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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 42 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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    • 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 14 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 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 Gallic War

    • By: Julius Caesar
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 17-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • Julius Caesar is one of the most famous figures of the ancient Roman world. A skillful general and leading politician of the late Roman Republic, he secured a 10-year proconsular command in the province of Gaul, during which he accumulated both wealth and power....

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  • Hannibal: The Military Genius Who Almost Conquered Rome cover art

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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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    • 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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    • At the Gates of Rome

    • The Fall of the Eternal City, AD 410
    • By: Don Hollway
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • From Don Hollway, author of The Last Viking, comes a dramatic retelling of the story of the final years of the Western Roman Empire and the downfall of Rome itself from the perspective of the Roman general Stilicho and Alaric, king of the Visigoths....

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

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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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    • 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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    • The End of Everything

    • How Wars Descend into Annihilation
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 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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    • 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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    • Emperor of the Seas

    • Kublai Khan and the Making of China
    • By: Jack Weatherford
    • Narrated by: Mark Elstob
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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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    • The Jugurthine War & The Conspiracy of Cataline

    • By: Sallust, Cicero
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 24-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • A bloody revolt by a North African prince and a plot to seize control of Rome are the subjects of two short masterpieces of ancient history by the illustrious Roman chronicler, Sallust....

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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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    • By the Spear

    • Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire
    • By: Ian Worthington
    • Narrated by: Phil Holland
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • By the Spear offers an exhilarating military narrative of the reigns of these two larger-than-life figures in one volume....

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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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    • 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 12 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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    • 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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