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Histories
- By: Herodotus
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 27 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Great reading
- By Nik Jewell on 13-05-18
By: Herodotus
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- By: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 15 hrs
- 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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The Gallic War
- By: Julius Caesar
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Outstanding reading of an important Classical text
- By Drosselmeyer on 18-11-23
By: Julius Caesar
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Alexander the Great
- By: Arrian
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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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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A well written and performed story!
- By Lance Johnson on 29-12-16
By: Arrian
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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
- Unabridged
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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)....
By: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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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ALL ROUND AMAZING
- By matthew giles on 17-02-23
By: Jack Dawe
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Histories
- By: Herodotus
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 27 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Great reading
- By Nik Jewell on 13-05-18
By: Herodotus
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- By: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 15 hrs
- 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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The Gallic War
- By: Julius Caesar
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Outstanding reading of an important Classical text
- By Drosselmeyer on 18-11-23
By: Julius Caesar
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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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A well written and performed story!
- By Lance Johnson on 29-12-16
By: Arrian
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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
- Unabridged
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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)....
By: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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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ALL ROUND AMAZING
- By matthew giles on 17-02-23
By: Jack Dawe
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In Our Time: 25 Landmarks in Military History
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 22 hrs and 8 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history and philosophy of warfare, from the Bronze Age to the modern era....
By: Melvyn Bragg
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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
- Unabridged
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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....
By: Philip Matyszak
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The Wall
- Rome's Greatest Frontier
- By: Alistair Moffat
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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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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terrible boring monotonous voiced narration
- By j aitken on 05-03-24
By: Alistair Moffat
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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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Excellent account of the myth
- By Dennis Caouki on 19-01-24
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The Hundred Years War
- 1337–1453
- By: Emeritus Professor Anne Curry
- Narrated by: Lucy Tregear
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Hundred Years War expert Professor Anne Curry presents an overview of the Hundred Years War, the longest-running and the most significant conflict in western Europe in the later Middle Ages....
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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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A bit disappointed
- By Mr. Mark Vincent French on 30-06-21
By: James Romm
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Sparta
- Rise of a Warrior Nation
- By: Philip Matyszak
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Brilliant
- By Lilcaesar18 on 15-01-23
By: Philip Matyszak
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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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Trajan
- Rome's Last Conqueror
- By: Nicholas Jackson
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Fascinating and accessable
- By Connor Sampson on 18-04-23
By: Nicholas Jackson
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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
- Unabridged
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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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For the Romaficionados
- By Pharmland on 03-06-23
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The Last Great War of Antiquity
- By: James Howard-Johnston
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 20 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Excellent!
- By Amazon Customer on 15-01-23
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The Spartans
- By: Andrew J. Bayliss
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Spartans
- By Diane on 15-03-24
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Agricola and Germania
- By: Tacitus
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
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Two works by the Roman historian, Tacitus. Agricola is a portrait of Julius Agricola, a governor of Roman Britain, and the German tribes of Northern Europe are discussed in Germania....
By: Tacitus
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The Gallic War
- By: Julius Caesar
- Narrated by: Laura Orlando
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
By: Julius Caesar
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At the Gates of Rome
- The Fall of the Eternal City, AD 410
- By: Don Hollway
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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From Don Hollway, author of The Last Viking, comes a dramatic retelling of the story of the final years of the Western Roman Empire and the downfall of Rome itself from the perspective of the Roman general Stilicho and Alaric, king of the Visigoths....
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A Pleasure
- By Anonymous User on 28-07-23
By: Don Hollway
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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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The Book of Five Rings
- By: Miyamoto Musashi
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
By: Miyamoto Musashi
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Mortal Republic
- How Rome Fell into Tyranny
- By: Edward J. Watts
- Narrated by: Matt Kugler
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. Listen to learn more....
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Not just a chronology but reasons
- By Mark H on 21-01-19
By: Edward J. Watts
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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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A disappointing reading
- By Francis on 10-09-06
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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
- Unabridged
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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....
By: John F. White
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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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Great book
- By Jibran Masud on 08-05-17
By: Ian Worthington
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The Principal Speeches of Demosthenes
- A Selection
- By: Demosthenes
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Demosthenes (384-322 BCE) is regarded as one of the greatest orators of Classical times. This view has persisted through the centuries even though his rousing speeches warning of the dangers of Macedonian expansion failed to stem the course of continued military success....
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Really impressive rendition of timeless speeches
- By Remmelt Ellen on 18-01-23
By: Demosthenes
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Mastering the West
- Rome and Carthage at War
- By: Dexter Hoyos
- Narrated by: Tom McElroy
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Mastering the West offers a thoroughly engrossing narrative of this century of battle in the western Mediterranean, while treating a full range of themes....
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Good book but sometimes awful pronunciation.
- By Alex on 20-05-21
By: Dexter Hoyos
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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....
By: Mary Lefkowitz, and others