Audiobooks Narrated by Julian Elfer

Celebrated historian John Hirst offers a fascinating exploration of the qualities that made Europe a world-changing civilization.

History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive".

For decades, proponents of artificial intelligence have argued that computers will soon be doing everything that a human mind can do.

The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the "dean of adventure writing"

Hitler's Collaborators focuses the spotlight on one of the most controversial and uncomfortable aspects of the Nazi wartime occupation of Europe: the citizens of those countries who helped Hitler.

A provocative account showing that "China" - and its 5,000 years of unified history - is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day.

A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science.

We are a collection of voices, the assembled history of the many voices that have spoken into our lives and shaped us. Voices of the past, voices of the present, and voices of the future.

Mozart is one of the most familiar and beloved icons of our culture, but how much do we really understand of his music, and what can it reveal to us about the great composer?

This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion.