Ancient Europe

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    • By: Barry Cunliffe
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
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    • This fully updated edition of Barry Cunliffe's classic study of the ancient Celtic world presents new finds, new ways of using DNA records to understand Celtic origins, and new ideas about the proto-urban nature of early chieftains' strongholds....

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    • The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
    • By: Anthony Everitt
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 618 ratings
    • Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens celebrates the city-state that transformed the world....

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    • Nomad Warriors of the Steppe
    • By: Barry Cunliffe
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • The Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC....

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    • 24 Hours in Ancient History Series, Book 1
    • By: Philip Matyszak
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • In this entertaining and enlightening guide, best-selling historian Philip Matyszak introduces us to the people who lived and worked there. In each hour of the day we meet a new character and discover the fascinating details of their daily lives....

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    • The Rise and Fall of An Empire
    • By: Simon Baker
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 263 ratings
    • This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points....

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    • By: Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has drawn enthusiastic praise for his books, which are sharply-focused studies as well as glorious celebrations of their subjects....

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    • By: Norman F. Cantor
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • In this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages—with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies—was born in the 20th century.....

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    • The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: James A. Gillies
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 503 ratings
    • At the approach of the first millennium, the Christians of Europe did not seem likely candidates for future greatness. In The Forge of Christendom, Tom Holland masterfully describes this remarkable new age....

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    • Life of a Colossus
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,921 ratings
    • In this landmark biography, Goldsworthy examines Caesar as a military leader, as well as his other roles, and places....

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    • How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
    • By: Jim Al-Khalili
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 351 ratings
    • The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance....

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    • Greater Than Napoleon
    • By: B.H. Liddell Hart
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 638 ratings
    • From one of the most brilliant military historians of our time, this is the classic biography of Rome's greatest general and the victor over Rome's greatest enemy, Hannibal....

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    • A New History of Islamic Spain
    • By: Brian A. Catlos
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Kingdoms of Faith is a magisterial, myth-dispelling history of Islamic Spain spanning the millennium between the founding of Islam in the seventh century and the final expulsion of Spain's Muslims in the 17th....

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    • A New History
    • By: Neil Oliver
    • Narrated by: James A. Gillies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 433 ratings
    • Drawing on the latest discoveries that have only recently come to light, Scottish archaeologist Neil Oliver goes on the trail of the real Vikings....

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    • A History of Ancient Rome
    • By: Mary Beard
    • Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
    • Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,891 ratings
    • Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even 2,000 years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power....

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    • Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
    • By: Chris Wickham
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Series: Penguin History of Europe Series, Book 2
    • Length: 32 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 336 ratings
    • Historian Chris Wickham defies the conventional view of the Dark Ages in European history with a work of remarkable scope and rigorous yet accessible scholarship. The Inheritance of Rome presents a fresh understanding of the crucible in which Europe would ultimately be created....

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    • The True Story of the Greatest Theft in History
    • By: Theodore Vrettos
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • This story of the Elgin marbles re-creates in full detail "the greatest art theft in history"....

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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: 10-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 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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    • War, Peace, and Conquest in the Roman World
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 481 ratings
    • Best-selling author Adrian Goldsworthy turns his attention to the Pax Romana, the famous peace and prosperity brought by the Roman Empire at its height in the first and second centuries AD....

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