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.

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

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....

Acclaimed British historian Anthony Everitt delivers a compelling account of the former orphan who became Roman emperor in A.D. 117 after the death of his guardian Trajan....

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

The Penguin History of Europe series reaches the 20th century with acclaimed scholar Ian Kershaw's long-anticipated analysis of the pivotal years of World War I and World War II.

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

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

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....