Michael Livingston

Cleopatra's dead. Her children are paraded through the streets in chains wrought of their mother's golden treasures, and within a year all but one of them will be dead. Only her young daughter, Cleopatra Selene, survives to continue her quest for vengeance against Rome and its emperor.

A new and radically original account of the longest military conflict in European history, which challenges the conventional periodization of the 'Hundred Years War' to consider a much longer period of Anglo-French conflict.

Octavian, Caesar's ambitious great-nephew and adopted son, vies with Marc Antony and Cleopatra for control of Caesar's legacy. As civil war rages from Rome to Alexandria, and vast armies and navies battle for supremacy, a secret conflict may shape the course of history.

Late in AD 937, four armies met in a place called Brunanburh. On one side stood the shield-wall of the expanding kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons. On the other side stood a remarkable alliance of rival kings who’d come together to destroy them once and for all....

Crécy is a story of past and present. It is a new history of one of the most important battles of the Middle Ages: the battle of Crécy, in which the outnumbered English under King Edward III won a decisive victory over the French and changed the course of the Hundred Years War....

Agincourt is one of the most famous battles in English history, a defining part of the national myth. This groundbreaking study by Mike Livingston, author of Never Greater Slaughter, presents a new interpretation of Henry V's great victory....

At the right time, in the right place, words have the power to change the world...

This program includes a bonus interview with Rosamund Pike. “Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal.”—The New York Times on The Wheel of Time® series Explore never-before-seen insights into the Wheel of Time, including: —An alternate scene from an early draft of...