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Bloomsbury presents Leningrad by Anna Reid, read by Kristin Atherton When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, he intended to capture Leningrad before turning on Moscow. Soviet resistance forced him to change tactics: with his forward troops only thirty kilometres from the city's...

Bloomsbury presents The Berlin Wall by Frederick Taylor, read by Gordon Griffin The astonishing drama of Cold War nuclear poker that divided humanity - reissued with a new Postscript to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the wall. During the night of 12–13 August 1961, a...

Bloomsbury presents Young Romantics by Daisy Hay, read by Simon Vance ‘A most impressive achievement' Michael Holroyd 'Enthralling' Sunday Times 'Masterly' Telegraph _______________________ 'The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn' - John Keats In Young Romantics Daisy Hay shatters the myth of...

Bloomsbury presents The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization by Jonathan Lyons, read by Nezar Alerazi. For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile...

Bloomsbury presents Eminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France by Jean-Vincent Blanchard, read by Craig Van Ness. Chief Minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power...

Bloomsbury presents The Searchers by Glenn Frankel, read by John McLain New York Times Bestseller Named one of the best books of the year by: Parade The Guardian Kirkus Library Journal The true story behind the classic Western The Searchers by Pulitzer Prize-wining writer Glenn Frankel that the...

Bloomsbury presents The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan read by Jay O'Connell. Jay Dolan of Notre Dame University is one of America's most acclaimed scholars of immigration and ethnic history. In The Irish Americans, he caps his decades of writing and teaching with this magisterial...

Bloomsbury presents The Downfall of Money by Frederick Taylor, read by Gordon Griffin A timely narrative account of the biggest financial crisis in modern history and its human consequences by the author of Dresden and The Berlin Wall. 'Excellent … This is a dramatic story, well told' Wall...

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...

Bloomsbury presents Coventry by Frederick Taylor, read by Leighton Pugh On 14 November 1940 the historic city of Coventry was subjected to the longest and most devastating air raid Britain had yet witnessed. After eleven hours of relentless bombardment by the German Luftwaffe, residents emerged...

Bloomsbury presents California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California, by Miriam Pawel read by Christina Delaine. "Essential reading."— KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR "A must read."—KAI BIRD "In a time of terminal cynicism, Pawel gives us hope."—JERRY BROWN Pulitzer Prize...

Bloomsbury presents Deep Into the Sixties by David Kynaston, read by Mark Meadows and David Kynaston. ‘This glorious historical monument slows, expands and luxuriously stretches to encompass one of the defining moments of change in our history’ PHILIP HENSHER, SPECTATOR 'The poet of postwar...

Bloomsbury presents Courage Can Save US, written and read by Rye Barcott, AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER A USA TODAY BESTSELLER #1 Nonfiction Bestseller, Publishers Weekly From a U.S. Marine and co-founder of With Honor, and written ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the...

Bloomsbury presents The Challenge of Things by A. C. Grayling, read by Gordon Griffin A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like...

Bloomsbury presents The Age of Genius by A. C. Grayling, read by Gordon Griffin What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and...

Bloomsbury presents Ebony and Ivy by Craig Steven Wilder, read by Kenneth Medford. A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian. A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed...

Bloomsbury presents Battle by Iain MacGregor, read by Mike Sengelow. 'A majestic survey... Here are the military doctrines, weapons, luck and leadership that forged our world' DAN SNOW 'Elegantly crafted... and written with an eye for telling detail' JONATHAN DIMBLEBY 'Gripping, thoughtful and...

Bloomsbury presents The Dreyfus Affair: The Story of the Most Infamous Miscarriage of Justice in French History by Piers Paul Read, read by Tom Alexander. Intelligent, ambitious and a rising star in the French artillery, Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family, money, and the...

Bloomsbury presents Notorious: Anne Boleyn and the Great Tudor Hoax, written and read by Hayley Nolan. 'An imaginatively compelling investigation of a remarkable Tudor life, shedding sympathetic light on a world where prophecy and divine revelation unleashed dangerous political power' Malcolm...

Bloomsbury presents Free Rein by Jock Hutchison, read by David Rintoul. The powerful and heart-warming story of how horses and humans can find happiness. On a remote Scottish farm, something remarkable happens. Broken people – the war wounded, the vulnerable, the desperate seekers of happiness...