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Weavers, Scribes, and Kings
- A New History of the Ancient Near East
- By: Amanda H. Podany
- Narrated by: Amanda H. Podany
- Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
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In this sweeping history of the ancient Near East, Amanda Podany takes listeners on a gripping journey from the creation of the world's first cities to the conquests of Alexander the Great....
By: Amanda H. Podany
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The House of War
- The Struggle between Christendom and the Caliphate
- By: Sir Simon Mayall
- Narrated by: Sir Simon Mayall
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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From the taking of Jerusalem in the 7th century AD by Caliph Umar, to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I, Christian popes, emperors and kings, and Muslim caliphs and sultans were locked in a 1300-year battle for political, military, economic and religious supremacy.
By: Sir Simon Mayall
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The Republic of Venice and Republic of Genoa: The History of the Italian Rivals and Their Mediterranean Empires
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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The Republic of Venice and Republic of Genoa: The History of the Italian Rivals and Their Mediterranean Empires looks at the origins of the cities, their rise to power across the Mediterranean, and their inevitable demises....
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Compressed informative intro to Venetian History
- By ConstantReader on 15-10-2019
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Byzantium
- The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
- By: Judith Herrin
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
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Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization....
By: Judith Herrin
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Krithia
- The Forgotten Anzac Battle of Gallipoli
- By: Mat McLachlan
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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The Second Battle of Krithia has existed largely in the shadows of the bigger Gallipoli story. It is, however, one of the most poignant and tragic tales of World War I.
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Amazing Aussie diggers.
- By tlcdc on 28-11-2024
By: Mat McLachlan
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Istanbul
- Memories of a City
- By: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets, and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination....
By: Orhan Pamuk, and others
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Weavers, Scribes, and Kings
- A New History of the Ancient Near East
- By: Amanda H. Podany
- Narrated by: Amanda H. Podany
- Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In this sweeping history of the ancient Near East, Amanda Podany takes listeners on a gripping journey from the creation of the world's first cities to the conquests of Alexander the Great....
By: Amanda H. Podany
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The House of War
- The Struggle between Christendom and the Caliphate
- By: Sir Simon Mayall
- Narrated by: Sir Simon Mayall
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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From the taking of Jerusalem in the 7th century AD by Caliph Umar, to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I, Christian popes, emperors and kings, and Muslim caliphs and sultans were locked in a 1300-year battle for political, military, economic and religious supremacy.
By: Sir Simon Mayall
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The Republic of Venice and Republic of Genoa: The History of the Italian Rivals and Their Mediterranean Empires
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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The Republic of Venice and Republic of Genoa: The History of the Italian Rivals and Their Mediterranean Empires looks at the origins of the cities, their rise to power across the Mediterranean, and their inevitable demises....
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Compressed informative intro to Venetian History
- By ConstantReader on 15-10-2019
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Byzantium
- The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
- By: Judith Herrin
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
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Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization....
By: Judith Herrin
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Krithia
- The Forgotten Anzac Battle of Gallipoli
- By: Mat McLachlan
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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The Second Battle of Krithia has existed largely in the shadows of the bigger Gallipoli story. It is, however, one of the most poignant and tragic tales of World War I.
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Amazing Aussie diggers.
- By tlcdc on 28-11-2024
By: Mat McLachlan
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Istanbul
- Memories of a City
- By: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets, and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination....
By: Orhan Pamuk, and others
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Ottoman Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Fall of Constantinople, and the Life of Suleiman the Magnificent
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Desmond Manny, Duke Holm
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Ottoman Empire then pay attention....
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The Thirty-Year Genocide
- Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924
- By: Benny Morris, Dror Ze'evi, Claire Bloom
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 21 hrs and 56 mins
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A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and then the Turkish Republic against their Christian minorities from 1894 to 1924....
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Excellent, albeit long, book
- By Anonymous User on 25-11-2023
By: Benny Morris, and others
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In Our Time: 25 Journeys Through the History of the Islamic World
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Original Recording
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Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of the Islamic world through its religion, thinkers, poetry, empire and rulers....
By: Melvyn Bragg
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the Republic of Turkey
- The History of the Ottoman Empire’s Collapse and the Establishment of a New State
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Tim Planiden
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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The long agony of the “sick man of Europe”, an expression used by the tsar of Russia to depict the falling Ottoman Empire, could almost blind people to its incredible power and history....
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The Armenian Genocide
- A Captivating Guide to the Massacre of the Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
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During 1915 to 1923, one and a half million Armenian people were deported and killed in the most appalling ways comprehensible....
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Midnight at the Pera Palace
- The Birth of Modern Istanbul
- By: Charles King
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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With beguiling prose and rich character portraits, Charles King brings to life a remarkable era when a storied city stumbled into the modern world....
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- By Deirdre E Siegel on 26-09-2022
By: Charles King
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Lords of the Horizons
- A History of the Ottoman Empire
- By: Jason Goodwin
- Narrated by: Grahame Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on Western minds and hearts....
