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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

Time Traveller's Guides #1

Ian Mortimer

11 hours, 46 minutes • audio • 2008

1.75somaquest's review
nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

17 hours, 17 minutes • audio • 2024

4.0somaquest's review
nonfiction history politics informative tense medium-paced
Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina by Bernard B. Fall

Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina

Bernard B. Fall

13 hours, 10 minutes • audio • 1961

2.5somaquest's review
nonfiction history informative slow-paced
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency by Annie Jacobsen

The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

Annie Jacobsen

18 hours, 22 minutes • audio • 2015

4.5somaquest's review
nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

11 hours, 20 minutes • audio • 2024

5.0somaquest's review
nonfiction history politics technology dark informative tense fast-paced
Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm

Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women

Sarah Helm

32 hours, 39 minutes • audio • 2015 user-added

4.0somaquest's review
nonfiction history dark informative sad medium-paced
The Jungle by Emily Russell, Peter Kuper, Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

Emily Russell, Peter Kuper, Upton Sinclair

13 hours, 17 minutes • audio • 1905

2.75somaquest's review
fiction classics literary dark emotional sad slow-paced
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Christopher R. Browning

10 hours • audio • 1992

4.5somaquest's review
nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich by Robert Gerwarth

Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich

Robert Gerwarth

16 hours, 10 minutes • audio • 2011

4.25somaquest's review
nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point by Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky

Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky

8 hours, 49 minutes • audio • 2023

3.5somaquest's review
nonfiction politics informative medium-paced