The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898

Evan Thomas Read by Richard Davidson

On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in the Havana Harbor. Although there was no evidence that the Spanish were responsible, newspapers such as Hearst's New York Journal whipped up a...

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Conquest: The English Kingdom of France 1417-1450

Juliet Barker reader TBC

Author of the best-selling AGINCOURT, Juliet Barker now tells the equally remarkable, but largely forgotten, story of the dramatic years when England ruled France at the point of a sword.

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The Imperial Cruise: A True Story of Empire and War

James Bradley Read by Richard Poe

In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea...

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Titanic's Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterto and Richie Kohler

Brad Matsen Read by Henry Leyva

After rewriting history with their discovery of a Nazi U-boat off the coast of New Jersey, legendary divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler decided to investigate the great enduring mystery of...

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Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

Tom Holland Reader Andrew Sachs

Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the...

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Agincourt

Juliet Barker Read by Elliot Cowan

When Henry V and his ‘band of brothers’ defeated the assembled might of French chivalry on a rainy October day in 1415 it was a defining moment in English history. Against all the odds, 9,000...

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Rubicon

Tom Holland Read by Andrew Sachs

The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid...

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Great Tales from English History: Cheddar Man to DNA

Robert Lacey Read by the author

From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama - a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists and scientists.

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A Call To Conscience: The landmark speeches of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King and Clayborne Carson

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is known for being one of the greatest orators of the 20th Century, and perhaps in all of American history. In the 1950s and 1960s, his words led the Civil Rights...

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Persian Fire

Tom Holland Read by Andrew Sachs

In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the...

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