History audiobooks

Everything Is Broken

By: Emma Larkin

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

On May 2, 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma, wreaking untold havoc and leaving an official toll of 138,300 dead and missing. In the days that followed, the sheer scale of the disaster became apparent as information began to seep out from the hard-hit delta area. But the Burmese regime, in an unfathomable decision of... Read more

The Ides

By: Stephen Dando-Collins

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixty killers, wearing the purple-trimmed togas of Roman senators, unsheathed their hidden daggers to stab the most feared and powerful man in the Empire. Hundreds of their colleagues ran screaming from the Theater of Pompey the Great, proclaiming the bloody deed to the thousands of citizens who clogged the streets outside. It was the most... Read more

Mythos Südsee - Abridged

By: Ulrich Offenberg

Narrated by: Claus Brockmeyer & Christian Baumann

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Es begann mit einer theatralischen Inszenierung: 1513 tauchte der Spanier Vasco Nuenz de Balboa sein Schwert in die Fluten des Stillen Ozeans und nahm damit symbolisch die Südsee für seinen König in Besitz. Der Edelmann ahnte damals nicht, dass er den größten Ozean der Erde entdeckt hatte. Ein Gebiet mit 20.000 Inseln, so groß wie die Oberfläche... Read more

Alte Geschichte: Julius Caesar und das Ende der römischen Republik - Abridged

By: Martin Jehne

Narrated by: Martin Jehne

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Julius Caesar und Alexander der Grosse Caesar soll Alexander um dessen militärische Erfolge schon in jungen Jahren beneidet haben: Doch selbst wenn das wohl eine spätere Erfindung war, so waren jedenfalls Caesars Ambitionen ebenso außergewöhnlich wie seine Talente. Der Systemumbruch von der Republik zur Monarchie in Rom ist eng verknüpft mit... Read more

In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers

By: Larry Alexander

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of the sixty-fifth anniversary of the end of the war in Europe, Larry Alexander returns to the very battlefields that made Easy Company a legend. Accompanied by Easy veteran Sgt. Forrest Guth on his final tour, Alexander crosses an ocean and a continent to follow the path to victory taken by the famed Band of Brothers, exploring the... Read more

Hunting Evil

By: Guy Walters

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 18 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Already acclaimed in England as "first-rate" (The Sunday Times); “a model of meticulous, courageous and path-breaking scholarship"(Literary Review); and "absorbing and thoroughly gripping… deserves a lasting place among histories of the war.” (The Sunday Telegraph), Hunting Evil is the first complete and definitive account of how the Nazis... Read more

Bursts

By: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A revolutionary new theory showing how we can predict human behavior-from a radical genius and bestselling author

Can we scientifically predict our future? Scientists and pseudo scientists have been pursuing this mystery for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years. But now, astonishing new research is revealing patterns in human behavior... Read more

A Measureless Peril

By: Richard Snow

Narrated by: John Dossett

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An exciting history told with a novelist's eye and filled with intimate details of the longest and largest battle of WWII—the fight for the Atlantic Ocean.

Of all the threats that faced his country in World War II, Winston Churchill said, just one really scared him—what he called the "measureless peril" of the German U-boat campaign.

In that... Read more

Red November

By: W. Craig Reed

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Few know how close the world has come to annihilation better than the warriors who served America during the tense, forty-five-year struggle known as the Cold War. Yet for decades, their work has remained shrouded in secrecy. Now, in this riveting history, W. Craig Reed, a former navy diver and fast-attack submariner, provides an eye-opening,... Read more

The Price of Freedom

By: Alex Domokos

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The price of this man’s freedom included the traumatic separation from his baby daughter. Alex Domokos wrote this memoir of his years during and after World War II with two purposes in mind: to allow his daughter a glimpse into his past, and to enlighten others about the tragedy of his homeland, Hungary.The sufferings that plagued the Hungarian... Read more

Parisians

By: Graham Robb

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction.



A young artillery lieutenant, strolling through the Palais-Royal, observes disapprovingly the courtesans plying their trade. A particular woman catches his eye; nature takes its... Read more

Escape!

