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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- By: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time....
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Scipio Africanus
- Greater than Napoleon
- By: B.H. Liddell Hart
- Narrated by: John Clickman
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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"Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon" throws down a historical gauntlet. Author B.H. Liddell Hart argues that Roman general Scipio, famed for defeating Hannibal, outshines even the mighty Napoleon. Published in 1927, the book dives deep into their strategies, campaigns, and leadership styles.
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The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
- By: Ralph D. Sawyer
- Narrated by: James Chen
- Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
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The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China presents us with an Eastern tradition of strategic thought....
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Praetorian
- The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard
- By: Guy de la Bédoyère
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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A riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make - or destroy - the emperors they served....
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Histories
- By: Herodotus
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 27 hrs and 28 mins
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In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus describes the growth of the Persian Empire with force, authority, and style....
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Listen to Herodotus teach you through time.
- By John Simpson on 09-12-2019
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The Gallic War
- By: Julius Caesar
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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Julius Caesar is one of the most famous figures of the ancient Roman world. A skillful general and leading politician of the late Roman Republic, he secured a 10-year proconsular command in the province of Gaul, during which he accumulated both wealth and power....
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- By: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time....
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Scipio Africanus
- Greater than Napoleon
- By: B.H. Liddell Hart
- Narrated by: John Clickman
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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"Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon" throws down a historical gauntlet. Author B.H. Liddell Hart argues that Roman general Scipio, famed for defeating Hannibal, outshines even the mighty Napoleon. Published in 1927, the book dives deep into their strategies, campaigns, and leadership styles.
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The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
- By: Ralph D. Sawyer
- Narrated by: James Chen
- Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
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The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China presents us with an Eastern tradition of strategic thought....
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Praetorian
- The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard
- By: Guy de la Bédoyère
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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A riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make - or destroy - the emperors they served....
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Histories
- By: Herodotus
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 27 hrs and 28 mins
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In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus describes the growth of the Persian Empire with force, authority, and style....
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Listen to Herodotus teach you through time.
- By John Simpson on 09-12-2019
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The Gallic War
- By: Julius Caesar
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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Julius Caesar is one of the most famous figures of the ancient Roman world. A skillful general and leading politician of the late Roman Republic, he secured a 10-year proconsular command in the province of Gaul, during which he accumulated both wealth and power....
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The Roman Emperor Aurelian
- Restorer of the World: New Revised Edition
- By: John F. White
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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Aurelian saved the Roman Empire from foreign invasion and collapse, earning him the title Restorer of the World from a grateful Senate. This is his story as restorer of the world....
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Sparta
- A History from Beginning to End (Ancient Civilizations)
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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Many of the city-states of Ancient Greece gave the world a legacy rich in art, literature, poetry, philosophy, and science. But one such state distinguished itself by embracing something very different.
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The Spartans
- By: Andrew J. Bayliss
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. Even in antiquity, Sparta was a unique society, considered an enigma. The Spartans' often bizarre rules and practices have the capacity to horrify as much they do to fascinate us today....
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Alexander the Great
- By: Arrian
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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This is the incredible story of the world's greatest conqueror, a man who single handedly changed the course of history....
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Historic book, good but difficult to follow
- By Anonymous User on 06-04-2020
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The Complete Works of Tacitus: Volume 1: The Annals, Part 1
- By: Cornelius Tacitus
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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In the pantheon of ancient men of letters, none hold a more venerated position than the Roman historian, Tacitus....
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Trajan
- Rome's Last Conqueror
- By: Nicholas Jackson
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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Until the publication of this captivating biography, no such volume on Trajan's life has been tailored to the general listener. The unique book illuminates a neglected period of ancient Roman history....
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The Wall
- Rome's Greatest Frontier
- By: Alistair Moffat
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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Hadrian's Wall is the largest and one of the most enigmatic historical monuments in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running seventy-three miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least twenty-six miles down the Cumbrian coast....
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History of the wall
- By Deirdre E Siegel on 23-08-2023
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By the Spear
- Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire
- By: Ian Worthington
- Narrated by: Phil Holland
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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By the Spear offers an exhilarating military narrative of the reigns of these two larger-than-life figures in one volume....
