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- De: Thucydides
- Narrado por: Mike Rogers
- Duración: 22 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
The rivalry between two of the dominant city states of Ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta, erupted into a war lasting nearly 30 years and was to have a dramatic effect on the balance of power in the area. Between 431 and 404 BCE, the two cities battled it out on land and sea, aided by their alliances with neighbouring states: Athens’ Delian League vigorously opposed Sparta’s Peloponnesian League in a conflict which effectively involved the whole region.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Full frontal of war, politics, diplomacy, destruction, plunder
- De Jeff Lacy en 05-27-20
De: Thucydides
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Scipio Africanus
- Greater Than Napoleon
- De: B.H. Liddell Hart
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 6 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 606
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 540
Scipio Africanus (236-183 BC) was one of the most exciting and dynamic leaders in history. As commander, he never lost a battle. Yet it is his adversary, Hannibal, who has lived on in public memory. As B. H. Liddell Hart writes, "Scipio's battles are richer in stratagems and ruses - many still feasible today - than those of any other commander in history." Any military enthusiast or historian will find this to be an absorbing, gripping portrait.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent performance of a tough script.
- De A. Johnson en 12-23-19
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The Age of Caesar
- Five Roman Lives
- De: Plutarch, James Romm - preface and notes, Pamela Mensch - translator
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives still haunt us as examples of how the hunger for personal power can overwhelm collective politics, how the exaltation of the military can corrode civilian authority, and how the best intentions can lead to disastrous consequences. Plutarch renders these history-making lives as flesh-and-blood characters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Terrific
- De Michael en 06-13-23
De: Plutarch, y otros
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Our First Civil War
- Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Steve Hendrickson
- Duración: 16 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 163
What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station or success, to defend that country against the rebels? That is the question H. W. Brands answers in his powerful new history of the American Revolution.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not a fresh take on the Revolution
- De James en 01-05-22
De: H. W. Brands
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A History of the Roman Republic
- De: Cyril Edward Robinson
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 19 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
The story of the Roman Republic is the greatest epic in human history. Seen in the long perspective of time, it seems too fantastic to be real. From her modest beginnings as a convenient fording place on the Tiber to her eventual destiny as the mistress of the Mediterranean, Rome offers a strange tale of fate, sacrifice, and indomitable willpower. The stern realities of war shaped Rome's policies from the very beginning.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent overview
- De jaime en 05-14-15
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History of the Conquest of Mexico
- De: W.H. Prescott
- Narrado por: Kerry Shale
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
In 1519, Hernando Cortés arrived in Mexico to investigate stories of a wealthy empire. What he encountered was beyond his wildest dreams; an advanced civilization with complex artistic, political, and religious systems (involving extensive human sacrifice) and replete with gold. This was the Aztec empire, headed by the aloof emperor, Montezuma.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping story
- De Roger Conner en 11-05-04
De: W.H. Prescott
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- De: William Dalrymple
- Narrado por: Sid Sagar
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 926
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 921
The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas in one small office, five windows wide, and answerable only to its distant shareholders. In his most ambitious and riveting audiobook to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent book but awkward narration
- De TexasVC en 02-25-20
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The Birth of Britain
- A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume I
- De: Sir Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,325
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 950
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 947
The English-speaking peoples comprise perhaps the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today. These people also share a common heritage. For his four-volume work, Sir Winston Churchill took as his subject these great elements in world history. Volume 1 commences in 55BC, when Julius Caesar famously "turned his gaze upon Britain" and concludes with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Birth of Britain
- De Terryl Pettengill en 02-11-07
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The Story of the Goths
- De: Henry Bradley
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 99
The Goths are the most enigmatic of all the ancient German tribes. Their name today is still widely in use for a variety of cultural and artistic movements. But unlike other famous German tribes whose names are still descriptive of nations they founded - the Franks, the Lombards, the Angles, the Saxons and the Alemanni - the Goths simply disappeared. The subject of Henry Bradley's splendid short history is tracing the rise, the migrations, and the impact of the Goths on European history along with their spectacular fall.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Book about a little understood people
- De Mark en 07-29-15
De: Henry Bradley
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The Secret History
- De: Procopius
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
The Secret History, written by the sixth-century Byzantine historian Procopius, is one of the most extraordinary and scandalous documents to have survived from the early Byzantine period. Procopius, the leading official historian of his time, lived during the testing and indulgent time of Emperor Justinian the Great and wrote the official records of the successful wars and the grand building projects of his ruler. These were words of aggrandisement. But covertly, Procopius kept a very different record....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Bit Hyperbolic
- De HalfWit en 10-13-19
De: Procopius
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Lives of the Twelve Caesars
- De: Suetonius
- Narrado por: Derek Jacobi
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Suetonius wrote his Lives of the Twelve Caesars in the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled the extraordinary careers of Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasian, and Domitian and the rest in technicolour terms. They presented some high and low times at the heart of the Roman Empire. The accounts provide us with perspicacious insights into the men as much as their reigns.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Translation doubts
- De Elizabeth en 05-20-07
De: Suetonius
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The Byzantine Empire
- De: Charles Oman
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
The Byzantine Empire survived as a self-contained political entity longer than any other in the history of Christianity. This history by Charles Oman is a catalog of good, bad, and indifferent emperors who either pushed Byzantine Civilization to new heights or savagely drove it to defeat and dissolution. It is a strange tale populated by some of the most interesting men and women who have ever lived.
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4 out of 5 stars
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adequate good book. great reader
- De Felisa Kay en 01-30-21
De: Charles Oman
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The Age of Revolution
- A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume III
- De: Sir Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 612
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 451
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 445
This is the third volume in Churchill's famous account. During the long period of 1688 to 1815, three revolutions took place, and all led to war between the British and the French.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Historical Overview of Britain
- De Lois en 01-30-12
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Jerusalem’s Traitor
- Josephus, Masada, and the Fall of Judea
- De: Desmond Seward
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
When the Jews revolted against Rome in 66 CE, Josephus, a Jerusalem aristocrat, was made a general in his nation’s army. Captured by the Romans, he saved his skin by finding favor with the emperor Vespasian. He then served as an adviser to the Roman legions, running a network of spies inside Jerusalem, in the belief that the Jews’ only hope of survival lay in surrender to Rome.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A retelling of Josephus's "The Jewish War"
- De DAG en 10-09-16
De: Desmond Seward
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The Peloponnesian War
- De: Thucydides
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 26 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 504
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 444
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 441
Historians universally agree that Thucydides was the greatest historian who has ever lived, and that his story of the Peloponnesian conflict is a marvel of forensic science and fine literature. That such a triumph of intellectual accomplishment was created at the end of the fifth century B.C. in Greece is, perhaps, not so surprising, given the number of original geniuses we find in that period. But that such an historical work would also be simultaneously acknowledged as a work of great literature and a penetrating ethical evaluation of humanity is one of the miracles of ancient history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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You better know the events before listening
- De David A. Montalvo en 05-25-16
De: Thucydides