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Erlebe die dramatische Geschichte skandinavischer Krieger, die durch beispiellose Eroberung das Mittelalter prägten. Ob auf dem täglichen Weg zur Arbeit oder bei einem fesselnden Hörabend – tauche ein in eine ungemein spannende Reise von den eisigen Fjorden bis zu den sonnigen Küsten des...

Saisissez l'histoire globale de l'impérialisme à travers la redoutable ascension géopolitique d'une nation insulaire. Idéal pour enrichir votre trajet matinal, ce récit nuancé et captivant vous plonge au cœur des vastes stratégies d'expansion maritime. Vous y écouterez résonner les...

Revivez le violent soulèvement militaire de 1857, une révolte historique majeure qui fit vaciller l'Empire britannique. Que vous soyez en plein trajet quotidien ou concentré sur vos études, cette écoute immersive et dramatique vous transporte dans l'Inde du dix-neuvième siècle, à l'aube...

Erlebe packende europäische Geschichte, wenn politischer Flächenbrand und religiöser Fanatismus eine Monarchie stürzen. Perfekt für fokussiertes Hören auf dem Weg zur Arbeit, entfaltet sich hier das komplexe Netz aus Misstrauen und unaufhaltsamer Radikalisierung. Ohne Vorwissen tauchst du...

Erlebe packende Weltgeschichte: Wie eine kleine Insel durch gnadenlosen Imperialismus zur globalen Supermacht aufstieg. Diese analytische und zugleich mitreißende Zeitreise eignet sich perfekt für das tägliche Pendeln und stillt deinen Wissensdurst nach historischen Zusammenhängen spielend...

Explorez l'histoire épique d'une métropole forgée par les tragédies, des pestes ravageuses aux grands incendies. Idéal pour enrichir votre trajet quotidien, ce récit immersif transforme chaque rue en un témoignage vibrant de survie politique et sociale. Laissez-vous transporter au cœur...

Plongez au cœur d'une crise géopolitique majeure où stratégie et histoire militaire se heurtent dans l'Atlantique Sud. Idéal pour enrichir votre réflexion lors de vos trajets quotidiens, ce récit immersif dissèque un affrontement territorial devenu inévitable. Vivez l'escalade d'une...

Erlebe in diesem packenden Geschichts-Sachbuch, wie eine winzige Insel im Nordatlantik ein Viertel der Erde unterwarf. Begib dich auf eine fesselnde und lehrreiche Hörexpedition durch die Jahrhunderte, ideal um den täglichen Arbeitsweg in eine tiefgreifende Auseinandersetzung mit der...

In May 1979, Margaret Thatcher walked into Downing Street with a promise to take apart the Britain that Labour had built in the post-war years. It was a Britain where the public owned the water, the gas and the electricity while heavy industries burned British coal all day and night. British...

"A compelling page-turner" about the medieval English baron who invaded his own country and deposed a king (Alison Weir, author of Queen Isabella). One night in August 1323, a captive rebel baron, Sir Roger Mortimer, drugged his guards and escaped from the Tower of London. With the king's men-at-arms in pursuit he fled to the south coast and sailed to France. There he was joined by Isabella, the French-born queen of England, who threw herself into his arms. A year later, as lovers, they returned with an invading army: King Edward II's forces crumbled before them and Mortimer took power.

Punk started much earlier than we think: enter the seductive subculture created by three rebellious boys navigating the sparkling world of the Elizabethan court Three young noblemen – heirs to some of the greatest titles in the land – come of age under the watchful eye of William Cecil, the...

Entitled is the first joint biography of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson by renowned royal biographer and literary agent, Andrew Lownie. Packed full of extraordinary revelations, Entitled reveals the extent to which Andrew and Fergie’s lives are still deeply entwined. Drawing on...

A magical journey through the world’s oldest tales, retold with clarity and wonder and brought to life with striking original linocut art. Storyland begins between the Creation and Noah's Flood, follows the footsteps of the earliest generation of giants, covers the founding of Britain, England...

Dominion, the fifth volume in Peter Ackroyd’s masterful History of England, begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to a post-war depression and ends with the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901. Spanning the end of the Regency, Ackroyd takes listeners...

In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes listeners from William of Orange’s accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was—again—at war with France, a war that would end with the...

This second volume in William Manchester’s three-volume biography of Winston Churchill challenges the assumption that Churchill’s finest hour was as a wartime leader. During the years 1932–1940, he was tested as few men are. Pursued by creditors (at one point he had to put up his home for...

In this massive bestseller in England, one of Britain's most popular and esteemed historians tells the epic story of the birth of the country. Peter Ackroyd, whose work has always been underpinned by a profound interest in and understanding of England's history, now tells the epic story of...

When Orwell went to the north of England in the thirties to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experience. He stayed in cramped, dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. He went down into the coal mines and walked...

From Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome to the epic rule of Elizabeth I, the age of the Tudors comes to vivid life on the page. Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's most acclaimed writers, brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life in this monumental book in his History of England series...

A National Bestseller “A modern classic, one we very much need right now.” –George Saunders From the acclaimed author of The Shepherd’s Life, a magical work of nonfiction in which James Rebanks reflects on a life-changing summer spent on a remote island off the coast of Norway, where his...