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World History Audiobooks

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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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    War with Hannibal

    by Titus Livius Livy ...
    Narrated by John Franklyn-Robbins ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 31 min

    In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC AD 17) chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, until the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. He vividly recreates the immense armies of Hannibal, complete with elephants, crossing the Alps; the panic as they approached the gates of Rome; and the decimation of the Roman army at the Battle of Lake Trasimene. Yet it is also the clash of ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Eating to Extinction

    The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

    by Dan Saladino ...
    Narrated by Dan Saladino ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 14 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A captivating and unexpected journey through the history of humankind's relationship with food, with an urgent message for our times.We live in an age of mass extinction. The earth's biodiversity is decreasing at a faster rate than ever. Industrial agriculture and the standardization of taste are not only wiping out many edible plants, but also the food cultures, ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Sapiens

    A Brief History of Humankind

    by Yuval Noah Harari ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 18 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLERWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.In this bold and provocative audiobook, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

    by Dan Carlin ...
    Narrated by Dan Carlin ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 55 min

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDo tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And why, since the dawn of time, has it always seemed as though death and destruction are waiting just around the corner?Combining his trademark thrilling, expansive storytelling with rigorous history and thought ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Our Oriental Heritage

    A History of Civilization in Egypt and the Near East to the Death of Alexander, and in India, China, and Japan from the Beginning to Our Own Day, with

    by Will Durant ...
    Narrated by Robin Field ...
    Audiobook 1 - The Story of Civilization

    Unabridged

    50 hours 17 min

    The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize–winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia. In this masterful work, readers will encounter:Sumeria, birthplace of the first cities and written lawsthe Egyptians, who perfected monumental architecture, medicine, and mummification more than 3,500 years ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Vietnam: An Epic History of a Divisive War 1945-1975

    by Max Hastings ...
    Narrated by Max Hastings, Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    33 hours 33 min

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘His masterpiece’ Antony Beevor, Spectator ‘A masterful performance’ Sunday Times ‘By far the best book on the Vietnam War’ Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the YearVietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent ... Read more

    $66.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Magicians of the Gods

    Evidence for an Ancient Apocalypse

    by Graham Hancock ...
    Narrated by Graham Hancock ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 54 min

    New archaeological evidence for a pre-historic civilisation updated with two substantial new chapters brimming with recent reporting of fresh scientific advances.Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Upheaval

    Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

    by Jared Diamond ...
    Narrated by Henry Strozier ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 44 min

    A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse. In his earlier bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Midnight in Chernobyl

    The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

    by Adam Higginbotham ...
    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 55 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history’s worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Second World War

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

    Unabridged

    39 hours 17 min

    A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian.The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the ... Read more

    $55.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Origin Story

    A Big History of Everything

    by David Christian ...
    Narrated by Jamie Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 23 min

    A captivating history of the universe -- from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future. Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day -- and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A History of the World

    by Andrew Marr ...
    Narrated by Andrew Marr, David Timson ...

    Unabridged

    26 hours 28 min

    Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of the traditional epic stories, from classical Greece and Rome to the rise of Napoleon, but surrounds them with less familiar material, from Peru to the Ukraine, China to the Caribbean. He looks at ... Read more

    $38.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914

    by Max Hastings ...
    Narrated by Max Hastings, Nigel Carrington ...

    Unabridged

    28 hours 58 min

    The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war.1914: a year of unparalleled change. The year that diplomacy failed, Imperial Europe was thrown into its first modernised warfare and white-gloved soldiers rode in their masses across pastoral ... Read more

    $66.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Storm Before the Storm

    The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

    by Mike Duncan ...
    Narrated by Mike Duncan ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 13 min

    The creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic.The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Beginning as a small city-state in central Italy, Rome gradually expanded into a wider world ... Read more

    $38.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945

    by Max Hastings ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

    Unabridged

    30 hours 39 min

    ‘As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings’s achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject’ Sunday Times‘Authoritative, exciting and notably well written’ Daily Telegraph‘A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history … royally entertaining and readable’ Mail on SundayIn ‘The Secret War’, Max Hastings examines the espionage and ... Read more

    $66.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A People’s History of the World

    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    by Chris Harman ...
    Narrated by Napoleon Ryan ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 44 min

    Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these societies have engendered events familiar to every schoolchild-from the empires of antiquity to the ... Read more

    $40.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Energy and Civilization

    A History

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 9 min

    Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy flows-ranging from fossil fuels to photovoltaic ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Paul Sinha's History Revision: The Complete Series 1-3

    by Paul Sinha ...
    Narrated by Paul Sinha ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 33 min

    In his fascinating and hilarious BBC Radio 4 stand up show, comedian and quizzer Paul Sinha shines a light on the important historical moments that you never got taught at school, and explains why so much of what you did learn is wrong. There will also, as ever, be puns.He explains how Portugal's invasion of Morocco in 1415 led directly to the 2014 World Cup; how the 1909 launch of an Austro ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Civilization

    The West and the Rest

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    Narrated by Niall Ferguson ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 5 min

    The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Niall Ferguson's provocative bestseller, Civilization: The West and the Rest, read brilliantly by the author himself.If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Less is More

    How Degrowth Will Save the World

    by Jason Hickel ...
    Narrated by Ben Crystal, Clifford Samuel ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 5 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead to meaningful and immediate change: DEGROWTH.If we want to have a shot at halting the crisis, we need to restore the ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government

    by David Talbot ...
    Narrated by Peter Altschuler ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 23 min

    Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA.Drawing on revelatory new materials - including exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA officials, the personal correspondence and journals of Allen Dulles’s ... Read more

    $66.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How the World Really Works

    A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Narrated by Stephen Perring ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 8 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    Narrated by Niall Ferguson ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 35 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why?While populist rulers certainly ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial