History audiobooks
An Alternative History of Britain
By: Timothy Venning
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
With hindsight, the victory of Parliamentarian forces over the Royalists in the English Civil War may seem inevitable but this outcome was not a foregone conclusion. Timothy Venning explores many of the turning points and discusses how they might so easily have played out differently.
What if, for example, Charles I had capitalized on his victory... Read more
American Vikings
By: Martyn Whittock
Narrated by: Byron Wagner
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
A vivid and illuminating new history—separate fact from fiction, myth from legend—exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America.Vikings are an enduring subject of fascination. The combination of adventure, mythology, violence, and exploration continues to grip our attention. As a result, for more than a millennium the Vikings have... Read more
View audiobookWhy Study History?
By: John Fea
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
What is the purpose of studying history? How do we reflect on contemporary life from a historical perspective, and can such reflection help us better understand ourselves, the world around us, and the God we worship and serve?
Written by an accomplished historian, award-winning author, public evangelical spokesman, and respected teacher, this... Read more
Takeover
By: Timothy W. Ryback
Narrated by: Richard Attlee
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin
In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant.... Read more
Raise Some Shell: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
By: Richard Rosenbaum
Narrated by: Joe Hempel
Length: 4 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Celebrating the persistence of Turtle Power Raise Some Shell critically and cleverly examines the origins, evolution, and impact of the Ninja Turtles phenomenon ― from its beginning as a self-published black-and-white comic book in 1984, through its transformation into a worldwide transmedia phenomenon by the middle of the 1990s, and up to the... Read more
View audiobookThe Devil and Communist China
By: Steven W. Mosher
Narrated by: Mike Romano
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said, “Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin, and at the heart of their psychology, hatred of God is the principal driving force, more fundamental than all their political and economic pretensions.” This is certainly true of the leaders of the Communist “dynasty” that currently rules China. Chairman Mao, the... Read more
View audiobookCharlie Hustle
By: Keith O'Brien
Narrated by: Ellen Adair & Keith O'Brien
Length: 14 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A captivating chronicle of the incredible story of one of America’s most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures—baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century • "Comprehensive, compulsively... Read more
Клініка кітайскага дантыста
By: Зьміцер Бартосік
Narrated by: Зьміцер Бартосік
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Нястомны вандроўнік Радыё Свабода, аўтар адпраўляецца ў падарожжа па «забытых адрасах» культуры і чароўнай палачкай славутых імёнаў уваскрашае цэлыя эпохі, сюжэты і жарсьці зь нязьменным вынікам — адкрыцьцём! Ён знаходзіць сьляды француза Апалінэра ў Беларусі і беларуса Рыпінскага ў лёнданскім Тотэнгэме, распавядае кур’ёзныя, страшныя, сьмешныя... Read more
View audiobookDusty Booze
By: Aaron Goldfarb
Narrated by: Dean Gallagher
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
In Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits, journalist Aaron Goldfarb goes on an adventure in vintage spirits. This is an intoxicating story of obsessives on the hunt for old bottles of whiskey, tequila, rum, chartreuse—you name it—from estate sales, grandpa's liquor cabinet, and out-of-the-way and inner-city liquor stores that may just have a... Read more
View audiobookFrom Genghis Khan to Tamerlane
By: Peter Jackson
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 18 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire
By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan was in crisis. The Mongol Ilkhanate had ended in Iran and Iraq, China's Mongol rulers were threatened by the native Ming, and the Golden Horde and the Central Asian... Read more
Before the Movement
By: Dylan C. Penningroth
Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
Length: 12 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America's legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police often closed their eyes, if they didn't join in. For Black people, law was a hostile, fearsome power to be avoided... Read more
View audiobookLost Fatherland
By: Iryna Vushko
Narrated by: Angela Juarez
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
How the demise of the Habsburg Empire, postwar sovereignty, and new diplomatic frontiers shaped the nature of citizenship, identity, and belonging across Europe
This book is a collective portrait of twenty-one key statesmen who came of age during the Habsburg Empire. They include the cofounder of Austro-Marxism and the Austrian republic's first... Read more
The Last American Frontier
By: Frederic Logan Paxson
Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Last American Frontier by Frederic Logan Paxson. The MacMillan Company, 1910.From the Author’s Preface: I have told here the story of the last frontier within the United States, trying at once to preserve the picturesque atmosphere that has given to the “Far West” a definite and... Read more
View audiobookStrong 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
View audiobookLas cruzadas: Un apasionante recorrido por un acontecimiento de la historia cristiana que tuvo lugar en la Edad Media
By: Billy Wellman
Narrated by: Carlos Verne
Length: 3 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Así que cree saber lo que ocurrió durante las cruzadas. Pero, ¿lo sabe realmente?Es una buena pregunta, ya que existen muchas ideas erróneas sobre las causas de las cruzadas, por no hablar de lo que ocurrió realmente durante las mismas. En este libro pretendemos aclarar muchas de estas cuestiones y ofrecerle una historia concisa y precisa de las... Read more
View audiobookAwakening to Justice
By: Christopher P. Momany, Sègbégnon Mathieu Gnonho...
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian Doug Strong pored over the diary, they realized that studying... Read more
View audiobookA Short World History of Christianity, Revised Edition
By: Robert Bruce Mullin
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Church historians have long known and appreciated Christianity's global history. Until recently, however, introductory textbooks on the history of Christianity focused almost exclusively on Europe and North America. Robert Bruce Mullins's A Short World History of Christianity, by contrast, offers a panoramic picture of the history of... Read more
View audiobookA Company of Heroes
By: Marcus Brotherton
Narrated by: Joshua Saxon
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
THE MUST-LISTEN BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENTARY FOR PUBLIC TELEVISION
Look for the Band of Brothers miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix!
After the Band of Brothers went home, they never forgot the lessons of war . . .
After chronicling the personal stories of the Band of Brothers in We Who Are Alive and Remain, author... Read more
The Golden Age of Piracy
By: David Head
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Twelve authors shed new light on the true history and enduring mythology of seventeenth– and eighteenth–century pirates in this anthology of scholarly essays.
The twelve entries in The Golden Age of Piracy discuss why pirates thrived in the seas of the New World, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and... Read more
It Doesn't Suck: Showgirls
By: Adam Nayman
Narrated by: Brian Telestai
Length: 4 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A new edition of the first book in the acclaimed Pop Classics series The Worst. Movie. Ever. is a masterpiece. Seriously. Enough time has passed since Showgirls flopped spectacularly that it’s time for a good hard look back at the sequined spectacle. A salvage operation on a very public, very expensive train wreck, It Doesn’t Suck argues that... Read more
View audiobookDissidently Speaking
By: Brent Hamachek
Narrated by: Matt Weinglass
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Mostly Americans need to take a fresh look at ourselves. To do that we need to apply critical thinking, add some skepticism, and be willing to replace answers with questions.Compiled from a decade of writings and contemplation, and further aided by a forty-year career in the world of business dealing with hundreds of companies, this book... Read more
View audiobook19: The Musical
By: Jennifer Schwed & Doug Bradshaw
Narrated by: Katie Ganem, Millicent Scarlett, Maria Ciarrocc...
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
19: The Musical is the dynamic and little-known story of Alice Paul, Ida B. Wells, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Inez Milholland and the other suffragists who fought to get women the right to vote - The 19th Amendment. The inspirational story of these fearless women is brought to life through jazz, traditional musical standards style,... Read more
View audiobookAn Emancipation of the Mind
By: Matthew Stewart
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War.
In their struggle against the slaveholding oligarchy of their time, America's antislavery leaders found their way back to the rationalist, secularist, and essentially atheist... Read more
Age of Revolutions
By: Fareed Zakaria
Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The internationally bestselling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the chaotic, polarized, and unstable age in which we live.
Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, geopolitical dangers, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk—the early decades of the 21st century may... Read more