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Title: Bloody Mary: Mary Tudor, the Queen Who Took on the Protestant Revolt

Author: Kelly Mass

Narrator: Doug Greene

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 33 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2022

Genres: Europe

Publisher's Summary:

Mary I, typically called Mary Tudor and called 'Bloody Mary' by her Protestant challengers, ruled as Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 till November 17th, 1558. She is well recalled for her solid attempts to reverse the English Reformation, which started throughout her dad's reign, Henry VIII's reign. Her effort to return property taken at the time of the prior 2 reigns to the Church was generally blocked by Parliament, but at the time of her five-year rule, Mary had more than 280 spiritual dissenters burnt at the stake in the Marian persecutions. You might give excuses for her behavior, you might justify it by saying she may not have been much worse than other dictators and royalty around that time, but the fact of the matter is still that she murdered hundreds of people for religious and political reasons. Bloody Mary was cruel, cold, and from what we know, there was a cause for this. Let’s take a look at her life, her problems, and the way she handled them.

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Title: A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism

Author: Angelika Patel, Julia Boyd

Narrator: Julie Teal

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Release date: May 5, 2022

Genres: Europe

Publisher's Summary:

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich – the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Month: a stunningly evocative portrait of Hitler’s Germany through the people of a single village. Oberstdorf is a beautiful village high up in the Bavarian Alps, a place where for hundreds of years ordinary people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere. Yet even here, in the farthest corner of Germany, National Socialism sought to control not only people’s lives but also their minds. Drawing on archive material, letters, interviews and memoirs, A Village in the Third Reich is an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under Hitler, of the descent into totalitarianism and of the tragedies that befell all of those touched by Nazism. In its pages we meet the Jews who survived – and those who didn’t; the Nazi mayor who tried to shield those persecuted by the regime; and a blind boy whose life was thought ‘not worth living’. It is a tale of conflicting loyalties and desires, of shattered dreams, despair and destruction – but one in which, ultimately, human resilience triumphs. These are the stories of ordinary lives at the crossroads of history. Praise for Travellers in the Third Reich: ‘Compelling’ Daily Telegraph ‘Thought-provoking reading’ Literary Review ‘Fascinating’ Spectator ‘Absorbing and stimulating’ Mail on Sunday

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Title: [Spanish] - GuíaBurros: Del Abrazo de Vergara al bando de guerra de Franco: Episodios clave de nuestra historia

Author: Eduardo Montagut

Narrator: María José Bosch

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Release date: April 29, 2022

Genres: Europe

Publisher's Summary:

Este breve manual de Historia pretende acercar al lector al estudio del establecimiento del Estado liberal en España, y su desenvolvimiento durante el siglo XIX, para luego entrar en el problema fundamental que se plantearía en el nuevo siglo en relación con la transformación de ese Estado liberal en uno democrático. Precisamente, el fracaso en este proceso, debido a un conjunto de factores, conducirá a la gran tragedia española de la Guerra Civil. Si el Abrazo de Vergara asentaba definitivamente la compleja Revolución Liberal en España, el bando de guerra de Franco simboliza la entrada en el abismo de un conflicto que desterró a la democracia durante largas décadas.

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Title: Chindit: The inside story of one of World War Two's most dramatic behind-the-lines operations

Series: #1 of Second World War Voices

Author: Richard Rhodes James

Narrator: Al Murray

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Release date: April 28, 2022

Genres: Europe

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. 1943. Major-General Orde Wingate startles the military world by commanding a daring raid in the heart of Japanese-occupied Burma. But this was just the beginning. In the following year, Wingate spearheaded an even more ambitious operation, flying 10,000 men and 1,000 animals behind Japanese lines to disrupt communications and harass the Japanese forces. With close tactical support from Colonel Philip Cochran, Chindit was the name given to these operations and the men who made them happen. This is their story, told by one man who was at the heart of it all. Cipher officer Richard Rhodes James tells the story of the preparations in central India, the flights deep into enemy territory and the campaign of guerrilla operations that followed. Taking the reader through the remote wilds of the jungle, showing the parching heat and the relentless rain that these men experienced, Rhodes James paints a detailed portrait of a band of brothers fighting for survival. © Richard Rhodes James 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Title: The Queen Mother

Series: Part of Royal House of Windsor

Author: Helen Cathcart

Narrator: Lorna Bennett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2022

Genres: Europe

Publisher's Summary:

Affectionately known as the Queen Mother, she was born a commoner and never expected to be Queen. Yet, her life was forever changed with the abdication of her brother-in-law, Edward VIII, and she rose to become one of the most popular royal figures. Helen Cathcart's fascinatingly intimate account charts the life of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, from her birth and early years, to her courtship and marriage to the second son of King George V and Queen Mary, through the abdication crisis, and later period as Queen consort, before giving insight into the first forty years of her life as Queen Mother after her daughter, Elizabeth II, had ascended to the throne. During her long life the Queen Mother witnessed numerous challenges to her nation, including two world wars and the decline of British power, yet, as Cathcart reveals, she remained an unwavering pillar of support to both her husband and her daughter through these difficult times. Drawing information from family letters, royal journals, and the personal recollections, The Queen Mother is an exceptionally detailed picture of one of the most influential women of the twentieth century.

