History audiobooks

The Jesuit and the Skull

By: Amir D. Aczel

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In December 1929, in a cave near Peking, a group of anthropologists and archaeologists that included a young French Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin uncovered a prehuman skull. The find quickly became known around the world as Peking Man and was acclaimed as the missing link between erect hunting apes and our Cro-Magnon ancestors.... Read more

Report from Ground Zero - Abridged

By: Dennis Smith

Narrated by: Beth McDonald, Eric Conger, Don Leslie, Ensembl...

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What would make someone rush into a towering inferno and dash up stairs toward danger against a flow of human beings running in the opposite direction? Only someone who's been there can tell us. Read more

Arsenals of Folly

By: Richard Rhodes

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb: the story of the entire postwar superpower arms race, climaxing during the Reagan-Gorbachev decade when the United States and the Soviet Union came within scant hours of nuclear war–and then nearly agreed to abolish nuclear weapons.

In a narrative that moves like a... Read more

Blue Skies, No Fences - Abridged

By: Lynne Cheney

Narrated by: Lynne Cheney

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family, Lynne Cheney re-creates the years after World War II in a small town on the high plains of the West. Portraying an era that started with the Ink Spots on the Zenith Radio in her family's living room and ended with Elvis on the jukebox at the local canteen, she tells of coming of age in... Read more

The Forgotten 500

By: Gregory A. Freeman

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The astonishing, never-before-told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II—when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines...



During a bombing campaign, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. Local Serbian villagers risked their own lives to give refuge to the soldiers,... Read more

Das Verhör des Ernst Niekisch - Abridged

By: Gerda Corbett-Mansfeld & Michael Mansfeld

Narrated by: Nikolaus Paryla, Hans-Christian Blech, Fritz St...

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Im Mittelpunkt der szenischen Dokumentation stehen die Verhöre (nach Originalprotokollen) Niekischs durch die Gestapo. ERNST NIEKISCH (1889-1967), Sozialrevolutionär, Gründer der Zeitschrift "Der Widerstand" (1926), zu deren Mitarbeitern u.a. auch Ernst Jünger und A.Paul Weber zählten, Verfasser brillanter politischer Analysen des... Read more

Cochrane

By: David Cordingly

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Under the Black Flag comes the definitive biography of the swashbuckling nineteenth-century maritime hero upon whom Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower are based.



Nicknamed le loup des mers ("the sea wolf") by Napoleon, Thomas Cochrane was one of the most daring and successful naval heroes of all time. In this... Read more

Agent Zigzag

By: Ben Macintyre

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began.

In 1941, after... Read more

The Siege of Mecca

By: Yaroslav Trofimov

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on Tehran, where the Iranian hostage crisis was entering its third week. The same morning—the first of a new Muslim century—hundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islam's holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Armed with rifles that they had smuggled inside coffins, these men... Read more

A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey

By: Michael D'Antonio

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Michael D'Antonio captures the wackiness of the first year of the space race as the Americans scrambled desperately to match the Soviets and President Eisenhower intervened to guarantee that the space program would not be run by the military.



On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I, the... Read more

Die Sprache bringt es an den Tag - Abridged

By: Rudolf Höß

Narrated by: Stefan Hunstein

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein Land, das dem Untergang entgegen taumelt, wird aus verschiedenen Perspektiven in den Blick genommen. Da ist einerseits die private, fast intime Seite desTerrors, die sich in Hitlers Tischgesprächen oder in den Briefen seiner Verehrerinnen offenbart, und andererseits die Selbstrechtfertigung des KZ-Kommandanten Rudolf Höß. Überall vermittelt... Read more

The Day of Battle - Abridged

By: Rick Atkinson

Narrated by: Rick Atkinson

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The harrowing story of one of history's most compelling military campaigns.

In An Army at Dawn—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943, attack Italy two... Read more

La corte de los ilusos

By: Rosa Beltran

Narrated by: Angel Pineda

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

La escritora Rosa Beltran define a la historia de Mexico como un gran acontecimiento politico que da paso a un largo cuento de ficcion, que no nos lleva a ninguna parte y claramente se traduce en una historia absurda, tomando como pretexto la vida de Don Agustin de Iturbide el unico emperador que Mexico tuvo. Narra los ultimos anos de la vida,... Read more

El arte de ser feliz

By: Muneca Geigel

Narrated by: Muneca Geigel

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Muneca Geigel nacio en Puerto Rico en 1931, y desde sus anos de estudiante ha desarrollado una intensa actividad. Trabajo en la Escuela de Medicina Tropical y, durante catorce anos, en comunidades desfavorecidas. A partir de 1964 comienza a destacar en el campo del automejoramiento, la autoayuda y la motivacion, contando entre sus maestros con... Read more

Letters from Nuremberg

By: Lary Bloom & Christopher J. Dodd

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Senator Christopher J. Dodd (Connecticut) presents letters his father wrote home while serving as a prosecutor at Nuremberg.

Senator Thomas Dodd began his career of public service as prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. Chris Dodd recently discovered his mother's collection of letters his father wrote during the trials. Through his father, Chris... Read more

Follow the Money

By: John Anderson

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow the Money is a harrowing behind-the-scenes account of how a cabal of powerful, tightly connected Texas Republicans have quietly hijacked American politics for their own personal gain. It tells the story of how the Texas political system came to be hijacked by a sophisticated, well-funded group of conservative Republicans who, once they... Read more

The Pirate Queen

By: Susan Ronald

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Dubbed the "pirate queen" by the Vatican and Spain's Philip II, Elizabeth I was feared and admired by her enemies. Extravagant, whimsical, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the epitome of power. Her visionary accomplishments were made possible by her daring merchants, gifted rapscallion adventurers, astronomer philosophers, and her stalwart Privy... Read more

No Simple Victory

By: Norman Davies

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 20 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

If history really belongs to the victor, what happens when there's more than one side declaring victory? That's the conundrum Norman Davies unravels in his groundbreaking book No Simple Victory. Far from being a revisionist history, No Simple Victory instead offers a clear-eyed reappraisal, untangling and setting right the disparate claims made... Read more

Red Moon Rising

By: Matthew Brzezinski

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book to capture both the Soviet and American sides of the event that started the space race and changed our world.



On October fourth, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon. No bigger than a basketball, the tiny satellite was powered by a car battery. Yet, for all its... Read more

A Magnificent Catastrophe - Abridged

By: Edward J. Larson

Narrated by: John Dossett

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

"They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election—an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy that Thomas Jefferson would later dub it "America's... Read more

The Shock Doctrine - Abridged

By: Naomi Klein

Narrated by: Jennifer Wiltsie

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq

In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she... Read more

The Last Days of the Incas

By: Kim MacQuarrie

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 21 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with... Read more

Hurricane Season

By: Neal Thompson

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"There's always a point in the season when you're faced with a challenge and you see what you're capable of. And you grow up." —J. T. Curtis, head coach, John Curtis Christian School Patriots



On Saturday, August 27, 2005, the John Curtis Patriots met for a grueling practice in the late summer New Orleans sun, the air a visible fog of humidity.... Read more

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Paine is one of the greatest political propagandists in history. The Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the uprising of the French people, Paine's text is a passionate defense of the rights of man. Paine argued against monarchy and outlined the elements... Read more