British Empire Memoir
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The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire
- The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- By: Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 21 hrs and 5 mins
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The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing audiobook makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men historian Andrew O'Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve victory.
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It didn't lose me
- By Matt on 04-28-15
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The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire
- The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 21 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 11-13-13
- Language: English
- The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire....
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In Search of a Kingdom
- Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
- By: Laurence Bergreen
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiral whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history.
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Better than the text
- By Bramante on 04-07-21
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In Search of a Kingdom
- Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 03-16-21
- Language: English
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In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiral whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed....
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The Summing Up
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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William Somerset Maugham (1874�1965) was born at the height of British imperial power. When he died, the British Empire was all but a memory. In Maugham's lifetime, as his civilization slowly disappeared, people from all walks of life, the proud, the urbane, the crude, and the desperate, passed beneath the lens of his dispassionate scrutiny. Transformed into some of the most unforgettable literary works of the 20th century, his experiences re-emerged in his plays, fiction, and essays.
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Portrait of the artist as an old man
- By Eric Chevlen on 10-30-05
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The Summing Up
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 02-17-05
- Language: English
- William Somerset Maugham (1874�1965) was born at the height of British imperial power. When he died, the British Empire was all but a memory....
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Gertrude Bell
- Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
- By: Georgina Howell
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
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She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born in 1868 into a world of privilege, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, and legendary mountaineer.
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Shattering The Glass Ceiling in Britain
- By Nostromo on 08-05-18
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Gertrude Bell
- Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 10-18-16
- Language: English
- She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire....
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The Last Englishmen
- Love, War, and the End of Empire
- By: Deborah Baker
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies, Die Hards and Indian nationalists, political rogues and police informers. Key among them is a highborn Bengali poet named Sudhin Datta, a melancholy soul torn, like many of his generation, between hatred of the British Empire and a deep love of European literature, whose life would be upended by the arrival of war on his Calcutta doorstep.
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Devoles into Tedium
- By traveler on 09-11-23
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The Last Englishmen
- Love, War, and the End of Empire
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 08-21-18
- Language: English
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Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies....
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Gandhi, Smuts and Race in the British Empire
- Of Passive and Violent Resistance
- By: Peter Baxter
- Narrated by: Peter Baxter
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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Towards the end of 1906, a meeting took place between two emerging giants of the age, Mohandas K. Gandhi and General Jan Christian Smuts. United under the same empire, but separated by distance and culture, Smuts was born in the Cape Colony, and Gandhi in Porbandar, a duchy of the Indian province of Gujarat. Both, however, went on to study law in Britain, and while developing a great admiration for the institutions of empire, each man also suffered his own particular crisis of faith.
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Huge historical content
- By Yas on 07-30-20
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Gandhi, Smuts and Race in the British Empire
- Of Passive and Violent Resistance
- Narrated by: Peter Baxter
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 06-22-18
- Language: English
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Towards the end of 1906, a meeting took place between two emerging giants of the age, Mohandas K. Gandhi and General Jan Christian Smuts....
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Broken Threads
- My Family from Empire to Independence
- By: Mishal Husain
- Narrated by: Mishal Husain
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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An extraordinary history of Mishal Husain’s four grandparents, whose lives were shaped by the tumultuous politics and prejudices of empire, war and partition. Through a narrative odyssey that traces the complexities of her own ancestry, Mishal Husain sheds incredible light on a landmark historical period. Mary, a devout Catholic of Anglo-Indian parentage, leaves a struggling family to train as a nurse. Tahirah was born to middle-class Muslim parents and grows up with an emphasis on education and aspiration.
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Outstanding
- By Reem seraj on 11-22-24
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Broken Threads
- My Family from Empire to Independence
- Narrated by: Mishal Husain
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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An extraordinary history of Mishal Husain’s four grandparents, whose lives were shaped by the tumultuous politics and prejudices of empire, war and partition.
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Empire Made
- My Search for an Outlaw Uncle Who Vanished in British India
- By: Kief Hillsbery
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India - a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light. In 1841, 20-year-old Nigel Halleck set out for Calcutta as a clerk in the East India Company. He went on to serve in the colonial administration for eight years before abruptly leaving the company under a cloud and disappearing in the mountain kingdom of Nepal, never to be heard from again.
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An overlooked gem
- By Jerome Armstrong on 07-05-18
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Empire Made
- My Search for an Outlaw Uncle Who Vanished in British India
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-25-17
- Language: English
- Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India - a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light....
