History audiobooks

The Heavy Water War

By: John Sadler

Narrated by: Mark Elstob

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

During the course of the Second World War, the Allies mounted a series of attempts to prevent Germany from manufacturing heavy water utilising hydroelectric plants in occupied Norway. These efforts comprised a mix of bomber and Commando raids. The overall aim was to stop Nazi Germany building a nuclear bomb. In fact, Hitler was never as close as... Read more

The Most Inspiring Short Stories for Seniors

By: Wildemind Publications

Narrated by: Eric Carpenter

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know that listening to a story engages the mind twice as much as watching the the TV?Stories are known to improve mental cognition, improve memory, and keep the mind stimulated.Perhaps you (or your parents) are looking for some inspiring stories from the last century?Our audiobook is exactly that! A handful of 22 short-stories (each... Read more

La llamada

By: Leila Guerreiro

Narrated by: Natalia Pupato

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta es una historia real, llena de aristas y sombras, sobre la condición humana. A fines de los sesenta, con trece años, la argentina Silvia Labayru era una adolescente tímida, lectora, amante de los animales, entusiasta de John F. Kennedy, hija de una familia de militares que incluía a su padre, miembro de la Fuerza Aérea y piloto civil. A esa... Read more

Summer 2009

By: Andrew Coville

Narrated by: Andrew Coville

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Afghanistan war endured for two decades, involving an all-volunteer military force deployed repeatedly between 2001-2021. Over the course of these 20 years, thousands of young Americans lived through their own unique versions of the war, each marked by personal war stories and life-altering events. The war concluded on August 30th, 2021,... Read more

Once Upon a Country Road

By: Ruth B Smith

Narrated by: Ruth Rosen

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In this biography, Ruth Busbee Smith depicts a vivid picture of her upbringing on a family-owned farm in South Carolina in the 1940s and 50s- a lifestyle that is both peaceful and hardworking. From the unique personality traits of her family members, helping on the farm, and more to becoming a "bookworm" at a young age to learning and following... Read more

The Chronicles of America Volume 13 - The Fathers of the Constitution (Unabridged)

By: Max Farrand

Narrated by: Kirsten Baker

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tumultuous aftermath of the American Revolution, a group of brilliant minds gathered to forge a new nation. "The Fathers of the Constitution" chronicles the extraordinary journey of these men as they grappled with profound questions of governance, liberty, and the future of their fledgling republic. From the heated debates at the... Read more

The Queens Who Fought Rome

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Victoria Woodson

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

During one of the most turbulent periods in the history of Rome, men like Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian participated in two civil wars that would spell the end of the Roman Republic and determine who would become the Roman emperor. In the middle of it all was history’s most famous woman, the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.),... Read more

What Are the Olympics For?

By: Jules Boykoff

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Athletes first’ is a slogan the International Olympic Committee often touts, but the reality is very different, as pre-eminent Olympics expert Jules Boykoff shows in this book. While the world’s attention is riveted by the triumphs and tribulations on their screens, there is much that goes on behind the scenes that is deeply troubling: athletes... Read more

Jesus, Contradicted Audio Lectures

By: Michael R. Licona

Narrated by: Michael R. Licona

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

These audio lectures are a unique learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Jesus, Contradicted Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.The differences and... Read more

Zev's Los Angeles

By: Zev Yaroslavsky

Narrated by: Graham Rowat

Length: 16 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of Zev Yaroslavsky, the son of Ukrainian Jews who immigrated to the United States in the early 1920s. His memoir charts the journey of a young social activist who battled to free Soviet Jews before becoming one of the most consequential elected officials in Southern California. Fiercely independent, he combined an activist's... Read more

Jesus, Contradicted

By: Michael R. Licona

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The differences and discrepancies in the Gospels constitute the foremost objections to their reliability and the credibility of their message. Some have tried to resolve Gospels contradictions with strained harmonization efforts. Many others conclude that the Gospels are hopelessly contradictory and, therefore, historically unreliable accounts... Read more

The Russian FSB

By: Kevin P. Riehle

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Since its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia's Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era KGB. Under Vladimir Putin, who served as FSB director just before becoming president, the agency has grown to be one of the most powerful and favored organizations in Russia. The FSB not only... Read more

Looking for Andy Griffith

By: Evan Dalton Smith

Narrated by: Evan Dalton Smith

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Andy Griffith (1926-2012) is one of North Carolina's most beloved exports, capturing America's heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Evan Dalton Smith was born in the North Carolina Piedmont over four decades after Andy, just an hour south of Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy. Both were small-town boys who grew up in similar places, where the counties... Read more

Franz Beckenbauer: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Franz Beckenbauer, Kaiser Franz und deutsche Fußballlegende: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

Cunning Folk

By: Tabitha Stanmore

Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Cunning Folk by Tabitha Stanmore, read by Anna Wilson-Jones.

"Rich and lively."—New York Times Book Review

A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic.

Imagine: it’s the year 1600 and you’ve lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they’ve been stolen.... Read more

Banished from Johnstown

By: Cody McDevitt

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Author and journalist Cody McDevitt tells the story of one of the worst civil rights injustices in Western Pennsylvania history.



In 1923, in response to the fatal shooting of four policemen, the mayor of Johnstown ordered every African American and Mexican immigrant who had lived in the city for less than seven years to leave. They were given... Read more

King Hancock

By: Brooke Barbier

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans are more familiar with his signature than with the man himself. In this spirited account of John Hancock's life, Brooke Barbier depicts a patriot of fascinating contradictions—a child of enormous privilege who would nevertheless become a voice of the common folk; a pillar of society uncomfortable with radicalism who yet was crucial to... Read more

Out of One, Many

By: Jennifer T. Roberts

Narrated by: Petrea Burchard

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks,... Read more

Vagabonds

By: Oskar Jensen

Narrated by: Oskar Jensen

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens—shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023



London, 1857: A pair of teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the... Read more

MacArthur Reconsidered

By: James Ellman

Narrated by: Kent Klineman

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America's most controversial generals, Douglas MacArthur's rise through the US Army's ranks was meteoric. However, he did not lead large formations of men in combat until he assumed command of forces in the Philippines in 1941. When war commenced with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, MacArthur's performance on the battlefield was a failure:... Read more

Glorious Lessons

By: Richard Brookhiser

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America's founding moment



John Trumbull (1756–1843) experienced the American Revolution firsthand—he served as aid to George Washington and Horatio Gates, was shot at, and was jailed as a spy. He made it his mission... Read more

Mourning the Presidents

By: Lindsay M. Chervinsky & Matthew R. Costello

Narrated by: Holly Adams

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The death of a chief executive, regardless of the circumstances—sudden or expected, still in office or decades later—is always a moment of reckoning and reflection. Mourning the Presidents brings together renowned and emerging scholars to examine how different generations and communities of Americans have eulogized and remembered United States... Read more

Gunflint Burning

By: Cary J. Griffith

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the Ham Lake fire, at the time the most destructive wildfire in modern Minnesota history—the blaze, the firefighters' battle, the human toll



Gunflint Burning is a comprehensive account of the dramatic events around the Ham Lake fire of 2007, one of the largest wildfires in Minnesota history. In sharp detail, Cary J. Griffith... Read more

The Shortest History of Sex

By: David Baker

Narrated by: Grant Cartwright

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From the first microbial exchanges of DNA to Tinder and sexbots, how did sex begin, and how did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence do our genetic ancestors have on our current love lives? And what might sex look like in the future?

With acuity, humor, and respect for human diversity, The Shortest History of Sex... Read more