Bestsellers
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Children of Ash and Elm
- A History of the Vikings
- By: Neil Price
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,795
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Performance1,548
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Story1,543
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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Outstanding
- By Than on 10-06-20
By: Neil Price
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20,359
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Performance16,848
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Story16,844
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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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- By Cynthia on 12-11-13
By: Jack Weatherford
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The Crusades
- The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
- By: Thomas Asbridge
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 25 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,136
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Performance3,667
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Story3,645
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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Comprehensive
- By Tad Davis on 10-04-16
By: Thomas Asbridge
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The Plantagenets
- The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall524
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Performance474
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Story474
The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of Britain’s greatest and worst dynasty—“a real-life Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)—by the author of Powers and Thrones. The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into...
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Old book--new narrator
- By Kay Long/The Lady Kay on 02-02-24
By: Dan Jones
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The Wars of the Roses
- The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,871
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Performance3,421
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Story3,404
The 15th century saw the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands five times as two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty fought....
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No Need for a Score Card
- By Troy on 01-16-15
By: Dan Jones
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Powers and Thrones
- A New History of the Middle Ages
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 24 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,974
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Performance1,706
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Story1,700
"Not only an engrossing read about the distant past, both informative and entertaining, but also a profoundly thought-provoking view of our not-really-so-‘new’ present . . . All medieval history is here, beautifully narrated."—Wall Street Journal "A lively history . . . [Jones] has managed...
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Hard to take a break from it!
- By mpl1982 on 12-09-21
By: Dan Jones
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Children of Ash and Elm
- A History of the Vikings
- By: Neil Price
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,795
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Performance1,548
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Story1,543
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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Outstanding
- By Than on 10-06-20
By: Neil Price
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20,359
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Performance16,848
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Story16,844
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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Golden Horde/Platinum Listen
- By Cynthia on 12-11-13
By: Jack Weatherford
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The Crusades
- The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
- By: Thomas Asbridge
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 25 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,136
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Performance3,667
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Story3,645
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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Comprehensive
- By Tad Davis on 10-04-16
By: Thomas Asbridge
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The Plantagenets
- The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall524
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Performance474
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Story474
The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of Britain’s greatest and worst dynasty—“a real-life Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)—by the author of Powers and Thrones. The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into...
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Old book--new narrator
- By Kay Long/The Lady Kay on 02-02-24
By: Dan Jones
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The Wars of the Roses
- The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,871
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Performance3,421
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Story3,404
The 15th century saw the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands five times as two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty fought....
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No Need for a Score Card
- By Troy on 01-16-15
By: Dan Jones
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Powers and Thrones
- A New History of the Middle Ages
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 24 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,974
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Performance1,706
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Story1,700
"Not only an engrossing read about the distant past, both informative and entertaining, but also a profoundly thought-provoking view of our not-really-so-‘new’ present . . . All medieval history is here, beautifully narrated."—Wall Street Journal "A lively history . . . [Jones] has managed...
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Hard to take a break from it!
- By mpl1982 on 12-09-21
By: Dan Jones
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A Distant Mirror
- The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
- By: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 28 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,441
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Performance1,762
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Story1,775
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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And you thought the twentieth century was rough...
- By Rob on 03-23-06
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The Middle Kingdoms
- A New History of Central Europe
- By: Martyn Rady
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall132
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Performance121
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Story121
An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world history Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn Rady offers the definitive history of the...
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Marred by the errors in the modern section
- By Paul Boothroyd on 10-20-23
By: Martyn Rady
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The History of the Medieval World
- From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
- By: Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 22 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,732
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Performance2,301
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Story2,285
This erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled....
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The First Half of the Medieval World
- By Troy on 08-11-14
By: Susan Wise Bauer
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Inventing the Middle Ages
- By: Davidson Cantor
- Narrated by: Davidson Cantor
- Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
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.
By: Davidson Cantor
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Templars in America
- The Secret Legacy of Voyages to America Before Columbus
- By: Tim Wallace-Murphy, Marilyn Hopkins, Scott F. Wolter - foreword
- Narrated by: Polly Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
Templars in America reveals the story of two leading European Templar families who combined forces to create a new commonwealth in America nearly a century before the voyages of Christopher Columbus....
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I actually stopped listening
- By Pickles on 01-13-26
By: Tim Wallace-Murphy, and others
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The Two Hundred Years War
- The Bloody Crowns of England and France, 1292–1492
- By: Dr Michael Livingston
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance19
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Story19
A new and radically original account of the longest military conflict in European history, which challenges the conventional periodization of the 'Hundred Years War' to consider a much longer period of Anglo-French conflict.
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Fantastic history
- By Alan J on 01-06-26
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In the Shadow of the Sword
- The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
- By: Tom Holland
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall750
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Performance660
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Story653
Tom Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion in a matter of decades, overcoming seemingly insuperable odds....
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Misleading title
- By Edd Huetteman on 04-08-16
By: Tom Holland
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The Greatest Knight
- The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones
- By: Thomas Asbridge
- Narrated by: Christopher Tester
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance25
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Story25
A renowned scholar brings to life medieval England’s most celebrated knight, William Marshal—providing an unprecedented and intimate view of this age and the legendary warrior class that shaped it. Caught on the wrong side of an English civil war and condemned by his father to the gallows at...
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A book worthy of reading
- By Shari Therneau on 10-12-25
By: Thomas Asbridge
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The Early Middle Ages
- By: Philip Daileader, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Philip Daileader
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall2,674
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Performance2,352
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Story2,337
These 24 lectures trace a journey from Scandinavia across central Europe to the farthest reaches of the Byzantine and Islamic empires, providing insight to this one-lost era....
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Great professor!
- By Nicolas Cobelo on 11-16-17
By: Philip Daileader, and others
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The Great Mortality
- An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
- By: John Kelly
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall90
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Performance78
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Story78
“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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Jackpot!
- By Libby on 10-05-24
By: John Kelly
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
- A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
- By: Ian Mortimer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,360
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Performance2,027
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Story2,017
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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Detailed, Interesting and Entertaining
- By Marc-Andr? on 05-13-10
By: Ian Mortimer
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Crusaders
- The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall816
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Performance712
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Story709
A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the author of Powers and Thrones. For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war...
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Gripping but not tidy
- By Tad Davis on 01-06-20
By: Dan Jones
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The New Concise History of the Crusades
- Critical Issues in World and International History
- By: Thomas F. Madden
- Narrated by: Claton Butcher
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall182
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Performance166
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Story167
In this sweeping yet crisp history, Thomas F. Madden offers a brilliant and compelling narrative of the crusades and their contemporary relevance....
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Inexcusable!
- By MK Miller on 10-16-14
By: Thomas F. Madden
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The Norman Conquest
- The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
- By: Marc Morris
- Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,082
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Performance947
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Story942
A riveting and authoritative history of the single most important event in English history: The Norman Conquest....
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A Balanced, Entertaining, and Informative History
- By Jefferson on 06-01-14
By: Marc Morris
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Queens of the Conquest
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance19
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Story19
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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Appalling French pronunciation and elocution.
- By MulberryMarsh on 02-19-26
By: Alison Weir
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In Search of the Dark Ages
- By: Michael Wood
- Narrated by: Marston York
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance81
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Story81
Brought to you by Penguin. In Search of the Dark Ages is an unrivalled exploration of the origins of English identity, and the bestselling book that established Michael Wood as one of Britain's leading historians. Now, on the book's 40th anniversary, this fully revised and expanded edition...
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Needs a bit more editing
- By Beth997 on 08-28-22
By: Michael Wood
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The Once and Future Sex
- Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
- By: Eleanor Janega
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall106
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Performance91
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Story91
A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior....
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Get a Rosalie Gilbert book instead
- By Jennifer Martin on 07-11-23
By: Eleanor Janega
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A World Lit Only by Fire
- The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
- By: William Manchester
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,063
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Performance788
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Story783
From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages....
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Ruined by the narrator
- By Wallen on 02-28-09
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The Habsburgs
- To Rule the World
- By: Martyn Rady
- Narrated by: Simon Boughey
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall463
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Performance397
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Story393
The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries -- from their rise to power to their eventual downfall. Habsburgs ruled much of Europe for centuries. From modest origins as minor German nobles, the family used fabricated documents, invented genealogies...
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An Excellent and Interesting History
- By Darrel Bishop on 09-14-20
By: Martyn Rady
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The Burgundians
- A Vanished Empire: A History of 1111 Years and One Day
- By: Bart van Loo, Nancy Forest-Flier - translator
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 21 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall269
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Performance230
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Story233
This is the story of a thousand years, a must-listen narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury, and madness....
