Winner of a Bronze Award at the Spoken Word Awards 2003
Award-winning historian Simon Schama completes his monumental three-volume history of Britain, which accompanies the acclaimed television epic.
In The Fate of Empire, Schama illuminates the period of British history from 1770 to 2000 through a variety of historical themes – including the advance of technology and industry, women's increasing role in society, and the burgeoning British Empire – and key British characters such as Wordsworth, Burke, Queen Victoria, Churchill and George Orwell.
Lesser-known lives are also illuminated, such as Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman doctor, ‘Mother’ Mary Seacole, the forgotten Caribbean nurse and heroine of the Crimea War, and Dadabhai Naoroji, who, in c.1890, became the first Asian MP.
Philipa Gregory
Narrator : Emilia Fox
Published By : Harper Collins UK
Length : 7 hours
Categories : Pre 1900 British Biographical
Price : $20.99
Fabulous historical novel set in the court of King Henry VIII. View...
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Christopher Lee
Narrator : Anna Massey and Peter Jeffrey
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Length : 3 hours
Categories : British Pre 1900
Price : $22.25
This edition brings together the amalgamation of Scotland to the other British states, the succession of the first Hanoverian King and much more... View...
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Bernard Cornwell
Narrator : Jamie Glover
Published By : Harper Collins US
Length : 6 hours
Categories : Historical British Pre 1900
Price : $29.95 $19.95
Alfred and Uhtred make an unlikely allies, yet the two forge an uneasy alliance that will lead them to where the Saxon army will fight for the very existence of Britain... View...
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Paul Brickhill
Narrator : Robert Whitfield
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 9 hours
Categories : American British 20th Century Military
Price : $32.95 $16.95
With only bare hands and crude tools, they sank shafts, built underground railroads, forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons, and tailored uniforms and clothes. A split-second operation as delic... View...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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