History audiobooks

The End

By: Ian Kershaw

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 18 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II.

Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to... Read more

Common Sense

By: Thomas Paine

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Paine published Common Sense In 1776, a time when America was a hotbed of revolution. The pamphlet, which called for America's political freedom from England, sold more than 150,000 copies in three months.

Paine not only spurred his fellow Americans to action but he soon came to symbolize the spirit of the Revolution itself. His persuasive... Read more

To the Scaffold

By: Carolly Erickson

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

To this day Marie Antoinette remains one of history's most misunderstood heroines. How she triumphed over the petty jealousies and backstairs rivalries of the court, how she sustained a good-hearted but malleable king, and how she was transformed from French queen to Austrian "whore," is the story told with skill and fascinating detail. Read more

Reminiscences of a Rebel

By: Wayland Fuller Dunaway

Narrated by: Andrew Mulcare

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In April 1861, upon the outbreak of Civil War in the United States, Wayland Fuller Dunaway left his college classroom and entered the ranks of the men who fought the bloodiest war ever waged on the North American continent. A captain in the Army of Northern Virginia, he marched hundreds of miles in Stonewall Jackson's command; saw Generals Lee... Read more

The Royal British Legion - Abridged

By: Matt Croucher & The Royal British Legion

Narrated by: Keeley Hawes, Bernard Cribbins, Nicky Henson, S...

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Royal British Legion was founded in 1921. It is now the country’s leading charity providing financial, social and emotional support to those who have served or who are currently serving in the British Armed Forces and their dependants. The RBL is behind the annual Poppy Appeal, the highest profile charity appeal in Britain. ... Read more

The Women of the Cousins' War

By: Philippa Gregory, David Baldwin & Michael Jones

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory joins two eminent historians to explore the extraordinary true stories of three women largely forgotten by history: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, queen of England; and Margaret Beaufort, the founder of the Tudor dynasty.

In her essay on Jacquetta, Philippa Gregory uses... Read more

Mighty Be Our Powers

By: Leymah Gbowee

Narrated by: Kimberly Scott

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Leymah Gbowee was one of three women to receive the 2011 Nobel Peace PrizeAs a young woman growing up in Africa, seventeen-year-old Leymah Gbowee was crushed by a savage war when violence reached her native Monrovia, depriving her of the education she yearned for and claiming the lives of relatives and friends. As war continued to ravage... Read more

Love Times Three

By: Joe Darger, Alina Darger, Vicki Darger & Valeri...

Narrated by: James Lurie, Eliza Foss, Kathleen McInerney & K...

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From a familythat inspired Big Love’s story of Bill Henricksonand his three wives, this first-ever memoir of a polygamous family captures theextraordinary workings of a unique family dynamic, and argues forthe acceptance of plural marriage as an alternative lifestyle. Readers ofCarolyn Jessop’s Escape, Elissa Wall’s StolenInnocence, and James... Read more

Grand Pursuit

By: Sylvia Nasar

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd & Anne Twomey

Length: 20 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller, in a sweeping narrative the author of the esteemed A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. Grand Pursuit is the epic story of the making of modern economics, of how economics rescued mankind from squalor... Read more

The New Deal

By: Michael Hiltzik

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 19 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael Hiltzik tells the epic story of the New Deal through the outsized personalities of the people who fought for it, opposed it, and benefited from it, rendering vital lessons for our own time.As America struggles with an economic debacle akin to the Great Depression,... Read more

Last Call

By: Daniel Okrent

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the US Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.

From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World... Read more

Tension City

By: Jim Lehrer

Narrated by: Jim Lehrer

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

NARRATED BY THE AUTHOR, THIS SPECIAL AUDIOBOOK RECORDING OF TENSION CITY INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW AND DEBATE EXCERPTS FROM 1960 THROUGH 2008!

“In his quiet but intense way, Jim Lehrer earns the trust of the major political players of our time,” notes Barbara Walters. “He explains and exposes their hopes and dreams, their strengths and... Read more

NPR American Chronicles: World War II

By: NPR

Narrated by: Neal Conan

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

NPR reveals remarkable stories of valor, bravery, and survival from the deadliest conflict in history with this vast panorama of interview, memories, and first person accounts from fronts in Europe, the Pacific, and at home. Harrowing, heartbreaking and deeply personal, this collection offers an intimate, engaging way to learn more about the war... Read more

The Blessed Lens

By: Joseph Luzzi

Narrated by: Joseph Luzzi

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Professor Joseph Luzzi, the director of Italian studies at Bard College and an award-winning author, offers a comprehensive look at Italian cinema from its inception in 1895 through its major periods and influences. Having altered the landscape of Italian art and society, as well as inspiring filmmakers the world over, Italian cinema proves a... Read more

From Troy to Constantinople

By: Jennifer Tobin

Narrated by: Jennifer Tobin

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From time immemorial, the region of modern-day Turkey has served as a crossroads between east and west. In this illuminating course, Professor Jennifer Tobin leads a compelling discussion of "Anatolia" from early archaeological sites and the Trojan War up through the Greeks, Persians, Alexander the Great, and the Romans. A land of immense... Read more

Finish Forty and Home

By: Phil Scearce

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

During the early years of World War II in the Pacific theatre, against overwhelming odds, young American airmen flew the longest and most perilous bombing missions of the war. They faced determined Japanese fighters without fighter escort, relentless anti-aircraft fire with no deviations from target, and thousands of miles of over-water flying... Read more

India

By: Patrick French

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 17 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.

Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has... Read more

Absolute Monarchs

By: John Julius Norwich

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 18 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

With the papacy embattled in recent years, it is essential to have the perspective of one of the world's most accomplished historians. In Absolute Monarchs, John Julius Norwich captures nearly two thousand years of inspiration and devotion, intrigue and scandal. The men (and maybe one woman) who have held this position of infallible power over... Read more

What Every Christian Needs To Know

By: Greg Laurie

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

You wouldn’t climb a mountain or sail the Pacific without first checking out your equipment. Why? Because your very life will depend on how prepared you are to face the obstacles and challenges before you. It’s the same with launching into the great adventure called the Christian life. It’s the best and most exciting journey anyone could ever... Read more

The Missing of the Somme

By: Geoff Dyer

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Geoff Dyer has won fans writing about everything from jazz to D. H. Lawrence, from photography to neurotic enlightenment, from Cambodia to Rome. The Missing of the Somme, his remarkable book on the significance of the First World War, is a gem for Dyer fans and history buffs alike. With his characteristic wit and insight, here Dyer weaves a... Read more

The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex

By: Mark Kermode

Narrated by: Mark Kermode

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode showed us the weird world of a film critic's life lived in widescreen. Now, in The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex, he takes us into the belly of the beast to ask: 'What's wrong with modern movies?'

If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a... Read more

What It Is Like to Go to War

By: Karl Marlantes

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the bestselling and award-winning Matterhorn comes a brilliant nonfiction book about war and the psychological and spiritual toll it takes on those who fight.“I wrote this book primarily to come to terms with my own experience of combat. So far—reading, writing, thinking—that has taken over thirty years.”In 1969, at the age of... Read more

Dethroning the King

By: Julie MacIntosh

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

How did InBev, a Belgian company controlled by Brazilians, take over one of America's most beloved brands after barely a whimper of a fight? Timing, and some unexpected help from powerful members of the Busch dynasty, the very family that had run the company for more than a century.



In Dethroning the King, Julie MacIntosh, an award-winning... Read more

Failure Is Not an Option

By: Gene Kranz

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 18 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured... Read more