Bestsellers
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A Distant Mirror
- The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
- De: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 28 h y 38 m
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The 14th century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry; and on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague....
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And you thought the twentieth century was rough...
- De Rob en 03-23-06
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- De: Jack Weatherford
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- De Cynthia en 12-11-13
De: Jack Weatherford
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The Plantagenets
- The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
- De: Dan Jones
- Narrado por: Dan Jones
- Duración: 21 h y 43 m
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The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic history, Dan Jones vividly resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world....
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Old book--new narrator
- De Kay Long/The Lady Kay en 02-02-24
De: Dan Jones
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Powers and Thrones
- A New History of the Middle Ages
- De: Dan Jones
- Narrado por: Dan Jones
- Duración: 24 h y 25 m
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When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era—and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation....
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Hard to take a break from it!
- De Mariano's Music en 12-09-21
De: Dan Jones
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The Burgundians
- A Vanished Empire: A History of 1111 Years and One Day
- De: Bart van Loo, Nancy Forest-Flier - translator
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 21 h y 12 m
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This is the story of a thousand years, a must-listen narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury, and madness....
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Extraordinary story, expertly told and skillfully narrated
- De Daniel Vergara en 03-01-24
De: Bart van Loo, y otros
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
- A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
- De: Ian Mortimer
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? And what are you going to eat....
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Detailed, Interesting and Entertaining
- De Marc-Andr? en 05-13-10
De: Ian Mortimer
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A Distant Mirror
- The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
- De: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrado por: Wanda McCaddon
- Duración: 28 h y 38 m
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The 14th century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry; and on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague....
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And you thought the twentieth century was rough...
- De Rob en 03-23-06
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- De: Jack Weatherford
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- De Cynthia en 12-11-13
De: Jack Weatherford
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The Plantagenets
- The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
- De: Dan Jones
- Narrado por: Dan Jones
- Duración: 21 h y 43 m
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The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic history, Dan Jones vividly resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world....
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Old book--new narrator
- De Kay Long/The Lady Kay en 02-02-24
De: Dan Jones
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Powers and Thrones
- A New History of the Middle Ages
- De: Dan Jones
- Narrado por: Dan Jones
- Duración: 24 h y 25 m
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When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era—and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation....
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Hard to take a break from it!
- De Mariano's Music en 12-09-21
De: Dan Jones
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The Burgundians
- A Vanished Empire: A History of 1111 Years and One Day
- De: Bart van Loo, Nancy Forest-Flier - translator
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 21 h y 12 m
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This is the story of a thousand years, a must-listen narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury, and madness....
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Extraordinary story, expertly told and skillfully narrated
- De Daniel Vergara en 03-01-24
De: Bart van Loo, y otros
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
- A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
- De: Ian Mortimer
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? And what are you going to eat....
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Detailed, Interesting and Entertaining
- De Marc-Andr? en 05-13-10
De: Ian Mortimer
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The Middle Kingdoms
- A New History of Central Europe
- De: Martyn Rady
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 22 h y 56 m
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Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady offers the definitive history of the region....
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Marred by the errors in the modern section
- De Paul Boothroyd en 10-20-23
De: Martyn Rady
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Medieval Horizons
- Why the Middle Ages Matter
- De: Ian Mortimer
- Narrado por: Ian Mortimer
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward, and unchanging time characterized by violence, ignorance, and superstition. We couldn't be more wrong.
De: Ian Mortimer
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The Once and Future Sex
- Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
- De: Eleanor Janega
- Narrado por: Samara Naeymi
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior....
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Get a Rosalie Gilbert book instead
- De Jennifer Martin en 07-11-23
De: Eleanor Janega
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In the Shadow of the Sword
- The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
- De: Tom Holland
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 18 h y 11 m
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Tom Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion in a matter of decades, overcoming seemingly insuperable odds....
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Misleading title
- De Edd Huetteman en 04-08-16
De: Tom Holland
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Crusaders
- The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
- De: Dan Jones
- Narrado por: Dan Jones
- Duración: 16 h y 7 m
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A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Templars....
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Gripping but not tidy
- De Tad Davis en 01-06-20
De: Dan Jones
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The Women of the Cousins' War
- The Duchess, the Queen and the King's Mother
- De: Philippa Gregory, David Baldwin, Michael Jones
- Narrado por: Bianca Amato
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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In this unique illustrated presentation, Gregory and her fellow historians describe the extraordinary lives of the heroines of her Cousins’ War books....
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Great book
- De Stacey Wallace en 11-14-11
De: Philippa Gregory, y otros
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The Dark Queens
- The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
- De: Shelley Puhak
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded immense power, only to be vilified for daring to rule....
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Fascinating & Long Overdue
- De Mary E Birdsong en 10-22-22
De: Shelley Puhak
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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
- The World Through Medieval Eyes
- De: Anthony Bale
- Narrado por: Esh Alladi
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Using previously untranslated contemporaneous documents from a colorful range of travelers, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a witty and unforgettable exploration of how Europeans understood—and often misunderstood—the larger world.
