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Er kam aus der Steppe – und erschütterte die Welt! Nach dem Tod seines Vaters wird der junge Temujin mit seiner Familie verbannt, wie es die strengen Gesetze seines Volkes verlangen. Doch entgegen aller Erwartungen gelingt es ihnen, ohne den Schutz der Sippe in der mongolischen Steppe zu überleben. Mehr noch: Temujin schart weitere Geächtete um sich und gründet einen neuen Stamm.

401 AD: Artaxerxes, der König Persiens, herrscht über ein Reich, das sich von der Ägäis bis nach Nordindien erstreckt. Er bestimmt über Leben und Tod. Sein Befehl kennt keinen Widerspruch. 50 Millionen Menschen sind ihm Untertan. Doch sein Bruder Kyros lehnt sich auf. Mit einem Heer von griechischen Söldnern und Spartanern zieht er gegen das Reich des Artaxerxes. Die Schlacht zwischen Sparta und Persien beginnt.

Nur um Haaresbreite ist Athen 480 vor Christus einer Katastrophe entgangen – dank der todesmutigen Krieger aus Sparta, die den Pass bei den Thermophylen lange genug gehalten hatten, um die Stadt zu evakuieren.

Ein Mann. Sieben Könige. Der blutige Thron Englands. England im 10. Jahrhundert: Das Land ist geteilt und gezeichnet von jahrelangen Machtkämpfen. König Æthelstan, ein Enkel Alfreds des Großen, hat geschworen, das Reich unter einer Krone zu vereinen. An seiner Seite steht Dunstan von Glastonbury – ein Mönch, Politiker, Visionär und, in den Augen vieler, ein Verräter. Sieben Königen dient Dunstan durch Krieg, Feuer und Wahnsinn, um Æthelstans Traum wahr werden zu lassen.

Ein Sturm zieht über England herauf: Der Kampf um die Krone beginnt. England 1437: König Henry VI. ist krank und unfähig zu regieren, das Königshaus gerät ins Wanken. Zudem droht ein Konflikt mit Frankreich, der England in eine Katastrophe reißen könnte. Die Vermählung Henrys mit der französischen Adeligen Margaret von Anjou soll die Macht des Reiches sichern. Doch das Bündnis mit den verhassten Franzosen ruft bei der Bevölkerung Empörung hervor. Richard, Duke von York, nutzt den Hass gegen den König und seine willensstarke Gemahlin zu seinen Zwecken - die Rosenkriege beginnen...

Manchmal kann die Freiheit nur mit Blut erkauft werden: Nie war Athen einer Niederlage näher: 490 vor Christus dringt der mächtige Perserkönig Dareios der Große mit seinen kampferprobten "Unsterblichen" tief ins Land der Griechen vor. Die Athener sind hoffnungslos in der Unterzahl, und die Götter schweigen zu ihren Bitten. Xanthippus, der oberste Feldherr der Griechen, lässt seine Männer bei Marathon einen Schildwall errichten, der die Perser um jeden Preis aufhalten soll. Denn eine Niederlage würde Sklaverei bedeuten.

Er kam aus der Steppe – und erschütterte die Welt! Nach jeder gewonnenen Schlacht wächst die Streitmacht des Dschinghis Khan. Er eint die Stämme der Steppe, die sich seit Jahrhunderten bekämpft haben, gegen einen gemeinsamen Feind: das Kaiserreich China. Auf dem Ritt durch die Wüste Gobi muss der junge Feldherr lernen, eine Armee zu befehligen, der tausende Männer unterschiedlicher Rassen und Religionen angehören. Endlich erreicht er die Tore der Hauptstadt Chinas – und der eigentliche Kampf beginnt.

On a small estate just outside Rome in the first century BC, two boys become blood brothers, little imagining the extraordinary future that lies before them. As friends and rivals, Gaius and Marcus are destined to find lasting fame.

