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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Written in 1513 and published in 1532, The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli remains one of the most controversial and influential treatises on power and leadership in human history. Originally intended as a practical guide for ruling a principality...

Un período forjado a hierro, fuego, grandiosos personajes, luchas por la fe, mitos y cultura, cuya esencia ha impregnado toda nuestra Historia. Sumérgete en esta fascinante epopeya que nos llevará desde el sur de Suecia, recorriendo gran parte de nuestro continente, hasta llegar a España para conocer a visigodos y ostrogodos, godos en definitiva.

A ground-breaking and revelatory exploration of the remarkable friendship between Queen Elizabeth II and Winston Churchill. In February 1952, when the young Elizabeth returned to London after her sudden accession to the throne, Churchill was first to greet her as she stepped off the aircraft...

From the author of Bad Girls of Ancient Greece comes a new collection, covering tales of lore from bad boys and more… Myths and legends would be nothing without their shining star of a hero at the forefront, right? But what about those sidekicks and minor characters so often scrubbed out of...

'A really thrilling discovery . . . This is a real extension of our knowledge of women of the period, engagingly told' - Philippa Gregory 'It held me captive from the first page to the last. Utterly breathtaking' - Tracy Borman The youngest of the Maitland siblings, Marie had watched her elder...

The Industrial Revolution was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology productivity boomed. Machines were used to spin and...

"NOW THERE ARE FIELDS WHERE TROY ONCE STOOD" —OVID During the great migrations of the second millennium BC, peoples from Western Europe-known as Achaeans or Sea Peoples-arrived in the Mediterranean region, either to settle there peacefully or to plunder and raze the land. They brought about...

They dropped from the skies, roared over the hedgerows, and turned the tide of history—this is the untold story of the airmen who helped liberate France. By June 1944, Allied air forces were ready to unleash hell on the Germans in occupied France. Massive numbers of bombers and fighters had...

The bitter Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front was the turning point of World War II. The relentless and unstoppable German advances that had seen the panzers sweep hundreds of miles into Russia was finally brought to a halt. The elite German Sixth Army was first fought to a standstill, then surrounded and forced to surrender.

An epic, visceral history of the Romans in Britain, from Caesar's first invasion attempt in 55 BC to the fall of the Roman empire. Britain wasn’t conquered in a day. Caesar invaded twice, but didn't try to complete a conquest of the island. It was only when Claudius and his legions arrived in...

The Third Reich cast a long shadow, not least over those born in Germany at that time. Whether the children of Nazi perpetrators or Holocaust survivors, they all had to come to terms with their dark past, based on an inhuman racial ideology. Renate was born in 1941, the daughter of an unknown SS...

The first complete history of Britain’s mountains, capturing their beauty, tragedy and the pivotal role of these dramatic landscapes in the nation’s past and future Britain’s mountains are our grandest and wildest places, their vast openness providing inspiration and escape. But they are...

Wer Thomas Mann nur als Namen im Kanon kennt, hat erst die Oberfläche berührt. Dieses Hörbuch führt Sie mitten hinein in das Leben und Denken eines Meisters der Gesellschaftsromane und zeigt, warum seine Literatur bis heute modern wirkt, weil sie Menschen, Milieus und Moral mit präziser Sprache und großer Spannung sichtbar machte. Sie entdecken einen Autor, der bürgerliche Fassaden scharf beleuchtete und zugleich die Sehnsucht nach Freiheit, Kunst und Selbstbestimmung ernst nahm.

Wer war Leo Trotzki wirklich, Revolutionär, Weltbürger und Stalingegner, oder der brillante Organisator, der die Oktoberrevolution prägte und später selbst zum gejagten Gegner eines Systems wurde, das er mit aufgebaut hatte? Dieses Hörbuch führt mitten hinein in die dramatischen Jahre von Zarismus, Krieg, Umsturz und Bürgerkrieg und zeigt, warum Trotzki bis heute fasziniert, als politischer Stratege, Redner und Befehlshaber.

Wer war Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wirklich, nur der Dichterfürst der Deutschen oder ein vielseitiges Genie, das Literatur, Politik und Naturwissenschaft so verband, dass daraus Weltliteratur wurde? Dieses Hörbuch öffnet Ihnen den Blick hinter den großen Namen und zeigt, warum Goethe bis heute fasziniert, weil er mit Sprache Denken formte und mit Neugier die Welt befragte.