British Political History
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An Era of Darkness
- The British Empire in India
- Written by: Shashi Tharoor
- Narrated by: Sagar Arya
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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In this explosive book, best-selling author Shashi Tharoor reveals with acuity, impeccable research, and trademark wit, just how disastrous British rule was for India. Besides examining the many ways in which the colonizers exploited India, he demolishes the arguments of Western and Indian apologists for Empire on the supposed benefits of British rule.
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Thoroughly researched and described
- By Gokul U. on 15-03-19
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An Era of Darkness
- The British Empire in India
- Narrated by: Sagar Arya
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 26-01-17
- Language: English
- In this explosive book, best-selling author Shashi Tharoor reveals with acuity, impeccable research, and trademark wit, just how disastrous British rule was for India....
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The Making of Oliver Cromwell
- Written by: Ronald Hutton
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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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In this first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell, Ronald Hutton provides a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history....
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Churchill's Secret War
- The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
- Written by: Madhusree Mukarjee
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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In 1943 Winston Churchill and the British Empire needed millions of Indian troops, all of India's industrial output, and tons of Indian grain to support the Allied war effort. Such massive contributions were certain to trigger famine in India. Because Churchill believed that the fate of the British Empire hung in the balance, he proceeded, sacrificing millions of Indian lives in order to preserve what he held most dear. The result: the Bengal Famine of 1943-44, in which millions of villagers starved to death.
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Very good
- By Silvester Pandiaraj on 09-03-23
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Churchill's Secret War
- The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Release Date: 27-09-10
- Language: English
- In the tradition of The Rape of Nanking and A Problem from Hell, this account will change the way we think of Churchill and World War II....
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The Secret History of Flight 149
- The True Story Behind the Most Shocking Government Cover-Up of the Last Thirty Years
- Written by: Stephen Davis
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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On 1 August 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow airport, destined for Kuala Lumpur. It never made it there, and neither did its nearly 400 passengers. Instead, Flight 149 stopped to refuel in Kuwait, as Iraqi troops amassed on the border—delivering the passengers and crew into the hands of Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi army, to be used as 'human shields' during their invasion. Why did BA flight 149 proceed with plans to refuel in Kuwait City, even as all other flights were rerouted?
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The Secret History of Flight 149
- The True Story Behind the Most Shocking Government Cover-Up of the Last Thirty Years
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release Date: 22-07-21
- Language: English
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This explosive book is a story of scandal, betrayal and misuse of intelligence at the highest levels of UK and US governments—which has had direct, horrifying impact on terror attacks in the West and the shape of the Middle East today....
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The Ambassador
- Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940
- Written by: Susan Ronald
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's shockingly controversial tenure as ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II.
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The Ambassador
- Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release Date: 03-08-21
- Language: English
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Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's shockingly controversial tenure as ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II....
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The Maintenance of Empire
- Written by: Benjamin Disraeli
- Narrated by: Peter Quest
- Length: 6 mins
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British statesman Benjamin Disraeli delivered this commanding speech in 1872. His imperialistic ideals informed his Conservative political platform as he advocated for maintaining the British Empire. He asked his audience if they were content to be a “comfortable England,” or if they preferred the glory of remaining “a great country - an imperial country - a country where your sons, when they rise, rise to paramount positions, and obtain not merely the esteem of their countrymen, but command the respect of the world.”
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The Maintenance of Empire
- Narrated by: Peter Quest
- Length: 6 mins
- Release Date: 08-06-18
- Language: English
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British statesman Benjamin Disraeli delivered this commanding speech in 1872. His imperialistic ideals informed his Conservative political platform as he advocated for maintaining the British Empire....
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The Archive of Empire
- Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World
- Written by: Asheesh Kapur Siddique
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct of subjects and aliens in imperial spaces with norms of good governance developed in London. Officials derived these norms by studying the histories of government contained in the official records of both the state and corporations and located in repositories known as archives.
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The Archive of Empire
- Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release Date: 27-08-24
- Language: English
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In tracing the rise and deployment of archives in early modern British imperial rule, Asheesh Kapur Siddique uncovers the origins of our data-driven present.
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Women in Intelligence
- The Hidden History of Two World Wars
- Written by: Helen Fry
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
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From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time. Across both world wars, far from being a small part of covert operations, women ran spy networks and escape lines, parachuted behind enemy lines, and interrogated prisoners. And, back in Bletchley and Whitehall, women's vital administrative work in MI offices kept the British war engine running. In this major, panoramic history, Helen Fry looks at the rich and varied work women undertook as civilians and in uniform.
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Women in Intelligence
- The Hidden History of Two World Wars
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 30-01-24
- Language: English
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A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, Women in Intelligence reveals their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century....
