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Title: Finest Hour

Author: Tim Clayton, Phil Craig

Narrator: Derek Jacobi, Christian Rodska

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-06

Publisher: Hodder Headline Limited

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Finest Hour recreates the terror, the tragedy, and the triumph of the Battle of Britain, through the testimony of those who experienced it. Martin Gilbert, Britain's premier World War II historian introduces a powerful and incisive account of the events of 1940, told through the voices, diaries, letters, and memoirs of the men and women who survived it, and those who lost their lives. These witnesses of war, with their individual stories of grief and joy, of love and of loss, provide revealing and often controversial new insights into the conflicts and the politics of the period.

Critic Reviews:

"Compelling...mesmerising stuff." (Sunday Telegraph)

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Title: Journeys in English

Author: Bill Bryson

Narrator: Bill Bryson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-08

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 46 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

This highly entertaining BBC Radio 4 series is written and presented by Bill Bryson and based on his best-selling book Mother Tongue. In it, he romps through the history of Britain to reveal how English became such an infuriatingly complex - but ultimately world-beating - language.

But why English? Why don't we speak Gallic, or any other of the European languages? According to Bryson, it's down to the remarkable ability for the English language to assimilate other vocabularies, to adapt and - above all - to survive.

From the old English words that are still in everyday use, such as 'eat', 'drink', 'man' and 'wife', to the current hybrid language of the 21st century with its many diverse dialects, Bryson, in his unique and ever-affable style, guides us through the development of English into a rich and expressive language.

Bryson explains how English has been shaped through invasion and conquest, as well as the rules that brought order to a disorderly language, the million and one ways to have fun with the English language, and the struggle with phrasal verbs (including the way things often get lost in the translation). And finally, he contemplates the future of English. Does Estuary English really Rule OK?

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Titolo: Il Quattrocento e le Signorie (Storia d'Italia 29)

Autore: vari

Narratore: Eugenio Farn

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 37 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 05-13-16

Editore: Il Narratore s.r.l.

Categoria: History, European

Riepilogo Editore:

Il XV secolo sancisce il vero e proprio passaggio dal Medioevo al Rinascimento. Nel Quattrocento, in Italia, si assiste alla formazione di alcuni rilevanti stati regionali (Genova, Firenze, Milano, Venezia), accanto ai quali si distribuiscono una miriade di centri signorili minori; in questa realtà policentrica la corte si afferma come il luogo principale dell'organizzazione politica e dell'elaborazione culturale. Qui si intreccia, in una prospettiva essenzialmente laica, una complessa rete di rapporti intellettuali le cui molteplici espressioni filosofiche, letterarie e artistiche si coagulano dando vita al vero e proprio fenomeno noto come Umanesimo. Il racconto del secolo si dipana a partire dall'affermazione del Ducato di Milano, con la figura dominante di Filippo Maria Visconti, fino al raggiungimento dell'equilibrio politico della seconda metà del secolo che permetterà lo sviluppo delle città italiane come opere d'arte.

Questo volume è realizzato a cura di Maurizio Falghera, con riferimento alle opere degli storici Konrad Burdach, Eugenio Garin, Gino Franceschini.

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Title: The Measure of All Things

Subtitle: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World

Author: Ken Alder

Narrator: Byron Jennings

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-04-02

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 49 votes

Genres: History, World

Publisher's Summary:

Yet when Ken Alder located the long-lost correspondence between the two men, along with their mission logbooks, he stumbled upon a 200-year-old secret. The meter, it turns out, is in error. One of the two astronomers, Pierre-François-André Méchain, made contradictory measurements from Barcelona and, in a panic, covered up the discrepancy. The guilty knowledge of his misdeed drove him to the brink of madness, and ultimately to his death. Only then did his partner, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre, discover the truth and face a fateful choice: what matters more, the truth or the appearance of the truth?

This is a story of two men, a secret, and a timeless human dilemma: is it permissible to perpetuate a small lie in the service of a larger truth? In The Measure of All Things Ken Alder describes a quest that succeeded even as it failed. It is a story for all people, for all time.

Critic Reviews:

"Reading much like a historical thriller...[this] is a fascinating and well-written work." (Library Journal)

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Titolo: I popoli scandinavi (Storia d'Italia 17)

Autore: div.

Narratore: Eugenio Farn

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 33 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 01-08-15

Editore: Il Narratore s.r.l.

Categoria: History, European

Riepilogo Editore:

"Storia d'Italia - I popoli scandinavi" è un audiolibro che racconta la storia dei popoli del Nord (detti impropriamente 'vichinghi'), le imprese e le attività economiche di Danesi e Svedesi, la loro cultura e mitologia. La loro espansione nei secoli dell'Alto Medioevo ha avuto effetti importanti sulle vicende europee: dallo stanziamento dei Normanni sulle coste atlantiche della Francia e dell'Inghilterra, ai rapporti con il Sacro Romano Impero e alla colonizzazione del Baltico e di parte della Russia. Famosi per la loro abilità di navigatori e per le lunghe barche, i popoli scandinavi erano anche abili commercianti e certamente non 'barbari' aggressivi e senza leggi.

L'audiolibro è realizzato a cura della redazione de il Narratore audiolibri, con riferimento alle opere degli storici Thorkild Ramskou, Donald F. Logan, Johannes Brndsted.

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Title: History of Russia from the Earliest Times: Vol. 26 [Russian Edition]

Author: Sergey Solovyov

Narrator: Leontina Brotskaya

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-19-17

Publisher: IDDK

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

A famous work of the great Russian historian Sergey Mikhaylovich Solovyov (1820-1879), who was a major achiever in Russian historical science in the 19th century. Solovyov is the "first among equals" in the galaxy of brilliant Russian historians, which includes Karamzin, Klyuchevsky, Kostomarov, Presnyakov, Granovsky, Platonov, and many others. The 26th volume of this work covers a portion of the reign of Catherine II Alexeevna, from 1764 to1765.

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