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Imperial Intimacies
- A Tale of Two Islands
- By: Hazel V. Carby
- Narrated by: Hazel V. Carby
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
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“Where are you from?” was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-war London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby’s place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt.
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Imperial Intimacies
- A Tale of Two Islands
- Narrated by: Hazel V. Carby
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-07-21
- Language: English
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“Where are you from?” was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-war London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother....
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George V
- Never a Dull Moment
- By: Jane Ridley
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 22 hrs and 7 mins
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The lasting reputation of George V is for dullness. He was a crack shot and an outstanding stamp collector, but that's about it. The flamboyance and hedonism of his father, Edward VII, defined an era whose influence and magnetism is still felt today. The contrast between the two could hardly be greater.
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Captivating
- By Anonymous User on 12-02-21
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George V
- Never a Dull Moment
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 22 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 11-04-21
- Language: English
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The lasting reputation of George V is for dullness. He was a crack shot and an outstanding stamp collector, but that's about it....
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The Storied City
- The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
- By: Charlie English
- Narrated by: Enn Reitel
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
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To Westerners, the name Timbuktu long conjured a tantalizing paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late 18th century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for "discovery" tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city. But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to attack, the climate, and disease. Timbuktu was rich in another way, too. A medieval center of learning, it was home to tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts.
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Notes are a waste of time
- By drewdpeabody on 12-31-17
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The Storied City
- The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
- Narrated by: Enn Reitel
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 05-02-17
- Language: English
- To Westerners, the name "Timbuktu" long conjured a tantalizing paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold....
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Swadeshi Steam
- V.O. Chidambaram Pillai and the Battle Against the British Maritime Empire
- By: A.R. Venkatachalapathy
- Narrated by: Jeremy Francis
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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In 1906, Britain's grip on the world was unassailable. Its navy ruled the seas, and its trade empire spanned the globe. But in the small port town of Tuticorin, a lawyer named V.O. Chidambaram Pillai—known to the world as VOC—had a revolutionary idea that would challenge the might of the empire itself. VOC's plan was audacious: to launch the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company, a venture that would compete head-on with the British India Steam Navigation Company, the shipping giant that controlled the region.
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Swadeshi Steam
- V.O. Chidambaram Pillai and the Battle Against the British Maritime Empire
- Narrated by: Jeremy Francis
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-08-24
- Language: English
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In 1906, Britain's grip on the world was unassailable. Its navy ruled the seas, and its trade empire spanned the globe. But in the small port town of Tuticorin, a lawyer named V.O. Chidambaram Pillai—known to the world as VOC—had an idea that would challenge the might of the empire itself.
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Blood, Fire and Gold
- The Story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
- By: Estelle Paranque
- Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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In 16th-century Europe, two women came to hold all the power, against all the odds. They were Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici. One a Virgin Queen who ruled her kingdom alone, and the other a clandestine leader who used her children to shape the dynasties of Europe, much has been written about these iconic women. But nothing has been said of their complicated relationship: 30 years of friendship, competition and conflict that changed the face of Europe.
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Blood, Fire and Gold
- The Story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
- Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-30-22
- Language: English
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In 16th-century Europe, two women came to hold all the power, against all the odds. They were Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici....
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Captain Cook
- The Legendary Seafarer, Navigator, and Explorer
- By: Leo Lexicon
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
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Embark on an extraordinary journey of discovery with "Captain Cook: The Legendary Seafarer, Navigator, and Explorer”, a captivating and informative account of the life and voyages of one of history's most remarkable figures. This book brings to life the story of Captain James Cook, whose unparalleled navigational skills, scientific curiosity, and intrepid spirit led him to chart the uncharted waters of the Pacific Ocean and explore the farthest reaches of the globe. Even though Captain Cook died in tragic circumstances at the age of 50, he is remembered today for some astonishing ...
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Captain Cook
- The Legendary Seafarer, Navigator, and Explorer
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-23-24
- Language: English
- Embark on an extraordinary journey of discovery with "Captain Cook: The Legendary Seafarer, Navigator, and Explorer”, a captivating and ...
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The Grand Tour
- Letters from the British Empire Expedition 1922
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a 10-month voyage around the British Empire with her husband as part of a trade mission to promote the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition. Leaving her two-year-old daughter behind with her sister, Agatha set sail at the end of January and did not return until December, but she kept up a detailed weekly correspondence with her mother, describing in detail the exotic places and people she encountered as the mission travelled through South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and Canada.
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The Grand Tour
- Letters from the British Empire Expedition 1922
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-23-22
- Language: English
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Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie’s extensive and evocative letters from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition....
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