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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. On the night of 26 September 1983, a Soviet officer watched his screen report five American missiles heading for Moscow. He had minutes to decide. You have probably never heard his name, and that is exactly the point. History is usually told through...

In 1739 Jonathan Edwards preached a series of thirty sermons in his church at Northampton, Massachusettssermons based on one scriptural passage, Isaiah 51:8. This is a book (based on those sermons) that everyone ought to read and make for a permanent place on their virtual bookshelf.. This book...

What if weve been lied to about the origins of the opioid epidemic? The modern opioid crisis did not begin with OxyContin, or even with the heroin epidemics of the twentieth century. Its roots reach back to the Age of Discovery, when European merchants broke into the largest consumer market the...

Six months. One ocean. The fate of the free world hanging on a knife's edge. Get the complete story of the Pacific War's most decisive chapter two gripping histories, one essential collection, for a fraction of the cost of buying them separately. Pearl Harbor plunges you into the smoke and chaos...

Bloomsbury presents The Pirate World by Angus Konstam, read by David Monteath Highly illustrated with colour images and specially commissioned maps throughout, this is a unique exploration of the pirate world. Often romanticised in print and on the silver screen, real-life pirates were a brutal...

Bloomsbury presents The Canary Keeper by Clare Carson, read by Sarah Cullum. 'Historical fiction at its very best' ELLY GRIFFITHS. A Times Historical Fiction Book of the Month. They will see me hang for this. London, 1855. In the grey mist of the early morning a body is dumped on the shore of...

A sweeping, resonant, revelatory history of how the expropriation of property made the modern world, by a brilliant young historian Expropriation – the forced transfer of property rights – is usually associated with dictators, unstable countries, and violent revolution. But in fact, it has...

Bloomsbury presents Progress Vs Parasites by Douglas Carsewell, read by Russell Bentley . The change in our ancestors' behaviour was barely perceptible at first. Only a few clues in the archaeological record – sea shells, ochre and stone tools exchanged over long distances – hint at what was...

Friendship is timeless, as Frog and Toad prove in this parody that invites readers to follow along and laugh as these classic characters are reimagined throughout world history from the author of Frog and Toad Are Doing Their Best. With tender-hearted humor, author Jennie Egerdie transports us...

What happens when distant civilizations begin to exchange more than goods? The Silk Road offers a remarkable answer. For centuries, an extensive network of land and maritime routes connected communities across Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and parts of Europe and Africa. Merchants...

For thousands of years, humanity has searched for ways to reduce labor, improve efficiency, and build systems capable of performing work automatically. The History of Automation explores the remarkable journey of automationfrom the earliest mechanical inventions of ancient civilizations to the...