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    Millennium

    The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

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

    Unabridged

    17 hours 32 min

    Bestselling historian and broadcaster Tom Holland gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000'An exhilarating sweep across European history either side of the year 1000; riveting' ALLAN MASSIE, SPECTATOR'I relished the blood and thunder narrative - the work of a great storyteller at his best' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, EVENING STANDARD'A splendid, highly ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

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    Crown and Country

    A History of England through the Monarchy

    Unabridged

    15 hours 11 min

    An exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day.The monarchy is one of Britain’s longest surviving institutions – as well as one of its most tumultuous and revered. In this masterful book, David Starkey looks at the monarchy as a whole, charting its history from Roman times, to the Wars of the Roses, the chaos of the Civil War, the fall of Charles I ... Read more

    $39.49 AUD

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    Medieval Horizons

    Why the Middle Ages Matter

    by Ian Mortimer ...
    Narrated by Ian Mortimer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.We tend to think about the Middle Ages as a dark and backward time, characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. We believe that life was unchanging over the period, so if a peasant fell asleep in in the year 1000 and woke up six hundred years later, he would return to a world that was instantly recognisable. We hold that change is facilitated by science and ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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    History of Australia: A Captivating Guide to Australian History, Starting from the Aborigines Through the Dutch East India Company, James Cook, and World War II to the Present

    Narrated by Jason Zenobia ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 5 min

    Did you know that Australia was once thought of as an undesirable place to live?Long before Australia started to be considered one of the best places in the world to live, it was thought to be completely unlivable. In the 15th century, the European race to claim land began. Despite the fact that Australia was a large landmass, no nation believed it was worth colonizing. The land was claimed by the ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Traitors Circle

    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

    Narrated by Jonathan Freedland ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 41 min

    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ESCAPE ARTISTA THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Magnificent . . . Important and impressive'DAILY TELEGRAPH'Astonishing . . . Freedland is a master'MICK HERRON'Remarkable . . . This is how the best history books will be wri... ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

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    Enough Is Enuf

    Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell

    by Gabe Henry ...
    Narrated by Johnny Heller ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 49 min

    A brief and humorous 500-year history of the Simplified Spelling Movement from advocates like Ben Franklin, C. S. Lewis, and Mark Twain to texts and Twitter.Why does the G in George sound different from the G in gorge? Why does C begin both case and cease? And why is it funny when a philologist faints, but not polight to laf about it? Anyone who has ever had the misfortune to write in English has, ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

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    On This Day in History

    by Dan Snow ...
    Narrated by Dan Snow ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 7 min

    'History is an infinite reservoir of stories, examples, warnings, explanations, jokes, rebukes and inspiration . . . You can't understand the present if you can't understand the past' DAN SNOW3000 years of the most important stories from the past in 365 days -- from the Ides of March to D-Day, from Britain's favourite historian.In ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY Dan Snow, Britain's favourite historian, ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD

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    Prisoners of History

    What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves

    by Keith Lowe ...
    Narrated by Keith Lowe ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 5 min

    A Spectator Book of the Year 2020A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020‘Inspired … Lowe’s sensitive, disturbing book should be compulsory reading for both statue builders and statue topplers’ MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES What happens when our values change, but what we have set in stone does not?Humankind has always had the urge to memorialise, to mak... ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD

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    Daylight Robbery

    How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future

    Narrated by Dominic Frisby ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 48 min

    'Fuel for the post-Christmas lunch argument' Financial TimesDeath and taxes are our inevitable fate. We've been told this since the beginning of civilisation. But what if we stopped to question our antiquated system? Is it fair? And is it capable of serving the needs of our rapidly-changing, modern society?In Daylight Robbery, Dominic Frisby traces the origins of taxation, from its roots in the ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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    Vikings – Final Secrets Revealed

    by World History ...
    Narrated by Patrick Warner ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Greatest Mysteries of History

    Unabridged

    2 hours 49 min

    In the past 50 years, significant progress has been made in mapping and understanding Scandinavia during the Viking Age. Archaeologists and historians have carefully studied various sources, such as ancient postholes and thousand-year-old grape seeds, in their efforts to uncover the truth about the Viking world.This work is crucial because the Vikings did not document their history, and what we ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Why Learn History

    (When It's Already on Your Phone)

    by Sam Wineburg ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 27 min

    Let’s start with two truths about our era: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious.With the internet always at our fingertips, what's a teacher of history to do? Sam Wineburg has answers, beginning with this: ... Read more

    Was $27.99 AUD Now $24.99 AUD

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    Der Kreuzzug der Kinder

    3: Die Saat des Bösen

    Series Audiobook 3 - Der Kreuzzug der Kinder

    Unabridged

    44 min

    Der Zug der Kinder setzt seinen Weg fort. Doch allmählich beginnt der Hunger an den Wandernden zu nagen. Unverhofft bietet sich eine Gelegenheit, die weder Nikolaus noch Vater Magnus ausschlagen können... Die Hörspielreihe erzählt mit Hilfe einer fiktionalen Rahmenhandlung die realen historischen Ereignisse in Rückblenden und aus Sicht der Kinder, die sich auf dem Weg befinden. Eine große Cast mit ... Read more

    $3.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Albert Jack's Mysterious World

    by Albert Jack ...
    Narrated by Albert Jack ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 52 min

    Albert Jack now turns his attention to the mysteries that have haunted us throughout history.Albert Jack's Mysterious World cleverly combines his research with riveting stories and hilarious observations.All life's most perplexing questions answered: UFOs, Crop Circles and Alien invasions Where is the Mona Lisa? (clue: it's not in the Louvre) Is the Loch Ness Monster really a circus elephant? Will ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Страна имен. Как мы называем улицы, деревни и города в России

    Unabridged

    6 hours 38 min

    На берегу Москвы-реки до сих пор стоит деревня Марс, названная так большевиками, а Екатерина II повально переименовывала места, чьи имена звучали «срамно» и «непристойно». Географические названия, топонимы — не только наш ориентир в пространстве, но и способ перемещаться во времени. В каждом имени — надежды, амбиции и эстетика разных эпох. Появляясь и меняясь под влиянием исторических событий, ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Und sie schämeten sich nicht Vol. 01

    Eine Geschichte der Liebe

    Series Audiobook 1 - Eine Geschichte der Liebe

    Unabridged

    4 hours 32 min

    Warum ist die Nacht das lichteste Kapitel der germanischen Geschichte? Weshalb wechselte man vom Minnegesang so schnell zum Minnedienst? Was verbarg sich hinter der Prüderie des Biedermeier? Diese und viele andere Fragen beantwortet Joachim Fernau mit großem erzählerischen Elan. Die funkensprühende Geschichte der Liebe, von den alten Germanen bis zur sexuellen Befreiung. Joachim Fernau, 1909 in ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Patton's Shadow

    The Making of a Hero in Modern Memory

    Narrated by Kent Klineman ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 32 min

    Patton's Shadow by Nathan C. Jones, a leading authority on George S. Patton, offers a definitive account of the creation of the Patton legend and what it illuminates about American culture and the worship of heroes. Jones traces how the persona of Patton, a brash and brilliant general in the European theater of World War II, transcended the individual man and became a cultural icon and byword for ... Read more

    $38.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Die Freimaurer - Der mächtigste Geheimbund der Welt (Ungekürzte Lesung)

    by John Dickie ...
    Narrated by Julian Mehne ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 58 min

    Die wahre Geschichte hinter dem Mythos. Der Historiker und Mafia-Experte John Dickie liefert die erste umfassende und seriöse Geschichte der Freimaurer - des Geheimbunds, der seit seiner Gründung im 18. Jahrhundert die Geschicke des Westens entscheidend mitbestimmt hat. Mozart, Goethe und Friedrich der Große gehörten dazu. George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt und Winston Churchill auch. ... Read more

