History audiobooks

Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island

By: John R Bruning

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 19 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The pivotal true story of the first fifty-three days of the standoff between Imperial Japanese and a handful of Marine aviators defending the Americans dug in at Guadalcanal, from the New York Times bestselling author of Indestructible and Race of Aces.

On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at... Read more

Normandy

By: Nick Hewitt

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The first account of the Allied navies' vital contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and the Normandy campaign



The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe is one of the most widely recognized events of modern history. The assault phase, Operation Neptune, began with the D-Day landings in Normandy—one of the most complex amphibious... Read more

The Tainos

By: Irving Rouse

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on archeological and ethno-historical evidence, Irving Rouse sketches a picture of the Tainos—the first people Columbus encountered when he arrived in the Americas—as they existed during the time of Columbus, contrasting their customs with those of their neighbors. He then moves backward in time to the ancestors of the Tainos—two... Read more

Churchill's D-Day

By: General Sir Richard Dannatt & Allen Packwood

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In Churchill's D-Day, Allen Packwood and Richard Dannatt narrate and analyze Sir Winston Churchill's emotional turmoil and epic decision-making before, during, and after the world-defining action of D-Day. Culled from the official Churchill Papers at the Churchill Archives Centre, the book features historical documents, letters, and more, for a... Read more

In My Humble Opinion: My So-Called Life

By: Soraya Roberts

Narrated by: Sharmila Devar

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A smart, engaging investigation of the show that brought real teens to TV My So-Called Life lasted only 19 episodes from 1994 to 1995, but in that time it earned many devoted viewers, including the showrunners who would usher in the teen TV boom of the late ’90s and the new millennium. With its focus on 15-year-old Angela Chase’s search for her... Read more

Gunflint Falling

By: Cary J. Griffith

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a bizarre confluence of meteorological events resulted in the most damaging blowdown in the region's history. Gunflint Falling tells the story of this devastating storm from the perspectives of those who were on the ground before, during, and after the catastrophic event.



The... Read more

The Infernal Machine

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Steven Johnson

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“A fast-burning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.”—ERIK LARSON

A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat—a tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map

LONGLISTED FOR THE... Read more

Das antike Griechenland: Ein spannender Überblick über die griechische Geschichte, angefangen von der archaischen Periode über das klassische Zeitalter bis hin zur hellenistischen Zivilisation

By: Billy Wellman

Narrated by: Marko Kraft

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Möchten Sie die spannende und beeindruckende Geschichte des antiken Griechenlands kennenlernen? In diesem Buch werden die brillanten Menschen, die erstaunlichen Kriege und das bezaubernde Erbe der alten Griechen von der archaischen bis zur hellenistischen Epoche vorgestellt.Die Geschichte des antiken Griechenlands zu entdecken, ist spektakulär... Read more

The Situation Room

By: George Stephanopoulos

Narrated by: George Stephanopoulos, Peter Ganim & Elisabeth ...

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

George Stephanopoulos, the legendary political news host and former advisor to President Clinton, recounts the history-making crises from the place where twelve presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation Room. 

No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room.... Read more

Operation Typhoon

By: David Stahel

Narrated by: Philip Battley

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In October 1941, Hitler launched Operation Typhoon—the German drive to capture Moscow and knock the Soviet Union out of the war. As the last chance to escape the dire implications of a winter campaign, Hitler directed seventy-five German divisions, almost two million men and three of Germany's four panzer groups into the offensive, resulting in... Read more

The Bourbon Drinker’s Companion

By: Colin Spoelman

Narrated by: Chris Abernathy

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This insider's guide to American distilleries offers colorful lore, regional history, and tasting notes for bourbon, whiskey, and rye.



