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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- Written by: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall530
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Performance439
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Story441
The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....
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Pronunciations not satisfactory
- By msvk on 26-05-20
Written by: William Dalrymple
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India's Struggle for Independence
- Written by: Bipan Chandra
- Narrated by: Derek Denzil
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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Story15
India's Struggle For Independence presents a detailed outlook on the struggle for Indian Independence in a new analytical framework. Designed for ardent history enthusiasts, India's Struggle For Independence is one of the most exhaustive and precise account of the struggle of Indian Independence...
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Horrible reader
- By Sunbird on 05-11-24
Written by: Bipan Chandra
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Bravehearts of Bharat
- Vignettes from Indian History
- Written by: Vikram Sampath
- Narrated by: Anuj Datta
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance25
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Story25
Fifteen Brave Men and Women of Bharat who Never Succumbed to the Challenges of Invaders But were Lost and Forgotten in the Annals of History. These are the stories of those Bravehearts who Fought to Protect their Rights, Faith and Freedom.History has always been the handmaiden of the victor...
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Excellent glimpse of Indian history
- By DATTADA V. on 22-09-23
Written by: Vikram Sampath
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1962: The War That Wasn't
- The Definitive Account of the Clash Between India and China
- Written by: Shiv Kunal Verma
- Narrated by: Manish Dongardive
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall155
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Performance128
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Story130
On 20 October 1962, high in the Himalayas, over 400 Indian soldiers were massacred, and the valley was overrun by soldiers of China's People's Liberation Army....
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Eye opening account of the Sino Indian war
- By dipanjanb on 05-03-19
Written by: Shiv Kunal Verma
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Jeevan Ke Arth Ki Talaash Me Manushya [Man's Search for Meaning]
- Written by: Viktor E Frankl
- Narrated by: Rajesh Bathija
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance36
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Story37
मैंस सर्च फ़ॉर मीनिंग, होलोकास्ट से निकली एक अद्भुत व उल्लेखनीय क्लासिक पुस्तक है।....
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good book
- By hamir patel on 01-09-25
Written by: Viktor E Frankl
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Revolutionaries
- The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom
- Written by: Sanjeev Sanyal
- Narrated by: Adwait Karambelkar
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall131
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Performance122
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Story122
The history of India's struggle for freedom is usually told from the perspective of the non-violent movement. Yet, the story of armed resistance to colonial occupation is just as important. Names such as Vinayak Savarkar, Aurobindo Ghosh, Rashbehari Bose, Bagha Jatin, Sachindra Nath Sanyal...
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Full of Conspiracy Theories ⚡⚠️☠️
- By Mayank on 14-01-25
Written by: Sanjeev Sanyal
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- Written by: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall530
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Performance439
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Story441
The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....
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Pronunciations not satisfactory
- By msvk on 26-05-20
Written by: William Dalrymple
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India's Struggle for Independence
- Written by: Bipan Chandra
- Narrated by: Derek Denzil
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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Story15
India's Struggle For Independence presents a detailed outlook on the struggle for Indian Independence in a new analytical framework. Designed for ardent history enthusiasts, India's Struggle For Independence is one of the most exhaustive and precise account of the struggle of Indian Independence...
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Horrible reader
- By Sunbird on 05-11-24
Written by: Bipan Chandra
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Bravehearts of Bharat
- Vignettes from Indian History
- Written by: Vikram Sampath
- Narrated by: Anuj Datta
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance25
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Story25
Fifteen Brave Men and Women of Bharat who Never Succumbed to the Challenges of Invaders But were Lost and Forgotten in the Annals of History. These are the stories of those Bravehearts who Fought to Protect their Rights, Faith and Freedom.History has always been the handmaiden of the victor...
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Excellent glimpse of Indian history
- By DATTADA V. on 22-09-23
Written by: Vikram Sampath
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1962: The War That Wasn't
- The Definitive Account of the Clash Between India and China
- Written by: Shiv Kunal Verma
- Narrated by: Manish Dongardive
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall155
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Performance128
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Story130
On 20 October 1962, high in the Himalayas, over 400 Indian soldiers were massacred, and the valley was overrun by soldiers of China's People's Liberation Army....
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Eye opening account of the Sino Indian war
- By dipanjanb on 05-03-19
Written by: Shiv Kunal Verma
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Jeevan Ke Arth Ki Talaash Me Manushya [Man's Search for Meaning]
- Written by: Viktor E Frankl
- Narrated by: Rajesh Bathija
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance36
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Story37
मैंस सर्च फ़ॉर मीनिंग, होलोकास्ट से निकली एक अद्भुत व उल्लेखनीय क्लासिक पुस्तक है।....
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good book
- By hamir patel on 01-09-25
Written by: Viktor E Frankl
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Revolutionaries
- The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom
- Written by: Sanjeev Sanyal
- Narrated by: Adwait Karambelkar
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall131
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Performance122
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Story122
The history of India's struggle for freedom is usually told from the perspective of the non-violent movement. Yet, the story of armed resistance to colonial occupation is just as important. Names such as Vinayak Savarkar, Aurobindo Ghosh, Rashbehari Bose, Bagha Jatin, Sachindra Nath Sanyal...
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Full of Conspiracy Theories ⚡⚠️☠️
- By Mayank on 14-01-25
Written by: Sanjeev Sanyal
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- A History of Nazi Germany
- Written by: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 57 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall140
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Performance126
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Story125
Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1961, this worldwide bestselling classic chronicles the most infamous era of our times.
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Almost an Anthropological Account of an Aeon!
- By Girish B Hukkeri on 07-03-20
Written by: William L. Shirer
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The Life and Death of Sambhaji (Part 1)
- Written by: Medha Deshmukh Bhaskaran
- Narrated by: Vasundhra Bose
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance36
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Story36
It begins to dawn on the nine-year-old Sambhaji that his father has fled from the clutches of the Mughal badshah Aurangzeb and left him behind. He must now find his way back home with the help of strangers . . . Under the shadow of an illustrious father, Sambhaji finds himself thrust into the...
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ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL.
- By Bhadresh K. on 18-03-23
Written by: Medha Deshmukh Bhaskaran
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Tipu Sultan
- Written by: Vikram Sampath
- Narrated by: ERROL RODRIGUES, Meher Acharia Dar
- Length: 37 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Story8
Over two centuries have passed since his death on 4 May 1799, yet Tipu Sultan’s contested legacy continues to perplex India and her contemporary politics. A fascinating and enigmatic figure in India’s military past, he remains a modern historian’s biggest puzzle as he simultaneously means...
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Detailed History
- By Ruchira Moitra on 15-06-25
Written by: Vikram Sampath
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Ghost Wars
- The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
- Written by: Steve Coll
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 26 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall84
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Performance71
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Story71
The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan With the publication of Ghost Wars, Steve Coll became not only a Pulitzer Prize winner, but also the expert on the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of Bin Laden, and the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents...
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Best in the business
- By Pratham Tiwari on 01-02-26
Written by: Steve Coll
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The Life and Death of Sambhaji (Part 2)
- Written by: Medha Bhaskaran
- Narrated by: Vasundhra Bose
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance31
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Story32
Under the shadow of an illustrious father, Sambhaji finds himself thrust into the Maratha-Mughal conflict from a tender age. His mistakes cost him dearly and when his father suddenly dies and he becomes the chhatrapati, it is as if he has inherited a crown of thorns. In the nine years that...
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Unknown facts
- By Santhosh on 30-04-25
Written by: Medha Bhaskaran
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The First World War
- A Complete History
- Written by: Martin Gilbert
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 33 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Story7
It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would officially end nearly five years later. Unofficially, however, it has never ended: Many of the horrors we live with today are rooted...
Written by: Martin Gilbert
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Krantikari
- Bharat ke Swatantrata Sangram ki Ek Alag Kahani
- Written by: Sanjeev Sanyal
- Narrated by: Ashish Bhandari
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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Story14
The history of India's struggle for freedom is usually told from the perspective of the non-violent movement. Yet, the story of armed resistance to colonial occupation is just as important. Names such as Vinayak Savarkar, Aurobindo Ghosh, Rashbehari Bose, Bagha Jatin, Sachindra Nath Sanyal...
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an unsuccessful attempt
- By aqib rehman on 28-10-24
Written by: Sanjeev Sanyal
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Six Days of War
- June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
- Written by: Michael B. Oren
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance34
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Story34
In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War or, simply, as "the Setback"....
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Detailed account of a historic event
- By Kindle Customer on 09-07-22
Written by: Michael B. Oren
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The Story of World War II
- Written by: Donald L. Miller, Henry Steele Commager
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 24 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance32
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Story32
Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published....
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War is Evil.
- By Srinath on 04-11-20
Written by: Donald L. Miller,
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1971
- Stories of Grit and Glory From the Indo-Pak War
- Written by: Ian Cardozo
- Narrated by: Dev J Haldar
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
An under-strength Gorkha battalion undertakes the Indian Army's first heliborne operation deep behind enemy lines, defeating a Pakistani force twenty times its strength. Fighters of the Indian Air force target the Government House in Dhaka in a daring air raid, forcing the Pakistani...
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Good insight for someone who is not known to military terms
- By Pramodh V. on 26-03-24
Written by: Ian Cardozo
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Directorate S
- The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Written by: Steve Coll
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 28 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance38
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Story37
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Nominated for the National Book Award for Nonfiction From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to...
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Insight of International Relations
- By shivesh s. on 24-01-19
Written by: Steve Coll
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The Brave: Param Vir Chakra Stories
- Written by: Rachna Bisht
- Narrated by: Kiran Multani
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance30
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Story31
21 riveting stories from the battlefield about how India's highest military honour was won The Brave takes you to the hearts and minds of India's bravest soldiers, all of whom won the Param Vir Chakra, India's greatest military honour. With access to the Army, families and comrades-in-arms of...
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Salute
- By Anonymous User on 25-02-23
Written by: Rachna Bisht
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The Guns of August
- Written by: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance8
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Story8
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I....
Written by: Barbara W. Tuchman
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Written by: Benjamin Franklin
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance27
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Story27
Written between 1717 and 1790, and originally referred to by its author as simply Memoirs, Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is considered the pioneering example of the genre....
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As always a lot to learn about leading a good life
- By Juzer Firoz Rangwala on 28-07-21
Written by: Benjamin Franklin
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The Bomber Mafia
- A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
- Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall114
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Performance95
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Story95
Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. Malcolm Gladwell reexamines moments from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time....
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Gladwell magic
- By Rahul on 08-07-21
Written by: Malcolm Gladwell
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The Rape of Nanking
- Written by: Iris Chang
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance67
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Story67
In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred.
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unbelievable.....can human be so much inhumane?
- By bsingh on 22-08-24
Written by: Iris Chang
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December in Dacca
- The Indian Armed Forces and the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
- Written by: KS Nair
- Narrated by: P. Mathai Abraham
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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Overall4
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Performance4
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The 1971 war between India and Pakistan, to help liberate the beleaguered people of Bangladesh, is considered one of the last 'just wars' of the twentieth century. Good triumphed decisively, unequivocally and indisputably. Yet, given the scale of atrocity that was halted in its tracks, it is...
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Good book
- By Anonymous User on 11-11-22
Written by: KS Nair
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The Wages of Destruction
- The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
- Written by: Adam Tooze
- Narrated by: Adam Tooze, Simon Vance
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
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"Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study…Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism." —Financial Times An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam...
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My Experiments with Truth
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Overall102
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Performance93
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This is the compelling autobiography of Mohandas Karam Chand Gandhi, who inspired millions with the sheer strength of his personal actions and steadfast upholding of the twin principles of truth and non-violence in the face of the most adverse circumstances....
