History audiobooks

Joe Rochefort's War

By: Elliot Carlson

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 22 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Elliot Carlson's biography of Captain Joe Rochefort is the first to be written of the officer who headed the U.S. Navy's decrypt unit at Pearl Harbor and broke the Japanese Navy's code before the Battle of Midway. Listeners will share his frustrations as he searches in vain for Yamamoto's fleet prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and... Read more

Treatise on Law

By: Saint Thomas Aquinas

Narrated by: Robin Lawson

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Saint Thomas Aquinas, an Italian philosopher and Dominican friar who lived during the thirteenth century, was the greatest of the medieval theologians. His writings harmonized faith and reason, which resulted in a Christian form of rationalism.This treatise comprises questions 90–97 of the Summa Theologica, in which St. Thomas presents a... Read more

The Oregon Trail

By: Francis Parkman

Narrated by: Robert Morris

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the classic account of Francis Parkman’s rugged trip over the eastern part of the Oregon Trail with his cousin Quincy Adams Shaw in the spring and summer of 1846. They left St. Louis by steamboat and traveled on horseback, in company with guides and occasionally other travelers. They encountered storms and buffalo hunts, meeting Indians,... Read more

Inside the Circus--Romney, Santorum and the GOP Race: Playbook 2012 (POLITICO Inside Election 2012)

By: Mike Allen & Evan Thomas

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Two of America’s most perceptive political reporters join forces for an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the race for the White House in POLITICO’s Playbook 2012, a series of four instant digital books on the 2012 presidential election. The second edition, Inside the Circus, pulls back the curtain on the pursuit of the Republican... Read more

Trickle Down Tyranny

By: Michael Savage

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Trickle Down Tyranny is the single book you need to stop Obama's emerging dictatorship before we lose all of our constitutional, God-given rights. These pages show you the dangerous laws and powergrabs of the Obama administration … and what we can do to stop this leftist gang from seizing another term in office.Will President Obama transform the... Read more

Jacked

By: David Kushner

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Inside the making of the multibillion-dollar Grand Theft Auto video game empireGrand Theft Auto is one of the biggest and most controversial video game franchises of all time. Since its first release in 1997, GTA has pioneered the use of everything from 3D graphics to the voices of top Hollywood actors and repeatedly transformed the world of... Read more

White House Burning

By: Simon Johnson & James Kwak

Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

America is mired in debt—more than $30,000 for every man, woman, and child. Bitter fighting over deficits, taxes, and spending bedevils Washington, D.C., even as partisan gridlock has brought the government to the brink of default. Yet the more politicians on both sides of the aisle rant and the citizenry fumes, the more things seem to remain... Read more

Can't Is Not an Option - Abridged

By: Nikki Haley

Narrated by: Nikki Haley

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A rising star in the Republican Party shares her inspirational memoir of family, hope, and the power of the American Dream. Decades before their daughter surprised the nation by becoming governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley's parents had a dream. Ajit and Raj Randhawa were well-educated, well-off Sikhs in the Punjab region of India. But... Read more

I Confess

By: Kathryn Tempest

Narrated by: John Arnold

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The Essay is a BBC Radio series exploring cultural topics. In these five episodes, I Confess: The Power of the Confession looks at the history of confessions, which links the legal world of Cicero to our own. In Episode one, Dr Kathryn Tempest of Roehampton University excavates the roots of one of the most powerful legal concepts of all time.... Read more

Detroit

By: Scott Martelle

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When we think of Detroit, we think first of the auto industry and its slow, painful decline, then maybe the sounds of Motown, or the long line of professional sports successes. But economies are made up of people, and the effect of the economic downfall of Detroit is one of the most compelling stories in America. Detroit: A Biography by... Read more

The Ring and the Crown

By: Alison Weir, Kate Williams, Multiple Authors, S...

Narrated by: Julia Franklin

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The excitement surrounding the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton has prompted four of Britain's top historical biographers to look closely at Royal Weddings. Each writer focuses on different areas of interest, from Medieval to the present day, and fascinating anecdotal details are revealed in the course of this most informative and... Read more

A Night to Remember

By: Walter Lord

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Over one hundred years ago, the mightiest “unsinkable” ship began her maiden voyage to cross the Atlantic. An engineering feat eleven stories high, the Titanic contained a list of passengers collectively worth $250 million when she left port on April 10, 1912, but she would never reach her destination. The Titanic collided with an iceberg on the... Read more

Anonymous Shake-Speare

By: Kurt Kreiler

Narrated by: Mark Boyett

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

William Shakespeare had nothing to do with the actor and money lender William Shaksper from Stratford-upon-Avon. The man behind the nom de plum "William Shakespeare" was, in fact, a very well educated aristocrat who often frequented the court of Elizabeth and whose real name was Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. The dramas of Shakespeare were... Read more

Out In The World A Global Gay History

By: Richard Coles

Narrated by: Richard Coles

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Coles examines same sex desire through the ages, in a journey reaching from the UK to India, Egypt, Greece and Native America. In episode one, his quest takes him to Saqqara, Egypt and the contested tomb of two men, Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. Were the men lovers or brothers? He explores the ideas of the 'sexologists' and tells the story... Read more

The Crisis of Zionism

By: Peter Beinart

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A dramatic shift is taking place in Israel and America. In Israel, the deepening occupation of the West Bank is putting Israeli democracy at risk. In the United States, the refusal of major Jewish organizations to defend democracy in the Jewish state is alienating many young liberal Jews from Zionism itself. In the next generation, the liberal... Read more

Three Months in the Southern States

By: Arthur James Lyon Fremantle

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of this book, Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, has, perhaps, achieved more renown in recent years than at any time since the publication of his literary efforts. Those familiar with the film Gettysburg will recall the unusual figure of a British Guards officer attired (inaccurately) in his full dress Guardsman's scarlet uniform among the... Read more

Always By My Side

By: Christina Schmid

Narrated by: Christina Schmid & Lisa Coleman

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A LIFE LOST.
A LOVE CUT SHORT.

'From the moment I set eyes on him I adored him. The connection between us was so strong it went beyond everything else. His job, my job, his lifestyle, my lifestyle. All that fell away...'

Christina and Oz had their whole lives ahead of them. Oz was one of only a handful of bomb disposal experts serving in the... Read more

The Sugar Girls

By: Duncan Barrett & Nuala Calvi

Narrated by: Penny McDonald

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten. ‘On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the short distance from her house to Tate & Lyle’s refinery on the shining curve of... Read more

72 Hours

By: Frank Pope

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

5 August 2005. On a secret mission to an underwater military installation 30 miles off the coast of Kamchatka, Russian Navy submersible AS-28 ran into a web of cables and stuck fast. With 600 feet of freezing water above them, there was no escape for the seven crew. Trapped in a titanium tomb, all they could do was wait as their air supply... Read more

Martin Luther

By: Solemn Appeal Ministries

Narrated by: Lauren Mazzio

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Dangers multiplied before him; his enemies seemed about to triumph, and the powers of darkness to prevail. Luther trembled s he looked upon himself—one man opposed to the mightiest powers of earth. He sometimes doubted whether he had indeed been led of God to set himself against the authority of the church. In anguish of spirit he threw himself... Read more

Cary Grant

By: Graham McCann

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For two moviegoing generations, Cary Grant was class—an effortless embodiment of gentlemanly grace and humor. But Cary Grant’s greatest achievement was in creating himself and the irresistible character he became. In this savvy, fascinating portrait, McCann tracks the transformation of a life and looks closely at the sources of Cary Grant’s... Read more

Patton

By: Martin Blumenson

Narrated by: William Lavelle

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This magnificent biography by the world’s foremost expert on the life of George S. Patton portrays the many faces of the general with uncompromising insight: the gruff, demanding public front known—and feared—by millions; the sensitive, intellectual visage shown to intimates; and the self-conscious, emotional, religious man only a handful of... Read more

Two Rings

By: Eve Keller & Millie Werber

Narrated by: Yelena Shmulenson

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Trapped in Poland in 1941, like many Jews, Millie Werber went from the Radom Ghetto to slave labor in an armaments factory, survived Auschwitz, and toiled in a second factory until liberation came on April 1, 1945. She faced death many times but lived to marry a good man and fellow survivor. Meanwhile, she concealed a photograph in her closet... Read more

Hitler

By: A. N. Wilson

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler is a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century’s most notorious figures. In it, Wilson offers a fresh interpretation of the life of the “ultimate demon-tyrant of history.”In 1923, thirty-four-year-old Adolf Hitler was languishing in prison after leading an unsuccessful... Read more