History audiobooks

The Immortalists

By: David M. Friedman

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Immortalists is the fascinating story of the friendship and extraordinary scientific collaboration of two prodigious men: Charles Lindbergh, once the most famous person in the world, and Dr. Alexis Carrel, the Nobel Prize winner regarded by many as the most brilliant surgeon who ever lived.



Lindbergh and Carrel met not long after Lindbergh's... Read more

Broken Government

By: John W. Dean

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The concluding volume of The New York Times bestselling trilogy

One of today?s most outspoken and respected political commentators asks: How can our democracy function when the key institutions of government no longer operate as intended by the Constitution? Stepping back to assess three decades of nearly continuous Republican rule, John W. Dean... Read more

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace

By: Dang Thuy Tram

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

At the age of twenty-four, Dang Thuy Tram volunteered to serve as a doctor in a National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) battlefield hospital in the Quang Ngai Province. Two years later she was killed by American forces not far from where she worked. Written between 1968 and 1970, her diary speaks poignantly of her devotion to family and friends,... Read more

The Great Upheaval - Abridged

By: Jay Winik

Narrated by: Sam Tsoutsouvas

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into monumental revolution. But none of these remarkable events occurred in isolation. In The Great Upheaval, acclaimed historian Jay Winik masterfully illuminates how their... Read more

The War - Abridged

By: Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns

Narrated by: Ken Burns

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The companion volume to the magnificent seven-part PBS series

The individuals featured in this audiobook are not those of historians or scholars. They are ordinary men and women who experienced–and helped to win–the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost.

Focusing on the citizens of four towns–Luverne,... Read more

All the Money in the World

By: Peter W. Bernstein & Annalyn Swan

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Forbes 400, ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, the work of a team of prominent editors and business writers, goes behind the celebrated list to paint a vivid and revealing portrait of the wealthiest Americans of the past quarter century. Abundantly anecdotal, with insights gleaned from... Read more

All the Money in the World - Abridged

By: Peter W. Bernstein & Annalyn Swan

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of theForbes 400, All the Money in the World, the work of a team of prominent editors and business writers, goes behind the celebrated list to paint a vivid and revealing portrait of the wealthiest Americans of the past quarter century. Abundantly anecdotal, with insights gleaned from... Read more

Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years - Abridged

By: Michael Palin

Narrated by: Michael Palin

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Michael Palin's diaries begin in the late 1960s when he began writing for hugely popular programs. He recounts how Monty Python emerged and triumphed. From the success and cult status brought by Monty Python, Palin shares stories from their world tours, their stay at hotels recently trashed by Led Zeppelin, their battles over censorship, and how... Read more

Agent Zigzag - Abridged

By: Ben Macintyre

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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,... Read more

Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts - Abridged

By: Robert D. Kaplan

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this extraordinary book, Robert D. Kaplan lets readers experience up close the American military worldwide in the air, at sea, and on the ground: flying in a B-2 bomber, living on a nuclear submarine, and traveling with a Stryker brigade on missions around the world. Provided unprecedented access, Kaplan moves from destroyers off the coast of... Read more

1967

By: Tom Segev

Narrated by: James Boles

Length: 28 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From Israel's leading historian, a sweeping history of 1967—the war, what led up to it, what came after, and how it changed everything. Tom Segev's acclaimed works One Palestine, Complete and The Seventh Million overturned accepted views of the history of Israel. Now, in 1967—a number-one bestseller in Israel—he brings his masterful skills to... Read more

The War for All the Oceans

By: Lesley Adkins & Roy Adkins

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 21 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Roy Adkins, with his wife, Lesley, returns to the Napoleonic War in The War for All the Oceans, a gripping account of the naval struggle that lasted from 1798 to 1815, a period marked at the beginning by Napoleon's seizing power and at the end by the War of 1812. In this vivid and visceral account, Adkins draws on eyewitness records to portray... Read more

The Death of Manolete

By: Barnaby Conrad

Narrated by: Barnaby Conrad

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

On Thursday, August 28, 1947, a 30-year-old millionaire named Manuel Laureano Rodriguez—Manolete—and a Miura bull named Islero killed each other. The Death of Manolete recounts the extraordinary life and demise of this young bullfighter, from the childhood that made the Spanish boy and the sacrifice that made the man to the girl who brought him... Read more

Monarchy

By: David Starkey

Narrated by: David Starkey

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The crown of England is the oldest surviving political institution in Europe. Throughout this book Dr David Starkey emphasises the Crown's endless capacity to adapt to circumstances and reshape national policy, whilst he unmasks the personalities and achievements, the defeats and victories, which lie behind the kings and queens of British... Read more

Travels with Herodotus

By: Ryszard Kapuscinski

Narrated by: Nicolas Coster

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Herodotus, the 5th century chronicler, scarcely figured in the curriculum when famed Polish writer and traveler Ryszard Kapuscinski attended university in the 1950s. After he finished college, Ryszard became a foreign correspondent who hoped to go abroad, perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India—the first stop on a decades-long... Read more

Amerigo

By: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking work, leading historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto tells the story of our hemisphere as a whole, showing why it is impossible to understand North, Central, and South America in isolation without turning to the intertwining forces that shape the region. With imagination, thematic breadth, and his trademark wit,... Read more

Obama

By: David Mendell

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Barack Obama is arguably the most dynamic political figure to grace the American stage since John F. Kennedy. His meteoric rise from promise to power has stunned even the cynics and inspired a legion of devout followers. For anyone who wants to know more about the man, David Mendell's Obama is essential reading. Mendell, who covered Obama for... Read more

Peeling the Onion

By: Gunter Grass

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize–winning author Günter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when his book The Tin Drum was published.

During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years... Read more

The Elephant and the Dragon

By: Robyn Meredith

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the streets of India, camels pull carts loaded with construction materials, and monkeys race across roads, dodging cars. In China, men in Mao jackets pedal bicycles along newly built highways, past skyscrapers sprouting like bamboo. Yet exotic India is as near as the voice answering an 800 number for one dollar an hour. Communist China is as... Read more

Hard Call - Abridged

By: John McCain & Mark Salter

Narrated by: John McCain & Daniel Hugh Kelly

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

America's most inspiring politician pays tribute to men and woman who have exhibited composure, wisdom and intellect in the face of tough decisions. John McCain draws from experiences of both extraordinary people and people in extraordinary circumstances, culling lessons about the process and nature of judicious and effective decision-making.

... Read more

Der Regimentsmedicus Schiller (ungekürzt)

By: Meike Schlüter

Narrated by: Meike Schlüter & Marcus Reinhardt

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"Die Räuber", "Kabale und Liebe" oder "Wilhelm Tell" sind nur einige seiner Stücke, die als Klassiker der deutschen Literatur gelten. Seine Bedeutung als Dramatiker ist unumstritten. Wenige aber wissen, daß Schiller vor seiner Flucht nach Mannheim - um sich aus den Fängen seines tyrannischen Landesfürsten zu befreien und sich ganz der... Read more

The Preacher and the Presidents - Abridged

By: Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No one man or woman has ever been in a position to see the presidents, and the presidency, so intimately, over so many years. They called him in for photo opportunities. They called for comfort. They asked about death and salvation; about sin and forgiveness.

At a time when the nation is increasingly split over the place of religion in public... Read more

Clausewitz's On War

By: Hew Strachan

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps the most important book on military strategy ever written, Carl von Clausewitz's On War has influenced generations of generals and politicians, has been blamed for the unprecedented death tolls in the First and Second World Wars, and is required reading at military academies to this day. But On War, which was never finished and was... Read more

In the Ruins of Empire

By: Ronald H. Spector

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans are accustomed to thinking that World War II ended on August 14, 1945, when the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. Yet on the mainland of Asia, in the vast arc stretching from Manchuria to Burma, peace was a brief, fretful interlude. In some parts of Asia, such as Java and Southern Indonesia, only a few weeks passed before new... Read more