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.

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.

The author of Seven Daughters of Eve returns with a lively account of how all dogs are descended from a mere handful of wolves.

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....

There is no more profound, enduring, or fascinating question in all of science than that of how time, space, and matter began.

How did a single "genesis event" create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars, and planets? How did atoms assemble - here on earth, and perhaps on other worlds - into living beings intricate enough to ponder their origins? What fundamental laws govern our universe?

The author of the New York Times best-seller The Plantagenets chronicles the next chapter in British history - the actual historical backdrop for Game of Thrones.

John Adams said of Cicero, "All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.

I did not go to Nicaragua intending to write a book, or, indeed, to write at all: but my encounter with the place affected me so deeply that in the end I had no choice.