History audiobooks

Above the Ground

By: Dan Lawton

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1978, the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland, known as The Troubles, had reached a boiling point. Hundreds of members of the Irish Republican Army, determined to drive the hated British out of the province—killing soldiers and police, detonating bombs, while arming themselves with firearms and explosives—had been arrested and incarcerated in... Read more

The Boys of Everest

By: Clint Willis

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This gripping account of courage, achievement, and heartbreaking loss tells the story of Bonington's Boys, a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. The boyish, fanatically driven Chris Bonington's inner circle included a dozen of the most renowned climbers, who took increasingly... Read more

The Apple II Age

By: Laine Nooney

Narrated by: Krystal Hammond

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Skip the iPhone, the iPod, and the Macintosh. If you want to understand how Apple Inc. became an industry behemoth, look no further than the 1977 Apple II. Designed by the engineer Steve Wozniak and hustled into the marketplace by his Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, the Apple II became one of the most prominent personal computers of this dawning... Read more

What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?

By: Raja Shehadeh

Narrated by: Khalid Abdalla

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A poignant, incisive meditation on Israel's longstanding rejection of peace, and what the war on Gaza means for Palestinian and Israeli futures.



When apartheid in South Africa ended in 1994, dismantled by internal activism and global pressure, why did Israel continue to pursue its own apartheid policies against Palestinians? In keeping with a... Read more

Spycraft

By: Pete Langman & Nadine Akkerman

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies—from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination



Early modern Europe was a hotbed of espionage, where spies, spy-catchers, and conspirators pitted their wits against each other in deadly games of hide and seek. Theirs was a dangerous... Read more

The First Emperor of China

By: Jonathan Clements

Narrated by: Kathleen Li

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The First Emperor



In 1974, Chinese peasants made the discovery of the century . . . Thousands of terracotta soldiers guarding the tomb of a tyrant.



Ying Zheng was born to rule the world, claiming descent from gods, crowned king while still a child. He was the product of a heartless, brutal regime devoted to domination, groomed from an early age to... Read more

John Quincy Adams

By: Randall Woods

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 38 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A magisterial journey through the epic life and transformative times of John Quincy Adams

In this masterful biography, historian Randall B. Woods peels back the many layers of John Quincy’s long life, exposing a rich and complicated family saga and a political legacy that transformed the American Republic.

Born the first son of John and Abigail... Read more

The Corporation and the Twentieth Century

By: Richard N. Langlois

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 31 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalism, brought forth what became a dominant narrative: that administrative coordination by trained professional managers is essential to the efficient running of organizations both public and private.... Read more

When the Night Comes Falling

By: Howard Blum

Narrated by: Zac Aleman

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times Bestseller“Compelling. . . . Blum capably maintains the suspense and thoughtfully probes into the motives of key players in this intriguing yet profoundly unsettling story.”—Kirkus Reviews""The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from acclaimed bestselling author Howard Blum, whose groundbreaking coverage of the... Read more

The Diplomacy of the American Revolution

By: Samuel Flagg Bemis

Narrated by: Tom Beyer

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"To the superficial observer there would seem never to have been an age less propitious for the birth of a new nation. The tendency of the times was altogether for the aggrandizement of big states and the consolidation of their territory at the expense of the little ones, for the extinction of the weaker nations and governments rather than for... Read more

Lytton

By: Peter Edwards & Kevin Loring

Narrated by: Kevin Loring & Wayne Ward

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

From bestselling true-crime author Peter Edwards and Governor General's Award-winning playwright Kevin Loring, two sons of Lytton, the BC town that burned to the ground in 2021, comes a meditation on hometown―when hometown is gone.

“It’s dire,” Greta Thunberg retweeted Mayor Jan Polderman. “The whole town is on fire. It took a... Read more

Beyond Vietnam \ MAs allA de Vietnam (Spanish edition)

By: Martin Luther King

Narrated by: Emil Matos

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Hermosa edición conmemorativa del discurso Más allá de Vietnam del Dr. Martin Luther King, parte de los archivos del Dr. King publicados exclusivamente por HarperCollins. En 1967, en la iglesia Riverside de la Ciudad de Nueva York, el Dr. King se paró frente a una audiencia entusiasmada y criticó la guerra de Vietnam como un acto de fuerza... Read more

Military Strategy

By: Antulio J. Echevarria II

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Distilling the ideas of the greatest military theoreticians of history, including Sun Tzu, Niccol? Machiavelli, and Carl von Clausewitz, this clear and engaging Very Short Introduction presents a fascinating account of the "art of the general." Antulio J. Echevarria II highlights the dynamic relationship between the main elements of strategy:... Read more

After the Flying Saucers Came

By: Greg Eghigian

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Greg Eghigian tells the story of the world's fascination with UFOs and the prospect that they were the work of visitors from outer space. While accounts of great wonders in the sky date back to antiquity, reports of UFOs took place against the unique backdrop of the Cold War and space age, giving rise to disputed government inquiries,... Read more

IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (History of Computing)

By: James W. Cortada

Narrated by: Brian Conover

Length: 26 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A former IBM employee offers an authoritative history of the successes and failures of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.

For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies... Read more

My Roman History

By: Alizah Holstein

Narrated by: Alizah Holstein

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“A lyrical and moving exploration of the ways in which the heart governs even the pursuit of a life of the mind, this is a book for anyone who has ever loved Rome, as well as anyone who shares the experience of having found, in an unfamiliar history, their own unexpected home.” —Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch and Home/Land

In this... Read more

Doctrine, Spirit, and Discipline

By: Kevin M. Watson

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 19 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive history of the Wesleyan movement in the United States.An expansive, substantive history of the Wesleyan tradition in the United States, Doctrine, Spirit, and Discipline offers a broad survey of the Methodist movement as it developed and spread throughout America, from the colonial era to the present day.It also provides an... Read more

The Defeat of the Damned

By: Douglas E. Nash, Sr.

Narrated by: David Stifel

Length: 17 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most notorious yet least understood body of troops that fought for the Third Reich during World War II was the infamous Sondereinheit Dirlewanger, or the "Dirlewanger Special Unit." Formed initially as a company-sized formation in June 1940 from convicted poachers, it served under the command of SS-Obersturmführer Oskar Dirlewanger,... Read more

New Deal Law and Order

By: Anthony Gregory

Narrated by: Bob Johnson

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Most Americans remember the New Deal as the crucible of modern liberalism. But while it is most closely associated with Roosevelt's efforts to end the Depression and provide social security for the elderly, we have failed to acknowledge one of its most enduring legacies: its war on crime. Crime policy, Anthony Gregory argues, was a defining... Read more

Broadway Butterfly

By: Anthony M. DeStefano

Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Indiana-born Vivian Gordon fluttered to New York in 1920 looking for fame and fortune. Before long, the flame-haired chorus girl parlayed her youth, beauty, and ambition into more profitable means as a tough and glamorous symbol of Prohibition-era excess. She was a speakeasy owner, blackmailer, high-end escort, extortionist, racketeer, and con... Read more

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

By: Omar Barghouti

Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"Barghouti is the future. He is intelligent, empowered, and non-violent. He is completely impressive. It would help Americans to see such a picture of Palestinian political engagement, when they have such a distorted image of who Palestinians are. Some day they will know him." —Phillip Weiss, author of Mondoweiss: The War of Ideas in the Middle... Read more

Misterios De La Muerte De La Princesa Diana

By: Onofre Quezada

Narrated by: Anonimo & Onofre Quezada

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"Misterios de la Muerte de la Princesa Diana" es una obra que sumerge al lector en el intrigante y complejo mundo de uno de los eventos más controvertidos de finales del siglo XX. A través de un minucioso análisis de las circunstancias que rodearon el trágico accidente del 31 de agosto de 1997, este libro examina las teorías de conspiración, las... Read more

Consciousness Beyond Life

By: Pim van Lommel, MD

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In Consciousness Beyond Life, the internationally renowned cardiologist Dr. Pim van Lommel offers ground-breaking research into whether or not our consciousness survives the death of our body. If you enjoy books about near-death experiences, such as those by Raymond Moody, Jeffrey Long, and James Van Praagh; watch televisions shows like... Read more

The Delta in the Rearview Mirror

By: Di Rushing

Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1976, Di Rushing and her husband, Sam decided to open the first winery in Mississippi. Their business was thriving by 1990, with eight national award-winning wines, a beautiful vineyard, and a successful restaurant.



But in March of 1990, a series of unforeseen events rocked the operation. After the Rushings discovered one of the tour guides,... Read more