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“nathaniel baxter”

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  • Terror From The Steppe: The Story Of Atilla And The Huns

    by Nathaniel Baxter ...
    The Huns seemed to arrive from nowhere, riding out of the vast Eurasian steppe like a force nature had forgotten to name. To the Roman world, they were not just another barbarian threat, but something far more frightening: a moving empire of horsemen that shattered borders before anyone understood what was happening.At the center of that storm was Attila, remembered as the Scourge of God but far ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Order Of The Temple: The Rise And Ruin Of The Knights Templar

    by Nathaniel Baxter ...
    They began as a handful of knights guarding terrified pilgrims on the roads to Jerusalem, sworn to poverty, obedience, and war in the name of God. Within generations, the Knights Templar had become something far more powerful: warrior monks, castle builders, battlefield shock troops, and bankers trusted by kings.Their white mantles and red crosses became symbols of discipline, sacrifice, and ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The First Empire: The Rise And Fall Of Achaemenid Persia

    by Nathaniel Baxter ...
    Two and a half thousand years ago, a vassal prince from a backwater territory launched a conquest that would redefine the limits of human ambition. In a single generation, Cyrus of Persia dismantled every major power in the ancient world and built an empire that stretched from the Aegean to the Indus, containing nearly half of all the people alive on Earth. What followed was not simply another ... Read more

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  • Dragon's Spine: The Untold History Of The Great Wall Of China

    by Nathaniel Baxter ...
    For over two thousand years, emperors, warlords, and generals staked their legacies on a single, obsessive idea: build a wall. But the structure they created was never a single, unified monument. It was a fractured, evolving, and often desperate response to the terrifying cavalry of the steppes—an enemy that could strike anywhere and vanish before any army could respond. The famous brick-and-stone ... Read more

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  • Crossroads Of Three Continents: The Story Of The Ottoman Empire

    by Nathaniel Baxter ...
    For more than six hundred years, a single dynasty ruled a dominion that stretched from the walls of Vienna to the sands of Arabia. The House of Osman built a transcontinental empire that controlled the gateway between East and West, shaped the fates of dozens of peoples, and left scars on the map that still bleed today. This is the story of how a band of frontier warriors became masters of three ... Read more

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  • Al-Andalus: The Muslim Conquest And Rule Of Iberia

    by Nathaniel Baxter ...
    A small band of warriors crossed a narrow strait in the spring of 711, summoned by a faction that thought it could use them and discard them. Three years later, a kingdom that had ruled Iberia for three hundred years no longer existed. The men who opened the door never imagined what would walk through it.What grew on that conquered soil became the most brilliant civilization in Europe, a place ... Read more

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  • Genghis Khan And The Age Of Mongol Conquest

    by Nathaniel Baxter ...
    He was born into a world that wanted him dead. Abandoned by his tribe, enslaved by rivals, and left to starve on the frozen steppe, the boy named Temujin should have disappeared from history like countless others before him. Instead, he rose to command the largest contiguous land empire ever known, leaving behind a trail of shattered civilizations and a reshaping of the world that still echoes ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lord Of Asia: The Epic Life Of Alexander The Great

    by Nathaniel Baxter ...
    He conquered the known world before his thirty-third birthday. From a mountain kingdom the Greeks dismissed as barbaric, a young prince emerged who would shatter the Persian Empire, march his army to the edge of the earth, and leave a legend so powerful that Roman emperors wept in envy before his statue. This is the story of how one man's relentless ambition rewrote the map of civilization.The ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Caesar's Ghost: The Life, Death, And Eternal Echo Of The Roman Empire

    by Nathaniel Baxter ...
    Rome was not built in a day, and it did not die in a day either. From a muddy village on the banks of the Tiber to the most powerful state the ancient world had ever seen, the rise took centuries of ruthless ambition, military genius, and political innovation. The fall took even longer—a slow-motion collapse stretching across generations, punctuated by civil wars, barbarian invasions, and emperors ... Read more

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    The First Empire: The Rise And Fall Of Achaemenid Persia

    by Nathaniel Baxter ...
    Narrated by Martin Sherrill ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 2 min

    Before Rome ruled the Mediterranean and before Alexander marched east, Persia built something the world had never seen. From a rugged corner of the Iranian plateau, a once-obscure people rose to command an empire stretching from Egypt to India, binding together nearly half the known world under one crown.At the center stands Cyrus the Great, a conqueror who did not simply crush kingdoms, but ... Read more

    $20.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Silk Road: The Original Global Shipping Network

    by Nathaniel Baxter ...
    Narrated by Martin Sherrill ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 58 min

    The Silk Road was never just a road, and silk was never the whole story. It was a living web of deserts, mountain passes, oasis cities, caravan towns, imperial highways, and maritime links that slowly pulled the ancient world into contact with itself.Its origins lay in desperation as much as curiosity, when Han China looked west for allies against the Xiongnu and discovered kingdoms, horses, ... Read more

    $20.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Terror From The Steppe: The Story Of Atilla And The Huns

    by Nathaniel Baxter ...
    Narrated by Martin Sherrill ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 27 min

    The Huns seemed to arrive from nowhere, riding out of the vast Eurasian steppe like a force nature had forgotten to name. To the Roman world, they were not just another barbarian threat, but something far more frightening: a moving empire of horsemen that shattered borders before anyone understood what was happening.At the center of that storm was Attila, remembered as the Scourge of God but far ... Read more

    $20.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus