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    The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic

    by Tom Holland ...
    Narrated by Tom Holland, Mark Meadows ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 9 min

    'The Book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon . . . This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory, amazing feats of conquest and cruelty' Ian McEwan, Books of the Year, Guardian'Marvellously readable' Niall FergusonThe Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Les Parisiennes

    How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s

    by Anne Sebba ...
    Narrated by Charlotte Strevens ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 12 min

    What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until - finally - renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, glamour was ever present. French women wore lipstick. Why?It was women who came face to face with the German conquerors on a daily basis - perhaps selling them their ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Appeasing Hitler

    Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

    by Tim Bouverie ...
    Narrated by John Sessions ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 4 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of Appeasing Hitler by Tim Bouverie, read by John Sessions.'Appeasing Hitler is an astonishingly accomplished debut. Bouverie writes with a wonderful clarity and we will no doubt hear a lot more of his voice in future'ANTONY BEEVOROn a wet afternoon in September 1938, Neville Chamberlain stepped off an aeroplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Magnificent Rebels

    The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

    by Andrea Wulf ...
    Narrated by Julie Teal ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 1 min

    From the Costa Prize-winning author of The Invention of Nature, Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a revolutionary group of friends based in the small German town of Jena whose modern ideas transformed society and the way we lead our lives today.In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution's ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Catalpa Rescue

    The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    Narrated by Michael Carman ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 20 min

    The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history.New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote prison in the British Empire, Fremantle Prison in Western Australia. Under the guise of a whale hunt, Captain ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    James Cook

    The story behind the man who mapped the world

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    Narrated by Michael Carman ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 23 min

    The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated.But who was the real James Cook?This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, scientist, navigator and cartographer of his era, and to personally map a third of the globe. His great voyages of discovery were ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason

    by Douglas Murray ...
    Narrated by Douglas Murray ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 41 min

    SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER‘The most important book of the year’ Daily MailThe brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray ... ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Russia

    Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

    by Antony Beevor ...
    Narrated by Rob Heaps ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 4 min

    'The book is a masterpiece' The Spectator'A gripping narrative history of one of the most complex episodes in modern Russian history' Sunday Times'Antony Beevor's Russia is a masterpiece of history' Daily TelegraphBetween 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the ... Read more

    $55.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Popes

    A History

    by Viscount John Julius Norwich ...
    Narrated by Michael Jayston ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 17 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.John Julius Norwich expertly examines the history of the oldest continuing institution in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Peter to the presentOf the 280-odd holders of the supreme office, some have unquestionably been saints; others have wallowed in unspeakable immorality. One was said to have been a woman, her sex being revealed only when she ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Guns of August

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    Narrated by Wanda McCaddon ...
    series The Great War Series

    Unabridged

    19 hours 10 min

    In this Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I.This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of kings and kaisers and czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed—and how horrible it became.Tuchman masterfully portrays this ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Istanbul

    A Tale of Three Cities

    by Bettany Hughes ...
    Narrated by Bettany Hughes ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 35 min

    Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu'ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its boundaries - real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between the East and West, it has served as the capital of ... Read more

    $55.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Chernobyl

    History of a Tragedy

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 35 min

    Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize'An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' - Viv Groskop, ObserverThe gripping story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, from an ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Checkmate in Berlin

    The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World

    by Giles Milton ...
    Narrated by Giles Milton ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 44 min

    A compulsive listen about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of narrative history'.Berlin was in ruins when Soviet forces fought their way towards the Reichstag in the spring of 1945. Streets were choked with rubble, power supplies severed and the population close to starvation. The arrival of the Soviet army heralded ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

    by Kati Marton ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 13 min

    ‘An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader’ WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the PeopleAn intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful – and elusive – woman in the world.Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Blood Red Snow

    The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front

    by Günter K. Koschorrek ...
    Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 41 min

    Gunter Koschorrek wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on. As keeping a diary was strictly forbidden, he sewed the pages into the lining of his thick winter coat and deposited them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing and it was when he was reunited with his daughter in America some forty years later that it came to light and ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter

    A Biography of Princess Louise

    by Lucinda Hawksley ...
    Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 2 min

    Spirited and lively, Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter is richly packed with arguments, intrigues, scandals, and secrets, and is a vivid portrait of a princess desperate to escape her inheritance. The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Quest for Queen Mary

    by James Pope-Hennessy, Hugo Vickers ...
    Narrated by Gareth Armstrong, Tim Bentinck ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    'A scary portrait of put-upon servants and potty aristos ... this is arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year'Max Hastings, Sunday Times'One of the funniest, most eccentric books of the year'Craig Brown, Mail on SundayThe highly acclaimed unexpurgated notes taken by James Pope-Hennessy for his official biography of Queen Mary, the present Queen's grandmother. Published in full ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Road to Unfreedom

    Russia, Europe, America

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    Narrated by Timothy Snyder ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 10 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Road to Unfreedom, written and read by Timothy Snyder.The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia.Today's Russia is an oligarchy propped up by illusions and repression. But it also represents the fulfilment of tendencies already ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Mengele

    Unmasking the "Angel of Death"

    by David G. Marwell ...
    Narrated by Paul Woodson ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 34 min

    Perhaps the most notorious war criminal of all time, Josef Mengele was the embodiment of bloodless efficiency and passionate devotion to a grotesque worldview. Aided by the role he has assumed in works of popular culture, Mengele has come to symbolize the Holocaust itself as well as the failure of justice that allowed countless Nazi murderers and their accomplices to escape justice. As chief of ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Berlin

    The Downfall 1945: The Number One Bestseller

    by Antony Beevor ...
    Narrated by Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 9 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Berlin by Antony Beevor, read by Peter Noble.Berlin: The Downfall 1945 is Antony Beevor's brilliant account of the fall of the Third Reich.The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Ardennes 1944

    Hitler's Last Gamble

    by Antony Beevor ...
    Narrated by Sean Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 40 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Ardennes 1994 by Antony Beever, read by Sean Barrett.On 16 December 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes on the Belgian/German border. Although Hitler's generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to believe that their homes and families ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Armageddon

    The Battle for Germany 1944-45

    by Max Hastings ...
    Narrated by John Sessions ...

    Abridged

    7 hours 7 min

    In this compelling study Max Hastings addresses the big human and military questions. Why did the Allies not win the war in 1944, when they were vastly stronger than the Germans? Why did the Russians produce the best generals? What was it like to fight the British, American, German and Soviet armies?Armageddon embraces the fates of more than a hundred million people, from the tragic teenage ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Distant Mirror

    The Calamitous 14th Century

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    Narrated by Wanda McCaddon ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 38 min

    A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street JournalThe fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and the ... Read more

    $57.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Coming of the Third Reich

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 11 min

    There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the world's most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research ... Read more

    $73.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial