History audiobooks

The Vietnam War: History in an Hour

By: Neil Smith

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. ‘War, what is it good for?’ THE VIETNAM WAR: HISTORY IN AN HOUR gives a gripping account of the most important Cold War-era conflict, fought between the United States and the Viet Cong, the Vietnam People’s Army and their Communist allies. It was one of the most... Read more

The Russian Revolution: History in an Hour

By: Rupert Colley

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. In 1917 the world changed forever. One of the most influential and contentious events in recent history, the Russian Revolution unleashed the greatest political experiment ever conducted, one which continues to influence both Eastern and Western politics today. ... Read more

Life after Television

By: George Gilder

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this remarkably prescient book, Gilder predicts how television will merge with other technologies and evolve into the telecomputer, a personal computer adapted for video processing and connected by fiberoptic threads to other personal computers around the world. This interactive system will change how we do business, educate our children, and... Read more

The Founding Fathers’ Guide to the Constitution

By: Brion McClanahan

Narrated by: David Cochran Heath

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

What does the Constitution really mean? How did the founding generation intend for us to interpret and apply the Constitution? Are liberals right when they cite its "elastic" clauses to justify big government, or are conservatives right when they cite its explicit limits on federal power? Professor Brion McClanahan, popular author of The... Read more

Chasing the Monsoon

By: Alexander Frater

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the inspiring story of how one man realized his dream of witnessing firsthand the most dramatic of meteorological events: the Indian monsoon.Alexander Frater spent the first six years of his life on a South Pacific island, where his father, the only doctor within a thousand square miles, encouraged his fascination and respect for the... Read more

Daughters Of Britannia

By: Katie Hickman

Narrated by: Full Cast & Katie Hickman

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating BBC Radio series, Katie Hickman examines the lives of 'diplomatic women' through their letters and diaries. From the first exploratory expeditions into foreign lands, through the heyday of the British Empire and still today, the foreign service has been shaped and run behind the scenes by the wives of ambassadors and minor... Read more

The Story of World War II

By: Donald L. Miller

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 24 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught... Read more

Decision in Philadelphia

By: Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world: the Constitution. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with humanity and humor. Decision in Philadelphia is the best popular history of the Constitutional Convention; in it, the life and times of eighteenth century... Read more

Double Cross

By: Ben Macintyre

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “superb [and] intensely readable” (The Washington Post) untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II and the extraordinary spies who achieved it—from the bestselling author of Prisoners of the Castle

“Not since Ian Fleming and John le Carré has a spy writer so captivated readers.”—The Hollywood... Read more

The Hatfields and The McCoys

By: Otis K. Rice

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Hatfield-McCoy feud has long been the most famous vendetta of the southern Appalachians. Over the years it has become encrusted with myth and error. Scores of writers have produced accounts of it, but few have made any real effort to separate fact from fiction. Novelists, motion picture producers, television script writers, and others have... Read more

A Lucky Child

By: Thomas Buergenthal

Narrated by: Thomas Buergenthal & Don Hagen

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A LUCKY CHILD. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal managed by his wits and some remarkable... Read more

Fatal Dive

By: Peter F. Stevens

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

No radio distress call ever crackled from the submarine USS Grunion. In 1942, under the fog of World War II, the vessel simply vanished without a trace. For nearly sixty-five years, only a dead silence lingered regarding the fate of the sub and its seventy-man crew—until now. Here author Peter F. Stevens reveals the incredible true story of the... Read more

Intrepid Aviators

By: Gregory G Fletcher

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 16 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

On the morning of October 24, 1944, in the Sibuyan Sea amidst the Philippine Islands, VT-18, a close-knit squadron of six young American torpedo bomber pilots, departed the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid on a search and destroy mission. Their target: the super-battleship Musashi, the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The pilots were tasked... Read more

Frederick Douglass

By: William McFeely

Narrated by: Robert Sevra

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize-winning author McFeely captures the power and the contemplative nature of Douglass, while shedding light on the insecurities and humanity of the man himself. The power of this landmark biography lies in McFeely's ability to bring to life not only the charismatic man, but the age as well-detailing the struggle for emancipation in... Read more

In the Blink of an Eye

By: Pat Milton

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 18 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 mysteriously fell from the sky, claiming the lives of all 230 people aboard. Associated Press reporter Pat Milton offers a rare inside look at the investigation of the unexplained explosion and the experts who struggled to find the truth behind one of America's most disturbing aviation disasters. Early in the... Read more

Der zweite Weltkrieg

By: Der zweite Weltkrieg

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Der 2. Weltkrieg war die größte militärische Auseinandersetzung der Geschichte und forderte Millionen Menschenleben. Mit Adolf Hitler an der Spitze wollte Deutschland wieder seine frühere Weltmachtstellung erlangen und begann 1939 mit dem Angriff auf Polen den Krieg, in dessen Verlauf es Hitler gelang, weite Teile Europas zu erobern. Die gegen... Read more

The Great Turning Or The Great Unraveling: It's Our Choice

By: Joanna Macy

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Macy inspires us to strengthen our capacity to face the planetary crisis with hope for the future. She’s co-author of Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re In without Going Crazy. Read more

No Higher Power

By: Phyllis Schlafly & George Neumayr

Narrated by: Dianna Dorman

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Obama administration's overreaching and pervasive secularist policies represent the greatest government-directed assault on religious freedom in American history. So argues conservative movement leader Phyllis Schlafly and journalist George Neumayr. In No Higher Power, Schlafly and Neumayr show how Obama is waging war on our religious... Read more

What's Tha Up To Nah?

By: Martyn Johnson

Narrated by: Martyn Johnson

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

'Many times I heard people say that you'll have no friends if you're a policeman. How wrong they were. If you were right with them, they were right with you.'

PC Martyn Johnson is back on the beat with more hilarious and heart-warming stories from the golden age of policing. With his nose for trouble and a knack for mischief, there's no such... Read more

What's Tha Up To?

By: Martyn Johnson

Narrated by: Martyn Johnson

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

'I've turned boys into men and policemen into coppers,' said the Sergeant. 'Policemen have got brains, but coppers, they've got brains and common sense.'

No two days were ever the same for bobby-on-the-beat Martyn Johnson. Come rain or come shine, he patrolled his patch with a sharp eye for troublemakers and a kind word for those in need of a... Read more

Rome, Inc

By: Stanley Bing

Narrated by: Kerin McCue

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author and world-class satirist Stanley Bing trains his savvy eye on the world's first and most famous multinational corporation in this humorous and insightful volume. Here, he chronicles the great city of Rome from its humble beginnings to its monumental collapse due to greed, in-fighting and general mismanagement.... Read more

Negro President

By: Garry Wills

Narrated by: Garry Wills

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In "Negro President" the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills explores a pivotal moment in American history through the lens of Thomas Jefferson and the now largely forgotten Timothy Pickering, and "prods readers to appreciate essential aspects of our distressed but well-intentioned representative democracy" (Chicago Tribune). In 1800... Read more

Collected Papers in Analytical Psychology

By: Carl Jung

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Carl Jung's Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology gathers in one volume some of his most important and influential shorter writings, and also some pieces that from our perspective, almost a century later, seem quaint or even idiosyncractic. The volume includes his famous study of a trance medium, a study on number-symbolism, his lectures on... Read more

The Notorious Benedict Arnold

By: Steve Sheinkin

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

On a bitter cold day in January 1741 Benedict Arnold was born. Little did anyone know that he would grow up to become the most infamous villain in American history. But first, he would be one of the country’s greatest war heroes. Fearless in the line of fire, a genius at strategy and motivating his men, General Arnold was America’s first action... Read more