History audiobooks

Our Last Best Chance

By: King Abdullah II of Jordan

Narrated by: Nadim Sawalha

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A newsbreaking memoir that tackles head-on the toughest challenge in the world today.

When a dying King Hussein shocked the world by picking his son rather than his brother, the longtime crown prince, to be the next king of Jordan, no one was more surprised than the young head of Special Operations, who discovered his life was in for a major... Read more

King's Cross

By: Timothy Keller

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

The most influential man to ever walk the earth has had his story told in hundreds of different ways for thousands of years. Can any more be said?

Now, Timothy Keller, New York Times bestselling author of The Reason for God and the man Newsweek called a “C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century,” unlocks new insights into the life of Jesus Christ... Read more

Against All Odds

By: Scott Brown

Narrated by: Scott Brown

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Against All Odds is the extraordinary personal story of the man who rose up to meet the challenge of terrific opposition and become one of America's most promising new political figures—Senator Scott Brown. Brown is famous for succeeding popular Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy after Kennedy’s death in 2010—but, as he reveals in a compelling... Read more

Apollo's Angels

By: Jennifer Homans

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 23 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than four hundred years, the art of ballet has stood at the center of Western civilization. Its traditions serve as a record of our past. A ballerina dancing The Sleeping Beauty today is a link in a long chain of dancers stretching back to sixteenth-century Italy and France: Her graceful movements recall a lost world of courts, kings,... Read more

33 Men

By: Jonathan Franklin

Narrated by: Armando Valdez Kennedy

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Having had unparalleled access to the Chilean mine disaster, award-winning journalist Jonathan Franklin takes readers to the heart of a remarkable story of human endurance, survival, and historic heroism.33 Men is the groundbreaking, authoritative account of the Chilean mine disaster, one of the longest human entrapments in history. Rushing to... Read more

Abraham Lincoln

By: Allen C. Guelzo

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 18 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite tremendous interest in Abraham Lincoln and his place in one of America's most tumultuous historical periods, little has been written about his religious life. This truly fresh look at the nation's sixteenth president relates the outward events of Lincoln's life to his inner spiritual struggles and sets them both against the intellectual... Read more

Chaos

By: James Gleick

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

James Gleick's groundbreaking bestseller introduces to a whole new audience the story of one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. By focusing on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science, Gleick makes the story of chaos theory not only fascinating but also accessible, and... Read more

God

By: Jack Miles

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 19 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

What sort of "person" is God? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book--as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? In this "brilliant, audacious book" (Chicago Tribune), a former Jesuit marshalls a vast array of... Read more

Endgame

By: Frank Brady

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From Frank Brady, who wrote one of the bestselling books on Bobby Fischer of all time and who was himself a friend of Fischer’s, comes an impressively researched biography that for the first time completely captures the remarkable arc of Bobby Fischer’s life. When Bobby Fischer passed away in January 2008, he left behind a confounding legacy.... Read more

Moonshot

By: Dan Parry

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

'It didn't matter that they were now three miles beyond their target site, that communications were dropping out and that they were running low on fuel. All that mattered to Neil as he searched for a safe spot to land was that boulders littered the surface below. "Thirty seconds," called mission control. In truth, the flight controllers were now... Read more

Neptune's Inferno

By: James D. Hornfischer

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America’s World War II Navy, works of unique immediacy distinguished by rich portraits of ordinary men in extremis and exclusive new information. Now he does the same for the deadliest, most pivotal naval campaign... Read more

I Shall Not Hate

By: Izzeldin Abuelaish

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish—now known simply as the "Gaza doctor"—captured hearts and headlines around the world in the aftermath of horrific tragedy: On January 16, 2009, Israeli shells hit his home in the Gaza Strip, killing three of his daughters and his niece.