The Bourbon Drinker's Companion is a narrative journey into the heart of American craft distilleries, taking listeners from the well-known Jim Beam Booker Noe plant to craft whiskey brewers on the West Coast to... Read more

The Official US Army Sniper Training and Operations Manual

By: US Army & Rick Carlile

Narrated by: Robert Hunter

Length: 16 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 16 hours of unique information and training in the sniper's art: the most authoritative and comprehensive long-range shooting audiobook in the world. The indispensable manual for service personnel, civilian contractors, law enforcement, competition shooters, hunters, preppers, and more. Created and trusted by U.S. military... Read more

The Struggle for Taiwan

By: Sulmaan Wasif Khan

Narrated by: Austin Yang

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A concise, definitive history of the precarious relationship among the US, China, and Taiwan

As tensions over Taiwan escalate, the United States and China stand on the brink of a catastrophic war. Resolving the impasse demands we understand how it began. In 1943, the Allies declared that Japanese-held Taiwan would return to China at the... Read more

Baseball: The Movie

By: Noah Gittell

Narrated by: Noah Gittell

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises. Film, America's other national pastime, which magnifies and... Read more

Wide Awake

By: Jon Grinspan

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Wide Awake by Jon Grinspan, read by Sean Pratt.

“Excellent."—Wall Street Journal

A propulsive account of our history’s most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery youth movement that marched America from the 1860 election to civil war.

At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful... Read more

The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration

By: Frank Abe & Floyd Cheung

Narrated by: Frank Abe, Keone Young, Ren Hanami, Traci Kato-...

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“An essential volume” —Hua Hsu, The New Yorker

The collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US government expelled resident aliens and its own citizens from their homes and imprisoned 125,000 of them in American concentration camps, based solely upon the race they... Read more

Skies of Thunder

By: Caroline Alexander

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Editors’ Choice

“Riveting.” —The New York Times

From the New York Times bestselling author, a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and rarely examined campaigns of World War II

In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army steamrolled through Burma, capturing the only ground route from... Read more

Seiðr Magic

By: Dean Kirkland

Narrated by: Jez Sands

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

• Explains the techniques used to achieve trance in seiðr, how to journey in the Nine Realms, and the different gods and spirits you may encounter

• Discusses the tools of seiðr, such as the seiðr staff and hood, and how to create them, empower them, and care for them

• Details Norse divination methods, ways to alter fate, healing techniques, the... Read more

Fat Leonard

By: Craig Whitlock

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest public corruption scandals in American history—exposing how a charismatic Malaysian defense contractor bribed scores of high-ranking military officers, defrauded the US Navy of tens of millions of dollars, and jeopardized our nation’s security.

All the... Read more

August Oetker: Kurzbiografie kompakt

By: 5 Minuten, 5 Minuten Biografien & Jürgen Fritsche

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

August Oetker, deutscher Lebensmittelgigant: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten! Read more

Golf's Majors

By: Gary Player & Randy O. Williams

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From golf legend and nine-time major champion Gary Player, a riveting history of golf’s pinnacle events, packed with dramatic moments and insider storiesIn the game of golf, four tournaments stand alone: The Masters. The U.S. Open. The British Open. The PGA Championship. They boast histories that stretch back a century or more. Winning a major... Read more

City of Light, City of Shadows

By: Mike Rapport

Narrated by: Paul Daintry

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle Époque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French

From the wrought ironwork of the Eiffel Tower to the flourishing art nouveau movement, the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age for... Read more

Breaking the Mold - Abridged

By: Rohit Lamba & Raghuram G. Rajan

Narrated by: Homer Todiwala

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This audiobook narrated by Homer Todiwala charts the new path for economic development that India must create The whole world has a stake in India's future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population—now the world's largest—while staying democratic. India's economy has overtaken the United... Read more

Hellenic History (Unabridged)

By: George Willis Botsford

Narrated by: Lisa Marron, Corazon Newport & Linda Riley

Length: 20 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the annals of history, the Hellenic civilization stands as a beacon of enlightenment, shaping the very fabric of Western thought and culture. "Hellenic History (Unabridged)" by George Willis Botsford invites you on an epic journey through the rise and fall of this extraordinary civilization. From the dawn of the Mycenaean era to the twilight... Read more