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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- By: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
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The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world....
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TMI But Not Enough Human Perspective
- By Lynn on 01-07-24
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1. The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 05-02-23
- Language: English
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The Island at the Center of the World
- The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
- By: Russell Shorto
- Narrated by: Russell Shorto
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
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In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today....
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Incomplete history, but fun. Performance is poor.
- By Matthew on 11-27-18
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2. The Island at the Center of the World
- The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
- Narrated by: Russell Shorto
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 08-16-16
- Language: English
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They Flew
- A History of the Impossible
- By: Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
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Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal....
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The sober documentation of levitation and bilocation stories.
- By Arthur Sippo on 03-01-24
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3. They Flew
- A History of the Impossible
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 02-13-24
- Language: English
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Under the Black Flag
- The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- By: David Cordingly
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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As he explodes many accepted pirate myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier....
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Lacks Nuance
- By Joel Langenfeld on 07-02-15
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4. Under the Black Flag
- The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 11-29-11
- Language: English
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Away Off Shore
- Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
- By: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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In his first book of history, Away Off Shore, New York Times best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals the people and the stories behind what was once the whaling capital of the world....
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There once were some (wo)men in Nantucket...
- By Darwin8u on 02-03-19
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5. Away Off Shore
- Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 04-04-17
- Language: English
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Republic
- Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660
- By: Alice Hunt
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
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Events moved fast in the 1650s. Something cataclysmic happened every year, something that would thrust the newly formed republic, its people, and its eventual 'Lord Protector' Oliver Cromwell, in an entirely new direction.
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6. Republic
- Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-24-24
- Language: English
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The True History of Merlin the Magician
- By: Anne Lawrence-Mathers
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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A medieval historian examines what we really know about the man who was "Merlin the Magician" and his impact on Britain....
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7. The True History of Merlin the Magician
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 03-07-23
- Language: English
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Born to Be Hanged
- The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
- By: Keith Thomson
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than 300 daring, hardened pirates—a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers—gather on a remote Caribbean island....
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Fascinating tale of 17th Piracy in the Americas
- By Xmeromotu on 07-11-22
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8. Born to Be Hanged
- The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 05-10-22
- Language: English
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Nature's Mutiny
- How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
- By: Philipp Blom
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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An illuminating work of environmental history that chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, which transformed the social and political fabric of Europe....
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Starts On Track; End Becomes Ideological Rant
- By Danioton on 06-07-20
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9. Nature's Mutiny
- How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 04-16-19
- Language: English
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The Barbarous Years
- The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
- By: Bernard Bailyn
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 26 hrs and 11 mins
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Bernard Bailyn gives us a compelling account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America....
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A feast for genealogy/history buffs
- By judithh on 07-21-16
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10. The Barbarous Years
- The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 26 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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The Dutch Moment
- War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
- By: Wim Klooster
- Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast....
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It ain’t much, if you ain’t Dutch
- By DR.RD on 06-28-23
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11. The Dutch Moment
- War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
- Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 10-15-19
- Language: English
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Captain Alatriste
- By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Margaret Sayers Peden
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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Captain Alatriste is the story of a fictional 17th-century Spanish soldier who, after being wounded in battle during the Thirty Years' War, is forced to retire from the army....
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Good story...reader could be better.
- By Adina R. Montgomery on 07-26-05
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12. Captain Alatriste
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Margaret Sayers Peden
- Series: Captain Alatriste, Book 1
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 04-29-05
- Language: English
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Killers of the King
- The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
- By: Charles Spencer
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain’s history, Parliament faced a problem: what to do with a defeated king, a king who refused to surrender....
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Who Knew?
- By RJW on 08-26-23
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13. Killers of the King
- The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 11-11-21
- Language: English
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Devil-Land
- England Under Siege, 1588-1688
- By: Clare Jackson
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
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Clare Jackson's dazzling original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis....
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The Exciting Made “Meh”
- By K&S&T on 10-01-22
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14. Devil-Land
- England Under Siege, 1588-1688
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 07-21-22
- Language: English
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The Vanishing Velázquez
- A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
- By: Laura Cumming
- Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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When John Snare, a 19th-century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he stumbled on a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied any explanation....
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A fascinating study of art history
- By Ron on 07-02-16
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15. The Vanishing Velázquez
- A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
- Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-12-16
- Language: English
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A Hangman’s Diary
- The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
- By: Franz Schmidt, Albrecht Keller - editor and translator, C. Calvert BA - translator, and others
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Now an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman's Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt's executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason for the punishment....
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Good , but …
- By Steve Bruno on 08-18-21
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16. A Hangman’s Diary
- The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 08-17-21
- Language: English
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The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- By: David Wootton
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
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A groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world....
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A Good Read Spoiled
- By David A. Donnelly on 12-23-16
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17. The Invention of Science
- A New History of the Scientific Revolution
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 04-19-16
- Language: English
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Thunderclap
- A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
- By: Laura Cumming
- Narrated by: Laura Cumming
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming tells the fascinating, little-known story of the massive explosion in Holland that killed Carel Fabritius, renowned painter of The Goldfinch and A View of Delft and nearly killed Johannes Vermeer—two of the greatest artists of the 17th century.
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The deep dive into Dutch Art
- By toni on 08-06-23
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18. Thunderclap
- A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
- Narrated by: Laura Cumming
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 07-11-23
- Language: English
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The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- By: William Egginton
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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In the early 17th century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a novel....
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Very Interesting and Informative, but Poorly Read
- By LCorSMT on 06-21-23
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19. The Man Who Invented Fiction
- How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 07-12-16
- Language: English
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Mayflower
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Jimmy Kieffer
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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The story of the Mayflower is one of adventure, courage, and destiny. Leaving England in September of 1620, the ship carried 102 English Separatists to a new life, one that came with the freedom to practice their religious beliefs as they saw fit....
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interesting but needs more story telling
- By 28 year old gamer on 08-27-22
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20. Mayflower
- A History from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Jimmy Kieffer
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 08-15-18
- Language: English
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