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Listen to sample first dreadful Narrator
- By Anu on 05-06-2021
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The Jugurthine War & The Conspiracy of Cataline
- By: Sallust, Cicero
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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A bloody revolt by a North African prince and a plot to seize control of Rome are the subjects of two short masterpieces of ancient history by the illustrious Roman chronicler, Sallust....
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old not always gold
- By Red Skippy on 19-02-2022
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The Gallic War
- By: Julius Caesar
- Narrated by: Laura Orlando
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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The Gallic War is Julius Caesar's autobiographical diary of the wars in what is now France, Belgium, and parts of Britain, Germany, and Switzerland, in which he describes the battles that took place from 58 to 51 BCE when he fought the Germanic and Celtic peoples....
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Hard Stop
- A Life of Violence, Crime and Deception
- By: Jack Dawe
- Narrated by: Alan Irving
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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Jack Dawe is an unconventional street cop. His ability to not act or look like a "Copper" enabled him to infiltrate the drug networks of the UK. This no-holds-barred explosive account of undercover policing takes the listener through a journey of crime, violence, and deception....
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Greece Against Rome
- The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250-31 BC
- By: Philip Matyszak
- Narrated by: Gareth Richards
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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The acclaimed ancient world historian examines the centuries-long decline of Greek powers in the face of the growing Roman threat....
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The Book of Five Rings
- By: Miyamoto Musashi
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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Shortly before his death in 1645, the undefeated swordsman Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave to live as a hermit. There he wrote five scrolls describing the "true principles" required for victory in the martial arts and on the battlefield....
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Achilles
- The Life, Legend and Legacy of Ancient Greece's Greatest Warrior
- By: Hourglass History, Benjamin Sterling
- Narrated by: Daniel Winski
- Length: 3 hrs
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Embark upon a journey into the past, reaching back through the fog of time to a period steeped in myth and legend. This is the epoch of Achilles, a man whose extraordinary life was so intertwined with the gods that his very birth was ordained by prophecy and influenced by divine beings....
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The Sacred Band
- Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom
- By: James Romm
- Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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From classicist James Romm comes a thrilling deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes - and the saga of the greatest military corps of the age, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers....
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The Greek Histories
- The Sweeping History of Ancient Greece as Told by Its First Chroniclers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch
- By: Mary Lefkowitz, James Romm
- Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
- Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins
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The leading scholars behind The Greek Plays present a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its first chroniclers....
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Caesar's Civil War
- 49–44 BC
- By: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins
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Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great were two of the greatest generals Rome had ever produced....
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Soldier of Rome: Crisis on the Danube
- The Artorian Dynasty, Book 2
- By: James Mace
- Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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Since the reign of Emperor Tiberius, an uneasy peace has existed along the Danube frontier between the various Sarmatian tribal kingdoms to the north and the Roman Empire to the south.
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The Last Great War of Antiquity
- By: James Howard-Johnston
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 20 hrs and 50 mins
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The last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early seventh century. It was ideologically charged and fought along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier, drawing in all the available resources and great powers of the steppe world....
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Theoderic the Great
- King of Goths, Ruler of Romans
- By: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, John Noel Dillon - translator
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
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In the year 493, the leader of a vast confederation of Gothic warriors, their wives, and children personally cut down Odoacer, the man famous for deposing the last Roman emperor in 476. That leader became Theoderic the Great (454-526)....
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Seven Against Thebes
- The Quest of the Original Magnificent Seven
- By: Stephen Dando-Collins
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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In the thirteenth century BC, a quarter of a century before the Trojan War, seven Greek warrior heroes went against the Greek city of Thebes to restore one of their number to the throne of his father, the famous King Oedipus....
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Pertinax
- The Son of a Slave Who Became Roman Emperor
- By: Simon Elliot
- Narrated by: Christopher Ashman
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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The son of a former slave, Pertinax was the Roman Emperor who proved that no matter how lowly your birth, you could rise to the very top through hard work, grit and determination....
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The Complete Works of Tacitus: Volume 2: The Annals, Part 2
- By: Cornelius Tacitus
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Tacitus is most famous for his amazing descriptions of the reign of Nero, one of the most ruthless and sadistic monarchs of all time....
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Rome
- Strategy of Empire
- By: James Lacey
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
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James Lacey provides a comprehensive, persuasive, and engaging account of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire....