History audiobooks

A Treasury of Deception

By: Michael Farquhar

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

We may say that honesty is the best policy, but history suggests otherwise. In this infinitely citable book, the author recounts some of the greatest deceptions of all time.With what forged document did the Vatican lay claim to much of Europe?Why do millions still believe the vague doggerel Nostradamus passed off as prophecy?Who actually wrote... Read more

Letters To My Grandchildren

By: Tony Benn

Narrated by: Tony Benn

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it.

The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could help the next generation to avoid mistakes their parents and grandparents made.

Certainly at my... Read more

Napoleon Bonaparte

By: Frank Giles

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

After his surrender to the Royal Navy, Napoleon became the object of massive English public interest. He would live out his last years on the island of St. Helena without ever admitting to being a prisoner.This close study of Napoleon in captivity attempts to reconstruct an authentic portrait of the fallen emperor by examining contemporary... Read more

Seven Events That Made America America

By: Larry Schweikart

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Every schoolchild is taught the great turning points in American history, such as Gettysburg, Pearl Harbor, the Kennedy assassination, and 9/11. But other, equally significant events have altered our destiny without being understood—or even widely noticed.



Acclaimed conservative historian Larry Schweikart now takes an in-depth look at seven such... Read more

Forged in Faith

By: Rod Gragg

Narrated by: Maurice England

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

It motivated America’s founding fathers, influenced national independence, and inspired our foundational documents. Wars raged over it. Men died for it. All for faith. And out of the smoke and grit, a nation was born. From the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the passage of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Forged in Faith traces the epic... Read more

The Icarus Syndrome

By: Peter Beinart

Narrated by: John Morgan

Length: 18 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“Peter Beinart has written a vivid, empathetic, and convincing history of the men and ideas that have shaped the ambitions of American foreign policy during the last century—a story in which human fallibility and idealism flow together. The story continues, of course, and so his book is not only timely; it is indispensable.” — Steve Coll, author... Read more

The Most Powerful Idea in the World

By: William Rosen

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up, beginning an almost uninterrupted march of progress.



In The Most Powerful Idea in the World, William Rosen... Read more

A Time to Betray

By: Reza Kahlili

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A true story as exhilarating as a great spy thriller, as turbulent as today's headlines from the Middle East, A Time to Betray reveals what no other previous CIA operative's memoir possibly could: the inner workings of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man inside their ranks who spied for the American... Read more

American Insurgents, American Patriots

By: T. H. Breen

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Before there could be a revolution, there was a rebellion; before patriots, there were insurgents. Challenging and displacing decades of received wisdom, T. H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans—most of them members of farm families living in small communities—were drawn into a successful insurgency against imperial... Read more

Exploration Fawcett

By: P. H. Fawcett

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The mystic and legendary British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett disappeared in the unknown and unexplored territory of Brazil’s Mato Grosso in 1925. For ten years he had wandered the forests and death-filled rivers in search of a fabled lost city. Finally, convinced that he had discovered the location, he set out for the last time with... Read more

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

By: Anne Frank

Narrated by: Selma Blair

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

THE DEFINITIVE EDITION • Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, the remarkable diary that has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.

Updated for the 75th Anniversary of the Diary’s first publication with a new introduction by Nobel... Read more

Death to the Dictator!

By: Afsaneh Moqadam

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Tehran, June 12, 2009. Mohsen Abbaspour, an ordinary young man in his twenties—not particularly political, or ambitious, or worldly—casts the first vote of his life in Iran's tenth presidential election. Fed up with rising unemployment and inflation, he backs the reformist party and its candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Mohsen believes his vote... Read more

Somewhere Inside

By: Laura Ling & Lisa Ling

Narrated by: Laura Ling & Lisa Ling

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Somewhere Inside is the electrifying, never-before-told story of Laura Ling’s capture by the North Koreans in March 2009, and the efforts of her sister, journalist Lisa Ling, to secure Laura’s release by former President Bill Clinton. This riveting true account of the first ever trial of an American citizen in North Korea’s highest court carries... Read more

The Promise

By: Jonathan Alter

Narrated by: Jonathan Alter

Length: 20 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Barack Obama’s inauguration as president on January 20, 2009, inspired the world. But the great promise of “Change We Can Believe In” was immediately tested by the threat of another Great Depression, a worsening war in Afghanistan, and an entrenched and deeply partisan system of business as usual in Washington. Despite all the coverage, the... Read more

The Baseball Codes

By: Jason Turbow

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize. What truly governs the Major League game is a set of unwritten rules—some of which are openly discussed, and some of which only a minority of players are aware. In The Baseball Codes, old-timers and all-time greats share... Read more

Crisis Economics

By: Nouriel Roubini & Stephen Mihm

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This myth shattering book reveals the methods Nouriel Roubini used to foretell the current crisis before other economists saw it coming and shows how those methods can help us make sense of the present and prepare for the future.

Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini electrified his profession and the larger financial community by predicting the... Read more

Moment of Glory

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

After winning 6 of the 12 Majors from 2000 to 2002, Tiger Woods struggled in 2003. Four unknown golf players -- Mike Weir, Jim Furyk, Ben Curtis, and Shaun Micheel -- would seize the day, rising to become champions in his wake.

Mike Weir -- considered a good golfer but not a great one -- triumphed in The Masters, becoming the first Canadian... Read more

At the Edge of the Precipice

By: Robert V. Remini

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

It has been said that if Henry Clay had been alive in 1860, there would have been no Civil War. Based on his performance in 1850, it may well be true. In that year, the United States faced one of the most dangerous crises in its history, having just acquired a huge parcel of land from the war with Mexico. Northern and Southern politicians fought... Read more

The Last Hero

By: Howard Bryant

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 21 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry Aaron’s reputation has only grown in magnitude: he broke existing records (rbis, total bases, extra-base hits) and set new ones (hitting at least thirty home runs per season fifteen times, becoming the first player in history to hammer five hundred home runs and three thousand hits). But his... Read more

Toward a True Kinship of Faiths

By: Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Richard Gere

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

No person today is untouched by what happens in the rest of the world. With this historic development, the Dalai Lama understands that the essential task of humanity is to cultivate peaceful coexistence. But this has long been problematic with religion, and while previous conflicts over religious differences may have been significant, they did... Read more

Hitler's Holy Relics

By: Sidney Kirkpatrick

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Had Hitler succeeded in conquering Europe, he would have crowned himself Holy Roman Emperor. The Nazis had in their possession priceless artifacts that would give Hitler legitimacy in his subjects’ eyes: the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire including the Spear of Destiny, alleged to have pierced Christ’s side at the Crucifixion. Looted from... Read more

The Eyes of Willie McGee

By: Alex Heard

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“A memorable narrative of a civil rights case that deserves a larger place in American memory.” —Jon Meacham“Riveting. . . . It’s like a real-life To Kill a Mockingbird, but with even more subtlety and complexity.” —Walter Isaacson, author of EinsteinIn this gripping saga of race and retribution, Alex Heard tells a moving and unforgettable story... Read more

A Nation Rising

By: Kenneth C. Davis

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In the dramatic period from 1800 through 1850, the United States emerged from its inauspicious beginning as a tiny newborn nation, to a near-empire that spanned the continent. It was a time in which the “dream of our founders” spread in ways that few men of that Revolutionary Generation could possibly have imagined. And it was an era that led to... Read more

Last Call - Abridged

By: Daniel Okrent

Narrated by: Daniel Okrent

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the US Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.

From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World... Read more