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Entertaining narrative, but poor scholarship
- De Yosemite en 09-15-20
De: Alan Mikhail
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Crusaders
- The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
- De: Dan Jones
- Narrado por: Dan Jones
- Duración: 16 h y 7 m
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For more than 1,000 years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human and avowedly pluralist path through the crusading era.
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Gripping but not tidy
- De Tad Davis en 01-06-20
De: Dan Jones
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The Race for Paradise
- An Islamic History of the Crusades
- De: Paul M. Cobb
- Narrado por: Paul M. Cobb
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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In The Race for Paradise, Paul M. Cobb offers a new history of the confrontations between Muslims and Franks we now call the "Crusades", one that emphasizes the diversity of Muslim experiences of the European holy war. There is more to the story than Jerusalem, the Templars, Saladin, and the Assassins. Cobb considers the Arab perspective on all shores of the Muslim Mediterranean, from Spain to Syria.
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A heady piece of history and a romp.
- De Meeno en 05-28-15
De: Paul M. Cobb
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The Great Commanders
- Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Horatio Nelson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Ulysses S. Grant, Georgi Zhukov
- De: Phil Grabsky
- Narrado por: Phil Grabsky
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
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The Great Commanders is a masterly portrait of six men - Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Horatio Nelson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Ulysses S. Grant and Georgi Zhukov - whose military genius changed the course of world history.
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Broad, and High Level History
- De Mark en 11-20-14
De: Phil Grabsky
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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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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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Filled in some blanks
- De Cory en 10-19-15
De: Peter Crawford
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By the Spear
- Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire
- De: Ian Worthington
- Narrado por: Phil Holland
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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For the first time, By the Spear offers an exhilarating military narrative of the reigns of these two larger-than-life figures in one volume. Ian Worthington gives full breadth to the careers of father and son, showing how Philip was the architect of the Macedonian empire, which reached its zenith under Alexander, only to disintegrate upon his death.
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Bueller..... Bueller...... Bueller...... Monotone
- De Jonathan Allen Beard en 02-15-15
De: Ian Worthington
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Masters of Command
- Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and the Genius of Leadership
- De: Barry Strauss
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar: Each was a master of war. Each had to look beyond the battlefield to decide whom to fight and why; to know what victory was and when to end the war; to determine how to bring stability to the lands he conquered. Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar had to be not only generals but statesmen. And yet each was a battlefield commander, a strategist, a leader of men - in short, a warrior.
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Too much jumping around
- De Nick en 03-12-17
De: Barry Strauss
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In God's Path
- The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
- De: Robert G. Hoyland
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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In just over a hundred years - from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750 - the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. Their armies threatened states as far flung as the Franks in Western Europe and the Tang Empire in China. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion, and it was claimed for the Arabs in roughly half the time.
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Islamic conquest history from the outside
- De SAMA en 01-22-15
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In the Name of Rome
- The Men Who Won the Roman Empire
- De: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 17 h y 47 m
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Adrian Goldsworthy has received wide acclaim for his exceptional writing on the Roman Empire - including high praise from the acclaimed military historian and author John Keegan - and here he offers a new perspective on the empire by focusing on its greatest generals, including Scipio Africanus, Marius, Pompey, Caesar, and Titus.
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This pie was all crust, no filling
- De JLB en 04-11-17
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Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier
- De: Guy de la Bédoyère
- Narrado por: Piers Hampton
- Duración: 15 h y 28 m
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In Gladius, Guy de la Bedoyere takes us straight to the heart of what it meant to be a part of the Roman army. Rather than a history of the army itself, or a guide to military organization and fighting methods, this book is a ground-level recreation of what it was like to be a soldier in the army that made the empire. Surveying numerous aspects of life in the Roman army between 264 BCE and 337 CE, Gladius draws not only on the words of famed Roman historians, but also those of the soldiers themselves.
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Nothing new here
- De Charles en 08-06-22
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Ghost on the Throne
- The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
- De: James S. Romm
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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When Alexander the Great died at the age of 32, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day India in the east. In an unusual compromise, his two heirs - a mentally damaged half brother, Philip III, and an infant son, Alexander IV, born after his death - were jointly granted the kingship. But six of Alexander's Macedonian generals, spurred by their own thirst for power and the legend that Alexander bequeathed his rule "to the strongest," fought to gain supremacy.
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ends a bit short
- De RIR en 06-14-21
De: James S. Romm
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The Making of Oliver Cromwell
- De: Ronald Hutton
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) - the only English commoner to become the overall head of state - is one of the great figures of history, but his character was very complex. He was at once courageous and devout, devious and self-serving; as a parliamentarian, he was devoted to his cause; as a soldier, he was ruthless. Cromwell's speeches and writings surpass in quantity those of any other ruler of England before Victoria, and, for those seeking to understand him, he has usually been taken at his word. In this remarkable new work, Ronald Hutton untangles the facts from the fiction.
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Very specialized
- De Draperbart en 04-23-22
De: Ronald Hutton
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Last Stands
- Why Men Fight When All Is Lost
- De: Michael Walsh
- Narrado por: Michael Walsh
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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What is heroism? What are its moral components - altruism, love, self-sacrifice? Why was it once celebrated, and now often dismissed as anachronistic? In this dramatic and readable account of last stands in history - famous or otherwise - Walsh explores the stakes that led men at very different times and places to face overwhelming odds and certain death for the sake of family, home and country.
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Excellent historical facts
- De Mark Twain en 02-18-21
De: Michael Walsh
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The Byzantine Empire
- De: Charles Oman
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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The Byzantine Empire survived as a self-contained political entity longer than any other in the history of Christianity. This history by Charles Oman is a catalog of good, bad, and indifferent emperors who either pushed Byzantine Civilization to new heights or savagely drove it to defeat and dissolution. It is a strange tale populated by some of the most interesting men and women who have ever lived.
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adequate good book. great reader
- De Felisa Kay en 01-30-21
De: Charles Oman