15 must-read audiobook books like The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe by Martyn Rady

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The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe

By: Martyn Rady

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world hist…

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1. Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire

By: Peter H. Wilson

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable do… read more

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2. Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint

By: Peter Sarris

4.29

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian     Justinian is a radical reassessme… read more

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  • history
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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3. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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4. The Eagle and The Lion: Rome, Persia, and an Unwinnable Conflict

By: Adrian Goldsworthy

3.95

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

The Eagle and The Lion is a story of the imperial rivalry between two of the greatest empires of th… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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5. De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen

By: Bart Van Loo

4.31

Format: 607 pages, Hardcover

Meesterverteller Bart Van Loo neemt de lezer op sleeptouw langs duizend jaar Europese geschiedenis.… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
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6. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

By: Christopher Clark

4.18

Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover

An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • germany
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."

-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

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7. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

By: Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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8. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

By: Gary J. Bass

4.29

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China

By: Robert D. Kaplan

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just ou… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization

By: Kenneth W. Harl

4.00

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped … read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook
"Attila, just like every other nomadic conqueror, appreciated the skills of the clever craftsmen and engineers of rival sedentary, bureaucratic empires."

-Kenneth W. Harl, Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization

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12. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

By: Pekka Hämäläinen

4.05

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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13. Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire

By: Eckart Frahm

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires    At its … read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

By: Peter Frankopan

3.94

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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15. Budapest: Between East and West

By: Victor Sebestyen

4.29

Format: 418 pages, Hardcover

Wallis Simpson, Theodore Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Evelyn Waugh, the great tenor Luciano Pavarot… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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16. Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

By: Amanda H. Podany

4.50

Format: 662 pages, Hardcover

A unique history of the ancient Near East that compellingly presents the life stories of kings, pri… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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17. The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe

By: Martyn Rady

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world hist… read more

Similar categories in Martyn Rady's The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe book and Martyn Rady's The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe

  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • politics
  • germany
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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18. Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

By: Rachel Chrastil

3.84

Format: 485 pages, Hardcover

'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily Telegraph'Superb on the human consequences of w… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • germany
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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19. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689

By: Jonathan Healey

4.20

Format: 492 pages, Hardcover

A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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20. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire

By: Tore Skeie

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The first major book on Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English reframes the st… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • medieval
  • audiobook
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21. The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East

By: Nicholas Morton

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages  … read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • medieval history
  • nonfiction
  • medieval
  • audiobook

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3.95

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4.11

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