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The House of Rothschild
Niall Ferguson
The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848 (Audiobook) Niall Ferguson (Author) Review "Taken together, Ferguson's two vo...
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Aristotle's Children
Richard E. Rubenstein
In 12th-century Toledo, in Spain, a group of Christian monks, Jewish sages and Muslim teachers gathered to study a new translation...
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An Army at Dawn
Rick Atkinson
In An Army at Dawn,, a comprehensive look at the 1942-1943 Allied invasion of North Africa, author Rick Atkinson posits that the c...
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Berlin
Antony Beevor
'Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever sin...
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The First World War
John Keegan
In a riveting narrative that puts diaries, letters and action reports to good use, British military historian Keegan (The Face of ...
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The Magic Makers
David Carroll
A journey into the world of magic and the lives of its magicians, from ancient times to the present. Explains the difference betwe...
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The 900 Days
Harrison Salisbury
The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. Nearly three million people e...
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Sailing to the Edge of the World
Glyndwr Williams
When, in 1492, an ambitious Genoese merchant named Christopher Columbus embarked on a daring voyage west into unknown waters, in s...
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Great Tales From English History
Robert Lacey
From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion a rich and v...
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American Lightning
Howard Blum
It was an explosion that reverberated across the countryand into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning...
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History of Science - Antiquity to 1700
Lawrence M. Principe
(36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Course No. 1200 Taught by Lawrence M. Principe Johns Hopkins University Ph.D., Organic Chemistry...
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A Short History of Ireland
A Short History of Ireland ran for a total of 240 episodes.
Taking you on an historical journey spanning the Ice Age, the arrival ...
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Band of Brothers
Stephen E. Ambrose
They came together in the summer of 1942. It was as good a rifle company as any in the world. Here is the story of E Company -- me...
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Stalingrad
Anthony Beevor
his gripping history is the definitive account of the battle that shifted the tide of World War II.
Historians and reviewers world...
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The Vikings
Vikings
Course No. 3910 (36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Taught by Kenneth W. Harl
Tulane University
Ph.D., Yale University
As ex...
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Outposts
Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to vis...
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The Sun King
Nancy Mitford
This work takes as its subject Louis XIV at Versailles - from the moment he decided to transform his father's hunting lodge into t...
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The Greek Legacy
Greek Legacy: Classical Origins of the Modern World
Course No. 464 (12 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Taught by Daniel N. Robinson
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The Ghost Map
Steven Johnson
It is the summer of 1854. Cholera has seized London with unprecedented intensity. A metropolis of more than 2 million people, Lond...
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Torpedo Run
Douglas Reeman
It was 1943. On the Black Sea the Russians were fighting a desparate battle to regian control, but their naval defences let them d...
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American By Blood
Andrew Huebner
In American by Blood, three U.S. Army scouts leading an infantry column arrive a day late to join Custer at the Little Bighorn. Th...
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