History audiobooks

Ireland

By: Paul Johnson

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Ireland is inarguably a beautiful, enchanted place. But its history is more turbulent, fascinating, and terrible than any other. From the first English presence in Ireland in the twelfth century, through siege, rebellion, and civil war, to Irish ascendancy, home rule, and the present-day Troubles, bestselling author Paul Johnson tells, with... Read more

The Raft

By: Robert Trumbull

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“The sinking of the plane was like a magician’s trick. It was there and then it was gone, and there was nothing left in our big, wet, darkening world but the three of us and a piece of rubber that was not yet a raft.”In 1942, three men on an antisubmarine patrol flight became lost and pitched into the Pacific. The plane sank beneath them,... Read more

Rabbit Stew And A Penny Or Two

By: Maggie Smith-Bendell

Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Born on a Somerset pea-field in 1941, the second of eight children in a Romani family, Maggie Smith-Bendell has lived through the years of greatest change in the travelling community's long history. As a child, Maggie rode and slept in a horse-drawn wagon, picked hops and flowers, and sat beside her father's campfire on ancient verges, poor but... Read more

Counterstrike

By: Eric Schmitt & Thom Shanker

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In the years following the 9/11 attacks, the United States waged a "war on terror" that sought to defeat Al Qaeda through brute force. But it soon became clear that this strategy was not working, and by 2005 the Pentagon began looking for a new way.



In Counterstrike, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker of the New York Times tell the story of how a... Read more

The Spirit of Laws

By: Baron de Montesquieu

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 22 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1748, this is possibly the most masterful and influential book ever written on the subject of liberty and justice. Accordingly, it is a work that profoundly influenced America’s Founding Fathers. Its success was due partly to the fact that it was the first systematic treatise on politics, partly to Montesquieu’s... Read more

Vietnam

By: Dan Lyons

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Dan Lyons resigned as dean of Gonzaga University in Spokane to become the free world’s leading advocate of winning the war in Vietnam, visiting seventeen times between 1963 and 1975. His five hundred daily radio and television broadcasts, plus his nationwide weekly columns and debates on college campuses, reached millions every week for twelve... Read more

The Civilization of the Middle Ages

By: Norman F. Cantor

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 28 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1963 Norman F. Cantor published his breakthrough narrative history of the Middle Ages. Here is a significant revision, update, and expansion of that work.The Civilization of the Middle Ages incorporates newer research and novel perspectives, especially on the foundations of the Middle Ages and the late Middle Ages of the fourteenth and... Read more

Crusade

By: Rick Atkinson

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 24 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout the Gulf War of 1991, unprecedented restrictions on the media’s access to the battlefield kept the true story of that brief, brutal conflict from being told. Now, after two years of intensive research, Rick Atkinson has written what will surely come to be recognized as the definitive chronicle of the war. Crusade follows the unfolding... Read more

Vietnam War

By: Maurice Isserman

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In clear, lucid prose, Vietnam War, Revised Edition explores the critical questions surrounding the United States' experience in Vietnam: What led President Lyndon B. Johnson to commit combat troops in 1965? How was it possible for the North Vietnamese to suffer a military defeat in the Tet Offensive in 1968 and yet achieve a political victory?... Read more

Sleeping with the Enemy

By: Hal Vaughan

Narrated by: Susan Denaker & Mark Deakins

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“From this century, in France, three names will remain: de Gaulle, Picasso, and Chanel.” –André Malraux

Coco Chanel created the look of the modern woman and was the high priestess of couture.

She believed in simplicity, and elegance, and freed women from the tyranny of fashion. She inspired women to take off their bone corsets and cut their hair.... Read more

The Sugar Barons

By: Matthew Parker

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent, dramatic, and shocking history. For some two hundred years after 1650, the West Indies became the strategic center of the Western world, witnessing one of the greatest power struggles of the age as Europeans made and lost immense... Read more

Chosen Soldier

By: Dick Couch

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

In combating terror, America can no longer depend on its conventional military superiority and the use of sophisticated technology. More than ever, we need men like those of the Army Special Forces—the legendary Green Berets.



