History audiobooks

The Wolf

By: Richard Guilliatt & Peter Hohnen

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1916, a nondescript freighter left Germany carrying 465 submarine mines, 16 torpedoes, 8 cannons, 1,400 shells, a seaplane, and 346 men who believed they were embarking on a suicide mission. That ship became known to Allied forces as the Wolf, and by the time it returned to Germany more than a year later it was home to more than 800 men,... Read more

My Early Life

By: Winston Churchill

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

As a visionary, statesman, historian, and the most eloquent spokesman against Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill was one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century.This is the story of the first thirty years of his life, up to the point where his unique parliamentary career was just beginning. From childhood and his apprentice days at Harrow... Read more

An Angel from Hell

By: Ryan A. Conklin

Narrated by: Ryan A. Conklin

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Ryan A. Conklin enlisted in the U.S. Army at age seventeen, following 9/11, and joined Angel Company. As a turret gunner with the famed 101st Airborne "Screaming Eagles" and a member of the famed "Rakkasans" regiment—the most decorated regiment in the U.S. Army—he endured hellish conditions in the war-torn city of Tikrit, Iraq.



After he returned... Read more

War Beneath the Waves

By: Don Keith

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In November 1943, while on war patrol in the Makassar Strait, the USS Billfish submarine was spotted by the Japanese, who launched a vicious depth charge attack. Explosions wracked the sub for fifteen straight hours. With his senior officers incapacitated, diving officer Charlie Rush boldly assumed command and led key members of the crew in a... Read more

An Autobiography

By: Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi

Narrated by: Bill Wallace

Length: 18 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A holy man to Hindus, a hero to Muslims, and a criminal to the British, Mohandas K. Gandhi was one of the most influential and inspiring figures of the twentieth century, a man whose quest to live in accord with God’s highest truth led him to initiate massive campaigns against racism, violence, and colonialism.From his youthful rebellion against... Read more

Fighter Pilot

By: Robin Olds

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 17 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A larger-than-life hero with a towering personality, Robin Olds was a graduate of West Point and an inductee in the National College Football Hall of Fame for his All-American performance for Army. In World War II, Olds quickly became a top fighter pilot and squadron commander by the age of twenty-two—a double ace with twelve aerial victories.... Read more

Making Haste from Babylon

By: Nick Bunker

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 18 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of doom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrims prepared to sail across the Atlantic on board the Mayflower, the atmosphere remained... Read more

Life in Year One

By: Scott Korb

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

What was it like to live during the time of Jesus? Where did people live? Who did they marry? What was family life like? And how did people survive?



These are just some of the questions that Scott Korb answers in this engaging new book, which explores what everyday life entailed two thousand years ago in first-century Palestine, that tumultuous... Read more

Abundance of Valor

By: Will Irwin

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The operation known as "Market Garden"—made famous in the book and film A Bridge Too Far—was the largest airborne assault in history up to that time. A high-risk Allied invasion of enemy territory that has become a legend of World War II, it still invites criticism from historians. Now a thrilling and revelatory new book re-creates the operation... Read more

A History of Venice

By: Thomas F. Madden

Narrated by: Thomas F. Madden

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned professor Thomas F. Madden focuses his expertise on what has been called the most beautiful city in the world-Venice. In these lectures, Professor Madden explains how the city on the lagoon was established by refugees escaping the onslaught of northern "barbarians" invading the crumbling Roman Empire. Through its history, Venice housed... Read more

Alexander of Macedonia

By: Robin Lane Fox

Narrated by: Robin Lane Fox

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander the Great is the most famous king and conqueror known in the ancient world. In his lifetime, he was given honors equal to those of the gods. After his death, he became a legend and the "Alexander Romance" became the best-selling fiction of the medieval world. Esteemed Professor Robin Lane Fox has made the study of Alexander of Macedon... Read more

Ian Fleming

By: Andrew Lycett

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 21 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world-traveler, and spy, the creator of the Cold War’s archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complex and interesting than his iconic fictional character, Agent 007. Fleming’s wide-ranging and exciting life inevitably provided the plausible backdrop for his Bond novels. Highly regarded in British naval... Read more

The End of Wall Street

By: Roger Lowenstein

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The roots of the mortgage bubble and the story of the Wall Street collapse-and the government's unprecedented response-from our most trusted business journalist.The End of Wall Street is a blow-by-blow account of America's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180 interviews, including sit-downs with top government... Read more

Leaving Glorytown

By: Eduardo Calcines

Narrated by: Eduardo Calcines

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Eduardo F. Calcines was a child of Fidel Castro’s Cuba; he was just three years old when Castro came to power in January 1959.  After that, everything changed for his family and his country, and over the next few years, it was hard for Eduardo to understand why soldiers now stood on every street corner, food was strictly rationed, and adults... Read more

This Time Together

By: Carol Burnett

Narrated by: Carol Burnett

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This touching and hilarious memoir is 100 percent Carol Burnett—funny, irreverent, and irresistible.

Carol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America. The Carol Burnett Show was seen each week by millions of adoring fans and won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run. Now, in This Time... Read more

David Livingstone

By: C. Silvester Horne

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Written just forty years after David Livingstone’s death, this admiring account of the famous missionary’s life and work takes us deep into the “dark continent” of nineteenth-century Africa, where he labored to bring “Christianity, commerce and civilization.” A national hero in Victorian Britain, Livingstone earned fame as an explorer and... Read more

This Is Your Moment - Abridged

By: Barack Obama

Narrated by: Barack Obama

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After years of courses, research papers, lectures, midterms, and finals, it's time for students to graduate. One of the last rites of passage for students before pursuing their careers is the graduation ceremony. But before receiving their diplomas, students have one last opportunity to bask in the wisdom and experience conveyed by those who... Read more

Dining with al-Qaeda

By: Hugh Pope

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 16 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

An Oxford-educated scholar of the Middle East and a former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Hugh Pope lived and worked in two dozen countries throughout the region. Following in the footsteps of Sir Richard Burton and Lawrence of Arabia, Hugh Pope's explorations of the people, politics, religion, and culture of Islamic nations... Read more

Cahokia

By: Timothy R. Pauketat

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Professor Timothy R. Pauketat illuminates the riveting discovery of the largest pre-Columbian city on U.S. soil. Once a flourishing metropolis of 20,000 people in 1050, Cahokia had rotted away by 1400. Its earthen mounds near modern-day St. Louis reveal "woodhenges" and evidence of large-scale human sacrifice. Read more

Iggy Pop

By: Paul Trynka

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Iggy Pop’s legendary career has been tumultuous, reaching great heights, producing mega-hits, while at times hitting rock-bottom lows in jail and mental institutions. Along the way, he’s become a cult rock hero, an inspiration for dozens of other famous rockers, and has had a pretty good time of it, too. But the image of Iggy Pop versus the man... Read more

Unbound

By: Dean King

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In October 1934, the Chinese Communist Army found itself facing annihilation, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Nationalist soldiers. Rather than surrender, 86,000 Communists embarked on an epic flight to safety. Only thirty were women. Their trek would eventually cover 4,000 miles over 370 days. Under enemy fire they crossed highland... Read more

The Long Way Home

By: David Laskin

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The United States has always been a nation of immigrants—never more so than in 1917 when the nation entered the First World War. Of the 2.5 million soldiers who fought with U.S. armed forces in the trenches of France and Belgium, some half a million—nearly one out of every five men—were immigrants. In The Long Way Home, David Laskin, author of... Read more

Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex

By: Anne Frank

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The candid, poignant, unforgettable writing of the young girl whose own life story has become an everlasting source of courage and inspiration.

Hiding from the Nazis in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals... Read more

American Conspiracies

By: Dick Russell & Jesse Ventura

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In this explosive account of wrongful acts and ongoing cover-ups, Jesse Ventura takes a systematic look at the wide gap between what the American government knows and what it reveals to the American people. For too long, we the people have sat by and let politicians and bureaucrats from both parties obfuscate and lie. And according to this... Read more