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    • War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Tom Holland
    • Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • A stunning portrait of Rome’s glory days, this is the definitive history of the Pax Romana—an ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness....

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    • How Wars Descend into Annihilation
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 388 ratings
    • 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 Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 20 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Epic in scope, tracing seven centuries of conflict between two great powers, historian Adrian Goldsworthy completely reshapes our understanding of one of the greatest rivalries of world history....

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    • By: Herodotus
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 27 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,050 ratings
    • 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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    • The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,415 ratings
    • The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves, but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history....

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    • The Age of the Great Kings
    • By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
    • Narrated by: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. In Persians, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the epic story of this dynasty and the world it ruled....

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    • King of Goths, Ruler of Romans
    • By: Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, John Noel Dillon - translator
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • 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)....

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    • Strategy of Empire
    • By: James Lacey
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • James Lacey provides a comprehensive, persuasive, and engaging account of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard
    • By: Guy de la Bédoyère
    • Narrated by: Malk Williams
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • 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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    • Kublai Khan and the Making of China
    • By: Jack Weatherford
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the sea. Yet by the time his grandson Kublai Khan had defeated the last vestiges of the Song empire and established the Yuan dynasty in 1279, the Mongols controlled the most powerful navy in the world.

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    • Rome’s Greatest Enemy
    • By: Philip Freeman
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history....

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    • By: Patrick N. Hunt
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 270 ratings
    • One of the greatest commanders of the ancient world brought vividly to life: Hannibal, the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps with his war elephants and brought Rome to its knees. Hannibal Barca of Carthage, born 247 BC, was one of the great generals of the ancient world....

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    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Award-winning historian of ancient Rome Adrian Goldsworthy presents a concise and comprehensive history of the fighting forces that created the Roman Empire....

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    • Rise of a Warrior Nation
    • By: Philip Matyszak
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 643 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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    • Rome's Last Conqueror
    • By: Nicholas Jackson
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • 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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    • The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great
    • By: Rachel Kousser
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • By 330 B.C.E., Alexander the Great had reached the pinnacle of success. Or so it seemed. He had defeated the Persian ruler Darius III and seized the capital city of Persepolis. His exhausted and traumatized soldiers were ready to return home to Macedonia.

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    • Dynasty, Revolution and Transformation: From the Middle Kingdom to the People's Republic
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • A Brief History of China tells of the development of a rich, complex civilization where the use of paper, writing, money, and gunpowder were widespread in ancient times and where silk, ceramics, tea, metal implements, and other products were produced and exported around the globe....

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