In Chosen Soldier, Dick Couch draws on nearly a year spent at Special Forces training facilities and offers an... Read more

The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

By: Robert K. Massie

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A “masterful” (The Washington Post Book World) account of the quest to solve one of the great mysteries in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Catherine the Great

“Riveting . . . unfolds like a detective story.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review

In July 1991, nine skeletons were... Read more

The Second Oldest Profession PT 1

By: Jeffrey Burds

Narrated by: Jeffrey Burds

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Professor Jeffrey Burds of Northeastern University delves into the history of espionage in this eye-opening lecture series. The course opens with espionage activity in the ancient world and the Roman Empire and continues with the American Revolution, the Age of Napoleon, and the American Civil War. Throughout this compelling discussion, it... Read more

The Finishing School

By: Dick Couch

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In America's new war, the first guns in the fight are special operations forces, including the Navy SEALs, specially trained warriors who operate with precision, swiftness, and lethal force. In the constantly shifting war on terror, SEAL units—small in number, flexible, stealthy, and efficient—are more vital than ever to America's security as... Read more

1493

By: Charles C. Mann

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 17 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs.

More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different... Read more

The Oil Kings

By: Andrew Scott Cooper

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 19 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

struggling with a recession . . . European nations at risk of defaulting on their loans . . . A possible global financial crisis. It happened before, in the 1970s.

Oil Kings is the story of how oil came to dominate U.S. domestic and international affairs. As Richard Nixon fought off Watergate inquiries in 1973, the U.S. economy reacted to an oil... Read more

Skyjack

By: Geoffrey Gray

Narrated by: Geoffrey Gray

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true, unsolved story of D. B. Cooper’s 1971 airplane hijacking, one of the greatest cold cases of the twentieth century, by an author featured in D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!, now streaming on Netflix

“Here is writing and storytelling that is vivid and fresh—a delectable adventure.”—Gay Talese

“I have a bomb here... Read more

50 Psychology Classics

By: Tom Butler-Bowdon

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A Thinking Person's Guide to Popular Psychology

We would all like to know the secrets of human nature - who we are, how we think, and what we do. In a journey that spans 50 books, hundreds of ideas, and over a century in time, 50 Psychology Classics explores important contemporary writings such as Gladwell's Blink and Seligman's Authentic... Read more

Brian Johnston Down Your Way: Favourite People And Places Vol. 2

By: Brian Johnston

Narrated by: Brian Johnston & Guests

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Down Your Way was one of the most popular programmes on BBC Radio from 1946 until 1992. Every week the presenter would visit a different city, town or village in the UK and interview six local people about its history, traditions and customs. Brian Johnston presented the series for fifteen years and for this recording, his son Barry has selected... Read more

Theory of Pyschoanalysis

By: Carl Jung

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Although the theories presented in this book, a 1915 edition of the lectures Jung presented at Fordham University, are now thoroughly outdated, this book is still a fascinating glimpse of Jung's mind at a crucial time in his life. Just three years previously, he had struck out on his own, publishing his Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, known... Read more

Hope and Glory

By: Stuart Maconie

Narrated by: Stuart Maconie

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

In Hope and Glory Stuart goes in search of the places, people and events of the century we have just left behind that have shaped the look and character of modern Britain. From the death of Victoria to the demise of New Labour, he takes a single event from each decade of the 20th century that offers up a defining moment... Read more

Super Mario

By: Jeff Ryan

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Nintendo's rise and the beloved icon who made it possibleNintendo has continually set the standard for video game innovation in America, starting in 1981 with a plucky hero who jumped over barrels to save a girl from an ape.The saga of Mario, the portly plumber who became the most successful franchise in the history of gaming, has... Read more

Bedpans And Bobby Socks

By: Barbara Fox

Narrated by: Emma Tate

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

'In my dreams, I was always in some vast landscape on a long, straight road. Driving. Always driving.'

Gwenda had always loved the open road, but her home town of Newcastle didn't really offer the sort of adventure she longed for. So, in 1957, with friend and fellow nurse Pat in tow, she left the dismal British winter behind, and embarked on an... Read more