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Liberators, activists, rebels, prophets, explorers, and trailblazers—discover the stories
and legacies of remarkable men and women who made a difference in the world.

As a boy, severely disabled after contracting polio as a baby in working class Liverpool, Bert Massie found himself wondering why disabled people were expected to adapt to the world around them, not the other way round. In his teens, he began to campaign for rights for disabled people....

Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites. Admired and detested, he was the force behind the Dayton Accords that ended the Balkan wars, America's greatest diplomatic achievement in the post-Cold War era....

Ferdinand Magellan was unquestionably one of the more remarkable figures of the Age of Exploration....

It would have no doubt greatly surprised Revere if he had known he would become an American legend for his midnight ride....

This audiobook is a collection of recordings by three famous polar explorers, Frederick Albert Cook, Robert Edwin Peary, Sr., and Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton...

Five famous English historical figures, five controversial characters of almost legendary proportions, that have to be well-known and understood...

A groundbreaking narrative - a historical political thriller - that explores the role of the Sons of Liberty in the American Revolution....