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Dresden
- Tuesday, 13 February 1945
- By: Frederick Taylor
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 21 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents Dresden by Frederick Taylor, read by Gordon Griffin The definitive story of the shocking and controversial Allied bombing of Dresden ‘In narrative power and persuasion, he has paralleled in Dresden what Antony Beevor achieved in Stalingrad' Independent on Sunday...
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Dresden
- Tuesday, 13 February 1945
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 21 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 14-05-26
- Language: English
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Power to the People
- Use your voice, change the world
- By: Danny Sriskandarajah
- Narrated by: Danny Sriskandarajah
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Power to the People addresses growing voter apathy and disenchantment worldwide - that familiar sense that governments have become decoupled from their constituencies, that votes no longer count, and that politicians and institutions are too focused on short-term issues to grapple with complex global issues such as climate change and rising inequality. The book is structured into two halves, the first half diagnosing problems and the second half proposing solutions. Danny urges listeners to make a positive difference through engagement and active citizenry.
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Antidote for our times
- By Avid reader on 16-02-25
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Power to the People
- Use your voice, change the world
- Narrated by: Danny Sriskandarajah
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 25-07-24
- Language: English
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Queen of Spies
- Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master
- By: Paddy Hayes
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
- Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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From living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar es Salaam to becoming Baroness Park of Monmouth, Daphne Park led a most unusual life - one that consisted of a lifelong love affair with the world of Britain's secret services. In the 1970s, she was appointed to Secret Intelligence Service's most senior operational rank as one of its seven area controllers - an extraordinary achievement for a woman working within this most male-dominated and secretive of organizations.
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A fascinating account of the life of Daphne Park
- By NoSoHere on 14-08-22
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Queen of Spies
- Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
- Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-10-18
- Language: English
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The Room Where It Happened
- A White House Memoir
- By: John Bolton
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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JOHN BOLTON READS THE EPILOGUE! As President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is a “scathing and revelatory” (The New Yorker) White House memoir that is the most comprehensive...
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I did everything right..says Bolton. don't bother!
- By Kindl1223 on 24-06-20
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The Room Where It Happened
- A White House Memoir
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 23-06-20
- Language: English
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No Easy Answers
- The Truth Behind Death at Columbine High School (20th Anniversary Edition)
- By: Brooks Brown
- Narrated by: Tyler Christos
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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On April 20, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, two seniors at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, walked into their school and shot to death twelve students and one teacher, and wounded many others. It was the worst single act of murder at a school in U.S. history.
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It’s ok
- By Amazon Customer on 27-02-26
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No Easy Answers
- The Truth Behind Death at Columbine High School (20th Anniversary Edition)
- Narrated by: Tyler Christos
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 12-01-24
- Language: English
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Spymaster
- The Man Who Saved MI6
- By: Helen Fry
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Thomas Kendrick (1881-1972) was central to the British Secret Service from its beginnings through to the Second World War. Under the guise of "British Passport Officer," he ran spy networks across Europe, facilitated the escape of Austrian Jews, and later went on to set up the "M Room," a listening operation which elicited information of the same significance and scope as Bletchley Park. Yet the work of Kendrick, and its full significance, remains largely unknown.
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Boring, flat really manage to kill all my interest
- By Eduardo Vera on 14-12-21
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Spymaster
- The Man Who Saved MI6
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 30-11-21
- Language: English
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Counter-Intelligence
- What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-solving and Creativity
- By: Robert Hannigan
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Best Books of 2024, The Economist From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers – what the secret world can teach us about performance and creativity How do you hire smart people who can work together to prevent terrorist attacks and...
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Cerebral and interesting
- By Vikas Krishan on 10-04-26
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Counter-Intelligence
- What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-solving and Creativity
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 23-05-24
- Language: English
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The CIA
- An Imperial History
- By: Hugh Wilford
- Narrated by: Hugh Wilford
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created the CIA to analyse foreign intelligence. But within a few years, the Agency was engaged in other operations: bolstering pro-American governments, overthrowing nationalist leaders, and surveilling anti-imperial dissenters in the US. The Cold War was an obvious reason for this transformation - but not the only one. In The CIA, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford draws on decades of research to show the Agency as part of a larger picture.
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Just a bit dull
- By Anon on 20-05-26
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The CIA
- An Imperial History
- Narrated by: Hugh Wilford
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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Toxic
- A History of Nerve Agents, from Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia
- By: Dan Kaszeta
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Nerve agents are the world's deadliest means of chemical warfare. Nazi Germany developed the first military-grade nerve agents and massive industry for their manufacture. At the end of the Second World War, the Allies were stunned to discover this advanced and extensive program. The Soviets and Western powers embarked on a new arms race, amassing huge chemical arsenals. From their Nazi invention to the 2018 Novichok attack in Britain, Dan Kaszeta uncovers nerve agents' gradual spread across the world, despite international arms control efforts.
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Interesting, comprehensive and well paced
- By Tom on 16-04-21
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Toxic
- A History of Nerve Agents, from Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 13-04-21
- Language: English
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The Biggest Prison on Earth
- A History of the Occupied Territories
- By: Ilan Pappe
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Published on the 15th anniversary of the Six-Day War that culminated in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Pappe offers a comprehensive exploration of one of the world's most prolonged and tragic conflicts. Using recently declassified archival material, Pappe analyses the motivations and strategies of the generals and politicians-and the decision-making process itself - that laid the foundation of the occupation. Pappe paints a picture of what is to all intents and purposes the world's largest "open prison".
