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Discover the remarkable history of the Napoleonic Wars.
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts fought between France and various coalitions in Europe between 1803 and 1815 (though some put the start date at 1799). The prelude to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Napoleonic Wars is the French Revolution, and the conflicts that continued after Napoleon seized power would radically affect Europe and indeed political philosophies not confined by artificial boundaries.
When Napoleon rose to power, he had first to get his country on stable financial ground. After he did so, he created a professional, well-trained army that would go on to dominate Europe for years to come. And, it wasn’t only his army that changed the continent; it was also the liberal ideals - including democracy, the abolition of serfdom, and the reduction in power of the church - that would change the course of history and leave an enduring legacy.
Discover a plethora of topics such as:
- Prelude to Revolution
- The Third Coalition: War Breaks Out
- The Invasion of Russia
- The Battle of Waterloo
- Military Legacy
- Napoleonic Innovations
- And much more!
So if you want a concise and informative audiobook on the Napoleonic Wars, simply buy this audiobook now to begin listening!
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The Greco-Persian Wars
- A Captivating Guide to the Conflicts Between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek City-States, Including the Battle of Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea, and More
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Richard L. Walton
- Duración: 3 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 19
The Greco-Persian Wars are often portrayed as a battle between good and evil. This is simultaneously an exaggeration and an oversimplification, but there is no doubt that this war, or series of wars, fought between some of the most powerful civilizations of the ancient era helped to plot the course of human history that we have been following up until this very day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful book on Ancient Greek history
- De Day-2-Day (Melissa) en 10-12-19
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History's Greatest Generals
- 10 Commanders Who Conquered Empires, Revolutionized Warfare, and Changed History Forever
- De: Michael Rank
- Narrado por: Kevin Pierce
- Duración: 5 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
Whether it is Hannibal of Carthage marching elephants across the Alps and attacking the heart of Rome, Khalid ibn al-Walid boasting an undefeated military career and destroying the Persian Empire while subduing the Byzantines, or Russian General Alexander Suvurov and his elevation of the bayonet to a work of art that could cut down any European army, great military leaders have exerted tremendous influence on society. This book will look at the lives of the 10 greatest military commanders in history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book
- De MICHAEL H en 01-27-14
De: Michael Rank
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Napoleon
- A Concise Biography
- De: David A. Bell
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 4 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 165
David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility that Napoleon represented. Bell emphasizes the importance of the French Revolution in understanding Napoleon's career. The revolution made possible the unprecedented concentration of political authority that Napoleon accrued. Without the political changes brought about by the revolution, Napoleon could not have fought his wars. Without the wars, he could not have seized and held onto power. Though his virtual dictatorship betrayed the ideals of liberty and equality, his life and career were revolutionary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect introduction to Napoleon
- De DJP en 10-17-20
De: David A. Bell
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Germania: A Captivating Guide to the History of a Region in Europe Where Germanic Tribes Dominated and How It Transformed into Germany
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Germany is a relatively young nation-state. United in 1871, it's even younger than the United States. However, the territories inhabited by the Germanic people have a rich history that reaches far back in prehistory and antiquity. Located in the heart of Europe, Germany witnessed centuries of conflicts, immigration, and negotiations. Consequently, its shape, size, and ethnicity changed throughout history. The territories which constitute Germany today were often war zones, and at times they would join forces against a common enemy or break apart due to internal conflicts.
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3 out of 5 stars
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political slant at the end ruined it.
- De KMT en 09-27-23
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The Savior Generals
- How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 352
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 314
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 313
Prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of leadership with his usual depth and vivid prose in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals (Themistocles, Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, and David Petraeus) who single-handedly saved their nations from defeat in war. War is rarely a predictable enterprise - it is a mess of luck, chance, and incalculable variables. Today's sure winner can easily become tomorrow's doomed loser.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good history book tells about human nature.
