Audiobooks Narrated by John Curless

In this fast-paced epic, best-selling historian and master storyteller Arthur Herman spotlights two giants of the 20th century.

From the bestselling author of "Cicero" comes a sweeping, panoramic biography of Rome's first emperor.

In Socrates: A Man for Our Times, Johnson draws from little-known resources to construct a fascinating account of one of history's greatest thinkers....

Martin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history....

Charles Darwin is arguably the most influential scientist of all time. His Origin of Species forever changed our concept of the world's creation...

To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history.

Having worked on numerous high-profile genetic investigations, including one focused on the famed Iceman of the Italian Alps, Bryan Sykes has become a premier authority on human genetics....

In modern memory, Winston Churchill remains the man with the cigar and the equanimity among the ruins....

In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper present a vivid and compelling portrayal of the City of Lights after its liberation.

Keith Jeffery's fascinating and revealing account draws on a wealth of archival materials never before seen by any outsider to unveil the inner workings of the world's first spy agency....