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Important book
- By Andrea Liu on 10-05-20
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The Biggest Prison on Earth
- A History of the Occupied Territories
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 11-06-19
- Language: English
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The Great Global Transformation
- National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World
- By: Branko Milanovic
- Narrated by: Mark Arnold
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A world-leading economist guides us through the ruins of the current world order: where do we go next? Global neoliberalism is on its last legs, while a new international economic order is taking hold. Trade blocs, tariff wars, economic sanctions, and national...
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Brilliant, insightful, well researched but
- By Terry Miles on 05-12-25
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The Great Global Transformation
- National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World
- Narrated by: Mark Arnold
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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Nine Lives
- By: Aimen Dean, Tim Lister, Paul Cruickshank
- Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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As one of al-Qaeda's most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself. As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda's chemical weapons program, he foiled attacks on civilians and saved countless lives, brushing with death so often that his handlers began to call him their spy with nine lives. This is the story of how a young Muslim, determined to defend his faith, found himself fighting on the wrong side - and his fateful decision to work undercover for his sworn enemy.
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Exceptional first hand account of the Jihad ideology
- By Richard on 17-03-19
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Nine Lives
- Narrated by: Assaf Cohen
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 07-08-18
- Language: English
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Out of the Wreckage
- A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
- By: George Monbiot
- Narrated by: George Monbiot
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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A toxic ideology rules the world of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a better world. George Monbiot shows how new findings in psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology cast human nature in a radically different light: as the supreme altruists and cooperators.
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A rather sketchy map towards a new political era
- By grimnortherner on 21-05-18
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Out of the Wreckage
- A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
- Narrated by: George Monbiot
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-12-17
- Language: English
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All His Spies
- The Secret World of Robert Cecil
- By: Stephen Alford
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the acclaimed author of The Watchers, the untold story of Robert Cecil - the ultimate Tudor spy-master Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor and enemies...
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Interesting new viewpoint
- By Christine on 09-07-24
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All His Spies
- The Secret World of Robert Cecil
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 04-07-24
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
- By: John J. Mearsheimer
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which democracy and open trade would herald the "end of history." The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, sadly shattered these idyllic illusions, and John Mearsheimer's masterful new book explains why these harmonious visions remain utopian.
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The best modern explanation of Real Politik
- By Adrian J. Smith on 19-06-19
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The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 11-07-13
- Language: English
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ISIS
- Inside the Army of Terror
- By: Michael Weiss, Hassan Hassan
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Initially dismissed by US President Barack Obama, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has shocked the world by conquering massive territories in both countries and promising to create a vast new Muslim caliphate that observes the strict dictates of Sharia law. In ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, American journalist Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan explain how these violent extremists evolved from a nearly defeated Iraqi insurgent group into a jihadi army of international volunteers who have conquered territory equal to the size of Great Britain.
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A brief but well researched history of daish
- By Walter on 28-07-15
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ISIS
- Inside the Army of Terror
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 07-07-15
- Language: English
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The Management of Savagery
- How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump
- By: Max Blumenthal
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs. Washington's secret funding of the mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States has ever since sustained the extremists, including Osama Bin Laden, who have become its enemies.
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Connects the Dots
- By greyo on 05-01-20
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The Management of Savagery
- How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 13-08-19
- Language: English
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A Genocide Foretold
- Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine
- By: Chris Hedges
- Narrated by: Ali Nasser
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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A Genocide Foretold confronts the stark realities of life under siege in Gaza and the heroic effort ordinary Palestinians are waging to resist and survive. Weaving together personal stories, historical context, and unflinching journalism, Chris Hedges provides an intimate portrait of systemic oppression, occupation, and violence.
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Seine Frage, was 'ich' tun würde, wenn 'mein' Land einen GENOZID verursacht?
- By Gerhard Paul Burger on 01-05-26
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A Genocide Foretold
- Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine
- Narrated by: Ali Nasser
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-03-25
- Language: English
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Free
- Coming of Age at the End of History
- By: Lea Ypi
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge, Lea Ypi
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Shortlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford prize and the 2021 Costa Biography Award. Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost...
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My favourite kind of book
- By Zofia Jaworek on 07-01-22
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Free
- Coming of Age at the End of History
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge, Lea Ypi
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 28-10-21
- Language: English
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First Casualty
- By: Toby Harnden
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The West is in shock. Al-Qaeda has struck the US on 9/11, and thousands are dead. Within weeks, UK Special Forces enter the fray in Afghanistan alongside the CIA's Team Alpha and US troops. Victory is swift but fragile. Hundreds of jihadists surrender, and two operatives from Team Alpha enter Qala-i Jangi - the 'Fort of War' - to interrogate them. The prisoners revolt; one CIA man falls, and the other is trapped inside the fort. Seven members of the SBS - elite British Special Forces - volunteer for the rescue force and race into danger and the unknown.
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Excellent listening
- By steve armitt on 04-11-22
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First Casualty
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 14-12-21
- Language: English
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