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Extraordinary story, expertly told and skillfully narrated
- By Daniel Vergara on 03-01-24
By: Bart van Loo, and others
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The Wolf Age
- The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
- By: Tore Skeie
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall82
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Performance71
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Story71
The first major book on Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English reframes the struggle for a North Sea empire and puts listeners in the mindset of Vikings, providing new insight into their goals, values, and what they chose to live and die for....
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So. Dense.
- By Jordazzle on 05-14-22
By: Tore Skeie
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Eleanor
- A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen: From the bestselling author of Eighteen
- By: Alice Loxton
- Narrated by: Alice Loxton
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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Story13
Read by the author. An extraordinary journey that uncovers historical secrets about England’s forgotten Queen. From Alice Loxton, author of the acclaimed bestseller Eighteen. ‘Alice Loxton is the star of her generation’ – Dan Snow, historian and host of History Hit ‘I loved this...
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Where is the PDF?
- By Jeff Berger on 11-17-25
By: Alice Loxton
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The Inheritance of Rome
- Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
- By: Chris Wickham
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 32 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall374
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Performance316
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Story312
Historian Chris Wickham defies the conventional view of the Dark Ages in European history with a work of remarkable scope and rigorous yet accessible scholarship. The Inheritance of Rome presents a fresh understanding of the crucible in which Europe would ultimately be created....
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Excellent Intro to An Obscure Period
- By Earth Lover on 07-30-18
By: Chris Wickham
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1453
- The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
- By: Roger Crowley
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,079
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Performance967
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Story963
Now in audiobook format, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history, and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's readable and comprehensive account of the battle...
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A well written narrative with bizarre and biased commentary
- By Patrick D. Flynn on 08-17-17
By: Roger Crowley
New releases
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Crusades History
- Blood, Faith, and the Epic Clash for the Holy Land
- By: History Brought Alive
- Narrated by: Noel Fuller
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Story7
If you want to understand what the Crusades were, why they happened, and why they still shape the modern world, this book gives you a clear and grounded explanation. It covers Christian crusading, Islamic expansion, Jerusalem, holy war, and medieval power struggles without turning history into propaganda.
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Very interesting
- By Chris S. on 03-13-26
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Joan of Arc: The Warrior Saint
- Faith, War, and the Trial That Defined Medieval France
- By: Tom Hicks
- Narrated by: Krista Marushy
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance0
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Joan of Arc is one of history’s most famous figures—and one of its most misunderstood. This audiobook presents a historically grounded biography that moves beyond legend to reconstruct Joan’s life through trial records, witness testimony, and modern historical scholarship. It is not historical fiction or mythic retelling, but a serious narrative history of a teenage peasant whose conviction reshaped the course of medieval France. Rising from a remote village during the darkest years of the Hundred Years’ War, Joan claimed divine guidance at a moment of national collapse.
By: Tom Hicks
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History's Most Infamous Figures: Vlad The Impaler
- By: Caleb Kavanaugh
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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Before Bram Stoker created his fictional vampire, before Hollywood gave the world a caped count with a Transylvanian accent, there was a real man named Dracula. Vlad III of Wallachia earned his epithet "the Impaler" through methods so brutal that they shocked even the violent fifteenth century. His story involves hostage years at the Ottoman court, the murder of his father and brother by treacherous nobles, and a campaign of terror that killed tens of thousands and stopped the most powerful empire on earth in its tracks. The historical Vlad bears almost no resemblance to the vampire who ...
By: Caleb Kavanaugh
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The Fall of Rome: Decline and Transformation
- How the Ancient World Became the Medieval
- By: Shane Larson
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The Fall of Rome: Decline and Transformation — How the Ancient World Became the Medieval The greatest civilization the world had ever seen didn't fall in a day. It took three centuries of plague, civil war, economic collapse, and barbarian pressure — and the story is more complex, more human, and more relevant than you've been told. Rome ruled the Mediterranean for centuries. Sixty million people lived under its laws. Its roads, aqueducts, and cities represented a level of infrastructure that wouldn't be matched for a thousand years. And then it was gone — replaced by a patchwork of ...
By: Shane Larson
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La Guerre des Deux-Roses: 1455-1487
- Guerres civiles t. 1
- By: History Nerds, Andrew McDermott - translator
- Narrated by: Joel Choucas
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Sur les trônes vacants, on pourrait en dire long. À travers l’histoire, de l’Antiquité aux temps plus récents, l’absence d’un héritier et la mort soudaine d’un monarque aimé ont toujours été synonymes de troubles. Quand la place d’un roi est à prendre, nombreux sont les ambitieux à se manifester.