By: Sid Fleischman

Narrated by: Sid Fleischman & Taylor Mali

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Harry Houdini, born Ehrich Weiss, never did anything by half measure. Once he decided to become a magician, he became the King of Cards, the Prince of Air, the Genius of Escape, and Professor H. Houdini. And why not? He could walk through walls, defeat any lock, make elephants disappear with the snap of his fingers, and pick up needles with his... Read more

Lives of the Writers

By: Kathleen Krull

Narrated by: John C. Brown & Melissa Hughes

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

History comes to life in this dynamic volume! Here are inside views of twenty writers—people of all shapes, sizes, temperaments, and lifestyles, from various countries and historical periods. Included are William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson, Charles Dickens,... Read more

The Lowdown: A Short History of the Origins of World War I

By: John Lee

Narrated by: Steve Deveraux

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A concise history of the origins of the “war to end all wars”.Many of us know that the first world war began when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo in June of 1914. But have you ever wondered exactly what chain of events led up to the incident that caused the whole world to erupt into one of the... Read more

I Am a Star

By: Inge Auerbacher

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Inge Auerbacher is a happy German girl when the nightmare begins. Six-year-old Inge is made to wear a yellow star to identify her as a Jew. As the Nazis gain power, her family is subjected to greater and greater horrors. Their home and citizenship are taken away. Inge's relatives are sent away, and she and her parents are forced into the Terezin... Read more

Thomas Wolsey, the Late Cardinal

By: George Cavendish

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This extraordinary “eye-witness” account of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey’s rise and fall from power was written between 1554 and 1558 by his gentleman-usher, George Cavendish, who was privy to so much of the Cardinal’s ambitious endeavors. However, Cavendish prudently waited a long time before chronicling his observations for fear of his life, as... Read more

Tim O'Brien

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty five years after the conclusion of the Vietnam War, Tim O'Brien's collection of stories about an American platoon, The Things They Carried, is being reissued as it celebrates its own 20th anniversary. Jeffrey Brown talks to the author about the experiences that led him to write the book. Read more

Hellhound On His Trail

By: Hampton Sides

Narrated by: Hampton Sides

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted across the country and mourners gathered at King's funeral, investigators launched a sixty-five day search for King’s assassin that would lead them across two continents—from... Read more

The Dream Machine

By: Richard Whittle

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 18 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Marines decided to buy a helicopter-airplane hybrid "tiltrotor" called the V-22 Osprey, they saw it as their dream machine. The tiltrotor was the aviation equivalent of finding the Northwest Passage: an aircraft able to take off, land, and hover with the agility of a helicopter yet fly as fast and as far as an airplane. Many predicted... Read more

Paradise General

By: Dave Hnida

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A family doctor with limited surgical experience, Dr. Dave Hnida volunteered for two tours of duty in Iraq—first as a battalion surgeon with a combat unit and then as trauma chief at the busiest Combat Support Hospital (CSH) during the Surge. With honesty and candor, and the goofy, self-deprecating humor that sustained him and his fellow doctors... Read more

Betsy Ross and the Making of America

By: Marla R. Miller

Narrated by: Dana Green

Length: 19 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Legend has it that as the American colonies hurtled toward independence, representatives of the Continental Congress, including George Washington, walked into Betsy Ross’s Philadelphia upholstery shop and commissioned the first flag of the Revolutionary nation. Although this story has long made Betsy Ross one of America’s most celebrated... Read more

Winston's War

By: Max Hastings

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 25 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime from acclaimed historian Max Hastings, Winston’s War captures the full range of Churchill’s endlessly fascinating character. At once brilliant and infuriating, self-important and courageous, Hastings’s Churchill comes brashly to life as never before.

Beginning in 1940, when... Read more

The War Lovers

By: Evan Thomas

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

On February 15, 1898, the American ship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. News of the blast quickly reached U.S. shores, where it was met by some not with alarm but great enthusiasm.

A powerful group of war lovers agitated that the United States exert its muscle across the seas. Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge were... Read more

With the Old Breed

By: E.B. Sledge

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This modern classic of military history has been called "one of the most important personal accounts of war that I have ever read" by distinguished historian John Keegan. Author E.B. Sledge served with the First Marine Division during WWII, and his first-hand narrative is unsurpassed in its sincerity. Sledge's experience shows in this... Read more