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A Brief History of Britain 1660 - 1851
- Brief Histories
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 20
In 1660 England emerged from the devastations of the Civil Wars and restored the king, Charles II, to the throne. Over the next 190 years Britain would establish itself as the leading nation in the world - the centre of burgeoning Empire, at the forefront of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. However, radical change also brought with it anxiety and violence. America is lost in the War of Independence and calls for revolution at home are never far from the surface of everyday life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a good, if liberally biased, over view of the age
- De Some Random User en 05-12-17
- A Brief History of Britain 1660 - 1851
- Brief Histories
- De: William Gibson
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
a good, if liberally biased, over view of the age
Revisado: 05-12-17
Gibson's fiction is fantastic and his relation of economic conditions to the modern reader are good (for instance relating the rail building boom and busy to the recent .com bubble) but he applies a pretty significant modern liberal bias to the activities of the people of that era which doesn't belong in a history.
His style is easy to follow and the narrator is very easy to listen to.
Overall I found the experience of the book good.
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The Second World War: Triumph and Tragedy
- De: Sir Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,288
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,027
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,017
This volume of Churchill's history ofWorld Ward 2 recounts the dramatic months as the war drew to a close - the normandy landings, the liberation of western Europe, the bombing of hiroshima and Nagaski, and the surrender of Germany and Japan.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Always good, occasionally great
- De John M en 12-15-08
fantastic all around
Revisado: 06-06-16
This is a reading of the updated and abridged (by Winston) for volume edition that includes a chapter written in 1957 so that many of the predictions for the years following the war could be verified or falsified.
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