History audiobooks

Golden Bones

By: Sichan Siv

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

While the United States battled the Communists of North Vietnam in the 1960s and ’70s, the neighboring country of Cambodia was attacked from within by dictator Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975—the same year that the U.S. presence in Vietnam ended—and began a vicious genocide to return Cambodia to an agrarian... Read more

Blackhorse Riders

By: Philip Keith

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Deep in the jungles of Vietnam, Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th
Armored Cavalry, the famed Blackhorse Regiment, was a specialized
cavalry outfit equipped with tanks and armored assault vehicles. On the
morning of March 26, 1970, they began hearing radio calls from an
infantry unit four kilometers away that had stumbled into a hidden North
... Read more

Enemies

By: Tim Weiner

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 18 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“Turns the long history of the FBI into a story that is as compelling, and important, as today’s headlines.”—Jeffrey Toobin, author of American Heiress

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, New York Daily News, and Slate

Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence... Read more

Paris in the Fifties

By: Stanley Karnow

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In June 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America’s finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years, first as a student and later as a correspondent for Time magazine. By the time he left, Karnow... Read more

What Einstein Told His Cook

By: Robert L. Wolke

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is red meat red? How do they decaffeinate coffee? Do you wish you
understood the science of food but don't want to plow through dry,
technical books? In What Einstein Told His Cook, University of Pittsburgh chemistry professor emeritus and award-winning Washington Post
food columnist Robert L. Wolke provides reliable and witty ... Read more

Once Upon a Secret

By: Mimi Alford

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1962, nineteen-year-old Mimi Beardsley arrived by train in Washington, D.C., to begin an internship in the White House press office. The Kennedy Administration had reinvigorated the capital and the country—and Mimi was eager to contribute. For a young woman from a privileged but sheltered upbringing, the job was the chance of a... Read more

Anne Frank’s Story

By: Carol Ann Lee

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Diary of Anne Frank is read and loved by children throughout the world, yet few of those readers know what life was really like for the young Jewish girl before and after she wrote her famous diary.Written in a lively yet sympathetic style, Anne Frank’s Story follows Anne Frank from her birth in Germany and her happy childhood in Amsterdam... Read more

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

By: Katherine Boo

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

“Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as... Read more

ENIAC

By: Scott McCartney

Narrated by: Adams Morgan

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The true father of the modern computer was not John von Neumann, as he is generally credited. That honor belongs to the two men, John Mauchly and Presper Eckert, who built the world's first programmable computer: the legendary ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer).Their three-year race to create the ENIAC is a compelling tale of... Read more

Da Vinci's Ghost

By: Toby Lester

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Everybody knows the picture: a man, meticulously rendered by Leonardo da
Vinci, standing with arms and legs outstretched in a circle and a
square. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the grandeur
of art, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the human
spirit, the drawing turns up just about everywhere: in books, on... Read more

Rights of Man

By: Thomas Paine

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in the late eighteenth century as a reply to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the French Revolution, Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man is unquestionably one of the great classics on the subject of democracy. A vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government, it defended the dignity of the common man in all... Read more

The World America Made

By: Robert Kagan

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the country’s most influential strategic thinkers, paints a vivid, alarming picture of what the... Read more

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

By: Frederick Douglass

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 21 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass was Douglass' third autobiography. In it he was able to go into greater detail about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery, as he and his family were no longer in any danger from the reception of his work. In this engrossing narrative he recounts early years of abuse; his dramatic escape to the... Read more

The Vikings

By: Robert Ferguson

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 14 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Raiders and traders, settlers and craftsmen, the medieval
Scandinavians who have become familiar to history as Vikings never lose
their capacity to fascinate, from their ingeniously designed longboats
to their stormy pantheon of gods and goddesses. Robert Ferguson is a
sure guide across what he calls "the treacherous marches which divide
legend... Read more

Nazi Germany: History in an Hour

By: Rupert Colley

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Listen to this bite size audiobook about Hitler's experience as a soldier during World War One, the Nazi Party's climb to power, the elimination of their political opponents and the Weimar constitution. Learn about life in Nazi Germany, for women, the family, the Jews,... Read more

The Cold War: History in an Hour

By: Rupert Colley

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. From the end of World War Two to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 the world lived within the shadow of the Cold War. Russia and America eyed each other with suspicion and hostility. World War Two was too recent to be forgotten and a nuclear Third World War... Read more

World War Two: History in an Hour

By: Rupert Colley

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. World War Two was one of the most devastating conflicts the world has ever seen. Between 1939 and 1945 almost every country in the world was affected by the war in some way. World War Two: History in an Hour neatly covers all the major facts and events giving... Read more

The American Civil War: History in an Hour

By: Kat Smutz

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The American Civil War started when eleven southern ‘slave’ states declared their independence from the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln’s Republican government were strongly against slavery and fought to abolish it and keep the country united. The... Read more

Thinking the Twentieth Century

By: Tony Judt

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An unprecedented and original history of intellectual life throughout the past centuryThinking the Twentieth Century is the final book of unparalleled historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt. Where Judt’s masterpiece Postwar redefined the history of modern Europe by uniting the stories of its eastern and western halves, Thinking the... Read more

Black History: History in an Hour

By: Rupert Colley

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Encompassing everything from immigration to civil war, emancipation, slavery and migration, Black History in an Hour gives you a neat overview of this vast and fascinating subject. This audio download is a superb introduction to the long and varied history of... Read more

Hitler: History in an Hour

By: Rupert Colley

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. What made a failed Austrian artist into the most reviled and destructive personality of the twentieth century? Where did the seeds of his rabid anti-Semitism lie? How did a marginalized loner become such a moving force in Germany? How could a nation have fallen for such... Read more

The Titanic

By: Wyn Craig Wade

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In this centennial edition of the definitive book on the Titanic, new findings and interviews shed light on the world's most famous marine disaster for the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking.On
that fatal night in 1912 the world's largest moving object disappeared
beneath the waters of the North Atlantic in less than three hours. Why
was... Read more

My Empire Of Dust

By: Wolfgang Stoecker

Narrated by: Wolfgang Stoecker

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Wolfgang Stoecker is on a mission to explore the cultural meanings of dust. Cologne-based artist Stoecker has collected samples of dust from historic buildings across Europe and beyond. With the help of scientists and an electron-microscope, he has analysed the dust and discovered it contains tiny fossils, particles from the Sahara, pollutants... Read more

The Rape of Nanking

By: Iris Chang

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In December 1937, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred in the capital of China. The Japanese army swept into Nanking and not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured, and murdered half of the city’s remaining population, some 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly,... Read more