Ancient Military

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    • Dynasty, Revolution and Transformation: From the Middle Kingdom to the People's Republic
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • A Brief History of China tells of the development of a rich, complex civilization where the use of paper, writing, money, and gunpowder were widespread in ancient times and where silk, ceramics, tea, metal implements, and other products were produced and exported around the globe....

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    • Rome's Last Conqueror
    • By: Nicholas Jackson
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 22-11-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • Aelfraed, Book 1
    • By: Griff Hosker
    • Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
    • Series: Aelfraed, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Set in the years before the Battle of Hastings, the story follows the trials and tribulations of Aelfraed, a young boy who aspires to be a warrior. When his uncle, Aethelward, takes him to join the warriors of Harold Godwinson, his life is irrevocably changed....

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    • Two of the Greatest Stories Ever Told
    • By: Gillian Cross
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 24-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Multi-award-winning author Gillian Cross makes two of the greatest stories in the world come alive for children in her strong, clear, deceptively simple retellings, which are faithful to the spirit and structure of Homer’s epic poems....

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    • The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of England
    • By: Jim Storr
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • We speak English today because the Anglo-Saxons took over most of post-Roman Britain. How did that happen? There is little evidence: not much archaeology, and even less written history....

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    • The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
    • By: James S. Romm
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 21-01-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • James Romm, professor of classics at Bard College, brings to life the cutthroat competition and the struggle for control of the Greek world's greatest empire....

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    • How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the 21st century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date....

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    • By: Andrew J. Bayliss
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 31-07-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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    • Joe Hawke Series, Book 1
    • By: Rob Jones
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Series: Joe Hawke Series, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-2017
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • What is the oldest, darkest secret in the world? The discovery of an ancient Greek text that could be the final piece of a mysterious puzzle older than time itself....

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    • An Empire's Story
    • By: Greg Woolf
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Historian Greg Woolf expertly recounts how the mammoth Roman empire was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects....

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    • By: James Howard-Johnston
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of leadership with his usual depth and vivid prose in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals....

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    • Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
    • By: Adrienne Mayor
    • Narrated by: Fran Tunno
    • Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Driven by a detective's curiosity, Mayor unearths long-buried evidence and sifts fact from fiction to show how flesh-and-blood women of the Eurasian steppes were mythologized as Amazons, the equals of men....

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    • By: Homer, Allen Mandelbaum - translator
    • Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 24-11-2009
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Homer's masterpiece tells the story of Odysseus, the ideal Greek hero, as he travels home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, a journey of 10 years and countless thrilling adventures....

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    • A History of the Art of War among the Carthaginians and Romans Down to the Battle of Pydna, 168 BC, with a Detailed Account of the Second Punic War
    • By: Theodore Ayrault Dodge
    • Narrated by: Bill Wallace
    • Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Hannibal is often considered the finest general the world has ever known....

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    • The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250-31 BC
    • By: Philip Matyszak
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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    • How the Mayans and Aztecs Ruled for More Than a Thousand Years
    • By: Peter G. Tsouras
    • Narrated by: Paul Christy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Learn the unbelievable true history of the great warrior tribes of Mexico....

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    • Rise of a Warrior Nation
    • By: Philip Matyszak
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 21-12-2021
    • Language: English
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    • The Spartans of ancient Greece are typically portrayed as macho heroes: noble, laconic, totally fearless, and impervious to pain. And indeed, they often lived up to this image. But life was not as simple as this image suggests. In truth, ancient Sparta was a city of contrasts....

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    • Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War
    • By: Steele Brand
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The year 146 BC marked the brutal end to the Roman Republic's 118-year struggle for the western Mediterranean. Breaching the walls of their great enemy, Carthage, Roman troops slaughtered countless citizens, enslaved those who survived, and leveled the 700-year-old city....

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