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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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    • The Punic Wars 265-146BC
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
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    • An epic of war and battle, this is also the story of famous generals and leaders: Hannibal, Fabius Maximus, Scipio Africanus, and his grandson Scipio Aemilianus, who would finally bring down the walls of Carthage....

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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
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    • 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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    • By: Donald Kagan
    • Narrated by: Bill Wallace
    • Length: 19 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-30-10
    • Language: English
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    • For almost three decades at the end of the fifth century BC the ancient world was torn apart in a conflict that was, within its historical context, as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the great world wars of the 20th century.....

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    • How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
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    • Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the 21st century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date....

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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
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    • 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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    • Six Months That Changed the World
    • By: Margaret MacMillan
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 25 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-05
    • Language: English
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    • Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, renowned historian Margaret MacMillan's best-selling Paris 1919 is the story of six remarkable months that changed the world....

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    • By: Zoë Oldenbourg
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 27 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • With subtlety and exceptional sensitivity, historian Zoë Oldenbourg analyzes the complicated tangle of currents and ideas that motivated the Crusades....

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    • By: Philip Freeman
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
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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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    • 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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    • How the Mayans and Aztecs Ruled for More Than a Thousand Years
    • By: Peter G. Tsouras
    • Narrated by: Paul Christy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-14
    • Language: English
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    • Learn the unbelievable true history of the great warrior tribes of Mexico....

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    • By: Philip Freeman
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
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    • More than 2,000 years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. He shaped Rome for generations, and his name became a synonym for "emperor" - not only in Rome but as far away as Germany and Russia....

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    • By: Steven Pressfield
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
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    • From an acclaimed master of historical fiction comes an epic saga about a reluctant hero, the Roman Empire, and the rise of a new power....

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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
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    • 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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    • The Men Who Won the Roman Empire
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-16
    • Language: English
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    • Each chapter paints a fascinating portrait of a single general, offering in-depth insight into his leadership skills and victories as well as each one's pioneering strategies....

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    • The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 446-418 BC
    • By: Paul A. Rahe
    • Narrated by: Paul A. Rahe
    • Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
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    • The latest volume in Paul Rahe’s expansive history of Sparta’s response to the challenges posed to its grand strategy....

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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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    • Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam
    • By: Peter Crawford
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
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    • The War of the Three Gods is a military history of the Near and Middle East in the seventh century....

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