History audiobooks

Moscow 1941

By: Rodric Braithwaite

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1941 Battle of Moscow—unquestionably one of the most decisive battles of World War II—marked the first strategic defeat of the German armed forces in their seemingly unstoppable march across Europe. The Soviets lost many more people in this one battle than the British and Americans lost in the whole of the Second World War. Now, with... Read more

Essential Vonnegut Interviews

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrated by: Kurt Vonnegut

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut's career as a writer, he sat down many times with radio host and interviewer Walter James Miller to conduct in-depth discussions of his work and the world. Now Caedmon has collected the best of these interviews on CD for the first time. This is the perfect audio collection for the Vonnegut fan who wants to... Read more

My Trade - Abridged

By: Andrew Marr

Narrated by: Andrew Marr

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

How do you decide what is a 'story' and what isn't? What does a newspaper editor actually do all day? How do hacks get their scoops? How do the TV stations choose their news bulletins? How do you persuade people to say those awful, embarrassing things? Who earns what? How do journalists manage to look in the mirror after the way they sometimes... Read more

The Isles - Abridged

By: Norman Davies

Narrated by: Andrew Sachs

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If ever a history book were a tract for the times, it is The Isles: A History ... a masterwork..' Roy Porter, The Times

'Davies is among the few living professional historians who write English with vitality, sparkle, economy and humour. The pages fly by, not only because the pace is well judged but also because the surprises keep coming.'... Read more

The Demon Under the Microscope

By: Thomas Hager

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world of medicine and beyond.



The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of... Read more

Palestine Peace Not Apartheid

By: Jimmy Carter

Narrated by: Jimmy Carter

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Following his #1 New York Times bestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine.

President Carter, who was able to negotiate peace between Israel and Egypt, has remained deeply involved in... Read more

The Day the Universe Changed - Abridged

By: James Burke

Narrated by: James Burke

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

James Burke's examination of the moments in history when a change in knowledge radically altered man's understanding of himself and the world around him in The Day the Universe Changed.

When humans understood that the earth was flat and it was the center of the universe, all life revolved around that truth. Then, Galileo introduced his telescope.... Read more

Ship of Ghosts

By: James D. Hornfischer

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Son, we’re going to Hell."

The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDR’s favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Without hope of... Read more

The Invention Of Childhood

By: Hugh Cunningham

Narrated by: Michael Morpurgo & Full Cast

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by Hugh Cunningham and presented by award-winning children's author Michael Morpurgo, this genuinely ground-breaking history of British childhood teaches us about the key elements that have shaped children's lives. The Invention of Childhood explores how gender, geography and ethnicity has impacted the development of children throughout... Read more

The Old Way

By: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Narrated by: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots-and the roots of life as we know it



When Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen, it was 1950, she was nineteen years old, and these last surviving hunter-gatherers were living as... Read more

The Great Escape

By: Kati Marton

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The stunning story of the breathtaking journey of nine extraordinary men from Budapest to the New World, what they experienced along their dangerous route, and how they changed America and the world.

In a style both personal and historically groundbreaking, acclaimed author Kati Marton (herself born in Budapest) tells the tale of their youth in... Read more

The Money Men

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the first days of the United States, a battle raged over money. On one side were the democrats, who wanted cheap money and feared the concentration of financial interests in the hands of a few. On the other were the capitalists who sought the soundness of a national bank—and the profits that came with it.



In telling this exciting story, H.... Read more

Krueger's Men

By: Lawrence Malkin

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of the greatest counterfeiting scheme in history and the men the Nazis called upon to help it succeed—a group of concentration-camp Jews. Only a fortnight after the start of World War II, at a meeting that has remained a secret for more than half a century, Nazi leaders and officials of the German Reichsbank approved an audacious... Read more

The Rise and Fall of Alexandria

By: Justin Pollard & Howard Reid

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Founded by Alexander the Great and built by self-styled Greek pharaohs, the city of Alexandria at its height dwarfed both Athens and Rome. It was the marvel of its age, legendary for its vast palaces, safe harbors, and magnificent lighthouse. But it was most famous for the astonishing intellectual efflorescence it fostered and the library it... Read more

A Commonwealth of Thieves

By: Thomas Keneally

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

It was 1786 when Arthur Phillip, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy, was assigned the formidable task of organizing an expedition to Australia in order to establish a penal colony. The squalid and turbulent prisons of London were overflowing, and crime was on the rise. Even the hulks sifting at anchor in the Thames were packed with... Read more

Ship of Ghosts - Abridged

By: James D. Hornfischer

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Son, we’re going to Hell."

The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend. Renowned as FDR’s favorite warship, the cruiser USS Houston was a prize target trapped in the far Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Without hope of... Read more

The Secret Life of Houdini - Abridged

By: William Kalush & Larry Sloman

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Handcuff King. Escape Artist. International Superstar.

Since his death eighty-eight years ago, Harry Houdini’s life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Now, in this groundbreaking biography, renowned magic expert William Kalush and bestselling writer Larry Sloman team up to find the man behind the myth. Drawing from millions... Read more

Hitler Youth

By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Narrated by: Kathrin Kana

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, thanks largely to the efforts of the Hitler Youth, whose organized propaganda marches throughout Germany helped the Nazi Party grow in strength. By 1939, it is estimated that more than seven million boys and girls belonged to the Hitler Youth.
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in... Read more

Thunderstruck

By: Erik Larson

Narrated by: Bob Balaban

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.”

In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of... Read more

Mysteries of the Middle Ages

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today.

By placing the image of the Virgin Mary at the center of their churches and their ... Read more

Love and Louis XIV

By: Antonia Fraser

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The superb historian and biographer Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, casts new light on the splendor and the scandals of the reign of Louis XIV in this dramatic, illuminating look at the women in his life.

The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now,... Read more

Mysteries of the Middle Ages - Abridged

By: Thomas Cahill

Narrated by: Thomas Cahill

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After the long period of cultural decline known as the Dark Ages, Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today.

By placing the image of the Virgin Mary at the center of their churches and their ... Read more

Love and Louis XIV - Abridged

By: Antonia Fraser

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The superb historian and biographer Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, casts new light on the splendor and the scandals of the reign of Louis XIV in this dramatic, illuminating look at the women in his life.

The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now,... Read more

The Blind Side

By: Michael Lewis

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.
When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn... Read more