History audiobooks

The Ancient Alien Question

By: Philip Coppens

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Have we been visited by extraterrestrial beings?

Did these "ancient aliens" contribute to the birth of human civilization?

Do our ancient monuments contain evidence of their presence?

The Ancient Alien Question reveals an array of astonishing truths, including:

A radically different understanding of the pyramids and how they were constructed
The... Read more

Explorers of the Nile

By: Tim Jeal

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than
the quest to discover the source of the White Nile. It was the planet's most elusive secret, the prize coveted above all others. Between 1856 and 1876, six larger-than-life men and one extraordinary woman accepted
the challenge. Showing extreme courage and resilience, Richard... Read more

Sybil Exposed

By: Debbie Nathan

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

SYBIL: A name that conjures up enduring fascination for legions of obsessed fans who followed the nonfiction blockbuster from 1973 and the TV movie based on it—starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward—about a woman named Sybil with sixteen different personalities. Sybil became both a pop phenomenon and a revolutionary force in the psychotherapy... Read more

A Disquisition on Government

By: John C. Calhoun

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Written between 1843 and 1848, John C. Calhoun's A Disquisition on Government addresses such diverse issues as states' rights and nullification, slavery, and the growth of the federal judicial power. Articulating Calhoun's perspective on government as seen from the point of view of a permanent minority (the South), A Disquisition on Government... Read more

The Dab of Dickens, The Touch of Twain, and The Shade of Shakespeare

By: Elliot Engel

Narrated by: Elliot Engel, Geoffrey Howard, Grover Gardner, ...

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown—until now. In this utterly captivating book, Dr. Elliot Engel, a leading authority on the lives of great authors,... Read more

Big Miracle

By: Tom Rose

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Cold-War-era 1988, Big Miracle is the real story behind the remarkable, bizarre and often times uproarious event that mesmerized the world for weeks. On October 7, an Inuit hunter found three California Gray Whales imprisoned in the Arctic ice. In the past, as was nature's way, trapped whales always died. Not this time. Rose compellingly... Read more

The Christ Files

By: John Dickson

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Uniquely among the world’s religions, the central claims of Christianity concern not just timeless spiritual truths, but tangible historical events. At the heart of the of the Christian faith are things that are meant to have happened in Palestine between 5 BC and AD 30. It’s as if Christianity happily places its head on the chopping block of... Read more

Life of Jesus

By: John Dickson

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

What really happened back in the first century, in Jerusalem and around the Sea of Galilee, that changed the shape of world history? Who is this figure that emerges from history to have a profound impact on culture, ethics, politics, and philosophy? Join historian John Dickson on this journey through the life of Jesus. This book, which features... Read more

War with Hannibal

By: Titus Livius Livy

Narrated by: John Franklyn-Robbins

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC AD 17) chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, until the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. He vividly recreates the immense armies of Hannibal, complete with elephants, crossing the Alps; the panic as they approached the gates of Rome; and the decimation of the Roman army at the... Read more

Diary of a Dirty Little War

By: Harvey Rosenfeld

Narrated by: Ian Esmo

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From its beginnings, America has acted out much of its history on the battlefront. Yet for the average American, little is known of the Spanish-American War. The reasons for our entry never seemed compelling—at times, yellow fever seemed more the enemy than did Spanish troops—and the United States was ill prepared for the venture. Nevertheless,... Read more

Wild Swans

By: Jung Chang

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 22 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.

An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window... Read more

The Big Roads

By: Earl Swift

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibility of escape—the U.S. interstate system transformed America. The Big Roads presents the surprising history of how we got from dirt tracks to expressways in the space of a single lifetime.

