True Story of North Korea and the Most Audacious Kidnapping in History
- By: Paul Fischer
- Narrated by: Stephen Park
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance30
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of A Kim Jong-Il Production, by Paul Fischer, read by Stephen Park. Before becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's film industry. He directed every film made in the country but knew they were...
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Thoroughly Intriguing
- By Paul on 22-05-15
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A Kim Jong-Il Production
- The Incredible True Story of North Korea and the Most Audacious Kidnapping in History
- Narrated by: Stephen Park
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-04-15
- Language: English
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The Gift
- 12 Lessons to Save Your Life
- By: Edith Eger, Esmé Schwall Weigand - contributor
- Narrated by: Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall665
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Performance569
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In the end, it's not what happens to us that matters most - it's what we choose to do with it. We all face suffering - sadness, loss, despair, fear, anxiety, failure. But we also have a choice; to give in and give up in the face of trauma or difficulties or to live every moment as a gift. Celebrated therapist and Holocaust survivor Dr Edith Eger provides a hands-on guide that gently encourages us to change the imprisoning thoughts and destructive behaviours that may be holding us back.
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Remarkable
- By Amazon Customer on 12-04-21
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The Gift
- 12 Lessons to Save Your Life
- Narrated by: Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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Balkan Ghosts
- A Journey Through History
- By: Robert D. Kaplan
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall80
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Performance72
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From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the 20th century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, and greeted with critical acclaim as "the most insightful and timely work on the Balkans to date" (The Boston Globe), Kaplan's prescient, enthralling, and often chilling political travelogue is already a modern classic.
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An enduring masterpiece
- By Aucher on 11-09-23
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Balkan Ghosts
- A Journey Through History
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 28-01-20
- Language: English
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Hubris
- The Origins of Russia's War Against Ukraine
- By: Jonathan Haslam
- Narrated by: Jonathan Haslam
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukraine conflict that began eight years earlier. But Russia’s recent rise on the world’s stage began long before that historic date. In Hubris, Jonathan Haslam, one of the world’s greatest experts on Russian foreign policy and espionage, examines one of the most intractable issues of our time.
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Brilliant in every respect
- By Varvara the Fox on 14-06-25
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Hubris
- The Origins of Russia's War Against Ukraine
- Narrated by: Jonathan Haslam
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-09-24
- Language: English
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Formation
- The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation
- By: Fola Fagbule, Feyi Fawehinmi
- Narrated by: Elnathan John
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance9
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Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that turned a collection of disparate nations into a British colony in 1914. But the story of Nigeria’s formation begins much earlier, in 1804, when the jihadists launched their attack on countries along the Niger river. What unfolds is a story of conquests and slavery, betrayals and bravery, rivers and riots, victors and vanquished, all of which are central to understanding modern Black struggles.
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Nigeria History….Thriller
- By Oghoyone, U on 18-12-22
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Formation
- The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation
- Narrated by: Elnathan John
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 22-02-22
- Language: English
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