De: Anthony Bale
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A Brief History of the Samurai
- Brief Histories
- De: Jonathan Clements
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior....
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An Excellent History of the Samurai
- De Michael en 08-08-14
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Magna Carta
- The Birth of Liberty
- De: Dan Jones
- Narrado por: Dan Jones
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles - even its language - can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was this strange document and how did it gain such legendary status? Listen to find out more....
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Complicated period of history made accessible
- De NH en 12-09-15
De: Dan Jones
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1453
- The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
- De: Roger Crowley
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's listenable and comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmed II....
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A well written narrative with bizarre and biased commentary
- De Patrick D. Flynn en 08-17-17
De: Roger Crowley
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The Inheritance of Rome
- Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
- De: Chris Wickham
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 32 h y 6 m
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Historian Chris Wickham defies the conventional view of the Dark Ages in European history with a work of remarkable scope and rigorous yet accessible scholarship. The Inheritance of Rome presents a fresh understanding of the crucible in which Europe would ultimately be created....
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Excellent Intro to An Obscure Period
- De Earth Lover en 07-30-18
De: Chris Wickham
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The Great Mortality
- An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
- De: John Kelly
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern....
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Endless Speculation and Contradiction
- De Greg en 04-20-24
De: John Kelly
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Christendom
- The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300
- De: Peter Heather
- Narrado por: Peter Heather
- Duración: 23 h y 48 m
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As Peter Heather shows in this compelling new history, there was nothing inevitable about Christendom's rise to Europe-wide dominance....
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Comparative perspective
- De Ricardo Raùl Salazar-Rey en 07-09-23
De: Peter Heather
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Summer of Blood
- England's First Revolution
- De: Dan Jones
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Crusaders and a top authority on the historical events that inspired Game of Thrones comes a vivid, blood-soaked account of one of the most famous rebellions in history....
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Cheated out of SUMMER OF BLOOD
- De Thomas Goldsmith en 11-05-21
De: Dan Jones
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The Norman Conquest
- The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
- De: Marc Morris
- Narrado por: Frazer Douglas
- Duración: 18 h y 10 m
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A riveting and authoritative history of the single most important event in English history: The Norman Conquest....
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A Balanced, Entertaining, and Informative History
- De Jefferson en 06-01-14
De: Marc Morris
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In Search of the Dark Ages
- De: Michael Wood
- Narrado por: Marston York
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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In Search of the Dark Ages is an unrivalled exploration of the origins of English identity, and the best-selling book that established Michael Wood as one of Britain's leading historians....
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Brilliant!
- De Dee Goulet en 08-31-22
De: Michael Wood
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Sex in the Middle Ages
- De: Jennifer McNabb, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Jennifer McNabb
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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Professor Jennifer McNabb and a panel of experts in medieval history and literature will take you back to the period between the fall of Rome and the rise of the Renaissance to explore the ideals and realities of sex and sexuality....
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Confusing
- De Anonymous User en 03-23-24
De: Jennifer McNabb, y otros
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In God's Path
- The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
- De: Robert G. Hoyland
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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In just over a hundred years - from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750 - the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East....
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Islamic conquest history from the outside
- De SAMA en 01-22-15
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Agincourt
- Battle of the Scarred King
- De: Dr Michael Livingston, Bernard Cornwell - foreword
- Narrado por: Rupert Farley
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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Agincourt is one of the most famous battles in English history, a defining part of the national myth. This groundbreaking study by Mike Livingston, author of Never Greater Slaughter, presents a new interpretation of Henry V's great victory....
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This is the Best history of Agincourt
- De Sean en 05-18-24
De: Dr Michael Livingston, y otros
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens
- How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
- De: Jack Weatherford
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the greatest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring”....
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Mongol Queens
- De Jean en 10-02-10
De: Jack Weatherford
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Dangerous Mystic
- Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within
- De: Joel F. Harrington
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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Life and times of the 14th-century German spiritual leader Meister Eckhart, whose theory of a personal path to the divine-inspired thinkers from Jean Paul Sartre to Thomas Merton, and most recently, Eckhart Tolle....
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Meister Ekhart foisting his sexuality....
- De Kindle Customer en 08-08-19
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Ravenna
- Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
- De: Judith Herrin
- Narrado por: Phyllida Nash
- Duración: 19 h y 3 m
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This riveting audiobook narrated by Phyllida Nash traces the history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire....
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Worthy book, stingy production.
- De Stephen Chakwin en 12-13-20
De: Judith Herrin
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Europe Between the Oceans
- 9000 BC-AD 1000
- De: Barry Cunliffe
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 18 h y 48 m
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Distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe entirely reorients our understanding of Europe from 10,000 BC to the time of the Vikings....
De: Barry Cunliffe