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Title: The Queen and Prince Philip: The Early Years

Series: Part of Royal House of Windsor

Author: Helen Cathcart

Narrator: Jayne Entwistle

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Europe

Publisher's Summary:

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip enjoyed seventy-three years of happy married life together—the longest marriage of any royal British couple in history. But how did they meet? What did their families think of their burgeoning relationship? What obstacles did the young couple face before and after their marriage? And how did a childhood friendship grow into the love story of the century? In The Queen and Prince Philip royal biographer Helen Cathcart superbly reconstructs the early years of Elizabeth and Philip's relationship, tracing their growing affection from the summer of 1939, when 'Lilibet' was a teenager and Philip a dashing navy cadet, through their wartime courtship and magnificent wedding in 1947 at Westminster Abbey. She narrates their adjustment to new parenthood in Clarence House and how, shortly afterwards, both their lives changed forever when Elizabeth ascended the throne as Queen in 1952 and Philip became Prince Consort. Set against a revealing background of family and wider social events, this is the first full story of their early years together as husband and wife documented from family letters, royal journals, and the personal recollections of those close to the royal couple. The Queen and Prince Philip takes us behind the scenes of one of the most romantic royal love stories of all time.

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Title: Ӕthelflӕd: The Lady of the Mercians

Author: Tim Clarkson

Narrator: Hannah Curtis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2022

Genres: Europe

Publisher's Summary:

This Dark Ages biography chronicles the life of one of the period's most famous women: the ruler of Mercia who took England back from the Vikings. At the end of the ninth century, a large part of what is now England was controlled by the Vikings—warlike Scandinavians who had been attacking the British Isles for more than a hundred years. Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, was determined to regain the conquered lands. But when he died in 899 A.D., the task passed to his son Edward. In the early 900s, Edward led a great fight against the Viking armies, assisted by the English rulers of Mercia: Lord Æthelred and his wife Æthelflæd, who was also Edward's sister. After her husband's death, Æthelflæd ruled Mercia on her own, leading the army to war and working with her brother to achieve their father's aims. Known to history as the Lady of the Mercians, she earned a reputation as a capable general who was feared by her enemies. In this authoritative biography, Tim Clarkson tells her remarkable life story from childhood to her vital role in saving England from the Vikings.

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Title: Crisis Convoy: The Story of HX231, A Turning Point in the Battle of the Atlantic

Author: Sir Peter Gretton

Narrator: James Cameron Stewart

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2022

Genres: Europe

Publisher's Summary:

In April 1943, Commander Peter Gretton was in charge of escorting a vital Allied trade convoy from New York to Great Britain across the North Atlantic. Over the course of the voyage, the sixty-one merchant ships of convoy HX231, along with the six ships of B7 Escort Group, were continuously shadowed and attacked by a German wolf pack of twenty U-boats. With the aid of air support, the convoy and defending escort fought valiantly across hundreds of miles of ocean and, despite poor weather conditions, managed to sink and severely damage several enemy submarines. Tragically six merchant ships were torpedoed and with no rescue vessel any survivors were left stranded in the freezing waters of the Atlantic as the convoy continued on its journey. Drawing on reports from both sides, Gretton details the sequence of events as convoy HX231 battled its way through a large wolf pack and offers an authoritative post-battle analysis of the strategies, decisions, and actions taken that would ultimately see the tide of war turn in favor of victory for the Allies. Crisis Convoy takes the listener to the heart of the action and is a thrilling account of naval warfare during World War II.

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Title: The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire

Author: Tore Skeie

Narrator: Michael Page

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Europe

Publisher's Summary:

The first major book on Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English reframes the struggle for a North Sea empire and puts listeners in the mindset of Vikings, providing new insight into their goals, values, and what they chose to live and die for. The Wolf Age takes listeners on a thrilling journey through the bloody shared history of England and Scandinavia, and on across early medieval Europe, from the wild Norwegian fjords to the wealthy cities of Muslim Andalusia. Warfare, plotting, backstabbing, and bribery abound as Tore Skeie skillfully weaves sagas and skaldic poetry with breathless dramatization as he entertainingly brings the world of the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons to vivid life. In the eleventh century, the rulers of the lands surrounding the North Sea are all hungry for power. To get power they need soldiers, to get soldiers they need silver, and to get silver there is no better way than war and plunder. This vicious cycle draws all the lands of the north into a brutal struggle for supremacy and survival that will shatter kingdoms and forge an empire . . .

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Title: Scottish Queens, 1034-1714: The Queens and Consorts Who Shaped the Nation

Author: Rosalind K. Marshall

Narrator: Ruth Urquhart

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2022

Genres: Europe

Publisher's Summary:

An 'enlightening and fascinating' exploration of Scotland's royal women, from Lady Macbeth to Mary Queen of Scots and beyond (Booklist). The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right and the consorts, have largely been neglected in conventional history books. One of the earliest known Scottish queens was none other than the notorious Lady Macbeth. Was she really the wicked woman depicted in Shakespeare's famous play? Was St. Margaret a demure and obedient wife? Why did Margaret Logie exercise such an influence over her husband, David II, and have we underestimated James VI's consort, Anne of Denmark, frequently written off as a stupid and willful woman? Rosalind K. Marshall delves into these questions and more in this entertaining, impeccably researched book.