Jeremy Black Audio Books

In 2016, Britain stunned itself and the world by voting to pull out of the European Union, leaving financial markets reeling and global politicians and citizens in shock.

The story of the battlefield in the 20th century was dominated by a handful of developments.

How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of "double, double toil and trouble" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer?

Dedicated fans of Jane Austen's novels will delight in accompanying historian Jeremy Black through the drawing rooms, chapels, and battlefields of the time in which Austen lived and wrote.

From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority on a global scale.

From the Great Exhibition to the Credit Crunch - the transformation of Britain from the world's greatest nation to the present day....

Waterloo is Jeremy Black's brilliant attempt to set the famous battle in the context of warfare in the period, and not only that of Napoleonic Europe....