History audiobooks

Full Body Burden

By: Kristen Iversen

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter & Kristen Iversen

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“An intimate and deeply human memoir that shows why we should all be concerned about nuclear safety, and the dangers of ignoring science in the name of national security.”—Rebecca Skloot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
 
A shocking account of the government’s attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic... Read more

The Second World War

By: Antony Beevor

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Length: 39 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor.

Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most... Read more

Glamorous Illusions

By: Lisa T Bergren

Narrated by: Jaimee Draper

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Cora is about to discover who she truly is. It’s the summer of 1913, and Cora Kensington’s life on the family farm has taken a dark turn. Not only are the crops failing, but someone dear to Cora is failing as well. One fateful afternoon, a stranger comes to call, and Cora discovers a terrible secret about her past… a secret that will radically... Read more

A Distant Mirror

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

Narrated by: Aviva Skell

Length: 25 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bubonic Plague of the 14th century killed one third of all human beings in Europe and Western Asia; many who survived the plague killed each other in the Hundred Years War that followed. What was it like to live in this calamitous century, when knighthood (and much more) died a violent death? Read more

Lancaster and York

By: Alison Weir

Narrated by: Maggie Mash

Length: 22 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting account of the Wars of the Roses, from the beloved and bestselling historian Alison Weir
The war between the houses of Lancaster and York was characterised by treachery, deceit and bloody battles. Alison Weir's lucid and gripping account focuses on the human side of history. At the centre of the book stands Henry VI, the pious king... Read more

Facts & Fancies

By: Armando Iannucci

Narrated by: Armando Iannucci

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A compilation of readings from the book of the same name by the co-creator of the comedy series, Knowing Me, Knowing You . Iannucci proffers his inaccurate insights into science, the arts, and such topics as the first fist-fight on the moon, an Official History of Noises, the War between Savoury Eaters and the Sweet-toothed Peoples and the... Read more

Born to Battle

By: Jack Hurst

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Born to Battle examines the Civil War’s complex and decisive western theater through the exploits of its greatest figures: Ulysses S. Grant and Nathan Bedford Forrest. These two opposing giants squared off in some of the most epic campaigns of the war, starting at Shiloh and continuing through Perryville, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, and... Read more

Me the People

By: Kevin Bleyer

Narrated by: Kevin Bleyer

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States Constitution promised a More Perfect Union. It’s a shame no one bothered to write a more perfect Constitution—one that didn’t trigger more than two centuries of arguments about what the darn thing actually says.
 
Until now.  
 
Perfection is at hand. A new, improved Constitution is here. And you are holding it.
 
But first, some... Read more

Cronkite - Abridged

By: Douglas Brinkley

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Douglas Brinkley presents the definitive, revealing biography of an American legend: renowned news anchor Walter Cronkite. An acclaimed author and historian, Brinkley has drawn upon recently disclosed letters, diaries, and other artifacts at the recently opened Cronkite Archive to bring detail and depth to this deeply personal portrait. He also... Read more

The Dawn of Political History

By: Fred Baumann

Narrated by: Fred Baumann

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating course of lectures, Professor Fred Baumann leads us on an engaging exploration of this penetrating work. Taking in each of the eight books, we examine the complex juxtaposition of events Thucydides demonstrates without much comment of his own. We see how democrats and oligarchs, Athenians and Spartans, understand the world... Read more

First Principles & Natural Law Part I

By: Hadley Arkes

Narrated by: Hadley Arkes

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this course of lectures, Professor Hadley Arkes seeks to recall the classic connection between law and morality. Law works by replacing personal choice and private judgment with a public rule enforced on everyone, which raises the question of whether there are in fact rights grounded in the very nature of human beings. Seeking the principles... Read more

The Art Of Monarchy

By: Will Gompertz

Narrated by: Will Gompertz

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Royal Collection is one of the most wide-ranging collections of art and artefacts in the world and provides an intriguing insight into the minds of the monarchs who have assembled it. In this series, BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz examines dozens of these unique objects, in a quest to 'use the Collection as a prism through which to better... Read more

Amos Fortune

By: Elizabeth Yates

Narrated by: Ray Childs

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Newbery Award winner, based on a true story! Captured by slave traders when only fifteen, At-mun never forgot his roots as a prince. Nor did he ever lose his princely dignity and the courage to hold his head high. Sold at auction in America and haunted by the memory of his young sister left behind in Africa, At-mun, now Amos, began his long... Read more

The Speckled Monster

By: Jennifer Lee Carrell

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 19 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

THE SPECKLED MONSTER is both a hair-raising tale of courage in the face of the deadliest disease that has ever struck mankind, and a gripping account of the birth of modern immunology. Jennifer Lee Carrell's dramatic story follows two parents who, after barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, flouted eighteenth-century European... Read more

Just Send Me Word

By: Orlando Figes

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"I went to get the letters for our friends, and couldn't help but feel a little envious, I didn't expect anything for myself. And suddenly—there was my name, and, as if it was alive, your handwriting."

In 1946, after five years as a prisoner—first as a Soviet POW in Nazi concentration camps, then as a deportee (falsely accused of treason) in the... Read more

Lions of Kandahar

By: Major Rusty Bradley & Kevin Maurer

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most critical battles of the Afghan War is now revealed as never before. Lions of Kandahar is an inside account from the unique perspective of an active-duty U.S. Army Special Forces commander, an unparalled warrior with multiple deployments to the theater who has only recently returned from combat.Southern Afghanistan was slipping... Read more

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife

By: John A. Nagl

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife, Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl—a veteran of both Operation Desert Storm and the conflict in Iraq—considers the now crucial question of how armies adapt to changing circumstances during the course of conflicts for which they are initially... Read more

George Washington’s Military Genius

By: Dave R. Palmer

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

George Washington’s military strategy has been called bumbling at worst and brilliant at best. So which is it? Was George Washington a strategic genius or just lucky? So asks Dave R. Palmer in George Washington’s Military Genius. An updated edition of Palmer’s earlier work The Way of the Fox, George Washington’s Military Genius breaks down the... Read more

The Eskimo and The Oil Man

By: Bob Reiss

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Arctic century is upon us. A great jockeying for power and influence has erupted among nations in the high north. At stake are trillions of dollars in profit or loss, US security, geopolitical influence and the fate of a fragile environment as well as the region's traditional people. As the ice melts and oil companies venture north, the... Read more

Bunch of Amateurs

By: Jack Hitt

Narrated by: Peter Colburn

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

WHAT IS IT THAT DRIVES THE SUCCESS OF AMERICA AND THE IDENTITY OF ITS PEOPLE? ACCLAIMED WRITER AND CONTRIBUTING EDITOR TO THIS AMERICAN LIFE JACK HITT THINKS IT’S BECAUSE WE’RE ALL A BUNCH OF AMATEURS.

America’s self-invented tinkerers are back at it in their metaphorical garages—fiddling with everything from solar-powered cars to space... Read more

The Great Bridge

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 27 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism, and determination, told by master historian David McCullough.

This monumental book is the enthralling story of one of the greatest events in our... Read more

The Blood of Heroes

By: James Donovan

Narrated by: James Donovan

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

On February 23, 1836, a large Mexican army led by dictator Santa Anna reached San Antonio and laid siege to about 175 Texas rebels holed up in the Alamo. The Texans refused to surrender for nearly two weeks until almost 2,000 Mexican troops unleashed a final assault. The defenders fought valiantly-for their lives and for a free and independent... Read more

The Color of War

By: James Campbell

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In the pantheon of great World War II conflicts, the battle for Saipan is often forgotten. Yet historian Donald Miller calls it "as important to victory over Japan as the Normandy invasion was to victory over Germany." For the Americans, defeating the Japanese came at a high price. In the words of a Time magazine correspondent, Saipan was "war... Read more

National Service

By: Colin Shindler

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Permission to speak, Sah!

In the aftermath of the Second World War, over two million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed services. Some were sent abroad and watched their friends die in combat. Others remained in barracks and painted coal white. But despite delivering such varied experiences, National Service helped to shape the... Read more