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False Prophets
- British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria
- Written by: Nigel Ashton
- Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
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Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World War and through the League of Nations mandates over the fledgling states that followed. Less than forty years later, the Suez crisis dealt a fatal blow to Britain's standing in the Middle East and is often represented as the final throes of British imperialism. However, as this insightful and compelling new book reveals, successive prime ministers have all sought to extend British influence in the Middle East and their actions have often led to a disastrous outcome.
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False Prophets
- British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria
- Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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Nigel Ashton explores the reasons why British leaders have been unable to resist returning to the mire of the Middle East, while highlighting the misconceptions about the region that have helped shape their interventions, and the legacy of history that has fuelled their arrogance....
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Battles of Conscience
- British Pacifists and the Second World War
- Written by: Tobias Kelly
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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Accounts of the Second World War usually involve tales of bravery in battle, or stoicism on the home front, as the British public stood together against Fascism. However, the war looks very different when seen through the eyes of the 60,000 conscientious objectors who refused to take up arms and whose stories, unlike those of the First World War, have been almost entirely forgotten.
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Battles of Conscience
- British Pacifists and the Second World War
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release Date: 05-05-22
- Language: English
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A groundbreaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about ethical commitments....
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57
- Written by: Chips Channon
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Length: 48 hrs and 17 mins
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This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with a prematurely aged Chips descending into poor health but still socially active and able to turn a pointed phrase about the political events that swirl around him and the great and the good with whom he mingles.
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Series: The Diaries, Book 3
- Length: 48 hrs and 17 mins
- Release Date: 24-11-22
- Language: English
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This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour....
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The Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II
- Written by: Elizabeth Jenkins, Pearson Phillips
- Narrated by: Karen Archer, Nanette Newman
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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The two reigns - both unusually long - could scarcely have been more different. Queen Elizabeth I brought a much needed (and appreciated) stability to England at a key moment in the history of the nation. Queen Elizabeth II has, by contrast, been the constitutional monarch par excellence.
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The Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II
- Narrated by: Karen Archer, Nanette Newman
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release Date: 30-12-01
- Language: English
- The two reigns - both unusually long - could scarcely have been more different...
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Values, Voice and Virtue
- The New British Politics
- Written by: Matthew Goodwin
- Narrated by: Matthew Goodwin
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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Over the last decade, Britain has been rocked by a series of political revolts. In trying to make sense of this remarkable churn and change, many commentators cling to very short-term and unconvincing explanations, pointing to social media, dark money, individual leaders, or the promises made to voters. But, as acclaimed political scientist Matthew Goodwin reveals in this strikingly original study, this turbulence has been a long time in the making—and it is set to continue for many years to come.
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Values, Voice and Virtue
- The New British Politics
- Narrated by: Matthew Goodwin
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release Date: 30-03-23
- Language: English
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Over the last decade, Britain has been rocked by a series of political revolts. But, as acclaimed political scientist Matthew Goodwin reveals in this strikingly original study, this turbulence has been a long time in the making—and it is set to continue for many years to come....
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Understanding Iraq
- The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan's Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation
- Written by: William R. Polk
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Iraq will continue to be a major issue and involvement for the United States into the foreseeable future says William R. Polk, former member of the State Department’s Policy Planning Council and professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Chicago. Iraq sits on the world’s largest supply of oil, and with the world’s energy requirements continuously rising, Iraq will play an ongoing role in the global economy and the political environment throughout the Gulf region and the Middle East.
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Understanding Iraq
- The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan's Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 30-05-23
- Language: English
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Iraq will continue to be a major issue and involvement for the United States into the foreseeable future says William R. Polk, former member of the State Department’s Policy Planning Council and professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Chicago....
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A Revolution Betrayed
- How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System
- Written by: Peter Hitchens
- Narrated by: Peter Hitchens
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
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In his book, Peter Hitchens describes the misjudgements made by politicians over the years that have led to the increase of class distinction and privilege in our education system. This is of course the opposite of what was intended, especially by former Minister of Education Shirley Williams and Margaret Thatcher, her successor in that role, who closed down many more Grammar Schools than Williams.
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A Revolution Betrayed
- How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System
- Narrated by: Peter Hitchens
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
- Release Date: 24-11-22
- Language: English
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There are few subjects these days that cause parents more stress than the education of their children....
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The Road to Somewhere
- The New Tribes Shaping British Politics
- Written by: David Goodhart
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Many Remainers reported waking up the day after the Brexit vote feeling as if they were living in a foreign country. In fact, they were merely experiencing the same feeling that many British people have felt every day for years. Goodhart shows us how people have come to be divided into two camps: the 'Anywheres', who have 'achieved' identities, derived from their careers and education, and the 'Somewheres', who get their identity from a sense of place and from the people around them, and who feel a sense of loss due to mass immigration and rapid social change.
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The Road to Somewhere
- The New Tribes Shaping British Politics
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 28-09-17
- Language: English
- Many Remainers reported waking up the day after the Brexit vote feeling as if they were living in a foreign country....
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