History audiobooks

JFK and the Unspeakable

By: James W. Douglass

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 22 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who... Read more

Signs of the Gods?

By: Erich von Daniken

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Were human beings created by powers from outer space? Did extraterrestrial giants build the megaliths of Malta and the menhirs of Brittany? Was the Ark of the Covenant a machine built by the astronaut gods?



In Signs of the Gods? Erich von Däniken travels far and wide around the globe to study the many strange phenomena that all point to one... Read more

The Churchills

By: Mary S. Lovell

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 21 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The first Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722) was a soldier of such genius that a lavish palace, Blenheim, was built to honor his triumphs. Succeeding generations of Churchills sometimes achieved distinction but also included profligates and womanizers, and were saddled with the ruinous upkeep of Blenheim. The family fortunes were revived in the... Read more

The Return of the Gods

By: Erich von Daniken

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Never afraid to put forward controversial theories if justified by the data, Erich von Däniken here examines the huge amount of accumulated evidence that points to Earth having been subject to countless visits from extraterrestrials for many years. The dawn of a new century, the building of a new space station, and triumphs in the exploration of... Read more

David Crockett

By: Michael Wallis

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

His name was David Crockett. He never signed his name any other way, but popular culture transformed his memory into "Davy Crockett," and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. Bestselling historian Michael Wallis casts a fresh look at the frontiersman, storyteller, and politician behind these legendary stories.



Born into a humble... Read more

The Future of Faith

By: Harvey Cox

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“A beautiful book and a Cox classic….Readers will be grateful that they joined him on his journey.” —E.J. Dionne Jr., author of Souled Out“Insightful, provocative, and inspiring—I even found myself uttering a hearty evangelical ‘Amen!’” —Richard Mouw, President, Fuller Theological Seminary, and author of Calvinism in the Las Vegas AirportThe... Read more

Area 51

By: Annie Jacobsen

Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This "compellingly hard-hitting" bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize finalist gives readers the complete untold story of the top-secret military base for the first time (New York Times). 

It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base... Read more

Berlin 1961

By: Frederick Kempe

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 20 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A former Wall Street Journal editor and the current president and CEO of the Atlantic Council, Frederick Kempe draws on recently released documents and personal interviews to re-create the powder keg that was 1961 Berlin. In Cold War Berlin, the United States and the Soviet Union stand nose to nose, with the possibility of nuclear war just one... Read more

On China

By: Henry Kissinger

Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann

Length: 20 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of foreign policy over the past 50 years as Henry Kissinger.” —The Financial Times

In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the... Read more

Hearts Touched by Fire

By: Harold Holzer

Narrated by: various narrators, Joe Barrett, Traber Burns, R...

Length: 50 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In July 1883, just a few days after the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a group of editors at the Century magazine engaged in a lively argument: Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest battle of them all? One claimed it was Chickamauga, another Cold Harbor. The argument inspired a brainstorm: Why not let the magazine’s... Read more

Babe Ruth

By: Kal Wagenheim

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Babe Ruth grew from his adolescence in a Baltimore orphanage into a baseball superstar and national treasure. But he was also a product of his time, the colorful 1920s and 1930s. A sparkling collage of narratives from "the Babe", those who knew him, and the media makes this an exceptional biography as well as a work of cultural history. Read more

Bonnie Prince Charlie

By: Carolly Erickson

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed biographer Carolly Erickson brings history vibrantly to life with her powerful flesh-and-blood portrait of Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender to the British throne. Courageously attempting to conquer England, this significant figure in Scottish history divides the troubled British kingdom and disturbs decadent monarchies throughout... Read more

The Jews

By: Howard Fast

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"There is no human being on the face of this earth exempt from the Jewish influence. For as long as there has been history, the Jew has wandered through it, shaping it at times, riding the current silently at other times, but always leaving his mark. History without the Jew? It is inconceivable."-Howard Fast This popular history brings the... Read more

The Idea of America

By: Gordon S. Wood

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history.

More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as an idea. For this reason, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood believes that the American Revolution is the most important event in our... Read more

Stan Musial

By: George Vecsey

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When baseball fans voted on the top twenty-five players of the twentieth century in 1999, Stan Musial didn’t make the cut. This glaring omission—later rectified by a panel of experts—raised an important question: How could a first-ballot Hall of Famer, widely considered one of the greatest hitters in baseball history, still rank as the most... Read more

A People's History of Christianity

By: Diana Butler Bass

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

For too long, the history of Christianity has been told as the triumph of orthodox doctrine imposed through power and hierarchy. In A People's History of Christianity, historian and religion expert Diana Butler Bass reveals an alternate history that includes a deep social ethic and far-reaching inclusivity: ""the other side of the story"" is not... Read more

The Civil War

By: Dennis Gaffney & Peter Gaffney

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Authoritative American history meets a fun listening experience in the first volume of The Seven-Day Scholar series, which chronicles significant moments in our nation’s heroic tragedy.This audiobook is divided into 52 tracks that cover fascinating episodes of the Civil War. Each of these short entries, which read like historical fiction, covers... Read more

Arrival of the Gods

By: Erich von Daniken

Narrated by: John Allen Nelson

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Nazca, once only an isolated settlement in the midst of the Peruvian desert, is today the meeting place for archaeologists from around the world. From here you can fly over the celebrated Nazca pampa and appreciate the massive scale of the extraordinary markings on the surrounding landscape. Some of these lines are over twenty kilometers... Read more

The House That Ruth Built

By: Robert Weintraub

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist Robert Weintraub vividly recreates the pivotal year that transformed the New York Yankees into the legendary franchise of today. Overshadowed by the New York Giants, the hapless Yankees played their home games at the ballpark of their cross-town rivals. But when Yankee Stadium was completed in 1923, Babe Ruth bounced back from a... Read more

Mistress Anne

By: Carolly Erickson

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful ruler, an alluring young woman, a scandal that would rock the nation: Anne Boleyn's life story sounds more like a juicy TV docu-drama than a chapter of English history. Although she is not of noble birth or even especially beautiful, Anne Boleyn manages to rise to the very pinnacle of the English aristocracy. Renowned for her... Read more

Our Tempestuous Day

By: Carolly Erickson

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The tumult and opulence of England's Regency era burst from the pages in this work of literary nonfiction by acclaimed author Carolly Erickson. When dementia forces King George III to vacate his throne, the kingdom slips into a decade marked with excess, scandal, and riots. King George has suffered bouts of mental instability before, but in 1810... Read more

The Railway Man

By: Eric Lomax

Narrated by: Bill Paterson

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences. Almost... Read more

SEAL Team Six

By: Howard E. Wasdin & Stephen Templin

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A book that takes you inside SEAL Team Six—the covert squad that killed Osama bin LadenWhen the navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six—a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and counterinsurgency. In this dramatic, behind-the-scenes chronicle, Howard Wasdin takes... Read more

To End All Wars

By: Adam Hochschild

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail... Read more