In the Shadow of the Sword

• Rubicon

• The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
• Autor: Tom Holland
• Sprecher: Steven Crossley
• Spieldauer: 15 Std. und 36 Min.
• Ungekürztes

• Gesamt

  4.5 out of 5 stars 31
• Sprecher

  4.5 out of 5 stars 25
• Geschichte

  4.5 out of 5 stars 27

The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe of its fall. It is a story of incomparable drama.

• Dynasty

• Autor: Tom Holland
• Sprecher: Mark Meadows
• Spieldauer: 17 Std. und 45 Min.
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• Gesamt

  4 out of 5 stars 16
• Sprecher

  4.5 out of 5 stars 14
• Geschichte

  4.5 out of 5 stars 14

Dynasty tells the story of Rome's first dynasty of emperors, from its establishment by Augustus Caesar in the last decades of the first century BC to its final, florid extinction less than a century later. The line of autocrats known to historians as the 'Julio-Claudians' remains to this day a byword for depravity. The brilliance of its allure and the blood-steeped shadows cast by its crimes still haunt the public imagination.

• Mythos

• Autor: Stephen Fry
• Sprecher: Stephen Fry
• Spieldauer: 15 Std. und 25 Min.
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• Gesamt

  5 out of 5 stars 197
• Sprecher

  5 out of 5 stars 187
• Geschichte

  5 out of 5 stars 185

The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney. They are embedded deeply in the traditions, tales and cultural DNA of the West. You'll fall in love with Zeus, marvel at the birth of Athena, wince at Cronus and Gaia's revenge on Ouranos, weep with King Midas and hunt with the beautiful and ferocious Artemis.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Mythos

• Von Herr G T Ashby Am hilfreichsten 04.12.2017

• The Storm Before the Storm

• The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
• Autor: Mike Duncan
• Sprecher: Mike Duncan
• Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 13 Min.
• Ungekürztes

• Gesamt

  5 out of 5 stars 39
• Sprecher

  5 out of 5 stars 36
• Geschichte

  5 out of 5 stars 36

The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. After its founding in 509 BCE, the Romans refused to allow a single leader to seize control of the state and grab absolute power. The Roman commitment to cooperative government and peaceful transfers of power was unmatched in the history of the ancient world. But by the year 133 BCE, the republican system was unable to cope with the vast empire Rome now ruled.

• The Silk Roads

• A New History of the World
• Autor: Peter Frankopan
• Sprecher: Laurence Kennedy
• Spieldauer: 24 Std. und 14 Min.
• Ungekürztes

• Gesamt

  4.5 out of 5 stars 63
• Sprecher

  4.5 out of 5 stars 57
• Geschichte

  4.5 out of 5 stars 56

The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westward on its axis, it now turns to the east.... For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the West - in the New World of the Americas. Today it is the East that calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from Eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia, deep into China and India, is taking center stage.

• 3 out of 5 stars

• Etwas zu lang und zähflüssig

• Von Daniel Am hilfreichsten 28.01.2017

• Guns, Germs and Steel

• The Fate of Human Societies
• Autor: Jared Diamond
• Sprecher: Doug Ordunio
• Spieldauer: 16 Std. und 20 Min.
• Ungekürztes

• Gesamt

  4.5 out of 5 stars 158
• Sprecher

  4.5 out of 5 stars 127
• Geschichte

  4.5 out of 5 stars 127

Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Very good book. Great to listen to, well varied

• Von stephkidd32 Am hilfreichsten 28.03.2017

• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• Autor: Edward Gibbon
• Sprecher: Charlton Griffin
• Spieldauer: 126 Std. und 31 Min.
• Ungekürztes

• Gesamt

  4 out of 5 stars 5
• Sprecher

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• Geschichte

  4.5 out of 5 stars 3

Here in a single volume is the entire, unabridged recording of Gibbon's masterpiece. Beginning in the second century A.D. at the apex of the Pax Romana, Gibbon traces the arc of decline and complete destruction through the centuries across Europe and the Mediterranean. It is a thrilling and cautionary tale of splendor and ruin, of faith and hubris, and of civilization and barbarism. Follow along as Christianity overcomes paganism... before itself coming under intense pressure from Islam.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• A thing of beauty is a joy forever

• Von Marc Dierckx Am hilfreichsten 06.12.2015

• Why Nations Fail

• The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
• Autor: Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson
• Sprecher: Dan Woren
• Spieldauer: 17 Std. und 55 Min.
• Ungekürztes

• Gesamt

  4.5 out of 5 stars 118
• Sprecher

  4.5 out of 5 stars 92
• Geschichte

  4 out of 5 stars 92

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?

