Ancient Military History

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    • How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 535 ratings
    • Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the 21st century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date....

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    • The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
    • By: Tom Holland
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,404 ratings
    • The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves, but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history....

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    • The Punic Wars 265-146BC
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,576 ratings
    • An epic of war and battle, this is also the story of famous generals and leaders: Hannibal, Fabius Maximus, Scipio Africanus, and his grandson Scipio Aemilianus, who would finally bring down the walls of Carthage....

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    • Warfare in Northern Europe, 750-1100
    • By: Philip Line
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 386 ratings
    • The Vikings had an extraordinary and far-reaching historical impact. From the eighth to the 11th centuries, they ranged across Europe - raiding, exploring, and colonizing....

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    • By: Philip Freeman
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
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    • Alexander was born into the royal family of Macedonia, the kingdom that would soon rule over Greece. Tutored as a boy by Aristotle, Alexander had an inquisitive mind....

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    • By: James Howard-Johnston
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 20 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 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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    • By: Herodotus
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 27 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,045 ratings
    • In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus describes the growth of the Persian Empire with force, authority, and style....

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    • The Hunt for a New Past
    • By: Paul Cartledge
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 457 ratings
    • Paul Cartledge, one of the world's foremost scholars of ancient Greece, illuminates the brief but iconic life of Alexander (356-323 B.C.), king of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian Empire....

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    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 287 ratings
    • In this remarkable dual biography of the two great lovers of the ancient world, Adrian Goldsworthy goes beyond myth and romance to create a nuanced and historically acute portrayal....

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    • Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam
    • By: Peter Crawford
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 396 ratings
    • The War of the Three Gods is a military history of the Near and Middle East in the seventh century....

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    • By: Julius Caesar
    • Narrated by: Robin Field
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 267 ratings
    • The Civil War is Julius Caesar’s personal account of his war with Pompey the Great - the war that destroyed the five-hundred-year-old Roman Republic.....

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    • Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War
    • By: Steele Brand
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 38 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 Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy
    • By: John R. Hale
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • The navy created by the people of Athens in ancient Greece was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world and the model for all other national navies to come....

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    • How the Mayans and Aztecs Ruled for More Than a Thousand Years
    • By: Peter G. Tsouras
    • Narrated by: Paul Christy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 569 ratings
    • Learn the unbelievable true history of the great warrior tribes of Mexico....

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    • The Men Who Won the Roman Empire
    • By: Adrian Goldsworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 595 ratings
    • Each chapter paints a fascinating portrait of a single general, offering in-depth insight into his leadership skills and victories as well as each one's pioneering strategies....

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    • Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership
    • By: Barry Strauss
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar: Each was a master of war. Each had to look beyond the battlefield to decide whom to fight and why....

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    • By: Richard Foreman
    • Narrated by: Sam Devereaux
    • Series: Sword of Empire, Book 1
    • Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Rome is at war with the northern tribes - and is yet to win a significant battle. The Germanic armies have crossed the Danube and have attacked the Empire, slaughtering thousands....

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    • By: Donald Kagan
    • Narrated by: Bill Wallace
    • Length: 19 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 256 ratings
    • For almost three decades at the end of the fifth century BC the ancient world was torn apart in a conflict that was, within its historical context, as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the great world wars of the 20th century.....

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