Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Steel Wave - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier author of military historical fiction, brings us the centerpiece of his epic trilogy of the Second World War.

General Dwight Eisenhower once again commands a diverse army that must find its single purpose in the destruction of Hitler’s European fortress. His primary subordinates, Omar Bradley and Bernard... Read more

Fräulein Gold: Der Himmel über der Stadt - Die Hebamme von Berlin, Band 3 (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Anne Stern

Narrated by: Anna Thalbach

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Berlin, 1924. Hulda Gold arbeitet in der neuen Frauenklinik in Berlin-Mitte und versorgt dort die Frauen und ihre Neugeborenen. Die Geburtshilfe ist modern, Berlin am medizinischen Puls der Zeit. Doch es kommt zu einem tragischen Todesfall: Eine junge Schwangere stirbt bei einer Operation, die ausgerechnet der ehrgeizige Chef-Gynäkologe Egon... Read more

The Family - Abridged

By: Mario Puzo

Narrated by: Philip Bosco

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo’s best.”
—Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguys“One of his most satisfying works….A thoroughly entertaining posthumous present from one of the masters of popular fiction.”
—BooklistMario Puzo’s final masterwork. A sweeping epic saga of corruption, greed, treachery, and sin, The Family is... Read more

A Place Called Freedom - Abridged

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: Victor Garber

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM begins in the infernal coal mines of the Jamisson family, in the Scottish highlands, where twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh spends most of his waking hours.  Bound to his employer for life, Mack burns with an insatiable desire to escape.  

He finds an unlikely ally in Lizzie Hallim, the beautiful, willful young aristocratic... Read more

A Column of Fire - Abridged

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Absorbing . . . impossible to resist.” —The Washington Post

As Europe erupts, can one young spy protect his queen? #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett takes us deep into the treacherous world of powerful monarchs, intrigue, murder, and treason with his magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. A thrilling... Read more

Blonde - Abridged

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Jayne Atkinson

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn MonroeSoon to be a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne NicholsonIn one of her most ambitious works, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child,... Read more

The Golden One - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. Answering the siren call of Egypt once more, Amelia Peabody and her husband and son, Ramses, arrive at their home in Luxor to learn of a new royal tomb ransacked by thieves. Soon, a more disturbing outrage concerns the archaeologists: the freshly and... Read more

The Widow of the South - Abridged

By: Robert Hicks

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker, Tom Wopat, David Chandler & Jo...

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Based on a true story, this debut Civil War novel follows a Southern plantation woman's journey of transforming her home into a hospital for the war.
This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. During the Civil War's Battle of Franklin, a five-hour bloodbath with 9,200 casualties, McGavock's home was turned into a field... Read more

The Ideal Bride - Abridged

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Clare Higgins

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Michael Anstruther-Wetherby is a man destined for power. Except that Michael, for all his political skill and intelligence, lacks the most important element of success: a wife. So he goes searching for his ideal bride, a gently bred, well-managed young lady. Michael discovers such a paragon, but finds a formidable obstacle in his path, the young... Read more

The Perfect Lover - Abridged

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Katie Carr

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Simon Frederick Cynster has a perfect life -- one of enormous wealth and impeccable social status. His lean handsomeness turns the heads of naïve debutantes, while his sensual allure ensures he never lacks for more sophisticated partners for a night of pleasure.However, Simon accepts that he must find a wife to achieve true contentment. Someone... Read more

Code to Zero - Abridged

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this classic Cold War thriller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett puts his own electrifying twist on the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. "Code to Zero's split-second suspense proves that...[Follett is] a hell of storyteller."—Entertainment Weekly Read more

The Rising Tide - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Larry Pine

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A modern master of the historical novel, Jeff Shaara has painted brilliant depictions of the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War I. Now, The Rising Tide begins a staggering work of fiction bound to be a new generation’s most poignant chronicle of World War II.

Through unforgettable battle scenes in the unforgiving deserts of North... Read more

The Interpretation of Murder - Abridged

By: Jed Rubenfeld

Narrated by: Ron Rifkin

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Interpretation of Murder opens on a hot summer night in 1909 as Sigmund Freud arrives in New York. Among those waiting to greet him is Dr. Stratham Younger, a gifted physician who is one of Freud’s most ardent American supporters. And so begins the visit that will be the great genius’s first–and only–journey to America.
The morning... Read more

The Afghan Campaign - Abridged

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2,300 years ago an unbeaten army of the West invaded the homeland of a fierce Eastern tribal foe. This is one soldier’s story . . .

The bestselling novelist of ancient warfare returns with a riveting historical novel that re-creates Alexander the Great’s invasion of the Afghan kingdoms in 330 b.c.
In a story that might have been ripped from... Read more

Im Nordwind - Die Nordwind-Saga, Band 1 (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Miriam Georg

Narrated by: Tanja Fornaro

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hamburg in den Jahren 1912-1914. Alice arbeitet auf dem Vergügungsmarkt Hamburger Dom. Voller Hoffnung, einem Leben in Armut zu entkommen, ging sie eine Ehe ein. Doch das Leben mit ihrem Mann ist unerträglich. Das wenige hart verdiente Geld behält er ein, Eifersucht und Jähzorn treiben ihn in die Raserei, ihre Tochter Rosa kann sie kaum... Read more

The Program - Abridged

By: Gregg Hurwitz

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The series that started it all!In this powerful follow-up to his action-packed thriller The Kill Clause, Gregg Hurwitz, the new maestro of pulse-pounding suspense, ratchets up the excitement with another sensational page-turner featuring Tim Rackley, a driven lawman motivated by honor, morality, and a deep sense of justice.Called back into the... Read more

With No One As Witness - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Charles Keating

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Delicately textured. . . achingly compassionate. . . gripping. . . . It’s one of George’s best, and that’s saying something.” —Seattle Times
The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s chilling 13th novel in the Inspector Lynley series
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley faces the greatest challenge of his career.When an adolescent boy’s nude body... Read more

Savannah {or} a Gift for Mr. Lincoln - Abridged

By: John Jakes

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The author of sixteen consecutive New York Times bestsellers sets his sights on the jewel of the South-Savannah-and brings it to life in his inimitable style.
Georgia, 1864: Sherman's army marches from Atlanta to the sea. In its path, the charming old city of Savannah where the Lester ladies -- attractive widowed Sara and her feisty... Read more

Everlasting - Abridged

By: Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Narrated by: Xanthe Elbrick

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once Abrielle was a proud, exceptional lady coveted for her bearing, her breeding, her wit, and her beauty. But when her stepfather is denied his rightful title and the wealth that accompanies it, Abrielle finds herself suddenly disgraced. Only one would still have her, the oafish and grotesque Desmond de Marlé. Yet no one else can rescue her... Read more

Through a Glass Darkly - Abridged

By: Karleen Koen

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sparkles with all of the passion, extravagance and scandal of a grand and glorious era…
As opulent and passionate as the 18th century it celebrates, Through a Glass Darkly will sweep you away to the splendors of a lost era. From aristocrats to scoundrels, its rich, vivid characters create their own immortality. Here is the story of a great family... Read more

Drood - Abridged

By: Dan Simmons

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens -- at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world -- hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever.

Did Dickens begin living a dark double... Read more