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The Crusades
- The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
- Auteur(s): Thomas Asbridge
- Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
- Durée: 25 h et 32 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global270
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Performance224
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Histoire222
The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)—covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious...
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Fantastic Book
- Écrit par braden le 2018-11-18
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Children of Ash and Elm
- A History of the Vikings
- Auteur(s): Neil Price
- Narrateur(s): Samuel Roukin
- Durée: 17 h et 25 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global68
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Performance60
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Histoire59
The Viking Age - from 750 to 1050 saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe....
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An engaging written history of the Vikings...
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-01-10
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
- A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
- Auteur(s): Ian Mortimer
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Keeble
- Durée: 11 h et 45 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global76
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Performance64
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Histoire63
Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? And what are you going to eat....
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With ease didst i survive thanks to thy most excellent guide!
- Écrit par Liam le 2020-12-03
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Mosquito Mayhem
- de Havilland’s Wooden Wonder in Action in WWII
- Auteur(s): Martin W. Bowman
- Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
- Durée: 12 h et 19 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global11
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Performance9
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Histoire10
The Mosquito was probably World War II's most versatile combat aircraft. This book contains hundreds of firsthand accounts from many of the two-man crews who flew in them; pilots and navigators....
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The History of the Medieval World
- From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
- Auteur(s): Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 22 h et 42 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global100
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Performance88
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Histoire87
This erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled....
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so disappointing
- Écrit par ELIZABETH L ROSS le 2019-06-05
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- Auteur(s): Jack Weatherford
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Durée: 14 h et 20 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global604
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Performance500
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Histoire497
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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Great story, annoying music
- Écrit par Rob Smith le 2020-07-18
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The Crusades
- The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
- Auteur(s): Thomas Asbridge
- Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
- Durée: 25 h et 32 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global270
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Performance224
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Histoire222
The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)—covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious...
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Fantastic Book
- Écrit par braden le 2018-11-18
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Children of Ash and Elm
- A History of the Vikings
- Auteur(s): Neil Price
- Narrateur(s): Samuel Roukin
- Durée: 17 h et 25 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global68
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Performance60
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Histoire59
The Viking Age - from 750 to 1050 saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe....
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An engaging written history of the Vikings...
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-01-10
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
- A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
- Auteur(s): Ian Mortimer
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Keeble
- Durée: 11 h et 45 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global76
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Performance64
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Histoire63
Imagine you could travel back to the 14th century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point, where are you going to stay? And what are you going to eat....
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With ease didst i survive thanks to thy most excellent guide!
- Écrit par Liam le 2020-12-03
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Mosquito Mayhem
- de Havilland’s Wooden Wonder in Action in WWII
- Auteur(s): Martin W. Bowman
- Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
- Durée: 12 h et 19 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global11
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Performance9
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Histoire10
The Mosquito was probably World War II's most versatile combat aircraft. This book contains hundreds of firsthand accounts from many of the two-man crews who flew in them; pilots and navigators....
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The History of the Medieval World
- From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
- Auteur(s): Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 22 h et 42 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global100
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Performance88
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Histoire87
This erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled....
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so disappointing
- Écrit par ELIZABETH L ROSS le 2019-06-05
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- Auteur(s): Jack Weatherford
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Durée: 14 h et 20 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global604
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Performance500
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Histoire497
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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Great story, annoying music
- Écrit par Rob Smith le 2020-07-18
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Winters in the World
- A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year
- Auteur(s): Eleanor Parker
- Narrateur(s): Jennifer M. Dixon
- Durée: 8 h et 18 min
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Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs, and traditions linked to the different seasons....
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The Wordhord
- Daily Life in Old English
- Auteur(s): Hana Videen
- Narrateur(s): Sara Powell
- Durée: 8 h et 23 min
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Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer’s Middle English, Old English—the language of Beowulf—defies comprehension by untrained modern audiences. Hana Videen gathers a trove of these gems and uses them to illuminate the lives of the earliest English speakers....
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Queens of the Conquest
- Auteur(s): Alison Weir
- Narrateur(s): Julia Franklin
- Durée: 17 h et 30 min
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Alison Weir strips away centuries of romantic mythology and prejudice to reveal the lives of England's queens in the century after the Norman Conquest....
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La vie quotidienne au Moyen Âge
- Auteur(s): Jean Verdon
- Narrateur(s): Mathieu Buscatto
- Durée: 11 h et 8 min
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Performance7
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Histoire7
Entre "Naître" et "Mourir", les vingt-deux chapitres de ce livre - appelé à devenir un classique - scandent l'existence des hommes et des femmes...
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Lecture décevante
- Écrit par JBF le 2025-08-25
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The Templars
- The History and the Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons
- Auteur(s): Michael Haag
- Narrateur(s): Guy Bethell
- Durée: 11 h et 6 min
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Au global21
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Performance19
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Histoire19
Arguably one of the most provocative, puzzling, and misunderstood organizations of medieval times, the legendary Knights Templar have always been shrouded in a veil of mystery....
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An okay overview. Narrator voice slurry at times.
- Écrit par Lisa le 2024-05-11
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The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes
- The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China
- Auteur(s): Raoul McLaughlin
- Narrateur(s): James Cameron Stewart
- Durée: 14 h et 21 min
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The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran)....
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The Bright Ages
- A New History of Medieval Europe
- Auteur(s): Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry
- Narrateur(s): Jim Meskimen
- Durée: 9 h et 30 min
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""Traveling easily through a thousand years of history, The Bright Ages reminds us society never collapsed when the Roman Empire fell, nor did the modern world did wake civilization from a thousand year hibernation. Thoroughly enjoyable, thoughtful and accessible; a fresh look on an age full of...