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Reflection upon the inner turmoils and growth
- By Arushi Sharma on 30-03-26
Written by: Mohandas K. Gandhi
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No Easy Day
- The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
- Written by: Mark Owen, Kevin Maurer
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Overall9
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Performance7
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The #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from...
Written by: Mark Owen,
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The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
- Written by: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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American journalist and author William L. Shirer was a war correspondent for six years in Nazi Germany, having a front-row seat to Hitler’s rise in influence and power....
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An eye opener !
- By Sharat Vishwanatha on 23-08-21
Written by: William L. Shirer
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Adolf Hitler
- Written by: John Toland
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 44 hrs and 42 mins
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Overall11
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Performance7
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Based on previously unpublished documents, diaries, notes, photographs, and dramatic interviews with Hitler's colleagues and associates....
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Great story and narration
- By Simple K on 20-12-17
Written by: John Toland
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The Vietnam War
- An Intimate History
- Written by: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
- Narrated by: Ken Burns
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017. More than forty years...
Written by: Geoffrey C. Ward,
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A World Undone
- The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
- Written by: G. J. Meyer
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 27 hrs and 57 mins
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Drawing on exhaustive research, this “masterful narrative history” (Booklist) details how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of our modern world. “Thundering, magnificent...
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Great one-volume primer on the war. Read slowly.
- By A K. on 03-05-23
Written by: G. J. Meyer
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How did a former Austrian corporal in the Bavarian army with no obvious gift for leadership or strategy become the leader of one of the most civilized countries in Europe? This is a penetrating analysis of the personality of Adolf Hitler, perhaps the most enigmatic figure of the 20th century. Drawing on psychological studies of the time, The Evil Madness of Hitler presents fascinating insights into one of history's most murderous dictators. This book explains the tyrant that ran the Third Reich and the demons that haunted him, with remarkable revelations about his sex life.
Written by: Nigel Cawthorne
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The First Anzacs
- Written by: Jimmy Thomson, George Hulse
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the unknown story of the combat engineers who kept World War I running. Although it has been repeatedly denied by the army, they were the first Australians to land at Anzac Cove: in any combat, even today, sappers are always the first in and last out.
Written by: Jimmy Thomson,
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Death in the Rubble
- The Female Killer Who Stalked Cold War Berlin
- Written by: Richard Bodek
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1949, the year of the Berlin airlift and the founding of the two post-war German states, Elisabeth Kusian (nurse, black marketeer, morphine and methamphetamine addict, and pathological liar) garroted and dismembered two people in a mini crime spree. Her actions both fascinated and terrified...
Written by: Richard Bodek
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At Great Risk
- Memoirs of Rescue During the Holocaust (The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, Book 13)
- Written by: Eva Lang, David Korn, Fishel Goldig
- Narrated by: Louise Philippe, David Korn, Fishel Goldig,
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Many rescuers often say they only did what any decent person would have done in their position, and yet we know that is not true. They did what so many others did not do.
Written by: Eva Lang,
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When the Declaration of Independence Was News
- Written by: Emily Sneff
- Narrated by: Kimberly Austin
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Tracing the moments after its creation, this groundbreaking story follows how news of the Declaration of Independence spread to people throughout the thirteen colonies and the Atlantic world. In 1776, people could hear the Declaration of Independence proclaimed in public squares and could read...
Written by: Emily Sneff
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A Challenge to Democracy
- A 1944 Film on Audio of Japanese-American Internment During World War II
- Written by: US War Relocation Authority
- Narrated by: US War Relocation Authority
- Length: 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The following is the audio track for the 1944 propaganda film released by the US War Relocation Authority explaining the internment of more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans in relocation camps during World War II.
Written by: US War Relocation Authority
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Black Narratives of Slavery
- A Very Short Introduction
- Written by: Robert Patterson
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert J. Patterson examines so-called "traditional" slave narratives alongside writings from non-enslaved Black people in the nineteenth century, the imaginative works of twentieth century fiction, and twenty-first century cinema to create a compelling and informative introduction to the long historical arc of slavery woven into the cultural and political fabric of America.
Written by: Robert Patterson