• 2 out of 5 stars

• Zieht sich

• Von opel Am hilfreichsten 25.04.2014

• The Foundations of Western Civilization

• Autor: Thomas F. X. Noble, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Thomas F. X. Noble
• Spieldauer: 24 Std. und 54 Min.
• Originalaufnahme

• Gesamt

  5 out of 5 stars 28
• Sprecher

  4.5 out of 5 stars 27
• Geschichte

  5 out of 5 stars 25

What is Western Civilization? According to Professor Noble, it is "much more than human and political geography," encompassing myriad forms of political and institutional structures - from monarchies to participatory republics - and its own traditions of political discourse. It involves choices about who gets to participate in any given society and the ways in which societies have resolved the tension between individual self-interest and the common good.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• very interesting overview

• Von Martin Pfemeter Am hilfreichsten 07.12.2017

• The Pursuit of Power

• Europe 1815-1914
• Autor: Richard J Evans
• Sprecher: Napoleon Ryan
• Spieldauer: 41 Std. und 37 Min.
• Ungekürztes

• Gesamt

  5 out of 5 stars 3
• Sprecher

  5 out of 5 stars 3
• Geschichte

  4.5 out of 5 stars 3

The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about 19th-century Europe to create an extraordinarily rich, surprising and entertaining panorama of a continent undergoing drastic change. The aim of this audiobook is to reignite the sense of wonder that permeated this remarkable era, as rulers and ruled navigated overwhelming cultural, political and technological changes.

• Under the Eagle

• Eagles of the Empire, Book 1
• Autor: Simon Scarrow
• Sprecher: David Thorpe
• Spieldauer: 12 Std. und 5 Min.
• Ungekürztes

• Gesamt

  4.5 out of 5 stars 42
• Sprecher

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• Geschichte

  4.5 out of 5 stars 39

The first novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Roman series. It is 42 AD, and Quintus Licinius Cato has just arrived in Germany as a new recruit to the Second Legion, the toughest in the Roman army. If adjusting to the rigours of military life isn't difficult enough for the bookish young man, he also has to contend with the disgust of his colleagues when, because of his imperial connections, he is appointed a rank above them.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• great start<br />

• Von Johnny H Am hilfreichsten 24.03.2014

• The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World

• Autor: Robert Garland, The Great Courses
• Sprecher: Robert Garland
• Spieldauer: 24 Std. und 28 Min.
• Originalaufnahme

• Gesamt

  4.5 out of 5 stars 59
• Sprecher

  4.5 out of 5 stars 58
• Geschichte

  4.5 out of 5 stars 58

Look beyond the abstract dates and figures, kings and queens, and battles and wars that make up so many historical accounts. Over the course of 48 richly detailed lectures, Professor Garland covers the breadth and depth of human history from the perspective of the so-called ordinary people, from its earliest beginnings through the Middle Ages.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Hervorragend und unterhaltsam

• Von Bambikill Am hilfreichsten 20.05.2014

• To Hell and Back

• Europe, 1914-1949
• Autor: Ian Kershaw
• Sprecher: Leighton Pugh
• Spieldauer: 24 Std. und 6 Min.
• Ungekürztes

• Gesamt

  5 out of 5 stars 29
• Sprecher

  5 out of 5 stars 28
• Geschichte

  5 out of 5 stars 28

In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its survivors, shocked that a civilization that had blandly assumed itself to be a model for the rest of the world had collapsed into a chaotic savagery beyond any comparison.

• 5 out of 5 stars

• Des Krieges Hunde entfesseln

• Von doktorFaustus Am hilfreichsten 09.03.2017

• Medieval Europe

• Autor: Chris Wickham
• Sprecher: Derek Perkins
• Spieldauer: 14 Std. und 19 Min.
• Ungekürztes

• Gesamt

  4.5 out of 5 stars 6
• Sprecher

  5 out of 5 stars 6
• Geschichte

  4.5 out of 5 stars 6

The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period - one not easily chronicled within a single book. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation.

• Christianity

• The First Three Thousand Years
• Autor: Diarmaid MacCulloch
• Sprecher: Walter Dixon
• Spieldauer: 46 Std. und 35 Min.
• Ungekürztes

• Gesamt

  4.5 out of 5 stars 11
• Sprecher

  4.5 out of 5 stars 7
• Geschichte

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Once in a generation, a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read or heard - a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill. Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity is such a book. Breathtaking in ambition, it ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and covers the world, following the three main strands of the Christian faith.