By: Jason Goodwin
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Games Without Rules
- The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
- By: Tamim Ansary
- Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
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Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism.....
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Outstanding
- By Suzannah on 22-12-2022
By: Tamim Ansary
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The Secret History
- By: Procopius
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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The Secret History, written by the sixth-century Byzantine historian Procopius, is one of the most extraordinary and scandalous documents to have survived from the early Byzantine period....
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Worth a listen
- By Anonymous User on 06-07-2024
By: Procopius
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Climax at Gallipoli
- The Failure of the August Offensive
- By: Rhys Crawley
- Narrated by: Fred Humberstone
- Length: 12 hrs
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Gallipoli: the mere name summons the story of this well-known campaign of the First World War....
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Another Awful Narrator
- By Rugger252 on 23-11-2022
By: Rhys Crawley
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Operation Nemesis
- The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide
- By: Eric Bogosian
- Narrated by: Eric Bogosian
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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A masterful account of the conspiracy of assassins that hunted down the perpetrators of a genocide....
By: Eric Bogosian
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They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else
- A History of the Armenian Genocide
- By: Ronald Grigor Suny
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the 20th century....
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An agonizing, shockingly detailed account
- By Jas Web on 29-10-2022
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The Great Siege of Malta
- The History of the Battle for the Mediterranean Island Between the Ottoman Empire and Knights Hospitaller
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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For centuries, Christians and Muslims were embroiled in one of the most infamous territorial disputes of all time, viciously and relentlessly battling one another for the Holy Land....
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Fall of Constantinople
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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Discover the remarkable history of the fall of Constantinople....
By: Hourly History
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Lawrence of Arabia on War
- The Campaign in the Desert 1916-18
- By: Robert Johnson
- Narrated by: Robert Johnson
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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While Lawrence of Arabia himself has been the subject of many biographies and an award-winning film, the context of his war in the desert, and his ideas on war itself, are less well-known....
By: Robert Johnson
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Erdogan Rising
- The Battle for the Soul of Turkey
- By: Hannah Lucinda Smith
- Narrated by: Hannah Lucinda Smith
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
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Everyone has heard of Erdogan: Turkey’s bullish, mercurial president is the original postmodern populist. Around the world, other strongmen are now following the path that he has blazed....
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Longwinded
- By Mahmoud Naser on 14-09-2021
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The Battle of Lepanto: The History of the Decisive Naval Battle Between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
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The Battle of Lepanto is one of the great iconic military clashes of history, ranked with Waterloo, Hastings, Somme, and the Battle of Britain. It was the last and largest great battle involving galleys....
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The Fall of Constantinople
- The Rise of the Ottoman Empire and the End of the Byzantine Empire
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453....
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Useful Enemies
- Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
- By: Noel Malcolm
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
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From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the 18th century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. In this path-breaking audiobook, Noel Malcolm ranges through these vital centuries of East-West interaction....
By: Noel Malcolm
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The Ottoman Empire
- A Captivating Guide to the Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire and Its Control over Much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Desmond Manny
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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The Ottoman world was nothing like an exotic fairy tale featuring tyrant sultans, mean pashas, and ill-fated harem women. The true stories of genuine sultans and princes are a bit more complicated and no less exciting....
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Ancient Turkey
- A Captivating Guide to Göbekli Tepe and the Ancient Civilizations of Anatolia and Eastern Thrace (Forgotten Civilizations)
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jay Herbert
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
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Ancient Turkey was a land of myth and mystery, but its secrets are slowly being uncovered. Find out about the legendary cultures that left their mark on this unique region, and discover which stories are fact and which are fiction....
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Hittites
- A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Anatolian People Who Established the Hittite Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Duke Holm
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
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The Hittites built a remarkable civilization that deserves a spot in history. Sadly, few historians have been ready to tackle the task of uncovering the true story of these astonishing people. In this new audiobook, you will discover the truth about this fascinating ancient civilization....
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Turkish Mythology with a Historical Introduction (Annotated)
- Learn About the Colorful Folklore, Vibrant History and Culture of Turkey Through This Collection of 44 Fairy Tales Short Stories
- By: Ignac Kunos
- Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Turkish mythology is comprised of myths and traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation by the Turkish people. Soon, you will be immersing yourself into their culture and traditions told in an almost poetic way....
By: Ignac Kunos
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Middle Eastern History
- History of the Middle East: Melting Pot - Holy Wars & Holy Cities - from the Sumerians to the Ottoman Empire and Today’s Nation States: Israel, Iran, Iraq, and Egypt - Shaping the Near East History
- By: Raymond C. Nelson
- Narrated by: Trevor Clinger
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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How did a fertile region turn humankind from small tribes of hunter-gatherers into the civilizations we know today? Where did writing, culture, and agriculture begin? How did the belief in a single, all-powerful God sprout and thrive in a world where people worshiped many different gods? Find out....
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Needs a new narrator.
- By CazG on 05-08-2023