By turns inspiring and heartbreaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is... Read more

Escape from the Land of Snows

By: Stephan Talty

Narrated by: Shishir Kurup

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The remarkable true story of the miraculous journey that made the Dalai Lama into the man he is today and sparked the fight for Tibetan freedom
 
“A hair-raising tale of daring and escape.”—The Washington Post
 
In the early weeks of 1959, a bloody uprising gripped the streets of the Tibetan capital of Lhasa as ragtag Tibetan rebels faced off... Read more

Al Jaffee's Mad Life

By: Mary-Lou Weisman

Narrated by: Allen Rickman

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the great cartoonists of our time.” –New Yorker cartoonist Arnold Roth

The remarkable story of one of America’s most prolific and beloved cartoonists, Al Jaffee, with dozens of original color illustrations. Jaffe’s career in cartooning stretches back to 1941—with early humor pieces for Timely Comics, a precursor to Marvel Comics—but the... Read more

Genome

By: Matt Ridley

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. . . . . He addresses not only the ethical quandaries faced by contemporary scientists but the reductionist danger in equating inheritability with... Read more

The Quiet World

By: Douglas Brinkley

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 23 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Wilderness Warrior, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley offers a riveting, expansive look at the past and present battle to preserve Alaska’s wilderness. Brinkley explores the colorful diversity of Alaska’s wildlife, arrays the forces that have wreaked havoc on its primeval arctic... Read more

The Red Queen

By: Matt Ridley

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures.” (Wall Street Journal) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller GenomeBrilliantly written, The Red Queen compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of romantic love.Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from... Read more

Guns, Germs, and Steel

By: Jared Diamond

Narrated by: Doug Ordunio

Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history.
 
Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary... Read more

Gray Fox

By: Burke Davis

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert E. Lee, a Christian and a gentleman, was the most remarkable man to emerge from the Civil War and is one of the greatest tragic figures of American history. Reserved and unflappable, savvy and fearless, shrewd and tenacious, fatherly and kind are but a few of the adjectives commonly used to describe this noble hero.By using a dramatic... Read more

Voices of Old-Time Boxing Greats

By: Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, Jess Willard, Jack De...

Narrated by: Joe Louis, Max Schmelling, Jess Willard, Jack D...

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Hear the voices of old-time boxing greats, including Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, Jess Willard, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, James J. Corbett, Tommy Farr, Tony Galento, Tami Mauriello. Read more

No Room For Error: The Covert Operations of America's Special Tactics Units From Iran to Afghanistan

By: Ben F. Schemmer & John T. Carney Jr.

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite “special tactics” team in the late 1970s to work with special-operations forces, John T. Carney was the man they turned to.

Since then Carney and the U.S. Air Force Special Tactics units have circled the world on clandestine missions. They have combated terrorists and overthrown dangerous... Read more

Voices of Famous Spiritual Leaders

By: Arthur Ford, Thomas Merton, Harry Edwards & Ern...

Narrated by: Arthur Ford, Thomas Merton, Harry Edwards & Ern...

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Ford (January 8, 1896 – January 4, 1971) was an American psychic, spiritual medium, and founder of the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship. He gained national attention when, in 1928, Ford claimed to have contacted the deceased spirits of Harry Houdini's mother and, later, Houdini himself. Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968)... Read more

The War: Stories of Life and Death From World War II

By: William Manchester, Paul Fussell, Cornelius Rya...

Narrated by: Grover Gardner, Barrett Whitener, Terrence Asel...

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

No one knew it was going to be that bad. World War II killed some 60 million people—20 million of them soldiers—and inflicted wounds, bereavement, poverty and suffering on countless others.But such destruction was an impossible to imagine in advance as it was for young pilots-in-training to imagine their coming fiery deaths; or for Jews to... Read more

Our Man in Tehran

By: Robert Wright

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The world watched with fear in November 1979, when Iranian students infiltrated and occupied the American embassy in Tehran. The Americans were caught entirely by surprise, and what began as a swift and seemingly short-lived takeover evolved into a crisis that would see fifty-four embassy personnel held hostage, most for 444 days. As Tehran... Read more