History audiobooks

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

Notes on a Century

By: Bernard Lewis

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Few historians end up as historical actors in their own right, but Bernard Lewis has both witnessed and participated in some of the key events of the last century. When we think of the Middle East, we see it in terms that he defined and articulated.In this exceptional memoir he shares stories of his wartime service in London and Cairo,... Read more

The Only Thing Worth Dying For

By: Eric Blehm

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

""The one book you must read if you have any hope of understanding what our fine American soldiers are up against in Afghanistan.” —Former Congressman Charlie WilsonFrom the author of the award-winning THE LAST SEASON, the untold story of the U.S. Army Special Forces team that conquered the Taliban against overwhelming odds while protecting... Read more

Birdseye

By: Mark Kurlansky

Narrated by: Jon Van Ness

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture. Read more

Service

By: Marcus Luttrell

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins & Colleen Werthmann

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Marcus Luttrell, author of the #1 bestseller Lone Survivor, share war stories about true American heroism from himself and other soldiers who bravely fought alongside him.
Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. So many had given their lives to save him --... Read more

Season of the Witch

By: David Talbot

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 16 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Season of the Witch is the first audiobook to fully capture the dark magic of San Francisco in this breathtaking period, when the city radically changed itself—and then revolutionized the world. The cool gray city of love was the epicenter of the 1960s cultural revolution. But by the early 1970s, San Francisco’s ecstatic experiment came crashing... Read more

Die Anfänge der Philosophie - Abridged

By: Michael Stahl

Narrated by: Michael Stahl

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Blick des Historikers auf die ersten Philosophen Europas richtet sich auf ein Bündel von Voraussetzungen, die das neue Denken ermöglichten. Am wichtigsten ist dabei die Entstehung der griechischen Polis als Bürgergemeinde. Deren Entwurf im frühen politischen Denken könnte dem neuen Nachdenken über den natürlichen Kosmos den Weg gewiesen... Read more

Das Weltreich der Römer in der Kaiserzeit - Abridged

By: Michael Stahl

Narrated by: Michael Stahl

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ausgehend von brennenden Gegenwartsfragen sird das römische Weltreich als eine für die folgenden 2.000 Jahre grundlegend gewordene Kultur unter sechs Stichworten analysiert: - Einheit - Zentralismus - Regionalismus - Subsidiarität - Eliten - Frieden - wirtschaftlicher Wohlstand - gleichartige Lebensverhältnisse - Integrationsfähigkeit -... Read more

Seizing the Enigma

By: David Kahn

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

For almost four desperate years between 1939 and 1943, British and American navies fought a savage, losing battle against German submarine wolf packs. The Allies might never have turned the tide of that historic battle without an intelligence coup. The race to break the German U-boat codes is one of the last great untold stories of World War... Read more

The Reckoning

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrated by: Terry Wale

Length: 20 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

1816: Napoleon has at last been defeateed, but victory brings no peace to the English.

The cost of war strikes deep into the country- there is a raging inflation, discharged soldiers join the ranks of the unemployed, wages tumble and the bread price soars- and hungry men are easily stirred to protest.

Amid this turbulence, Heloise and James stand... Read more

Citizens

By: Simon Schama

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 36 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution. Simon Schama deftly refutes the contemporary notion that the French Revolution represented an uprising of the oppressed poor against a decadent aristocracy and corrupt court. He argues instead that the revolution was born of a rift... Read more

The Christ

By: Alfred McBride, O.Praem.

Narrated by: Alfred McBride, O.Praem.

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Father Alfred McBride, O.Praem., named one of the most influential religious educators of the 20th century by the Talbot School of Theology, explains that each Gospel has a unique emphasis. A truly faithful picture of Jesus must be gleaned from studying all four Gospels.• Matthew, the tax collector, was a shrewd observer of human nature. His... Read more

Manhunt

By: Peter L. Bergen

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the New York Times bestselling Holy War, Inc., this is the definitive account of the decade-long manhunt that killed the world’s most wanted man, Osama bin Laden.

Al Qaeda expert and CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen paints a multidimensional picture of the hunt for bin Laden over the past decade, including the... Read more

Engines of Change

By: Paul Ingrassia

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

America was made manifest by its cars. From the assembly lines of Henry Ford to the open roads of Route 66 and Jack Kerouac, America's history is a vehicular history—an idea brought brilliantly to life in this major work by the acclaimed author of Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster.

One of the nation's... Read more

Effie

By: Suzanne Fagence Cooper

Narrated by: Sophie Ward

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Effie Gray, a beautiful and intelligent young socialite, rattled the foundations of England's Victorian age. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, the leading art critic of the time, she found herself trapped in a loveless, unconsummated union after Ruskin rejected her on their wedding night. On a trip to Scotland she met John Everett Millais,... Read more

Twelve Desperate Miles

By: Tim Brady

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The Dirty Dozen meets Band of Brothers in this true story of how a rusty old New Orleans banana boat staffed with an unlikely crew of international merchant seamen, a gang of inmates from a local jail, and a French harbor pilot spirited out of Morocco by OSS agents in the trunk of a Chevy, were drafted into service in WWII—and heroically... Read more

Chasing Venus

By: Andrea Wulf

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the highly acclaimed Founding Gardeners now gives us an enlightening chronicle of the first truly international scientific endeavor—the eighteenth-century quest to observe the transit of Venus and measure the solar system.
   On June 6, 1761, the world paused to observe a momentous occasion: the first transit of Venus between the... Read more

Private Empire

By: Steve Coll

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 24 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States, revealing the true extent of its power. ExxonMobil’s annual revenues are larger than the economic activity in the great majority of countries. In many of the countries where it conducts business, ExxonMobil’s sway over politics and security is greater... Read more

Top of the Rock

By: Warren Littlefield & T. R. Pearson

Narrated by: Bob Balaban

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Seinfeld, Friends, Frasier, ER, Cheers, Law & Order, Will & Grace…Here is the funny, splashy, irresistible insiders’ account of the greatest era in television history -- told by the actors, writers, directors, producers, and the network executives who made it happen…and watched it all fall apart.

Warren Littlefield was the NBC President... Read more

Lone Survivor

By: Marcus Luttrell

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow along a Navy SEAL's firsthand account of American heroism during a secret military operation in Afghanistan in this true story of survival and difficult choices.

On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a... Read more

Masters of Command

By: Barry Strauss

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar: Each was a master of war. Each had to look beyond the battlefield to decide whom to fight and why; to know what victory was and when to end the war; to determine how to bring stability to the lands he conquered. Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar had to be not only generals but statesmen. And yet each was a battlefield... Read more

The Admirals

By: Walter R. Borneman

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

How history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power.

Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and William Halsey. These four men were the best and the brightest the navy... Read more

Marked for Death

By: Geert Wilders

Narrated by: Lou Lander

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Geert Wilders is a hunted man. He lives in a heavily protected safe house that is bombproof and bulletproof. Why? Because Geert Wilders is marked for death by Islamic extremists. In his new book, Marked for Death, Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders tells his never-before-published story about the jihad being waged against him—and the West.... Read more

A Disposition to Be Rich

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ferdinand Ward was the Bernie Madoff of his generation—a supposed genius at making big money fast on Wall Street, who turned out to have been running a giant pyramid scheme that ultimately collapsed in one of the greatest financial scandals in American history. The son of a Protestant missionary and small-town pastor with secrets of his own to... Read more