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Secularly biased
- Écrit par Ian weir le 2024-03-03
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Charlemagne
- Auteur(s): Johannes Fried, Peter Lewis
- Narrateur(s): James Cameron Stewart
- Durée: 30 h et 17 min
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Johannes Fried paints a compelling portrait of a devout ruler, a violent time, and a unified kingdom that deepens our understanding of the man often called the father of Europe....
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The Norman Conquest
- The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
- Auteur(s): Marc Morris
- Narrateur(s): Frazer Douglas
- Durée: 18 h et 10 min
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Au global14
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A riveting and authoritative history of the single most important event in English history: The Norman Conquest....
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Mispronunciation
- Écrit par Alex le 2024-08-27
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The Byzantine Empire
- Auteur(s): Charles Oman
- Narrateur(s): Charlton Griffin
- Durée: 9 h et 22 min
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This history by Charles Oman is a catalog of good, bad, and indifferent emperors who either pushed Byzantine Civilization to new heights or savagely drove it to defeat and dissolution....
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The First King of England
- Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom
- Auteur(s): David Woodman
- Narrateur(s): Julian Elfer
- Durée: 8 h et 11 min
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The First King of England is a foundational biography of Æthelstan (d. 939), the early medieval king whose territorial conquests and shrewd statesmanship united the peoples, languages, and cultures that would come to be known as the “kingdom of the English.”
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An interesting overview
- Écrit par presterjohn1 le 2025-11-30
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Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain
- The Middle Ages Series
- Auteur(s): Joseph F. O'Callaghan
- Narrateur(s): Tim Lundeen
- Durée: 10 h et 46 min
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Drawing from both Christian and Islamic sources, this book recounts the clash of arms between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula that began in the early eighth century....
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St. Francis of Assisi
- Auteur(s): G. K. Chesterton
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Keeble
- Durée: 4 h et 31 min
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Insightful, beautifully researched and entertainingly told, G.K. Chesterton’s St. Francis of Assisi is a compelling exploration of the life and significance of Saint Francis.
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After the Plague
- Auteur(s): Simon Doubleday, The Great Courses
- Narrateur(s): Simon Doubleday
- Durée: 10 h et 24 min
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Au global5
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Through its characters, themes, and stories, The Canterbury Tales is a portal into medieval Europe and can thus be a useful tool in expanding our knowledge and challenging our assumptions about what life was truly like in plague times....
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A bit of a slog
- Écrit par K. Andersen le 2023-07-18
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Ravenna
- Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
- Auteur(s): Judith Herrin
- Narrateur(s): Phyllida Nash
- Durée: 19 h et 3 min
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This riveting audiobook narrated by Phyllida Nash traces the history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire....
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The Secret Lives of Single Medieval Women
- True Stories of Nuns, Maidens, and Not-So-Merry Widows Who Made Their Own Way in the Medieval World
- Auteur(s): Rosalie Gilbert, Toni Mount - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Anne Flosnik
- Durée: 7 h et 16 min
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The Secret Lives of Single Medieval Women reveals the overlooked yet fascinating lives of middle age women who did not fit the conventional mold.
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A Distant Mirror
- The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
- Auteur(s): Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrateur(s): Wanda McCaddon
- Durée: 28 h et 38 min
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Performance35
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Histoire37
The 14th century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry; and on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague....
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Good but missed the mark
- Écrit par Alexandre Lariviere le 2021-07-14
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Medieval Bodies
- Life and Death in the Middle Ages
- Auteur(s): Jack Hartnell
- Narrateur(s): Michael Page
- Durée: 8 h et 26 min
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Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy, religion, and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages....
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Great sleep inducer
- Écrit par Catherine Laird le 2025-10-30
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Foxe's Book of Martyrs
- Auteur(s): John Foxe
- Narrateur(s): Robin Lawson
- Durée: 11 h et 45 min
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Originally published in the 16th century, this is the classic history of the lives, sufferings, and deaths of the early Christian martyrs. As interesting as fiction, it is written with both passion and tenderness,...
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Powerful
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2021-09-09
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Inventing the Middle Ages
- Auteur(s): Davidson Cantor
- Narrateur(s): Davidson Cantor
- Durée: 18 h et 26 min
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Our image of the Middle Ages—filled with scenes of chivalric tournaments, epic battles, devastating plagues, revered saints, powerful kings, noble knights, and courtly ladies—was not uncovered through objective historical research. Rather, it was largely shaped and even invented in the 20th century.
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A Brief History of the Samurai
- Brief Histories
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Clements
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Keeble
- Durée: 12 h et 1 min
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From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior....
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Defending Heaven
- China's Mongol Wars, 1209-1370
- Auteur(s): James Waterson, John Man - Foreword
- Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
- Durée: 8 h et 54 min
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Defending Heaven brings together, for the first time in one volume, a complete history of the Jin, Song, and Ming dynasties' wars fought against the Mongols....
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The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire
- The History of the Turkish Empire’s Creation and Its Destruction Over 600 Years Later
- Auteur(s): Charles River Editors
- Narrateur(s): Mark Norman
- Durée: 3 h et 32 min
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In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453....
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The Great Mortality
- An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
- Auteur(s): John Kelly
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Durée: 12 h et 55 min
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“Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us.” — Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human...
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Very average, repetitive.
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2025-05-21