Audiobooks Narrated by Robert Meldrum

This is the story of the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war - a barely known episode of unimaginable horror.

Nobody is more disturbed, said President Truman, three days after the destruction of Nagasaki in 1945, "over the use of the atomic bombs than I am, but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war.

In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade.

Whether the fault of tedious teachers or hammy actors, Shakespeare is often seen as dry and impenetrable.

The extraordinary story of Australian sappers on the front lines of the war in Afghanistan.They are young, they are tough and they were the forward scouts in Australia's war against the Taliban.

At the age of 82, Rupert Murdoch is divorcing his third wife Wendi Deng and gearing up for the toughest challenge of his life: to hand his empire on to his children.

Packed with fascinating facts and insight, this book will fuel dinner party debate and provide listeners with the science and politics behind the world's most controversial resource.

Since its inception in 1945, the United Nations has had a powerful but controversial influence on global politics.

On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who are called on to save the day, the town and the entire battle.

Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did.