    $40.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Light Between Apple Trees

    Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit

    Narrated by Priyanka Kumar ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 16 min

    As a child in the foothills of the Himalayas, Priyanka Kumar was entranced by forest-like orchards of diverse and luscious fruit—especially apples. These biodiverse orchards seemed worlds away from the cardboard apples that lined supermarket shelves. Yet on a small patch of woods near her home in Santa Fe, Kumar discovered a wild apple tree—and the seeds of an odyssey were planted. In The Light ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD

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    How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator

    Unabridged

    8 hours 41 min

    'Irresistibly fascinating' MARIE CLAIRE GREECE'Essential' VICTORIA HISLOP'Brilliantly conceived' PAUL CARTLEDGEAn enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty retelling of the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeologyTwo strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do you do?’, becomes the springboard... ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Goethe, Schiller und die Romantik

    by Rudolf Eucken ...
    Narrated by Various Artists ...
    Series series Lebensanschauungen großer Denker

    Abridged

    1 hour 8 min

    Der deutsche Humanismus bildet die Höhe der geistigen Bewegung, welche die zweite Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland erzeugte. Hier forderte die Zeit des Sturmes und Dranges mehr Unmittelbarkeit des Lebens und des Gefühles und hielt damit der Aufklärung mit ihrem Nützlichkeitsstreben sein Verlangen nach Schönheit und nach einem Selbstwert des Lebens siegesbewußt entgegen. Der deutsche ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Visuotines istorijos savadas

    by Valero Pujol ...
    Narrated by Jordi Savall ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 10 min

    Leiskitės į žavią kelionę per žmonijos istorijos tūkstantmečius su Valero Pujol „Visuotinės istorijos sąvadu“. Su gyvu ir įtraukiančiu pasakojimo stiliumi autorius veda jus nuo pirmųjų civilizacijų ištakų iki didžiulių įvykių, kurie suformavo šiuolaikinį pasaulį. Susidursite su didingomis imperijomis, vizionieriškais lyderiais, revoliuciniais atradimais ir lemiamomis mūšiais, kurie pakeitė ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Die wichtigsten Ereignisse der deutschen Geschichte (Ungekürzt)

    Narrated by Martin Falk ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 8 min

    Einen spannenden und kurzweiligen Grundkurs in deutscher Geschichte bietet dieses Hörbuch von Bernd Ingmar Gutberlet. Von der Varusschlacht bis zum Mauerfall ist die deutsche Geschichte voller wichtiger Ereignisse und entscheidender Wendungen, großer Siege und vernichtender Niederlagen - und alle wirken sie bis heute nach, haben das Land, in dem wir leben, zu dem gemacht, was es heute ist. Karl ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Ellis Island

    A People's History

    Narrated by Carlotta Brentan ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 41 min

    From Annie Moore, the Irishwoman who was the first to be processed there, to Arne Peterssen, the Norwegian who was the last to be taken away from the island in 1954, Ellis Island weaves together the personal experiences of forgotten individuals with those who live on in history: Fiorello La Guardia, Lee Iacocca, and other American leaders whose paths led them to the Island for various reasons ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD

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    Der Kreuzzug der Kinder

    5: Das Meer

    Series Audiobook 5 - Der Kreuzzug der Kinder

    Unabridged

    32 min

    Die Alpenpassage ist geschafft, der Kinderkreuzzug erreicht bei Genua das Meer. Ob Gott für die Kinder das Wasser teilt? Die Hörspielreihe erzählt mit Hilfe einer fiktionalen Rahmenhandlung die realen historischen Ereignisse in Rückblenden und aus Sicht der Kinder, die sich auf dem Weg befinden. Eine große Cast mit vielen aus TV, Film und Hörspiel bekannten Stimmen nimmt die Hörerinnen und Hörer ... Read more

    $3.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus