History audiobooks

Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic

By: Ilan Pappe

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 21 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Revealed: How pro-Israel lobbying groups influence the Middle East policies of Britain, the US, and others



In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen?



Ilan Pappe unveils how a lobby changed the map of the Middle East. Zionists exerted pressure on the Congress, cracked... Read more

Strong Passions

By: Barbara Weisberg

Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch's country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together? Strong Passions, rooted in the beguiling times of Edith Wharton's "old New York," recounts the true story of a tumultuous marriage. In 1862, Mary Strong stunned her husband, Peter, by... Read more

Between Two Fires

By: Joshua Yaffa

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 14 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • “Unforgettable . . . a book about Putin’s Russia that is unlike any other.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain

From a Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin’s... Read more

The Third Reconstruction

By: Peniel E. Joseph

Narrated by: Peniel E. Joseph

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third Reconstruction

In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The racial reckoning that unfolded in 2020, he argues,... Read more

The Last Stand

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye sheds new light on one of the iconic stories of the American WestLittle Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle has been equated with other... Read more

Ravenna

By: Judith Herrin

Narrated by: Phyllida Nash

Length: 19 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This riveting audiobook narrated by Phyllida Nash traces the history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on the coast of Italy, Arian Goths and... Read more

Our Oriental Heritage

By: Will Durant

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 50 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize–winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia. In this masterful work, readers will encounter:Sumeria, birthplace of the first cities and written lawsthe Egyptians, who perfected monumental architecture,... Read more

Sea of Glory

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"A treasure of a book."—David McCullough

The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye.

A New York Times Notable Book

America's first frontier was not the... Read more

Medieval Horizons

By: Ian Mortimer

Narrated by: Ian Mortimer

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England



We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward, and unchanging time characterized by violence, ignorance, and superstition. By contrast we believe progress arose from science and technological innovation, and that... Read more

Slavery's Exiles

By: Sylviane A. Diouf

Narrated by: Chanté McCormick

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The forgotten stories of America maroons—wilderness settlers evading discovery after escaping slavery



Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their... Read more

Sin in the Second City

By: Karen Abbott

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history—and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago's notorious Levee district at the dawn of the twentieth century, the club's proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls and... Read more

The Great Transformation

By: Karen Armstrong

Narrated by: Karen Armstrong

Length: 22 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the world’s leading writers on religion and the highly acclaimed author of the bestselling A History of God, The Battle for God and The Spiral Staircase, comes a major new work: a chronicle of one of the most important intellectual revolutions in world history and its relevance to our own time.

In one astonishing, short period – the... Read more

Everybody Thought We Were Crazy

By: Mark Rozzo

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward—a tale of love, art, Hollywood, and heartbreak “Those years in the sixties when I was married to Dennis were the most wonderful and awful of my life.” —Brooke HaywardLos Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and on the Sunset Strip, wild weekends in Malibu, late nights at... Read more

In Plain Sight

By: Ross Coulthart

Narrated by: Ross Coulthart

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right there, in front of our eyes ...
Are we not alone? The moment we have an answer might have arrived.Award-winning investigative journalist Ross Coulthart has been intrigued by UFOs since mysterious glowing lights were reported near New Zealand's Kaikoura... Read more

I Am Dynamite!

By: Sue Prideaux

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 17 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES Editors’ Choice • THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE

A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy’s greatest iconoclast

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts—the Übermensch, the will to power, slave morality—have fundamentally reshaped our... Read more

Midnight in Moscow

By: John J. Sullivan

Narrated by: John J. Sullivan & Matt Godfrey

Length: 17 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir—and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation.

For weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, John J. Sullivan, the U.S.... Read more

The Burgundians

By: Bart van Loo

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 21 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanished from the map. But it became the... Read more

The Right

By: Matthew Continetti

Narrated by: Carl Sayles

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A magisterial intellectual history of the last century of American conservatismWhen most people think of the history of modern conservatism, they think of Ronald Reagan. Yet this narrow view leaves many to question: How did Donald Trump win the presidency? And what is the future of the Republican Party?In The Right, Matthew Continetti gives a... Read more

The Devil's Playbook

By: Lauren Etter

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Juul’s rise and fall teaches us something about greed, capitalism, policy failure and a particular cycle in American business that seems destined to repeat itself. . . . Deeply reported and illuminating.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
 
Big Tobacco meets Silicon Valley in this gripping exposé of what happened when two of the... Read more

Vibrant Matter

By: Jane Bennett

Narrated by: Kathleen Godwin

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In Vibrant Matter, the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes... Read more

The Eagle and the Hart

By: Helen Castor

Narrated by: Helen Castor

Length: 20 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From an acclaimed historian and author comes an epic history: the dual biography of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose lives played out in extraordinary parallel, until Henry deposed the tyrant Richard and declared himself King of England.

Richard of Bordeaux and Henry of Bolingbroke, cousins born just three months apart, were ten years... Read more

The Inevitability of Tragedy

By: Barry Gewen

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 18 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A new portrait of Henry Kissinger focusing on the fundamental ideas underlying his policies: Realism, balance of power, and national interest.



Few public officials have provoked such intense controversy as Henry Kissinger. During his time in the Nixon and Ford administrations, he came to be admired and hated in equal measure. Notoriously, he... Read more

Anne Frank Remembered

By: Miep Gies & Alison Leslie Gold

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

She found Anne Frank's diary and brought the world a message of love and hope.  For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims. From her own remarkable childhood... Read more

Caesar and Christ

By: Will Durant

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 36 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The third volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize–winning series, Caesar and Christ chronicles the history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to 325 AD. In this masterful work, listeners will learn about:- the Etruscan civilization of ancient Italy - the birth of the Roman Republic and the beginnings of Roman law -... Read more