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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy
Author Adrian Goldsworthy
Narrator Roger Davis
Duration 16h 31m
The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and foremost conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates in the east to the Atlantic coast in the west. Their peace meant Roman victory and was brought about by st...
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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy
Author Adrian Goldsworthy
Narrator Roger Davis
Duration 18h 21m
The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity. The forces involved and the casualties suffered by both sides were far greater than in any wars fought before the modern era, while the eventual outcome had far-reaching consequences for the history of the Western World, name...
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Author: John Masters
Author John Masters
Narrator Roger Davis
Duration 14h 13m
The second part of the best-selling novelist's dramatic autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the Second World War. This is the second part of John Masters's autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a best-...
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Author: John Masters
Author John Masters
Narrator Roger Davis
Duration 12h 14m
The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWII. John Masters was a soldier before he became a best-selling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of 18 and was commissioned into the Fourth Gurkha Rifles in time to take part in some of the last campaigns on the turbulent North-West Fron...
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Author: Mark Adkin
Author Mark Adkin
Narrator Roger Davis
Duration 12h 52m
Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflict. The most in-depth and powerful account yet published of the first crucial clash of the Falklands war—told from both sides. Goose Green was the first land battle of the Falklands War. It was also the longest, the hardest-fought, the most controversial and the most important to win. W...
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