By: History Nerds, and others
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La reconquista a través de sus santos
- El ejercito de Dios que ayudó a construir España
- By: Antonio Puente Mayor
- Narrated by: Voz Virtual
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Durante casi ocho siglos, cristianos y musulmanes se enfrentaron en una prolongada y compleja lucha por el control de la península Ibérica. En este libro, el filólogo y escritor Antonio Puente Mayor recorre la historia de la Reconquista a través de los santos que acompañaron su avance, desde la caída del reino visigodo hasta la toma de Granada en 1492. Figuras como Santo Domingo de Silos, Santa Casilda de Toledo, Santa Áurea de San Millán, San Raimundo de Fitero o San Pedro Nolasco formaron parte de ese ejército de Dios que contribuyó a forjar lo que hoy conocemos como España.
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Crusades History
- Blood, Faith, and the Epic Clash for the Holy Land
- By: History Brought Alive
- Narrated by: Noel Fuller
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Story7
If you want to understand what the Crusades were, why they happened, and why they still shape the modern world, this book gives you a clear and grounded explanation. It covers Christian crusading, Islamic expansion, Jerusalem, holy war, and medieval power struggles without turning history into propaganda.
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Very interesting
- By Chris S. on 03-13-26
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Joan of Arc: The Warrior Saint
- Faith, War, and the Trial That Defined Medieval France
- By: Tom Hicks
- Narrated by: Krista Marushy
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance0
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Joan of Arc is one of history’s most famous figures—and one of its most misunderstood. This audiobook presents a historically grounded biography that moves beyond legend to reconstruct Joan’s life through trial records, witness testimony, and modern historical scholarship. It is not historical fiction or mythic retelling, but a serious narrative history of a teenage peasant whose conviction reshaped the course of medieval France. Rising from a remote village during the darkest years of the Hundred Years’ War, Joan claimed divine guidance at a moment of national collapse.
By: Tom Hicks
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History's Most Infamous Figures: Vlad The Impaler
- By: Caleb Kavanaugh
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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Performance0
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Before Bram Stoker created his fictional vampire, before Hollywood gave the world a caped count with a Transylvanian accent, there was a real man named Dracula. Vlad III of Wallachia earned his epithet "the Impaler" through methods so brutal that they shocked even the violent fifteenth century. His story involves hostage years at the Ottoman court, the murder of his father and brother by treacherous nobles, and a campaign of terror that killed tens of thousands and stopped the most powerful empire on earth in its tracks. The historical Vlad bears almost no resemblance to the vampire who ...
By: Caleb Kavanaugh
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The Fall of Rome: Decline and Transformation
- How the Ancient World Became the Medieval
- By: Shane Larson
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
The Fall of Rome: Decline and Transformation — How the Ancient World Became the Medieval The greatest civilization the world had ever seen didn't fall in a day. It took three centuries of plague, civil war, economic collapse, and barbarian pressure — and the story is more complex, more human, and more relevant than you've been told. Rome ruled the Mediterranean for centuries. Sixty million people lived under its laws. Its roads, aqueducts, and cities represented a level of infrastructure that wouldn't be matched for a thousand years. And then it was gone — replaced by a patchwork of ...
By: Shane Larson
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La Guerre des Deux-Roses: 1455-1487
- Guerres civiles t. 1
- By: History Nerds, Andrew McDermott - translator
- Narrated by: Joel Choucas
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Sur les trônes vacants, on pourrait en dire long. À travers l’histoire, de l’Antiquité aux temps plus récents, l’absence d’un héritier et la mort soudaine d’un monarque aimé ont toujours été synonymes de troubles. Quand la place d’un roi est à prendre, nombreux sont les ambitieux à se manifester.
By: History Nerds, and others
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La reconquista a través de sus santos
- El ejercito de Dios que ayudó a construir España
- By: Antonio Puente Mayor
- Narrated by: Voz Virtual
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Durante casi ocho siglos, cristianos y musulmanes se enfrentaron en una prolongada y compleja lucha por el control de la península Ibérica. En este libro, el filólogo y escritor Antonio Puente Mayor recorre la historia de la Reconquista a través de los santos que acompañaron su avance, desde la caída del reino visigodo hasta la toma de Granada en 1492. Figuras como Santo Domingo de Silos, Santa Casilda de Toledo, Santa Áurea de San Millán, San Raimundo de Fitero o San Pedro Nolasco formaron parte de ese ejército de Dios que contribuyó a forjar lo que hoy conocemos como España.