The thrilling first instalment in the Wars of the Roses series - set at the beginnings of this turbulent period of English history which saw the throne change hands six times in 30 years. The Swan sees Henry VI crowned King of England, and married to the young French noblewoman, Margaret of Anjou - and so begins the extraordinary story of how England became a divided nation, where brother took up arms against brother. This was the war which defined the England we know today.

Abandoned after months of captivity, Julius Caesar gathers recruits that he will forge into a unit powerful enough to gain vengeance on his captors. But soon a new crisis threatens: a gladiator named Spartacus.

Pericles returns home more than a hero: he's the leader of Athens, the empire's beacon of light in the dark. But even during times of peace, the threat of Sparta - Athens's legendary rival - looms large on the horizon. When a sudden catastrophe brings Sparta to its knees, Pericles sees a golden opportunity to forever shift the balance of power in his city's favour. For sometimes, the only way to win lasting peace is to wage war.

Julius Caesar has taken his legions north into mighty battles with the Gallic tribes. But as his successes mount, overwhelming ambition and new alliances begin to threaten his friendship with Marcus Brutus, brother-in-arms and fellow warrior. Although the conquest of Gaul has made Caesar a hero all over again, his victories on the battlefield cause still more rivalries at home. And ultimately Caesar and Brutus will have to choose whether to cross the Rubicon - together or singly - and to take the fight to Rome itself.

The first book in the best-selling Conqueror series featuring Genghis Khan and his descendants. Temujin, the second son of the khan of the Wolves tribe, was only 11 when his father died in an ambush. His family were thrown out of the tribe and left alone, without food or shelter, to starve to death on the harsh Mongolian plains. It was a rough introduction to his life, to a sudden adult world, but Temujin survived, learning to combat natural and human threats.

After the Gods. After the myths and legends came the world of Men. In their front rank stood Pericles. The Lion of the Golden Age. Experience the epic battlefields of Ancient Greece with master storyteller Conn Iggulden.

On the plains of Marathon an army of slaves gathers. Under Darius the Great, King of Kings, the mighty Persian army - swollen by 10,000 Immortal warriors - have come to subjugate the Greeks. In their path stands an army of freeborn Athenians and among them is fearsome and cunning soldier-statesman, Xanthippus. Knowing defeat means slavery lends keenness to his already sharp blade. Yet people soon forget that freedom is bought with blood.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Wars of the Roses: Trinity, the second instalment in Conn Iggulden's thrilling Wars of the Roses trilogy. 1454: King Henry VI has remained all but exiled in Windsor Castle, struck down by his illness for over a year, his eyes vacant, his mind a blank. His fiercely loyal wife and Queen, Margaret of Anjou, safeguards her husband's interests, hoping that her son Edward will one day know the love of his father.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Wars of the Roses: Bloodline, the third instalment in Conn Iggulden's thrilling Wars of the Roses trilogy. Winter 1461 - Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of York city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian queen rides south with an army of northerners, accompanied by warriors from the Scottish Highlands. Margaret and her army seem unstoppable.

The fatherless boy, exiled from his tribe (whom listeners have been following in Wolf of the Plains and Lords of the Bow, has grown into the great king, Genghis Khan. He has united the warring tribes and even taken his armies against the great cities of their oldest enemies. Now he finds trouble rising west of the Mongolian plains. His emissaries are mutilated or killed; his trading gestures rebuffed.

Julius Caesar has been assassinated. A nation is in mourning. Revenge will be bloody... Rome's great hero has been brutally murdered by his most trusted allies. While these self-appointed Liberatores seek refuge in the senate, they have underestimated one man: Caesar's adopted son Octavian, a man whose name will echo through history as Augustus Caesar. Uniting with his great rival Mark Antony, Octavian will stop at nothing to seek retribution and avenge his father's death.

The gathering of the tribes of the Mongols has been a long time in coming, but finally, triumphantly, Temujin of the Wolves, Genghis Khan, is given the full accolade of overall leader and their oaths. Now he can begin to meld all the previously warring people into one army, one nation. But the task Genghis has set himself, and them, is formidable. He is determined to travel to the land of the long-time enemy, the Chin, and attack them there.