British Government History

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    • The English in France 1337-1453
    • By: Desmond Seward
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 214 ratings
    • Desmond Seward's critically acclaimed account of the Hundred Years War brings to life all of the intrigue, beauty, and royal to-the-death-fighting of that legendary century-long conflict.

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    • The Cold War and the Rule of Law
    • By: Keith Ewing, Joan Mahoney, Andrew Moretta
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
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    • This book explores the powers, activities, and accountability of MI5 from the end of the Second World War to 1964....

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    • England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
    • By: Tim Pat Coogan
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • Unflinching in depicting the evidence, Coogan presents a vivid and horrifying picture of a catastrophe that shook the 19th century and finally calls to account those responsible....

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    • A Critical History of the British Aristocracy
    • By: Chris Bryant
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Exploring the extraordinary social and political dominance enjoyed by the British aristocracy over the centuries, Entitled seeks to explain how a tiny number of noble families rose to such a position in the first place....

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    • A History of the British Empire
    • By: Caroline Elkins
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe....

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    • The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
    • By: Martin Meredith
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
    • Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world....

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    • Selections from The Great Wars of England and France
    • By: Jean Froissart
    • Narrated by: John Horton
    • Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The first great war correspondent of the Middle Ages, Jean Froissart chronicled events during...

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    • American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
    • By: Damien Lewis
    • Narrated by: Damien Lewis
    • Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WW2, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and most glamorous entertainer, was an Allied spy in Occupied France. This is the story of her heroic personal resistance to Nazi Germany....

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    • The Secret History of Britain's World War II Interrogation Centre
    • By: Helen Fry
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Behind the locked doors of three mansions in London's exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens neighborhood, the British Secret Service established a highly secret prison....

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    • The Secret History of MI6 - Life and Death in the British Secret Service
    • By: Gordon Corera
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • From Berlin to the Congo, from Moscow to the back streets of London, these are the stories of the agents on the front lines of British intelligence....

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    • Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring
    • By: Andrew Lownie
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • In this first full biography, Andrew Lownie shows us how even Burgess's chaotic personal life did nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service....

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    • How British Imperialism Shaped the Globe
    • By: Sathnam Sanghera
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Bestselling author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera explores the global legacy of the British Empire, and the ways it continues to influence economics, politics, and culture around the world....

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    • Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
    • By: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 218 ratings
    • Originally published in 1985, Outposts is Simon Winchester's journey to find the vanishing empire, "on which the sun never sets"....

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    • A History of the British Empire
    • By: Caroline Elkins
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates the pervasive use of violence throughout the 20th century and traces how these practices were exported, modified and institutionalised in colonies around the globe....

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    • The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
    • By: Philip J. Stern
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation....

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    • By: John Lukacs
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 380 ratings
    • In the days between May 24th and 28th, 1940, the British War Cabinet held a historical debate over whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war....

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    • How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution
    • By: Giles Milton
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II - a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin’s communist revolution was now underway....

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    • What the British Did to India
    • By: Shashi Tharoor
    • Narrated by: Shashi Tharoor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Inglorious Empire written and read by Shashi Tharoor....

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    • The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
    • By: Madhusree Mukarjee
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • 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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