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    • By: James Howard-Johnston
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
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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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    • The Hunt for a New Past
    • By: Paul Cartledge
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-09
    • Language: English
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    • Paul Cartledge, one of the world's foremost scholars of ancient Greece, illuminates the brief but iconic life of Alexander (356-323 B.C.), king of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire....

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    • By: Philip Freeman
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    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
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    • Alexander was born into the royal family of Macedonia, the kingdom that would soon rule over Greece. Tutored as a boy by Aristotle, Alexander had an inquisitive mind....

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    • Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi
    • By: Timothy Pauketat
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-10
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    • Professor Timothy R. Pauketat illuminates the riveting discovery of the largest pre-Columbian city on U.S. soil....

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    • Reliving the Ancient Battle and Epic Run That Inspired the World's Greatest Footrace
    • By: Dean Karnazes
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
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    • In 490 BCE Pheidippides ran for 36 hours straight from Athens to Sparta to seek help in defending Athens from a Persian invasion in the Battle of Marathon....

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    • The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
    • By: Kazuaki Tanahashi
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-14
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    • This collection contains more than 140 of Ryokan's poems, with selections of his art, and of the very funny anecdotes about him....

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    • The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
    • By: Anthony Everitt
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-12
    • Language: English
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    • Everitt fashions the story of Rome's rise to glory into an erudite book filled with lasting lessons for our time....

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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
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    • 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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    • Birthplace of the Modern Mind
    • By: Justin Pollard, Howard Reid
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-06
    • Language: English
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    • Founded by Alexander the Great and built by self-styled Greek pharaohs, the city of Alexandria at its height dwarfed both Athens and Rome....

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    • The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
    • By: Michael J. Benton
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
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    • Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. It is far less widely understood that a much greater catastrophe took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago....

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    • By: Nicholas J. Higham, Martin J. Ryan
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
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    • N. J. Higham and M. J. Ryan reexamine Anglo-Saxon England in the light of new research in disciplines as wide ranging as historical genetics, paleobotany, archaeology, literary studies, art history, and numismatics....

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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: 04-24-19
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    • 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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    • 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: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • A New History
    • By: Neil Oliver
    • Narrated by: James A. Gillies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
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    • 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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