Once Upon A Time

Twelve Caesars

Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

By: Mary Beard
Narrated by: Mary Beard
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

This audiobook narrated by bestselling author Mary Beard explores how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of today's... Read more

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Gulag

A History

By: Anne Applebaum
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 27 hours 41 minutes

The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the... Read more

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The Quiet Americans

Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts

By: Scott Anderson
Narrated by: Robertson Dean & Scott Anderson
Length: 22 hours 1 minute

From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia—the gripping story of four CIA agents during the early days of the Cold War—and how the United States, at the very pinnacle of its power, managed to permanently damage its moral standing in the world. 

“Enthralling … captivating reading.” —The New York Times Book Review

At the end of World War II,... Read more

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Putin's People

How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West

By: Catherine Belton
Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

"This riveting, immaculately researched book is arguably the best single volume written about Putin, the people around him and perhaps even about contemporary Russia itself in the past three decades." —Peter Frankopan, Financial Times

Interference in American elections. The sponsorship of extremist politics in Europe. War in Ukraine. In recent... Read more

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The Dawn of Everything

A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber & David Wengrow
Narrated by: Mark Williams
Length: 24 hours 19 minutes

“This book packs the foundations of modern political philosophy with dynamite and lights the fuse! Through recent advances in archaeology and anthropology, Davids Graeber and Wengrow show us a dizzying range of sophisticated models of human social organization among indigenous peoples, around the world, over tens of thousands of years,... Read more

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In Defense of Witches

The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

By: Mona Chollet
Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

“A spellbinding look into the legacy of misogyny and how its roots spread into the worldwide witch trials. Insightful, rage-inducing, and deeply provocative, Chollet examines the dark, violent time in our history and asks whether culture has really shifted in the independent woman's favor. Read more

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A Spy Among Friends

Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

By: Ben Macintyre
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 11 hours

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War’s most infamous spy, from the “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle.

Now an MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, and Anna Maxwell Martin

“[A Spy Among Friends] reads like a story by Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, or... Read more

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Agent Sonya

Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

By: Ben Macintyre
Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

“Ben Macintyre draws from a wealth of declassified reports, memoirs, and interviews to paint a vivid portrait of Ursula Burton, née Kuczynski, daughter of a German Jewish bourgeois family, mother of three, life-long champion of communism, and USSR spy “Sonya.” Sonya’s cause drew her across the world, where her information networks allowed her to... Read more

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Fight Like Hell

The Untold History of American Labor

By: Kim Kelly
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

“In Fight Like Hell, Kim Kelly celebrates the untold stories and unsung heroes of the American labor movement, taking great care to center voices that have historically been sidelined or silenced in mainstream conversations around workers' rights. The result is an inclusive, fascinating, and galvanizing retrospective that mines the depths of the... Read more

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Powers and Thrones

A New History of the Middle Ages

By: Dan Jones
Narrated by: Dan Jones
Length: 24 hours 25 minutes

“Complete immersion in history at the hands of a master. Read more

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Bloodlands

Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 19 hours 13 minutes

“A comprehensive work of scholarship documenting the nightmarish history of the 'bloodlands' that stretch from Poland to St. Petersburg and then southwest to where Ukraine runs into the Black Sea. In these areas the policies of Stalin and Hitler resulted in the deaths of 14 million people. Snyder asks -- how could so many human lives be brought... Read more

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