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    Vienna 1770: Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils an amazing invention, The Mechanical Turk, an unbeatable chess playing automaton. Hailed as the greatest innovation of the century, the chess machine is really a brilliant illusion, secretly operated from inside by the Italian dwarf Tibor. But when a beautiful and seductive countess dies mysteriously in the presence of the automaton, the machine and its inventor become the target of espionage, persecution, and intrigue. What is the dark secret behind this automaton and what strange powers does it hold? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Burnip. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000090/bk_oakh_000090_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In early 1942 the Germans opened a top-security prisoner-of-war camp. Called Stalag Luft III, it soon contained some of the most inventive escapers ever known. They were led by Squadron Leader Roger Bushell who masterminded an attempt to smugglehundreds of POWs down a tunnel built under the noses of their guards. The escape would come to be immortalised in the famous film The Great Escape, but in this book Guy Walters takes a fresh look at this remarkable event and asks what was the true story? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Burnip. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000423/bk_oakh_000423_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    On a beach in southern England a dog returns to its owner with a human hand in its mouth. The Hand belongs to Henry, the homeless eccentric who has been wandering south west England for the last 30 years. A local policeman and his colleague, in piecing together his movements prior to his death, uncover an extraordinary life. But as their investigations also shed lights on their town, the story of Henry, and those who tell it, begins to affect the policeman's own life in ways he never expected. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Burnip. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000308/bk_oakh_000308_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Two months before Adolf Hitler's rise to power, a young woman is found half naked and near death in the woods outside Berlin. The only clue to her identity is a handbill advertising a lecture by Albert Einstein. Psychiatrist Martin Kirsch little knows this will be his last case. Searching for the truth about his celebrated patient, he finds professional fascination turning to love. His investigations lead him to Einstein's youngest son, Eduard, who is writing a book that will destroy his illustrious father and, in the process, change the world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Burnip. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000315/bk_oakh_000315_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In 1945, a small-time Dutch art dealer was arrested for selling a forgery of a priceless national treasure - a painting by Vermeer - to Hitler's right-hand man. The charge was treason; the only possible sentence death. And yet Han van Meegeren languished in his dank prison cell, incapable of uttering the words that would set him free: 'I am a forger.' This riveting account of greed, hubris, excess, treason and fine art is the story of a failed artist and the greatest forger of all time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Burnip. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000161/bk_oakh_000161_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Western Front is a wasteland of barbed wire, shell craters and mud-filled trenches. Winston Churchill, searching for a solution to the stalemate, commits the Allies to a disastrous Gallipoli campaign. As men on both sides die in droves, miners and mill-workers work tirelessly for the war effort while families confront the broken bodies of returning soldiers. Nurses, soldiers, politicians, factory-workers and children - all are torn apart by war, and for husbands and sons, mothers and wives, the old way of life is vanishing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Burnip. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000729/bk_oakh_000729_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In order to hide from his unwanted fame as the spitfire pilot-monkey who emerged from a computer game to defeat the nefarious corporation that engineered him, the charismatic and dangerous Ack-Ack Macaque is working as a pilot on a world-circling nuclear-powered zeppelin. But when the cabin of one of his passengers is invaded by the passenger's own dying doppelganger, our hirsute hero finds himself thrust into another race to save the world - this time from an aggressive hive mind, time-hopping saboteurs, and an army of homicidal Neanderthal assassins! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Burnip. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027948/bk_adbl_027948_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In September 1985, 19-year-old John Lindqvist moves into a dilapidated old building in Stockholm, planning to make his living as a magician. Something strange is going on in the building's basement - and the price of entry is just a little blood.I Always Find You is a horror story - as bizarre and macabre as any of Lindqvist's best-selling novels. It's also a book about being young and lonely, about making friends and growing up. It's about magic and the intensity of human connection - and a society's communal responsibility for a devastating act of political violence. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Burnip. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000918/bk_qpuk_000918_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    It's 1952. More than a decade since humiliation at Dunkirk brought an end to Britain's war and the beginning of an uneasy peace with Hitler. In Africa, the swastika flies from the Sahara to the Indian Ocean. The brutal presence of the SS is visible everywhere. Now, however, the demonic plans of Walter Hochburg - architect of Nazi Africa - threaten Britain's ailing colonies. In England, ex-mercenary Burton Cole is offered one last contract. He jumps at the chance to settle an old score with Hochburg. If Burton fails, unimaginable horrors will be unleashed in Africa. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Burnip. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000682/bk_oakh_000682_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    1072: England is firmly under the heel of its new Norman rulers. The few survivors of the English resistance look to Edgar the Atheling to overthrow William the Conqueror. Years of intrigue and vicious civil war follow and in the face of chaos and death, Edgar and his allies form a secret brotherhood, pledging to fight for justice and freedom. But soon they are called to fight for an even greater cause: the plight of the Holy Land. Embarking on the epic First Crusade to recapture Jerusalem, together they will participate in some of the cruellest battles the world has ever known. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Burnip. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000384/bk_oakh_000384_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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