- De Doruk Denkel en 03-03-20
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Hitler's Great Gamble
- A New Look at German Strategy, Operation Barbarossa, and the Axis Defeat in World War II
- De: James Ellman
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
On June 22, 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the turning points of World War II. Within six months, the invasion bogged down on the outskirts of Moscow, and the Eastern Front proved to be the decisive theater in the defeat of the Third Reich. Ever since, most historians have agreed that this was Hitler's gravest mistake. In Hitler's Great Gamble, James Ellman argues that while Barbarossa was a gamble and perverted by genocidal Nazi ideology, it was not doomed from the start.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Full of good information and a pretty well established thesis
- De S. H. Moore en 11-28-20
De: James Ellman
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The War of the Three Gods
- Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam
- De: Peter Crawford
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 396
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 344
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 345
The War of the Three Gods is a military history of the Near and Middle East in the seventh century - with its chief focus on the reign of the Eastern Roman Emperor Heraclius (AD 610-641) - a pivotal and dramatic time in world history. The Eastern Roman Empire was brought to the very brink of extinction by the Sassanid Persians before Heraclius managed to inflict a crushing defeat on the Sassanids with a desperate, final gambit.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Filled in some blanks
- De Cory en 10-19-15
De: Peter Crawford
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The Gates of Europe
- A History of Ukraine
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's territory and its existence as a sovereign nation. As the award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues in The Gates of Europe, we must examine Ukraine's past in order to understand its present and future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An extraordinarily good book
- De Specs2789 en 03-01-23
De: Serhii Plokhy
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The Splintered Empires
- The Eastern Front 1917-21
- De: Prit Buttar
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 22 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 139
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 138
Concluding his acclaimed series on the Eastern Front in World War I, Prit Buttar comprehensively details not only these climactic events, but also the "successor wars" that raged long after the armistice of 1918. New states rose from the ashes of empire and war raged as German forces sought to keep them under the aegis of the Fatherland. These unresolved tensions between the former Great Powers and the new states would ultimately lead to the rise of Hitler and a new, terrible world war only two decades later.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Explains a lot about
- De Elizabeth en 02-27-20
De: Prit Buttar
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A Warrior Dynasty
- The Rise and Fall of Sweden as a Military Superpower 1611-1721
- De: Henrik O. Lunde
- Narrado por: Mark Ashby
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 130
This audiobook examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s, and then follows its line of warrior kings into the next century until the Swedes finally meet their demise, in an overreach into the vastness of Russia. A small Scandinavian nation, with at most one and a half million people and scant internal resources of its own, there was small logic to how Sweden could become the dominant power on the Continent.
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1 out of 5 stars
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An author with an idea but not the skills
- De chris loomis en 08-07-15
De: Henrik O. Lunde
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A Short History of the World
- De: Christopher Lascelles
- Narrado por: Guy Bethell
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
While this book explores world history from the big bang to the present day, it principally covers key people, events, and empires since the dawn of the first civilizations in and around 3500 BC. Epic in scope but refreshingly concise, A Short History of the World is an excellent place to start to bring your historical knowledge up to scratch.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Apt introduction to World's History
- De rpluss en 12-22-16
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War of Attrition
- Fighting the First World War
- De: William Philpott
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
The Great War of 1914-1918 was the first mass conflict to fully mobilize the resources of industrial powers against one another, resulting in a brutal, bloody, protracted war of attrition between the world's great economies. Now, 100 years after the first guns of August rang out on the Western front, historian William Philpott reexamines the causes and lingering effects of the first truly modern war.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Confusing and disorganized
- De BMC en 08-05-14
De: William Philpott
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The Vanquished
- Why the First World War Failed to End
- De: Robert Gerwarth
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 213
In The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass expulsions, and further major military clashes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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little-known period following WWI is illuminated
- De John en 02-16-17
De: Robert Gerwarth
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Carnage and Culture
- Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 20 h y 32 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 313
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 280
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 279
Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times - from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes' conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive - Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world. Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography or superior technology, Hanson argues that it is in fact Western culture and values which have consistently produced superior arms and soldiers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! This truly is a great book. A rarity!
- De GEJ en 11-12-19
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The Age of Revolution
- A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume III
- De: Sir Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 624
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 462
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 456
This is the third volume in Churchill's famous account. During the long period of 1688 to 1815, three revolutions took place, and all led to war between the British and the French.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Historical Overview of Britain
- De Lois en 01-30-12
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The Opium Wars: A History from Beginning to End
- De: Hourly History
- Narrado por: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr
- Duración: 1 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Violent confrontation between armed groups over the supply of illegal narcotics is something we commonly associate with criminal gangs in modern cities, but in the mid-19th century Great Britain went to war with Imperial China in order to continue to supply Chinese addicts with opium. The two wars that followed have become known as the Opium Wars, and they led to the utter defeat of China, the establishment of a British colony in Hong Kong, and the continuation of a narcotics trade that was worth millions of pounds each year to the British.
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5 out of 5 stars
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short comprehensive overview, well narrated
- De R K en 01-02-22
De: Hourly History