History audiobooks

Hitler in the Crosshairs

By: Maurice Possley & John D. Woodbridge

Narrated by: Maurice Possley

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the untold World War II story of a young man's courage and the saga of a dictator's pistol that continues to unfold today.It's World War II. Young soldier Ira "Teen" Palm and his men burst into a Munich apartment, hoping to capture Adolf Hitler. Instead, they find an empty apartment ... and a golden gun. As bestselling authors Maurice... Read more

Don't Know Much About the Civil War

By: Kenneth C. Davis

Narrated by: Dick Estell

Length: 16 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“Distinct, clear, and balanced. . . . Davis has a gift for deftly rendering the essentials.”—New York Times Book Review

“Lively and relevant.” —USA Today

 
Millions of Americans, bored by dull textbooks, are in the dark about the most significant event in our history. Now New York Times bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes to the rescue,... Read more

William Wilberforce

By: Kevin Belmonte

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Dramatized in the major motion picture Amazing Grace, the story of William Wilberforce is the remarkable account of how one man’s vision, courage, and relentless pursuit of justice brought freedom to thousands and changed the course of history. “That the greatest and most successful reformer in all history is almost unknown today is a crying... Read more

The Secret History of MI6

By: Keith Jeffery

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 36 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Keith Jeffery's fascinating and revealing account draws on a wealth of archival materials never before seen by any outsider to unveil the inner workings of the world's first spy agency. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service-or MI6-was born a century ago amid rising fears of foreign military powers, especially Germany. The next 40 years saw MI6... Read more

Surrender at Appomattox

By: Wetware Media

Narrated by: Andrew Mulcare

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

On the 12th of April, 1865, the Army of Northern Virginia marched to the field in front of Appomattox Court-House, stacked their arms, folded their colors, and walked empty handed to find their distant, blighted homes. Read more

Music for the People

By: Gareth Malone

Narrated by: Gareth Malone

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? The sad song of a single violin might make us cry, but the idea of finding out more about classical music can often be intimidating. In this funny, evocative, personal book, Gareth takes us on a journey of musical discovery that explains and entertains in equal measure. ... Read more

Tolkien and the Great War

By: John Garth

Narrated by: John Garth

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A new biography exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Lord of The Rings. “To be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than in 1939 … by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.” So J.R.R. Tolkien responded to critics who saw The... Read more

The Floor of Heaven

By: Howard Blum

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.

It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures--gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian... Read more

The Last Week

By: Marcus J. Borg & John Dominic Crossan

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan join together to reveal a radical and little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to and responded to questions about Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of events during the week leading up to Jesus's... Read more

Lost in Shangri-La

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

Narrated by: Mitchell Zuckoff

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“A lost world, man-eating tribesmen, lush andimpenetrable jungles, stranded American fliers (one of them a dame withgreat gams, for heaven's sake), a startling rescue mission. . . . This is atrue story made in heaven for a writer as talented as Mitchell Zuckoff. Whew—what an utterly compelling and deeplysatisfying read!"" —Simon Winchester,... Read more

Turning the Tide

By: Ed Offley

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 17 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor, but rather in the period from 1942 to 1943, in the frigid North Atlantic and American coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Nearly seven decades after the event, the Battle of the Atlantic still stands as the... Read more

Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

By: Abraham Lincoln

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Abraham Lincoln was undeniably one of the most influential politicians in American history. In this collection of letters, speeches, and other writings by Lincoln, listeners can gain a uniquely intimate perspective on the sixteenth president of the United States. From personal letters to friends and family to Lincoln's speeches as an Illinois... Read more

The Gods Were Astronauts

By: Erich von Daniken

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Erich von Däniken has exhaustively researched and analyzed the great world religions, their myths and belief structures, in an effort to find an answer to a question that has fascinated humans for millennia: who, or what, were the Gods described in ancient stories?


His extraordinary conclusion? The Gods were not metaphysical beings born of... Read more

Stories I Only Tell My Friends

By: Rob Lowe

Narrated by: Rob Lowe

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Actor Rob Lowe's memoir presents a wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye.

A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child... Read more

Tin Can Man

By: E. J. Jernigan

Narrated by: Kent Cassella

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

E. J. Jernigan's memoir offers listeners a fascinating glimpse of life as an enlisted man aboard the USS Saufley, one of the most highly decorated destroyers of World War II. It is a rarely told story of the sailors who fought the war from boiler rooms, after-steering spaces, radio shacks, and other gritty places that keep a warship going. For... Read more

The True Story of The Bilderberg Group

By: Daniel Estulin

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Delving into a world once shrouded in mystery, this investigative report provides a fascinating account of the annual meetings of the world's most powerful people, The Bilderberg Group. Since first meeting in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the Netherlands, The Bilderberg Group has been comprised of prime ministers, presidents and the wealthiest... Read more

Terrible Swift Sword

By: Bruce Catton

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 19 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Terrible Swift Sword (Vol. 2): The dismissal of George McClellan and the rise of Ulysses S. Grant Read more

Outwitting History

By: Aaron Lansky

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Recipient of the MacArthur "genius" fellowship and founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, Lansky recounts his efforts to rescue the world's abandoned Yiddish-language books before they pass out of existence. Outwitting History follows Lansky's far-flung travels and features the engaging men and women he meets along the way. "Lansky's... Read more

A Rage for Glory

By: James Tertius De Kay

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author James Tertius de Kay recounts the life of Commodore Stephen Decatur in the first new biography of the great naval hero in almost 70 years. De Kay draws on material unavailable to previous biographers to explore Decatur's extraordinary life. From his burning of the Philadelphia to his capture of the HMS Macedonian, Decatur... Read more

Trail of Tears

By: John Ehle

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 19 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail. The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years they... Read more

The Basque History of the World

By: Mark Kurlansky

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has drawn enthusiastic praise for his books, which are sharply-focused studies as well as glorious celebrations of their subjects. In The Basque History of the World, he turns his eye toward Europe's oldest surviving culture-a culture as mysterious as it is fascinating. Settled in the western Pyrenees... Read more

The Assassin's Accomplice

By: Kate Clifford Larson

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Assassin’s Accomplice, historian Kate Clifford Larson tells the gripping story of Mary Surratt, a little-known conspirator in the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln, and the first woman ever to be executed by the federal government. A Confederate sympathizer, Surratt ran the boarding house where the conspirators met to plan Lincoln’s... Read more

The Lakotas and the Black Hills

By: Jeffrey Ostler

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In this enthralling narrative, professor and award-winning author Jeffrey Ostler recounts the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homeland and their remarkable legal battle to regain it. Moving easily from battlefields to reservations to Supreme Court chambers, Ostler captures the strength that bore the Lakotas through the worst times and... Read more

The Coming Fury

By: Bruce Catton

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 20 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times hails this trilogy as "one of the greatest historical accomplishments of our time." With stunning detail and insights, America's foremost Civil War historian recreates the war from its opening months to its final, bloody end. Each volume delivers a complete listening experience. The Coming Fury (Vol. 1): From the split... Read more