History audiobooks

Day of Infamy

By: Walter Lord

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Day of Infamy is Walter Lord’s gripping, vivid re-creation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941.In brilliant detail, Walter Lord traces the human drama of the great attack: the spies behind it; the Japanese pilots; the crews on the stricken warships; the men at the airfields and the bases; the Japanese pilot who... Read more

Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln

By: James C. Humes

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever wish you could captivate your boardroom with the opening line of your presentation, like Winston Churchill in his most memorable speeches? Or want to command attention by looming larger than life before your audience, much like Abraham Lincoln when, standing erect and wearing a top hat, he towered over seven feet? Now, you can master... Read more

How They Croaked

By: Georgia Bragg

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Georgia Bragg delights young people with her quirky characters and unique subject matter. How They Croaked provides all the gory details of the awful ends of 19 awfully famous people. It details Ludwig Van Beethoven's expansive finale, Henry VII's explosive end, Albert Einstein's great brain escape, and Marie Curie's glowing... Read more

Carthage Must Be Destroyed

By: Richard Miles

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.

The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians finally succumbed and their capital city, history, and... Read more

The Storm of War

By: Andrew Roberts

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 28 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion, and claimed the lives of more than 50 million people. What were the factors that affected the war's outcome? Why did the Axis lose? And could they, with a different strategy, have won? Andrew Roberts's acclaimed new history has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this... Read more

The Big Sea

By: Langston Hughes & Arnold Rampersad

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet--at the center of the... Read more

I Wonder as I Wander

By: Langston Hughes & Arnold Rampersad

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.

His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. He meets and brings to life the famous and the humble, from Arthur... Read more

The Warrior Elite

By: Dick Couch

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

With a postscript describing SEAL efforts in Afghanistan, The Warrior Elite takes you into the toughest, longest, and most relentless military training in the world.



What does it take to become a Navy SEAL? What makes talented, intelligent young men volunteer for physical punishment, cold water, and days without sleep? In The Warrior Elite,... Read more

The Lowdown: A Short History of the Origins of the Vietnam War

By: David Anderson

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A concise history of the origins of The Vietnam War for a new generation. On September 2, 1945, Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh boldly proclaimed his country’s independence. Just as Americans had done almost two centuries earlier in defiance of the British, Ho declared that Vietnamese patriots were, after many decades of French domination,... Read more

The Life of St. Augustine

By: F. W. Farrar DD, FRS

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

St. Augustine was the greatest Western philosopher for 1,000 years and a dominant influence on the history of Christian theology. From his conversion in 386 to his death in 430, he remained a great teacher, church statesman, and polemical theologian. St. Thomas Aquinas was one of many scholars influenced by Augustine’s theories. Four hundred of... Read more

Martin Luther, The Champion of the Lord

By: E. G. White

Narrated by: Lauren Mazzio & Nicholas Mazzio

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Dangers multiplied before him; his enemies seemed about to triumph, and the powers of darkness to prevail. Luther trembled as he looked upon himself – one man opposed to the mightiest powers of earth. In anguish of spirit he threw himself with his face upon the earth and poured out those broken, heart-rending cries, which none but God can fully... Read more

World War II

By: Maurice Isserman

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The world had not fully recovered from the horror of World War I or the anguish of its catastrophic aftermath, the Great Depression, before an even greater war commenced. The Third Reich of Adolf Hitler threatened to dominate all of Europe, and as the physicist Albert Einstein rushed to bring to the attention of President Franklin Roosevelt, the... Read more

Restoration London - Abridged

By: Liza Picard

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Making use of every possible contemporary source - diaries, memoirs, advice books, government papers, almanacs, even the Register of Patents - Liza Picard presents an enthralling picture of how life in London was really lived in the 1600s: the houses and streets, gardens and parks, cooking, clothes and jewellery, cosmetics, hairdressing,... Read more

The Pirates of Somalia

By: Jay Bahadur

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Somalia, on the tip of the Horn of Africa, has been inhabited as far back as 9,000 BC. Its history is as rich as the country is old. Caught up in a decades-long civil war, Somalia, along with Iraq and Afghanistan, has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Getting there from North America is a forty-five-hour, five-flight... Read more

The Triple Agent

By: Joby Warrick

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on terror.
 
In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil... Read more

Finding Everett Ruess

By: David Roberts

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age twenty have earned him a large and devoted cult following.

“Easily one of [Roberts’s] best . . . thoughtful and passionate . . . a... Read more

König Ludwig II.

By: Jean-Louis Schlim

Narrated by: Gerd Anthoff

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ein ewig Rätsel will ich bleiben, mir und anderen." Und rätselhaft blieb er, über seinen geheimnisvollen Tod hinaus: Ludwig II., König von Bayern. Seine Schlösser sind Werke für die Ewigkeit, für den glücklos regierenden Monarchen waren sie Zuflucht vor der Wirklichkeit. Ein ungewöhnlich phantasiebegabter Mensch, aber kein Phantast, wovon nicht... Read more

Long Walk to Freedom

By: Nelson Mandela

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 27 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting . . . both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the power of the spirit to transcend it" (Washington Post).
Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight... Read more

Moral Combat

By: Michael Burleigh

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 26 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sweepingly ambitious overview of World War II, Michael Burleigh combines meticulous scholarship with a remarkable depth of knowledge and an astonishing scope. By exploring the moral sentiments of entire societies and their leaders and how such attitudes changed under the impact of total war, Burleigh presents listeners with a fresh and... Read more

Generation Freedom

By: Bruce Feiler

Narrated by: Bruce Feiler

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

""Feiler’s combination of journalism, commentary and self-discoverytells the reader volumes about humankind.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution onAbraham BruceFeiler, the bestselling author of Walking theBible and Abraham,examines the biblical and historical underpinnings of the Muslim world'spresent-day uprisings. As conflicts rock the Middle East,... Read more

Inside Scientology

By: Janet Reitman

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Scientology, created in 1954 by a prolific sci-fi writer named L. Ron Hubbard, claims to be the world's fastest-growing religion, with millions of members around the world and huge financial holdings. Its celebrity believers keep its profile high, and its teams of "volunteer ministers" offer aid at disaster sites such as Haiti and the World... Read more

The Birth of Classical Europe

By: Simon Price & Peter Thonemann

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level, from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a “classical Europe,” using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures. As this consistently fresh and surprising new audio book makes clear, however,... Read more

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz

By: Denis Avey & Rob Broomby

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the notorious concentration camp, Buna-Monowitz, known as Auschwitz III.



In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a British POW labor camp, E715, near the site of Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the... Read more

How to Live

By: Sarah Bakewell

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, perhaps the first recognizably modern individual. A nobleman, public official, and winegrower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. He called them essays, meaning “attempts” or “tries.” He put... Read more