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  • Hard Stop cover art

    • Hard Stop

    • A Life of Violence, Crime and Deception
    • By: Jack Dawe
    • Narrated by: Alan Irving
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings

    • Jack Dawe is an unconventional street cop. His ability to not act or look like a "Copper" enabled him to infiltrate the drug networks of the UK. This no-holds-barred explosive account of undercover policing takes the listener through a journey of crime, violence, and deception....

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    • The Wall

    • Rome's Greatest Frontier
    • By: Alistair Moffat
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Hadrian's Wall is the largest and one of the most enigmatic historical monuments in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running seventy-three miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least twenty-six miles down the Cumbrian coast....

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    • Sparta

    • Rise of a Warrior Nation
    • By: Philip Matyszak
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 21-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 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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  • Hannibal: The Military Genius Who Almost Conquered Rome cover art

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    • Greece Against Rome

    • The Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 250-31 BC
    • By: Philip Matyszak
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 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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  • The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece cover art

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    • Hannibal

    • Rome’s Greatest Enemy
    • By: Philip Freeman
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 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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    • Trajan

    • Rome's Last Conqueror
    • By: Nicholas Jackson
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 22-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 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 Last Great War of Antiquity

    • By: James Howard-Johnston
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • 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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    • Mortal Republic

    • How Rome Fell into Tyranny
    • By: Edward J. Watts
    • Narrated by: Matt Kugler
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. Listen to learn more....

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    • Mastering the West

    • Rome and Carthage at War
    • By: Dexter Hoyos
    • Narrated by: Tom McElroy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Mastering the West offers a thoroughly engrossing narrative of this century of battle in the western Mediterranean, while treating a full range of themes....

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    • Killing for the Republic

    • Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War
    • By: Steele Brand
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • The year 146 BC marked the brutal end to the Roman Republic's 118-year struggle for the western Mediterranean. Breaching the walls of their great enemy, Carthage, Roman troops slaughtered countless citizens, enslaved those who survived, and leveled the 700-year-old city....

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    • Seven Against Thebes

    • The Quest of the Original Magnificent Seven
    • By: Stephen Dando-Collins
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • In the thirteenth century BC, a quarter of a century before the Trojan War, seven Greek warrior heroes went against the Greek city of Thebes to restore one of their number to the throne of his father, the famous King Oedipus....

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    • The Greek Histories

    • The Sweeping History of Ancient Greece as Told by Its First Chroniclers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch
    • By: Mary Lefkowitz, James Romm
    • Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
    • Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • The leading scholars behind The Greek Plays present a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its first chroniclers....

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    • Praetorian

    • 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: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 58 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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    • King Arthur’s Wars

    • The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of England
    • By: Jim Storr
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • We speak English today because the Anglo-Saxons took over most of post-Roman Britain. How did that happen? There is little evidence: not much archaeology, and even less written history....

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    • Agricola and Germania

    • By: Tacitus
    • Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
    • Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Two works by the Roman historian, Tacitus. Agricola is a portrait of Julius Agricola, a governor of Roman Britain, and the German tribes of Northern Europe are discussed in Germania....

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    • Scipio Africanus

    • Greater than Napoleon
    • By: B.H. Liddell Hart
    • Narrated by: John Clickman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • "Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon" throws down a historical gauntlet. Author B.H. Liddell Hart argues that Roman general Scipio, famed for defeating Hannibal, outshines even the mighty Napoleon. Published in 1927, the book dives deep into their strategies, campaigns, and leadership styles.

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  • In Our Time: 25 Landmarks in Military History cover art

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    • The Spartans

    • By: Andrew J. Bayliss
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 31-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. Even in antiquity, Sparta was a unique society, considered an enigma. The Spartans' often bizarre rules and practices have the capacity to horrify as much they do to fascinate us today....

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