Earl Swift brings to light the visionaries who... Read more

James Madison

By: Richard Brookhiser

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in
American history, and his story—although all too often overshadowed by
his more celebrated contemporaries—is integral to that of the nation.
Madison helped to shape our country as perhaps no other Founder:
collaborating on the Federalist Papers and the Bill of Rights, resisting
... Read more

Inside Gitmo

By: Gordon Cucullu

Narrated by: Damon Abdallah

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

We have repeatedly been told that the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay - known to the public as Gitmo - is a scene of medieval horrors where innocent farmers and goatherds swept up in Afghanistan and Iraq have been sequestered, tortured and abused for years on end without access to legal counsel or basic medical services. Gordon Cucullu, a... Read more

Triple Cross

By: Peter Lance

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 17 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the years leading to the 9/11 attacks, no single agent of al Qaeda was more successful in compromising the U.S. intelligence community than Ali Mohamed. A former Egyptian army captain, Mohamed succeeded in infiltrating the CIA in Europe, the Green Berets at Fort Bragg, and the FBI in California—even as he helped to orchestrate the al Qaeda... Read more

Arrows of the Night

By: Richard Bonin

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1958, Ahmad Chalabi’s wealthy Shiite family was exiled from Iraq after a revolution that ultimately put Saddam Hussein in power. The young Chalabi devoted his life to restoring his family to prominence. His first coup attempt was in 1963 at age nineteen, while on a school break from MIT. His next was aided by Iranian intelligence. But as the... Read more

NPR American Chronicles: Civil Rights

By: NPR

Narrated by: Michele Norris

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

It wasn’t that long ago that black citizens had to move to the back of the bus. In this stirring collection, NPR tells stories large and small: of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and the March on Washington; of Pullman porters, an invaluable green book, and women who baked pies to support the Montgomery bus boycott. Personal recollections and... Read more

The King of Vodka

By: Linda Himelstein

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“A operatic tour-de-force.” —Tilar J. Mazzeo, author of The Widow Clicquot“An impressive feat of research, told swiftly and enthusiastically.” —San Francisco ChronicleFrom Vanderbilt and Rockefeller to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, America’s captains of industry are paragons of entrepreneurial success, and books about business history, from The... Read more

The Shadow World

By: Andrew Feinstein

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 25 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulling back the curtain on the secretive world of the global arms trade, Andrew Feinstein
reveals the corruption and the cover-ups behind a range of weapons deals, from the largest in history—between the British and Saudi governments—to the guns-for-diamonds deals in Africa and the imminent $60 billion U.S. weapons contract with Saudi Arabia.... Read more

Extra Virginity

By: Tom Mueller

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

For millennia, fresh olive oil has been a necessity - for food, medicine, beauty, and religion. Today's researchers continue to confirm the remarkable, life-giving properties of true extra-virgin, and 'extra-virgin Italian' has become the highest standard of quality. But what if this symbol of purity has become deeply corrupt? Starting with an... Read more

One on One

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

John Feinstein's illuminating recollections from two decades of interviews with sports legends.

John Feinstein's career is a sports fan's dream-a lifetime of encounters with the great figures in sports, not just on the field, but in the locker room and behind the scenes with legends like Bob Knight, Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jack Nicklaus,... Read more

The Road to Rome

By: Ben Kane

Narrated by: Michael Praed

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Having survived the perils of a journey across half the world, Romulus and Tarquinius are press-ganged into the legions, which are under imminent threat of annihilation by the Egyptians. Meanwhile in Rome, Romulus's twin sister Fabiola lives in fear for her life, loved by Brutus, but wooed by Marcus Antonius, his deadly enemy. Soon after,... Read more

Amazing National Leaders - Volume 1

By: Charles Margerison

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

What are the qualities needed for good, effective leadership? What are the characteristics that makes some people natural leaders? Are great leaders born or made? All of these questions and more are answered in this unique collection, as amazing national leaders from history guide us through their incredible lives. Learn about their strengths... Read more

Amazing Slaves - Volume 1

By: Charles Margerison

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the horror of slavery incredible strength has been born. A unique collection from The Amazing People Club® reveals the great strength of character that propelled people to fight for their human rights.
Frederick Douglass said that "The soul that is within me no man can degrade". Discover how he escaped from slavery to become the leader of... Read more